The best (virtual) things to do in the Berkshires in the summer of 2020.
Tag: BSO
The no-Tanglewood salad
I am here to remind you if you can’t listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra live while picnicking on the lawn at Tanglewood, you can still picnic on a lawn somewhere and perhaps even listen to a BSO concert.
BSO cancels 2020 Tanglewood season, ‘ripple effect’ feared
The announcement was a devastating blow to the region’s economy, which is already reeling from the effects of the economic shutdown and the recently announced season cancellations from Jacob’s Pillow, Shakespeare & Company and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
BSO announces 2020-21 season at Symphony Hall, cancels July 4 Esplanade show
Seeing the orchestra’s future plans writ large reminds us that the BSO is, right now, building up one helluva head of steam.
BSO cancels Boston Pops spring season; fate of BSO summer season at Tanglewood uncertain
“It is our obligation to our audiences, musicians, and staff to do everything we can to ensure everyone’s safety and well-being during the unprecedented time of this pandemic.”
Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart
PREVIEW: BSO community chamber music Nov. 24 at MCLA
Orchestra’s founder Henry Lee Higginson’s desire was to make great music accessible to “any one and everyone likely to care for such things,” and the BSO in recent years seems to have re-doubled its efforts to make Higginson’s vision a reality
PREVIEW: Boston Symphony Orchestra to perform free community chamber concert at Darrow School
The main reason they’re giving a concert Sunday, March 10, at Darrow School is because they enjoy performing music we usually don’t associate with the BSO: folk, especially in the traditional Celtic style.
PREVIEW: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, July 8 with the BSO at Tanglewood
Although one must be wary of the word “definitive” when describing any musical performance, overenthusiastic critics (there are a few) must be forgiven if they use such language to describe the orchestra’s widely praised Shostakovitch performances.
REVIEW: West Stockbridge Chamber Players, an all-star benefit performance
When winter’s end finds you jonesing for a Tanglewood fix, the West Stockbridge Chamber Players satisfy the craving.
REVIEW: BSO in fine fettle under Asst. Conductor Ken-David Masur
Under Ken-David Masur’s direction on Saturday, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 crackled with such vitality and force that past performances of the work now seem pale and tentative by comparison.
Desegregating the Berkshires – 54 years ago
“My Tanglewood roommate, James Tranks, an African American double bass player from Philadelphia, walked into a barbershop in Great Barrington which immediately pulled down its blinds and told him the barbershop was closed. The same thing happened at a second barbershop in Great Barrington shortly thereafter and in Lee the following day.”
— Tanglewood Fellow Jim Levinson, recalling an incident in the summer of 1961
At Tanglewood: Ballet, vignettes, concertos and ‘symphonies’
I have always suffered from lack of skill in the management of form. Only persistent labor has at last permitted me to achieve a form that in some degree corresponds to the content.
— Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky