Tanglewood Learning Institute

BEETHOVEN Sonata in G for piano and violin, Op. 30, No. 3

James LEE III Piano Trio No. 3, Tones of Clay (world premiere)

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 1, No. 1

Calyx Trio: Catherine French, violin; Jennifer Lucht, cello; Nina Ferrigno, piano

Available On Demand on BSO NOW December 9, 2021 - January 8, 2022

SHOSTAKOVICH Sonata in G for violin and piano, Op. 134

WEINBERG Sonata for solo double bass, Op. 108

PENDERECKI Duo Concertante for violin and double bass

Andrea CLEARFIELD Three Songs after Pablo Neruda, for violin and double bass

Yevgeny Kutik, violin
Edwin Barker, double bass
Anna Polonsky, piano

Available On Demand on BSO NOW February 3, 2022 - March 5

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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.

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

Gates open at 6:30pm

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

Bonnie Bewick & Takumi Taguchi, violins
Steven Laraia, viola
Mickey Katz, cello
Traditional (Arr. ASLAMAZYAN) Selections from La Lyre armenienne
Fazil SAY String Quartet, Op. 29, Divorce
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, American

Musicians from Castle of our Skins
Brianna J. Robinson, soprano
DeShaun Gordon-King, flute
Francesca McNeeley, cello
Kyle P. Walker, piano

Tania LEÓN: “Oh Yemanja” for voice, cello, and piano
Andre MYERS: Falling Skyward for solo flute
POWELL PERRY: The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh for voice, flute, and piano
PERKINSON: Calvary Ostinato from Black Folksongs and Lamentations for solo cello
SMITH MOORE: Afro-American Suite for flute, cello, and piano
Daniel BERNARD ROUMAIN: Music for Black People No. 1, Relentless, for voice, flute, cello, and piano

Julianne Lee and Glen Cherry, violins
Mary Ferrillo, viola
Alexandre Lecarme, cello
Carl Anderson, bass

GINASTERA String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20
Freya WALEY-COHEN Conjure, for string trio
DVOŘÁK String Quintet in G, Op. 77

Lucia Lin and Bracha Malkin, violins
Rebecca Gitter, viola
Owen Young, cello
Charles Overton, harp
April Sun, piano
Michael-Thomas FOUMAI Printing Kapa and Defending Kalo, for harp and violin
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 74
STILL Ennanga, for harp, piano and string quartet

Sheila Fiekowsky and Lisa Kim, violins
Mary Ferrillo and Daniel Getz, violas
Adam Esbensen and Oliver Aldort, cellos

Caroline SHAW Limestone & Felt, for viola and cello
PROKOFIEV Sonata for two violins, Op. 56
BRAHMS String Sextet in G, Op. 36

Elizabeth Klein, flute
Michael Wayne, clarinet
Robert Sheena, oboe
Richard Ranti, bassoon
Rachel Childers, horn
BARBER Summer Music
CARTER Woodwind Quintet
Lalo SCHIFRIN La Nouvelle Orleans
Valerie COLEMAN Red Clay & Mississippi Delta
John HARBISON Quintet for Winds (last movement)
Paquito D’RIVERA Selections from Aires Tropicales

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 68
James LEE III A Double Standard
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat, Op. 105

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.

Boston Conservatory theater professor and Emmy winner Angela M. Farr Schiller delves into the themes and social politics of the hit class-bridging musical Ragtime ahead of its July 8 Boston Pops performance.

Immersion: Themes from Ragtime is supported by Donald Usher and William E. Briggs.

Internationally prominent composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z combines elements of voice, live electronics, sampled sound, and video utilizing the unique features of Studio E.

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.

Candid, informal discussions on the careers, music, and future aspirations of the many wonderful artists Tanglewood has to offer.

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

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.

Candid, informal discussions on the careers, music, and future aspirations of the many wonderful artists Tanglewood has to offer.

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

Pulitzer Prize winner and National Humanities Medal recipient Isabel Wilkerson presents a talk on her New York Times bestseller and critically acclaimed book Caste.

Beyond race and class lies a powerful caste system influencing lives, behavior, and the nation’s fate. In a powerful talk, the award-winning author spotlights the insidious effects of caste across societies, before exploring how America can move away from its destructive power and toward hope in our common humanity.

A book signing will follow the presentation, with copies of Caste available for sale.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Gates open at 4pm

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Candid, informal discussions on the careers, music, and future aspirations of the many wonderful artists Tanglewood has to offer.

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

Astrid Schween, cello
Shai Wosner, piano

DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
BRITTEN Sonata for Cello and Piano in C, Op. 65
BRAHMS Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38

Award-winning scholar and Columbia University professor Saidiya Hartman discusses racial justice and equality, central topics from the newly expanded and revised 25th anniversary edition of her award-winning book Scenes of Subjection, described as a call for a reframing of US history that frames Black lives today.

Presented in collaboration with BRIDGE.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Gates open at 4pm

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.

Candid, informal discussions on the careers, music, and future aspirations of the many wonderful artists Tanglewood has to offer.

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

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.

Terezín Music Foundation director Mark Ludwig explores the Nazi "cultural cleansing” policy targeting jazz, modernist, and non-Aryan—including all Jewish—composers before and during World War II. This will include a sampling of art, historical photos, and performance videos.

Presented in Collaboration with the Terezín Music Foundation

Terezín Music Foundation director and Fulbright scholar Mark Ludwig presents an artistic and musical journey into the astonishing cultural community of imprisoned musicians and artists in Terezín, a Nazi camp where 33,000 people died. This program will include art and historical photos with live performances by BSO members.

Presented in Collaboration with the Terezín Music Foundation

Gates open at 2:30pm

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.

Over more than thirty years, Carrie Mae Weems has developed a complex body of art employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video.

Drawing from their careers and experiences as artists and social advocates, Weems and beloved cellist Yo-Yo Ma will share their perspectives on the role of artists and their civic duties.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Gates open at 4pm

Six-time GRAMMY-nominated pianist-composer and recent Blue Note Artist develops musical narratives that unfold as a result of both deliberate searching and chance uncovering.

Gates open at 6:30pm

Kim Weild, director
Keith Hamilton Cobb, writer/performer
Josh Tyson, performer
Christian Frederickson, sound designer
Alan Edwards, lighting designer

Keith Hamilton's award-winning 2-person play American Moor explores the American Black Male experience via Shakespeare’s Othello. The artists who originated the off-Broadway production created this version specially for Tanglewood's Studio E.

Whether you're a seasoned performer or a passionate admirer, this event will elevate your understanding and appreciation of the rich traditions and art of the string quartet.

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. Join BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and violinist Gil Shaham for the first installment of our “Art of Conducting” series and see how a conductor shapes the rehearsals, the relationship between the orchestra and guest artists, and the sound and feeling of the performance itself. 

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity, this time with soprano Nicole Cabell. 

Anthony Fogg, moderator with concertmaster Nathan Cole

Join Anthony Fogg, BSO vice president of artistic planning, for this unique series of talks with special guest artists.

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Join conductor and frequent BSO collaborator Dima Slobodeniouk for this installment of our “Art of Conducting” series and learn more about the multifaceted role a conductor plays in shaping performances.

Join us for an intimate look at the groundbreaking choreographer and ballet master George Balanchine, and his relationship with — and effect on — Russian composer Stravinsky, a meeting of the minds that birthed some of the most genre-redefining American ballets of the 21st century. Designed for musicians and music lovers alike, Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity.

