Tanglewood Program Highlights, August 2024

The 86th season is underway at Tanglewood—the famed music and learning campus and summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, situated in the beautiful Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. The festival continues through the end of August with exciting concerts, speakers, and events including:  

• The Boston Pops at John Williams’ Film Night, which includes a celebration of Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday, with conductors Ken-David Masur and David Newman (August 2 and 3)  
• An all-Beethoven program with pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist Joshua Bell, and cellist Steven Isserlis led by conductor Alan Gilbert (August 4)
• The annual Tanglewood on Parade, this year dedicated to Seiji Ozawa, with conductors Keith Lockhart, Alan Gilbert, Ken-David Masur, and Anna Rakitina and guests, soprano Christine Goerke and the Marcus Roberts Trio (August 6) 
• Gustavo Dudamel conducting the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela in their Tanglewood debut (August 8) 
• Gilbert returning to lead Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with Gerstein performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (August 9) 
• Shed performances by the BSO with star soloists, including violinist Midori (August 16), cellist Yo-Yo Ma (August 18), and violinist Leonidas Kavakos (August 24) 
• Much-anticipated BSO Shed debuts by violinist Leila Josefowicz and conductor Dalia Stasevska (August 10), soprano Elena Villalón and conductor James Gaffigan (August 11), pianist Bruce Liu and conductor Ryan Bancroft (August 23), and conductor Hannu Lintu (August 24) 
• Recitals at Ozawa Hall with the Danish String Quartet (August 1), The Knights with pianist Emanuel Ax (August 14 and 15), and violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Daniil Trifonov (August 21) 
• TLI Spotlight Series distinguished speakers Henry Louis Gates Jr. (August 10) and David Pogue (August 17) 
• Jurassic Park In Concert film screening with the Boston Pops performing John Williams’ score, conducted by Keith Lockhart (August 17)   
• TLI Presents programs with pianist Kirill Gerstein and special guest HK Gruber (August 4), composer and musicologist George Lewis (August 9), violinist Johnny Gandelsman (August 9 and 11), Palaver Strings with tenor Nicholas Phan and jazz vocalist Farayi Malek (August 10), pianist Jeremy Denk (August 11), scholar Mark Ludwig (August 16 and 17), and jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda and his quartet (August 25) 
• Two showings of the popular TLI Silent Film project with TMC composers, conductors, and instrumentalists, in collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (August 18)
• Summer-ending Popular Artist concerts with Judy Collins, Indigo Girls, and Rufus Wainwright (August 30) and DISPATCH with the Boston Pops and Keith Lockhart (August 31) 

This programming re-announcement of the 2024 Tanglewood season covers events taking place throughout August; complete season details are available at tanglewood.org. To read the complete release, click here.