Who, what, when at Tanglewood
Tanglewood 297 West St., Lenox. 617-266-1200, 888-266-1200. tanglewood.org Season features works by Beethoven. Accompanied children under 13 free on lawn; children under 5 not permitted in Shed or Ozawa Hall. Call for information on special programs and activities for children.
6/28-8/26, jazz festival 8/31-9/2. Season features works by Beethoven. Accompanied children under 13 free on lawn; children under 5 not permitted in Shed or Ozawa Hall. Call for information on special programs and activities for children.
Mark Morris Dance Group Ozawa Hall.
6/28-6/29: 8:30 p.m. Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" with Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra; Stefan Asbury, conductor. $44-$68, lawn $19.
"A Prairie Home Companion" Shed.
6/30: 5:45 p.m. Live broadcast with Garrison Keillor. $39-$70, lawn $19.
July 4 Shed.
7/4: 7 p.m. The New Cars. $43-$66, lawn $21. Gates open 4 p.m., fireworks follow concert.
Boston Symphony Orchestra Shed. Fri-Sat 8:30 p.m., Sun 2:30 p.m. Fri $16-$89, lawn $9; Sat-Sun $18-$89, lawn $18; special events $28-$99, lawn $19. James Levine, music director.
7/6: Opening Night. Levine conducts Mendelssohn's "Overture and Incidental Music to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' " with Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Kristine Jepson, mezzo; women of Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. $28-$2,500, lawn $19. Fireworks follow concert.
7/7: Ludovic Morlot conducts Dvorak's "Othello" Overture; Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" and "Pezzo capriccioso" with Lynn Harrell, cello; Mussorgsky-Ravel's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
7/8: Andre Previn conducts Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet," Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Jean-Philippe Collard, Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juliet."
7/13: Andre Previn conducts Mozart's Symphony No. 29; Haydn's Cello Concerto in C with Daniel Mueller-Schott; Ravel's "Sheherazade" with Michelle DeYoung, mezzo; Ravel's "Mother Goose."
7/14: Levine conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with Stephanie Blythe, mezzo; women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; American Boychoir.
7/15: Mark Elder conducts Strauss's "Don Juan" Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer" and Delius's "Cynara" with Thomas Hampson, baritone; Sibelius's Symphony No. 2.
7/20: Mark Elder conducts Beethoven program: "Leonore" Overture No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 3 with Imogen Cooper, "Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?" from "Fidelio" with Christine Brewer, soprano; Symphony No. 4.
7/21: Hans Graf conducts Beethoven program: "Leonore" Overture No. 2; Triple Concerto with Beaux Arts Trio; "Ah! Perfido!" with Christine Brewer, soprano; Symphony No. 2.
7/22: Jens Georg Bachmann conducts Beethoven program: "Leonore" Overture No. 3; Piano Concerto No. 5 with Leon Fleischer; Romance No. 2 with Daniel Hope, violin; Symphony No. 7.
7/27: Kurt Masur conducts Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Joshua Bell, Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.
7/28: 7:30 p.m. Levine conducts Verdi's "Don Carlo," with Patricia Racette, Luciana D'Intino, Johan Botha, Zeljko Lucic, James Morris, Paata Burchuladze, David Won, Jordan Bisch, TMC Vocal Fellows and Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Concert performance of four-act version.
7/29: Kurt Masur conducts Mozart program: Symphonies No. 39, 40, 41.
8/3: Levine conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 8; Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 18 with Richard Goode; Harbison's Concerto for Bass Viol with Edwin Barker; Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe," Suite No. 2.
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8/5: Edo de Waart conducts premiere of work by De Raaff, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3.
8/10: Levine conducts Ives's "Three Places in New England," Carter's "Three Illusions," Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
8/11: Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos conducts Schumann's Symphony No. 3, Bruch's Violin Concerto with Itzhak Perlman, Stravinsky's "Firebird" Suite.
8/12: Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos conducts Mozart's Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro," Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 with Emmanuel Ax, Haydn's "Mass in Time of War" with Sally Matthews, Paula Murrihy, Eric Cutler, Dietrich Henschel, Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
8/17: Levine conducts Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" with Michelle DeYoung, mezzo; Samuel Ramey, bass; Oers Kisfaludy, narrator; Brahms's Symphony No. 1.
8/18: Levine conducts Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" with Yvonne Naef, Marcello Giordani, Jose van Dam, Patrick Carfizzi, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, PALS Children's Chorus.
8/19: Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Melanie Diener, Mary Phillips, Marcus Haddock, Raymond
BSO Concert Preludes Shed. Fri-Sat 6 p.m. Free with that night's BSO ticket.
7/6-7/20 and 8/3-8/17: Fri. Chamber concerts by BSO members.
7/7-8/18: Sat. Chamber concerts by Tanglewood Music Center.
&/6-7/20 and 8/3-8/17: Fri. John Oliver conducts Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
BSO Open Rehearsals Shed.
7/7-8/18: Sat 10:30 a.m., prerehearsal talk 9:30 a.m. Rehearsal for Sun program except 8/18, rehearsal for Sat program. $17.
Boston Pops Shed. 8:30 p.m. unless noted. $28-$99, lawn $19.
7/10: Keith Lockhart conducts concert performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" with guests vocalists and Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows.
8/25: John Williams conducts Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Film music, including tribute to director David Lean.
