BSO Concerts

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Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

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Studio E doors open at 7pm

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Studio E doors open at 7pm

FALLA Spanish Dance No. 1, from La Vida Breve
GRAINGER Brigg Fair
PRIMOSCH One with the darkness, one with the light
MESSIAEN O sacrum convivium
Edie HILL We Bloomed in Spring
Caroline SHAW Vago augellin
N. BOULANGER Allons voir sur le lac d'argent
L. BOULANGER Renouveau
Kati AGOCS “John Riley,” from Every Lover is a Warrior
SCHUMANN Songs from the Spanisches Liederspiel
SCHUBERT Ständchen, D.920

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

Works by Sally BEAMISH, CHEN Yi, Gabriela Lena FRANK, Adolphus HAILSTORK, HAYDN, GINASTERA, Jesse MONTGOMERY, Gabriela ORTIZ, PRICE, Shulamit RAN, Alvin SINGLETON, and Hilary TANN

Ticket also includes the 1pm and 4pm performances
Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Music for Brass and Percussion

IVES From the Steeples and the Mountains
RUGGLES Angels
Jack FRERER Satellite Chorus (world premiere)
DONATONI Darkness
Valerie COLEMAN Fanfare for Uncommon Times
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Gates open at 5pm for both performances

American Popular Song

Studio E doors open at 1pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

Performances to include:
Osvaldo GOLIJOV K’Vakarat
THOMPSON Alleluia

Emanuel Ax, piano
Paul Appleby, tenor
Members of the Lorelei Ensemble, Beth Willer, artistic director: Emily Marvosh, contralto; Sarah Brailey and Sonja Tengblad, sopranos; Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Dover Quartet

Pathways from Prague, Program 1

JANÁČEK The Diary of One Who Disappeared
DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G, Op. 106

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

The BSO’s Opening Night concert begins with a benediction by Leonard Bernstein, a setting in Hebrew for baritone that was the composer’s last work with orchestra; baritone Jack Canfield makes his BSO debut. The brilliant Chinese pianist Yuja Wang performs Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which the composer premiered himself with Hector Berlioz conducting in 1855. Liszt transformed the concerto's main thematic ideas throughout the piece, contrasting displays of drama and virtuosity with lush and tender lyricism. In its orchestral finesse and raw power, Igor Stravinsky’s revolutionary 1913 ballet score The Rite of Spring still astonishes after more than 100 years.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

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BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons is joined by the dynamic soprano Nicole Cabell for this all-American program. The BSO premiered Samuel Barber’s gorgeously nostalgic Knoxville: Summer of 1915, based on a text by James Agee, in 1948. Complementing Barber’s small-city observations is George Gershwin’s exuberant, jazzy, and occasionally homesick tone poem An American in Paris. The multifaceted American pianist Aaron Diehl joins the orchestra for Duke Ellington’s New World A-Coming, transcribed from Ellington’s 1943 Carnegie Hall performance. Opening the program is Washington, D.C.-based composer Carlos Simon’s Motherboxx Connection, a 2021 piece inspired by the Afrofuturist-leaning artist collective Black Kirby.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

FOSS Brass Quintet
David ROCHE Clean Industry
Saad HADDAD Vantage Point
Helen GRIME Seven Pierrot Miniatures
ORREGO-SALAS Sonata a quattro, Op. 55, Edgewood Sonata
Hannah LASH Two Songs
Ari SUSSMAN their keen and watchful eye (world premiere)
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite arr. Peter Sadlo

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

The George W. and Florence N. Adams Concert
Endowed in Perpetuity

Virtuoso Swedish trumpeter and frequent BSO collaborator Håkan Hardenberger is the beneficiary of a new BSO-commissioned concerto from the British composer Helen Grime, a former Tanglewood Music Center Fellow with a dynamic, sparkling compositional style. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s gorgeous, short Vocalise for orchestra opens the program, which closes with the composer’s substantial Symphony No. 3, a late work characterized by scintillating orchestration and Rachmaninoff’s noted gift for long-spun melody and compelling musical narrative.

Gates open at 12pm

KOECHLIN Selected songs
MADDISON Selected songs
BEACH Selected songs
DEBUSSY Songs from 5 Poems of Baudelaire
David LIPTAK Under the Resurrection Palm
CRUMB Three Early Songs

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

The Phyllis and Lee Coffey Memorial Concert

BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in music showcasing instrumental color and virtuosity. Abandoned in its two-movement form by Franz Schubert in 1822, the B minor symphony stands out for innovations in form, melody, and orchestration. The two Richard Strauss works on the program are poles apart in intention: the early Death and Transfiguration is a profound imagining of a man’s thoughts and revelations at the end of his life, while the “Dance of the Seven Veils” from the opera Salome is the alluring means by which, at her mother Herodias’s bidding, Salome seduces her stepfather Herod. Maurice Ravel’s charming orchestral suite Le Tombeau de Couperin was in part inspired by the French Baroque composer François Couperin.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

*Admission to this event is not included with the Open Workshops Pass.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Ozawa Hall doors open at 1pm

Pathways from Prague, Program 2

JANÁČEK Veni Sancte Spiritus; Ach, vojna, vojna; Ó, lásko; Ave Maria; Loučení; Holubička

JANÁČEK Piano Sonata, “1.X.1905, From the street…”

DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances for piano four-hands (selection: Op. 46, nos. 1 (in C), 7 (C minor), and 8 (G minor); Op. 72, nos. 10 (E minor) and 15 (C)

DVOŘÁK Choral Songs: Huslař (Fiddler); Píseň Čecha (Song of a Czech); Hostina (Feast); Pomořane (Dwellers by the Sea) Goin’ Home (English version; arr. LOOMER)

BURLEIGH Deep River; Ezekial Saw de Wheel

DVOŘÁK Z kytice národních písní slovanských (From a Bouquet of Slavonic Folk Songs), Op. 43 [1. Žal (Grief); 2. Divná voda (Strange Water); 3. Děvče v háji (The Girl in the Grove)]

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Join Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops as they present this classic film with live orchestral accompaniment. “You must feel the Force around you...” The battle for the galaxy intensifies in this thrilling fifth episode of the unfolding saga. As Imperial Forces launch an all-out attack on the Rebel Alliance, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) flee to Cloud City where they are captured by Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) journeys to the mysterious, marshy planet of Dagobah, where the wise Jedi Master Yoda teaches the young hero the ways of the Force. Little does Luke know that all his Jedi training will be called upon so soon. A stunning revelation — and a seeming life-or-death duel with Darth Vader — await.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

Gates open at 9am

Anna CLYNE Masquerade
FARRENC Symphony No. 3
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

