Tag: Tanglewood Music Center

Franziska Huhn's harp demonstration was one of several "Summer Sundays" events taking place in various locations on the Tanglewood grounds this summer continuing through the end of August.

Conceived as a response to Bernstein's song cycle "Songfest," Gandolfi’s new work dares to ask what it means to be an American.

A graduate of Juilliard, Audra McDonald has appeared in as many performance settings as there are performance settings (Broadway musicals, television, movies, you name it).

Professor Yudkin literally wrote the book on music appreciation: Now in its eighth edition, “Understanding Music,“ is used by more than 20,000 students across North America every year.

The arts currently create upwards of 4,000 year-round jobs here, and even more seasonally, all of which support other jobs.

Dedicated to the values, teaching and scholarship of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the complex will also serve as the home of the new Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI).

Savvy audiences know that when the BSO signals its intention to “go all out” with a production, they attend to every detail in the grandest style, engaging the world’s most accomplished performers.

For over 30 years, he served as an educational consultant to the Massachusetts Medical Society and was granted a lifetime achievement award for his commitment to continuing medical education.

Jokes flew from the stage like fleet-footed forest fairies, and one zinger in particular brought down the house.

"I would like to continue incorporating nature into what we do at the TMC. Every year brings something new. But I would love to think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship between us and Pleasant Valley,” -- Ellen Highstein, Tanglewood Music Center Director

Andris Nelsons will lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its first-ever full-length performance — anywhere — of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” a monumental undertaking that could easily break all Tanglewood attendance records.  

We slept well after this enormously satisfying evening, and awakened this morning with happy reverberations of the many feminine glories in art.

Kids 4 Harmony is inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema, an intensive, values driven, ensemble-based approach to teaching classical music to effect social change.

Locally, he was a member of the Stockbridge Rotary Club and was a volunteer at the Norman Rockwell Museum and The Stockbridge Library.

I have never seen such a beautiful setup in my life. I’ve been conducting the orchestra every morning & I’m playing my first concert tomorrow night. Kousss gave me the hardest & longest number of all – the second symphony of Randall Thompson. 30 minutes long – a modern American work – as my first performance, and Kouss is so pleased with my work. -- Leonard Bernstein

Concertmaster Colin Jacobsen led the string ensemble with a vivid sense of texture and rhythm, summoning glorious solos, duets, and trios from violins, violas, and cellos.