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June
Friday, June 22, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble perform a diverse program on Western and non-Western instruments.
Saturday, June 23, 7 p.m., Shed
Diana Krall, vocalist and pianist
Sunday, June 24, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble perform a diverse program on Western and non-Western instruments.
Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mark Morris, choreographer
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
Something Lies Beyond the Scene: WALTON Façade: An Entertainment
Rock of Ages: SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat, D.897, 2nd movement
Festival Dance: HUMMEL Piano Trio No. 5 in E, Op. 83
Friday, June 29, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mark Morris, choreographer
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
Something Lies Beyond the Scene: WALTON Façade: An Entertainment
Rock of Ages: SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat, D.897, 2nd movement
Festival Dance: HUMMEL Piano Trio No. 5 in E, Op. 83
Saturday, June 30, 5:45 p.m., Shed
A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood with Garrison Keillor
Live broadcast.
July
Sunday, July 1, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall
Brass Extravaganza
Stefan Asbury, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
Works by BOURGEOIS, SEO and others.
Monday, July 2, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Ozawa Hall
String Quartet Marathon
TMC Instrumental Fellows
Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., Shed
Tuesday, July 3, 7 p.m., Shed
Wednesday, July 4, 7 p.m., Shed
James Taylor at Tanglewood
James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his band of musicians and surprise guests for three performances.
Fireworks to follow the July 4 concert. Proceeds from the July 4 concert to benefit Tanglewood.
Thursday, July 5, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Emerson String Quartet
MOZART - Quartet No. 21 in D, K.575
BEETHOVEN - Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130, with original Grosse Fuge finale
Friday, July 6, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Opening Night at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
All BEETHOVEN program: Leonore Overture No. 3
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Symphony No. 5
Fireworks to follow the concert.
Saturday, July 7, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Saturday Program
Saturday, July 7, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Michael Stern, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
Edgar Meyer, double bass
BARBER - Overture to The School for Scandal
TCHAIKOVSKY - Meditation, for violin and orchestra
MEYER - Double Concerto for violin, double bass, and orchestra (world premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 4
Sunday, July 8, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Works by DEBUSSY, FRANÇAIX, KOVLER and ROBERTS.
Sunday, July 8, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Bernadette Peters, vocalist
Broadway star Bernadette Peters sings Let Me Entertain You, Fever, Some Enchanted Evening, more.
Sunday, July 8, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
RESPIGHI - Fountains of Rome
SCHULLER - New work (world premiere)
DVORAK - In Nature's Realm
PROKOFIEV - Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Concert
Wednesday, July 11, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Andre Previn, piano
MOZART - Sonata No. 27 in G for violin and piano, K.379
FRANCK - Sonata in A for violin and piano
PREVIN - Tango, Song, and Dance for violin and piano
PREVIN - Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (American premiere)
Thursday, July 12, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music
Benjamin Bagby, director
The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Vengeance from the Medieval Icelandic Edda
A dramatic presentation sung in Old Norse with English supertitles.
Friday, July 13, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Anne-Sophie Mutter, conductor and violin
All MOZART Program: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A
Saturday, July 14, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday Program
Saturday, July 14, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Tanglewood 75th Celebration
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Williams, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons and John Oliver, conductors
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Emanuel Ax and Peter Serkin, piano
James Taylor, vocalist
COPLAND - Fanfare for the Common Man
BERNSTEIN - Three dance episodes from On the Town
Selections from The Great American Songbook
HAYDN - Piano Concerto in D, 2nd and 3rd movements
TCHAIKOVSKY - Andante cantabile, for cello and strings
SARASATE - Carmen Fantasy, for violin and orchestra
STRAUSS - Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
BEETHOVEN - Choral Fantasy
Sunday, July 15, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Works by BEETHOVEN, DEBUSSY, HINDEMITH, KURTÁG and NIELSEN.
