For Immediate Release:
November 21, 2013
BOSTON SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES 2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON,
JUNE 28-AUGUST 30; TICKETS GO ON SALE SUNDAY, JANUARY 26,
AT 888-266-1200 AND WWW.TANGLEWOOD.ORG
2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON WELCOMES ANDRIS NELSONS FOR HIS FIRST FESTIVAL APPEARANCES AS BSO MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE, CONDUCTING FOUR PERFORMANCES WITH THE BOSTON SYMPHONY AND TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRAS
ANDRIS NELSONS LEADS THE BOSTON SYMPHONY IN AN ALL-DVOŘÁK PROGRAM (7/11); MUSIC OF BRAHMS AND TCHAIKOVSKY ON A PROGRAM WITH HÅKAN HARDENBERGER PERFORMING ROLF MARTINSSON’S TRUMPET CONCERTO (7/19); AND LALO’S SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE WITH VIOLINIST JOSHUA BELL ON A PROGRAM WITH BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH SYMPHONY AND CHRISTOPHER ROUSE’S RAPTURE (7/20)
IN
A GALA EVENING IN CELEBRATION OF MAESTRO NELSONS ON JULY 12, THE BSO’S
MUSIC DIRECTOR DESIGNATE LEADS A DANCE-INSPIRED PROGRAM FEATURING THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA AND CAST OF ACCLAIMED SINGERS IN EXCERPTS FROM STRAUSS’S DER ROSENKAVALIER, AND THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN RACHMANINOFF’S SYMPHONIC DANCES AND RAVEL’S BOLERO; A PRE-CONCERT DINNER AND POST-CONCERT PARTY WILL ADD TO THE FESTIVE ATMOSPHERE OF THIS SPECIAL OCCASION
2014
TANGLEWOOD SEASON TO SHOWCASE A WIDE RANGE OF AMERICAN MUSIC WITH
PRESENTATIONS BY THE BSO, IN OZAWA HALL, AND DURING THE FESTIVAL OF
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S ALL-AMERICAN OPENING NIGHT PROGRAM FEATURING OPERA STAR RENÉE FLEMING IN MUSIC RANGING FROM OPERA ARIAS TO POPULAR SONG (7/5); BERNSTEIN’S CANDIDE, IN A BSO CONCERT PERFORMANCE LED BY BRAMWELL TOVEY (8/16); THE WORLD PREMIERE OF WILLIAM BOLCOM’S CIRCUS OVERTURE TO OPEN A BSO CONCERT CELEBRATING LEONARD SLATKIN’S 70TH BIRTHDAY (8/8); SELECTIONS FROM COPLAND’S OLD AMERICAN SONGSFEATURING BARITONE THOMAS HAMPSON WITH THE BSO, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI (7/18); AND A BOSTON POPS PERFORMANCE OF THE SCORE TO THE WIZARD OF OZ, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF KEITH LOCKHART, TO ACCOMPANY A FILM PRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSALLY BELOVED MOVIE CLASSIC (8/22)
ON THE SPECIAL OCCASION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF OZAWA HALL, TANGLEWOOD WILL PRESENT THE NEW CHAMBER VERSION OF AMERICAN COMPOSER JACK BEESON’S OPERA LIZZIE BORDEN WITH MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA UNDER DAVID ANGUS (7/31); AMERICAN-THEMED APPEARANCES BY THE BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (7/1), CHANTICLEER (7/9), THE NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE USA WITH VIOLIN SOLOIST GIL SHAHAM AND CONDUCTOR DAVID ROBERTSON (7/24), THE KNIGHTS WITH SPECIAL GUEST DAWN UPSHAW (7/23), JEREMY DENK PERFORMING IVES’S CONCORD SONATA (8/13); THE FATHER-SON DUO OF ELLIS MARSALIS, JR., AND DELFEAYO MARSALIS (8/17), AND
THE MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA (8/24)
TANGLEWOOD’S CELEBRATION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF OZAWA HALL WILL ALSO INCLUDE A CONCERT PERFORMANCE OF HANDEL’S TESEOWITH THE PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA AND SOLOISTS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF NICHOLAS MCGEGAN (8/14) AND APPEARANCES BY THE EMERSON STRING QUARTET PERFORMING MUSIC OF SHOSTAKOVICH (7/10), THE SEQUENTIA ENSEMBLE FOR EARLY MUSIC (7/15), EMANUEL AX, LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, AND YO-YO MA IN AN ALL-BRAHMS RECITAL (8/7), THE DEUTSCHE KAMMERPHILHARMONIE BREMEN, WITH SOLOIST LARS VOGT, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PAAVO JÄRVI, (8/6), AND BARITONE THOMAS HAMPSON AND PIANIST WOLFRAM RIEGER IN A RECITAL CELEBRATING THE 150TH BIRTH YEAR OF RICHARD STRAUSS (7/16)
2014 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, JULY 17-21, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
JOHN HARBISON AND MICHAEL GANDOLFI, FOCUSES ON AMERICAN COMPOSERS, INCLUDING JOHN ADAMS, STEVE MACKEY, GEORGE PERLE, BERNARD RANDS, AND ROGER SESSIONS, WITH A SPECIAL SPOTLIGHT ON A YOUNGER GENERATION OF AMERICANS, INCLUDING
ANTHONY CHEUNG, HANNAH LASH, ERIC NATHAN, AND KATE SOPER
JAMES TAYLOR RETURNS FOR HIS EVER-POPULAR TANGLEWOOD CONCERTS ON JULY 3 AND 4,
WITH TICKETS GOING ON SALE FOR THESE PERFORMANCES ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 16
(ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE JULY 4 CONCERT TO BENEFIT TANGLEWOOD)
ADDITIONAL 2014 POPULAR ARTIST CONCERTS TO BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE
BOSTON POPS HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE KEITH LOCKHART-LED PERFORMANCES BY JASON ALEXANDER (7/13) AND JOSH GROBAN (8/30), AND FILM NIGHT WITH JOHN WILLIAMS (8/2)
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (6/28) AND WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME! (8/28) BRING THEIR
POPULAR RADIO PROGRAMS TO THE KOUSSEVITZKY MUSIC SHED
ONE DAY UNIVERSITY (8/24) AND TANGLEWOOD FOOD AND WINE CLASSIC (8/7-10) RETURN IN 2014
TICKETS
FOR THE 2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON, PRICED FROM $10 TO $121 FOR REGULAR
SEASON CONCERTS, ON SALE JANUARY 26 AT 888-266-1200 AND WWW.TANGLEWOOD.ORG;
TICKETS FOR JAMES TAYLOR’S JULY 3 AND 4 CONCERTS GO ON SALE JANUARY 16
TANGLEWOOD
OFFERS FREE LAWN TICKETS TO YOUNG PEOPLE AGE 17 AND UNDER, A 50%
DISCOUNT ON LAWN TICKETS TO COLLEGE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND A
VARIETY OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, INCLUDING KIDS’ CORNER, WATCH
AND PLAY, AND THE ANNUAL FAMILY CONCERT (8/23)
FOR
FULL SEASON DETAILS ABOUT THE 2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON, INCLUDING
DOWNLOADABLE PHOTOS AND VIDEO, PROGRAM LISTINGS, AND ARTIST PHOTOS AND
BIOGRAPHIES, CLICK HERE
Tanglewood—the
famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and widely known
as one of the world’s most beloved music festivals—has announced
details of its 2014 season, June 28-August 30. The BSO’s July 5
all-American Opening Night Gala program with opera superstar Renée Fleming featured in an evening of music ranging from opera arias to popular song , launches
a season that will shine a spotlight on a wide variety of American
music, performed by an extraordinary roster of the leading artists of
our day. Among the many highlights of the 2014 Tanglewood season will
be performances by Jason Alexander, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Josh Groban, Thomas Hampson, Garrison Keillor, Paul Lewis, Keith Lockhart, Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Gil Shaham, James Taylor, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Dawn Upshaw, and John Williams. In some of the most eagerly anticipated events of the 2014 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelsons will lead four programs in his first festival appearances as BSO Music Director Designate (7/11, 12, 19, and 20). Tickets for the 2014 Tanglewood season go on sale Sunday, January 26, at 888-266-1200 and www.tanglewood.org.