An outstanding, nearly all-American cast, headlined by baritone Ryan McKinny in the title role, joins the BSO for one of the highlights of the summer, a concert opera led by Andris Nelsons. Wolfgang Mozart’s Don Giovanni is considered by many to be opera’s greatest dark comedy. Based on the archetype of the licentious Don Juan, Don Giovanni proceeds from rape and murder through to the Don’s ultimate, supernatural comeuppance. Along the way, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna, two of the women the Don has wronged, undermine his attempts at further reprehensible behavior, while his cynical servant Leporello walks a fine line between service and subterfuge.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

DJ SPARR Compass Chrome
Angela SLATER Distorted Light
DALLAPICCOLA Piccola Musica Notturna
COLGRASS Variations for Four Drums and Viola
SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Mark ADAMO arr. Peter Stanley MARTIN Overture to Lysistrata
Valerie COLEMAN Roma
JENKINS American Overture for Band
RODRIGO Adagio para instrumentos de viento
Robert W. SMITH Divine Comedy
STILL Folk Suite

The Turkish composer Fazil Say is also an outstanding pianist whose music is informed by a lifelong commitment to spontaneity and improvisation. He wrote his piano four-hands concerto Phoenix, a BSO co-commission receiving its American premiere in this concert, for the remarkable Dutch duo-pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen, who gave the world premiere in January 2022 with the Munich Philharmonic. Featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Johannes Brahms’ masterpiece A German Requiem is an utterly personal but scarcely ceremonial work, setting Biblical texts in Martin Luther’s German translations. Returning as soloists with the BSO are Chinese soprano Ying Fang and Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang in their Tanglewood debuts.

This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

Gates open at 12pm

RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

DEBUSSY Selected Songs
CLARKE Selected songs
L. BOULANGER Songs from Clairieres dans le ciel
JOLIVET Suite Liturgique

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

Pierre JALBERT Crossings
COPLAND Sextet for clarinet, piano, and string quartet
Richard DANIELPOUR and Rita DOVE A Standing Witness (BSO co-commission)

Pre-concert talk with Richard Danielpour, Rita Dove, and Michael Boriskin
6:30pm, Linde Center for Music and Learning
*free for 8pm ticket holders

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

International star pianist and Tanglewood favorite Emanuel Ax, who will also play several chamber music performances in Ozawa Hall this summer, joins the BSO and returning conductor Karina Canellakis for Frédéric Chopin’s characteristically fluid and sparkling Piano Concerto No. 2, composed when he was just 19. Richard Wagner’s atmospheric Prelude to his opera Lohengrin demonstrates the composer’s astonishing imagination for orchestral texture and color. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances wonderfully balances brilliant orchestration, lyricism, and rhythmic drive in what would be his final composition.

Ticket includes admission to the 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

Family Concert
Better Together: A Musical Look at Partnership, Teamwork & Community

FALLA “Jota” from The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2
GINASTERA “Malambo” from Estancia
John WILLIAMS “Marion’s Theme” from Raiders of the Lost Arc
John WILLIAMS “Flight to Neverland” from Hook
STRAVINSKY “Infernal Dance” from Firebird Suite
SHOSTAKOVICH Waltz from Ballet Suite No. 1
BIZET Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture

At a BSO Tanglewood Family Concert, parents and children get an up-close, welcoming introduction to the musicians of the BSO. Audience members can enjoy the performance in the Koussevitzky Music Shed or listen while relaxing on the lawn.

Gates open at 1:30pm

Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
The 2022 Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert is supported by generous endowments established in perpetuity by Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider, and Diane H. Lupean.

Acclaimed dramatic soprano Christine Goerke joins Music Director Andris Nelsons in a rarely heard early work by the French innovator Hector Berlioz. Berlioz’s passionate “lyric scene” La Mort de Cléopâtre is a monodrama in which the Egyptian queen meditates on the triumphs and tragedies of her life at the moment of her death. Another orchestral innovator, Gustav Mahler composed his towering Fifth Symphony in 1901-02 following an intensive study of J.S. Bach’s counterpoint, resulting in a new and highly individual approach to the orchestra. The fourth movement is the famous and moving Adagietto for strings and harp.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Grace WILLIAMS Suite for Nine Instruments
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten
George LEWIS Le témoignage des lumières (world premiere)
KIRCHNER Piano Sonata No. 3 (The Forbidden)
Roberto SIERRA Cancionero Sefardi

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12pm.

Working in the middle of the 20th century, William Grant Still was a pioneer in using music of his African American heritage in works ranging from piano miniatures to opera. He wrote In Memoriam in 1943 after reading an announcement “that the first American soldier killed in World War II was a Negro soldier.” His somber piece honored the patriotism of all soldiers of color that served in the Allied armies. Soprano Latonia Moore sings American composer George Walker's Lilacs, a setting of Walt Whitman's ode to Abraham Lincoln. Commissioned by the BSO and premiered under Seiji Ozawa in February 1996, Lilacs went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Young superstar Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho is soloist in Johannes Brahms’ virtuosic and profound Piano Concerto No. 2 to complete the program.

Gates open at 12pm

RAVEL Histoires naturelles
Lili BOULANGER Quatre Chants
Amy Beth KIRSTEN yes I said yes I will Yes
DEBUSSY Chanson espagnole
SAINT-SAËNS El desdichado

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

Bryce DESSNER Circles
Julien LABRO Meditation #1
Dino SALUZZI Minguito
BACH Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Julien LABRO Astoración
RAVEL String Quartet
Clarice ASSAD Clash

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Doors open at 12:30pm

*Admission to this event is not included with the Open Workshops Pass.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Doors open at 1:30pm

The Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble Silkroad, led by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens, performs Phoenix Rising. With four major new commissions by an amazing amalgamation of Silkroad artists — Shawn Conley, Sandeep Das, Maeve Gilchrist, and Kaoru Watanabe — plus works from their storied history reimagined for today, the program integrates Giddens’ unique worldview with the Ensemble’s collective experience during the pandemic. Program also includes new arrangements by Rhiannon Giddens, Colin Jacobsen, Edward Pérez, and Mazz Swift.