Sunday, July 15, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
STRAVINSKY - Symphony of Psalms
BRAHMS - Symphony No. 2
Monday, July 16, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
BRAHMS - Tragic Overture
SCHUBERT - Symphony No. 8, Unfinished
Wednesday, July 18, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS - Complete Works for Piano, Program 1
Thursday, July 19, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS - Complete Works for Piano, Program 2
Friday, July 20, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Dan Zhu, violin
BERNSTEIN - Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) for violin and orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
Saturday, July 21, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday Program
Saturday, July 21, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Asher Fisch, conductor
All WAGNER Program:
Overture to Rienzi
Prelude and Love-death from Tristan und Isolde
Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Prelude to Parsifal
Overture to Tannhäuser
Sunday, July 22, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Works by BARTÓK, GUBAIDULINA, MOZART and SCHOENBERG.
Sunday, July 22, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
All-Mozart Program
Kurt Masur, conductor
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491
Symphony No. 36, Linz
Sunday, July 22, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC Vocal Concert
Monday, July 23, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
TMC Conducting Fellows
IVES - Three Places in New England
SCHOENBERG - Piano Concerto
STRAVINSKY - Petrushka
Wednesday, July 25, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS - Complete Works for Piano, Program 3
Thursday, July 26, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS - Complete Works for Piano, Program 4
Friday, July 27, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor
Nelson Freire, piano
MOZART - Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
VILLA-LOBOS - Momoprecoce, Fantasy for piano and orchstra
MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, July 28, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday Program
Saturday, July 28, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Paul Groves, tenor
Sir Willard White, baritone
Christopher Feigum, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
PALS Children's Chorus
Andy Icochea Icochea, conductor
BERLIOZ - La Damnation de Faust
Sung in French with English supertitles.
Sunday, July 29, 10:00 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Works by BACH, MOZART, PROKOFIEV and SCHUBERT.
Sunday, July 29, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
BEETHOVEN - Piano Concerto No. 3
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 5
Monday, July 30, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
TMC Conducting Fellows
TMC Vocal Fellows
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver. conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
MESSIAEN - Oiseaux Exotiques
STRAVINSKY - Les Noces
August
Wednesday, August 1, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC Vocal Concert
Thursday, August 2, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Gerald Finley, baritone
Songs by LOEWE, SCHUMANN AND BRITTEN.
Friday, August 3, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Gerald Finley, baritone
MOZART - Symphony No. 38, Prague
MOZART - Arias from Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni
RAVEL - Alborada del gracioso
RAVEL - Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, for baritone and orchestra
RAVEL - Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Saturday, August 4, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday Program
Saturday, August 4, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
SCHUMANN - Symphony No. 4
BRAHMS - Concerto No. 2
Sunday, August 4, 10:00 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Works by BARTÓK, DVORÁK and SCHUBERT.
Sunday, August 5, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
GANDOLFI - New work (world premiere; BSO commission)
SAINT-SAËNS - Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
BERLIOZ - Symphonie fantastique
Sunday, August 5, 8 p.m., Shed
Chris Botti
American jazz trumpeter plays jazz standards.
Tuesday, August 7, 8:30 p.m. (gates open 2 p.m. with activities and music all afternoon), Shed
Tanglewood On Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, Keith Lockhart, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi and John Williams, conductors
BEETHOVEN - Egmont Overture
RAVEL - Mother Goose Suite
Recent film scores by John Williams
TCHAIKOVSKY - 1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert.
Thursday, August 9, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Festival of Contemporary Music
Oliver Knussen, director
BEDFORD - Or Voit Tout En Aventure
BIRTWISTLE - Cantus Iambeus
CARTER - Double Trio
CASTIGLIONI - Quickly
SHEPHERD - These Particular Circumstances
Friday, August 10, 2:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Festival of Contemporary Music
Gloria Cheng, piano
Works by BENJAMIN, BIRTWISTLE, HARBISON, KNUSSEN and RANDS.
Friday, August 10, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
John Ferrillo, oboe
Malcolm Lowe, violin
John Gibbons, harpsichord
All BACH Program: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Concerto in C minor for violin, oboe, and strings, BWV 1060
Concerto in D minor for two violins and strings, BWV 1043
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Saturday, August 11, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday Program
Saturday, August 11, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Festival of Contemporary Music
Gunther Schuller, conductor
All CHARLES IVES Prelude Concert. Ticket to 8:30 p.m. Shed concert required.