In addition, the 2014 Tanglewood season will present Bernstein’s Candide, in a concert performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and cast of singers led by Bramwell Tovey (8/16) and a Boston Pops performance of the score to The Wizard of Oz, under the direction of Keith Lockhart,
to accompany a brilliantly restored print of the universally beloved
movie classic (8/22). As part of a season-long celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood will present two concert operas: Handel’s Teseo with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and soloists under the direction of Nicholas McGegan (8/14) and the new chamber version of American composer Jack Beeson’s opera Lizzie Borden with members of the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra under the direction of David Angus (7/31).
Situated
in the beautiful Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, Tanglewood
offers music lovers a wide spectrum of musical guests and programs that
spotlight the festival’s rich tradition of presenting summertime
concerts at their best since 1937. The 2014 Tanglewood season will
feature more than 100 performances, including concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center;
chamber music, recital, and concert opera presentations in Ozawa Hall;
and a series of Popular Artist concerts, highlighted in 2014 by the
return of James Taylor with his extraordinary band to the Koussevitzky Music Shed on July 3 and 4.
Tickets for the 2014 Tanglewood season, priced from $10 to $121, go on sale Sunday, January 26, at 888-266-1200 and www.tanglewood.org;
tickets for James Taylor’s July 3 and 4 concerts go on sale Thursday,
January 16. Tanglewood is family-friendly, with free lawn tickets
available for young people age 17 and under, and a 50% discount on
Friday-evening lawn tickets for college and graduate students, among
the many options for discounted tickets. Tanglewood also offers a
variety of special programs for children, including Kids’ Corner, Watch
and Play, and the annual Family Concert, this year to take place on
August 23, as well as a wide spectrum of education options for adults,
ranging from pre-concert talks to One Day University (8/24), the latter
featuring professors from prestigious universities offering in-depth
lectures on music and beyond. In addition, this year’s Tanglewood Wine
and Food Classic will take place August 7-10.
For further information about the concert schedule,
family-friendly programs, educational offerings, and purchasing tickets
visit www.tanglewood.org.
2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON OVERVIEW
Andris Nelsons Conducts The BSO And Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
In 2014 Tanglewood welcomes Andris Nelsons
for his first festival appearances as BSO Music Director Designate
(link to announcement release). His first of four concerts with the BSO
will be an all-Dvořák program, with the composer’s symphonic poem The Noonday Witch, the Violin Concerto with soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter, and the Symphony No. 8 (7/11). For his second BSO program on July 19, Maestro Nelsons will be joined by Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger performing his compatriot Rolf Martinsson’s
Trumpet Concerto, on a program with music by Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
The following Sunday afternoon (7/20), Maestro Nelsons will open his
BSO program with Christopher Rouse’s Rapture, followed by Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, with violin soloist Joshua Bell, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
In a special gala concert on July 12, Andris Nelsons will lead a dance-inspired program featuring both the Boston Symphony and fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s prestigious summer music academy. For his first performance with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Maestro Nelsons and the orchestra will be joined by a group of acclaimed opera singers for excerpts from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier; the program will also feature the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Ravel’s Bolero.
The evening’s performance will be preceded by a celebratory dinner on
the occasion of Maestro Andris’s first Tanglewood appearances as BSO
Music Director Designate; the festivities will continue with a
post-concert party, also in honor of Mr. Nelsons.
2014 Tanglewood Season Celebrates American Music
In addition to the BSO’s July 5 all-American Opening Night Gala Concert with Renée Fleming (conductor to be announced at a later date) and the orchestra’s July 20 performance of Christopher Rouse’s Rapture with Andris Nelsons
conducting, Tanglewood will offer a special focus on American music
with orchestral, opera, and film presentations in the Koussevitzky Music
Shed, and in opera, chamber music, and recital programs in Ozawa Hall,
which marks its 20th Anniversary Season in 2014. Along with the
concert performance of Bernstein’s Candide and the movie presentation with live orchestra of The Wizard of Oz, mentioned above, Tanglewood will present American baritone Thomas Hampson in a selection of Old American Songs by Aaron Copland, with Christoph von Dohnányi conducting (7/18), and the world premiere of William Bolcom’s Circus Overture to open a BSO concert celebrating Leonard Slatkin’s 70th birthday (8/8).
The
American music theme will extend to the season-long celebration of the
20th anniversary of Ozawa Hall with an appearance by Chanticleer in a program entitled She Said/He Said,
with music ranging from Renaissance madrigals to new arrangements from
Chanticleer’s popular and jazz repertoire (7/9); a performance of
Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and a new work by Sam Adams by the National Youth Orchestra of the USA under the direction of David Robertson (7/24); The Knights with special guest Dawn Upshaw performing Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks (7/23); and a recital program featuring pianist Jeremy Denk performing Ives’s Concord Sonata (8/13). The Boston Symphony Chamber Players
will present the Tanglewood premiere of a new work by an American
composer commissioned for the ensemble’s 50th anniversary season in
2013-14; that program will also include music of Debussy and Schubert
(7/1). The Ozawa Hall 20th Anniversary Season will also feature two
jazz programs: American jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, Jr., and his son, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, will perform jazz standards and original compositions in a program entitled The Last Southern Gentlemen (8/17); and the highly acclaimed Grammy Award-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra will perform on August 24.
The 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music, July 17-21, under the direction of John Harbison and Michael Gandolfi,
will present programs featuring works by American composers, with a
special emphasis on music from a younger generation of Americans, many
of whom have been Fellows at the Tanglewood Music Center. Along with
several of this country’s most prominent composers—John Adams, Steve Mackey, George Perle, Bernard Rands, and Roger Sessions—the festival will also feature several rising stars in the world of composition: Anthony Cheung (TMC 2005), Hannah Lash (TMC 2005), Eric Nathan (TMC 2010), and Kate Soper (TMC 2006). In
addition to works by Mr. Harbison (TMC 1959) and Mr. Gandolfi (TMC
1986), the festival will also feature works by American composers Martin Boykan, David Dzubay, Keeril Makan, James Matheson, Andrew Waggoner, and Anna Weesner. Works by Korean composer Seung-Ah Oh (TMC 2006), German composer Benjamin Scheuer (TMC 2012), and British composer Charlotte Bray
(TMC 2008) will also be included. The Festival of Contemporary Music
programs will feature the Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, along
with guest artists to be announced at a later date.
