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summer 2018
BER N ST E IN
CENTENNIAL SUMMER
TANGLEWOOD.ORG 1
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANDRIS NELSONS MUSIC DIRECTOR
“That place [Tanglewood] is very dear to my heart, that is where
I grew up and learned so much...in 1940 when I first played and
studied there.” —Leonard Bernstein (November 1989)
SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
Throughout the summer of 2018, Tanglewood celebrates the centennial of Also leading BSO concerts will be BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès (7/22),
Lawrence-born, Boston-bred conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein’s birth. BSO Assistant Conductor Moritz Gnann (7/13), and guest conductors Herbert
Bernstein’s close relationship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra spanned Blomstedt (7/20 & 21), Charles Dutoit (8/3 & 8/5), Christoph Eschenbach
a half-century, from the time he became a protégé of legendary BSO (8/26), Juanjo Mena (7/27 & 29), David Newman (7/28), Michael Tilson
conductor Serge Koussevitzky as a member of the first Tanglewood Music Thomas (8/12), and Bramwell Tovey (8/4). Soloists with the BSO also include
Center class in 1940 until the final concerts he ever conducted, with the BSO pianists Emanuel Ax (7/20), 2018 Koussevitzky Artist Kirill Gerstein (8/3), Igor
and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1990. Besides Levit (8/12), Paul Lewis (7/13), and Garrick Ohlsson (7/27); BSO principal flute
concert works including his Chichester Psalms (7/15), alil for flute and Elizabeth Rowe (7/21); and violinists Joshua Bell (8/5), Gil Shaham (7/29), and
orchestra (7/21), Songfest (8/4), the Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) Christian Tetzlaff (7/22).
(8/18), and the BSO-commissioned Divertimento for Orchestra (also 8/18), Thomas Adès will also direct Tanglewood’s 2018 Festival of Contemporary
performances also include the operas Trouble in Tahiti (7/12) and A Quiet Music and perform an evening of two-piano music in Ozawa Hall (8/1) with
Place (8/9); the Broadway hit On the Town (7/7); the ballet score Facsimile Kirill Gerstein—who is also soloist in this year’s gala Tanglewood on Parade
(7/23); the ever-popular Candide (8/22 & 23); the ballet Fancy Free in concert (8/7). Paul Lewis’ Ozawa Hall recital (8/2) launches a multi-year
collaboration with Boston Ballet (8/18), and the Oscar-winning film version survey at Tanglewood featuring him in piano works by Haydn, Beethoven,
of West Side Story with the BSO playing the score live as the movie is shown and Brahms. The 2018 Ozawa Hall line-up also includes the Boston Symphony
on large screens in high definition with the original vocals and dialogue
Chamber Players with Rudolf Buchbinder (7/5); a duo appearance by Pamela
intact (7/28). On August 25, Bernstein’s birth-date, The Bernstein Centennial
Frank and Emanuel Ax (7/18); Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobsen Fleisher
Celebration at Tanglewood, to be conducted by BSO Music Director Andris in a piano recital marking Mr. Fleisher’s 90th birthday (7/19); the Emerson
Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Michael Tilson Thomas, String Quartet performing Beethoven’s late string quartets (7/24 & 25); Igor
and John Williams, will feature an astonishing array of guest artists, Levit with the JACK Quartet (8/15), and the Skride Quartet (8/16).
among them Audra McDonald, Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Susan Graham, and
Thomas Hampson. In addition, the BSO will be joined for this very special For the first of four Boston Pops events this summer, star vocalist Audra
occasion by members of numerous other orchestras with which Bernstein McDonald is soloist with musical director Andy Einhorn (6/24). Boston Pops
maintained close associations. Conductor Keith Lockhart leads the Boston Pops Orchestra in On the Town
(7/7) and as part of Tanglewood on Parade (8/7). On hand for Tanglewood on
Besides his participation in The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at
Parade and John Williams’ Film Night (8/11) is Boston Pops Conductor Laureate
Tanglewood and performances with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra John Williams, who shares the Film Night podium with Andris Nelsons. Other
(TMCO), Andris Nelsons conducts the BSO in concerts featuring pianists Lang surefire crowd-pleasers include the returns to Tanglewood of Wait Wait…Don’t
Lang (Opening Night, 7/6), Rudolf Buchbinder (7/8), Yuja Wang (7/15), and Tell Me! (6/21) and A Prairie Home Companion, now with new host Chris Thile
Yefim Bronfman (8/17); a complete, semi-staged performance of Puccini’s (6/30), as well as James Taylor for two shows with his all-star band (7/3 & 4).
