What to look for at Tanglewood this summer? The Carter Festival (July 20-24), honoring the doyen of American composers, who has has a close relationship with the BSO for many years, is certainly one of the most important events. Including his most recent work, his Horn Concerto, so warmly received by Symphony Hall audiences back in November 2007.

It was James Levine, who in commissioning the work, suggested a horn concerto. Evidently Carter was not entirely convinced at first, but both warmed to the idea and found inspiration in working closely with James Sommerville, the principle horn of the Boston Symphony. The composer became eager to write a work which was not only thoroughly idiomatic for the horn, but characteristic of Sommerville’s playing. The seven episodes of the 12-minute work are full of dramatic and subtle contrasts, not only between episodes, but within them. While the horn solo stands in relief as an independent voice, the orchestra passes through phases of behaving as a massed entity into a more fragmented collection of wind, string, and percussion choirs, all interacting with the assertive horn. The horn itself seems to break apart at times, as Carter and Sommerville exploit its different registers and sounds individually. The overall result is a work which is dense with ideas, but very light and transparent in texture. This and the subtle varieties of timbre in a way mitigate the forcefulness of the work, which contains moments of exquisite delicacy. In performance, Levine was alive at every shift of dynamics or timbre, but supported the music’s flow of contrasts. Sommerville’s virtuosity was impressive, as well as his ability to project mood with tone. The same forces will perform the work In Ozawa Hall (good idea!) on July 24 together with Carter’s Three Illusions for Orchestra and Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei.

The packed five days of the Festival of Contemporary Music tribute to the doyen of American composers will be what makes this Tanglewood season special. Visitors unfamiliar with contemporary music may well find a pleasant surprise, if they wander in to one of these concerts—any one. There will be a panel discussions including Mr. Carter, and he will be interviewed. A film of Carter’s only opera, What Next?, made at the 2006 Tanglewood production will also be shown. I mentioned last summer, in connection with the Juilliard String Quartet’s commemoration of their 1948 traversal of the Bartók String Quartets at Tanglewood, how that event played a crucial role in the acceptance of Bartók’s music in this country. Shortly after the November concert, I heard a remark which brought it home to me once again, how very important Tanglewood has been in the development of American music. The distinguished experimental composer Christian Wolff visited Williams to lecture and teach a class. In his lecture, a thoroughly charming and modest breeze through his career, Dr. Wolff mentioned how, in his youth, when he had just decided to become a composer rather than a performer and was casting about for an appropriate style of expression, he heard at Tanglewood the Juilliard play a concert of the Second Viennese School. This experience guided him on the path which brought him together with Cage, Boulez, Tudor, and Stockhausen. Another example of the influence of Tanglewood. I like to think that one or more young composer is likely to become engrossed in this Carter festival and emerge from it with new understanding and confidence.

Otherwise, I am especially excited about the staged performance of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, which will be fully staged by Tanglewood Music Center fellows under James Levine, the production directed and designed by Douglas Fitch. Mr. Levine will also conduct the TMC Orchestra with a renowned cast including Renée Fleming in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, arguably his finest work. The season will open with another substantial event, Berlioz’ Les Troyens, a great favorite of Maestro Levine’s and undoubtedly one of the very greatest operas ever written, divided over two days. He and the BSO will have already performed it in Symphony Hall in late April. Even if you heard it then it will be a must to come back to it at Tanglewood. It’s a work one can’t hear too often.

Bernard Haitink will return to conduct Mozart, Debussy, and Richard Strauss, his Alpine Symphony, a work I’ve grown very fond of with repeated hearings. He will also conduct an all-Beethoven program, the Triple Concerto and the Sixth Symphony, as well as Mahler’s Second. Many will remember his grand, big-orchestra Eroica from last season, and, further back in time, much further, his pioneering recordings of Mahler’s Symphonies, which, after Bernstein’s extroverted performances, brought many Americans closer to Mahler.

After last summer’s wealth of historically-informed performances, many due to NL the countywide celebration of Dutch culture, it is disappointing to see only one period group on the program, the highly regarded Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under its music director Gottfried von der Goltz, in a fairly rich program of familiar Mozart works. This should be most enjoyable, but there should be more. Shame!!!

Levine, when he revisits Mahler’s First this summer, will pair it with Harbison’s Fifth, another performance to look forward to. The splendid young tenor Thomas Meglioranza will sing the baritone part together with Later he will accompany the poetic Yefim Bronfman in Brahms’ First Piano Concerto. Peter Oundjian is a particularly fine American conductor, who will conduct the BSO in a French program: Ravel, Chausson, Saint Saens, and Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Andrew Davis and André Previn will be back, as will Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, in three concerts, one of which will include Beethoven’s underplayed Mass in C along with his overplayed fifth Symphony. Then Christoph von Dohnanyi will conduct the Second, the Eroica, and the Ninth, to conclude the festival.