Additional Boston Symphony Orchestra Highlights
Highlights among the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s offering of 22 concerts throughout the summer include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, with conductor Christoph von Dohnányi (7/26); excerpts from Verdi’s Nabuccoand Aida under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (7/27); an all-Tchaikovsky program with Yo-Yo Ma performing Variations on a Rococo Theme, for cello and orchestra, with conductor David Zinman (8/10); and Prokofiev’s score to Alexander Nevsky on a program with Emanuel Ax performing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, with Stéphane Denève
conducting (8/15). The BSO’s portion of the 2014 Tanglewood season
will close on August 24 with Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, featuring
pianist Yefim Bronfman, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, under the direction of Charles Dutoit. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, will be featured in the programs of excerpts from Verdi’s Nabucco and Aida on July 27; Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky on August 15; Leonard Bernstein’s Candide on August 16; and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Ninth Symphony on August 24.
Boston Pops Orchestra with Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Jason Alexander, and Josh Groban
Besides leading the Boston Pops in the score to The Wizard of Oz
to accompany the universally beloved movie classic (8/22), Keith
Lockhart will conduct Boston Pops concerts featuring Broadway veteran
and Tony Award-winner Jason Alexander in a program of comedy, song, and dance (7/13), and superstar singer Josh Groban in a program that brings the 2014 Tanglewood season to a close on August 30. John Williams will lead Tanglewood’s Film Night,
one of the most eagerly-anticipated evenings of the Tanglewood season,
with special guests to be announced at a later date (8/2). The annual
day-long musical celebration, Tanglewood on Parade, culminating in an evening concert with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras, led by Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Leonard Slatkin, and Stéphane Denève will take place on August 5.
James Taylor And His Extraordinary Band Make Welcome Return to Tanglewood
Tanglewood welcomes back James Taylor and his
extraordinary band for two performances in the Koussevitzky Music Shed,
July 3 and 4. A spectacular fireworks display over the Stockbridge
Bowl will follow the concert. Mr. Taylor, who regularly performs to
sold-out audiences at Tanglewood, has returned to the festival 21 times
since his first performances there in 1974. Tickets for James Taylor’s
July 3 and 4 concerts go on sale Thursday, January 16.
Prairie Home Companion and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
Tanglewood will present two of this country’s most popular radio programs in 2014: A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor will be broadcast live from the Koussevitzky Music Shed on June 28, and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! with host Peter Segal will be taped on August 28 for future broadcast.
Additional Ozawa Hall Highlights Celebrating the Venue’s 20th Anniversary Season
The intimate setting of Ozawa Hall provides the backdrop for two staged operas: Handel’s Teseo with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas McGegan (8/14) and the new chamber version of Jack Beeson’s Lizzie Borden, performed by a Boston Lyric Opera chamber ensemble under the direction of David Angus (7/31). The Sequentia Ensemble (7/15), Chanticleer (7/9), National Youth Orchestra of the USA (7/24), Emerson String Quartet (7/10), and Boston Symphony Chamber Players,
celebrating their 50th anniversary season (7/1), are among the
prestigious ensembles to perform in Ozawa Hall during the 2014
Tanglewood season. The Knights, the popular New York-based chamber orchestra, will present a program featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger
(7/23). Ozawa Hall will also host several other prominent artists in
recital, chamber music, and orchestral concerts, including baritone Thomas Hampson with pianist Wolfram Rieger in a program celebrating the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss (7/16), and all-Brahms programs with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (8/6) and pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos on August 7.
One Day University And The Tanglewood Wine and Food Classic
On Sunday, August 24, One Day University, the acclaimed adult educational series, returns to Tanglewood with lectures on What Would The Founding Fathers Think of America Today? with Wendy Schiller from Brown University; The Art of Aging: Discovering New Sources of Creativity and Perception with Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland from Yale University, Sponsored by The Boys From Brooklyn; and Rhapsody In Blue: Gershwin’s Remarkable Masterpiece with Orin Grossman, Fairfield University.
The Tanglewood Wine and Food Classic,
August 7-10, features wine from around the world and locally sourced
foods enjoyed in the incomparable setting of the Tanglewood grounds.
A full schedule of Popular Artist program will be announced at a later date.
TICKET INFORMATION IN BRIEF AND SEASON DATES
Tanglewood’s 2014 season opens on Saturday, June 28 and closes Saturday, August 30. Tickets, priced from $10 to $121, go on sale Sunday, January 26, and are available through Tanglewood’s website, www.tanglewood.org, through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, and at the Symphony Hall Box Office at 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA.
Information about the July 12 Gala Concert in honor of Andris Nelsons—
including details about the pre- and post-concert festivities and
gala-priced concert tickets—is available by contacting Kathleen Pendleton at 617-638-9391 or kpendleton@bso.org.
Two special discount ticket offers introduced last season will be available again in 2014: $20
tickets for attendees under 40, one of the BSO’s most popular discount
ticket offers, will be available for BSO and Boston Pops performances
in the Shed; Tanglewood will also once again offer the BSO's popular college card.
In addition, Tanglewood continues to offer free lawn tickets to young
people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college
and graduate students, as well as a variety of special programs for
children, including Kids’ Corner, Watch and Play, and the annual Family
Concert, this year to take place August 23. For ticket information and details about the Tanglewood Wine and Food Classic please click here. Additional ticket information appears near the end of this press release.
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TANGLEWOOD, THE BSO’S SUMMER HOME SINCE 1937
One
of the most popular and acclaimed music festivals in the world,
Tanglewood—the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home since 1937—is
located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills between Lenox and
Stockbridge, MA. With an average annual attendance of more than 300,000
visitors each season, Tanglewood has a $60 million impact on the
Berkshire economy each summer. Tanglewood presents orchestra concerts by
the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and visiting ensembles, featuring
many of the greatest classical musicians of our time; recital and
chamber music concerts in the intimate setting of Ozawa Hall; programs
highlighting the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center; and
performances by some of today’s leading popular artists. Introduced
last year—$20 tickets for attendees under 40—will be available for BSO and Boston Pops performances in the Shed. Tanglewood
is family-friendly, with free lawn tickets available for children and
young people age 17 and under, a 50% discount on Friday-evening lawn
tickets for college and graduate students, and a variety of special
programs for children, including Kids’ Corner, Watch and Play, and the
annual Family Concert, this year to take place on August 23. Tanglewood
is also the home of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s preeminent
summer music academy for the advanced training of young professional
musicians, and Days in the Arts, a multi-cultural
arts-immersion program that gives 400 fifth-, sixth-, and
seventh-graders from communities across Massachusetts the opportunity to
explore the arts throughout each week-long session of the summer. These are just two of the BSO’s many educational and outreach activities, for which more information is available at www.bso.org—the
largest and most visited orchestral website in the country, receiving
about 7 million visitors annually and generating over $80 million in
revenue since its launch in 1996. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is
online at www.bso.org. Music lovers can follow the BSO on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bostonsymphony or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bostonsymphony.
WHAT FOLLOWS ARE
SECTIONS ON WEEKLY CONCERT DESCRIPTIONS; TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
ORCHESTRA AND FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PROGRAMS; TICKET
PURCHASING AND SPONSORSHIP NEWS; FAMILY FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES AND PATRON
PERKS AND AMENITIES; AND THE BSO MEDIA CENTER
2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON WEEK-BY-WEEK PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
PRE-SEASON OFFERINGS, JUNE 28-JULY 4
TANGLEWOOD KICKS OFF 2014 SEASON JUNE 28 WITH GARRISON KEILLOR’S RETURN TO THE SHED WITH A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION;
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS PRESENT CONCERT IN CELEBRATION OF
THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY, JULY 1; JAMES TAYLOR RETURNS TO THE SHED JULY 3
& 4
American Public Media’s A Prairie Home Companion
returns once again to the Tanglewood grounds on Saturday, June 28, for
the program’s annual live broadcast from the Koussevitzky Music Shed.
Host Garrison Keillor and a colorful cast of friends
from the shores of Lake Wobegon will take the stage for this Tanglewood
tradition, a favorite for audiences since A Prairie Home Companion was first broadcast live from the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in 1998.
On Tuesday, July 1, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players make
their 2014 Tanglewood appearance in Ozawa Hall, performing a new work
commissioned in celebration of the ensemble’s 50th anniversary season.
Also on the program are Debussy’s Sonata for flute,viola, and harp—the
first of the composer’s instrumental sonatas, all of which were
composed in the last three years of his life—and Schubert’s Octet in F,
D. 803, one of music history’s most ambitious pieces of chamber music.
James Taylor, one of Tanglewood’s most
beloved guests, takes back the Shed stage along with his extraordinary
band in two concerts, Thursday, July 3, and Friday, July 4. A festive
Independence Day fireworks display follows the July 4 concert. All proceeds for the July 4 concert to benefit Tanglewood.
WEEK 1 (JULY 5–10)
ALL-AMERICAN OPENING NIGHT GALA CONCERT FEATURES
WORLD FAVORITE RENÉE FLEMING, JULY 5; ISRAELI CONDUCTOR ASHER FISCH
LEADS BSO IN PROGRAM OF LISZT AND WAGNER, WITH GARRICK OHLSSON AS
SOLOIST IN BRAHMS’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2, JULY 6; CHANTICLEER BRINGS SHE SAID/HE SAID PROGRAM TO OZAWA HALL, JULY 9; EMERSON STRING QUARTET PERFORMS SHOSTAKOVICH’S FINAL FIVE STRING QUARTETS, JULY 10
Celebrated soprano Renée Fleming
opens the 2014 BSO season at Tanglewood in an all-American program on
July 5. With the Boston Symphony, she will present great works of the
American concert hall and opera stage, plus favorites from musical
theater and popular genres.
Israeli conductor Asher Fisch, who made his debut leading the BSO in an acclaimed
performance of music by Wagner during the 2012 Tanglewood season,
leads the orchestra in a Shed concert on Sunday, July 6. The program
this summer, which also features dynamic American pianist Garrick Ohlsson, includes orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Brahms’s lush and inventive Piano Concerto No. 2, and Liszt’s boisterous tone poem Les Préludes.
On Wednesday, July 9, all-male a cappella ensemble Chanticleer comes to Ozawa Hall with a program called She Said/He Said.
The complex and emotionally charged dialogue between the sexes is an
eternal theme for composers, from the bawdiest Renaissance madrigals
through standards by Cole Porter. In another vein, godliness bestowed
upon women is extolled in works by Andrea Gabrieli and EricWhitacre. She Said/He Said
will feature female voices as diverse as Hildegard von Bingen and
Stacy Garrop, German Romanticism from Brahms and Fanny Mendelssohn, and
songwriting by Joni Mitchell. The program will conclude with newly
created arrangements contributing fresh material to Chanticleer’s
popular and jazz repertoire.
In an extended concert with two intermissions on Thursday, July 10, the eminent Emerson String Quartet
provides the rare opportunity to hear the last five of Shostakovich’s
immortal string quartets, some of the greatest chamber works of the
20th century, in a single evening. The selected quartets are Nos. 11,
12, 13, 14, and 15, all composed in the Cold War-era USSR between 1966
and 1975.
WEEK 2 (JULY 11–17)
ANDRIS NELSONS MAKES FIRST TANGLEWOOD APPEARANCES
SINCE BEING NAMED BSO MUSIC DIRECTOR, JULY 11 WITH SOLOIST ANNE-SOPHIE
MUTTER, AND JULY 12 IN A PROGRAM OF STRAUSS, RACHMANINOFF, AND RAVEL;
JASON ALEXANDER JOINS KEITH LOCKHART AND THE BOSTON POPS ON JULY 13;
BENJAMIN BAGBY’S SEQUENTIA ENSEMBLE RETURNS TO OZAWA HALL, JULY 15;
THOMAS HAMPSON CELEBRATES STRAUSS’s 150TH BIRTHDAY, JULY 16
In two highly anticipated performances on Friday, July 11, and Saturday, July 12, Andris Nelsons
makes his first Tanglewood appearances since being named the Boston
Symphony Orchestra’s music director designate. The July 11 concert, for
which Mr. Nelsons and the orchestra are joined by German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter,
features an all-Dvořák program including the Violin Concerto, the
pastoral and tuneful Symphony No. 8, and the rarely performed 1896
symphonic poem The Noonday Witch. On July 12, Maestro Nelsons
leads a dance-inspired gala performance featuring both the BSO and the
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. On the first half of the program, he
leads the TMCO in excerpts from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, featuring sopranos Sophie Bevan and Angela Denoke and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. The second half features the BSO in Rachmaninoff’s colorful and energetic Symphonic Dances and Ravel’s iconic Bolero.
The Boston Pops Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart makes their 2014 Tanglewood debut on Sunday, July 13, with special guest Jason Alexander.
Singer, dancer, and master of comedic timing, Mr. Alexander is best
known for his appearances on television (as George Costanza in Seinfeld) and in film. A Broadway veteran and Tony-Award winner, with the Boston Pops he will perform selections from The Music Man, Pippin, and Merrily We Roll Along, plus a few surprises.
On Tuesday, July 15, the Paris-based Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music comes to Ozawa Hall with its director and cofounder Benjamin Bagby for a performance as part of its Lost Songs Project: Music from the Court of Charlemagne.
This program explores the musical world of Charlemagne and his circle,
through political and religious songs, laments, storytelling, and
epic. All of these appear today in shadowy and fragmentary forms, like
phantoms from 1200 years ago, requiring deep study, reconstruction, and
imagination. Through Mr. Bagby’s scholarly work and dramatic
presentation, these Lost Songs sing again as they once sang for Charlemagne and his court.
Renowned baritone Thomas Hampson gives an Ozawa Hall recital with pianist Wolfram Rieger
on Wednesday, July 16, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Richard
Strauss’s birth. In this program, Mr. Hampson explores the world of the
composer and his influences as a writer of song at the end of the 19th
and beginning of the 20th centuries. In addition to songs by Strauss
himself, this concert will include music by Berg, Korngold, and
Zemlinsky.
WEEK 3 (JULY 18–24)
ANDRIS NELSONS LEADS SECOND WEEKEND OF PROGRAMS: JULY 19 FEATURES TRUMPET SOLOIST HÅKAN HARDENBERGER IN ROLF MARTINSSON’S BRIDGE, TRUMPET CONCERTO NO. 1; JOSHUA BELL JOINS NELSONS JULY 20 FOR LALO’S SYMPHONIE ESPAGNOLE; THOMAS HAMPSON KICKS OF WEEKEND JULY 18 WITH PERFORMANCE OF COPLAND’S OLD AMERICAN SONGS,
WITH CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI; NEW YORK-BASED ORCHESTRA THE KNIGHTS
PERFORM IN OZAWA HALL JULY 23; DAVID ROBERTSON LEADS THE NATIONAL YOUTH
ORCHESTRA OF THE USA, JULY 24
Mr. Hampson takes the stage again on Friday, July 18, this time alongside the BSO and guest conductor Christoph von Dohnányi in selections from American composer Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs. Mr. Dohnányi also leads the orchestra in Strauss’s rollicking and virtuosic tone poem Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, which even the composer hailed as one of his finest works.
Music Director Designate Andris Nelsons returns
to lead the orchestra in a pair of concerts for the second week
running Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20. The Saturday
performance features two great works of the Romantic period—Brahms’s
Symphony No. 3 and Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio italien—and is rounded out by contemporary Swedish composer Rolf Martinsson’s Bridge, Trumpet Concerto No. 1, with soloist Håkan Hardenberger. On Sunday, Mr. Nelsons is joined by virtuoso American violinist Joshua Bell for Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra, on a program that also includes Beethoven’s immortal Symphony No. 5 and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York-based composer Christopher Rouse’s Rapture, a 2000 work that Rouse says is meant to convey “a sense of spiritual bliss, religious or otherwise.”
On Wednesday, July 23, New York-based orchestra The Knights,
a unique and flexible ensemble featuring musicians and composers from
diverse musical backgrounds that expands and contracts to accommodate
the variety of music it performs, performs in Ozawa Hall. The program
features Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks, for soprano,
jazz musicians, and strings, and transcriptions for trumpet and
ensemble of songs by Joni Mitchell, Kurt Weill, Michel Legrand, and
Astor Piazzolla. Soloists include soprano Dawn Upshaw, trumpetist Håkan Hardenberger, pianist Frank Kimbrough, clarinetist Scott Robinson, and bassist Jay Anderson.
America’s brightest young players ages 16–19 visit Tanglewood on Thursday, July 24, as the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America comes to Ozawa Hall. The program, led by St. Louis Symphony Music Director David Robertson and featuring American violinist Gil Shaham, includes Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Britten’s Violin Concerto, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and a new work by Samuel Adams commissioned and written for the orchestra.
WEEK 4 (JULY 25–JULY 31)
PAUL LEWIS JOINS BSO AND CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI FOR
MOZART’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 12, JULY 25; MAESTRO DOHNÁNYI LEADS
MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 2, JULY 26; RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS LEADS
PROGRAM OF VERDI AND RACHMANINOFF WITH SOLOIST GABRIELA MONTERO IN HER
BSO DEBUT; THE BOSTON LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA PERFORMS A CHAMBER VERSION
OF BEESON’S LIZZIE BORDEN, JULY 31
Longtime BSO and Tanglewood guest Christoph von Dohnányi returns
to the podium for two more BSO performances Friday, July 25, and
Saturday, July 26. The July 25 concert features English piano soloist Paul Lewis,
who elicited raves for his Symphony Hall performances with the
orchestra in October 2013, in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A,
K.414, as well as Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus and Mendelssohn’s dashing Symphony No. 4, Italian. On July 26, Maestro Dohnányi leads the BSO, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Camilla Tilling, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in Mahler’s sprawling and transcendent Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, both one of the great works and the great spectacles of the symphonic repertoire.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra welcomes familiar guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos to
the Shed on Sunday, July 27, for varied program of Rachmaninoff and
Verdi. On the first half of the concert, Venezuelan-American pianist Gabriela Montero
takes center stage for her BSO debut, performing Rachmaninoff’s
sweeping Piano Concerto No. 2, full of passionate emotion and memorable
melodies. The operatic second half of the program is devoted to the
music of Verdi, including the Overture and Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco and the Finale of Act II from Aida.
The opera theme continues on Thursday, July 31, as the Chamber Ensemble from the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra comes to Ozawa Hall for an evening of American opera. Led by conductor David Angus and featuring sopranos Chelsea Basler and Caroline Worra, mezzo-soprano Heather Johnson, tenor Omar Najmi, and baritones David McFerrin and Daniel Mobbs, the ensemble performs Jack Beeson’s 1965 opera Lizzie Borden about
the infamous 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts, double axe murder. The
work will be performed without intermission and sung in English with
supertitles in a new chamber version created for the Boston Lyric
Opera.
WEEK 5 (AUGUST 1–7)
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET JOINS ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
MARCELO LEHNINGER AND BSO FOR SHOSTAKOVICH’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1,
AUGUST 1; JOHN WILLIAMS LEADS ANNUAL TANGLEWOOD FILM NIGHT, AUGUST 2;
AUGUSTIN HADELICH PERFORMS MOZART’S VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 4, AUGUST 3;
TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE TAKES PLACE ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 5; PAAVO JÄRVI AND
HIS DEUTSCHE KAMMERPHILHARMONIE BREMEN PERFORM ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM,
AUGUST 6; LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, YO-YO MA, AND EMANUEL AX PERFORM RECITAL OF
BRAHMS WORKS, AUGUST 7
For The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert on Friday, August 1, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is led by Associate Conductor Marcelo Lehninger and joined by renowned French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Opening the program is Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for strings and
concluding it is Schumann’s Symphony No. 4. In between is Shostakovich’s
Concerto No. 1 for piano and trumpet—featuring Mr. Thibaudet and BSO
principal trumpet Thomas Rolfs—an intricate and inspired work that belongs among the composer’s best.
A beloved summer tradition continues on August 2 with John Williams’ Film Night,
one of the most eagerly-anticipated evenings of the Tanglewood Season.
Special guests will join John Williams and the Boston Pops for this
program of exciting music lit by the bright lights of Hollywood.
Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos returns to
the podium on Sunday, August 3, for a BSO concert devoted entirely to
the Classical period and the Austro-German tradition. Young rising
German violinist Augustin Hadelich joins the orchestra
for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218, at the heart of the
program. The Mozart is bookended by the music of his principal
predecessor and successor, respectively: Haydn’s Symphony No. 6, Le Matin,
to begin the program, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, to close it. All
three works capture their composers at the beginning of their careers
and showcase their early genius.
One of the festival’s most beloved traditions, the ever-popular Tanglewood on Parade (Tuesday, August 5), gives audiences a chance to hear all of the festival’s orchestras perform in a single concert. Leonard Slatkin and Stéphane Denève are joined by Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, and Laureate Conductor John Williams for a program that will include the traditional TOP finale, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
This festive concert features performances by the BSO, the Tanglewood
Music Center Orchestra, and the Boston Pops, followed by fireworks over
the Stockbridge Bowl.
On Wednesday, August 6, Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and his Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen take the Ozawa Hall stage for an all-Brahms program that also features German pianist Lars Vogt. Kicking off the concert is the raucous and lighthearted Academic Festival Overture,
followed by the moreserious-minded Piano Concerto No. 1. Concluding
the program is the Symphony No. 2, the composer’s most expansive and
relaxed symphony, but also featuring a wealth of rhythmic innovation.
