The BSO is also releasing certain performances at the same times as they would have been heard live, with complete online recordings of BSO concerts taking place Sundays at 2:30 p.m. as an example of such scheduling.
Mr. Gonzalez has ballet fresh in his mind fairly often, and the things he has to say about composers and choreographers are far too numerous to fit into a single lecture.
With the second summer of TLI programming coming up in just 200 days or so, it's the perfect time to nibble (binge?) on party food and peruse TLI's summer schedule.
The problem with making a list of Tanglewood summer highlights is that almost nothing on the schedule qualifies as a lowlight, not even soloists or composers we've never heard of.
Because of its quirky keyboard layout — and the scales most idiomatic to the instrument — it seems likely that the bandoneon actually shaped the evolution of tango music.
Just as the group launched into Mozart's "Kegelstatt Trio," the Center's famous mascot, a 100-foot-tall red oak, began to flutter in the wind, its leaves painted in shades of saffron, peach and tangerine.
In one fell swoop, Tanglewood became a year-round venue for the first time in its 82-year history when it launched the new Linde Center for Music and Learning in the summer of 2019.
The story of the Chevalier de Saint-Georges and his erstwhile roommate Mozart is the subject of Bill Barclay's latest musical work, 'The Black Mozart,' which the Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned for the inaugural season of the Tanglewood Learning Institute.
It is not an exaggeration to suggest that, for many devotees in the audience, this experience was indeed like being in a cathedral, with the voices coming from the stage reaching to the heavens above as well as into their hearts.
Had composer and conductor Oliver Knussen not died in Suffolk last year at the age of 66, he would have presided over this year’s Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music. It seemed fitting as well that the first sounds to put the new hall to test were Knussen’s stunning 'Prequel to Opening Signal.'
Here was a morning of provocative musical offerings and ear-rattling virtuosity, leaving the listener to wonder from minute to minute, “How is that even possible?” and “How come I never heard these guys?”
The Linde Center's long-term importance to Tanglewood could eventually rival or even exceed that of Ozawa Hall. Why? Because of the wide range of programming that the Linde Center can support.
