Tanglewood: an updated 2010 Season Preview, and a Backwards Look at 2009 – James Levine not to appear.

The news I have been expecting has now officially arrived:

James Levine will withdraw from his concerts with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center due to further recuperation time needed after recent back surgery.

Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the BSO opening night performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 on July 9, and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Mozart’s Requiem on July 16, as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 on July 17.

Christoph von Dohnányi will conduct the staged Tanglewood Music Center Production of Strauss’s Ariadne Auf Naxos on August 1 And 2.

Johannes Debus will have his BSO Debut, conudctin Mozart’s The Abduction From Seraglio on July 23

Hans Graf will lead the BSO in program of marches, waltzes, and polkas by the Strauss Family on July 25 .

An announcement about substitute conductor for program of Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Soprano Hei-Kyung Hong on July 31 will be forthcoming.

These and other changes have been entered in the season schedule below.

What can one say to this? I left my opening sentence as it was, because Maestro Levine’s cancellations are now routine. I wrote a defense of the Maestro back in February, and that still stands. Levine has improved the orchestra, organized some excellent programs, and conducted some brilliant performances, along with some mediocre ones. There is nothing sadder than being unable to work, especially if it is an artistic vocation to which one is devoted, and Mr. Levine’s health may well be out of his control, but he has disappointed his audiences and his TMC students for too long. He has missed 60% of his BSO engagements this past season, and now there is more. We don’t know what to expect next season, either at the BSO or at the Met, where Levine was to inaugurate a much-publicized new Ring Cycle. There is enough evidence for us to conclude that he is truly physically incapable of pursuing the agenda he has taken up at both institutions. It is time for him to cut back his commitments to the point where he can give his best to his public and his students on a reliable, if not consistent basis.

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If Tanglewood is in some ways a routine, it is a distinguished and comforting one, but there is always something unique, if one is prepared to notice it, which sets each summer off from the others and makes it a memorable event. Visitors and residents can rely on Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mark Morris, James Taylor, Film Night, fireworks and more, while there are always truly special musicians or programs which will draw enthusiasts from the other side of the world. Last summer, to mention only two, there was the great violinist Christian Tetzlaff with his aristocratic, finely honed Brahms Violin Concerto and his contrastingly improvisatory cycle of Beethoven’s violin sonatas with Alexander Lonquich, piano, as well as an astonishing performance of an audience favorite, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. I was not expecting to find myself so much drawn into the familiar work, but Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’ insight and concentration and the extraordinary singing of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus made it more interesting and appealing than it has probably ever been. The subtlety of phrasing, color, and inflection in the singing of both the incomparable Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the PALS Children’s Chorus (Alysoun Kegel, artistic director) were breathtaking in themselves and revealed Orff’s inventive approach to choral textures and to language. Although Maestro Frühbeck de Burgos and the superb soloists were hardly overlooked, the wild and seemingly endless ovations were directed mostly toward the choral groups—a sign of the enthusiasm for choral singing John Oliver and the TFC have created among BSO audiences.

But what is different about 2010, aside from the fact that the official festival begins a week later than usual? (James Taylor and Carole King will celebrate the Fourth of July, ensuring a sell-out perhaps no longer guaranteed by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn, who have presided over the American national holiday in previous years.) For one this the distinguished educational arm of the festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, will be especially prominent, as it celebrates its 70th anniversary, along with the Festival of Contemporary Music, which will accordingly be rather backward-looking, since the occasion will call for historical perspectives, managed by distinguished long-time figures at the Center, Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, and John Harbison. This should give us a lot to look forward to. The FCM has not been announced in detail yet, but the Music Shed concerts will include John Harbison’s A Full Moon in March and Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are, both conducted by the great Stefan Asbury, as well as Copland’s Third Symphony under Robert Spano. Another anniversary will be celebrated by the Boston Pops, which will be 125 years old in 2010.

First and foremost, Garrick Ohlsson will offer a pair of solo recitals, four years after his important Beethoven cycle. There are substantial all-Chopin programs, including all twenty-four Opus 28 Preludes and the B minor Piano Sonata No. 3. (In 2009 he played the Brahms Second Piano Concerto with Kurt Masur conducting and before that, in 2008, the Schumann with the excellent Shi Yeon Sung.) Peter Serkin will pay Brahms’ First Piano Concerto in Seiji Ozawa’s return to Tanglewood. A most welcome newcomer will appear: Kirill Gerstein, who began his musical career as a jazz prodigy, and now, at 30, pursues a busy international schedule with the great orchestras of the world, will play the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with Charles Dutoit conducting. The following day, he will play a solo recital a few miles away at the Tannery Pond Concerts in New Lebanon, New York.)