Brahms is once again in the spotlight on Thursday, August 7,
as a trio of stars comes to Ozawa Hall for an evening of chamber music
devoted to the Romantic master’s work. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianist Emanuel Ax team
up for the Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8, in the concert’s finale, and
perform in duos for the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78, and the Cello
Sonata No. 2 in F, Op. 99.
WEEK 6 (AUGUST 8–14)
BSO CELEBRATES LEONARD SLATKIN’S 70TH BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 8, WITH WORLD PREMIERE OF BOLCOM’S CIRCUS OVERTURE;
STÉPHANE DENÈVE LEADS PROGRAM OF DEBUSSY, SZYMANOWSKI, AND
TCHAIKOVSKY, AUGUST 9; DAVID ZINMAN LEADS ALL-TCHAIKOVSKY PROGRAM
FEATURING YO-YO MA, AUGUST 10; JEREMY DENK PERFORMS BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS AND IVES’S SONATA NO. 2, AUGUST 13; PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA BRINGS HANDEL’S TESEO TO OZAWA HALL, AUGUST 14
The BSO celebrates American conductor Leonard Slatkin’s
70th birthday on Friday, August 8, as he leads the orchestra in a
program featuring the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning American
composer William Bolcom’s Circus Overture, a BSO commission written for the occasion. Gil Shaham joins Mr. Slatkin and the Orchestra for Barber’s Violin Concerto, and the concert concludes with Elgar’s kaleidoscopic Enigma Variations,
a musical depiction of the composer’s friends and acquaintances that
stands as one of the repertoire’s greatest examples of tone painting.
On Saturday, August 9, French maestro Stéphane Denève takes
the podium for a BSO performance pairing music by Tchaikovsky with two
works from the 20th century. To begin the program, Mr. Denève leads
the orchestra in Debussy’s revolutionary Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, after which he and the orchestra are joined by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos
for Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2. The drama and adrenaline of
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 bring the concert to a close.
Yo-Yo Ma once
again takes the stage at Tanglewood on Sunday, August 10, this time in
an all-Tchaikovsky program with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
conducted by American maestro David Zinman. Mr. Ma is featured in two works: the Andante cantabile and the Variations on a Rococo Theme, both for cello and orchestra. The program also includes the Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece Eugene Onegin, and the perennial favorite Symphony No. 6, Pathétique.
New York-based American pianist Jeremy Denk
arrives in the Berkshires to give an Ozawa Hall recital Wednesday,
August 13, featuring two great monuments of the keyboard literature:
Ives’s Sonata No. 2, Concord, of which Mr. Denk has made something of a specialty, and Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
The drama and dazzle of Baroque opera take over Ozawa Hall on Thursday, August 14, as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, led by early music specialist Nicholas McGegan, gives a complete concert performance of Handel’s rarely performed 1713 opera seria Teseo, based on the legend of Theseus and Medea. The cast includes sopranos Amanda Forsythe, Amy Freston, Dominique Labelle, and Céline Ricci; countertenors Robin Blaze and Drew Minter; and baritone Jeffrey Fields.
WEEK 7 (AUGUST 15–21)
EMANUEL AX JOINS THE BSO AUGUST 15 FOR BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR CONCERTO; BRAMWELL TOVEY LEADS THE BSO, TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, AND A CAST OF SINGERS IN BERNSTEIN’S CANDIDE,
AUGUST 16; NIKOLAI LUGANSKY JOINS CHARLES DUTOIT FOR RACHMANINOFF’S
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 ON A PROGRAM FEATURING STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD, AUGUST 17; ELLIS AND DELFEAYO MARSALIS PERFORM WORKS FROM THE LAST SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN, AUGUST 17
Stéphane Denève returns to the Shed podium on Friday, August 15, to lead the BSO in music by Beethoven and Prokofiev. Pianist Emanuel Ax joins the orchestra for the first half of the program as soloist in Beethoven’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, written in Vienna in 1809 while the city was under siege by Napoleonic forces. After intermission, the BSO welcomes the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina for Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata, music originally written for Sergei Eisenstein’s film of the same name.
Operetta and satire come to the Shed on Saturday, August 16, with a complete concert presentation of Bernstein’s witty Candide, based on Voltaire’s novel. The BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus are conducted by Bramwell Tovey, and the cast of distinguished vocalists includes soprano Anna Christy, mezzo-sopranos Kathryn Leemhuis and Frederica von Stade, tenors Nicolas Phan and Beau Gibson, and baritones Paul LaRosa and Richard Suart, as well as vocal soloists from the Tanglewood Music Center.
On Sunday, August 17, eminent Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit takes the helm of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert. The talented young TMC Fellows perform an all-Russian program featuring Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and the complete ballet score for The Firebird, as well as Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, withRussian pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
Later the same day, father Ellis Marsalis, Jr., and son Delfeayo Marsalis perform works from their first collaborative album, The Last Southern Gentlemen. Built on the intimacy of American ballads and the trombone’s expressive mimicry of the human voice, The Last Southern Gentlemen is a firm acknowledgement of the existence and importance of those sweet, gentle sounds.
WEEK 8 (AUGUST 22–30)
KEITH LOCKHART AND THE BOSTON POPS BRING THE WIZARD OF OZ
TO LIFE WITH LIVE MUSIC PLAYED ALONG WITH THE MOVIE, AUGUST 22;
CHARLES DUTOIT LEADS THE BSO IN BERLIOZ, RACHMANINOFF, AND RESPIGHI,
AUGUST 23, AND THE SEASON-ENDING PERFORMANCE OF BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY
NO. 9, AUGUST 24; MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA TAKES TO OZAWA HALL, AUGUST
24; WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME! RETURNS TO TANGLEWOOD ON AUGUST 28; JOSH GROBAN JOINS MAESTRO LOCKHART AND THE POPS TO CLOSE OUT THE SUMMER, AUGUST 30
The Boston Pops and Keith Lockhart bring the magic of Dorothy, the Wicked Witch of the West, and the rest of the Wizard of Oz gangto the Shed on Friday, August 22, in a performance of Oz with Orchestra.The Wizard of Oz
was a technical marvel for the MGM studio in the late 1930s. MGM has
stunningly re-mastered this timeless classic, and in this version,
produced by John Goberman, the brilliantly restored images are
accompanied by a full symphony orchestra playing entirely new
transcriptions of Harold Arlen’s brilliant lost scores.
Charles Dutoit returns to the podium on Saturday, August 23, and Sunday, August
24, to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s final two concerts of the
2014 Tanglewood season. An Italian-themed program on August 23 begins
with Berlioz’s colorful Roman Carnival Overture and continues with Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, featuring pianist Kirill Gerstein as soloist. Completing the program is Respighi’s rousing trio of Rome-centric tone poems: Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome, and Pines of Rome. Earlier in the day, Tanglewood’s annual Family Concert
will take place at 2:30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall. Then, on August 24, the
BSO’s Tanglewood season comes to a close with its traditional
performance of Beethoven’s transcendent Symphony No. 9. The final
concert this year includes a second opportunity for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus to shine in the form of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, which also features pianist Yefim Bronfman. Vocal soloists include sopranos Nicole Cabell and Meredith Hansen, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenors Noah Stewart and Alex Richardson, and bass-baritone John Relyea.
