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Summer Home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2008 Tanglewood Season
James Levine Brings More Opera to the Berkshires
By: - Nov 30th, 2007The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2008 Tanglewood program with James Taylor celebrating the Fourth of July weekend and an even greater emphasis on opera but no great changes or surprises.
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Elgar at Bard, Weekend II
Of science and religion, Music Halls and World War I, Elgar's Symphonic work, and Gerontius
By: - Sep 06th, 2007The second weekend of the Bard Elgar Festival, the only major celebration of his anniversary in North America.
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Tanglewood Features: Ahmad Jamal and Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones and Roberta Gambarini, The Maria Schneider Orchestra, Bossa Brazil, and Kevin Mahogany's Kansas City Revue
Day Three of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival
By: - Sep 03rd, 2007The Labor Day weekend wound down with the Tanglewood Jazz Festival performances on Sunday that started in the afternoon and ended just around midnight. It was the last groove of summer.
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Kurt Elling, Randy Crawford and Joe Sample Headline at Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Day Two of the Three Day Event
By: - Sep 02nd, 2007During its second day Freddy Taylor again demonstrated what is meant by Festival which is more than just a bunch of concerts. The evening featured the vocalists Kurt Elling and Randy Crawford, accompanied by pianist Joe Sample and his trio.
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Hugh Masekela and Pancho Sanchez at Tanglewood
Weekend Long Tanglewood Jazz Festival Sizzles on a Cool Night
By: - Sep 01st, 2007Now in his sixth season Freddy Taylor has brought the annual Labor Day Weekend long Jazz Festival to venerable Tanglewood. Last night there was hot jazz wafting through the cool breeze.
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Brüggen, Bezuidenhout, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century at Tanglewood
with a digression on Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Fr�hbeck de Burgos and the TMC Orchestra
By: - Aug 29th, 2007A Tanglewood summer relatively rich in historically informed performances ended officially with a mostly impressive Beethoven Ninth under Frühbeck de Burgos with a postlude by the splendid Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under their founder Frans Brüggen with young fortepiano master Kristian Bezuidenhout.
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Mozart-da Ponte: Cosi Fan Tutte at Tanglewood
James Levine, Ira Siff, and the TMC Opera Fellows in a splendid evening
By: - Aug 23rd, 2007In just a few years James Levine has succeeded in making Tanglewood world-class center of operatic studies. He, director Ira Siff,designers John Michael Deegan and Sarah Conly have created an unforgettable production of "Così Fan Tutte."
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Nalini Ghuman, Musicologist, Visa Revoked, Cancels Talk at Bard Music Festival
American-trained academic unable to return to teaching post in California
By: - Aug 21st, 2007The US State Department continues a harmful trend.
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Edward Elgar and his World, The Bard Music Festival 2007
A broad view of the great English composer
By: - Aug 17th, 2007Three weekends of lively performances and lectures on Sir Edward Elgar, the greatest English composer since Purcell, who was also well-represented in the Berkshires this summer.
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Yo-Yo Ma and James Levine Play Dvorák at Tanglewood
One of the summer's most popular events.
By: - Aug 16th, 2007Yo-Yo Ma's commitment and interpretive brilliance overcome a flawed accompaniment.
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Verdi's Don Carlo at Tanglewood with Levine and the TMC Orchestra
Zelijko Lucic and Luciana d'Intino excel in an uneven cast
By: - Aug 04th, 2007The much-loved Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra under Jsmes Levine gave Verdi's middle-period masterpiece a unique quality last weekend.
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The Police were Arresting
A Fenway Reunion for Roxanne and Co
By: - Aug 03rd, 2007Our man Mark Favermann was just steps from the stage at the rock event of the summer a reunion performance by Police at Fenway Park.
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Zemlinsky at Bard: a Review
A Splendid evening of musical theater, not to be missed
By: - Jul 29th, 2007Outstanding singing and conducting and brilliant productions bring Zemlinsky's "Florentine Tragedy" and "The Dwarf" to life.
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Bard Summer Opera Preview: Zemlinsky's
Double bill of one act operas after Oscar Wilde
By: - Jul 25th, 2007Leon Botstein will conduct Olivier Tambosi's stylish productions of these decadent works by Alexander von Zemlinsky, the under-recognized teacher and brother-in-law of Arnold Schoenberg.
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Aston Magna: Johann Sebastian Bach and King Frederick the Great Meet Again
this time, more cordially
By: - Jul 17th, 2007In a beautifully played concert musicians of Aston Magna evoked the infamous encounter between King Frederick the great and J. S. Bach which led to the creation of the Musical Offering.
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Hesperion XXI led by Jordi Savall play Sephardic Music at Tanglewood
Montserrat Figueras sang
By: - Jul 16th, 2007Hesperion XXI thrilled a close-to-capacity non-specialist audience in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
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Andre Previn Jazz Trio at Tanglewood
With Jim Hall and David Finck in Seiji Ozawa Hall
By: - Jul 16th, 2007Accompanied by David Finck, bass and Jim Hall on guitar, the composer and conductor Andre Previn performed jazz for a sold out audience at Ozawa Hall.
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Tokyo String Quartet plays Beethoven and Schubert
Resident Quartet's 30 years at Norfolk Chamber Music
By: - Jul 14th, 2007The great Tokyo Quartet offer energetic, lean Beethoven and a fresh view of Schubert.
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Outstanding and varied chamber music at Yellow Barn
with an important revival: Mauricio Kagel's
By: - Jul 13th, 2007The Yellow Barn Music School and Festival opened their Amherst season with a typical varied program, oustanding playing from its young musicians, and veteran Peter Frankl, as well as a captivating piece by Kagel.
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Opening Night at Tanglewood: Levine conducts Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky
Splendid performances open the Tanglewood summer
By: - Jul 11th, 2007James Levine opened the season with fresh and insightful performances for familiar music: Mendelssohn's music for Midsummer Night's Dream and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
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Pops Puts Nice Spin on Carousel
Keith Lockhart Conducts Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1945 Classic
By: - Jul 11th, 2007It was sweltering last night as Keith Lockhart led the Boston Pops Orchestra and Tanglewood Chorus through a full concert version of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic "Carousel." Predictably the perrenial favorite drew a capacity audience in the Koussevitsky Music Shed and out on the lawn.
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André Previn conducts Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet plus Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto with Jean-Philippe Collard
By: - Jul 11th, 2007André Previn led the BSO in a fine concert of Romantic and Modern versions of Romeo and Juliet with Rachmaninoff's little played First Piano Concerto
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Tanglewood Tantrums
Is Tanglewood relevant today?
By: - Jul 10th, 2007A recent article and editorial in the Berkshire Eagle take Tanglewood to task for falling attendance. Dave Mathews and Bright Eyes to the rescue?
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All-Bartók Program at Tanglewood Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Juilliard String Quartet
Beyond the authoritative: wisdom and originality in the Bartok string quartets
By: - Jul 08th, 2007An inspired celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Juilliard String Quartet and the first performance of the Bartók String Quartets as a cycle, which occurred 59 years ago at Tanglewood.
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Boston Early Music Festival's Splendid Performance of Lully's Psyche
An important production brought to the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington by the Berkshire Opera
By: - Jul 05th, 2007The Boston Early Music Festival's performance of Lully's "Psyché" thrilled a diverse audience in Great Barrington.
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