La bohème with soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Piotr Beczała (7/14);
a special Young People’s Concert evoking those led by Bernstein himself, As usual, the summer also offers a full schedule of concerts spotlighting
with Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein, as host (8/10); an all-Bernstein the accomplished young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center; the
program featuring violinist Baiba Skride in the Serenade (after Plato’s weekly Friday-evening and Saturday-evening Prelude Concerts in Ozawa Hall
“Symposium”) (8/18), and Mahler’s Third Symphony with soloist Susan Graham featuring BSO members on Fridays and TMC Fellows on Saturdays; Saturday-
(8/24). Maestro Nelsons also leads the TMCO’s annual Leonard Bernstein morning rehearsals; the acclaimed lifelong learning series One Day University
Memorial Concert, this year with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist (8/19), and joins John (8/26), and “Summer Sundays,” offering pre-concert events for all ages each
Williams on the podium for John Williams’ Film Night (8/11). Sunday starting at noon, prior to the afternoon’s 2:30pm BSO concert.
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Yoga on the Lawn
AMENITIES & Once again this summer, in collaboration with the Kripalu Center for
Yoga & Health, Tanglewood is pleased to offer hour-long yoga classes
SPECIAL OFFERINGS taught by fully accredited Kripalu teachers from 10:15–11:15am on
Saturday mornings (weather permitting). Located on the lawn near
SUMMER SUNDAYS, noon–2pm the Tanglewood Visitor Center, these weekly classes are available at no
On Sunday afternoons, July 8 through August 26, when the gates additional charge to Saturday-morning BSO Rehearsal ticket holders
open at noon, enjoy new and exciting events for all ages to enhance on July 14, 21, and 28, and August 4, 11, 18, and 25.
your Tanglewood experience. Activities that take place at various
locations throughout the grounds include local food tastings and Tours of Tanglewood
other specialties of the region, face painting, yoga and Qigong, games The Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers offers free walking
for families, and more! From 12:30-1:30pm, additional offerings tours of the Tanglewood campus. The tours last approximately one
including lectures, performances, and musical demonstrations take hour and include visits to the Koussevitzky Music Shed, Ozawa Hall,
place in the Theatre. other music facilities, the Visitor Center history rooms, and more.
Experienced volunteer guides discuss the historical background of
July 8: Bernstein on Broadway, with Keith Lockhart and guests
Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Tanglewood
July 15: Special performance by children’s chorus
Music Center. Reservations are not required. Tours begin at the Visitor
July 22: The Tanglewood Landscape–Past, Present, and Future, with
Center at the Tanglewood Manor House. Beginning July 7, free public
Tanglewood Grounds Supervisor Bruce Peeples and Landscape
walk-up tours take place when the grounds are open each Tuesday at
Architect Adrian Nial
1:30pm, Wednesday at 10:30am, Saturday at 1:30pm, and Sunday at
July 29: The Art of Film Scoring, with David Newman
12:30pm (Sunday tours open to ticket-holders only). Subject to change.
August 5: Piano master class with Kirill Gerstein
Additional tours will be held before Popular Artist concerts. In the
August 12: Harp demonstration with Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
event of inclement weather, tours will meet informally under cover.
August 19: Performance by Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Ensemble
Private group tours for a minimum of 25 people may be arranged (at
August 26: Bernstein and Tanglewood–From the BSO Archives, with BSO
least two weeks in advance) for a fee. For more information, call the
Archivist Bridget Carr
Office of Volunteer Services at 413-637-5393 or email bsav@bso.org.
Tanglewood for Kids
Free lawn tickets for children and young people up to 17! Tanglewood
is pleased to offer free lawn tickets for children and young people
age 17 and younger. Up to four free children’s tickets are available
per parent/legal guardian per concert at the Tanglewood Box Office
on the day of the concert. Children under five are not permitted in
the Koussevitzky Music Shed or Seiji Ozawa Hall during concerts. All
patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket. This free lawn ticket
policy does not apply to organized groups of children. For Popular Artist
concerts, free lawn tickets are only available for children under 2.
As part of Summer Sundays, each week will feature a fun, interactive
musical presentation for audiences of all ages. “What’s That Sound?”
introduces various instruments of the orchestra with a demonstration
and Q&A, and Watch and Play, sponsored by the Boston Symphony
Association of Volunteers, offers a musical performance specifically
UnderScore Fridays at Tanglewood designed to engage children ages 3–10. The program will be offered
Three Friday-evening Shed performances will be part of the popular at 1pm each Sunday from July 8th to July 26th. Tickets to the Sunday-
UnderScore Friday series this season. At these performances, patrons afternoon concert performance are required.
will hear comments about the program directly from an onstage BSO
musician. UnderScore Fridays take place on July 20, August 3, and Kids’ Corner is offered at 9:30am on Saturdays and noon on Sundays.
August 17. However, on days of Watch and Play, Kids’ Corner will begin at 2pm.
