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| | Tanglewood/Boston Symphony Orchestra, 197 West St., Lenox, MA, (617) or (888) 266-1200. Tanglewood is the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Concerts are in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, except as noted. Performance times are on Sun. at 2:30 p.m. and on other days at 8:30 p.m., except as noted. Tickets to Fri. concerts are also good for prelude concerts in Ozawa Hall, but seating there is first come, first served. Tickets for most concerts range from $14 for lawn seats to $76 for box seats. Tickets to Sat. open rehearsals are $15.
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June 22 and 23, at 7 p.m., in the theater, the Boston Early Music Festival Production of Lully's Thesee.
June 24, at 2:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall, the BEMF/Lully Opera Orchestra, featuring sopranos Kendra Colton and Ann Monoyios and tenor Howard Crook, perform Rameau's La Guirlande, ou Les Fleurs enchantees (ballet score) and Clerambault's La Muse de l'opera.
June 29, in Ozawa Hall, the Juilliard String Quartet performs Beethoven's Quartet No. 6 in B-flat, Op. 18, No. 6; Bartok's Quartet No. 6; and Mendelssohn's Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80.
June 30, in the Shed at 5:45 p.m., A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (live broadcast).
July 1, at 2:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall, the Juilliard String Quartet performs Mozart's Quartet No. 22 in B-flat, K.589; Schoenberg's String Trio, Op. 45; and Beethoven's Quartet No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127.
July 2, in Ozawa Hall, pianist Peter Serkin, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor, clarinetist David Shifrin, violinists Pamela Frank and Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Fred Sherry perform Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon and Phantasy for violin and piano, Op. 47; Haydn's Piano Trio in E-flat and Piano Trio in E; and Webern's arrangement of Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9.
July 3 and 4, at 7 p.m., James Taylor.
July 5, in Ozawa Hall, pianist Peter Serkin, mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger, flutist Tara Helen O'Conner, clarinetists Marianne Gythfeldt, Mike Lowenstern, and David Shifrin, violinist Ida Kavafian, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Fred Sherry perform Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Suite for Winds, Strings, and Piano, Op. 29.
July 6, the BSO, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, and featuring cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and violist Steven Ansell, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Strauss's Don Quixote at its opening-night performance.
On July 7, the BSO, conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman, performs Mozart's Serenade No. 6 in D, K.239 (Serenata notturna) and Violin Concerto No. 5 and Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.
On July 8, at 2:30 p.m., the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mariss Jansons, performs Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (Haffner), Strauss's Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. At 8:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall, pianist Peter Serkin performs works by Schoenberg and Haydn's Andante and Variations in F minor.
July 11, in Ozawa Hall, baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Eric Schneider perform Schubert's Die schone Mullerin.
July 12, in Ozawa Hall, "Chanticleer," featuring Gregorian chants, a selection of popular songs and spirituals, and works by Cornysh, Monteverdi and Coppini, Titov, Victoria, Davids, Corona and Benedetti, Matamoros, Brouwer, and Simons.
July 13, the BSO, conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and featuring soprano Gwendolyn Bradley, tenor Gordon Gietz, and joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, conducted by John Oliver, and the PALS Children's Chorus, perform Mendelssohn's suite from A Midsummer Night's Dream and Orff's Carmina Burana.
July 14, the BSO, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and featuring Yo-Yo Ma, performs Corigliano's Symphony No. 2 and Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
July 15, at 2:30 p.m., the BSO, directed by James Conlon and featuring baritone Matthias Goerne and cellist Han-Na Chang, performs Britten's "Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia" from Peter Grimes, Mahler's Ruckert-Lieder, Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No. 1, and Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole.
July 17, the Boston Pops, directed by John Williams, performs the music of John Williams and a tribute to Harry Warren, composer of the soundtrack for Busby Berkeley's films.
July 18, in Ozawa Hall, pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs Schubert's Sonata in E flat, Sonata in A, and Moments musicaux and Webern's Variations for Piano, Op. 27.
July 19, in Ozawa Hall, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, violinist Pamela Frank, and clarinetist William R. Hudgins perform Brahms's Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 30, Daneilpour's Portraits for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (world premiere), and Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66.
July 20, the BSO, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and featuring pianist Emanuel Ax, performs Beethoven's Egmont overture and Piano Concerto No. 4, Delius's The Walk to the Paradise Garden, and Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements.
July 21, the BSO, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and featuring pianist Peter Serkin, are joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, conducted by John Oliver, to perform Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces and Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1.
July 22, the BSO, conducted by James Conlon and featuring violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, perform Brahms's Violin Concerto and Wagner's Overture to Rienzi; Venusberg Music from TannhŠuser; and preludes to Acts I and III of Lohengrin.
July 23, in Ozawa Hall, pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Berg's Sonata, Op. 1, Salonen's Dichotomie, Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7, and Brahms's Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5.
