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2022 Tanglewood Season

Festival of Contemporary Music

Experience one of the world’s premier showcases for works from the current musical landscape and landmark pieces from leading composers of the 20th century.

Ellen Highstein, Merwin Geffen, M.D. and Norman Solomon, M.D., Festival of Contemporary Music Director

Tony Arnold, Stephen Drury, George Lewis, and Astrid Schween, co-curators

The Festival of Contemporary Music has been endowed in perpetuity by the generosity of Dr. Raymond H. and Mrs. Hannah H. Schneider, with additional support from the Fromm Music Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Amphion Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund.

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    Wed Jun 29, 2022 - 7:30pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Vocal Concert

    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

    Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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    Fri Jul 1, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC String Quartet Marathon

    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

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    Sat Jul 2, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

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    Sun Jul 3, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Opening Exercises

    Performances to include:
    Osvaldo GOLIJOV K’Vakarat
    THOMPSON Alleluia

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    Thu Jul 7, 2022 - 2:30pm

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

    Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

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    Sun Jul 10, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

  • TMC Vocal Concert

    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

    Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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    Sun Jul 10, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Andris Nelsons and the TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Ravel, Strauss, and Schubert

    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

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    Mon Jul 11, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

    Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

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    Sun Jul 17, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Vocal Concert

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

    Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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    Mon Jul 18, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Andris Nelsons conducts Berlioz and Mahler featuring Christine Goerke, soprano

    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.

    Gates open at 5:30pm

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    Sat Jul 23, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

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    Sun Jul 24, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Vocal Concert

    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

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    Sun Jul 24, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Open Violin Workshop with Alexander Velinzon

    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

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    Wed Jul 27, 2022 - 1:30pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

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    Sun Jul 31, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Thomas Adès, JoAnn Falletta, and the TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Debussy, Stravinsky, Wilson, and Hindemith

    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

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    Sun Jul 31, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    In Conversation: Ellen Highstein and Festival of Contemporary Music Concert Curators

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

    Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

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    Thu Aug 4, 2022 - 1:00pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

  • A chamber ensemble performing at Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood

    TMC Music for Mixed Chamber Ensembles

    KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue
    Alvin SINGLETON Again
    HYLA Pre-Pulse Suspended

    Thomas ADÈS Mazurkas, Op. 27
    Christopher TRAPANI Waterlines

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    Thu Aug 4, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

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    Fri Aug 5, 2022 - 2:30pm

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music

    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.

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    Sat Aug 6, 2022 - 6:00pm

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

  • A chamber ensemble performing at Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood

    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

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    Sun Aug 7, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Fri Aug 5, 2022 - 1:00pm

    Sat Aug 6, 2022 - 1:00pm

    Sun Aug 7, 2022 - 1:00pm

    Gordon Studio, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Silent Film Music by TMC Composition Fellows

    Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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    Sun Aug 7, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    George Benjamin conducts George Benjamin featuring the TMC Vocal Fellows

    The Margaret Lee Crofts Concert

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

    Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

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    Mon Aug 8, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Piece-a-Day Project

    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.

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    Sat Aug 13, 2022 - 11:00am

    Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    TMC Chamber Music Concert

    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

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    Sun Aug 14, 2022 - 10:00am

    Seiji Ozawa Hall, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

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    Stefan Asbury and TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Price, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff

    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

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    Sun Aug 14, 2022 - 8:00pm

    Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA