Tanglewood fare ranges from Tchaikovsky to Taylor
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TANGLEWOOD
267 West St., Lenox
617-266-1200, www.tanglewood.org.
Shed
Friday $89, $74, $49, $20, $16, Lawn $19. Saturday, Sunday $89, $74, $49, $27, $18, Lawn $18. Special events $99, $85, $59, $40, $28, $19 (unless noted).
July 3, 8:30 p.m. Opening night. Boston Symphony Orchestra. James Levine conducts all-Tchaikovsky program with Yefim Bronfman, piano. Fireworks to follow the concert.
July 5, 2:30. BSO. James Levine conducts Stravinsky and Brahms with Christian Tetzlaff, violin.
July 10, 8:30 p.m. BSO. Herbert Blomstedt conducts Nielsen, Brahms, and Beethoven with Emanuel Ax, piano.
July 11, 8:30 p.m. Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. James Levine conducts Wagner with James Morris, Johan Botha, Hei-Kyung Hong, Maria Zifchak, Matthew Polenzani, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen. Julien Robbins, vocal fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor.
July 12, 2:30 p.m. BSO. Herbert Blomstedt conducts Beethoven, Dvorak, Bruch with Joshua Bell, violin.
July 17, 8:30 p.m. BSO. James Levine conducts Mozart with Leon Fleisher, piano, and Mahler.
July 18, 8:30 p.m. Film Night at Tanglewood. Boston Pops Orchestra. John Williams, conductor. Program is a tribute to the legacy of Warner Bros. Pictures, including selections from Williams's scores for "Superman" and "Harry Potter."
July 19, 2:30 p.m. BSO. James Levine, conducts all-Mozart program.
July 24, 8:30 p.m. BSO. James Levine conducts Berlioz, Mussorgsky with Steven
July 25, 8:30 p.m. BSO. James Levine conducts Brahms with Soile Isokoski, Matthias Goerne, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor.
July 26, 2:30 p.m. BSO. David Robertson conducts Harris, Thomson, Barber, Bernstein with Thomas Hampson, baritone, and Orli Shaham, piano.
July 31, 8:30 p.m. BSO. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven with Vadim Repin, violin.
Aug. 1, 8:30 p.m. Celebrating Sir James Galway's 70th birthday. BSO. Leonard Slatkin conducts Debussy, Copland, Mozart with Sir James Galway, flute, and guests.
Aug. 2, 2:30 p.m. Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert. BSO. Thomas Dausgaard conducts Rachmaninoff, Beethoven with Leif Ove Andsnes, piano.
Aug. 3, 8 p.m. Tanglewood Music Center Vocal and Conducting Fellows and Orchestra. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts all-Stravinsky program with Peter Serkin, piano.
Aug. 7, 8:30 pm. Boston Pops Orchestra, Keith Lockhart, conductor, with Chris Botti, trumpet.
Aug. 8, 8:30 p.m. BSO. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducts Prokofiev, Orff with Laura Claycomb, Lawrence Brownlee, Markus Werba, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor.
Aug. 9, 2:30 p.m. BSO. Julian Kuerti, conducts Perle, Shostakovich, Bizet, Faure with Yo-Yo Ma, cello.
Aug. 14, 8:30 p.m. BSO. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman, piano.
Aug. 15, 8:30 p.m. BSO. André Previn conducts Beethoven, Ravel, Liszt with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano.
Aug. 16, 2:30 p.m. Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert. Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Kurt Masur conducts all-Brahms program with Garrick Ohlsson, piano.
Aug. 21, 8:30 p.m. BSO. Kurt Masur conducts Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart with David Fray, piano.
Aug. 22, 8:30 p.m. BSO. Kurt Masur conducts all-Mendelssohn program with Gil Shaham, violin.
Aug. 23, 2:30 p.m. BSO. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives, Beethoven with Erin Wall, Kendall Gladen, Stuart Skelton, Raymond
Aug. 30, 2:30 p.m. Boston Pops. John Williams, conductor. James Taylor, soloist. Two Tanglewood favorites reunite in concert for the season finale. $115, $99, $70, $50, $40, Lawn $21.
