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Thomas Wilkins conducts Coleridge-Taylor, Ellington, and Midkiff, featuring Jeff Midkiff, mandolin

Exterior of the Koussevitzky Music Shed with Tanglewood lawn

Tanglewood

Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Jeff Midkiff, mandolin
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade in A minor
Jeff MIDKIFF Mandolin Concerto, From the Blue Ridge
Intermission
ELLINGTON Suite from The River

Conductor Thomas Wilkins holding his baton and smiling onstage.
Jeff Midkiff holding his mandolin

Performance Details

Jul 23, 2023, 2:30pm EDT

Featuring

Program Notes & Works

Ballade in A minor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Mandolin Concerto, From the Blue Ridge

Jeff Midkiff

Suite from The River

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

The specific commission for Ellington’s ballet score The River was a request from Lucia Chase, co-director of the American Ballet Theatre, to celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary.

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