Children accompanied by adults may take part in musical and crafts
Under 40? Tickets $20! activities supervised by BSO staff. Please stop by the Tanglewood
$20 tickets for attendees under age 40 will be available during the Visitor Center for more information. Tickets to the Sunday
2018 Tanglewood season for BSO and Boston Pops performances in concert or Saturday-morning rehearsal are required.
the Shed. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Choose as many dates as you like, with a limit of one pair of tickets
per concert. This program does not apply to organized groups. Some
blackout dates apply. Visit tanglewood.org for more information. $20
Under 40 tickets will be available for sale in May 2018.
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SUNDAY, JULY 8
10am, Ozawa Hall
TMC Chamber Music
MONDAY, JULY 9
8pm, Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) is the Boston Symphony Andris Nelsons, conductor
Orchestra’s summer academy for advanced musical study. Young TMC Conducting Fellows
professional-level musicians of exceptional ability, while on full BERNSTEIN Opening Prayer (Benediction)
fellowships that cover the costs of room, board, and tuition, work SMETANA Vyšehrad
closely with members of the BSO and renowned guest artists, DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
performing some 40 concerts each season. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
Saturdays, July 7–August 18, 6pm in Seiji Ozawa Hall
One-hour performances of chamber music with TMC Fellows and SATURDAY, JULY 14
guests, a prelude to the evening BSO concerts. Admission is free, but 6pm, Ozawa Hall
restricted to 8pm Shed concert ticket-holders. Prelude Concert
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
Sundays, July 1–August 19, 10am in Seiji Ozawa Hall
Full-length chamber music concerts of both standard repertoire and SUNDAY, JULY 15
contemporary works, performed by TMC Fellows.
10am, Ozawa Hall
Additional chamber and vocal concerts are scheduled throughout the TMC Chamber Music
season. Dates and times will be announced at a later date.
TMC Orchestra concerts in the Shed are priced at Shed Special prices. MONDAY, JULY 16
Prices for TMC Orchestra concerts in Ozawa Hall are listed in a separate 8pm, Ozawa Hall
price grid. All other TMC performances in Ozawa Hall are priced at $13 Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
per ticket, general admission. See page 29 for complete price information Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
and information regarding Friends of Tanglewood ticket policies. TMC Conducting Fellows
MOZART Symphony No. 35, Haffner
SATURDAY, JUNE 30 BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
10 am & 2:30pm, Ozawa Hall BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
String Quartet Marathon
TUESDAY, JULY 17
SUNDAY, JULY 1 8pm, Ozawa Hall
10am, Ozawa Hall* TMC Vocal Recital
Brass, Winds, and Percussion Extravaganza
To include SATURDAY, JULY 21
Ninfea CRUTTWELL-READE New work (world premiere; 6pm, Ozawa Hall
TMC commission) TMC Vocal Prelude Concert
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall* SUNDAY, JULY 22
String Quartet Marathon
10am, Ozawa Hall
The New Fromm Players
TMC Chamber Music
To include
Julian ANDERSON String Quartet No. 3 (American premiere; 8pm, Ozawa Hall
TMC co-commission) TMC Vocal Recital
*Grounds close between the 10am and 2:30pm concerts.
MONDAY, JULY 23
MONDAY, JULY 2 8pm, Ozawa Hall
8pm, Ozawa Hall Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
TMC Vocal and Instrumental Fellows Stefan Asbury, conductor
John Harbison, conductor TMC Conducting Fellows
An Evening of Bach Cantatas TMC Vocal Fellows
BERNSTEIN Facsimile, Choreographic Essay for Orchestra
SATURDAY, JULY 7 Michael GANDOLFI New work for six voices and orchestra
6pm, Ozawa Hall (world premiere; TMC commission)
Prelude Concert COPLAND Symphony No. 3
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
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TMC SEASON TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
Tanglewood on Parade
Chamber music and other activities throughout the afternoon
JULY 26–30 OZAWA HALL
8pm, Shed
Festival Of Contempory Music Boston Symphony Orchestra
BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès, Director Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood’s 2018 Festival of Contemporary Music—the first of two Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
with BSO Artistic Partner Thomas Adès as Festival Director—will Charles Dutoit, Bramwell Tovey, Keith Lockhart, and John Williams,
feature chamber music programs for large and small ensembles, conductors
encompassing works by Gerald Barry, Harrison Birtwistle, Francisco Kirill Gerstein, piano*
Program to include
Coll, Veronika Krausas, György Kurtág, Andrew Norman, Sean
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Shepherd, Conlon Nancarrow, and Per Nørgård, among other GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
composers to be announced. The Festival will also include the world TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
premiere of a newly commissioned work by English composer Oliver
*2018 Koussevitzky Artist
Christophe Leith for two voices and large chamber ensemble.