Chamber and solo music will be especially rich. The superb Imogen Cooper will perform an all-Schubert program including the monumental late sonatas in C and A—a rather poignant event, since her teacher, Alfred Brendel, who has championed these works throughout his career, will be retiring at the end of the year. The Emerson String Quartet will offer an all-Brahms program. The Shanghai String Quartet, joined by Chanticleer in one, will play two evenings of contemporary Chinese and European music, as well as folk, jazz and gospel songs. Tashi will play Wuorinen, Takemitsu, and Messiaen, his Quartet for the End of Time, and the Kronos String Quartet an eclectic program of twentieth century and contemporary music. Frederike von Stade, accompanied by Mathieu Dufour, flute, and Peter Grunenberg, piano, will sing a varied program called “Music, Flutes, and Paris,” including works by Schubert, Fauré, Roussel, Martin, and Rorem.

I’ve surely missed many excellent programs and musicians. Peter Serkin, for example, will play a Bach keyboard concerto with Levine and the BSO. There will be several newcomers among the conductors, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Shi-Yeon Sung. There are many more treasures on the schedule below.

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2008 TANGLEWOOD Schedule

Thursday, June 26, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Friday, June 27, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER VOCAL FELLOWS AND ORCHESTRA
MARK MORRIS, choreographer
SUSAN RUDDIE, costume designer
JAMES F. INGALLS and PHIL SANDSTROM, lighting designers

New work (world premiere)
BARBER  Excursions, for piano
Bedtime
SCHUBERT  Wiegenlied, Ständchen,
and Erlkönig
New Love Song Waltzes
BRAHMS  Neue Liebesliederwalzer, Op. 65
Love Song Waltzes
BRAHMS  Liebesliederwalzer, Op. 52

Saturday, June 28, 5:45 p.m., Shed
A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
with Garrison Keillor
Live Broadcast

Sunday, June 29, 2:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS
MENAHEM PRESSLER, piano

HARBISON  Wind Quintet
MOZART  Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, K.452
DVOŘÁK  Quintet in A for piano and strings, Op. 81

Monday, June 30, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor (Dvořák)
STEFAN ASBURY, conductor

MESSIAEN  Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
DVOŘÁK  Symphony No. 8

Thursday, July 3, 7 p.m., Shed
Friday, July 4, 7 p.m., Shed
JAMES TAYLOR

Gates open at 4 p.m. both days.

Saturday, July 5, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Saturday and Sunday programs; pre-rehearsal talk
at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 5, 8:30 p.m.
Opening Night at Tanglewood
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
MARCUS HADDOCK, tenor (Aeneas)
ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, soprano (Cassandra)*
DWAYNE CROFT, baritone (Chorebus)**
CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass-baritone (Pantheus)**
KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Ascanius)**
JANE BUNNELL, mezzo-soprano (Hecuba)
RONALD NALDI, tenor (Helenus)**
DAVID KRAVITZ, baritone (Trojan Soldier)**
GUSTAV ANDREASSEN, bass (Ghost of Hector)*
KIRK EICHELBERGER, bass (Greek Captain)**
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

BERLIOZ  The Trojans, Part 1 (The Capture of Troy)
Concert performance sung in French with English supertitles

Sunday, July 6, 2:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
MARCUS HADDOCK, tenor (Aeneas)
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, mezzo-soprano (Dido)
KRISTINN SIGMUNDSSON, bass (Narbal)*
KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Ascanius)
CHRISTIN-MARIE HILL, mezzo-soprano (Anna)
PHILIPPE CASTAGNER, tenor (Hylas)**
CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass-baritone (Pantheus)
ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, soprano
(Ghost of Cassandra)
DWAYNE CROFT, baritone (Ghost of Chorebus)
DAVID KRAVITZ, baritone (Trojan Sentry 1)
GUSTAV ANDREASSEN, bass (Ghost of Hector
and the God Mercury)
KIRK EICHELBERGER, bass (Trojan Sentry 2)
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

BERLIOZ  The Trojans, Part 2
(The Trojans at Carthage)
Concert performance sung in French
with English supertitles

Monday, July 7, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor (Strauss)
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOWS

MOZART  Symphony No. 25
DEBUSSY  Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
STRAUSS  An Alpine Symphony

Tuesday, July 8, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
KEITH LOCKHART
Guest Vocalists
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
VOCAL FELLOWS

