2022 Tanglewood Popular Artists

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FALLA Spanish Dance No. 1, from La Vida Breve
GRAINGER Brigg Fair
PRIMOSCH One with the darkness, one with the light
MESSIAEN O sacrum convivium
Edie HILL We Bloomed in Spring
Caroline SHAW Vago augellin
N. BOULANGER Allons voir sur le lac d'argent
L. BOULANGER Renouveau
Kati AGOCS “John Riley,” from Every Lover is a Warrior
SCHUMANN Songs from the Spanisches Liederspiel
SCHUBERT Ständchen, D.920

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Works by Sally BEAMISH, CHEN Yi, Gabriela Lena FRANK, Adolphus HAILSTORK, HAYDN, GINASTERA, Jesse MONTGOMERY, Gabriela ORTIZ, PRICE, Shulamit RAN, Alvin SINGLETON, and Hilary TANN

Ticket also includes the 1pm and 4pm performances
Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Music for Brass and Percussion

IVES From the Steeples and the Mountains
RUGGLES Angels
Jack FRERER Satellite Chorus (world premiere)
DONATONI Darkness
Valerie COLEMAN Fanfare for Uncommon Times
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Gates open at 5pm for both performances

American Popular Song

Studio E doors open at 1pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

Performances to include:
Osvaldo GOLIJOV K’Vakarat
THOMPSON Alleluia

Emanuel Ax, piano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Members of the Lorelei Ensemble, Beth Willer, artistic director: Emily Marvosh, contralto; Sarah Brailey and Sonja Tengblad, sopranos; Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Dover Quartet

Pathways from Prague, Program 1

JANÁČEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G, Op. 106

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

The BSO’s Opening Night concert begins with a benediction by Leonard Bernstein, a setting in Hebrew for baritone that was the composer’s last work with orchestra; baritone Jack Canfield makes his BSO debut. The brilliant Chinese pianist Yuja Wang performs Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which the composer premiered himself with Hector Berlioz conducting in 1855. Liszt transformed the concerto's main thematic ideas throughout the piece, contrasting displays of drama and virtuosity with lush and tender lyricism. In its orchestral finesse and raw power, Igor Stravinsky’s revolutionary 1913 ballet score The Rite of Spring still astonishes after more than 100 years.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons is joined by the dynamic soprano Nicole Cabell for this all-American program. The BSO premiered Samuel Barber’s gorgeously nostalgic Knoxville: Summer of 1915, based on a text by James Agee, in 1948. Complementing Barber’s small-city observations is George Gershwin’s exuberant, jazzy, and occasionally homesick tone poem An American in Paris. The multifaceted American pianist Aaron Diehl joins the orchestra for Duke Ellington’s New World A-Coming, transcribed from Ellington’s 1943 Carnegie Hall performance. Opening the program is Washington, D.C.-based composer Carlos Simon’s Motherboxx Connection, a 2021 piece inspired by the Afrofuturist-leaning artist collective Black Kirby.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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FOSS Brass Quintet
David ROCHE Clean Industry
Saad HADDAD Vantage Point
Helen GRIME Seven Pierrot Miniatures
ORREGO-SALAS Sonata a quattro, Op. 55, Edgewood Sonata
Hannah LASH Two Songs
Ari SUSSMAN their keen and watchful eye (world premiere)
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite arr. Peter Sadlo

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The George W. and Florence N. Adams Concert
Endowed in Perpetuity

Virtuoso Swedish trumpeter and frequent BSO collaborator Håkan Hardenberger is the beneficiary of a new BSO-commissioned concerto from the British composer Helen Grime, a former Tanglewood Music Center Fellow with a dynamic, sparkling compositional style. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s gorgeous, short Vocalise for orchestra opens the program, which closes with the composer’s substantial Symphony No. 3, a late work characterized by scintillating orchestration and Rachmaninoff’s noted gift for long-spun melody and compelling musical narrative.

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KOECHLIN Selected songs
MADDISON Selected songs
BEACH Selected songs
DEBUSSY Songs from 5 Poems of Baudelaire
David LIPTAK Under the Resurrection Palm
CRUMB Three Early Songs

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The Phyllis and Lee Coffey Memorial Concert

BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in music showcasing instrumental color and virtuosity. Abandoned in its two-movement form by Franz Schubert in 1822, the B minor symphony stands out for innovations in form, melody, and orchestration. The two Richard Strauss works on the program are poles apart in intention: the early Death and Transfiguration is a profound imagining of a man’s thoughts and revelations at the end of his life, while the “Dance of the Seven Veils” from the opera Salome is the alluring means by which, at her mother Herodias’s bidding, Salome seduces her stepfather Herod. Maurice Ravel’s charming orchestral suite Le Tombeau de Couperin was in part inspired by the French Baroque composer François Couperin.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

*Admission to this event is not included with the Open Workshops Pass.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Ozawa Hall doors open at 1pm

Pathways from Prague, Program 2

JANÁČEK Veni Sancte Spiritus; Ach, vojna, vojna; Ó, lásko; Ave Maria; Loučení; Holubička

JANÁČEK Piano Sonata, “1.X.1905, From the street…”

DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances for piano four-hands (selection: Op. 46, nos. 1 (in C), 7 (C minor), and 8 (G minor); Op. 72, nos. 10 (E minor) and 15 (C)

DVOŘÁK Choral Songs: Huslař (Fiddler); Píseň Čecha (Song of a Czech); Hostina (Feast); Pomořane (Dwellers by the Sea) Goin’ Home (English version; arr. LOOMER)

BURLEIGH Deep River; Ezekial Saw de Wheel

DVOŘÁK Z kytice národních písní slovanských (From a Bouquet of Slavonic Folk Songs), Op. 43 [1. Žal (Grief); 2. Divná voda (Strange Water); 3. Děvče v háji (The Girl in the Grove)]

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Join Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops as they present this classic film with live orchestral accompaniment. “You must feel the Force around you...” The battle for the galaxy intensifies in this thrilling fifth episode of the unfolding saga. As Imperial Forces launch an all-out attack on the Rebel Alliance, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) flee to Cloud City where they are captured by Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) journeys to the mysterious, marshy planet of Dagobah, where the wise Jedi Master Yoda teaches the young hero the ways of the Force. Little does Luke know that all his Jedi training will be called upon so soon. A stunning revelation — and a seeming life-or-death duel with Darth Vader — await.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

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Anna CLYNE Masquerade
FARRENC Symphony No. 3
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

