Tanglewood Music Center
Get inspired at performances by Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the BSO's summer academy for advanced musical study.
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TMC Vocal Concert
Join TMC Vocal Fellows for a free concert.
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Brass and Percussion Fellows for a free concert.
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free concert.
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TMC Vocal Concert
Join TMC Vocal Fellows for a free concert.
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Andris Nelsons and the TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Ravel, Strauss, and Schubert
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.
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free concert.
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TMC Vocal Concert
Join TMC Vocal Fellows for a free concert.
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Andris Nelsons conducts Berlioz and Mahler featuring Christine Goerke, soprano
Acclaimed dramatic soprano Christine Goerke joins Music Director Andris Nelsons in a rarely heard early work by the French innovator Héctor 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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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free concert.
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TMC Vocal Concert
Join TMC Vocal Fellows for a free concert.
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Open Violin Workshop with Alexander Velinzon
Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free concert.
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Thomas Adès, JoAnn Falletta, and the TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Debussy, Stravinsky, Wilson, and Hindemith
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.
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TMC Music for Mixed Chamber Ensembles
Join TMC Conducting and Vocal Fellows for a free chamber music concert.
KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue
Alvin SINGLETON Again
Thomas ADÈS Mazurkas, Op. 27
HYLA Pre-Pulse Suspended
Christopher TRAPANI Waterlines -
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Fri Aug 5, 2022 - 1:00pm
Sat Aug 6, 2022 - 1:00pm
Sun Aug 7, 2022 - 1:00pm
Gordon Studio, Lenox, MA
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free chamber music concert.
Allison LOGGINS-HULL The Pattern
WUORINEN Ave Maria…Virgo Serena (Josquin)
Michael GANDOLFI New work (world premiere)
Erin GRAHAM Manual
CAGE Variations III
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TMC Chamber Music
Augusta Read THOMAS New work (world premiere)
DAVIDOVSKY String Quartet No. 6, Fragments
Unsuk CHIN ParaMetaString
Eleanor ALBERGA String Quartet No. 2
Admission to this 6pm Prelude Concert is only available to those with tickets to the 8pm concert on August 6.
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free chamber music concert.
Carlos SIMON Warmth from Other Suns
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 -
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George Benjamin conducts George Benjamin featuring the TMC Vocal Fellows
George BENJAMIN Lessons in Love and Violence (American premiere)
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TMC Chamber Music Concert
Join TMC Fellows for a free concert.
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Stefan Asbury and TMC Conducting Fellows conduct Price, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff
Stefan Asbury and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in this eclectic program. Lost for decades and rediscovered in 2009, Florence Price’s folk-music-tinged 1932 suite Ethiopia’s Shadow in America portrays an enslaved man’s spiritual journey from the time of his arrival on this continent. Béla Bartók’s brilliantly lurid ballet score The Miraculous Mandarin is an astonishing feat of musical storytelling and imaginative orchestration. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s absorbing and emotionally wide-ranging Symphony No. 2 harks back to the late 19th century but at the same time is characterized by Rachmaninoff’s unique gifts for expansive melody and careful musical architecture.