This 2-hour workshop will allow participants to master the full capabilities of their smartphone or tablet camera. The class will cover all in-device functions and a short but valuable segment on editing images. 

Meeting place: Just inside Tanglewood Main Gate. (Rain location: Taste of the Berkshires.)

Rebecca Sheir, host

Join Diana Byer, Founder & Artistic Director Emerita of New York Theatre Ballet, musicians from the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, dancers, and host Rebecca Sheir, for this engaging and interactive program connecting music and movement. Featuring music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Maurice Ravel, Johann Strauss Jr., and a suite from Camile Saint-Saëns’s captivating Carnival of the Animals, make plans to stand, stretch, reach, and jump as you “join the dance!”

In collaboration with Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Join BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and the TMC Vocal Fellows for this installment of our “Art of Conducting” series and learn more about the multifaceted role a conductor plays in shaping performances.

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. Join conductor and director of Les Arts Florissants William Christie for an exploration of inspiration and motivation.

Join Anthony Fogg, moderator with with composer Tania León.

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Smartphone photography has made a major impact on the traditional field of DSLR/Mirrorless photography. While the results offered by smartphones are excellent, there are modes and options that are only available with a DSLR/Mirrorless system. Bring your DSLR/Mirrorless system (film systems are welcome as well) to this 2-hour combination classroom and grounds-based walk to activate the full capabilities of your creative spirit.

Meeting place: Just inside Tanglewood Main Gate. (Rain location: Taste of the Berkshires.)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator, and librettist Tracy K. Smith served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and is a Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Smith will speak about the connections between literature, poetry, libretti, and music.

The Spotlight Series is generously supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis.

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. Join BSO Germeshausen Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins for this installment of our “Art of Conducting” series and learn more about the multifaceted role a conductor plays in shaping performances.

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden your understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. This installment of our “Art of Conducting” series looks at the great film conductors throughout the history of Hollywood.

Join our principal bass Edwin Barker for an exploration of one of the most versatile instruments in the string family. Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity.

Anthony Fogg, moderator with pianist Yefim Bronfman

Join Anthony Fogg, BSO vice president of artistic planning, for this unique series of talks with special guest artists.

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Learn about the ins, outs, twists, and turns of the 88 keys from distinguished pianist Orli Shaham. Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity.

Harlow Robinson, moderator, with Tom Godell and Victor Yuzefovich

Through his visionary leadership and passionate advocacy for music education and contemporary composers, Serge Koussevitzky propelled the Boston Symphony Orchestra into a new era, created Tanglewood, and forever transformed the landscape of American classical music. Join the Tanglewood Learning Institute as we celebrate his legacy on the eve of the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Supported in part by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

Go beyond the basic and start to integrate the many advanced functions your smartphone or tablet can offer. This 2-hour workshop will use the beautiful, landscaped grounds of Tanglewood as your visual and color palette as you expand your knowledge and skills.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Smartphone Photography and/or Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photography

Meeting place: Just inside Tanglewood Main Gate. (Rain location: Taste of the Berkshires.)

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity, this time with Toby Oft, the BSO’s principal trombone. 

Anthony Fogg, moderator with conductor Ken-David Masur

Join Anthony Fogg, BSO vice president of artistic planning, for this unique series of talks with special guest artists. 

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. Join frequent BSO collaborator Alan Gilbert for this installment of our “Art of Conducting” series and learn more about the multifaceted role a conductor plays in shaping performances. 

Need to move beyond just taking pictures? Want to create fine art images with your smartphone or tablet? Register today and spend 3-hours using the stunning Tanglewood grounds to develop your own creative vision and create portfolio-quality images.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Smartphone Photography and/or Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photography

Meeting place: Just inside Tanglewood Main Gate. (Rain location: Taste of the Berkshires.)

Join Berklee scholar Angela Farr Schiller, PhD, as she hosts a lively and engaging conversation about humanitarian, artistic trailblazer, spy for the French Resistance, and cabaret super star—Josephine Baker. Separating truth from fiction via live archival footage, we will discover Baker's vast career and life through a deep dive exploration into Baker’s expansive song book and the dangerous liaisons in between.

Josephine Baker was a trailblazing singer, actress, and civil rights activist who become an icon in her own time. Join us to explore her legacy in the world of music. Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. 

Rebecca Sheir, host

In this interactive musical and visual storytelling event, audience members will help shape the performance! Led by hip hop and theater artist Baba Israel, and featuring illustrator Louis Henry Mitchell, guests will be invited to play with vocal effects, trigger samples and synths, and learn how to beatbox as both the music and illustrations evolve in real-time. Baba and Louis will be joined by jazz and electronic woodwind artist Sean Nowell, Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Will Hudgins, bassist Mary Ann McSweeney, and host Rebecca Sheir for this musical and visual adventure. No musical experience needed, just a sense of curiosity and a celebration of our collective imagination!

In collaboration with the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Join acclaimed pianist Kirill Gerstein and special guests for musical time-traveling adventure to the 1920s in Berlin, when the beer flowed, the lights were low, the Great War was over, and cabaret music was the rage. Tanglewood Learning Institute talks and seminars are meant to broaden our understanding of music, the arts, and our shared humanity. 

Anthony Fogg, moderator with pianist Kirill Gerstein

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

In this lively and engaging talk, Columbia University composer and musicologist George Lewis proposes an alternative to the standard discourse of diversity, offering a “new complexity” of engagement with new histories and identities in classical music. Professor Lewis presents a set of practical steps for encouraging music curators, ensembles, institutions, and audiences to discover what decolonization sounds like, and how we can reaffirm our common humanity in the pursuit of new musical experiences.

Violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman developed This is America in 2020, out of a time of rupture and disconnection. Thinking about ways that one person could make a small difference, he brought together commissioning partners across eleven states and territories to commission 22 new works. He invited the composers, all US-based, to reflect on the time we’re all living in. Since that initial burst of creativity This is America has been performed throughout North America and grown to encompass 28 compositions for solo violin.

“This is America celebrates America’s rich cultural tapestry and its myriad perspectives, thoughts and ideas, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through a singular, dominant point of view. Each composition reflects on the current state of American society in a personal and intimate way, looking through an unflinching lens at universal topics like separation, loneliness, hope, and love.” - Johnny Gandelsman

Capturing a live performance in photographs requires skill, patience, and discretion. This unintrusive workshop will instruct in lighting, exposure, exposure settings, and composition as we photograph Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra rehearsing live in Seiji Ozawa Hall. The 3-hour class is limited to 6 participants and students will need a tripod or monopod, and camera or smartphone/tablet that can be used with manual settings.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Smartphone Photography and/or Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photograph

Featuring Grammy award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan and jazz & contemporary vocalist Farayi Malek this program explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes traditional songs of protest and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and a new commission by Errollyn Wallen. Spanning genres, eras, and movements, A Change Is Gonna Come provokes conversation, confronts our past and present, and celebrates the act of protest as one of our most precious rights.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films. Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is in its tenth season on PBS, and his most recent history series, Gospel, premiered on PBS in February 2024. His latest book is The Black Box: Writing the Race (Penguin Random House, 2024).

Harvey Young, moderator

The Spotlight Series is generously supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis.

Violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman developed This is America in 2020, out of a time of rupture and disconnection. Thinking about ways that one person could make a small difference, he brought together commissioning partners across eleven states and territories to commission 22 new works. He invited the composers, all US-based, to reflect on the time we’re all living in. Since that initial burst of creativity This is America has been performed throughout North America and grown to encompass 28 compositions for solo violin.

“This is America celebrates America’s rich cultural tapestry and its myriad perspectives, thoughts and ideas, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through a singular, dominant point of view. Each composition reflects on the current state of American society in a personal and intimate way, looking through an unflinching lens at universal topics like separation, loneliness, hope, and love.” - Johnny Gandelsman

Anthony Fogg, moderator with violinist Midori

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Terezín Music Foundation director and Fulbright scholar Mark Ludwig explores loss and remembrance in classical music with a particular focus on Gideon Klein, who Holocaust survivors remember as “our young Leonard Bernstein.” Klein’s meteoric and inspiring story is complemented by live performances by BSO members.

Presented in collaboration with the Terezín Music Foundation.

Terezín Music Foundation director and Fulbright scholar Mark Ludwig is joined by world-renowned composer Osvaldo Golijov as they discuss Golijov’s recent work Falling Out of Time. Ludwig will also examine composer Viktor Ullmann’s quest for meaning within the confines of the Terezín concentration camp through his unique synthesis of classical, jazz, and cabaret music. The program will include art and historic photos, with live performances by BSO members.

Presented in collaboration with the Terezín Music Foundation

Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, NOVA host, and former New York Times columnist David Pogue is the go-to expert on disruptive tech and science in a fast-changing world. Pogue brings his expansive knowledge, engaging wit, and an occasional song to center stage in a talk about Artificial Intelligence and the future of music.

The Spotlight Series is generously supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis.

Be a part of Circle Round history as WBUR's award-winning folktales podcast returns to Tanglewood’s Linde Center for Music and Learning for a live recording of three new episodes! Host Rebecca Sheir and composer Eric Shimelonis will be joined by a quintet of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians plus an all-star cast of actors as they bring these exciting folktales to life. All four Circle Round picture books will be available for purchase; a book signing and meet-and-greet will follow the show.

Rebecca Sheir, host
Eric Shimelonis, composer

Actors
Adam Goldberg (The Equalizer, 50 Days in Paris)
Gideon Irving (My Name is Gideon)
Faith Salie (CBS Sunday Morning, Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!)
Thomas Warfield (AstroDance, Celebrate the Moment)

BSO Musicians
Clint Foreman, flute
Christopher Elchico, clarinet
Suzanne Nelsen, bassoon
Catherine French, violin
Benjamin Levy, bass

Anthony Fogg, moderator with conductor Karina Canellakis

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.
 

Go beyond in-device editing; work with apps; learn the basics of mobile, desktop and laptop editing. Snapseed, basic Lightroom, basic Photoshop, and a handful of other editing-based apps will be covered in this 2-hour workshop that will revolutionize your editing skill set.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Smartphone Photography and/or Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photography

Edmar Castañeda, harp 
Andrea Tierra, vocalist 
Shlomi Cohen, sax
Rodrigo Villalon, drums

Colombian-born Edmar Castañeda has made a name for himself as the preeminent jazz harp virtuoso. His playing brings forth a brilliance that beautifully merges the jazz tradition with a diverse set of styles and genres while also bringing unbridled attention to a somewhat unfamiliar instrument. Castañeda was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY Award for the album Family and, in fall 2021, was heard in Disney’s Encanto which features original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Castañeda acts on the soundtrack and served as a music consultant on the film.

Experience an unforgettable evening of world-class jazz at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning as part of the 5th annual Lenox Jazz Stroll. Ted Rosenthal's All-Star Sextet will perform a unique "Bernstein & Bop: A Saxophone Colossus" concert, featuring arrangements of classic Leonard Bernstein pieces intertwined with jazz standards. Ted Rosenthal is one the leading jazz pianist/composers of his generation and will be joined by top musicians from New York City including Gary Smulyan (baritone saxophone), Scott Robinson (tenor saxophone), Erena Terakubo (alto saxophone), Noriko Ueda (bass), and Dennis Mackrel (drums). 

Wanda Houston & The Resonance Trio will perform a special opening set to begin the evening. Wanda Houston is a staple of the music community in the Berkshires and her voice has been featured at leading venues both locally and around the world. She will be joined by Eugene Uman (piano) and Tarik Shah (bass).

Since its inception in 2020, Mill Town Foundation has produced the Lenox Jazz Stroll to enrich our community through the power of music by cultivating a dynamic and inclusive environment where people from all walks of life come together to celebrate the rich heritage of this uniquely American art form. Learn more about Mill Town Foundation at milltownfoundation.org.

As part of its continuing celebration of the centennial of Billy Budd, Sailor’s publication, the Berkshire County Historical Society, in collaboration with Berkshire Opera Festival and the Tanglewood Learning Institute, will present selections from the 1951 opera Billy Budd composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by authors E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. The musical selections will be performed by baritone Markel Reed, tenor Colin Aikins, and pianist Noah Palmer, and will be paired with readings by actor Ryan Winkles. Luca Antonucci will host.

In celebration of Julia Perry’s 100th birthyear, Castle of our Skins presents a tribute concert to this 20th century composer featuring newly engraved and long forgotten gems by Perry and the women who inspired her.

The music of Julia Perry is performed in part with the kind cooperation of The Estate of Julia A. Perry.

Christopher Elchico, clarinet 
Suzanne Nelsen, bassoon
Jason Snider, horn 
Sophie Wang and Takumi Taguchi, violins 
Steven Laraia, viola 
Christine Lee, cello 
Carl Anderson, double bass

SCHUBERT Octet in F, D.803

The Arcis Saxophone Quartet, named after Munich's iconic Arcis Street, has emerged as one of the most vibrant and active classical ensembles globally. Whether on the highest pass in Ecuador, in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert, on the cliffs in the American Atlantic, or in the sold-out Philharmonie in Munich and Berlin, the four saxophonists feel at home everywhere with their music. Embodying a spirit of experimentation, artistry, and boundless curiosity, the quartet fearlessly explores new musical territories. Quirky Nightclub Chronicles brings the vibe of the most popular nightclubs into the concert hall –hot rhythms, fresh sounds, and captivating stories that burn into your memory. And, as always, with the unique Arcis twist: creative arrangements, powerful interpretations, and a touch of eccentricity that not only allows you to hear classical music, but also to feel it throughout your entire body.

Phillippe GEISS Patchwork
Marc MELLITS Tapas
Shuteen ERDENEBAATAR Echoes of Life
Emma O’HALLORAN Night Music
PIAZZOLLA Moments with Piazzolla

Nicole Zuraitis is a GRAMMY® Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, New York-based bandleader, and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. With a “heart as big as her remarkable voice” (Jazz Police), Zuraitis is a trailblazing artist who is redefining vocal jazz, earning her a place as one of the top artists and "prolific songwriters" (Broadway World) to watch in jazz and beyond. She joins us for an evening of the music from her GRAMMY®-winning album, How Love Begins. With joyful enthusiasm, diverse musicality, and limitless vocal capabilities her show spotlights imaginative arrangements of beloved standards and swinging original compositions.