Fireworks to follow the concert
THURSDAY, JULY 26
8pm, Ozawa Hall
FCM Chamber Music
FRIDAY, JULY 27
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
FCM Chamber Music
SATURDAY, JULY 28
6pm, Ozawa Hall
FCM Prelude Concert
SUNDAY, JULY 29
10am, Ozawa Hall
FCM Chamber Music
MONDAY, JULY 30
8pm, Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Thomas Adès, conductor
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9
8pm, Ozawa Hall
TMC Conducting Fellows
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Poul RUDERS Thus Saw Saint John
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows
Thomas ADÈS In Seven Days, for piano and orchestra
Daniel Fish, director
Gerald BARRY Of Queens’ Gardens
Terese Wadden, constume designer
LUTOSŁAWSKI Symphony No. 3
Barbara Samuels, lighting designer
The 2018 Festival of Contemporary Music has been endowed in perpetuity by the generosity BERNSTEIN A Quiet Place
of Dr. Raymond H. and Mrs. Hannah H. Schneider, with additional support from the (chamber ensemble version by Garth Edwin Sunderland)
National Endowment for the Arts, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund.
Fully staged performance; sung in English with supertitles
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 6pm, Ozawa Hall
6pm, Ozawa Hall TMC Prelude Concert
TMC Prelude Concert
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12
SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 10am, Ozawa Hall
10am, Ozawa Hall TMC Chamber Music
TMC Chamber Music
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TMC SEASON BOSTON UNIVERSITY
MONDAY, AUGUST 13
8pm, Ozawa Hall
TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE
TMC Chamber Orchestra Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI)
Andris Nelsons, conductor Summer 2018 Ozawa Hall Series
TMC Conducting Fellows Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) is a program of
Program to include Boston University College of Fine Arts. Drawing more than 400
SCHREKER Chamber Symphony for twenty-three instruments (1916) instrumentalists, singers, and composers from across the country
HAYDN Symphony No. 97 and around the world, it is recognized as a premier summer training
program for aspiring young musicians, ages 10 to 20. Each season, BUTI
TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 presents more than 100 free concerts and community performances
8pm, Ozawa Hall in Lenox, including six performances in Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa
TMC Vocal Recital Hall (patrons should park near Ozawa Hall from Hawthorne Street).
Orchestra concerts are $13 per ticket, general admission. Wind
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 Ensemble and Chorus concerts are free. More information and a full
6pm, Ozawa Hall performance calendar are available at bu.edu/tanglewood.
TMC Prelude Concert
SATURDAY, JULY 14
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Orchestra
SUNDAY, JULY 15
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Wind Ensemble
David J. Martins, conductor
SATURDAY, JULY 28
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Orchestra
SUNDAY, JULY 29
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Wind Ensemble
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 H. Robert Reynolds, conductor
10am, Ozawa Hall
TMC Chamber Music SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
2:30pm, Shed See Shed Special prices
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
Young Artists Chorus
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Katie Woolf, conductor
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
COPLAND An Outdoor Overture
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7
4pm, Shed
BERNSTEIN Three Meditations from Mass, for cello and orchestra
John WILLIAMS New work for cello and orchestra Tanglewood On Parade
(world premiere) Boston University Tanglewood Institute
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra Young Artists Programs
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
2:30pm, Ozawa Hall
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Orchestra
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2018 TANGLEWOOD
SEASON SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. JUNE 21–JULY 5
JUNE 30 SATURDAY
5:45pm, Shed
Popular Artist Series
A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
with Chris Thile
Live broadcast
American Public Media’s popular A Prairie Home
Companion returns to Tanglewood, with its
new host Chris Thile. He will be joined by an
incredible array of special musical guests—some known to all, and
some who soon will be!—for a unique blend of comedy and spoken
word. A vocalist and mandolin virtuoso, Chris will perform his Song of
the Week, written specially by Thile for the evening’s program.
B This symbol denotes concerts with works by Leonard Bernstein
being performed in honor of his centennial celebration.
JUNE 21 THURSDAY
8pm, Shed
Popular Artist Series JULY 3 TUESDAY & JULY 4 WEDNESDAY
Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! 8pm, Shed
NPR’s oddly informative news quiz Popular Artist Series
program is again live at Tanglewood. James Taylor at Tanglewood
The Peabody Award-winning series James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his
offers a fast-paced, irreverent look at all-star band for two nights!
the week’s news, hosted by Peter Sagal along with judge and score- Only New England Performance this summer
keeper Bill Kurtis.
Fireworks to follow the July 4 concert
Proceeds from the July 4 concert will be donated
JUNE 24 SUNDAY by Kim and James Taylor to Tanglewood.
