Hans Graf Leads The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Violinist Gil Shaham at Tanglewood

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BERKSHIRE NIGHT AT TANGLEWOOD ON JULY 28 FEATURES BEETHOVEN’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 AND BERLIOZ’ “LE CORSAIRE” OVERTURE KREMERATA BALTICA PERFORMS COMPLETE CYCLE OF MOZART’S VIOLIN CONCERTOS, AUGUST 2 AND 3 Austrian conductor Hans Graf leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in two performances on July 29 and 30 at Tanglewood. Mr. Graf, currently music director of the Houston Symphony, will conduct Beethoven’s Violin concerto in D, Op. 61, at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 29, in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, featuring violinist Gil Shaham. The program concludes with Stravinsky’s Firebird. On Sunday, July 30, Mr. Graf leads the BSO and violinist Midori in a performance of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. The 2:30 p.m. Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert in the Shed also includes Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Italian, and Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28. For Berkshire Night at Tanglewood, Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Ludovic Morlot conducts the orchestra and pianist André Watts in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 21, at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 28. This Tanglewood season features performances of all five Beethoven piano concertos with five of the world’s eminent pianists: Imogen Cooper (Concerto No. 1, August 25); Emanuel Ax (Concerto No. 2, August 26); André Watts; Yefim Bronfman (Concerto No. 4, August 27); and Lars Vogt (Concerto No. 5, August 6). The July 28 concert also includes Berlioz’ Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21; Perle’s Transcendental Modulations; and Ravel’s La Valse, Poème choréographique. Berkshire residents with valid identification may obtain two free tickets per person in advance of this concert at the Tanglewood Box Office 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, July 22; 10 a.m.-noon on Sunday, July 23; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Monday, July 24. Before the Berkshire Night concert, guides will offer free tours of the Tanglewood grounds from 6 to 7 p.m., and children may take part in an instrument petting zoo from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Visitors Center. For more information on Berkshire Night, call the Tanglewood Volunteer Office at 413-637-5393. Kremerata Baltica, with artistic director and soloist Gidon Kremer, performs the complete cycle of Mozart’s violin concertos in two concerts at Ozawa Hall on Wednesday, August 2, and Thursday, August 3, in a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The first concert at 8:30 p.m. on August 2 features the Baltic states-based chamber orchestra performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat, K.207; Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211; Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216; and Serenade No. 6 in D, K.239, Serenata notturna; as well as Schnittke’s Gratulationsrondo, for solo violin and strings, and Nyman’s “Trysting Fields” from Drowning by Numbers. The second concert - at 8:30 p.m. on August 3 - includes Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546; Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218; and Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219; as well as Shostakovich’s Two Pieces (Prelude and Scherzo), Op. 11, and Raskatov’s Five Minutes in the Life of WAM for solo violin, strings, and percussion. Festival of Contemporary Music The Festival of Contemporary Music, July 27-31, features predominantly American works by both young composers and the pioneers of past decades. Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director James Levine will lead the American stage premiere of Elliott Carter’s opera What Next? at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 27, and 2:30 p.m. on Friday, July 28. TMC Conducting Fellows will also lead staged performances of Hindemith’s Hin und zurück and Stravinsky’s Mavra in both these concerts, held in the Theatre. This year’s Festival of Contemporary Music includes a tribute to esteemed American composer Donald Martino who died this past winter. Two of Martino’s works - including selections from Fantasies and Impromptus, widely considered to be one of his masterpieces - will be performed at an 11 a.m. concert on Saturday, July 29, in Ozawa Hall. The following day, audiences will hear 40 seconds of a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center that Martino was unable to complete before his death. Other established composers whose works will be represented at the festival include Elliott Carter, Betsy Jolas, Pierre Boulez, and Milton Babbitt, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year. In keeping with the FCM’s mission to perform the finest modern music, this year’s festival also features the fresh music of younger generations of composers, and the music of composers not often heard at Tanglewood. The first concert of Sunday, July 30, includes works by such American composers as University of Illinois associate professor Stephen Andrew Taylor, State University of New York professor David Felder, former Fulbright fellow Mark Gustavson, Brandeis University professor Eric Chasalow, Duke University professor Stephen Jaffe, and University of California at Berkeley associate professor Edmund Campion. Other fresh compositional voices include 32-year-old former Alban Berg Stiftung fellow Johannes