Victor Romanul, violin 
Michael Zaretsky, viola 
Xak Bjerken, piano

John WILLIAMS Duo Concertante for violin and viola
MOZART Duo in G for violin and viola, K.423
SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonata, Op. 147

Thomas Rolfs and Michael Martin, trumpets
Michael Winter, horn
Toby Oft, trombone
Mike Roylance, tuba

TLI is delighted to introduce a new holiday program we hope will become an annual tradition for families in the area! Two performances of the same program are planned for Saturday, December 14th at 7pm and Sunday, December 15th at 3pm, and will feature members of the BSO’s brass section. These festive and engaging family-friendly concerts will be about 90-minutes in length. The Linde Center will be decorated for the season, we hope to offer seasonal food and beverage options, and we wouldn’t be surprised if a special visitor from up north made an appearance at some point each day!

Event co-produced by Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Berkshire United Way, Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires, Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, and the Tanglewood Learning Institute.

After three incredibly successful U.S. charitable campaigns were attacked by charity watchdogs, destroying lives and cutting off precious resources, many of the top influencers in the field knew something had to be done to overhaul the nonprofit sector. Led by Dan Pallotta, whose record-breaking TED Talk on the subject has inspired leading philanthropists and changemakers, this feature-length documentary directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal exposes the dark side of philanthropy and introduces a radical new way of giving. In a powerful call to action, Uncharitable demands that charities be freed from the traditional sackcloth-and-ashes constraints, so that they can truly change the world. Driven by the poignant, personal stories of Dan Pallotta, Steve Nardizzi, Dorri McWhorter, Scott Harrison, Edward Norton, Darren Walker and other prominent figures in philanthropy, Uncharitable delivers an emotional journey that moves, persuades, and inspires its audience to change the way we think about giving. No topic is more crucial and timely as we confront an increasingly unstable world with the growing revelation that we are all interconnected and that our fate lies in how much we are willing to invest in positive change.

FREE
Reservations required

Jenny Ahn, violin 
Cathy Basrak, viola 
Christine Lee, cello

REGER Trio No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77b
BEETHOVEN Trio in D, Op. 9, No. 2

Join jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Jumaane Smith and his quintet for a special Valentine’s Day performance at the Linde Center.  With cabaret-style table seating and delectable food and beverage options available for pre-order and purchase, this intimate evening promises music and atmosphere that will be “Unforgettable.” 

Jumaane Smith has performed on five GRAMMY® Award-winning records, two Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, the GRAMMY® Awards with Stevie Wonder, in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and more. He has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter, vocalist, and featured soloist, and has toured with his own band to such world-class venues as Jazz At Lincoln Center, Birdland Jazz Club, Vail Jazz Festival, Java Jazz Festival, North Star Festival, Joe's Pub, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Catalina Island Jazz Festival, among many others. Love Always: Celebrating the Romance of Nat King Cole is Jumaane Smith’s musical valentine to the intimate romanticism of Nat King Cole. Smith and his quintet will sweep you off your feet with gorgeous renditions including “When I Fall in Love,” “Embraceable You,” and “I’m in the Mood for Love.”

Bracha Malkin and Bonnie Bewick, violins 
Danny Kim, viola 
Mickey Katz, cello

DOHNÁNYI Serenade in C, Op. 10
Oleg PONOMAREV (Arr. Bonnie BEWICK) Polonez, for string quartet
TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11

Celebrating their 16th season as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), the Akropolis Reed Quintet comprises five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization. Described by The Wire as a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure,” Akropolis has graced the Classical Billboard Charts with each of their last three albums, including #2 in April 2024. Winner of seven national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, Akropolis is known for performing “works that brilliantly exploit their unique instrumentation” (Gramophone). Composed of the same five members that brought about its founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and commissioned more than 150 works by living artists and composers.

Marc MELLITS Splinter
Derrick SKYE A Soulful Nexus
-Intermission-
Stephanie Ann BOYD Lake of Muses
Jeff SCOTT Selected movements from Homage to Paradise Valley

Alfredo Rodriguez’s ability to “play stories” on the keys allows him to connect with his listeners on a deeply personal level. His albums, including The Invasion Parade, Tocororo, and Duologue reflect his memories of Cuba, his experiences as an immigrant, and his journey of self-discovery through music. He’s been featured by All Things Considered, Downbeat, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal among many others, and performed for NPR’s Tiny Desk concert. Rodriguez creates an electrifying fusion of Latin, pop, timba, jazz, tango, and funk that will transport you straight to the heart of Havana, and his musical chops will leave you breathless. Don't miss this extraordinary celebration of music, courtesy of Alfredo Rodriguez.

Ala Jojatu and Sophie Wang, violins 
Mary Ferrillo, viola 
Will Chow, cello

MOZART Serenade in C for two violins and cello, K.648, Ganz kleine Nachtmusik 
MOZART String Quartet No. 19 in C, K.465, Dissonance
WEINER String Trio in G minor, Op. 6

Experience an extraordinary night of music as the Tanglewood Learning Institute and Berkshires Week present a special recital featuring two rising stars: classical concert pianist Evren Ozel and jazz sensation Brandon Goldberg.

Evren Ozel has wowed audiences since debuting with the Minnesota Orchestra at just 11 years old. Now a celebrated soloist, he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, and The Orchestra Now at Bard College. This spring his much-anticipated album of Mozart Concertos with the ORF Radio Symphony of Vienna and conductor Howard Griffiths will be released on Alpha Classics. Ozel's accolades include a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant.

Brandon Goldberg has earned acclaim on some of jazz's biggest stages, from the Newport Jazz Festival to SFJazz and Birdland Theater. His latest album, "Brandon Goldberg Trio: Live at Dizzy’s," showcases his exceptional talent. Goldberg is a 2024 YoungArts Winner with Distinction, a semifinalist in the 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition, and the youngest recipient of the 2022 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award.

Following their breathtaking performances, join us for a relaxed post-concert reception at Cindy’s Café, where you can meet the artists and mingle with fellow music lovers.

Presented by Berkshires Week, the Berkshire Eagle’s guide to the best in art, culture, food, and outdoor experiences, and the Tanglewood Learning Institute, now with year-round programming, this event is a must-see for residents and visitors alike.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to witness two remarkable pianists sharing the stage for one unforgettable evening!

Join us for a community commemoration of Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – featuring the film Defiant Requiem, a performance by renowned violinist Yevgeny Kutik, a memorial candle lighting, prayers, and a moment of silence in memory of those murdered in the Holocaust.

Co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and the Tanglewood Learning Institute.

More about Defiant Requiem

Premiered at Yad Vashem in 2012, the award-winning documentary film, Defiant Requiem, tells the extraordinary, little-known story of conductor Rafael Schächter and his Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp prisoner choir who performed Verdi’s Requiem Mass 16 times as an act of defiance and resistance against their Nazi captors. The text of the Mass enabled them, as Schächter told the chorus, to “sing to the Nazis what they could not say to them.” With testimony from surviving members of Schächter’s choir, soaring concert footage, cinematic dramatizations, and evocative animation, this unique film explores how a rare form of courage sparked compelling determination to survive by answering the worst of mankind with the best of mankind. Defiant Requiem is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two News and Documentary Emmy® Award nominations, and has been broadcast on PBS, BBC4, France Télévisions, Globostat (Brazil), and in Hungary and Israel.

More about Yevgeny Kutik

Joining us to perform the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, is internationally renowned violinist Yevgeny Kutik, who has been praised for his technical precision and virtuosity, and lauded for his poetic and imaginative interpretations of standard works as well as rarely heard and newly composed repertoire. A native of Minsk, Belarus, Kutik immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of five. Passionate about his heritage and its influence on his artistry, Kutik is an advocate for the Jewish Federations of North America, the organization that assisted his family in coming to the United States, and regularly speaks and performs across the United States to both raise awareness and promote the assistance of refugees from around the world. Yevgeny Kutik most recently performed for the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires as part of their Community Gathering in Commemoration of October 7th last fall.

