Tanglewood 2022 Season Programs

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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

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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.

Gates open at 5:30pm

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

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

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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)]

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

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.

Gates open at 5:30pm

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

Gates open at 9am

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

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

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.

Gates open at 5:30pm

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

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

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

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.

Gates open at 1:30pm

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

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.

Gates open at 12pm

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.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

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.

Gates open at 12pm

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.

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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)

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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)

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