In the evening following the BSO’s farewell performance, the Maria Schneider Orchestra—a
big-band group led by composer-pianist Maria Schneider that blends the
freedom of jazz and the structure of classical music—brings its unique
flavor of music-making to Ozawa Hall.
On Thursday, August 28, Tanglewood visitors have the
opportunity to enjoy a live presentation of the witty and fast-paced
radio program Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! in the Shed. The Peabody
Award-winning series offers a fast-paced, irreverent look at the
week’s news, hosted by Peter Sagal along with judge and score-keeper
Carl Kassell. This 8 p.m. performance will be recorded for broadcast to
its weekly audience of 3.2 million weekly listeners on more than 600
NPR stations nationwide.
The Tanglewood 2014 season comes to a close on Saturday, August 30, when Josh Groban joins the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart,
for the final concert of the summer. One of today's popular music
superstars, Mr. Groban has become a Tanglewood favorite and provides a
spectacular close to an extraordinary summer of music-making.
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER HIGHLIGHTS
The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the Boston Symphony
Orchestra’s summer academy for advanced musical study, is considered
one of the world’s foremost graduate-level educational programs for
young professional musicians. TMC Fellows work closely with members of
the BSO and renowned guest artists, performing some 40 concerts each
season, including chamber music concerts and large-scale orchestral
programs.
The
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra (TMCO) will perform five full
concerts during the 2014 season, concluding the annual Leonard
Bernstein Memorial Concert in the Shed on Sunday, August 17, with
conductor Charles Dutoit heading up a program featuring Nikolai Lugansky in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, as well as Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and the complete ballet score for The Firebird. Other guest conductors to lead the TMCO this season, along with conducting Fellows of the Music Center, include Stefan Asbury in a program featuring Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, July 6; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in a program including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 and Sibelius’s Luonnotar, July 28; Stéphane Denève in an all-Berlioz program, including the overture to Béatrice et Bénédict, Les Nuits d’été, and Symphonie fantastique, August 11:
and an orchestra program that closes the Festival of Contemporary
Music on July 21 (see below). The TMCO will also perform during
Tanglewood on Parade on August 5.
In addition, on Saturday, July 12, the TMCO will participate in a Gala evening welcoming Andris Nelsons
to Tanglewood for the first time since his appointment as BSO Music
Director Designate. The TMCO will join Maestro Nelsons on stage for
excerpts from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier during the first half of the program, followed by BSO performances of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Ravel’s Bolero.
2014 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, JULY 17-21
The 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music, under the direction of composers John Harbison and Michael Gandolfi,
will highlight works by American composers, as part of Tanglewood’s
season-long focus on American music. One of the highlights of FCM this
year is the world premiere of Welsh-born American composer Bernard Rands’ Folk Songs (a TMC Commission). The piece takes its inspiration from the seminal Folk Songs of Rands’ mentor Luciano Berio. The program also includes At Once on a Deserted Street by Martin Boykan, Voices, a world premiere and TMC commission by the young German composer and 2012 TMC Fellow Benjamin Scheuer, and Michael Gandolfi’s As Above.
Another highlight of the Festival is the Theatre evening on Sunday, July 20, at 8 p.m., featuring concert performances of Andrew Waggoner’s This Powerful Rhyme—a
piece written between 2003 and 2006 featuring Shakespearean sonnets
and exploring countless aspects of intimate human relationships—and Kate Soper’s Helen Enfettered, based on text from Chapter E of Christian Bök’s Eunoia, which describes the character and ordeal of Helen of Troy.
The Festival opens on Thursday, July 17, with chamber works by American composers James Matheson (Anatomy of Melancholy), Anna Weesner (Mother Tongues), Jacob Druckman (Bo), Fred Lerdahl (Wake), and John Harbison (Parody Fantasia), as well as Korean-born composer Seung-Ah Oh (Canonical Contours for
percussion quartet). On Friday, July 18, TMC Fellows will perform
works from the Composition Fellows’ intensive “piece-a-day” project,
whereby the composers develop short works for specific small ensembles
quickly and practically. Saturday, July 19, at 2:30 p.m., features an
all-American program with works by George Perle, Keeril Makan (Two), Hannah Lash (Friction, Pressure, Impact), David Dzubay, Eric Nathan (Toying), and Anthony Cheung (Roundabout).
The closing concert of the Festival of Contemporary Music
takes place on Monday, July 21, and features the Tanglewood Music
Center Orchestra in Roger Sessions’ Concerto for
Orchestra, a Pulitzer Prize-winning piece commissioned by the Boston
Symphony Orchestra for its centennial thirty years ago. Also on the
program are Steve Mackey’s Beautiful Passing, a violin concerto, featuring violinist Sarah Silver, a member of the 2014 Tanglewood New Fromm Players; English composer Charlotte Bray’s At the Speed of Stillness; and John Adams’s Slonimsky’s Earbox.
The Festival of Contemporary Music, which began at Tanglewood
in 1964, is a project of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s
prestigious summer music academy; Festival programs feature
performances by TMC Fellows and guest artists.
TANGLEWOOD WINE AND FOOD CLASSIC, AUGUST 7-10
The Tanglewood Wine and Food Classic takes place in 2014 on
Thursday, August 7 through Sunday, August 10. The four day event,
featuring seminars, dinners, and a grand tasting, kicks off on Thursday
evening with a wine dinner. The grand tasting will take place on
Saturday, August 9, in the Hawthorne tent, and the weekend closes with
an auction dinner on Sunday, August 10. Complete information about the Tanglewood Wine and Food Classic will be available in early 2014.
One Day University at Tanglewood, Sunday, August 24, 2014
One Day University, the acclaimed adult education series, is
returning to Tanglewood on Sunday, August 24, presenting three lectures
by professors from Brown, Fairfield, and Yale. Topics to be discussed
include “What Would The Founding Fathers Think of America Today?”
with Brown University’s Wendy Schiller; “Rhapsody In Blue: Gershwin's
Remarkable Masterpiece” with Fairfield University’s Orin Grossman; “The
Art of Aging: Discovering New Sources of Creativity and Perception"
with Yale University's Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland. Dr. Nuland's appearance
is sponsored by The Boys From Brooklyn. From Brooklyn to the
Berkshires: Marty Bloom, Allen Hyman, Marty Schwartz and Bob Tutnauer,
The Boys From Brooklyn, support and seed cultural, social and
educational programs in the Berkshires. The cost of One Day University
at Tanglewood is $159, and includes VIP parking and lawn admission for
the 2:30 p.m. BSO season-‐finale performance of Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 9, led by Charles Dutoit. Advance purchase is required. For more
information or to register for One Day University at Tanglewood, call
Symphony Charge at 888‐266-‐1200 or visit www.tanglewood.org/onedayu .
2014 TANGLEWOOD SEASON:
HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS, HOW TO ORDER A BROCHURE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY
ACTIVITIES, PATRON PERKS AND AMENITIES, THE BSO MEDIA CENTER, AND
SPONSORSHIP
HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS, HOW TO ORDER A BROCHURE, AND FREE AND DISCOUNTED LAWN TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Tickets for the 2014 Tanglewood season go on sale to the general
public on Sunday, January 26. Tickets are available through
Tanglewood’s website, www.tanglewood.org,
through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, and at the Symphony Hall Box
Office at 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA. Regular season ticket
prices range from $10-$121. Tickets for Saturday Morning Rehearsals
range from $11-$31. All ticket prices include a $2 Tanglewood grounds
maintenance fee.