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Over this weekend’s three BSO concerts, Andris Nelsons and his frequent collaborator, English pianist Paul Lewis, perform all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. The American composer Julia Adolphe has been praised for the sonic and narrative inventiveness of her music. About her new work, she says, “Makeshift Castle captures contrasting states of permanence and ephemerality, of perseverance and disintegration, of determination and surrender.”
The Second and Third concertos were composed about five years apart. While both were strongly influenced by Wolfgang Mozart’s concertos, No. 3 in C minor exhibits more of Beethoven’s flair for drama and innovation.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

Nkeiru OKOYE Voices Shouting Out
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

A journey celebrating creativity through acknowledgement of the ancestors of poetry and music in the story field of the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Ozawa Hall doors open at 4pm

Andris Nelsons and English pianist Paul Lewis collaborate on the second of three concerts encompassing all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos in one weekend. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Punctum, originally for string quartet, is a meditation on a brief moment in J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Beethoven’s First Concerto (actually composed later than No. 2) is strongly anchored in the Viennese Classicism of Wolfgang Mozart and Joseph Haydn. The Fourth Concerto, written at the same time as Beethoven’s opera Leonore, is in the composer’s warm, lyrical style, but also makes room for brilliant virtuosity.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, Serioso
Ania VU 2+
Gabriela Lena FRANK Hypnagogia
Jörg WIDMANN Oktett
NIELSEN Serenata in Vano
TAKEMITSU Rocking Mirror Daybreak

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

GRAINGER Children’s March; Colonial Song; Shepherds’ Hey!
Giovanni SANTOS Passionately Curious
Carlos SIMON Sweet Chariot
Omar THOMAS Of Our New Day Begun
Frank TICHELI Blue Shades
Frank TICHELI Rest

The Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers Concert

Andris Nelsons and English pianist Paul Lewis collaborate on the third of three concerts encompassing all five of Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano concertos in one weekend. Each of these concerts opens with a BSO co-commissioned piece by an American woman. Elizabeth Ogonek was a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 2012. She has been a composer in residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and has also been commissioned by the BBC, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra. The French composer Louise Farrenc was one of the most accomplished musicians of the early Romantic era—an outstanding pianist, composer, and teacher. She wrote her Third Symphony in 1847. Completed in 1811, Beethoven’s Emperor was his final concerto, a work perfectly balancing virtuosity with substance and depth and epitomizing the composer’s “heroic” period.

Gates open at 12pm

The Daniel Freed and Shirlee Cohen Freed Memorial Concert

Longtime Buffalo Philharmonic music director JoAnn Falletta (in her Tanglewood debut), BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès, and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in a range of modernist orchestral showpieces. Claude Debussy composed his two-movement tone poem Printemps originally in his early 20s; after the orchestral version was lost, he worked with his collaborator Henri Büsser 25 years later to restore and enhance its radical instrumental colors. Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score Agon is a thrilling yet austere late work for small orchestra that sounds both ancient and unequivocally modern, akin to his much earlier Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Dating from 1981, the late St. Louis-born composer Olly Wilson’s Lumina is a scintillating single-movement orchestral landscape. Paul Hindemith’s kaleidoscopic Symphonic Metamorphosis, virtually a catalog of orchestral and compositional possibility, was the composer’s purist foray into neoclassicism.

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

This annual day of family fun is one of the highlights of the season, offering free kids’ activities — from face painting to the spell-binding feats of magician Bonaparté — and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) and BU Tanglewood Institute performances throughout the afternoon. Get your ticket for the 8pm concert and enjoy a perfect summer evening with music from the BSO, Boston Pops, and TMC Orchestra with world-renowned conductors like John Williams, ending with a brilliant fireworks display!

Gates open at 2pm.

2pm, Main Gate
BU Tanglewood Institute
Fanfares

Throughout the afternoon, Tappan Porch
Face Painting by Bria

2:30pm, Ozawa Hall: Tanglewood Music Center Chamber Music
Program to include:
LYAPUNOV Piano Sextet in B-flat minor, Op. 63

2:30pm, Chamber Music Hall
BU Tanglewood Institute
Chamber Music

3-7pm, Departing from the Main Gate
Free Walking Tours of Tanglewood (courtesy of the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers)

3:15-3:45pm, Lawn
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparté

4pm, Shed
BU Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus

4-4:45pm, Lawn near Tappan House
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparté

5:15-5:45, Lawn
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparté

5:30pm, Lawn near Tappan House
BSO Members Bonnie Bewick, fiddle and Lawrence Wolfe, bass
with guests
Sheila Falls, fiddle
Mark Roberts, flute and banjo
Classical Tangent

7:30pm, Shed: Tanglewood Music Center
Brass Fanfares

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Thomas Adès, Stefan Asbury, JoAnn Falletta Thomas Wilkins, and John Williams, conductors

HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
John WILLIAMS JUST DOWN WEST STREET…on the left
RAVEL La Valse, Poème choréographique
ABREU (arr. DRAGON) Tico-Tico no fubá
RAKSIN Laura
BERNSTEIN (arr. RAMIN) "America," from West Side Story
John WILLIAMS Potter Triptych (Hedwig’s Theme – Fawkes the Phoenix – Harry’s Wondrous World)
VERBYTSKY (arr. Reshetilov) Ukrainian National Anthem
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture

Fireworks immediately following the program

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Studio E doors open at 1pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue
Alvin SINGLETON Again
HYLA Pre-Pulse Suspended
Thomas ADÈS Mazurkas, Op. 27
Christopher TRAPANI Waterlines

The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood

Allison LOGGINS-HULL The Pattern
WUORINEN Ave Maria…Virgo Serena (Josquin)
Michael GANDOLFI Fanfare for Ellen (world premiere)
Erin GRAHAM Manual
CAGE Variations III
EASTMAN Gay Guerrilla

BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee makes his BSO debut, joined by the virtuosic piano duo of twins Christina and Michelle Naughton in their Tanglewood debuts performing Francis Poulenc’s impish neoclassical Concerto for Two Pianos. American composer Brian Raphael Nabors’ exciting and rhapsodic Pulse reflects on the varieties of experience that we might encounter every day. Felix Mendelssohn found inspiration for his intensely Romantic Symphony No. 3 on a trip to Scotland in 1829. Composed a decade later, it was his last completed symphony.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

BRAHMS O Schöne Nacht
DE ZESPEDES arr. Eugene ROGERS Convivando esta la noche
Dan FORREST The Sun Never Says
Shawn KIRCHNER Sweet Rivers
Libby LARSEN Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth
Rosephanye POWELL I Dream A World
Judith SHATIN Adonai Roi
Caroline SHAW And the Swallow
Timothy C. TAKACH Afka Hooyo
CHEN Yi Thinking of My Home

Augusta Read THOMAS New work (world premiere)
DAVIDOVSKY String Quartet No. 6, Fragments
Unsuk CHIN ParaMetaString
Eleanor ALBERGA String Quartet No. 2

Admission to this 6pm Prelude Concert is only available to those with tickets to the 8pm concert on August 6.