2:30pm, Shed
Boston Pops
Audra McDonald, soloist JULY 5 THURSDAY
Andy Einhorn, musical director 8pm, Ozawa Hall
One of today’s most celebrated singers, stage Boston Symphony Chamber Players
actors, and television stars, Audra McDonald is Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of MOZART Quintet in E-flat for piano and winds, K.452
her artistry. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two WEINBERG Sonata for solo double bass, Op. 108
Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award, she was named one of Time BERNSTEIN Variations on an Octatonic Scale, for flute and cello
magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2015 and received a 2015 SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44
National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement
in the arts. With the Boston Pops, she presents a program of songs
ranging from standards by Sondheim, Rodgers, and Gershwin to the
sounds of today’s leading music theater composers.
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2018 SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. JULY 6–13
JULY 6 FRIDAY
6pm, Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
8pm, Shed See Shed Special prices
Opening Night at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
ALL-TCHAIKOVSKY PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 5
JULY 7 SATURDAY
8pm, Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Singers
Kathleen Marshall, director
David Chase, musical director JULY 12 THURSDAY
BERNSTEIN On the Town 8pm, Ozawa Hall
Instrumental Ensemble
A collaboration with choreographer Jerome Robbins and the writing Charles Prince, conductor
team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein’s On Alexandra Silber, soprano
the Town—the story of three sailors on shore leave in New York City— Shuler Hensley, baritone
arrived on Broadway in December 1944, when he was just twenty-six. Vocal Ensemble
Based on his popular ballet collaboration with Robbins, Fancy Free Jamie Bernstein, director
(being performed August 18), it was not only his first musical, it was Selection from the Bernstein Songbook
a first for Comden and Green, who would become Broadway and BERNSTEIN Trouble in Tahiti
Hollywood legends in their own right. Hit songs include “New York,
The lyrical, jazzy style of Leonard Bernstein’s 1952 one-act opera
New York” and “Some Other Time.” Trouble in Tahiti has much in common with On the Town (being
Fully staged performance performed July 7) and West Side Story (July 28). Bernstein himself
wrote the libretto; the scenario revolves around Dinah and her
husband Sam’s disaffection with their rat-race, suburban life. The plot
JULY 8 SUNDAY has nothing to do with Tahiti; the title comes from a romantic movie
2:30pm, Shed Dinah contrasts with her workaday, unromantic existence. Trouble
Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tahiti was premiered in June 1952 at Brandeis University, where
Bernstein was on the faculty, and was presented by NBC on television
Andris Nelsons, conductor
the following November.
Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 Semi-staged performance
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
JULY 13 FRIDAY
6pm, Ozawa Hall
JULY 11 WEDNESDAY Prelude Concert
8pm, Ozawa Hall Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Jeremy Denk, piano
PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives 8pm, Shed
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109 Boston Symphony Orchestra
BEETHOVEN (arr. LISZT) An die ferne Geliebte Moritz Gnann, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
SCHUMANN Fantasy in C, Op. 17
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K.595
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3, Rhenish
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2018 SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. JULY 14–21
JULY 18 WEDNESDAY
8pm, Ozawa Hall See Ozawa Hall Special prices
Pamela Frank, violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Violin Sonata No. 10 in B-flat, K.378
Violin Sonata No. 9 in F, K.377
Piano Sonata No. 15 in F, K.533
Violin Sonata No. 13 in B-flat, K.454
JULY 19 THURSDAY
8pm, Ozawa Hall
The Fleisher-Jacobsen Piano Duo
Leon Fleisher, piano, and
Katherine Jacobsen, piano
J.S. BACH Capriccio in B-flat, BWV 992 (“On the
departure of a beloved brother”)
J.S. BACH Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D
minor, BWV 903
J.S. BACH (arr. BRAHMS) Chaconne in D minor for the left hand
KIRCHNER L.H.
BRAHMS Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39, for piano four-hands
JULY 14 SATURDAY RAVEL La Valse, for piano four-hands
10:30 am Rehearsal, Sunday program
Celebrating Leon Fleisher’s 90th birthday
8pm, Shed See Shed Special prices
Boston Symphony Orchestra JULY 20 FRIDAY
Andris Nelsons, conductor 6pm, Ozawa Hall
Kristine Opolais, soprano (Mimì) Prelude Concert
Piotr Beczała, tenor (Rodolfo) Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Susanna Phillips, soprano (Musetta) James Burton, conductor
Franco Vassallo, baritone (Marcello)
Davide Luciano, baritone (Schaunard) 8pm, Shed UnderScore Friday Concert
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone (Colline) Boston Symphony Orchestra
Paul Plishka, bass (Benoît/Alcindoro) Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Parpignol) Emanuel Ax, piano
David Cushing, bass (Customs Sergeant) ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K.453
James Burton, conductor Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Children’s Choir
PUCCINI La bohème
Semi-staged performance; sung in Italian
with English supertitles JULY 21 SATURDAY
10:30 am Rehearsal, Sunday program
JULY 15 SUNDAY 8pm, Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
2:30pm, Shed
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Hannah Morrison, soprano
Yuja Wang, piano
Elisabeth Kulman, mezzo-soprano
Boy soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
Michael Nagy, baritone
James Burton, conductor
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Italian
James Burton, conductor
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
MOZART Symphony No. 34
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms
BERNSTEIN alil, Nocturne for flute and orchestra
HAYDN Missa in angustiis (Lord Nelson Mass)
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2018 SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. JULY 22–AUG 2
JULY 28 SATURDAY
10:30am Rehearsal, Sunday program
8:30pm, Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
David Newman, conductor
BERNSTEIN West Side Story
Experience a thrilling presentation of this iconic
film and winner of ten Academy Awards, including
Best Picture. The Boston Symphony plays Leonard
Bernstein’s electrifying score live, while the newly
remastered film is shown on large screens in high
definition with the original vocals and dialogue
intact. This classic romantic tragedy, directed by
Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and with lyrics
by Stephen Sondheim, is one of the greatest
West Side Story © 1961
achievements in the history of movie musicals. It
JULY 22 SUNDAY features Robbins’ breathtaking choreography and a
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Studios Inc. All rights
2:30pm, Shed screenplay by Ernest Lehman based on the masterful reserved. © A.M.P.A.S.