Ozawa Hall
Regular prices $51, $41, $33, Lawn $17. Special Events $58, $47, $38, Lawn $18. Mark Morris/Thomashefskys $95, $75, $60, Lawn $20. Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra $51, $41, $33, Lawn $11.
June 26, 8 p.m. Emerson String Quartet with Paul Neubauer, viola. Ives, Dvorak, Barber.
June 28, 2:30 p.m. Juilliard String Quartet. All-Haydn program.
June 29, 8 p.m. TMC Orchestra: Herbert Blomstedt, conductor, and TMC Conducting Fellows. All-Sibelius program.
Thursday, July 2 , 8 p.m. Stephen Kovacevich, piano. J.S. Bach, Schumann, Beethoven.
July 5, 8 p.m. Christian Tetzlaff, violin, and Alexander Lonquich, piano. Beethoven.
July 7, 8 p.m. Christian Tetzlaff, violin, and Alexander Lonquich, piano. Beethoven.
July 9, 8 p.m. Christian Tetzlaff, violin, and Alexander Lonquich, piano. Beethoven.
July 14, 8 p.m. Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, director. Lully, Biber, Corelli, Handel, Scarlatti/Avison, Boccherini.
July 15, 8 p.m. Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, director, with F. Murray Abraham, actor. Stage music in the Plays of William Shakespeare.
July 20, 8 p.m. TMC Orchestra conducted by TMC Conducting Fellows. Works for chamber orchestra.
July 22, 8 p.m. Thomas Hampson, baritone, and Craig Rutenberg, piano. All-American program, to include songs by Ives, Griffes, Carpenter, Barber.
July 30, 8 p.m. Sir James Galway, flute, Lady Jeanne Galway, flute, Phillip Moll, piano. Celebrating Sir James Galway's 70th birthday August 5, 6, 8 p.m. Mark Morris Dance Group, Mark Morris, choreographer, with TMC Fellows, Emanuel Ax, piano. Colin Jacobsen, violin, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello.
August 12, 8 p.m. Boston Symphony Chamber Players with André Previn, piano. Villa-Lobos, Previn, Brahms.
August 16, 8 p.m. André Previn, piano, and David Finck, bass. An evening of jazz favorites.
August 19, 20 8 p.m. BSO. Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor and host. Thomas, "The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater" with Pat Birch, director, Judy Blazer, Neal Benari, Ronit Widmann-Levy, and Eugene Brancoveanu.
Theater
July 26, 27, 29 7:30 p.m. Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra. James Levine conducts Mozart's "Don Giovanni." Ira Siff, director, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor. $110, $65.
Tanglewood on Parade
July 28, 8:30 p.m. Tanglewood on Parade. BSO, Boston Pops, TMC Orchestra, James Levine, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Leonard Slatkin, conductors. Program includes Rossini, Enescu, Bernstein, Williams, Copland, Tchaikovsky. Fireworks to follow the concert. $99, $85, $59, $40, $28, Lawn $21.
Festival of Contemporary Music
Aug. 7-11. Augusta Reed Thomas, director. Festival includes two world premieres and highlights a variety of nationalities and styles, vocal and solo music, and work by young and emerging conductors. Ozawa Hall. $11.
Popular artists
"A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor. June 27, 5:45 p.m. Shed, live broadcast. $70, $53, $39, Lawn $19.
Diana Krall. Fireworks to follow the concert. July 4, 7 p.m. Shed. $76, $54, $39, Lawn $25.
Tony Bennett. July 21, 8 p.m. Shed. $85, $62, Lawn $62.
James Taylor and Friends. Aug. 28, 29 7 p.m. Shed. $85, $62, Lawn $24. Taylor and his band return to the Shed stage and are joined by special guests Sheryl Crow and Yo-Yo Ma.
Tanglewood Jazz Festival
September 4-6. $32-$75, Lawn $17-$19. One-day lawn pass $34. 
