Tippett and Beethoven
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Beethoven)
James Burton, conductor (Tippett)
Amanda Majeski, soprano
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Costello, tenor
Jongmin Park, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
TIPPETT Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
The 2023 Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert is supported by generous endowments established in perpetuity by Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider, and Diane H. Lupean.
This afternoon's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.
Gates open at 12pm
Performance Details
Aug 20, 2023, 2:30pm EDT
Featuring
Program Notes & Works
Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
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.