Staud and 27-year-old Andrew Norman, recent winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s Rudolf Nissim Award. The FCM concludes on Monday, July 31, in Ozawa Hall with an 8:30 p.m. performance of British composer and Tanglewood Music Center alumnus Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Blood on the Floor, a powerful piece featuring four jazz soloists within a large ensemble. Tanglewood Ticket Information Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is located in Lenox, Mass. The 2006 season begins on June 23 and continues through Labor Day weekend, concluding with the annual Jazz Festival. Tickets for the 8:30 p.m. concert on Friday, July 28, are $15, $27, $48, $72, and $87, with lawn tickets available for $8.50. Tickets for the 8:30 p.m. concert on Saturday, July 29, and the 2:30 p.m. concert on Sunday, July 30, are $18, $27, $48, $72, and $87, with lawn tickets available for $17. The Kremerata Baltica performances on Wednesday, August 2, and Thursday, August 3, are $36, $46, and $56, with lawn tickets available for $17. Tickets for the Festival of Contemporary Music concerts on Thursday, July 27, and Friday, July 28, are $30 and $50. Tickets to remaining FCM concerts are $11. New this season, Tanglewood is pleased to offer a 50-percent discount on lawn tickets for all BSO Friday-evening concerts. Lawn tickets for Friday evening concerts are $8.50. Tanglewood continues its Children’s Lawn Ticket Program, which offers free lawn seating to children age 12 and under. Up to four free children’s tickets are available per parent or legal guardian per concert at the Tanglewood Box Office on the day of the concert. Children admitted without charge must sit with their parent or legal guardian on the lawn, and those under 5 years old must sit on the rear half of the lawn. Children under 5 years are not permitted in the Koussevitzky Music Shed or Seiji Ozawa Hall during concerts. All patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket. The free lawn-ticket policy does not apply to organized groups of children. To charge tickets to a major credit card, call SymphonyCharge at 617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200. Tickets are also available for purchase in person at the Tanglewood Box Office at Tanglewood’s Main Gate on West Street in Lenox, Mass. American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club, Discover, personal checks, and cash are all accepted at the Tanglewood Box Office. The box office is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. The box office extends its hours beginning June 27 and is open on weekdays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. or through intermission on concert evenings. On Saturdays, it is open 9 a.m. through intermission, and on Sundays 10 a.m. through intermission. The Tanglewood Box Office only sells tickets for performances at Tanglewood. Tanglewood brochures - with complete programs and information on how to order tickets - is available by calling 617-638-9467, through www.bso.org, or by writing to: Tanglewood Brochure, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115. For further information, please call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492 or visit www.tanglewood.org , powered by the EMC Corporation. In consideration of all patrons, Tanglewood is a smoke-free environment. Designated smoking areas are marked outside the Tanglewood entrance gates. New Patron Options New this summer, bus service connects Boston and Tanglewood for Friday- and Saturday-night concerts. The bus begins boarding at 4:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall and departs at 5 p.m., with a 5:30 p.m. stop at the Riverside MBTA Station in Newton. The bus leaves Tanglewood after the concerts at about 10:30 p.m., with stops at the Riverside Station in Newton and Symphony Hall in Boston. This route will run July 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29; and August 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26. Fare is $30 per person and does not include a ticket to the Tanglewood performance. For further information or to reserve a seat on the bus, patrons should call 888-266-1200. Lawn chairs can be rented at Tanglewood for $4 before each concert, with a $1 discount per chair for rentals of four or more. The chairs are available at the Grille at the Main Gate entrance for concerts in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. For concerts in Ozawa Hall, chairs are available at the Bernstein Gate. Rentals are subject to availability, and only cash will be accepted. These rentals are intended to serve all Tanglewood patrons, especially first-time visitors who may not realize they may want to bring seating. During Shed concerts, children may play ball behind the Visitor Center or near Ozawa Hall. Ball playing and other games that may disturb patrons are not permitted on the lawn of the Shed at any time when the grounds are open for a Shed concert. Boston Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts Tanglewood concerts are broadcast live on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in Boston on WCRB 102.5 FM, in Albany on WAMC 90.3 FM, and in Connecticut on WMNR 88.1 FM. Sunday afternoon concerts are also broadcast in Boston on WGBH 89.7 FM. Tanglewood is handicapped-accessible. WAMC is Tanglewood’s media partner for the 2006 season. All programs and artists are subject to change. For complete programs, ticket information, and downloadable press photos, please visit Tanglewood’s online press kit at www.bso.org/presskits/tanglewood . Tanglewood Concert Listing, July 28-August 3 All programs and artists are subject to