Isaiah J. Thompson is the winner of the 2023 American Pianists Awards and the Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz of the American Pianists Association. Originally from West Orange, New Jersey, the pianist, bandleader, and composer began studying at the Calderone School of Music from an early age. Soon after, Thompson continued his studies with Jazz House Kids and NJPAC Jazz For Teens and was later admitted to the Juilliard School graduating with both his Bachelor’s in 2019 and Master’s of Music degrees in 2020. At TLI, Isaiah J. Thompson will present Modern Jazz Ministry premiering his most recent work, a suite entitled The Book of Isaiah. There has always been an intersection of jazz and faith that’s been explored throughout history. From Duke Ellington to Mary Lou Williams to John Coltrane, many musicians have placed spirituality at the core of their music. The Book of Isaiah continues this tradition by channeling faith in God through jazz.

Recently described by the New York Times as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator Claire Chase presents a concert of works from her 24-year commissioning initiative, Density 2036, part of the Density Arts family of programs. Performing selections of new works by composers like Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Anna Thorvalsdottir, Vijay Iyer, Marcos Balter, Sarah Hennies, Suzanne Ferrin, George Lewis, and so many more, Chase is cultivating a new body of repertory for the flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. In this spirit, Density Arts will commission, produce, and record a new program of flute music every year until 2036.

Natalia Bernal, vocals 
Jason Ennis, guitar, composer, and arranger 
Mike Eckroth, piano 
Mary Ann McSweeney, bass 
Conor Meehan, drums 

Kids 4 Harmony, special guests 
    Sean Elligers, artistic director 

Inspired by the rich cultural legacy and striking natural beauty of her native Chile, singer Natalia Bernal fuses Andean and other South American folkloric traditions with elements of jazz, blues, and rock. With her quintet and special guests Kids 4 Harmony, she’ll perform arrangements of jazz classics, Latin American music, and original compositions. 

We Are the Music Makers celebrates 35 years of songs and smiles with the Berkshire Children's Chorus. Showcasing a mix of new music and “songs from the vault,” the performance includes a special group of BCC alumni coming home to sing together again. Artistic Director Ryan José LaBoy will be joined on the podium by BCC founder and longtime conductor Nancy Loder. This special anniversary concert also represents another significant milestone: the debut performance of a county-wide Berkshire Children's Chorus! Singers from Sheffield and Pittsfield will be joined by a new group of singers from North Adams, marking the realization of an organizational dream four years in the making. 

Hosted by the Linde Center as part of the TLI Close to Home Mini Festival. 

This Shining Night is a choral concert bookended by two different settings of James Agee's poem, Sure on this Shining Night. Beginning at sunset and ending at sunrise, the program plunges deep into the human condition using the phases of the night as an extended metaphor for the complex topic of aging and memory loss. The performance includes music by well-known composers such as Samuel Barber, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Alice Parker, and Ysaye Barnwell. It also features selections that speak directly to navigating the journey of dementia: Jessica Rudman's multi-movement work A Forest that is a Desert and Eric Nelson's arrangement of When Memory Fades. The Choir is thrilled to welcome special guest performer Wanda Houston. 

Hosted by the Linde Center as part of the TLI Close to Home Mini Festival. 

Join TLI and Families Like Ours for a special morning of storytelling with music! Featuring talented local performers, this event has been tailored for individuals with diverse abilities and their families. The performance will include relaxed house rules, reduced volume and lighting levels, extra space for movement, available noise-reduction headphones, and a designated quiet room. This event is free, but reservations are required. To register, please email Families Like Ours at rania@familieslikeoursinc.com.

The Eagles Trombone Ensemble is comprised of 20 members from western Massachusetts and eastern New York. It was founded by Mike Oft who also directs the group. Former BSO principal trombone Ron Barron is the conductor. The ensemble’s repertoire consists of pop tunes from the 1940’s through the 1990’s. They have performed at the Linde Center for Music and Learning twice previously. This performance is free, but tickets are required. 

Onward Still — An Original Dance Work by Ken Ossola 

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Associate Professor of Dance faculty member and former Boston Ballet principal dancer John Lam directs Onward Still, an original work by renowned choreographer Ken Ossola (former dancer from Nederlands Dans Theater), created for and performed by Boston Conservatory contemporary dance majors. The piece also features original music by Dutch composer Polle van Genechten and lyrics by Martino Muller, performed live by students from Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

The performance will be followed by an audience talkback with Onward Still Director John Lam, Boston Conservatory at Berklee Dean of Dance Tommy Neblett, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee Executive Director Michael Shinn. After the talkback, all audience members are invited to join the performers and artistic team for refreshments at Cindy's Cafe, next door.

In collaboration with Boston Conservatory at Berklee. 

Storytelling in music and art inspired by the art of Walter Wick

Back by popular demand, hip hop and theater artist Baba Israel and illustrator Louis Henry Mitchell will lead audience members on a musical and visual storytelling journey that helps shape the performance! Guests will be invited to play with vocal effects, trigger samples and synths, and learn how to beatbox as both the music and illustrations evolve in real-time. Baba and Louis will be joined by jazz and electronic woodwind artist Sean Nowell, Boston Symphony Orchestra percussionist Will Hudgins, and bassist Mary Ann McSweeney for this interactive adventure that celebrates our collective imagination!

In collaboration with Norman Rockwell Museum

Meet the Makers looks behind the scenes with producers, directors, choreographers, actors, and musicians—members of the creative teams that bring performances to life. This series explores the why and how behind the what you will see on our stages. For Meet the Makers: Romeo and Juliet, director Bill Barclay is joined by actor and fight director Robert Walsh, choreographer Kristin Wold, and special guest moderator Tina Packer, founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, for an up-close look at this theatrical concert for orchestra’s journey from the rehearsal studio to the Shed stage.

Anthony Fogg, moderator
Lorna McGhee, flute

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano

Anthony Fogg, moderator
Sir Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Meet the Makers looks behind the scenes with producers, directors, choreographers, actors, and musicians—members of the creative teams that bring performances to life. This series explores the why and how behind the what you will see on our stages. For Meet the Makers: Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops Director of Artistic Planning Dennis Alves will lead a conversation about how the Boston Pops has grown under Maestro Lockhart’s leadership. Joining him will be Keith Lockhart; Emmy-winning and Tony- and Grammy-nominated Rob Mathes, who is an arranger, composer, music producer, music director, and long-time Pops collaborator; and Pat Hollenbeck percussionist with the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 40 years and president of the Boston Musicians’ Association.

Hilary Poriss, Professor and Chair, Department of Music, Northeastern University

Smartphone photography has made a major impact on the traditional field of DSLR/Mirrorless photography. While the results offered by smartphones are excellent, there are modes and options that are only available with a DSLR/Mirrorless system. Bring your DSLR/Mirrorless system (film systems are welcome as well) to this 2-hour combination classroom and grounds-based walk to activate the full capabilities of your creative spirit. (Rain location: Tanglewood Provisions)

Thaddeus B. Kubis, instructor

Trumpet greats Jon Faddis and Randy Brecker share the stage with the next generation of trumpet superstars – Benny Benack and Bria Skonberg – along with the Ted Rosenthal Trio, performing music of trumpet legends Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, and others. In addition to amazing trumpet virtuosity and improvisational creativity, the concert will feature the vocals of Benack and Skonberg who have toured together with Jazz at Lincoln Center, and follows up on last September’s sold-out Linde Center performance of Rosenthal's Bernstein & Bop: A Saxophone Colossus.

