Founded in January 1970, when conductor John Oliver was named Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus made its debut on April 11 that year, in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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TFC 2009-10 Winter Season Roster
View the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Roster.
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John Oliver
John Oliver founded the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in 1970 and has since prepared the TFC for more than nine hundred performances. These include appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and on tour in Europe and the Far East, as well as with visiting orchestras, and as a solo ensemble. In addition, he has had a major impact on musical life in Boston and beyond through his work with countless TFC members, former students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he taught for thirty-two years), and Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center who now perform with distinguished musical institutions throughout the world.
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MacMILLAN St Johns Passion (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
MARCH 18 THURSDAY / March 19 FRIDAY / March 20 SATURDAY
MENDELSSOHN Overture and Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream ROSSINI Stabat Mater
April 1 THURSDAY / April 2 FRIDAY / April 3 SATURDAY
MENDELSSOHN Elijah (sung in German)
TFC Auditions
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus (TFC) will hold its next round of auditions in late September or early October 2010. For more information about auditions, please click here.
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View the Tanglewood Festival Chorus Roster.
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