Tanglewood on Parade with conductors Thomas Adès, Stefan Asbury, JoAnn Falletta, Thomas Wilkins, and John Williams
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
This annual day of family fun is one of the highlights of the season, offering free kids’ activities — from face painting to the spell-binding feats of magician Bonaparté — and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) and BU Tanglewood Institute performances throughout the afternoon. Get your ticket for the 8pm concert and enjoy a perfect summer evening with music from the BSO, Boston Pops, and TMC Orchestra with world-renowned conductors like John Williams, ending with a brilliant fireworks display!
Gates open at 2pm.
2pm, Main Gate
BU Tanglewood Institute
Fanfares
Throughout the afternoon, Tappan Porch
Face Painting by Bria
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall: Tanglewood Music Center Chamber Music
Program to include:
LYAPUNOV Piano Sextet in B-flat minor, Op. 63
2:30pm, Chamber Music Hall
BU Tanglewood Institute
Chamber Music
3-7pm, Departing from the Main Gate
Free Walking Tours of Tanglewood (courtesy of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers)
3:15-3:45pm, Lawn
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparté
4pm, Shed
BU Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus
4-4:45pm, Lawn near Tappan House
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparté
5:15-5:45, Lawn
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparté
5:30pm, Lawn near Tappan House
BSO Members Bonnie Bewick, fiddle and Lawrence Wolfe, bass
with guests
Sheila Falls, fiddle
Mark Roberts, flute and banjo
Classical Tangent
7:30pm, Shed: Tanglewood Music Center
Brass Fanfares
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Thomas Adès, Stefan Asbury, JoAnn Falletta Thomas Wilkins, and John Williams, conductors
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
John WILLIAMS JUST DOWN WEST STREET…on the left
RAVEL La Valse, Poème choréographique
ABREU (arr. DRAGON) Tico-Tico no fubá
RAKSIN Laura
BERNSTEIN (arr. RAMIN) "America," from West Side Story
John WILLIAMS Potter Triptych (Hedwig’s Theme – Fawkes the Phoenix – Harry’s Wondrous World)
VERBYTSKY (arr. Reshetilov) Ukrainian National Anthem
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Fireworks immediately following the program
Performance Details
Aug 2, 2022, 8:00pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Paul Hindemith paid homage to his great predecessor by turning some of Weber’s four-hand piano pieces into the brilliantly elaborated, playful Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber.
JUST DOWN WEST STREET ... on the left
John Williams wrote "JUST DOWN WEST STREET…on the left" for the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra as a birthday gift for the TMC’s 75th anniversary in 2015.
La Valse
In La Valse, Ravel’s brilliantly orchestrated score captures the glitter and the violence of a society that, even as he was composing, had passed away.
Tico-Tico no fubá
This found success in various forms, including in films: for instance, Carmen Miranda performed the song in the 1947 Groucho Marx film Copacabana.
Laura
Written as a theme for the 1944 film Laura, it was produced in a hurry at the begrudging request of director Otto Preminger, who had wanted to use music by Duke Ellington.
"America," from West Side Story
A mysterious and sultry introduction leads to the familiar rhythm at the heart of the song.
Potter Triptych
Hedwig’s Theme – Fawkes the Phoenix – Harry’s Wondrous World
Ukrainian National Anthem
1812 Overture
The work celebrates victory over an invading foreign power and resistance over imperialism.