Nathan Cole’s appearance is generously supported by Chester, Joy, Anthony, and Jenny Douglass.

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Anna Handler, conductor 
Boston University Tanglewood Institute Musicians 
Jayne Atkinson, narrator 
Raya Malcolm, Peter 
Madeleine Rose Maggio, The Wolf 
Luke Haskell, Hunter 
Marcus Kearns, Hunter

A dazzling collaboration of music and storytelling featuring soprano Karen Slack and new music by acclaimed composers Jasmine Barnes, Damien Geter, Jessie Montgomery, Shawn Okpebholo, Dave Ragland, BSO Deborah and Philip Edmundson Composer Chair Carlos Simon, and Joel Thompson along with carefully selected traditional repertoire. Each work reflects the beauty, humility, passion, and power of the Queens being celebrated. The Boston Symphony Orchestra on behalf of the Tanglewood Learning Institute is a project co-commissioner of African Queens.

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Capturing a live performance in photographs requires skill, patience, and discretion. This unintrusive workshop will instruct in lighting, exposure, exposure settings, and composition as we photograph Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra rehearsing live in Seiji Ozawa Hall. The 3-hour class is limited to six participants and students will need a tripod or monopod, and camera or smartphone/tablet that can be used with manual settings.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Smartphone Photography and/or Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photography

Thaddeus B. Kubis, instructor

Rainer Maria Rilke’s nine letters to aspiring poet Franz Kappus are a clarion call to artists everywhere. Maurice Ravel’s single, masterful string quartet combines with Rilke’s letters in a unique union of music and text. The production reimagines the lost letters of Franz Kappus, the young poet, completing this famous correspondence in a new concert-theater work translated by Damion Searls and reimagined as a dramatic dialogue by Bill Barclay.

On Sunday, August 3, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Antoine Tamestit, and Emanuel Ax will perform a transcription of Beethoven’s Eroica symphony for piano quartet. Beethoven renamed his 3rd symphony Sinfonia eroica after tearing up the original dedication when Napoleon Bonaparte abandoned the ideals of the French Revolution and became Emperor. Around the same time, Napoleon sold the territory of Louisiana to the US to raise money to fight the British – forever reshaping the world and our nation. In this talk, Yo-Yo Ma and historian Heather Cox Richardson will explore how world events affected the dedication of this masterpiece and will weave in contemporary reflections.

Actors
Michael Bobbitt
Marielle Heller
Omar Offendum
Jorma Taccone

Robert Kirzinger, BSO Director of Program Publications
Dawn Upshaw, TMC Head of the Vocal Arts

Antony Fogg, moderator
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Meet the Makers looks behind the scenes with producers, directors, choreographers, actors, and musicians—members of the creative teams that bring performances to life. This series explores the why and how behind the what you will see on our stages. For Meet the Makers: An Experiment in Voices, poet Aracelis Girmay, director Dawn M. Simmons, composer and sound designer Brittany J. Green, and violist and Artistic Director of Castle of our Skins Ashleigh Gordon join moderator Bernard Schwartz, Executive Producer of Literary Programs for the Authors Guild Foundation, for a conversation about the genesis and development of this unique and distinctive generation-spanning premiere.

What feelings form when I try to recuperate the signal?

Acclaimed poet Aracelis Girmay explores the legacy of her great-grandmother in this words-and-music collaboration with director Dawn M. Simmons, composer Brittany J. Green, and violist Ashleigh Gordon of Castle of our Skins.

“Lois Davis was born in Georgia in 1909 and died in Chicago thirty-five years later, the mother of seven children,” Girmay writes. “When my own children were born, I began to think about her death differently. In this seam-torn work, through arrangements of syntax, gesture, and pitch, I am trying to attune my language to a flickering frequency in relation to this mother and her people and the ‘black noise’ (Saidiya Hartman) we are still making together.”

In collaboration with The Authors Guild Foundation.

Curated with direction from Yo-Yo Ma, and in conjunction with his performance of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 the next afternoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee will lead a discussion on creativity, influence, and teacher-student dynamics with singer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Amidon, who “stages a polyglot conversation among folk, classical and jazz” (Pitchfork), and “one of music’s most coveted collaborators” (The New York Times) Shahzad Ismaily. Reflecting on connections to the region and inspired by the path to Saint-Saëns from Yo-Yo Ma’s teacher Luise Vosgerchian to Nadia Boulanger to Gabriel Fauré, the trio will speak personally on learning and lineage, weaving music throughout.

The Spotlight Series is generously supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis.

The groundbreaking public radio show and podcast On Being takes up the big questions of meaning at the center of human life: What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? Its ever-searching founder Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. In her Tanglewood debut, Tippett will interview Princeton professor, historian, artist, and Friends of Attention founder Dr. D. Graham Burnett whose recent New Yorker article Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? explores the complexities and possibilities of teaching, learning and growing in this transformative time.

Curated in partnership with Yo-Yo Ma, and in conjunction with his performance of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 the same day.

The Tanglewood Learning Institute, Tanglewood Music Center, The Clark, and Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee have teamed up to create a very special evening celebrating French music and art of the late nineteenth century, ranging from the Romantic period into early Modernism. Fellows from the Tanglewood Music Center will present a performance of chamber music featuring Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 along with Ed Gazouleas, Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, who will introduce selected excerpts from the piece highlighting key musical ideas and themes. Following their performance, Sebastian Smee (The Washington Post) explores the art and artists who were so central to this period, notably many of the French artists whose works are at the heart of the Clark's collection. 

The permanent collection galleries will be open from 5:30pm to 7pm, so that audience members can see the works that Smee will discuss with their own eyes—works that Fauré may have seen too. 

Featuring Orli Shaham

Anthony Fogg, moderator
Patrice Jackson, BU Tanglewood Institute Faculty and Associate Professor of Cello, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

TLI Talks and Walks is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Featuring Nicholas Phan

This 2-hour workshop will allow participants to master the basic capabilities of their smartphone or tablet camera. The class covers all in-device functions and a short but valuable segment on in-device editing of images. (Rain location: Tanglewood Provisions)

Thaddeus B. Kubis, instructor

Based on Nicholas Phan’s innovative BACH 52 web series, these programs will explore the question: “Is the music of Bach for everyone?” Tenor arias from Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas will be paired with interviews with various guests probing this question and examining the relevance of Bach’s music to today’s increasingly secular and diverse society.

Based on Nicholas Phan’s innovative BACH 52 web series, these programs will explore the question: “Is the music of Bach for everyone?” Tenor arias from Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas will be paired with interviews with various guests probing this question and examining the relevance of Bach’s music to today’s increasingly secular and diverse society.

Meet the Makers looks behind the scenes with producers, directors, choreographers, actors, and musicians—members of the creative teams that bring performances to life. This series explores the why and how behind the what you will see on our stages. Meet the Makers: Play With Time will feature a conversation between director Donald T. Sanders, actors Rosalba Rolon and John Hellweg, and playwright Eric Henry Sanders. 