SONDHEIM  A Little Night Music
Concert performance

Thursday, July 10, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
IMOGEN COOPER, piano

ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM
Sonata in C, D.840, Reliquie
Four Impromptus, D.935
Sonata in A, D.959

Friday, July 11, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
Prelude concert

Friday, July 11, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor
JONATHAN BISS, piano
JULIA FISCHER, violin
DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT, cello

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Triple Concerto for piano, violin, and cello
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

Saturday, July 12, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor
HEIDI GRANT MURPHY, soprano
CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN, mezzo-soprano**
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

MAHLER  Symphony No. 2, Resurrection

Sunday, July 13, 2:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JULIAN KUERTI, conductor
PETER SERKIN, piano

HAYDN  Symphony No. 104, London
J.S. BACH  Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
MOZART  Concert Rondo in D, K.382
SCHUBERT  Symphony No. 4, Tragic

Sunday, July 13, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
BARBARA COOK

The legendary soprano and star of Broadway theaters will continue her 80th birthday celebration, following popular concerts in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, July 16, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
JONATHAN BISS, piano
JULIA FISCHER, violin**
DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT, cello

HALVERSON  Passacaglia on a Theme of Handel,
for violin and cello
RAVEL  Sonata for Violin and Cello
BEETHOVEN  Piano Trio No. 6 in B-flat, Op. 97, Archduke

Thursday, July 17, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
EMERSON STRING QUARTET

ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2
Quartet No. 3 in B-flat, Op. 67
Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1

Friday, July 18, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Prelude concert

Friday, July 18, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, July 18, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor
KATE LINDSEY, mezzo-soprano (Harbison)
THOMAS MEGLIORANZA, baritone (Harbison)

HARBISON  Symphony No. 5
MAHLER  Symphony No. 1

Saturday, July 19, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 19, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor
MIDORI, violin

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS  Five Variants of “Dives
and Lazarus”
TCHAIKOVSKY  Violin Concerto
COPLAND  Symphony No. 3

Festival of Contemporary Music: July 20-24
Elliott Carter Centenary

Sunday, July 20, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS
OLIVER KNUSSEN, conductor
CHARLES ROSEN, piano
URSULA OPPENS, harpsichord

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Call, for two trumpets and horn
Asko Concerto, for ensemble
Luimen, for ensemble
Refléxions, for ensemble
Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord,
and large ensemble

Sunday, July 20, 2:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SHI-YEON SUNG, conductor**
GARRICK OHLSSON, piano

SCHUMANN  Manfred Overture
SCHUMANN  Piano Concerto
MENDELSSOHN  Symphony No. 4, Italian

Sunday, July 20, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
STEFAN ASBURY AND ERIK NIELSEN, conductor
NICHOLAS HODGES, piano
THOMAS MARTIN, clarinet

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Dialogues, for piano and orchestra
Clarinet Concerto
Sound Fields, for string orchestra (world premiere; commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center)
Variations for Orchestra

Monday, July 21, 4 p.m., Ozawa Hall
ELLIOTT CARTER
FRED SHERRY
ELLEN HIGHSTEIN, moderator

Panel discussion (FCM)

Monday, July 21, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall
CHARLES ROSEN,
and URSULA OPPENS, piano

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Matribute
Piano Sonata
Night Fantasies, for piano

Monday, July 21, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS
STEFAN ASBURY, conductor
LUCY SHELTON, soprano

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Tempo e Tempi, for soprano and ensemble
Syringa, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and ensemble
Penthode, for ensemble
Triple Duo, for ensemble

Tuesday, July 22, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Enchanted Preludes, for flute and cello
Figment I, for solo cello
Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux, for flute and clarinet
Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II, for flute, clarinet,
and marimba
Au Quai, for viola and bassoon
Figment II, for solo cello
Trilogy, for oboe and harp
Two Thoughts about the Piano: Caténaires
 and Intermittances, for solo piano

Tuesday, July 22, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS
JOHN OLIVER, conductor
JO ELLEN MILLER, soprano
ANN HOBSON PILOT, harp
FRED SHERRY, cello

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Harpsichord
In the Distances of Sleep, for mezzo-soprano
and ensemble
Mosaic, for harp and ensemble (American premiere;
co-commissioned by the BSO
and Nash Ensemble)
Mad-Regales, for solo voices (world premiere; commissioned by
the Tanglewood Music Center)
A Mirror on Which to Dwell, for soprano and ensemble

Wednesday, July 23, 4 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS
JAMES LEVINE, conductor
DOUGLAS FITCH, director and set designer