Boston Symphony Orchestra book by Arthur Laurents.
Thomas Adès, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violin
Thomas ADÈS Suite from Powder Her Face JULY 29 SUNDAY
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto 2:30pm, Shed
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 Boston Symphony Orchestra
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
JULY 24 TUESDAY See Ozawa Hall HAYDN Symphony No. 88
8pm, Ozawa Hall Special prices PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
Emerson String Quartet MOZART Symphony No. 40
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127 AUGUST 1 WEDNESDAY
String Quartet No. 16 in F, Op. 135 8pm, Ozawa Hall
String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Thomas Adès, piano
Op. 131 Kirill Gerstein, piano*
DEBUSSY En blanc et noir, for two pianos
STRAVINSKY (arr. SHOSTAKOVICH)
JULY 25 WEDNESDAY See Ozawa Hall Special prices Symphony of Psalms, for two pianos
8pm, Ozawa Hall LUTOSŁAWSKI Variations on a Theme by
Emerson String Quartet Paganini, for two pianos
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM DEBUSSY Lindaraja, for two pianos
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 Thomas ADÈS Concert paraphrase on Powder Her Face, for two pianos
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130 RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole, for two pianos
Grosse Fuge in B-flat, Op. 133 *2018 Koussevitzky Artist
JULY 27 FRIDAY AUGUST 2 THURSDAY
6pm, Ozawa Hall 8pm, Ozawa Hall See Ozawa Hall Special prices
Prelude Concert Paul Lewis, piano
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra HAYDN Sonata No. 49 in E-flat
BEETHOVEN Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119
8pm, Shed BRAHMS Four Pieces, Op. 119
Boston Symphony Orchestra HAYDN Sonata No. 32 in B minor
Juanjo Mena, conductor BEETHOVEN Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
Garrick Ohlsson, piano HAYDN Sonata No. 40 in G
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes This program launches a multi-year survey at Tanglewood featuring
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K.271 Paul Lewis in piano works by Haydn, Beethoven, and Brahms.
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
18 2018 SEASON TANGLEWOOD.ORG 192018 SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. AUG 3–9
AUGUST 5 SUNDAY See Shed Special prices
2:30pm, Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
WIENIAWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
AUGUST 7 TUESDAY
8pm, Shed
Tanglewood on Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, Bramwell Tovey, Keith Lockhart,
and John Williams, conductors
Kirill Gerstein, piano*
Program to include
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
*2018 Koussevitzky Artist
AUGUST 3 FRIDAY Fireworks to follow the concert
6pm, Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra AUGUST 9 THURSDAY
8pm, Ozawa Hall
8pm, Shed UnderScore Friday Concert Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Stefan Asbury, conductor
Memorial Concert Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows
Boston Symphony Orchestra Daniel Fish, director
Charles Dutoit, conductor Terese Wadden, costume designer
Kirill Gerstein, piano* Barbara Samuels, lighting designer
GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
BERNSTEIN A Quiet Place
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
(chamber ensemble version by Garth Edwin Sunderland)
STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete)
*2018 Koussevitzky Artist Conceived as a sequel to his 1952 one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti
(being performed July 12), and to be heard here in a recent new
version for chamber ensemble, A Quiet Place—Bernstein’s final work
AUGUST 4 SATURDAY for the stage—was originally premiered in 1983 on a double bill with
10:30am Rehearsal, Sunday program Trouble in Tahiti. Providing an intimate picture of family relationships,
the story rejoins Sam from Trouble in Tahiti years later, following
8pm, Shed Dinah’s unexpected death. Entering the picture are their son Junior,
Boston Symphony Orchestra daughter Dede, and her husband (and Junior’s former boyfriend)
Bramwell Tovey, conductor François. The final, closing scene for Sam and the three young people
Nadine Sierra, soprano brings closure and hope to their lives.