In her BSO debut, Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta is joined by violinist Joshua Bell, a Tanglewood mainstay since 1989, performing Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto. In the symphonic poems Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi sought to capture the beauty of his country’s culture and landscape with colorful orchestral cityscapes evoking some of Rome’s most prominent features at different times of day. Opening the concert is the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos, an engaging, exploratory riff on one of the most characteristic Spanish dance forms. Sierra blends a classical approach with elements of Afro-Caribbean, South American, Central American, and Spanish musical traditions.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Carlos SIMON Warmth from Other Suns
Andreia PINTO-CORREIA Cântico(world premiere)
Ricardo ZOHN-MULDOON Shakespeare Sonnets
John HARBISON Piano Sonata No. 2, 3rd movement
Andile KHUMALO Cry Out
Jesse JONES Dark Is Yonder Town
George LEWIS Born Obbligato

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès is joined by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos and French violist Antoine Tamestit in Wolfgang Mozart’s abundantly tuneful Sinfonia concertante. English composer Gustav Holst’s The Planets covers a vast range of musical territory, from the fleet energy of Mercury through the pounding aggression of Mars to the ethereal mysticism of Neptune, which here features the versatile women’s vocal group Lorelei Ensemble for the wordless choral part. Opening the concert is Adès’ own Shanty – Over the Sea. In this atmospheric string orchestra piece, many lines interweave to “create a widening seascape.”

Gates open at 12pm

Studio E doors open at 7:30pm

The Margaret Lee Crofts Concert

George BENJAMIN Lessons in Love and Violence (American premiere)
Concert performance

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Gates open at 4pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

*Admission to this event is not included with the Open Workshops Pass.

Open Workshops pull back the curtain on the pedagogical process, inviting the audience to a behind-the-scenes look at how young artists develop their skills under the guidance of acknowledged experts. Choose from a variety of open workshops, where you'll see distinguished artists coaching the exceptional Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC).

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

Pathways from Prague, Program 3

DVOŘÁK Romantic Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 75
DVOŘÁK Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, Nos. 3-5, for viola and piano
KAPRÁLOVÁ Ritournelle, for cello and piano, Op. 25
JANÁČEK Fairy Tale, for cello and piano
DVOŘÁK Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 87

Featuring three Tanglewood favorites and the Tanglewood debut of French violist Antoine Tamestit, this final concert of the Emanuel Ax-curated Pathways from Prague series explores chamber music by three Czech composers. Opening with rarely heard works for violin and piano and viola and piano by Antonín Dvořák, the concert closes with the composer’s Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 87, from 1889—one of his supreme achievements in chamber music. Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma play works for cello and piano by Leoš Janáček — his rhapsodic, three-movement Fairy Tale — and Vitěslava Kaprálová, who, though she died in 1940 at age 25, had an outsized impact on Czech music. Her brief, energetic Ritournelle, Op. 25, was among her last completed works.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

Gates open at 5:30pm

Gates open at 9am

Join us for a free workshop-style performance of brand-new pieces by TMC Composition Fellows — each written in just one day. In the weeks leading up to this event, each Composition Fellow writes three new works over the course of three days, revising their pieces in collaboration with the instrumental Fellows who will perform these works. Come hear some wet-ink music by some of the world’s most promising young composers.

Jessica MEYER Go Big or Go Home
RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Valerie COLEMAN Ashé (world premiere)

Ozawa Hall doors open at 12:30pm

The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Tanglewood and is joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos in Felix Mendelssohn’s buoyant Violin Concerto, one of the most popular works in the genre. Henri Dutilleux’s 1964 Métaboles features the French composer’s intricately imaginative scoring and his innovative, organic approach to form. Claude Debussy’s revolutionary Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun, a contemplation of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, is one of the clearest sources of 20th-century musical modernism. Maurice Ravel composed his Mother Goose for a friend’s children to play on piano, but its incisive character sketches and the brilliant orchestral canvas he later created make it a satisfying piece for any listener.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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GABRIELI Canzon per Sonar in Echo Duodecimi Toni
BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048
BACH Cantata No. 27, Wer weiss, wie nahe mir mein Ende
BACH Cantata No. 180, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele

Ozawa Hall doors open at 9am

The Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Concert

Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru, a 2010 Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, makes his BSO debut. Masquerade, by the U.S.-based English composer Anna Clyne, evokes the unique milieu of mid-18th-century London promenade concerts; this is the BSO’s first performance of Clyne’s music. Tanglewood favorite Yo-Yo Ma joins for Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one of the English composer’s final works, in part a profoundly lyrical meditation on a world in turmoil after the devastation of World War I. Claude Debussy’s La Mer—a work given its American premiere by the BSO in 1907—is virtually a three-movement symphony miraculously depicting in music the changing states of the sea and sun over the course of a day. Closing the concert is Romanian composer Georges Enescu, one of the 20th-century’s greatest musicians. His familiar Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, based on his country’s folk music, is a delightful and finely wrought staple of Pops orchestras.

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Stefan Asbury and Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in this eclectic program. Lost for decades and rediscovered in 2009, Florence Price’s folk-music-tinged 1932 suite Ethiopia’s Shadow in America portrays an enslaved man’s spiritual journey from the time of his arrival on this continent. Béla Bartók’s brilliantly lurid ballet score The Miraculous Mandarin is an astonishing feat of musical storytelling and imaginative orchestration. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s absorbing and emotionally wide-ranging Symphony No. 2 harks back to the late 19th century but at the same time is characterized by Rachmaninoff’s unique gifts for expansive melody and careful musical architecture.

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In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

The Carol Reich Memorial Concert

Stephen Sondheim left an unmatched legacy that has transformed American musical theater. Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops, and a stellar Broadway cast take us on a journey through Keith’s favorite Sondheim creations, from the ground-breaking contributions of Follies and Company, to the organic perfection of shows like A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd, and the audacity of later works like Assassins. Come celebrate the legacy of a true musical luminary on this very special night at Tanglewood.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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Join Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner for a conversation with memoirist, author, and Chief Theater Critic of The New York Times, Jesse Green, on the arts' power to illuminate diverse perspectives. Best known for his contributions to the stage and screen, with works including Angels in America, Caroline, or Change, and the screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and recent remake of West Side Story, Kushner will explore the role that music and words play in civil society.

The Spotlight Series is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis

Ozawa Hall doors open at 4:30pm

The George and Roberta Berry Concert

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ken-David Masur, conductor
with special guests
J. William Hudgins, vibraphone
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Eric Revis, bass
James Taylor, vocalist
Jessica Zhou, harp

Tanglewood celebrates the 90th birthday of one of its most beloved figures, John Williams, in a special program featuring a selection of his incomparable concert music composed for the BSO and Boston Pops, along with beloved film themes. Join the BSO and an all-star lineup of exceptional guest artists as they salute this inimitable musical icon in an evening of brilliant music and special surprises.

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ALL John WILLIAMS program:
Sound the Bells!
Tributes (For Seiji)
Highwood’s Ghost
Pickin’ from Three Pieces for Solo Cello
JUST DOWN WEST STREET...on the left
To Lenny, To Lenny (For New York)
Escapades from Catch Me If You Can
Presenting James Taylor
Throne Room & Finale from Star Wars: A New Hope

Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
BRUCH Violin Concerto in G minor
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

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Ghost Song

Embark on a breathtaking journey with vocalist, composer, multiple Grammy winner, and MacArthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant, exploring the many ways people can be haunted — by lingering memories, roads not taken, ghosts real and imagined. Salvant defies genre in her album Ghost Song, which features everything from torch songs to Sondheim-style music theater dialogs, ancient folk melodies, and jazz meditations.