change Friday, July 28, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MALCOLM LOWE, violin GLEN CHERRY, violin MARVIN MOON, viola MIHAIL JOJATU, cello BENJAMIN LEVY, double bass MARK McEWEN, oboe ANN HOBSON PILOT, harp VYTAS BAKSYS, piano and harpsichord MARTIN* Quartet for oboe, violin, cello, and piano MOZART String Quartet in B-flat, K.589 SCHNITTKE Moz-Art, for oboe, harp, harpsichord, violin, cello, and double bass (after sketches by Mozart, K.416d) Friday, July 28, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LUDOVIC MORLOT, conductor ANDRÉ WATTS, piano Berkshire Night BERLIOZ Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 PERLE Transcendental Modulations RAVEL La Valse, Poème choréographique Friday, July 28, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE WIND ENSEMBLE ROBERT REYNOLDS, conductor ANDRES Mull It Over SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude in E-flat minor WAGNER Trauermusik HINDEMITH Symphony in B-flat BENSON The Passing Bell MACKEY Redline Tango Saturday, July 29, 9:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Sunday program; pre-rehearsal talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 29, 11 a.m., Ozawa Hall TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS Festival of Contemporary Music MARTINO selections from Fantasies and Impromptus FORD Brandelli TAYLOR Excerpts from Seven Memorials STAUD Black Moon MARTINO Three Sad Songs Saturday, July 29, 2:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE ORCHESTRA JAMES GAFFIGAN, conductor KATHERINE JOLLY, soprano GEORGIA JARMEN, soprano BRENDA PATTERSON, mezzo-soprano OWEN YOUNG, cello MATTHEW GAUNT, tuba POULENC Gloria STRAUSS Salome’s Dance ROSSINI Duet from Tancredi DVORAK Silent Woods for solo cello and orchestra MUHLY It Remains To Be Seen PLOG Three Miniatures for Tuba and Wind Ensemble Saturday, July 29, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS Festival of Contemporary Music NORMAN Gran Turismo DRUCKMAN String Quartet No. 2 JOLAS Quartet No. 2 BOULEZ Messagesquisse Saturday, July 29, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HANS GRAF, conductor GIL SHAHAM, violin BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete) Sunday, July 30, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS Festival of Contemporary Music LIGETI Lamento-Adagio from Horn Trio GUSTAVSON Clarinet Quintet FELDER Canzone XXXI CHASALOW Crossing Boundaries JAFFE Double Sonata for two pianos CAMPION Outside Music Sunday, July 30, 2:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HANS GRAF, conductor MIDORI, violin MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Italian BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 Sunday, July 30, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER FELLOWS DAVID STAROBIN, solo guitar Festival of Contemporary Music MARTINO Concertino for violin and 14 instruments (unfinished) (TMC commission; world premiere) BABBITT Don STAUD vielleicht zunächst wirklich nur ABRAHAMSEN Piano Concerto FORD Versus for violin and ensemble (TMC commission; world premiere) RUDERS Psalmodies, for guitar and ensemble Monday, July 31, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA STEFAN ASBURY, conductor PETER ERSKINE, percussion MARTIN ROBERTSON, saxophone JOHN PARRICELLI, guitar The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood; Festival of Contemporary Music TURNAGE Blood on the Floor Wednesday, August 2, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall KREMERATA BALTICA GIDON KREMER, artistic director and soloist MOZART The Complete Violin Concertos, Program 1 SCHNITTKE Gratulationsrondo, for solo violin and strings MOZART Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211 MOZART Violin concerto No. 1 in B-flat, K.207 NYMAN “Trysting Fields” from Drowning by Numbers MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216 MOZART Serenade No. 6 in D, K.239, Serenata notturna Thursday, August 3, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall KREMERATA BALTICA GIDON KREMER, artistic director and soloist MOZART The Complete Violin Concertos, Program 2 SHOSTAKOVICH Two pieces (Prelude and Scherzo), Op. 11 MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218 RASKATOV Five Minutes in the Life of WAM for solo violin, strings, and percussion MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219
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Dalton and Fire District Set Tax Rates for FY25

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Select Board voted to maintain a single tax rate, as it has done historically, during its meeting on Monday night. 
 
This means all types of properties within the town, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, will be taxed at the same rate.
 
The town's tax rate for fiscal year 2025 is projected to be $16.47 per $1,000 property value, which is a decrease of 54 cents from last year's rate of $17.01. 
 
The average tax bill for a single-family residence in Dalton would be about $5,561.06 for an average value of $337,648.
 
Residential properties continue to represent most of the total value in town, at approximately 86 percent, with commercial, industrial, and personal property only making up about 14 percent, Assessor's Clerk Lee Nunez said.  
 
The town's excess levy capacity for FY25 is approximately $777,158, which is down from FY24's figure of $864,386.07. The town takes this figure into consideration when developing the budget. 
 
The total assessed value of taxable properties in town for FY25 is $959,176,725, an increase of $63,853,860, or 7.13 percent over last year. 
 
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