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano
Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Fully staged performance; sung in English with supertitles
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Elliot Madore, baritone
Eric Owens, bass
BERNSTEIN Songfest
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
20 2018 SEASON TANGLEWOOD.ORG 212018 SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. AUG 10–17
AUGUST 10 FRIDAY
7pm, Shed See Young People’s Concert Shed prices
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Jamie Bernstein, host
Young People’s Concert
From 1958 until 1972, Leonard Bernstein
and the New York Philharmonic presented
a landmark series of televised Young People’s Concerts™ which
introduced classical music to millions of listeners. Inspired by
Bernstein’s pioneering work as an educator, the BSO and Andris
Nelsons offer a one-time-only hour-long program designed
especially for young audiences and their families. Following in the
great tradition of her father, Jamie Bernstein will be the evening’s
host and presenter.
Concert duration is approximately 60 minutes without intermission.
AUGUST 11 SATURDAY
10:30am Rehearsal, Sunday program
8pm, Shed
John Williams’ Film Night
Boston Pops
John Williams and Andris Nelsons, conductors
John Williams’ Film Night has long been
established as one of the Tanglewood calendar’s
most consistently captivating evenings. Join Mr.
Williams as he presents this year’s celebration
of the music of Hollywood and beyond featuring
the Boston Pops and BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons.
AUGUST 16 THURSDAY
8pm, Ozawa Hall
AUGUST 12 SUNDAY See Shed Special prices Skride Quartet
2:30pm, Shed MAHLER Piano Quartet in A minor
Boston Symphony Orchestra MOZART Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K.478
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Igor Levit, piano
Michael TILSON THOMAS Agnegram
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme
of Paganini AUGUST 17 FRIDAY
MAHLER Symphony No. 1 6pm, Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
AUGUST 15 WEDNESDAY
8pm, Ozawa Hall 8pm, Shed UnderScore Friday Concert
Igor Levit, piano Boston Symphony Orchestra
JACK Quartet Andris Nelsons, conductor
BEETHOVEN Variations and Fugue in E-flat, Yefim Bronfman, piano
Op. 35, Eroica BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
SCHOENBERG Ode to Napoleon, Op. 41 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 4
Frederic RZEWSKI The People United Will
Never Be Defeated!
22 2018 SEASON TANGLEWOOD.ORG 232018 SEASON All programs and artists subject to change. AUG 18–24
AUGUST 22 WEDNESDAY &
AUGUST 23 THURSDAY
8pm, Ozawa Hall
The Knights
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Miles Mykkanen, tenor (Candide)
Sharleen Joynt, soprano (Cunegonde)
Alex Mansoori, tenor (Baron/Governor/
Vanderdendur/Ragotski)
Gabriel Preisser, baritone (Maximilian/Grand Inquisitor)
Courtney Lopes and John Eirich, dancers
Alison Moritz, stage director
John Heginbotham, choreographer
Aaron Copp, lighting designer
Amanda Seymour, costume designer
BERNSTEIN Candide
Leonard Bernstein’s delightful 1956 comic operetta Candide is
based on the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire’s satirical novel,
which follows the title character’s traumatic adventures in imperial
AUGUST 18 SATURDAY Europe and semi-civilized South America. All the while, his teacher’s
10:30am Rehearsal, Sunday program
philosophy of “All’s for the best in this best of all possible worlds” is
put to the test. Candide’s vain sweetheart Cunegonde undergoes even
8pm, Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra worse trials as they’re separated and reunited. Lillian Hellman wrote
Andris Nelsons, conductor the original play; the song lyrics were mostly by poet Richard Wilbur.
Boston Ballet, The score includes such familiar numbers as “Glitter and Be Gay” and
Mikko Nissinen, artistic director “Make Our Garden Grow.”
Baiba Skride, violin Fully staged performances
ALL-BERNSTEIN PROGRAM
Fancy Free*
Divertimento for Orchestra AUGUST 24 FRIDAY
Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”), for violin and orchestra
6pm, Ozawa Hall
When Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins created the hit ballet Prelude Concert
Fancy Free in 1944, each was just twenty-five years old. Bernstein’s Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
first ballet score and Robbins’ first full-scale choreographic effort, it
catapulted both men to stardom. In what would become his signature 8pm, Shed
style, Robbins combined classical choreography with jazz and popular Boston Symphony Orchestra
dance moves. Just months after Fancy Free was premiered at the old Andris Nelsons, conductor
Metropolitan Opera House, its scenario had become the basis for Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Bernstein and Robbins’ hit Broadway musical On the Town (being
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
performed July 7). Fancy Free will be presented here in collaboration
James Burton, conductor
with Boston Ballet, using Robbins’ original choreography.