Gates open at 6:30pm

In Conversation is supported by Rabbi Rex Perlmeter and Rabbi Rachel Hertzman

Studio E doors open at 12:30pm

The Cynthia and Oliver Curme Concert

BRAHMS
Complete Works for Piano

Program 1 (8/16)
Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76
11 Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21, No. 1
14 Variations on a Hungarian Melody, Op. 21, No. 2
Four Ballades, Op. 10
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, Book 1

Program 2 (8/18)
Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 2
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118
Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Variations and Fugue in B-flat, on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Program 3 (8/23)
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Seven Fantasies, Op. 116
Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35, Book 2
Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

Program 4 (8/25)
Scherzo in E-flat minor, Op. 4
Variations in F-sharp minor on a theme by Schumann, Op. 9
Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1
16 Waltzes, Op. 39
Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119

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BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina leads frequent Tanglewood guest soloist Gil Shaham in Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s great Violin Concerto, which sings with pungent Czech traditional rhythms and melodies. Three Russian works complete the program. Part-time composer and full-time scientist Alexander Borodin wrote his tremendously energetic and popular Polovtsian Dances for his opera Prince Igor, which remained unfinished at his early death. Two Dmitri Shostakovich rarities demonstrate his fantastic range. Purely for entertainment, the Suite for Variety Orchestra is a mishmash of pieces from various contexts—the Waltz is from his score from the 1955 film The First Echelon. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 3, The First of May is a serious work for chorus and orchestra in praise of the Soviet revolution predating Joseph Stalin’s cynical crackdown on artistic creativity, which would have dangerous consequences for Shostakovich. This is the first performance of this piece by the BSO, part of its multi-season traversal of the composer’s complete symphonies.

Ticket includes admission to 6pm Prelude Concert.

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Families are invited to attend a live taping of WBUR’s award-winning "Circle Round" podcast at Tanglewood!

Host Rebecca Sheir and composer Eric Shimelonis will be joined on stage at Tanglewood's Linde Center for Music and Learning by a quartet of BSO musicians (piccolo player Cindy Meyers, bassoonist Suzanne Nelsen, horn player Rachel Childers, and double bassist Ben Levy), along with "Song Exploder" host Hrishikesh Hirway, Shakespeare & Co. founder Tina Packer, "Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!" panelists Josh Gondelman and Faith Salie, and actor William Christian, as they record three new "Circle Round" episodes: “Fighting Like Cats and Dogs," a Korean tale about the real reason cats and dogs often don’t get along; “Fair-Feathered Friends,” a Burmese legend about why the song thrush sings so colorfully but has such drab feathers; and “One Wish,” a story with Irish, Indian, and Jewish roots about a whole new way to make your dreams come true. The live taping will be released as three separate podcast episodes in the “Circle Round” feed.

Doors open at 2:30pm

Renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, whose rich association with the BSO dates back to his time as a TMC Fellow (1968-69), is joined by the remarkable young Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev in his BSO and Tanglewood debut for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Sparkling and lush, it is one of the most beloved and challenging concertos in the repertoire. Aaron Copland’s orchestral music epitomizes a distinctly American sound that persists in the concert hall and in film soundtracks. His Third Symphony, premiered by the BSO and Serge Koussevitzky in 1946, incorporates the bold and familiar Fanfare for the Common Man. The concert opens with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s brief, rousing Dubinushka, based on a tune he heard marching workers sing during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and not performed by the BSO since 1944.

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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.

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All-Starr Band:
Warren Ham, Edgar Winter, Steve Lukather, Hamish Stuart, Colin Hay, Gregg Bissonette

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Daniil Trifonov, piano

Wynton MARSALIS Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
Intermission
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

Tonight’s concert is supported by Jane B. and Robert J. Mayer, M.D.
Tonight’s performance by Daniil Trifonov is supported by Norma and Jerry Strassler.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Julia Bullock, classical singer
Hilary Hahn, violin

Iman HABIBI Zhiân (world premiere; BSO commission)
Jessie MONTGOMERY Freedom Songs (BSO co-commission)
Intermission
BRAHMS Violin Concerto

Iman HABIBI Zhiân
World Premiere; commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director; through the generous support of the New Works Fund, established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Jessie MONTGOMERY Freedom Songs
Co-commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director; through the generous support of the New Works Fund, established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
James Darrah, director
Nicole Cabell, soprano (Fiordiligi)
Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano (Dorabella)
Meigui Zhang, soprano (Despina)
Amitai Pati, tenor (Ferrando)
Elliot Madore, baritone (Guglielmo)
Patrick Carfizzi, bass-baritone (Don Alfonso)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor

MOZART Così fan tutte, opera in two acts

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

This evening’s performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Erin Morley, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Will Liverman, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
 James Burton, conductor
Boston Children’s Chorus
 Emily Howe, conductor
 Kenneth Griffith, music director

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
ORFF Carmina burana

Sung in Latin with English supertitles

This afternoon's concert is in memory of Stephen R. Weber, supported by Dr. Dorothy A. Weber.

This afternoon’s performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Xian Zhang, conductor
Nimbus Dance
Samuel Pott, artistic director and choreographer

COPLAND Appalachian Spring
Intermission
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Martin Helmchen, piano

WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503
Intermission
MOZART Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

This evening’s performance is sponsored by Penny and Claudio Pincus.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Jeff Midkiff, mandolin
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade in A minor
Jeff MIDKIFF Mandolin Concerto, From the Blue Ridge
Intermission
ELLINGTON Suite from The River

Gates open at 12pm

Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Andreas Haefliger, piano (Schumann)
Randall Hodgkinson, piano (Gubaidulina)

Yehudi WYNER Into the evening air
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Sonata for double bass and piano
Shulamit RAN Lyre of Orpheus
SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44

Gates open at 6:30pm

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Lorelei Ensemble
 Beth Willer, artistic director
Anne Kauffman, director
Jeff Sugg, scenic, lighting, and production designer
Andrew Cotton, sound designer
Márion Talán de la Rosa, costume designer
Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg, Associate/Restaging Director
Kenny Savelson, Project Manager, Bang on a Can

Julia WOLFE Her Story (BSO co-commission)

Her Story was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the National Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony. The Boston Symphony Orchestra commission is through the generous support of the New Works Fund established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and the Morton Margolis Fund.