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An outstanding, nearly all-American cast, headlined by baritone Ryan McKinny in the title role, joins the BSO for one of the highlights of the summer, a concert opera led by Andris Nelsons. Wolfgang Mozart’s Don Giovanni is considered by many to be opera’s greatest dark comedy. Based on the archetype of the licentious Don Juan, Don Giovanni proceeds from rape and murder through to the Don’s ultimate, supernatural comeuppance. Along the way, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna, two of the women the Don has wronged, undermine his attempts at further reprehensible behavior, while his cynical servant Leporello walks a fine line between service and subterfuge.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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DJ SPARR Compass Chrome
Angela SLATER Distorted Light
DALLAPICCOLA Piccola Musica Notturna
COLGRASS Variations for Four Drums and Viola
SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

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Mark ADAMO arr. Peter Stanley MARTIN Overture to Lysistrata
Valerie COLEMAN Roma
JENKINS American Overture for Band
RODRIGO Adagio para instrumentos de viento
Robert W. SMITH Divine Comedy
STILL Folk Suite

The Turkish composer Fazil Say is also an outstanding pianist whose music is informed by a lifelong commitment to spontaneity and improvisation. He wrote his piano four-hands concerto Phoenix, a BSO co-commission receiving its American premiere in this concert, for the remarkable Dutch duo-pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen, who gave the world premiere in January 2022 with the Munich Philharmonic. Featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Johannes Brahms’ masterpiece A German Requiem is an utterly personal but scarcely ceremonial work, setting Biblical texts in Martin Luther’s German translations. Returning as soloists with the BSO are Chinese soprano Ying Fang and Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang in their Tanglewood debuts.

This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

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RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

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DEBUSSY Selected Songs
CLARKE Selected songs
L. BOULANGER Songs from Clairieres dans le ciel
JOLIVET Suite Liturgique

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Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

Pierre JALBERT Crossings
COPLAND Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet
Richard DANIELPOUR and Rita DOVE A Standing Witness (BSO co-commission)

Pre-concert talk with Richard Danielpour, Rita Dove, and Michael Boriskin
6:30pm, Linde Center for Music and Learning
*free for 8pm ticket holders

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

International star pianist and Tanglewood favorite Emanuel Ax, who will also play several chamber music performances in Ozawa Hall this summer, joins the BSO and returning conductor Karina Canellakis for Frédéric Chopin’s characteristically fluid and sparkling Piano Concerto No. 2, composed when he was just 19. Richard Wagner’s atmospheric Prelude to his opera Lohengrin demonstrates the composer’s astonishing imagination for orchestral texture and color. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances wonderfully balances brilliant orchestration, lyricism, and rhythmic drive in what would be his final composition.

Ticket includes admission to the 6pm Prelude Concert.

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Family Concert
Better Together: A Musical Look at Partnership, Teamwork & Community

FALLA “Jota” from The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2
GINASTERA “Malambo” from Estancia
John WILLIAMS “Marion’s Theme” from Raiders of the Lost Arc
John WILLIAMS “Flight to Neverland” from Hook
STRAVINSKY “Infernal Dance” from Firebird Suite
SHOSTAKOVICH Waltz from Ballet Suite No. 1
BIZET Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture

At a BSO Tanglewood Family Concert, parents and children get an up-close, welcoming introduction to the musicians of the BSO. Audience members can enjoy the performance in the Koussevitzky Music Shed or listen while relaxing on the lawn.

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Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
The 2022 Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert is supported by generous endowments established in perpetuity by Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider, and Diane H. Lupean.

Acclaimed dramatic soprano Christine Goerke joins Music Director Andris Nelsons in a rarely heard early work by the French innovator Hector Berlioz. Berlioz’s passionate “lyric scene” La Mort de Cléopâtre is a monodrama in which the Egyptian queen meditates on the triumphs and tragedies of her life at the moment of her death. Another orchestral innovator, Gustav Mahler composed his towering Fifth Symphony in 1901-02 following an intensive study of J.S. Bach’s counterpoint, resulting in a new and highly individual approach to the orchestra. The fourth movement is the famous and moving Adagietto for strings and harp.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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Grace WILLIAMS Suite for Nine Instruments
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten
George LEWIS Le témoignage des lumières (world premiere)
KIRCHNER Piano Sonata No. 3 (The Forbidden)
Roberto SIERRA Cancionero Sefardi

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12pm.

Working in the middle of the 20th century, William Grant Still was a pioneer in using music of his African American heritage in works ranging from piano miniatures to opera. He wrote In Memoriam in 1943 after reading an announcement “that the first American soldier killed in World War II was a Negro soldier.” His somber piece honored the patriotism of all soldiers of color that served in the Allied armies. Soprano Latonia Moore sings American composer George Walker's Lilacs, a setting of Walt Whitman's ode to Abraham Lincoln. Commissioned by the BSO and premiered under Seiji Ozawa in February 1996, Lilacs went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Young superstar Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho is soloist in Johannes Brahms’ virtuosic and profound Piano Concerto No. 2 to complete the program.

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RAVEL Histoires naturelles
Lili BOULANGER Quatre Chants
Amy Beth KIRSTEN yes I said yes I will Yes
DEBUSSY Chanson espagnole
SAINT-SAËNS El desdichado

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

Bryce DESSNER Circles
Julien LABRO Meditation #1
Dino SALUZZI Minguito
BACH Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Julien LABRO Astoración
RAVEL String Quartet
Clarice ASSAD Clash

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Doors open at 12:30pm

*Admission to this event is not included with the Open Workshops Pass.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Doors open at 1:30pm

The Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble Silkroad, led by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens, performs Phoenix Rising. With four major new commissions by an amazing amalgamation of Silkroad artists — Shawn Conley, Sandeep Das, Maeve Gilchrist, and Kaoru Watanabe — plus works from their storied history reimagined for today, the program integrates Giddens’ unique worldview with the Ensemble’s collective experience during the pandemic. Program also includes new arrangements by Rhiannon Giddens, Colin Jacobsen, Edward Pérez, and Mazz Swift.