Go beyond the basic and start to integrate the many advanced functions your smartphone or tablet can offer. This 3-hour workshop will use the beautiful, landscaped grounds of Tanglewood as your visual and color palette as you expand your knowledge and skills. Advanced editing techniques, app tools, filters, and accessories, will be discussed.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Smartphone Photography and/or Introduction to DSLR/Mirrorless Photography 
(Rain location: Tanglewood Provisions)

Thaddeus B. Kubis, instructor

Eric Henry Sanders, playwright
Rosalba Rolón and John Hellweg, actors
Donald T. Sanders, director
Eve Wolf, music director

Play with Time, by Eric Henry Sanders, features the music of Philip Glass and reconfigures a conversation between Philip Glass and the visual artist Fredericka Foster. It's a music theater piece on the theme of time and uses Glass's own method of iterative composition.

In collaboration with the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) and Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC).

Violinist, speaker, and author Vijay Gupta is a nationally celebrated leader in how music can be a transformative force for humanity, connection, and hope. He is Founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a nationally recognized pioneer in creating musical experiences for people in reentry from homelessness, addiction, and incarceration. Steve Lopez has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001, has won more than a dozen national journalism awards, and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. His book The Soloist is a story of a broken dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music. Together with Lesley Rosenthal, Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary of The Juilliard School, who co-led the daring rescue of the entire Afghanistan National Institute of Music—273 students, faculty, and staff—from Taliban danger in 2021, they will speak about music and the arts in service to others.

Lucía Gutierrez Rebolloso started her musical career at the age of two, singing and dancing in her parents’ son jarocho band, “Son de Madera.” She began studying voice at the age of 13 at Universidad Veracruzana, and, in 2022, received a bachelor’s degree in jazz studies. Also in 2022, she became the first artist from Mexico to enter the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which she won. Her soulful, multicultural rendition of “What a Difference a Day Makes,” is now the opening cut of Lucía, an exquisite debut album that showcases the luminous qualities of her voice, and her superb technique and versatility.

Port City explores tango music throughout the genre’s history, and features bandoneon visionary Heyni Solera as soloist and composer. Palaver will perform danceable classics alongside contemporary tango-inspired compositions. We will also welcome dancers Sheila Solis-Arroyo and Luna Beller-Tadiar to join us for a full tanda, or series of tango dances. This performance will celebrate tango’s ongoing evolution and the powerful interplay between music and dance.

While at TLI, Palaver Strings will work with students from Berkshire Hills Regional School District.

Described as “exhilarating” by the New York Times and “utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, the GRAMMY®-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion champions living composers through its unwavering dedication to contemporary chamber music. It was formed in 2011 by Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, and Terry Sweeney. Their 2021 album Seven Pillars, featuring Andy Akiho’s title piece, was nominated for two GRAMMY® awards. In 2024, Sandbox Percussion became the first percussion ensemble to be awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Emmet Cohen, DownBeat Magazine’s Rising Star artist of 2024, brings his trio and guest vocalist Georgia Heers to celebrate Berkshires Jazz’ twenty years of bringing world-class jazz to the Berkshires. Now just 35, Cohen has been one of the hottest performers on the global festival circuit for a decade. His latest album, Vibe Provider, was DownBeat’s album of the year for 2024. The weekly concerts streamed from his apartment during Covid helped maintain a worldwide presence for jazz and brought acclaim for the former jazz prodigy. Hear why during this special event celebrating Berkshires Jazz’ two decades of jazz performances, education, and advocacy! Come celebrate Berkshire's Jazz's 20th anniversary at a pre-concert reception featuring tapas, beverages, a video retrospective, signed posters of all fifteen prize-winning works from the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, and other memorabilia.

TLI Chamber Concerts offer our year-round audience the opportunity to get up close and personal with BSO musicians. These concerts feature everything from familiar favorites to classic mainstays and new music by contemporary composers, often performed with special guests. A core part of TLI’s year-round programming, TLI Chamber Concerts ensure our community can stay connected to the BSO.

A celebration of music, movement, and storytelling! This interactive performance brings back improvisational storyteller, beatboxer, and rapper Baba Israel and multi-instrumentalist and soundscape wizard Sean Nowell to collaborate with contemporary dancer Audrey Thao Berger and Hip Hop dancer B-Boy Spidey. The performance will invite young people to bring music, poetry, and stories to life through interactive dance

Hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, Raphaël Feuillâtre fascinates audiences and critics alike with the depth of his interpretations, his dazzling virtuosity, and the richness of his repertoire. Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America competition in 2018 (USA) and ADAMI’s "Classical Revelation 2021", Feuillâtre was chosen as an exclusive artist by the label Deutsche Grammophon in 2022. He is, to date, one of the very few guitarists to have signed with this legendary label. This fruitful collaboration gave birth to a first single "Les Barricades Mystérieuses," soon followed by his debut album Visages Baroques in 2023, which displays different facets of the Baroque aesthetic.

Three-time GRAMMY™ Award-winner Ulysses Owens Jr., is known for being a drummer who “take[s] a back seat to no one,” and “a musician who balances excitement gracefully and shines with innovation.” (New York Times). A performer, producer, and educator, Owens goes the limit in the jazz world and beyond. His eighth and most recent album release, A New Beat, features his new Generation Y band on the Cellar Live Record label. Jazziz Magazine voted ‘A New Beat’ as one of “10 Albums You Need to Know in 2024.” Downbeat Magazine voted the album “Best Albums of 2024,” and the Music Top Ten Blog voted the album “Top Best Jazz Albums of 2024.” The band toured in support of the album, including performances at the Cotton Club in Tokyo, a Summer Canadian Jazz Festival Tour, and the 2024 Monterey Jazz Festival.

Presented in collaboration with Berkshire Bach Society, the film Bach & Friends features interviews with all-stars from across the musical spectrum. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and BBS Artistic Director and violinist Eugene Drucker introduce the film with a live performance and share thoughts about their own journeys with Bach’s music in a conversation after the screening.

The ensemble (Karla Donehew Perez, violin; Abi Fayette, violin; Paul Laraia, viola; and Karlos Rodriguez, cello) believes in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience. At TLI, their program “Cinematic Refuge” features composers that wrote music for motion pictures and is centered around the ideals of freedom from oppression.

This November, Yo-Yo Ma will perform Bach’s complete suites for solo cello for the first time in one evening at home, in Boston. It’s music that he has offered to communities on all six continents, in moments of joy and in times of tragedy. For him it exemplifies how culture helps us to seek truth, build trust, and act in service.

This is more than a concert for Yo-Yo: it is an invitation to listen to each other and the world around us, to celebrate our community and the ways in which people all over the world—and here in Massachusetts—are bringing us together, creating shared space for connection, reflection, and action, and imagining a better future.

Enjoy a live simulcast of the event as it happens, from Studio E at the Linde Center for Music and Learning. Hear every note and get an up-close view of Yo-Yo Ma’s artistry.

People across Massachusetts will come together in libraries, theaters, and community spaces to enjoy a powerful, uplifting evening of music, free of charge and for one night only.

Celebrate the power of connection, reflection, and imagination: join friends and neighbors for this must-see live broadcast!

Tickets are available from the following local libraries: 
Berkshire Athenaeum; Bushnell-Sage Library; Great Barrington Libraries: Mason Library and Ramsdell Library; The Lee Library; Lenox Library; Monterey Library; Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives; and West Stockbridge Public Library. Each library will determine its own process for ticket availability; please contact each library directly if you are interested in attending.