Intermission
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

Tonight's performance is supported by Anonymous.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Avery Amereau, mezzo-soprano

MESSIAEN Les Offrandes oublieés
BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’été
Intermission
Agata ZUBEL In the Shade of an Unshed Tear
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Tonight’s concert is supported by Thomas M. Fynan and William F. Loutrel.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Anna Rakitina, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
Eliza Bagg, Martha Cluver, and Sonja DuToit Tengblad, vocalists

Ellen REID When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist
PAGANINI Violin Concerto No. 1
Intermission
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet

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SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810
Lotta WENNÄKOSKI Pige
SCHUBERT Death and the Maiden, D. 531 (arranged for string quartet by the Danish String Quartet)

Ozawa Hall doors open at 6:30pm

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

John ADAMS Shaker Loops
Intermission
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1

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Kazuki Yamada, conductor
Lucas and Arthur Jussen, pianos

MENDELSSOHN Concerto in E for two pianos and orchestra
Intermission
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

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This program is supported by the Dutch Culture USA program of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York and has received funding through a grant from the Netherland-America Foundation.

2:00pm GATES OPEN – BU Tanglewood Institute Fanfares at Main Gate TBC

2:00 PM – Face painting by Bria (Visitor Center Porch)

2:30pm – BU Tanglewood Institute Chamber Music (CMH) TBC

2:30pm – Circle Round performance (Seiji Ozawa Hall)

Rebecca Sheir, host
Eric Shimelonis, composer
Clint Foreman, flute
Suzanne Nelsen, bassoon
Catherine French, violin
Ben Levy, bass

3:15pm – The Strolling Magic of Bonaparte (Roaming the Lawn)

3:30pm – Steinway Spirio Player Piano Recital (Studio E & Linde Center Lawn)

4:00pm – The Magic of Bonaparte (Visitor Center Lawn)

4:00pm – BU Tanglewood Institute TOP Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus Concert (Koussevitzky Music Shed) TBC

5:00pm, Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center
Vocal Music

5:15pm – The Strolling Magic of Bonaparte (Roaming the Lawn)

5:30pm – Berkshire Hills Chorus (Tappan House Porch)

7:30pm, Shed

Tanglewood Music Center
Brass Fanfares

8pm, Shed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, John Williams, and TMC Fellow Armand Birk, conductors

RAVEL Boléro (Birk/TMCO)
Arturs MASKATS Tango (Nelsons/BSO)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scene and Gypsy Song and Fandango asturiano from Capriccio espagnol (Lockhart/Pops)
COREA (arr. Emilio SOLLA) Spain (Lockhart/Pops)
John WILLIAMS Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Williams/Pops)
John WILLIAMS Theme from Born on the Fourth of July (Williams/Pops)
John WILLIAMS Flight to Neverland, from Hook
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture (Nelsons/BSO/TMCO)

Fireworks to follow the concert

Tonight’s performance is supported by Gregory E. Bulger Foundation/Gregory Bulger and Richard Dix.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

John WILLIAMS Violin Concerto No. 2
Intermission
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
RAVEL La Valse

Tonight’s concert is supported by Tom and Lisa Blumenthal.
Tonight’s performance by Anne-Sophie Mutter is supported by Nathan and Marilyn Hayward.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Seong-Jin Cho, piano

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K. 271
Intermission
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Renée Fleming, soprano

Julia ADOLPHE Makeshift Castle
STRAUSS Songs with orchestra
 Muttertändelei, Opus 43, No. 2
 Wiegenlied, Opus 41, No. 1
 Waldseligkeit, Opus 49. No. 1
 Ruhe, meine Seele, Opus 27, No. 1
 Zueignung, Opus 10, No. 1
 Morgen, Opus 27, No.
Intermission
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Carlos SIMON Four Black American Dances (BSO commission)
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
Intermission
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F

Tonight’s concert is supported by Valerie Ann and Allen I. Hyman M.D.

Tonight’s performance by Jean-Yves Thibaudet is supported by Eitan and Malka Evan.

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Carlos SIMON Four Black American Dances
Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director, through the generous support of the New Commissions Fund and New Works Fund established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
Intermission
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

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Victor Romanul & Takumi Taguchi, violins 
Michael Zaretsky, viola
Jonah Ellsworth, cello

PUCCINI Crisantemi, for string quartet
BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3 
SCHUMANN String Quartet in A, Op. 41, No. 3

Join members of the BSO for a special mini-concert before the main event to whet your musical appetite.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Gil Shaham, violin
 

ALL-BEETHOVEN program 
Violin Concerto 
Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Our 2024 season kicks off with a romantic tour de force: an all-Beethoven program headlined by acclaimed violinist Gil Shaham in the Violin Concerto, a lyrical showcase for the instrument. And, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in the Eroica Symphony, an emotionally expansive piece that redefined what a symphony was by transforming the heroic journey into symphonic form. 

Tonight’s concert is generously supported by Jane and Robert Mayer, M.D.   

Tonight's performance by Gil Shaham is generously supported by Norma and Jerry Strassler.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Renée Fleming, soprano

ALL-STRAUSS PROGRAM
 

Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten
Songs with orchestra
"Träumerei im Kamin" from Intermezzo
“Die Zeit” and “Da geht er hin” from Der Rosenkavalier
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Experience the lush and expressive romanticism of Richard Strauss under the summer sky with superstar soprano Renée Fleming, one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Strauss.

This afternoon's concert is generously supported by Drs. Anna L. and Peter B. Davol.

This afternoon's performance by Renée Fleming is generously supported by the MacKenzie Family, dedicated with deepest gratitude to the outstanding Tanglewood Staff and Volunteers.

Cynthia Meyers, flute
Robert Sheena, oboe
Christopher Elchico, clarinet
Andrew Sandwick, bass clarinet
Samuel Watson, bassoon
Jason Snider, horn
Thomas Siders, trumpet
Christine Lee, cello

QUANTZ Trio Sonata in C minor, for flute, oboe, cello, and harpsichord
HINDEMITH Septet for Winds
JANÁČEK Mládí

Join members of the BSO for a special mini-concert before the main event to whet your musical appetite.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Boston Ballet 
 Mikko Nissinen, artistic director

STRAVINSKY Apollo
 Choreography: George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust 
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
 

The Boston Ballet and its artistic director Mikko Nissinen join Andris Nelsons and the BSO for an evening celebrating dance and storytelling. Stravinsky’s Apollo opens the program with a tale of the Greek god Apollo and three muses of artistic inspiration; choreographer George Balanchine described this collaboration with Stravinsky as “a turning point” in his life for its innovative marriage of classical themes and jazz ideas. Also on the program is the mighty Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov, a vivid portrayal of the Arabian Nights tales, brought to life with searing and dramatic music. 
 

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin

Sarah Kirkland SNIDER Forward into Light
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

Get a preview of the weekend’s action at these open rehearsals in the Koussevitsky Shed. Please note these are not full concerts, so the orchestra may skip sections of a work, entire pieces, or repeat phrases.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

Carlos SIMON Warmth from Other Suns, for string orchestra 
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
ELLINGTON Three Black Kings 
ELLINGTON A Tone Parallel to Harlem
 

Yuja Wang brings her powerhouse artistry to Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, a piece renowned for its groundbreaking approach to the form and exquisite dialogue between piano and orchestra.