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Over this weekend’s three BSO concerts, Andris Nelsons and his frequent collaborator, English pianist Paul Lewis, perform all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. The American composer Julia Adolphe has been praised for the sonic and narrative inventiveness of her music. About her new work, she says, “Makeshift Castle captures contrasting states of permanence and ephemerality, of perseverance and disintegration, of determination and surrender.”
The Second and Third concertos were composed about five years apart. While both were strongly influenced by Wolfgang Mozart’s concertos, No. 3 in C minor exhibits more of Beethoven’s flair for drama and innovation.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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Nkeiru OKOYE Voices Shouting Out
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

A journey celebrating creativity through acknowledgement of the ancestors of poetry and music in the story field of the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Ozawa Hall doors open at 4pm

Andris Nelsons and English pianist Paul Lewis collaborate on the second of three concerts encompassing all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos in one weekend. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Punctum, originally for string quartet, is a meditation on a brief moment in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Beethoven’s First Concerto (actually composed later than No. 2) is strongly anchored in the Viennese Classicism of Wolfgang Mozart and Joseph Haydn. The Fourth Concerto, written at the same time as Beethoven’s opera Leonore, is in the composer’s warm, lyrical style, but also makes room for brilliant virtuosity.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso
Ania VU 2+
Gabriela Lena FRANK Hypnagogia
Jörg WIDMANN Oktett
NIELSEN Serenata in Vano
TAKEMITSU Rocking Mirror Daybreak

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

GRAINGER Children’s March; Colonial Song; Shepherds’ Hey!
Giovanni SANTOS Passionately Curious
Carlos SIMON Sweet Chariot
Omar THOMAS Of Our New Day Begun
Frank TICHELI Blue Shades
Frank TICHELI Rest

The Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Concert

Andris Nelsons and English pianist Paul Lewis collaborate on the third of three concerts encompassing all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos in one weekend. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. Elizabeth Ogonek was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 2012. She has been a composer in residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has also been commissioned by the BBC, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra. The French composer Louise Farrenc was one of the most accomplished musicians of the early Romantic era—an outstanding pianist, composer, and teacher. She wrote her Third Symphony in 1847. Completed in 1811, Beethoven’s Emperor was his final concerto, a work perfectly balancing virtuosity with substance and depth and epitomizing the composer’s “heroic” period.

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The Daniel Freed and Shirlee Cohen Freed Memorial Concert

Longtime Buffalo Philharmonic music director JoAnn Falletta (in her Tanglewood debut), BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès, and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in a range of modernist orchestral showpieces. Claude Debussy composed his two-movement tone poem Printemps originally in his early 20s; after the orchestral version was lost, he worked with his collaborator Henri Büsser 25 years later to restore and enhance its radical instrumental colors. Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score Agon is a thrilling yet austere late work for small orchestra that sounds both ancient and unequivocally modern, akin to his much earlier Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Dating from 1981, the late St. Louis-born composer Olly Wilson’s Lumina is a scintillating single-movement orchestral landscape. Paul Hindemith’s kaleidoscopic Symphonic Metamorphosis, virtually a catalog of orchestral and compositional possibility, was the composer’s purist foray into neoclassicism.

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

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

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue
Alvin SINGLETON Again
HYLA Pre-Pulse Suspended
Thomas ADÈS Mazurkas, Op. 27
Christopher TRAPANI Waterlines

The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood

Allison LOGGINS-HULL The Pattern
WUORINEN Ave Maria…Virgo Serena (Josquin)
Michael GANDOLFI Fanfare for Ellen (world premiere)
Erin GRAHAM Manual
CAGE Variations III
EASTMAN Gay Guerrilla

BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee makes his BSO debut, joined by the virtuosic piano duo of twins Christina and Michelle Naughton in their Tanglewood debuts performing Francis Poulenc’s impish neoclassical Concerto for Two Pianos. American composer Brian Raphael Nabors’ exciting and rhapsodic Pulse reflects on the varieties of experience that we might encounter every day. Felix Mendelssohn found inspiration for his intensely Romantic Symphony No. 3 on a trip to Scotland in 1829. Composed a decade later, it was his last completed symphony.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

BRAHMS O Schöne Nacht
DE ZESPEDES arr. Eugene ROGERS Convivando esta la noche
Dan FORREST The Sun Never Says
Shawn KIRCHNER Sweet Rivers
Libby LARSEN Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth
Rosephanye POWELL I Dream A World
Judith SHATIN Adonai Roi
Caroline SHAW And the Swallow
Timothy C. TAKACH Afka Hooyo
CHEN Yi Thinking of My Home

Augusta Read THOMAS New work (world premiere)
DAVIDOVSKY String Quartet No. 6, Fragments
Unsuk CHIN ParaMetaString
Eleanor ALBERGA String Quartet No. 2

Admission to this 6pm Prelude Concert is only available to those with tickets to the 8pm concert on August 6.

In her BSO debut, Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta is joined by violinist Joshua Bell, a Tanglewood mainstay since 1989, performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto. In the symphonic poems Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi sought to capture the beauty of his country’s culture and landscape with colorful orchestral cityscapes evoking some of Rome’s most prominent features at different times of day. Opening the concert is the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos, an engaging, exploratory riff on one of the most characteristic Spanish dance forms. Sierra blends a classical approach with elements of Afro-Caribbean, South American, Central American, and Spanish musical traditions.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Carlos SIMON Warmth from Other Suns
Andreia PINTO-CORREIA Cântico(world premiere)
Ricardo ZOHN-MULDOON Shakespeare Sonnets
John HARBISON Piano Sonata No. 2, 3rd movement
Andile KHUMALO Cry Out
Jesse JONES Dark Is Yonder Town
George LEWIS Born Obbligato

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès is joined by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos and French violist Antoine Tamestit in Wolfgang Mozart’s abundantly tuneful Sinfonia concertante. English composer Gustav Holst’s The Planets covers a vast range of musical territory, from the fleet energy of Mercury through the pounding aggression of Mars to the ethereal mysticism of Neptune, which here features the versatile women’s vocal group Lorelei Ensemble for the wordless choral part. Opening the concert is Adès’ own Shanty – Over the Sea. In this atmospheric string orchestra piece, many lines interweave to “create a widening seascape.”