Streamed live from Symphony Hall, Boston

Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston

Produced by Celebrity Series and THE OFFICE performing arts + film in collaboration with Opus 3 Artists and Sound Postings, the office of Yo-Yo Ma

TLI Chamber Concerts offer our year-round audience the opportunity to get up close and personal with BSO musicians. These concerts feature everything from familiar favorites to classic mainstays and new music by contemporary composers, often performed with special guests. A core part of TLI’s year-round programming, TLI Chamber Concerts ensure our community can stay connected to the BSO.

Finish your Black Friday shopping early, put away the leftovers, and escape to the Linde Center! Celebrating the release of his new CD, Ted Rosenthal, his trio, and special guests Sara Caswell and Anat Cohen will perform themes of Chopin, Rachmaninov, Brahms, and more – creatively and swingingly reimagined into the world of jazz!

“[Ted Rosenthal], bassist Noriko Ueda, and drummer Quincy Davis approach pieces by Bach, Schubert, and Brahms as they would those by other revered composers – say, Monk, Ellington and Mulligan. This is not the tiresome foolery that used to be called ‘jazzing the classics.’ It is serious music making on substantial material, and it is great fun.”

— Doug Ramsey, Rifftides

Get ready for holiday magic with Stella Cole as she brings her stunning voice to the Linde Center, performing festive favorites from her acclaimed EP Snow! along with her brand-new single “Merry Christmas, Darling.” With timeless classics and fresh gems reimagined in her unique dazzling style, Stella Cole is one of the most exciting artists of her generation and her holiday concert is not to be missed!

The newest holiday tradition in the Berkshires! Join members of the BSO’s brass section for a program of cheerful and uplifting seasonal music that’s perfect for the whole family. Festive decorations, tasty treats, great music, and a special surprise or two – what better way to spend some quality time with you and yours!

The newest holiday tradition in the Berkshires! Join members of the BSO’s brass section for a program of cheerful and uplifting seasonal music that’s perfect for the whole family. Festive decorations, tasty treats, great music, and a special surprise or two – what better way to spend some quality time with you and yours!

This program will be a shorter, family-friendly version of the full-length BSO Holiday Brass program.

Winner of a 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Joshua Brown has been praised by audiences and critics worldwide for his “richness of sound, elegance of reading...commitment of every moment at the service of the work...” (La Libre). Brown gained international attention after winning the 2nd Prize and both Audience Awards at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Other international competition successes include the 1st Prize at the inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in Beijing, China, as well as the 1st Prize and Audience Award at the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany.

TLI Chamber Concerts offer our year-round audience the opportunity to get up close and personal with BSO musicians. These concerts feature everything from familiar favorites to classic mainstays and new music by contemporary composers, often performed with special guests. A core part of TLI’s year-round programming, TLI Chamber Concerts ensure our community can stay connected to the BSO.

At the end of the 1940’s, four unique women appeared on the scene whose inimitable styles of delivery and mastery of improvisation not only changed the direction of jazz but changed popular music itself! Join Tammy McCann as she celebrates Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and Billie Holiday.

This event will feature cabaret-style table seating and delectable food and beverage options available for pre-order and purchase.

TLI Chamber Concerts offer our year-round audience the opportunity to get up close and personal with BSO musicians. These concerts feature everything from familiar favorites to classic mainstays and new music by contemporary composers, often with performed with special guests. A core part of TLI’s year-round programming, TLI Chamber Concerts ensure our community can stay connected to the BSO.

TLI Chamber Concerts offer our year-round audience the opportunity to get up close and personal with BSO musicians. These concerts feature everything from familiar favorites to classic mainstays and new music by contemporary composers, often performed with special guests. A core part of TLI’s year-round programming, TLI Chamber Concerts ensure our community can stay connected to the BSO.

Jesuit priest Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) enters the Guaraní lands in South America with the purpose of converting the natives to Christianity. He soon builds a mission, where he is joined by Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert DeNiro), a reformed slave trader seeking redemption. When a treaty transfers the land from Spain to Portugal, Mendoza and Gabriel resolve to defend the mission from Portuguese slave traders — but find themselves divided on how to do so while honoring their vows. A stirring examination of the conflict between faith and action that’s lifted up by Ennio Morricone’s timeless score, Roland Jaffe’s The Mission continues to inspire debate 40 years after its release.

This screening will include a talkback hosted by local religious leaders.

In collaboration with The Triplex Cinema and Berkshire International Film Festival.

The popular and multi-award-winning quintet Goitse was forged in the white-hot creative crucible of Limerick’s Irish World Academy. Named Live Ireland’s “Traditional Group of the Year”, Chicago Irish American News’ “Group of the Year”, as well as winning the prestigious “Freiburger International Leiter 2016” award in Germany, Goitse have become a leader of the new generation of traditional Irish ensembles. Goitse has released six critically acclaimed recordings and maintains a year-round touring schedule that includes performances throughout Ireland, UK, Germany, France and the United States. Their distinctive sound lies in the quality of their own compositions interspersed with age-old traditional tunes which make each performance unique.

For more than a decade, recipient of the 2026 Bell Jazz Artist Award Sullivan Fortner has been stretching deep-rooted talents as a pianist, composer, band leader, and uncompromising individualist. The Grammy Award-winning artist and educator out of New Orleans received international praise as both key player and producer for his collaborative work on The Window, alongside Cecile McLorin Salvant, and earned a 2023 Grammy nomination for his provocative arrangement of “Optimistic Voices/No Love Dying” from her 2022 release Ghost Song. His eponymous trio, which features Tyrone Allen and Kayvon Gordon, won the 2024 DownBeat Critics Poll for Rising Star Jazz Group.

“Fortner beautifully, slowly and deliberately asks the eternal question of the essence of love — his notes dance, come to a halt and resume the twirls.”

— OffBeat Magazine

Presented in collaboration with Berkshire Bach Society, the film In the Key of Bach is a fascinating biopic that brings the personality and character of J.S. Bach vividly to life. Berkshire Bach Society Artistic Director Eugene Drucker hosts a conversation with filmmaker Hilan Warshaw after the film. It’s Bach’s birthday—come celebrate!

After their spectacular TLI debut last season, the Arcis Saxophone Quartet returns to present a sound kaleidoscope of preludes and fugues in their program JSB:48. Immerse yourself in a world full of timbres, lines, and rhythms, where the timeless mastery of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier meets the creative innovation of musicians and composers from all centuries and styles—including today. You will hear works by Bach, Shostakovich, Nikolai Kapustin, and Brad Mehldau, among others, sometimes sensual, sometimes stirring, sometimes captivating, sometimes surprising. And always with the Arcis twist!

“The fugue is a play of light and shadow in which each voice has its own color and texture, but together a harmonious picture is created.” –Pierre Boulez

While at TLI, Arcis Saxophone Quartet will work with students from Drury High School.

From the legendary organ rooms of Harlem and Greenwich Village, "soul-sax sensation" Nick Hempton is bringing his free-blowing blend of “barroom excitement and modern jazz finesse” to Tanglewood! Fronting a classic Hammond organ band, Hempton will present tunes from his acclaimed original albums, as well as classics of the organ jazz repertoire. Join Hempton, along with the all-star rhythm team of Kyle Koehler at the organ, Charlie Sigler on guitar, and Fukushi Tainaka at the drums, for a rousing night of soul jazz that promises to be “badass, swinging and flat-out fun!” – DownBeat Magazine