Andris Nelsons also leads the BSO in two pieces by the seminal Duke Ellington; the composer described A Tone Poem to Harlem as a musical stroll through the city on a Sunday morning, and Three Black Kings – originally written as a eulogy for Martin Luther King, Jr. — was the last piece Ellington worked on before his death.

Tonight's concert is generously supported by Paul Chan and Donald J. Toumey.

Tonight's performance by Yuja Wang is generously supported by Joseph and Paula McNay, The New England Foundation.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Augustin Hadelich, violin

Sarah Kirkland SNIDER Forward into Light 
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2 
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
 

Written as part of the NY Philharmonic’s “Project 19” — which commissioned 19 female composers to write new works commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment — Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Forward Into Light is a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.” The title is derived from a suffrage slogan, and the music contains quotes from the woman’s suffrage movement anthem, “March of the Women.”

Grammy-winner Augustin Hadelich rounds out the program with Prokofiev’s intense Violin Concerto No. 2, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 – sometimes called the composer's greatest symphony.

Today's performance of Forward into Light is supported by John Lowell Thorndike, former BSO trustee, treasurer, vice president, and lifelong advocate for the performance of contemporary music.

Christopher Elchico, clarinet
Sophie Wang and Glen Cherry, violins
Mary Ferrillo, viola
Will Chow, cello

Carlos SIMON Warmth From Other Suns, for string quartet
BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115

Join members of the BSO for a special mini-concert before the main event to whet your musical appetite.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor 
Conrad Tao, piano

BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety
-Intermission-
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads the BSO in Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety, a piece inspired by W.H. Auden’s Pulitzer prize-winning poem of the same name. The music's shape is meant to closely mirror the poem, which tells the story of four young strangers who meet in a bar during WWII. Young virtuoso Conrad Tao joins as the piano soloist for Bernstein.

Also on the program, Brahms’ dramatic, sweeping Symphony No. 3 explores the ideas of freedom, happiness, and loneliness.

Tonight's concert is generously supported by R. Martin Chavez.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
John Matsumoto Giampietro, staging coordinator
Christine Goerke, soprano (Brünnhilde)
Amanda Majeski, soprano (Gutrune)
Michael Weinius, tenor (Siegfried) |
James Rutherford, baritone (Gunther)
David Leigh, bass (Hagen) 
Diana Newman, Renée Tatum, and Annie Rosen (Rhine maidens)
Neal Ferreira and Alex Richardson, tenors; David Kravitz and Markel Reed, baritones; Erik Tofte and Jared Werlein, bass-baritones; Leo Radosavljevic, bass (Vassals)

WAGNER Götterdämmerung, Act III

Sung in German with English Supertitles

Please note that there is no intermission in this concert. Duration is about 90 minutes.

Wagner’s Ring Cycle is a masterpiece of art that weaves a fabric of passion, beauty, betrayal, tragedy, and redemption into the tapestry of myth and legend, all set to some of the most stirring, powerful music ever composed.

Join Andris Nelsons, the BSO, and an all-star cast for the peerless conclusion of Wagner’s massive, epic opera Götterdämmerung.

Tonight's concert is generously supported by Rabbis Rachel Hertzman and Rex Perlmeter.

Bonnie Bewick, violin
Danny Kim, viola
Mickey Katz, cello
Carl Anderson and Benjamin Levy, double basses

BOTTESINI (Arr. Bonnie BEWICK) Tarantella
BOTTESINI Gran Duetto No. 3 in E, for double-basses
DOHNÁNYI Serenade for string trio, Op. 10
TRADITIONAL (Arr. Warren & Flick) Three Forks of Cheat, for violin and double bass

Join members of the BSO for a special mini-concert before the main event to whet your musical appetite.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Yefim Bronfman, piano 
Edwin Barker, double bass 
Will Liverman, baritone 
Tanglewood Festival Chorus 
 James Burton, conductor

Steven MACKEY Urban Ocean 
KOUSSEVITZKY Double Bass Concerto
-Intermission-
SIBELIUS The Origin of Fire for baritone, male chorus, and orchestra 
SCRIABIN Prometheus, Poem of Fire, for piano, chorus, and orchestra

Tonight’s concert is generously supported by Eitan and Malka Evan.

This evening's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

In tribute to Serge Koussevitzky’s legacy, Andris Nelsons and the BSO dedicate this concert series to the trailblazer, opening with Koussevitzky’s virtuosic Double Bass Concerto performed by the BSO’s own Edwin Barker.  

Baritone Will Liverman and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus join the program for two impassioned works: Sibelius’ The Origin of Fire and Scriabin’s Prometheus, Poem of Fire, which Koussevitzky led the 1925 Boston premiere of. 

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Paul Lewis, piano 
Thomas Warfield, narrator 
Tanglewood Festival Chorus 
 James Burton, conductor

James LEE III Freedom’s Genuine Dawn 
COPLAND Piano Concerto 
THOMPSON Alleluia, for unaccompanied chorus 
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms

Get a preview of the weekend’s action at these open rehearsals in the Koussevitsky Shed. Please note these are not full concerts, so the orchestra may skip sections of a work, entire pieces, or repeat phrases. 

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Tania LEÓN Stride 
KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto
-Intermission-
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

In tribute to Serge Koussevitzky’s legacy, Andris Nelsons and the BSO dedicate this concert series to the trailblazer. In the spirit of Koussevitzky’s passion for promoting contemporary music and composers, this concert features Tania León's STRIDE, a Pulitzer prize-winning work of resilience and surprise. 

Jean-Yves Thibaudet also joins for Khachaturian’s vibrant, colorful Piano Concerto, and the concert ends with Tchaikovsky’s moving, yearning Pathétique Symphony. 

Tonight’s concert is generously supported by Bonnie and Terry Burman.

Tonight's performance by Jean-Yves Thibaudet is generously supported by Stephen Bardfield in memory of his mom, Gisele Klein Wolfson.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
Thomas Warfield, narrator
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
 James Burton, conductor

James LEE III Freedom’s Genuine Dawn
COPLAND Piano Concerto
-Intermission-
THOMPSON Alleluia, for unaccompanied chorus
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms

In tribute to Serge Koussevitzky’s legacy, Andris Nelsons and the BSO dedicate this concert series to the trailblazer. 

This program, focusing on the wide variety and rich tapestry of 20th century music, explores themes of spirituality and liberation, blending American sounds and European traditions, much as Koussevitzky did during his life. Performing artist Thomas Warfield joins as the narrator for James Lee’s Freedom’s Genuine Dawn, a piece based on the great Fredrick Douglas text “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”, which makes the audience grapple with the legacy of slavery being intertwined with the founding of the country. 

This afternoon’s performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.
 