Film screening of Carter’s What Next?,
from the American stage premiere filmed
in performace at Tanglewood in 2006 (FCM)

Wednesday, July 23, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Quintet for Piano and Winds
String Quartet No. 2

Wednesday, July 23, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
OLIVER KNUSSEN, conductor
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOW
FRED SHERRY, cello

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Holiday Overture
Cello Concerto
Three Occasions for Orchestra
Concerto for Orchestra

Thursday, July 24, 4 p.m., Ozawa Hall

Former Boston Globe Music Critic Richard Dyer interviews Elliott Carter. (FCM)

Thursday, July 24, 5 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS
CHARLES ROSEN, piano
FRED SHERRY, cello

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Selected Pieces for Timpani
4 Lauds, for violin
Figment IV, for viola
Figment III, for double-bass
Steep Steps, for bass clarinet
Selected Pieces for Timpani
Elegy, for cello and piano

Thursday, July 24, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
OLIVER KNUSSEN SHI-YEON SUNG, conductors
JAMES SOMMERVILLE, horn

ALL-CARTER PROGRAM (FCM)
Boston Concerto, for orchestra
Three Illusions for Orchestra
Horn Concerto
Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei

Friday, July 25, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Prelude concert

Friday, July 25, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, July 25, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
DAVID ZINMAN, conductor
YEFIM BRONFMAN, piano

ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Symphony No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 1

Saturday, July 26, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Saturday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 26, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Film Night at Tanglewood
BOSTON POPS CONCERT
JOHN WILLIAMS, conductor

Program includes music of cinema’s great composers,
as well as Mr. Williams’ own score to his latest collaboration with Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Sunday, July 27, 2:30 p.m., Shed
ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S
ROBERTO ABBADO, conductor
SARAH CHANG, violin

TOWER  In Memory
MENDELSSOHN  Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 7

Wednesday, July 30, 7 p.m., Ozawa Hall
FREIBURG BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
GOTTRIED VON DER GOLTZ, director
CHRISTIAN GERHAHER, baritone**
LORENZO COPPOLA, clarinet
TEUNIS VAN DER ZWART, horn

ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Symphony No. 36, Linz
Arias from Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro,
and Don Giovanni
Clarinet Concerto
March in D, K.385a
Horn Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 34

Thursday, July 31, 7 p.m., Ozawa Hall
SHANGHAI STRING QUARTET

Prelude Concert
arr. YI-WEN JIANG  Selections from ChinaSong
RAVEL  String Quartet

Thursday, July 31, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
CHANTICLEER
SHANGHAI STRING QUARTET

CHEN YI  In the Path of Beauty, for male chorus and string quartet
SAMETZ  I Have Had Singing
STUCKY  Cradle Songs
LIGETI  Pápainé, Igeden földön, and Magány
Selection of folk, jazz, and gospel songs

Friday, August 1, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Prelude concert

Friday, August 1, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, August 1, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PETER OUNDJIAN, conductor
JOSHUA BELL, violin

RAVEL  Alborada del gracioso
CHAUSSON Poème, for violin and orchestra
SAINT-SAËNS  Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, for violin and orchestra
MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL)  Pictures at
an Exhibition

Saturday, August 2, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, August 2, 8:30 p.m., Shed
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
SIR ANDREW DAVIS, conductor
RENÉE FLEMING, soprano (Tatiana)
RAMÓN VARGAS, tenor (Lensky)**
PETER MATTEI, baritone (Onegin)**
VITALIJ KOWALJOW, bass (Prince Gremin)**
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

TCHAIKOVSKY  Eugene Onegin
Sung in Russian with English supertitles

Sunday, August 3, 2:30 p.m., Shed
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CARLOS MIGUEL PRIETO, conductor*
YO-YO MA, cello

ALBÉNIZ (orch. ARBOS)  Suite from Iberia
LALO  Cello Concerto
RACHMANINOFF  Symphonic Dances

Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Tanglewood on Parade
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
HANS GRAF, KEITH LOCKHART,
JOHN WILLIAMS, SIR ANDREW DAVIS, and ANDRÉ PREVIN, conductors

Program to include:
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
TCHAIKOVSKY  1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert

Thursday, August 7, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TASHI:
               PETER SERKIN, piano
               IDA KAVAFIAN, violin
               FRED SHERRY, cello
               RICHARD STOLTZMAN, clarinet

JOSQUIN (recomp. WUORINEN)  Ave Maria
MORLEY (recomp. WUORINEN)  Christes Crosse
TAKEMITSU  Quatrain II
MESSIAEN  Quartet for the End of Time
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of TASHI

Friday, August 8, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Prelude concert

