The Classical Beat:Great Music at Tanglewood and Sevenars
Tanglewood showcases three audience-favorite Festival extravaganzas
With the arrival of August, we are at the apex of the music festival season. Programs at Tanglewood offer a diverse and intriguing mix of chamber music by Schubert and Dvorak, as well as by early 20th century and living composers; rare performances of vocal music of Lili Boulanger and Clara Schumann; virtuosic orchestral repertoire, featuring an all-Beethoven program and, for a scintillating contrast, the piquant music of Maurice Ravel, Silvestre Revueltas and Henri Dutilleux. You won't want to miss Tanglewood's annual "John Williams' Film Night," featuring the Boston Pops led by conductors John Williams and Ken-David Masur; this very special edition will occur over two consecutive evenings.
For an exceptional afternoon of virtuoso pianism, enjoy the superb artist Junwen Liang in a solo recital on Sunday at the Sevenars Festival in pastoral South Worthington.
Listed events inclusively cover the week from Wednesday, July 31 through Tuesday, August 6. Read below for the details.
Tanglewood
Here are this week's three spectacular, large-scale highlights – each featuring superlative artists performing audience-favorite repertoire:
The Boston Pops at "John Williams' Film Nights," which includes a celebration of the great film composer Henry Mancini's 100th birthday, with conductors Ken-David Masur and David Newman (August 2 and 3)
An all-Beethoven program with pianist Kirill Gerstein, violinist Joshua Bell, and cellist Steven Isserlis led by conductor Alan Gilbert (August 4).
The annual Tanglewood on Parade this year is dedicated as a memorial tribute to BSO Music Director Laureate Maestro Seiji Ozawa, who passed away earlier this year, with conductors Keith Lockhart, Alan Gilbert, Ken-David Masur, and Anna Rakitina and guests soprano Christine Goerke and the Marcus Roberts Trio (August 6). The eclectic program includes works by John Williams, Richard Strauss, Hector Berlioz, and George Gershwin, as well as Tchaikovsky's concluding, spectacular "1812 Overture."
Here are Tanglewood's concerts and auxiliary events for the week:
Wednesday, July 31:
1:30 p.m.in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TLI Open Workshops: Toby Oft, trombone
8 p.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall
Recital Series:
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Joshua Bell, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello
DEBUSSY Sonata for Cello and Piano
DEBUSSY Sonata for Violin and Piano
RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello
Brad MEHLDAU "Après Fauré No. 3" (Nocturne)
FAURÉ Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119
DEBUSSY Works for piano solo
Pièce pour l'œuvre du "Vêtement du blessé" (For the "Clothing for the Wounded")
Berceuse héroïque
Les Soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon ("Evenings lit by burning coals")
Élégie
FAURÉ Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
Thursday, August 1:
1 p.m. in the Tent Club
TLI Talks and Walks
Anthony Fogg, moderator, with conductor Ken-David
Masur
8 p.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall
Recital Series:
Danish String Quartet
Johannes Rostamo, cello
SCHUBERT Quintet in C, D.956
Thomas ADÈS
"Wreath for Franz Schubert," for String Quintet
SCHUBERT "Die Nebonsonnen" from Wintereisse (Arr. Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen)
Friday, August 2:
2 p.m. in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TLI The Art of Conducting: Alan Gilbert
6 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
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
William COBLE Satsang, for solo double bass
Todd SEEBER "The Sleepers" DVORÁK String Quintet in G, Op. 77
8 p.m. in the Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra David Newman and Ken-David Masur, conductors John Williams' Film Night
A beloved highlight of the Tanglewood season, John
Williams' Film Night returns with Maestros Williams and
Masur leading the Boston Pops in two memorable
evenings of music and film clips from Hollywood's
Golden Age to contemporary favorites, including a
special celebration of Henry Mancini's 100th birthday.
Saturday, August 3:
10:30 a.m. in the Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program
1:30 p.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall
BU Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra
2:30 p.m. in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TLI Presents: "Black Voices in Cabaret–Josephine Baker"
6 p.m., Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TMC Fellows
Prelude Concert
Clara SCHUMANN Six lieder, Op. 13
Lili BOULANGER Selected songs
BONDS Four Songs
SAARIAHO "The Tempest Songbook"
8 p.m., Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
John Williams and Ken-David Masur, conductors
John Williams' Film Night
Sunday, August 4:
10 a.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall
TMC Chamber Music
BEACH Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67
George LEWIS float, sting
Jan BACH Rounds and Dances
Maya MIRO JOHNSON Come Cut Me Open
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 74, The Harp
10:30 a.m., Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TLI for Families: In collaboration with the Norman
Rockwell Museum
Rebecca Sheir, host
1:30 p.m., Seiji Ozawa Hall
BU Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind
Ensemble
2:30 p.m. in the Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Joshua Bell, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
7 p.m. in Studio E, Linde Center for Music and Learning
TLI Presents: Kirill Gerstein and guests perform
Cabaret music from 1920s Berlin
Monday, August 5:
8 p.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Alan Gilbert, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
HAYDN Symphony No. 90
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
REVUELTAS "Sensemayá"
DUTILLEUX "Métaboles"
Tuesday, August 6:
Tanglewood on Parade
2:30 p.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall
TMC chamber orchestra, unconducted
MOZART Symphony No. 35 in D, K.385, Haffner
3:30 p.m., 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)
5:00 p.m. in 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"
5:30 p.m. in the visitor center
Frame and friends
7:30 p.m.in the Shed
TMC Fanfares
Valerie COLEMAN "Fanfare for Uncommon Times"
COPLAND "Ceremonial Fanfare"
COPLAND "Fanfare for the Common Man"
8 p.m. in the Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, John Williams, and Anna Rakitina,
conductors
Christine Goerke, soprano
Marcus Roberts Trio
Program to include
John WILLIAMS "For Seiji!"
BERLIOZ "Hungarian March" from "The Damnation of
Faust"
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
TCHAIKOVSKY "1812 Overture"
Fireworks to follow the concert
For tickets to all Tanglewood events, call (888) 266-1200, or go online at tanglewood.org.
Piano Masterpieces at Sevenars
Music at Sevenars, the outstanding series of Sunday afternoon concerts, presented from mid-July through mid-August, continues this week:
• Sunday, August 4 at 4:00 p.m.: Sevenars presents the outstanding pianist Junwen Liang, who has been named Sevenars' "Young Artist to Watch." Mr. Liang will perform a recital of keyboard masterworks by Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy and Prokofiev. Mr. Liang has been praised as "an extremely gifted and promising young artist" (New York Concert Review), and his biography includes an impressive array of "captivating" performances (Stroll Magazine), including those at the Tuesday Concert Series in Washington, DC, the Sunday Recital Series at Saint Thomas in New York, the Trinity Concert Series, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
Founded in 1968, Sevenars Concerts, Inc., is celebrating its 56th season of six summer concerts, held at the Academy, a building designated "an acoustic gem in an idyllic setting," located in the historic village of South Worthington,15 Ireland Street, off MA Route 112.
Concerts are presented on consecutive Sundays at 4:00 p.m. until August 18. Phone: (413) 238-5854 (please leave a message for a return call). Online: www.sevenars.org. Email: Sevenars@aol.com. Admission is by donation at the door (suggested $20). Refreshments will be available.
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