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The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert

Andris Nelsons conducts Ives, Beethoven, and Strauss featuring Emanuel Ax, piano

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Image credit: Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Andris Nelsons conducts Ives, Beethoven, and Strauss featuring Emanuel Ax, piano
Andris Nelsons, Conductor Emanuel Ax, Piano

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Emanuel Ax, piano

IVES Three Places in New England 
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
Intermission
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

Emanuel Ax returns to Tanglewood for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a work of intense emotionality and complex musicality that takes the listener through light and shadow, hope and despair.

Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra to the stars in Strauss’ palatial Also sprach Zarathustra, and on a journey back home to New England through Ives’ textured Three Places in New England, which tells three very different stories of historic events and landmarks throughout the region.

The 2024 Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert is supported by generous endowments established in perpetuity by Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider, and Diane H. Lupean.

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