Gates open at 12pm

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

The Margaret Lee Crofts Concert

George BENJAMIN Lessons in Love and Violence (American premiere)
Concert performance

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Gates open at 4pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

*Admission to this event is not included with the Open Workshops Pass.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

Pathways from Prague, Program 3

DVOŘÁK Romantic Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 75
DVOŘÁK Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, Nos. 3-5, for viola and piano
KAPRÁLOVÁ Ritournelle, for cello and piano, Op. 25
JANÁČEK Fairy Tale, for cello and piano
DVOŘÁK Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 87

Featuring three Tanglewood favorites and the Tanglewood debut of French violist Antoine Tamestit, this final concert of the Emanuel Ax-curated Pathways from Prague series explores chamber music by three Czech composers. Opening with rarely heard works for violin and piano and viola and piano by Antonín Dvořák, the concert closes with the composer’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 87, from 1889—one of his supreme achievements in chamber music. Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma play works for cello and piano by Leoš Janáček — his rhapsodic, three-movement Fairy Tale — and Vitěslava Kaprálová, who, though she died in 1940 at age 25, had an outsized impact on Czech music. Her brief, energetic Ritournelle, Op. 25, was among her last completed works.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

Join us for a free workshop-style performance of brand-new pieces by TMC Composition Fellows — each written in just one day. In the weeks leading up to this event, each Composition Fellow writes three new works over the course of three days, revising their pieces in collaboration with the instrumental Fellows who will perform these works. Come hear some wet-ink music by some of the world’s most promising young composers.

Jessica MEYER Go Big or Go Home
RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Valerie COLEMAN Ashé (world premiere)

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Tanglewood and is joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos in Felix Mendelssohn’s buoyant Violin Concerto, one of the most popular works in the genre. Henri Dutilleux’s 1964 Métaboles features the French composer’s intricately imaginative scoring and his innovative, organic approach to form. Claude Debussy’s revolutionary Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, a contemplation of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, is one of the clearest sources of 20th-century musical modernism. Maurice Ravel composed his Mother Goose for a friend’s children to play on piano, but its incisive character sketches and the brilliant orchestral canvas he later created make it a satisfying piece for any listener.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

GABRIELI Canzon per Sonar in Echo Duodecimi Toni
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
BACH Cantata No. 27, Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende
BACH Cantata No. 180, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

The Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Concert

Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru, a 2010 Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, makes his BSO debut. Masquerade, by the U.S.-based English composer Anna Clyne, evokes the unique milieu of mid-18th-century London promenade concerts; this is the BSO’s first performance of Clyne’s music. Tanglewood favorite Yo-Yo Ma joins for Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one of the English composer’s final works, in part a profoundly lyrical meditation on a world in turmoil after the devastation of World War I. Claude Debussy’s La Mer—a work given its American premiere by the BSO in 1907—is virtually a three-movement symphony miraculously depicting in music the changing states of the sea and sun over the course of a day. Closing the concert is Romanian composer Georges Enescu, one of the 20th-century’s greatest musicians. His familiar Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, based on his country’s folk music, is a delightful and finely wrought staple of Pops orchestras.

Gates open at 12pm

Stefan Asbury and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in this eclectic program. Lost for decades and rediscovered in 2009, Florence Price’s folk-music-tinged 1932 suite Ethiopia’s Shadow in America portrays an enslaved man’s spiritual journey from the time of his arrival on this continent. Béla Bartók’s brilliantly lurid ballet score The Miraculous Mandarin is an astonishing feat of musical storytelling and imaginative orchestration. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s absorbing and emotionally wide-ranging Symphony No. 2 harks back to the late 19th century but at the same time is characterized by Rachmaninoff’s unique gifts for expansive melody and careful musical architecture.

Gates open at 6:30pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

The Carol Reich Memorial Concert

Stephen Sondheim left an unmatched legacy that has transformed American musical theater. Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops, and a stellar Broadway cast take us on a journey through Keith’s favorite Sondheim creations, from the ground-breaking contributions of Follies and Company, to the organic perfection of shows like A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd, and the audacity of later works like Assassins. Come celebrate the legacy of a true musical luminary on this very special night at Tanglewood.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner for a conversation with memoirist, author, and Chief Theater Critic of The New York Times, Jesse Green, on the arts' power to illuminate diverse perspectives. Best known for his contributions to the stage and screen, with works including Angels in America, Caroline, or Change, and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and recent remake of West Side Story, Kushner will explore the role that music and words play in civil society.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Ozawa Hall doors open at 4:30pm

The George and Roberta Berry Concert

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ken-David Masur, conductor
with special guests
J. William Hudgins, vibraphone
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Eric Revis, bass
James Taylor, vocalist
Jessica Zhou, harp

Tanglewood celebrates the 90th birthday of one of its most beloved figures, John Williams, in a special program featuring a selection of his incomparable concert music composed for the BSO and Boston Pops, along with beloved film themes. Join the BSO and an all-star lineup of exceptional guest artists as they salute this inimitable musical icon in an evening of brilliant music and special surprises.

Gates open at 5:30pm

ALL John WILLIAMS program:
Sound the Bells!
Tributes (For Seiji)
Highwood’s Ghost
Pickin’ from Three Pieces for Solo Cello
JUST DOWN WEST STREET...on the left
To Lenny, To Lenny (For New York)
Escapades from Catch Me If You Can
Presenting James Taylor
Throne Room & Finale from Star Wars: A New Hope

Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
BRUCH Violin Concerto in G minor
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Gates open at 12pm

Ghost Song

Embark on a breathtaking journey with vocalist, composer, multiple Grammy winner, and MacArthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, exploring the many ways people can be haunted — by lingering memories, roads not taken, ghosts real and imagined. Salvant defies genre in her album Ghost Song, which features everything from torch songs to Sondheim-style music theater dialogs, ancient folk melodies, and jazz meditations.

Gates open at 6:30pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

The Cynthia and Oliver Curme Concert

BRAHMS
Complete Works for Piano

Program 1 (8/16)
Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76
11 Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21, No. 1
14 Variations on a Hungarian Melody, Op. 21, No. 2
Four Ballades, Op. 10
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1

Program 2 (8/18)
Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 2
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118
Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Variations and Fugue in B-flat, on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Program 3 (8/23)
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Seven Fantasies, Op. 116
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2
Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

Program 4 (8/25)
Scherzo in E-flat minor, Op. 4
Variations in F-sharp minor on a theme by Schumann, Op. 9
Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1
16 Waltzes, Op. 39
Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119

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BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina leads frequent Tanglewood guest soloist Gil Shaham in Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s great Violin Concerto, which sings with pungent Czech traditional rhythms and melodies. Three Russian works complete the program. Part-time composer and full-time scientist Alexander Borodin wrote his tremendously energetic and popular Polovtsian Dances for his opera Prince Igor, which remained unfinished at his early death. Two Dmitri Shostakovich rarities demonstrate his fantastic range. Purely for entertainment, the Suite for Variety Orchestra is a mishmash of pieces from various contexts—the Waltz is from his score from the 1955 film The First Echelon. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 3, The First of May is a serious work for chorus and orchestra in praise of the Soviet revolution predating Joseph Stalin’s cynical crackdown on artistic creativity, which would have dangerous consequences for Shostakovich. This is the first performance of this piece by the BSO, part of its multi-season traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

Families are invited to attend a live taping of WBUR’s award-winning "Circle Round" podcast at Tanglewood!