Tickets will also be available for purchase in person at the
Tanglewood Box Office at Tanglewood’s Main Gate on West Street in
Lenox, MA, as of late June. American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Diners
Club, Discover, and cash are all accepted at the Tanglewood Box Office.
For further information and box office hours, please call the Boston
Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492 or visit www.tanglewood.org.
The BSO's $20 tickets for attendees under 40 will be
available during the 2014 Tanglewood season for select performances.
Beginning January 26, tickets will be available on a first-come,
first-served basis through www.tanglewood.org
and through SymphonyCharge. Blackout dates include all Popular Artist
concerts; June 28, July 3 and 4, and August 28. Eligible patrons may
purchase up to two tickets per show and must provide proof of age when
picking up their tickets at will call in order to receive the
discount.
Tanglewood will offer the BSO's popular college card at the
orchestra's summer home again this season. College students can
purchase the college card for $25 (online, by phone or in person). With
the college card, students have the opportunity to attend an unlimited
number of classical and orchestral concerts throughout the Tanglewood
season for no additional cost. Tickets can be picked up—one per
cardholder, student ID required—at the Tanglewood Box Office beginning
on Monday the week of the concert date. Availability is not guaranteed
for all concerts, and is posted online. Tickets are distributed on a
first-come, first-served basis, and must be picked up by 8 p.m. or 2
p.m. on the day of the concert. Blackout dates include all Popular
Artist concerts; June 28, July 3 and 4, and August 28.
Tanglewood is pleased to offer free lawn tickets for children and young people age 17 and younger and a 50% discount on Friday-evening lawn tickets to college and graduate students for Friday-evening concerts.
Up to four free children’s lawn tickets are available per parent/legal
guardian per concert at the Tanglewood Box Office on the day of the
concert, as all patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Please
note that the free lawn ticket policy does not apply to organized
groups. For Popular Artists concerts, free lawn tickets are only
available for children under age 2.
Tanglewood brochures with complete programs
and information on how to order tickets will be available in early
February by calling 617-638-9467. For further information, please call
the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492 or visit www.tanglewood.org. For Berkshire tourist information and reservations, contact the Berkshire Visitors Bureau at 800-237-5747 or www.berkshires.org.
FAMILY-FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES
Tanglewood provides special programs for kids, such as the popular Kids’ Corner, a musical and craft-related project supervised and supported by BSO staff on weekends, and the Watch and Play program,
a series of lively discussions about instruments, concert themes,
and/or musical concepts on selected Sundays. In addition, through its Tanglewood for Kids
program, Tanglewood offers free lawn tickets, up to four per family,
to all children and young adults age 17 and under. Tanglewood will
present its annual Family Concert on Saturday, August 23 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets for the Family Concert are free to youth age 18 and under and $10 for each adult.
TANGLEWOOD PATRON AMENITIES AND PERKS
Tanglewood offers a free pre-concert panel discussion series called “This Week at Tanglewood” on Fridays at 7:15 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, and free hour-long walking tours of Tanglewood’s grounds and performance spaces daily (email bsav@bso.org or call 617-638-9394 for dates and times). Friday-evening Prelude Concerts, at 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall, feature BSO musicians in small ensemble and chamber music settings. Saturday-evening Prelude Concerts,
July 5-August 16, at 6 p.m. in Ozawa Hall, feature Tanglewood Music
Center Fellows in performance. Admission to Prelude Concerts is free to
all BSO concert ticket holders.
“Talks and Walks,”
a series of informal conversations presented by guest artists and
members of the BSO family in the Tent Club on Thursday afternoons,
begins with a talk at 1 p.m. and a guided tour of the grounds at 1:45
p.m. To purchase tickets, available at $17 each or $102 for a full
series, call 617-638-9394 or email bsav@bso.org.
BSO 101—a free music appreciation series
led by BSO Director of Program Publications Marc Mandel and members of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra—takes place on Wednesdays from 12:45–2
p.m. in the Tanglewood Tent Club. BSO 101 sessions will focus on a
single work to be played by the BSO each Tanglewood weekend, examining
and illuminating aspects of musical shape and form and of the
composer’s individual musical style. All of these sessions will include
recorded musical examples, and each is self-contained so that no prior
musical training or attendance at any previous session is required.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a lunch, though there will also be an
option to buy lunch at the Tent Club.
Tanglewood offers Lawn Chair Rentals, for a
fee of $5, available at the Grille at the Main Gate for Shed concerts,
and at the Bernstein Gate for Ozawa Hall performances. Pre-ordered meals are available in the Tanglewood Grille and the Tanglewood Café. Meals may be ordered online at www.tanglewood.org or by calling 413-637-5152. Tanglewood also offers large video screens for the pleasure of lawn patrons on Friday and Saturday nights, and, for the convenience of patrons, a Bank of America ATM is located outside the main gate.
Bus Service to the Lenox area is offered by
Peter Pan and Greyhound Bus Lines. For fare and scheduling information,
call 800-343-9999 or 800-231-2222. Special excursions
are offered by the Berkshire Tour Company, 781-438-8620; Greylock
Discovery Tours, 413-637-4442; Animactions Unlimited, 413-448-2115; and
Gateway Travel Service, 781-729-6900. Limited bus service is offered
by AAA Connecticut/Connecticut Motor Club, 203-928-6556 and K&L
Tours, 617-267-1905. Information about lodging, dining, and other Berkshire-area activities is available by contacting the Berkshire Visitors Bureau at 413-743-4500.
MEDIA OFFERINGS AT BSO.ORG
BSO.org is the largest and most-visited orchestral website in
the United States, attracting close to 7 million unique visitors
annually and generating over $80 million in revenue since its launch in
1996. In the fall of 2011, the BSO redesigned and updated its popular
website at BSO.org. The site’s Media Center,
consolidates its numerous new media initiatives in one location. In
addition to comprehensive access to all BSO, Boston Pops, Tanglewood,
and Symphony Hall performance schedules, patrons have access to a
number of free and paid media options. Free offerings include WGBH radio broadcast streams
of select BSO, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood performances; audio concert
preview podcasts; Emmy Award-winning audio and video interviews with
guest artists and BSO musicians; the BSO’s video podcast series, “It’s
Your BSO,” featuring interviews with BSO members; music excerpts, of up
to three minutes, highlighting upcoming programs as well as all
self-produced albums by the BSO, Boston Pops, Boston Symphony Chamber
Players, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Tanglewood Music Center
Fellows, and complete program notes for all performances, which can be
downloaded and printed or saved offline to an e-reading device such as a
Kindle or Nook.
Responding to the rapid increase in the use of smart phones,
the Boston Symphony’s revamped website is now available across all
smart mobile devices capable of web browsing. Users have on-the-go
access to virtually all of the BSO’s online content including media
offerings such as podcasts, audio clips, and even live streams of BSO
performances. Mobile users will also be able to access performance
calendars, program notes, and artist bios, as well as purchase tickets,
meals, and parking, and make donations via hand-held devices such as
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