July 24 and 25, at 8 p.m. in the theater, an all-Ravel opera program featuring the Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and Robert Spano and directed by David Kneuss. Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges (concert performance) and a fully staged production of L'Heure espagnole.
July 26, in Ozawa Hall, pianist Yefim Bronfman and the Emerson String Quartet perform Haydn's Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5, Shostakovich's Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp, Op. 142, and Schumann's Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44.
July 27, the BSO, conducted by Hugh Wolff and featuring violinist Joshua Bell, performs Sheng's "From the Mountain" and "From the Savage Land" from Postcards, Bernstein's Serenade for violin, strings, harp, and percussion, after Plato's Symposium, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral).
July 29, the BSO, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman, performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.
July 31, conductors Seiji Ozawa, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, and Andre Previn direct the BSO, Boston Pops Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for "Tanglewood on Parade," featuring Verdi's overture to La forza del destino, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, Brubeck's Concerto for Pops Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
Aug. 1, in Ozawa Hall, soprano Dawn Upshaw, pianist Gilbert Kalish, the Lydian String Quartet, double bassist Edwin Barker, oboeist Peggy Pearson, and organist Arthur Haas perform Wolf's Songs from Morike Lieder, Faure's Songs from Chanson d'Eve, and Messiaen's Songs with Piano and back the staging of Bach's Cantata No. 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut.
Aug. 3, the BSO, conducted by David Robertson and featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, performs Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Britten's Les Illuminations for soprano and strings, Britten's arrangement of Mahler's What the Wild Flowers Tell Me (Minuet from Symphony No. 3), and Mozart's Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter).
Aug. 4, the BSO, conducted by Seiji Ozawa and featuring soprano Deborah Voigt and mezzo-sopranos Jane Henschel and Katarina Karneus, performs Strauss's Salome (concert performance with subtitles).
Aug. 5, the BSO, conducted by Andre Previn and featuring soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, performs Previn's Diversions, Mozart's concert arias K.582 ( "Chi sa, chi sa, qual sia") and K.583 ("Vado, ma dove?"), Strauss's Songs with Orchestra, and Haydn's Symphony No. 88.
Aug. 8, in Ozawa Hall, soprano Dawn Upshaw and pianist Gilbert Kalish are joined by flutist Jacques Zoon, clarinetist William R. Hudgins, violist Steven Ansell, cellist Martha Babcock, harpist Ann Hobson Pilot, and percussionists J. William Hudgins and Timothy Genis for performances of Ives's Songs with Piano, Mahler's songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Bartok's Hungarian folk-song settings, and Berio's Folk Songs, conducted by Federico Cortese.
Aug. 10, the BSO, conducted by Andre Previn and featuring pianist Van Cliburn, performs Copland's Appalachian Spring, Grieg's Piano Concerto, and Dvorak's Symphony No. 7.
Aug. 11, the BSO, conducted by Roberto Abbado and featuring flutist Jacques Zoon, performs Wuorinen's Machault Mon Chou, Mozart's Flute Concerto in G, and Mahler's Symphony No. 1.
Aug. 12, the BSO, conducted by Bernard Haitink, performs Smetana's "From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests" from Ma Vlast, Martinu's Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No. 6), and Brahms's Symphony No. 2.
Aug. 15, in Ozawa Hall, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, conducted by Ilan Volkov, perform Haydn's Divertimento in E-flat for horn, violin, and cello; Beethoven's String Trio in G, Op. 9, No.1; Kirchner's Music for Twelve; and Stravinsky's Suite from L'Histoire du soldat.
Aug. 17, the BSO, conducted by Bernard Haitink and featuring pianist Richard Goode, performs Debussy's prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun; Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503; and Dvorak's Symphony No. 8.
Aug. 18, the BSO, conducted by Bernard Haitink and joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, conducted by John Oliver, perform Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe (complete).
Aug. 19, at 2:30 p.m., the Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert: the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, conducted by Roberto Abbado and backed by pianist Gianluca Cascioli, performs Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) and Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. At 8:30 p.m., in Ozawa Hall, an evening of jazz with pianist Andre Previn and double bassist David Finck.
Aug. 20, the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart, perform selections from their recent Latin-tinged CD, with a special appearance by the Mexican group Mariachi Cobre.
Aug. 24, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, composed of members of the Tanglewood Music Center faculty, conducted by Donald Runnicles and backed by pianist Peter Serkin, present an all-Mozart program featuring Symphony No. 25; Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459; and Symphony No. 39.
Aug. 25, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta and featuring violinist Vadim Repin, performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
Aug. 26, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zubin Mehta and featuring soprano Carol Vaness, mezzo-soprano Jill Grove, tenor Robert Gambill, and bass-baritone John Relyea, is joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, conducted by John Oliver, for a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
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