Host Rebecca Sheir and composer Eric Shimelonis will be joined on stage at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning by a quartet of BSO musicians (piccolo player Cindy Meyers, bassoonist Suzanne Nelsen, horn player Rachel Childers, and double bassist Ben Levy), along with "Song Exploder" host Hrishikesh Hirway, Shakespeare & Co. founder Tina Packer, "Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!" panelists Josh Gondelman and Faith Salie, and actor William Christian, as they record three new "Circle Round" episodes: “Fighting Like Cats and Dogs," a Korean tale about the real reason cats and dogs often don’t get along; “Fair-Feathered Friends,” a Burmese legend about why the song thrush sings so colorfully but has such drab feathers; and “One Wish,” a story with Irish, Indian, and Jewish roots about a whole new way to make your dreams come true. The live taping will be released as three separate podcast episodes in the “Circle Round” feed.

Doors open at 2:30pm

Renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, whose rich association with the BSO dates back to his time as a TMC Fellow (1968-69), is joined by the remarkable young Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev in his BSO and Tanglewood debut for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Sparkling and lush, it is one of the most beloved and challenging concertos in the repertoire. Aaron Copland’s orchestral music epitomizes a distinctly American sound that persists in the concert hall and in film soundtracks. His Third Symphony, premiered by the BSO and Serge Koussevitzky in 1946, incorporates the bold and familiar Fanfare for the Common Man. The concert opens with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s brief, rousing Dubinushka, based on a tune he heard marching workers sing during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and not performed by the BSO since 1944.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Bert L. Smokler Memorial Concert

Michael Tilson Thomas leads the BSO in Tanglewood’s traditional season-ending performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s intensely expressive, innovative, but ultimately uplifting Symphony No. 9. Following three questing instrumental movements, the finale is a setting for soloists and chorus of the German playwright and poet Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” The symphony—Beethoven’s last, composed in 1825—was an immense success at its premiere and has since become a symbol of hope for the universal togetherness of humankind.

Gates open at 12pm

Gates open at 4pm

Gates open at 4pm

Gates open at 4pm

All-Starr Band:
Warren Ham, Edgar Winter, Steve Lukather, Hamish Stuart, Colin Hay, Gregg Bissonette

Gates open at 3pm

NPR’s oddly informative news quiz program returns to Tanglewood! Now in its 25^th season, the Peabody Award-winning series offers a fast-paced, irreverent look at the week’s news, hosted by Peter Sagal along with Official Judge and Scorekeeper Bill Kurtis. This week’s special guest is actress Karen Allen.

Please note: there is a four-ticket limit per purchase for this event.

James Taylor and his All-Star Band celebrate the start of the Tanglewood season with two intimate and memorable performances.

Proceeds from the July 4 concert will be donated by Kim and James Taylor to Tanglewood.

Fireworks to follow the July 4 concert.

Children age 2 and up require an Adult price ticket for both Shed and Lawn.

SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810
Lotta WENNÄKOSKI Pige
SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden, D. 531 (arranged for string quartet by the Danish String Quartet)

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Since their formation in 1994, multi-GRAMMY Award-winning, diamond-selling band Train has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100, 12 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide.

Gates open at 4pm

Gates open at 4pm

Gates open at 4pm

This special solo performance will feature songs and stories with 12-time GRAMMY winner John Legend. Experience intimate reimaginings of his greatest hits (“All of Me,” “Ordinary People,” "Tonight"), unexpected stories from Legend's life and career, and selections from his most recent release LEGEND ("Nervous," "Wonder Woman").

Gates open at 4pm

Hall-of-Famer and Grammy-winner John Fogerty — formerly of Creedence Clearwater Revival— helped shape the sound of a generation. Special guest stars include the Destroyers, Hearty Har, and double-platinum guitarist George Thorogood, master of blues-rock, who is marking 50 years of making music.

In June and July 2022, Roger Daltrey embarked on his first UK solo tour since 2011. In crafting a completely new show, Roger decided to perform not only Who hits but also Who rarities, solo hits, and other songs from his incredible near 60-year career, performed with a new semi-acoustic rock-based band. He also decided to share some anecdotes with the audience from his life in and out of music by way of a Q and A. The result was a tour received ecstatically by fans and enjoyed by Roger and all who took part. Now, Roger plans to take it far afield in 2024.

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Two-time Grammy winners Kool & the Gang will bring their R&B, funk, soul, and disco hits to Tanglewood audiences for the first time. Releasing 26 studio albums since forming in 1969, the group has earned seven American Music Awards and 31 gold and platinum records. Joining them are the R&B/soul trio En Vogue, who headlined last summer’s July Fourth Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular with original members Cindy Herron and Terry Ellis alongside Rhona Bennett.

Jon Batiste is one of history’s most brilliant, prolific, and accomplished musicians.

Batiste studied and received both a B.A. and M.F.A. at the world-renowned Juilliard School in New York City. From 2015 until 2022, Batiste served as the bandleader and musical director of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. Most recently, Jon was awarded a Sports Emmy in the category of “Outstanding Open/Tease” for his 2022 NCAA March Madness piece. In 2018, he received a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots, and in 2020, he received two Grammy nods for the albums: CHRONOLOGY OF A DREAM: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD and MEDITATIONS (with Cory Wong).

In 2020, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the Disney/Pixar film SOUL, an honor he shared with fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Jon’s work on SOUL also earned him a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a NAACP Image Award and a Critic’s Choice Award. He is the second black composer in history, after legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, to win an Academy Award for composition.

Batiste’s album, WE ARE, was released in March 2021 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Subsequently, he was nominated for eleven GRAMMYs across seven different categories, a first in GRAMMY history. He went on to win five of those GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year. The Matthew Heineman-directed Netflix documentary ‘American Symphony’ - released in partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company - chronicles this meteoric rise in Batiste’s career, all while composing a symphony for Carnegie Hall as his wife, bestselling writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment. Batiste also performs the powerful song from the film, “It Never Went Away,” which he co-wrote with Grammy winner Dan Wilson.