Children’s Choir
*Fully staged production MAHLER Symphony No. 3
AUGUST 19 SUNDAY
2:30pm, Shed See Shed Special prices
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
COPLAND An Outdoor Overture
BERNSTEIN Three Meditations from Mass,
for cello and orchestra
John WILLIAMS New work for cello and orchestra (world premiere)
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
24 2018 SEASON TANGLEWOOD.ORG 25THE BERNSTEIN CENTENNIAL All programs and artists subject to change. AUG 25–26
CELEBRATION AT TANGLEWOOD
AUGUST 26 SUNDAY
2:30pm, Shed See Shed Special prices
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, soprano
Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Kaiser, tenor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
James Burton, conductor
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
AUGUST 25 SATURDAY
10:30am, Rehearsal Sunday program
8pm, Shed See Bernstein Centennial Celebration Shed prices
The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra*
Andris Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart,
Michael Tilson Thomas, and John Williams, conductors
Audra McDonald, host and vocalist
Midori, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Kian Soltani, cello
Nadine Sierra, soprano One Day University at Tanglewood
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano AUGUST 26 SUNDAY, OZAWA HALL
Thomas Hampson, baritone 9:30am–1:15pm
Jessica Vosk and Tony Yazbeck, vocalists Foreign Policy, Sleep, and
James Darrah, director
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
Climate Change
One Day University, the acclaimed lifelong learning
James Burton, conductor
series, returns to Tanglewood for the eighth year!
Reflecting the season-long theme, The Bernstein Centennial Join these award-winning professors from three renowned schools,
Celebration at Tanglewood spotlights Bernstein’s wide-ranging talents each presenting their best lecture in Ozawa Hall. Then join Ray and
as a composer, his many gifts as a great interpreter and champion Maria Stata Music Director Andris Nelsons and the BSO for the 2018
of other composers, and his role as an inspirer of a new generation season finale performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
of musicians and music lovers across the country and around the
American Foreign Policy: Where Are We Headed?
globe. The gala concert will feature a kaleidoscopic array of artists
Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History and International Affairs,
and ensembles from the worlds of classical music, film, and Broadway.
Princeton University
The entire first half of the program is dedicated to selections from
such brilliant Bernstein works as Candide, West Side Story, Mass, and The Science of Sleep: How it Affects Creativity, Focus and Memory
Serenade. Music from the classical canon very dear to Bernstein’s Jessica Payne, Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
heart—selections from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn and
Climate Change: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
music by Copland—plus a new work by John Williams, makes up a
David Helfand, Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University
good portion of the program’s second half; the finale of Mahler’s
Resurrection Symphony brings the concert to a dramatic close. General Registration: $159
Each registration includes all three lectures, VIP parking, plus one
*Joined by members of the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic complimentary lawn admission or a 10% discount on a Shed ticket
Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center for the August 26 Shed concert at 2:30pm.
Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
26 2018 SEASON TANGLEWOOD.ORG 27Boston Pops $117 $101 $72 $53 $42 $21
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75th Gala (7/14)
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Friends of Tanglewood may order advance tickets. Please follow Prelude Tickets TMC Tickets
instructions on the enclosed letter. Tickets to all Tanglewood events go Your ticket to the Friday-evening TMC Orchestra concerts
on sale Sunday, January 28, 2018, to the general public. BSO concert also admits you to Friends of Tanglewood may
the BSO Prelude Concert at 6pm order tickets for TMC Orchestra
in Ozawa Hall. Your ticket for concerts online. Tickets will be
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Beginning January 28, 2018, Rehearsals you to the 6pm (Saturday) TMC January 28.
at 10am, the general public Please note: Rehearsals may Prelude Concert. Seating for
may order tickets online at Ozawa Hall seats: $57, $47, $37
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subject to a $6.50 per ticket and may also omit movements BSO Prelude Concerts feature TMC recitals, chamber music,
handling fee. This fee is waived or entire pieces. Shed seats are smaller-scale works performed String Quartet Marathon, and
on advance orders before reserved/ticketed seating only, not by members of the Boston Festival of Contemporary Music
January 24, 2018. Friends of general admission. Symphony Orchestra, often performances
Tanglewood can purchase online joined by distinguished guests. Friends of Tanglewood at the
in advance of this date. Tickets are: $100 level receive one free
$34 (Front and Boxes) admission, and Friends at the
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Lawn Pass Books Friends should present their
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enclosed letter. Telephone orders a Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30am membership cards at the gate
provides flexibility and savings.
are subject to a $6.50 per ticket free to Rehearsal ticket holders. one hour before concert time.
No further ticketing is necessary.
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group benefits, including ticket Artists. Lawn Pass Books are TMC Orchestra concerts).
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tents, please call the Group BUTI Wind Ensemble and Chorus
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