8/26: Keith Lockhart conducts Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Gershwin program with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Marin Mazzie, soprano; Brian Stokes Mitchell, baritone.
Visiting Orchestras Ozawa Hall. 8:30 p.m. $32-$50, lawn $16.
7/25: Netherlands Bach Society. Jos van Veldhoven conducts Bach's "Mass in B minor."
7/26: Netherlands Bach Society. Jos van Veldhoven conducts Bach program: secular cantatas including "Wedding" and "Coffee" cantatas.
8/21: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Frans Brueggen conducts Schubert program: Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" Symphony in C, "The Great."
8/22: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Frans Brueggen conducts Beethoven program: "Coriolan" Overture, Piano Concerto No. 4 with Kristian Bezuidenhout, Symphony No. 5.
Chamber Concerts and Recitals Ozawa Hall. 8:30 p.m. unless noted. $32-$50, lawn $16; special events $37-$56, lawn $17.
7/1: 2:30 p.m. Emerson String Quartet. Beethoven program: Quartet, op 132; Quartet, op. 130, with "Grosse Fuge" finale.
7/5: Juilliard String Quartet. Bartok program: Quartets No. 2, 4, 6.
7/12: Hesperion XXI. with Jordi Savall, gambist and director. "Paradise Lost: Music of Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Time of King Alfonso X of Castille, 1221-1284."
7/15: Andre Previn, piano; Jim Hall, guitar; David Finck, bass. Jazz program.
7/17: BSO Chamber Players with Thomas Hampson, baritone; Wolfram Rieger, piano. Schumann's "Dichterliebe," Barber's "Summer Music," Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder."
8/8: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano. Works by Schumann, Bach, Benjamin, Carter.
8/16: Jose van Dam, bass-baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano. Songs by Faure, Duparc, Debussy, Poulenc.
Tanglewood Music Center Ozawa Hall. 8:30 p.m. unless noted. $11, orchestra concerts $26-$36, lawn $11.
6/24: 10 a.m., 1 and 4 p.m. String quartet marathon, three two-hour concerts.
7/1-8/19: Sun 10 a.m. (no concert 7/29), selected evenings 8:30 p.m. Chamber music, call for schedule and additional times. See also BSO Concert Preludes above.
7/9: TMC Orchestra. Stefan Asbury and Conducting Fellows conduct Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin," Bartok's Suite from "The Miraculous Mandarin," Holst's "The Planets."
7/16: TMC Orchestra. Stefan Asbury and Mark Elder conducts Stravinsky's "Danses concertantes," Haydn's Symphony No. 92, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1.
TMC Opera Theatre.
8/11: 2 p.m., 8/12-8/14: 7:30 p.m. Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" with TMC Vocal Fellows and Orchestra. Ira Siff, director; James Levine, conductor. $55-$95.
8/19: 7:30 p.m. Opera scenes with TMC Fellows. $11.
Festival of Contemporary Music Ozawa Hall. 8:30 p.m. unless noted. $11, orchestra concert $26-$36, lawn $11. John Harbison, director; performances by TMC Fellows and guests. Theme: "The Generation of '38," featuring works by Harbison, Bolcom, Corigliano, Tower, Wuorinen.
7/29: 10 a.m. New Fromm Players. Works by Borden, Zwilich, Eckardt, Sollberger.
7/29: Vocal music with Judith Tick, consulting scholar and speaker; Lucy Shelton, soprano; TMC Fellows. Works by Borden, Del Tredici, Heiss, Fussell, Wilson. Preconcert talk 7:30 p.m.
7/30: "Music for Film," excerpts from films with music by Glass, Chihara, Silverman. Preconcert panel 7 p.m.
7/31: Norman Fischer, cello; Jeanne Kierman, piano; TMC Fellows. Works by Borden, McKinley, Bates, Milburn, Chaitkin, Harbison. Preconcert talk 7:30 p.m.
8/1: TMC Orchestra. Stefan Asbury and TMC Fellows conduct works by Corigliano, Bolcom, Wuorinen, Tower.
8/2: Fromm Concert with Julius Hemphill Sextet, Musica Electronica Viva.
Tanglewood on Parade Shed.
8/15: 2:30-6 p.m. Chamber concerts in Ozawa Hall and Chamber Music Hall.
8/15: 5 p.m. TMC Composition Program Shakespeare Project: "Macbeth" with TMC Fellows, New Fromm Players, Shakespeare & Company. Ozawa Hall.
8/15: 8 p.m. Fanfares by TMC Fellows.
8/15: 8:30 p.m. BSO, Boston Pops, TMC Orchestra. James Levine, John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Rafael Fruehbeck de Burgos, conductors. Works by Brahms, Sibelius, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, others. $28-$99, lawn $19. Fireworks follow concert.
Boston University Tanglewood Institute Ozawa Hall. $11, Wind Ensemble $9.
7/13: 8:30 p.m. David Martins conducts Young Artists Wind Ensemble.
7/14: 2:30 p.m. Morihito Nakahara conducts Young Artists Orchestra.
7/28: 11 a.m. Robert Reynolds conducts Wind Ensemble.
7/28: 2:30 p.m. Paul Haas conducts Young Artists Orchestra.
8/4: 2:30 p.m. Ann Howard Jones conducts Young Artists Chorus.
8/11: 2:30 p.m. David Hoose conducts Young Artists Orchestra.