Batiste’s latest studio album, World Music Radio, draws inspiration from his mission to create community and expand culture with the power of music. His most ambitious work yet, World Music Radio sees Batiste break down the musical barriers of “genre” and collaborate with global superstars Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, NewJeans and more. Following its release, Batiste was nominated for another six GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year (“Worship”), and Song of the Year (“Butterfly”). He is currently on his first-ever tour of North America.

Trey Anastasio with the Boston Pops
Edwin Outwater, conductor

The frontman for Phish and Trey Anastasio Band, Trey Anastasio's guitar wizardry and songwriting genius is complemented by the full orchestral might of the Boston Pops, creating a fusion of styles that's as exhilarating as it is unique. Don't miss this celebration of music, creativity, and pure joy.

Sean O'Loughlin, conductor

Multi-Grammy Award-winner Jason Mraz brings his soulful lyrics and masterful blend of folk, rock, and pop music to the Shed and the Boston Pops. Join us for a spellbinding evening as Mraz brings his unparalleled guitar skills, captivating voice, and heartfelt melodies to one of music's most iconic venues. Don’t miss the chance to sway under the stars to hits like “I’m Yours” and “Lucky.”Multi-Grammy Award-winner Jason Mraz brings his soulful lyrics and masterful blend of folk, rock, and pop music to the Shed and the Boston Pops. Join us for a spellbinding evening as Mraz brings his unparalleled guitar skills, captivating voice, and heartfelt melodies to one of music's most iconic venues. Don’t miss the chance to sway under the stars to hits like “I’m Yours” and “Lucky.”

A titan of the industry and one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, six-time Grammy-winner James Taylor marks 50 years of performing at Tanglewood. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the seminal American singer-songwriter.

Fireworks to follow the July 4 performance

Proceeds from the July 4 concert will be donated by James and Kim Taylor to support Tanglewood.

The Tanglewood Medal will be presented to James Taylor in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishments as a singer-songwriter and performer, as well as his many significant contributions to Tanglewood and the broader Berkshires community. He will receive the medal during his July 3, 2024 concert with his All-Star Band. Prior medal recipients were Seiji Ozawa (2012), John Oliver (2015) and John Williams (2022).

An Evening with Pretenders on July 16. It’ll be an electrifying evening with this iconic British-American Hall of Fame rock band. We’ll stand by you as we all dance the night away.

Beck with the Boston Pops
Edwin Outwater, conductor

Keith Lockhart, conductor

After a national tour in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, APHC is pleased to again be taking the stage at Tanglewood  — always a favorite stop and the site of 17 of the show’s national broadcasts. Joining Garrison are music director Rich Dworsky and the band, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman), and guest performers too.

Troy Quinn, conductor

Timeless poet and rhyme-master Nas delivered his first full-length album Illmatic in 1994. Nas went on to release 14 subsequent albums, 8 of which are multi-platinum and platinum including: Nastradamus, Stillmatic, God’s Son, and Street’s Disciple. With 16 GRAMMY nominations, Nas released King’s Disease in 2020, giving Nas his first ever GRAMMY win for “Best Rap Album,” and released King’s Disease II, a sequel to the GRAMMY Award winning album, produced by Nas and Hit-Boy. Most recently, Nas released the third installment of the King’s Disease series. With no features, King’s Disease III was produced by Hit-Boy and executive produced by Nas and Hit-Boy. Most recently, Nas and Hit-Boy released Magic 3, featuring 15 brand new tracks, also marking the final chapter of the legendary run for the prolific rapper-producer duo. Magic 3 serves as the duo's sixth album together in the last 3 years and serves as the third installment to the Magic series.

Legendary hip hop mogul, co-founder of Mass Appeal Records, actor, and executive producer, Nas’ extensive catalog speaks for itself.

NAS Illmatic Tour Package - $399
Package includes:

• one premium priced ticket within the first 10 rows of section 1
• Limited edition Illmatic 30th anniversary tour poster
• Specially designed Illmatic 30th anniversary long sleeve shirt
• Custom NAS dice set
• Commemorative tour laminate & lanyard

Limited availability

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Jon Batiste is one of history’s most brilliant, prolific, and accomplished musicians.

Batiste studied and received both a B.A. and M.F.A. at the world-renowned Juilliard School in New York City. From 2015 until 2022, Batiste served as the bandleader and musical director of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. Most recently, Jon was awarded a Sports Emmy in the category of “Outstanding Open/Tease” for his 2022 NCAA March Madness piece. In 2018, he received a Grammy nomination for Best American Roots, and in 2020, he received two Grammy nods for the albums: CHRONOLOGY OF A DREAM: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD and MEDITATIONS (with Cory Wong).

In 2020, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the Disney/Pixar film SOUL, an honor he shared with fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Jon’s work on SOUL also earned him a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a NAACP Image Award and a Critic’s Choice Award. He is the second black composer in history, after legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock, to win an Academy Award for composition.

Batiste’s album, WE ARE, was released in March 2021 to overwhelming critical acclaim. Subsequently, he was nominated for eleven GRAMMYs across seven different categories, a first in GRAMMY history. He went on to win five of those GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year. The Matthew Heineman-directed Netflix documentary ‘American Symphony’ - released in partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company - chronicles this meteoric rise in Batiste’s career, all while composing a symphony for Carnegie Hall as his wife, bestselling writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment. Batiste also performs the powerful song from the film, “It Never Went Away,” which he co-wrote with Grammy winner Dan Wilson.

Batiste’s latest studio album, World Music Radio, draws inspiration from his mission to create community and expand culture with the power of music. His most ambitious work yet, World Music Radio sees Batiste break down the musical barriers of “genre” and collaborate with global superstars Lana Del Rey, Lil Wayne, NewJeans and more. Following its release, Batiste was nominated for another six GRAMMYs, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year (“Worship”), and Song of the Year (“Butterfly”). He is currently on his first-ever tour of North America.

John Mulaney is a three-time Emmy Award, Critics Choice award and WGA award-winning writer, comedian and actor. Mulaney can currently be seen hosting his new Netflix talk show, EVERYBODY's LIVE WITH JOHN MULANEY. The show airs live on Wednesday's at 7pm PT/10pm ET. Mulaney's latest Netflix stand-up special, BABY J, released in April 2023, converts his personal turmoil into comedic brilliance. BABY J earned him 2023 Emmy nominations in Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) and an Emmy win for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special. BABY J also received the 2024 Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Special (non-televised). Mulaney consistently tours, and he has sold out venues around North America, from Madison Square Garden multiple times to the Hollywood Bowl. 

