Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives and Beethoven
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Bert L. Smokler Memorial Concert
Michael Tilson Thomas leads the BSO in Tanglewood’s traditional season-ending performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s intensely expressive, innovative, but ultimately uplifting Symphony No. 9. Following three questing instrumental movements, the finale is a setting for soloists and chorus of the German playwright and poet Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” The symphony—Beethoven’s last, composed in 1825—was an immense success at its premiere and has since become a symbol of hope for the universal togetherness of humankind.
Gates open at 12pm
Performance Details
Aug 28, 2022, 2:30pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Psalm 90
Charles Ives’s choral music is a microcosm of his creative life from the revolutionary to the practical.
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
The Ninth Symphony, forming and dissolving before our ears in its beauty and terror and simplicity and complexity, is itself Beethoven’s embrace for the millions, from East to West, high to low, naive to sophisticated.
