Festival of Contemporary Music

CHESNOKOV Salvation is Created
Joan TOWER Copperwave
Kevin McKEE Semper Gratus
David SAMPSON Morning Music
David EVANS Affirmation (world premiere, commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center through the generous support of the Merwin Geffen, M.D. and Norman Solomon, M.D. New Commissions Fund)
TAKEMITSU Day Signal
GABRIELI Canzon in Double Echo
TAKEMITSU Night Signal
Per NØRGÅRD Square and Round
Richard STRAUSS Festmusik der Stadt Wien

The 2023 String Quartet Seminar features works by HAYDN, BACEWICZ, BARTÓK, BOYLE, BRITTEN, MACONCHY, and SZYMANOWSKI.

Please note: purchasing one ticket provides admission to all three performances.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how the exceptional Tanglewood Music Center Fellows develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts.

This performance is not part of the Open Workshops pass.

Program to include
THOMPSON Alleluia

GRIEG Lyric Suite
LIGETI Six Bagatelles
Osvaldo GOLIJOV Um Dia Bom
Peter SHIN Breathing Chords (world premiere, commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center through the generous support of the Merwin Geffen, M.D. and Norman Solomon, M.D. New Commissions Fund)
MOZART Serenade No. 11 in E-flat, K.37

BOULANGER Selected songs
Osvaldo GOLIJOV Lua Descolorida
CRAWFORD-SEEGER White Moon
DUTILLEUX San Francisco Night
KNUSSEN Voice of the Rain
IVES Selected songs
Charles FUSSELL Being Music

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows

RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
STRAVINSKY Jeu de cartes
Intermission
RAVEL Mother Goose suite
DEBUSSY La Mer

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how the exceptional Tanglewood Music Center Fellows develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts.

LOEFFLER String Quintet
George LEWIS String Quartet 1.5, “Experiments in Living”
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Quasi hoquetus
Alma MAHLER Vier Lieder
BRAHMS Sextet for strings No. 2 in G, Op. 36

RACHMANINOFF Six Romances, Op. 38
DUREY Selected songs
BUTTERWORTH A Shropshire Lad
ROPARTZ Quatre Poèmes d'après l'Intermezzo d'Heinrich Heine

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellow Armand Birk, conductor (Kodály)
TMC Conducting Fellow Agata Zając, conductor (Bacewicz)
TMC Fellow Eva Rae Martinez, soprano (Mahler)

BACEWICZ Overture, for orchestra
KODÁLY Háry János Suite
Intermission
MAHLER Symphony No. 4

ROUSSEL Sérénade, Op. 30
Gala FLAGELLO Breathing Light
LOEFFLER Quatre Poèmes, Op. 5
Georg Friedrich HAAS tria ex uno
Eduard FRANCK String Sextet No. 2 in D, Op. 50

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Xian Zhang, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
STRAUSS Don Juan
Gabriela Lena FRANK La centinela y la paloma
Intermission
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6

Gates open at 6:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how the exceptional Tanglewood Music Center Fellows develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts.

Reena Esmail and Tebogo Monnakgotla, the Merwin Geffen, M.D. and Norman Solomon, M.D., Festival of Contemporary Music Co-curators

Michael Gandolfi, Head of Composition Program, Tanglewood Music Center

Michael Gandolfi interviews the Festival of Contemporary Music Co-curators about how they curated the festival, with each program representative of their sound worlds. Learn more about these leading and pathbreaking composers.

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, American Scandinavian Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

In Conversation, programs are supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman.

Gabriela Lena FRANK Sonata Serrana No. 1
Gabriela Lena FRANK Las Sombras de los Apus
BARTÓK Contrasts
Gabriela Lena FRANK Milagros

Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Reminiscence
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Spectra
György KURTÁG 12 Microludes
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Hrim
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Aequilibria
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Ró

Saili Oak, Indian classical vocalist
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows

ALL-REENA ESMAIL PROGRAM
Darshan
Piano Trio: movement III
Who Makes a Clearing
Ragamala
Pranayam
Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz

Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA It is the Lark that Sings
Malin BÅNG Arching
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Five Pieces for String Trio
Andile KHUMALO Schaufe[r]nster II
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Le dormeur du val
Bent SØRENSEN The Lady of Shalott
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Toys (or The Wonderful World of Clara)
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Companion

Experience a silent film shown with a score composed by the Tanglewood Music Center's Composition Fellows and performed live by Tanglewood Music Center Fellows.

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows

Reena ESMAIL RE|Member
Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR METACOSMOS
Tebogo MONNAKGOTLA Un Clin d’oeil
Intermission
Gabriela Lena FRANK Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra

Gates open at 6:30pm

Imogen HOLST String Quintet
BEETHOVEN String Quintet in C, Op. 29
BACEWICZ Wind Quintet
Annie NIKUNEN all mass is interaction (world premiere)
MENDELSSOHN Sextet in D, Op. 110

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows

RACHMANINOFF The Isle of the Dead
RAVEL Boléro
Intermission
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Gates open at 6:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how the exceptional Tanglewood Music Center Fellows develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how the exceptional Tanglewood Music Center Fellows develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts.

GRISEY Tempus ex machina
Jesse JENNINGS Reservoir (world premiere)
BRAHMS Horn Trio in E-flat, Op. 40
Daniel ZLATKIN Requiem
WILLIAMS Sextet for Oboe, Trumpet, and Piano Quartet

Vocal Music of BACH
Cantata No. 133, "Ich freue mich in dir"
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Cantata No. 20, "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Dame Jane Glover, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows

DVOŘÁK The Wood Dove
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Intermission
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Gates open at 6:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how the exceptional Tanglewood Music Center Fellows develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts.

BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat, Op. 20
Olli MUSTONEN Nonetto II
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Beethoven)
James Burton, conductor (Tippett)
Amanda Majeski, soprano
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Costello, tenor
Jongmin Park, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

TIPPETT Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

The 2023 Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert is supported by generous endowments established in perpetuity by Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider, and Diane H. Lupean.

This afternoon's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

Gates open at 12pm