Fireworks to follow the July 4 performance.

Proceeds from the July 4 concert will be donated by Kim and James Taylor to support Tanglewood.

Emmylou Harris & Graham Nash, two of popular music's most beloved icons, share the stage for A Very Special Evening on July 29. Both artists first performed at Tanglewood in 1975 and will bring their respective complete shows to the historic venue this summer.

NPR’s oddly informative news quiz program is again live at Tanglewood. The Peabody Award-winning series offers a fast-paced, irreverent look at the week’s news, hosted by Peter Sagal along with judge and score-keeper Bill Kurtis.

More than a half century after the release of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd,’ they resonate as deeply with their multi-generational fan base today as when they first emerged out of Jacksonville, Florida in 1973. Few ensembles have had the deep impact in creating a lifestyle as Skynyrd has. The band travels forward with a primary mission of celebrating a legacy that honors all whom have had a resonating contribution to the lives of hundreds of millions of fans globally. Former members Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Steve Gaines, Ed King, Billy Powell, Bob Burns, and Leon Wilkeson alongside others will forever remain significant contributors to this indelible repertoire and the band’s colorful history. Today, Lynyrd Skynyrd rocks on with a current line-up featuring Johnny Van Zant, Rickey Medlocke, Damon Johnson, Mark “Sparky” Matejka, Michael Cartellone, Keith Christopher, Peter Keys, Carol Chase and Stacy Michelle.

The rock and roll powerhouse continually tours, and as Van Zant shares, “It’s about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what it stands for, what the fans are all about. There’s nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.” 

With a catalog of over 60 albums, billions of streams, tens of millions of records sold, and the introduction of Hell House whiskey, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Lynyrd Skynyrd remain a cultural icon that appeal to all generations.

Lynyrd Skynyrd Meet & Greet Experience - $679
Package includes:

• One (1) Premium Reserved or GA Ticket
• Meet & Greet with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Including Johnny Van Zant & Rickey Medlocke
• One (1) VIP Exclusive Lynyrd Skynyrd Merch Pack (Including Items Not Available Anywhere Else)
• One (1) DVD/CD of Lynyrd Skynyrd Live from the Ryman: Celebrating 50 Years - A special night of Skynyrd music featuring Gary Rossington’s last performance with the band and special guests
• One (1) Commemorative Tour Print

Lynyrd Skynyrd Gold Package - $379
Package Includes:

• One (1) Premium Reserved or GA Ticket
• One (1) VIP Exclusive Lynyrd Skynyrd Merch Pack (Including Items Not Available Anywhere Else)
• One (1) DVD/CD of Lynyrd Skynyrd Live from the Ryman: Celebrating 50 Years - A special night of Skynyrd music featuring Gary Rossington’s last performance with the band and special guests
• One (1) Commemorative Tour Print

PLEASE NOTE: THE GOLD VIP PACKAGE DOES NOT INCLUDE A MEET & GREET. THERE IS NO ARTIST INVOLVEMENT WITH THIS PACKAGE.

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Backed by his full band, Legend's “Get Lifted 20th Anniversary World Tour” will showcase a set list celebrating the entirety of Get Lifted, which garnered eight nominations and won three Grammy Awards at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Ordinary People," Best R&B Album for Get Lifted, and Best New Artist. Each night, Legend will deliver a mix of deep cuts, fan favorites, and fresh renditions of the album's beloved tracks like the Grammy-winning "Ordinary People" (his breakout hit that reached the Billboard Top 40 and the UK R&B Singles chart), "Used to Love U," "Number One," and "So High." In addition to honoring Get Lifted, the live show will feature Legend’s other career-spanning hits, showcasing the musical depth and storytelling that have been hallmarks of his artistry for the past two decades

This event will be a phone-free experience. Use of cellphones, smart watches, smart accessories, cameras, or recording devices will not be permitted in the performance space.

Upon arrival at the venue, all phones, smart watches, and accessories will be secured in Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event. Guests maintain possession of their belongings at all times and can access their phones throughout the event at designated Phone Use Areas in the venue. All phones will be re-secured in Yondr pouches before returning to the event space.

Anyone seen using a non-permitted device during the performance will be escorted out of the venue. Guests are encouraged to bring a credit card for purchases inside the venue. We appreciate your cooperation in creating a phone-free viewing experience.

Yacht Rock Revue, hailed by Rolling Stone as the "world's premier soft-rock party band," invites listeners on a nostalgic voyage through the sun-soaked melodies of the '70s and '80s. With dy-no-mite renditions of hits by Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, and more, Yacht Rock Revue is widely recognized as the driving force behind the yacht rock resurgence, sharing stages with icons and garnering a devoted following of "Anchorheads." 2026 marks their most ambitious production yet, but with the intimacy and interactive touch that harkens back to their days as a club band. Channeling the golden age of television and their humble beginnings in an Atlanta, GA basement in 2007, it's PRIMETIME

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• One reserved front row ticket*
• Merchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasers
• Collectible laminate to remember your evening
• Commemorative ticket
• Designated check-in and on-site VIP event staff

*Locations may vary. See specific date for details. Merch will be shipped to the address provided at the time of purchase (US & Canada only). No PO Boxes.

PREMIUM HOT SEAT PACKAGE

• One reserved ticket within rows 2-4*
• Merchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasers
• Collectible laminate to remember your evening
• Commemorative ticket
• Designated check-in and on-site VIP event staff

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GOLD HOT SEAT PACKAGE

• One premium reserved ticket*
• Merchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasers
• Collectible laminate to remember your evening
• Commemorative ticket
• Designated check-in and on-site VIP event staff

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SILVER HOT SEAT PACKAGE

• One reserved ticket*
• Merchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasers
• Collectible laminate to remember your evening
• Commemorative ticket
• Designated check-in and on-site VIP event staff

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Weird Al brings his legendary full-production multimedia comedy rock show back to the concert stage with the BIGGER & WEIRDER 2026 Tour, playing his iconic hits as well as some never-performed-live-before fan favorites. Al’s long-time band is joined by four additional players to create a super-sized concert experience.

“Weird Al” Yankovic is the biggest-selling comedy recording artist in history. A 5-time Grammy Award winner, he is best known for his parodies of the biggest musical artists over the last 4 decades, including Madonna, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Queen, U2 and Lady Gaga, all with their personal blessings. His many hits include “Amish Paradise,” “Eat It,” “Like a Surgeon,” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Word Crimes,” and the platinum-selling “White & Nerdy.” His last album Mandatory Fun is the only comedy album in history to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. Yankovic’s live shows have entertained audiences across the globe for generations, including appearances at such iconic venues as Radio City Music Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks, Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, The Kennedy Center and Madison Square Garden. In 2022, Yankovic produced and co-wrote the Emmy-winning biopic WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, starring Daniel Radcliffe in the title role.

VIP Meet & Greet and Backstage Tour Packages are available for this show. Click here for more information on VIP packages.

4 ticket limit

Special Guest: PUDDLES PITY PARTY
Puddles Pity Party, the 7-foot sad clown whose golden voice is “comparable to any Grammy winner” (Los Angeles Times), has amassed over 900K YouTube subscribers and performed sold out shows around the globe including San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, London’s Soho Theatre and a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He has performed on stage with such legends as Eric Idle, Nick Offerman, Jack Black, Maynard James Keenan and Primus. Puddles’ one-of-a-kind “textured voice laced with melancholy” (NY Times) has been hailed as “operatic” (Boston Globe) and his show both “life-affirming” (Herald Scotland) and “hysterically funny” (LA Weekly).

Six-time Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jason Isbell is one of the most respected and celebrated artists of his generation. The North Alabama native possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, and turning them into beautiful poetry through song. Isbell sings of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty. 

After releasing multiple critically-acclaimed albums, appearing in an Academy Award-nominated film, Killers of the Flower Moon, and touring the world with his band, the 400 Unit, Isbell began 2025 with a change of pace. A solo record. Simply Isbell and his voice and an acoustic guitar, an all-mahogany 1940 Martin 0-17. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC, ‘Foxes in the Snow’ further demonstrates his pure talent as a songwriter and musician. As Stereogum so aptly put it, "the barebones intimacy recenters the artist behind the persona and serves as a reminder that this guy can write a damn song."

Hugh Jackman is an award-winning actor celebrated for his work across film, theater, and music. He earned a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media as the lead in The Greatest Showman, starring alongside Zac Efron and Zendaya, and his performance in Les Misérables captivated global audiences and garnered him a Golden Globe for Best Actor, Musical or Comedy. His extensive film credits include Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, the X-Men series, Logan, Prisoners, and Florian Zeller’s The Son. Most recently, Jackman starred in Song Sung Blue, co-starring Kate Hudson, written and directed by Craig Brewer. Beyond acting, he has achieved critical acclaim through his production company, TOGETHER Productions, for which the second season has been announced. Along with other new shows, back by popular demand is the critically acclaimed play, Sexual Misconduct, co-starring Jackman and Ella Beatty live on stage at the Audible Theater in New York City. Up next on screen for Jackman is The Death of Robin Hood, out in theaters in May 2026.

One of music’s most respected voices, Brandi Carlile is an Oscar-nominee, 11-time Grammy winner, two-time Emmy winner, and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author. 

After pouring herself into projects with musical icons, Carlile looks inward on her new album, Returning To Myself (Interscope Records/Lost Highway), produced by Carlile, Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner, and Justin Vernon. The acclaimed album debuted at No. 7 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts. The record follows Who Believes in Angels?, the universally praised, Grammy-nominated collaborative album with her childhood hero Elton John, which debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. and top 10 in the U.S. 

In the midst of yet another monumental year, Carlile was recently honored as one of TIME’s 2026 Women of the Year, performed a rendition of “America The Beautiful” at Super Bowl LX, and kicked off her extensive The Human Tour, which consists of arena shows across North America, the U.K., and Europe. Carlile will also return to the Gorge Amphitheatre for three nights this spring with her "Echoes Through The Canyon" weekend, featuring The Highwomen, Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, Wynonna Judd, I’m With Her, Brittney Spencer, and Sara Bareilles. 

Beloved by her peers, Carlile has worked with artists such as Soundgarden, Sam Smith, Alicia Keys, Hozier, Noah Kahan, P!nk, and Dolly Parton. She was named OUT Magazine’s Icon of the Year and was awarded Billboard’s Women In Music Trailblazer Award and NMPA’s Songwriter Icon Award, as well as multiple awards from the Americana Music Association. Carlile is also a founder of the Looking Out Foundation, which has raised over $9 million for grassroots causes to date.

The Athens, AL-raised band, comprised of vocalist/guitarist Brittany Howard, guitarist Heath Fogg, and bassist Zac Cockrell exploded onto the scene in 2012 with their debut album Boys & Girls, (ATO Records), which entered Billboard’s Independent Albums chart at No. 1. Boys & Girls earned the band multiple GRAMMY nominations and was hailed as one of the year’s best albums by numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, which also named lead single “Hold On” the #1 Best Song of 2012. Soon after its release, the bandmates found themselves thrust into the global spotlight, achieving such milestones as performing at the White House and on “Saturday Night Live.”

The band’s legacy continued to grow with the groundbreaking Sound & Color (ATO Records). Released 10 years ago, the album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, won GRAMMY Awards for Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The first single, “Don’t Wanna Fight,” took honors in the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories. Sound & Color marked a profound evolution from Alabama Shakes’ debut album, as The New York Times Magazine observed, heralding the band’s “soul-stirring, shape-shifting new sound.” Both Sound & Color and Boys & Girls were certified Platinum by the RIAA.

The Shakes’ Cockrell, Fogg, & Howard have reunited in the studio and released a new single “Another Life” last year.  

THE “ANOTHER LIFE” VIP EXPERIENCE - $424

One premium reserved ticket in the first few rows, one autographed, limited-edition VIP exclusive tour poster signed by Alabama Shakes, one VIP-Exclusive Alabama Shakes merchandise item, one commemorative VIP laminate & lanyard, crowd-free merchandise shopping before the show, on-site perks such as VIP check-in, and an on-site customer service mobile text-only number.

“HOLD ON” VIP PACKAGE - $349

One premium reserved ticket in the best available seats, one limited-edition VIP exclusive tour poster, one VIP-Exclusive Alabama Shakes merchandise item, one commemorative VIP laminate & lanyard, crowd-free merchandise shopping before the show, on-site perks such as VIP check-in, and an on-site customer service mobile text-only number