Bracha Malkin and Sheila Fiekowsky, violins
Cathy Basrak, viola 
Christine Lee, cello 
Todd Seeber, double bass
Daniel Bauch and Matt McKay, percussion 
Nina Guo, soprano

Todd SEEBER The Sleepers
William COBLE Satsang, for solo double bass
DVOŘÁK String Quintet in G, Op. 77

Join members of the BSO for a special mini-concert before the main event to whet your musical appetite. 

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Alan Gilbert, conductor 
Kirill Gerstein, piano 
Joshua Bell, violin 
Steven Isserlis, cello

Program to include

BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto 
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4

Get a preview of the weekend’s action at these open rehearsals in the Koussevitsky Shed. Please note these are not full concerts, so the orchestra may skip sections of a work, entire pieces, or repeat phrases. 

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Joshua Bell, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello 
 

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM

Triple Concerto
-Intermission-
Symphony No. 4

Joshua Bell, Kirill Gerstein, and Steven Isserlis star on all-Beethoven program that features Beethoven's Triple Concerto, a masterpiece that broke new ground in its day, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, a thoughtful, intimate work that opens into jubilation. 

Our annual Tanglewood on Parade concert brings together the best of the BSO and Pops in a day full of family fun and lively music, culminating in an exciting evening of performances and fireworks!

Lawn Games, Kids Crafts, and the Instrument Playground will be available all day on the lawn behind the Ice Cream Tent.

Gates Open at 2pm

-2pm, Tappan House Porch-
Face Painting by Bria

-2:30pm, Seiji Ozawa Hall-
TMC chamber orchestra, unconducted 
MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner

Chamber Music Hall 
BUTI Young Artists Chamber Music Recital

-3pm-3:45pm, Lawn behind Ice Cream Tent
Kids Yoga

-3:15pm, Roaming the Lawn-
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparte

-3:30pm, Seiji Ozawa Hall-
Music for Cello Ensemble 
Featuring cellists of the TMC and BSO
WAGNER Prelude to Lohengrin (Arr. Renaud Guieu) 
Arturo MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2 (Arr. Sebastien Walnier) 
QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody (Arr. Sebastien Walnier)

-4pm, Lawn near Tappan House -
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparte

Koussevitzky Music Shed 
BUTI Young Artists Vocal Program Chorus, Orchestra, and Composition Programs

-4:15pm, Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning-
Spirio Player Piano

-4:30pm, On the lawn between Highwood Manor House and Linde Center for Music and Learning-
Hot Air Balloon 
weather permitting

-5pm, Seiji Ozawa Hall-
TMC Vocal Concert
TAILLEFERRE Six Chansons françaises 
IVES Selected songs 
BEACH Selected songs 
Caroline SHAW Vago augellin 
Caroline SHAW And the Swallow 
BEACH Peace I Leave With You

-5:15pm, Roaming the Lawn-
The Strolling Magic of Bonaparte

-5:30pm, Tappan House-
FRAME and friends

-5:30pm-7pm, Lawn near Tent Club/Tanglewood Café-
Berkshire Hills Chorus

-7:30pm, Shed-
TMC Fanfares 
Valerie COLEMAN Fanfare for Uncommon Times 
COPLAND Ceremonial Fanfare 
COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man

-8pm, Shed-
Tanglewood on Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Boston Pops Orchestra 
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra 
Keith Lockhart, Alan Gilbert, Ken-David Masur, and Anna Rakitina, conductors
Christine Goerke, soprano 
Marcus Roberts Trio

Program to include 
John WILLIAMS For Seiji! 
STRAUSS Songs with orchestra 
BERLIOZ “Hungarian March” from The Damnation of Faust
Intermission
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue 
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture

Fireworks to follow the concert

Tonight’s concert is generously supported by Gregory E. Bulger Foundation/Gregory Bulger and Richard Dix.

Tatiana Dimitriades & Catherine French, violins 
Edward Gazouleas & Steven Laraia, violas 
Christine Lee, cello

Fanny MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL String Quartet in E-flat
Felix MENDELSSOHN String Quintet in A, Op. 18

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Alan Gilbert, conductor 
Kirill Gerstein, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
-Intermission-
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan, conductor
Elena Villalón, soprano

Anna CLYNE Sound and Fury
MOZART "Padre, germani, addio!" from Idomeneo
MOZART “Deh vieni, non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro
MAHLER Symphony No. 4

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Dalia Stasevska, conductor 
Leila Josefowicz, violin

SIBELIUS (arr. STRAVINSKY) Canzonetta 
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto 
-Intermission-
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Dalia Stasevska’s performance is supported in part by the Finlandia Foundation National.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan, conductor
Elena Villalón, soprano

Anna CLYNE Sound and Fury
MOZART "Padre, germani, addio!" from Idomeneo
MOZART “Deh vieni, non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro
-Intermission-
MAHLER Symphony No. 4

Victor Romanul, violin
Michael Zaretsky, viola
Jonah Ellsworth, cello
Thomas Martin, clarinet
Xak Bjerken, piano

SIBELIUS Duo for Violin and Viola
SMIT Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano
FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Samy Rachid, conductor 
Midori, violin

SVETLANOV Dawn in the Field 
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
-Intermission-
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Tonight’s concert is generously supported by Ed Wacks, in memory of Linda Wacks and Jeffrey Wacks.

Tonight’s performance by Midori is generously supported by Antoine and Emily van Agtmael.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Earl Lee, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Carlos SIMON Fate Now Conquers
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Earl Lee, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Carlos SIMON Fate Now Conquers
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
-Intermission-
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

This afternoon’s concert is generously supported by Dr. Dorothy A. Weber, in memory of Stephen R. Weber.

This afternoon's performance by Yo-Yo Ma is generously supported by Nancy and Jay Nichols.

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Ryan Bancroft, conductor 
Bruce Liu, piano

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
-Intermission- 
ELGAR Enigma Variations

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Beethoven) 
James Burton, conductor (Bruckner)
Ambur Braid, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Elgan Llŷr Thomas, tenor
Davone Tines, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
 James Burton, conductor

BRUCKNER Ecce sacerdos magnus
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
 

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Karina Canellakis, conductor 
James Ehnes, violin
Tanglewood Festival Chorus 
 James Burton, conductor

BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus Overture 
BRAHMS Schicksalslied
-Intermission-
CHAUSSON Poème, for violin and orchestra 
RAVEL Tzigane, for violin and orchestra
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

Tonight’s concert is generously supported by Rabbi Daniel Freelander and Rabbi Elyse Frishman, in memory of their daughter Devra Freelander.

This evening's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Beethoven)
James Burton, conductor (Bruckner)
Ambur Braid, soprano 
Jess Dandy, contralto 
Elgan Llŷr Thomas, tenor
Davone Tines, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

BRUCKNER Ecce sacerdos magnus
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9

This evening's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.