Friday, August 8, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, August 8, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
SIR ANDREW DAVIS, conductor
LEON FLEISHER, piano
JAMES SOMMERVILLE, horn

ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Horn Concerto No. 3
Piano concerto No. 12 in A, K.414
Masonic Funeral Music
Symphony No. 39

Saturday, August 9, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, August 9, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HANS GRAF conductor
ANDREA ROST, soprano*
ANDRÉ PREVIN, piano
STEFAN JACKIW, violin
LAWRENCE POWER, viola*

ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
“Ch’io mi scordi di te…Non temer amato bene,”
concert aria for soprano and orchestra,
with piano, K.505
Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola
Symphony No. 33

Saturday, August 9, 2 p.m., Theatre
Sunday, August 10, 7:30 p.m., Theatre
Monday, August 11, 7:30 p.m., Theatre
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
VOCAL FELLOWS AND ORCHESTRA
ERIK NIELSEN, conductor
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOW (August 11)
DOUGLAS FITCH, director and set designer
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

WEILL  The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Fully staged production, sung in English

Sunday, August 10, 2:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ANDRÉ PREVIN, conductor
ELIZABETH ROWE, flute
GIL SHAHAM, violin
ANDREA ROST, soprano

ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Flute Concerto No. 1
Violin Concerto No. 2
“Bella mia fiamma, addio,” Concert aria, K.528
“Non più. Tutto ascoltai…Non temer amato bene,” Scene and rondo for soprano and orchestra, with violin, K.490
Symphony No. 38, Prague

Wednesday, August 13, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
FREDERICA VON STADE, mezzo-soprano
MATHIEU DUFOUR, flute**
PETER GRUNBERG, piano**

“Roses, Flutes, and Paris” program including music
of Rorem, Fauré, Schubert, Heggie, Martin, Piaf, Taffanel, and Roussel.

Thursday, August 14, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
KRONOS STRING QUARTET

Unknown (trans. LJOVA; arr. KRONOS)  Oh Mother, the Handsome Man Tortures Me
Trad. (arr. GARCHIK)  Lullaby
VREBALOV  Pannonia Boundless
RÓS (arr. PRUTSMAN)  Flugufrelsarinn
(The Fly Freer)
ZORN  Selection from The Dead Man
PRUTSMAN  Particle 423
GORDAN  Potassium
RAM NARAYAN  (trans. LJOVA; arr. KRONOS)  Alap from Raga Mishra Bhairavi
WEBERN  Six Bagatelles, Op. 9
REICH  Triple Quartet

Friday, August 15, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Prelude concert

Friday, August 15, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, August 15, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
JANINE JANSEN, violin*

SAINT-SAËNS  Violin Concerto No. 3
BERLIOZ  Symphonie fantastique

Saturday, August 16, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, August 16, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ANDRÉ PREVIN, conductor
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, piano

GLINKA  Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
KHACHATURIAN  Piano Concerto
PROKOFIEV  Symphony No. 5

Sunday, August 17, 2:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA, conductor
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN, violin

RAVEL  Rapsodie espagnole
BRUCH  Violin Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV  Scheherazade

Sunday, August 17, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA
KEITH LOCKHART, conductor
BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL, baritone

Concert includes selections celebrating the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth

Monday, August 18, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
CONDUCTING FELLOWS
EMANUEL AX, piano

STRAUSS  Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
STRAUSS  Burleske, for piano and orchestra
ALBÉNIZ (orch. FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS) 
Suite española
FALLA  The Three-cornered Hat, suites nos. 1 and 2

Wednesday, August 20, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
BEAUX ARTS TRIO

DVOŘÁK  Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, Dumky
KURTÁG  Piano Trio
RAVEL  Piano Trio

Thursday, August 21, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
BEAUX ARTS TRIO

ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM
Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat
Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat
Final performances by the Beaux Arts Trio

Friday, August 22, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Prelude concert

Friday, August 22, 7 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” discussion series
with moderator Martin Bookspan

Friday, August 22, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor
HEI-KYUNG HONG, soprano
KRISTINE JEPSON, mezzo-soprano
RICHARD CROFT, tenor**
HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN, bass-baritone*
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Mass in C
Symphony No. 5

Saturday, August 23, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal
Saturday and Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk
at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, August 23, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, conductor

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Sunday, August 24, 8:30 p.m., Shed
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, conductor
CHRISTIANE OELZE, soprano**
LILLI PAASIKIVI, mezzo-soprano*
JORMA SILVASTI, tenor*
HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN, bass-baritone
TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS,
JOHN OLIVER, conductor

BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 9

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* denotes BSO debut
** denotes Tanglewood debut