Saturday, August 11, 8:30 p.m.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
PREVIN - New work (world premiere; BSO commission)
ELGAR - Cello Concerto Download Program Notes Download Program Audio
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No. 5
Sunday, August 12, 10 a.m., Ozawa Hall
Festival of Contemporary Music
BIRTWISTLE - Dinah and Nick's Love Song
CASTIGLIONI - Tropi
DEL TREDICI - Soliloquy
EPSTEIN - New Work (world premiere; commissioned by the TMC)
GRIME - Seven Pierrot Miniatures
SHEPHERD - Quartet for Oboe and Strings
Sunday, August 12, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 4
MOZART - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
STRAUSS - Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Sunday, August 12, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Festival of Contemporary Music
Stefan Asbury, conductor
CASTIGLIONI - Inverno In-Ver
KNUSSEN - Higglety Pigglety Pop! - A concert performance of Oliver Knussen's one-act opera with a story and libretto by Maurice Sendak.
Monday, August 13, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Festival of Contemporary Music
Oliver Knussen, conductor
Peter Serkin, piano
BEDFORD - Outblaze the Sky
BENJAMIN - Duet
DEL TREDICI - Happy Voices
GRIME - Everyone Sang
SCHULLER - New work (commissioned by the TMC)
Wednesday, August 15, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC Vocal Concert
Thursday, August 16, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Ébène String Quartet
MOZART - Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421
TCHAIKOVSKY - Quarter No. 1 in D, Op. 11
Jazz improvisations, arranged by the Ébène Quartet
Friday, August 17, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
COPLAND - Suite from Appalachian Spring
BARBER - Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 7
Saturday, August 18, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Saturday Program
Saturday, August 18, 8:30 p.m., Shed
John Williams' 80th Birthday Celebration
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart and Leonard Slatkin, conductors
Jessye Norman, soprano
Gil Shaham, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Gabriela Montero, piano
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Surprise guests
Tanglewood pays tribute to beloved maestro John Williams with an evening featuring Williams' most popular works for film and the concert stage.
Sunday, August 19, 10:00 a.m., Ozawa Hall
TMC: Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, August 19, 2:30 p.m., Shed
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
BEETHOVEN - Violin Concerto
BARTÓK - Concerto for Orchestra
Sunday, August 19, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Christian McBride Trio
with Christian Sands and Ulysses Owens, Jr.
Wednesday, August 22, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Karina Gauvin, soprano
FOSS - For Aaron
J.S. BACH - Cantata No. 209, Non sa che sia dolore
HINDEMITH - Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2, for wind quintet
BRUCH - Kol nidrei, Op. 47, for double bass and piano
MOZART - Divertimento in E-flat, K.289
Friday, August 24, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Pops
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Ilya Yakushev, piano
Maureen McGovern and Brian Stokes Mitchell, special guests
A celebration of George Gershwin and the creators of the Great American Songbook, featuring Gershwin's classic Rhapsody in Blue.
Saturday, August 25, 10:30 a.m., Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday Program
Saturday, August 25, 2:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Family Concert
The Family Concert is designed to engage and inspire children through music and programs for young audiences. This year's concert features returning artists Classical Tangent.
Saturday, August 25, 8:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar
Núria Pomares Rojas, Flamenco dancer
Soloists
ALBÉNIZ - (arr. Frühbeck de Burgos) Suite española
FALLA - La vida breve
Sung in Spanish with English supertitles.
Sunday, August 26, 2:30 p.m., Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Leah Crocetto, soprano
Meredith Arwady, mezzo-soprano
Frank Lopardo, tenor
John Relyea, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 9
Sunday, August 26, 8 p.m., Ozawa Hall
Chick Corea and Gary Burton Hot House Tour
with the Harlem String Quartet
September
Although there will not be a Tanglewood Jazz Festival in 2012, Labor Day weekend performances will be announced.
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