Apart from this, two of the great cellists of all time will set their mark on Tanglewood 2010: Peter Wispelwey and Steven Isserlis. (Yo-Yo Ma will of course not be absent. In fact he will be most prominent, playing Elgar’s great Cello Concerto and appearing with his much-acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble.) Wispelwey, who, like Yo-Yo Ma, excels both on modern and on period instruments, will be playing all six of Bach’s suites for solo cello in an extended concert with two intermissions. (His recital with Kristian Bezuidenhout this past June was one of the glories of the Boston Early Music Festival.) This should not be missed under any circumstances. Steven Isserlis will play Schumann’s Cello Concerto with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Lovers of the instrument should plan on renting a house for the summer. Actually another member of this distinguished group of great cellists, David Finckel, will make his annual visit, not as a soloist, but as a member of the Emerson Quartet, in what will be essentially an all-Mozart concert, including Mozart’s arrangements of preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the “Dissonance” Quartet and the Clarinet Quintet with David Shifrin.

After a flurry of activity two years ago, mostly occasioned by NL, a Dutch cultural initiative in the Berkshires, Tanglewood has settled on one or two events devoted to historical performance. Apart from Wispelwey’s Bach, Benjamin Bagby will perform his much-acclaimed recitation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, sung in the original and accompanied by harp. This has always sold out in New York, so order your tickets early.

That will not be all the chamber music, however, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio will play Mozart, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn, the much-acclaimed Quatuor Ébène (who failed to impress Huntley Dent at Wigmore Hall last summer… but a review of their award-winning Brahms disc is forthcoming) will play Mozart, Bartók, and the Beethoven C sharp minor, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players will play a program which will include the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Gandolfi’s Plain Song, Fantastic Dances. James Levine will conduct members of the TMC orchestra in music for chamber orchestra. Lieder recitals will include Matthias Goerne singing Schumann and Brahms and Bernarda Fink in Schumann, Granados, and Rodrigo.

I’m happy to report that Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will be very much in evidence, although he seems to be giving the choral repertoire at which he so excels a rest this summer. His offerings will include Debussy’s La Mer, Richard Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, and a revisitation of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (in which he triumphed this autumn in Symphony Hall) in the single all-Beethoven concert of the Summer. Kurt Masur will conduct the Ninth to close the festival.

Among the other distinguished conductors, Christoph von Dohnanyi will make a most welcome return, as well as Robert Spano. The young Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki will conduct Mendelssohn and Beethoven with soloists Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk. The BSO’s immensely gifted assistant conductor, Shi-Yeon Sung, will lead an program of Wagner, Copland, Sibelius (Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn) and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. I consider her one of the most promising young conductors, and wouldn’t miss it at any cost.

As reported above Music Director James Levine will not be on hand in July and early August to conduct the three Mahler symphonies, Nos. 2, 3, and 4. Michael Tilson Thomas will conduct Mahler 2 and 3. He has a distinguished reputation as a Mahlerian, so this should be something to look forward to. [Levine is really a very fine Mahlerian: his performances range from near perfection to challenging, but by no means eccentric willfulness. A few summers ago, his reading of the Third notably failed to convince me that it is a successful piece, and I’ll be especially interested to hear him tackle it once again. It is hard to imagine any conductor surpassing Bernard Haitink’s deeply moving Tanglewood 2008 performance of the Second Symphony. Levine’s is sure to be quite different and worth a listen.] The Fourth will be part of an nicely conceived program with Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra and Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, which he has already performed during the Boston season. Mr. Levine’s replacement has not yet been announced. Michael Tilson Thomas will conduct a program of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Mozart’s Requiem, which Levine had performed in Symphony Hall.

The TMC opera performance in the Shed will be Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, to be conducted by Johannes Debus, music director of the Canadian Opera Company, making his BSO debut, and the staged performance will be Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, to be conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. The latter should prove fine fodder for the experimental stagings favored in these performances. This past season’s Don Giovanni was a mixed blessing. I heard the final performance under the TMC conducting fellow Christoph Altstaedt, who gave an energetic, solidly grounded performance very much in the Munich style, his usual ambiance, with its fast pacing, precise rhythms, and clear balances. He is a fully formed conductor with a confidant and mature ideas of his own. The orchestra seemed to have no trouble migrating from Levine’s interpretation to Alstaedt’s, either. Vocally the performance was also excellent, although Elliott Madore’s light-voiced and very youthful Don Giovanni wore a little thin eventually. Devon Guthrie gave an unbridled, but vocally impeccable performance as Donna Elvira, and Layla Claire’s Donna Anna was also top notch. The disappointment was in Ira Siff’s production. In his program notes, he confessed that he was intimidated by Don Giovanni, which has a reputation of being difficult. Unlike Così Fan Tutte, it is especially unforgiving towards gimmicks, even Ira Siff’s clever ones, and his lack of confidence showed in the results. Eduardo Sicangco retro floral dresses of the contadine didn’t ring true, and his butcher block set was pretty, but lacked the requisite Iberian solemnity. The stage director of Ariadne auf Naxos has not yet been announced, so that’s a wild card, promising a good deal of fun, whether it’s a grotesque disaster or a brilliant success.

Saturday, June 26, 5:45 p.m. Shed
A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
with Garrison Keillor
Live broadcast

Sunday June 27, times to be announced,
Theatre
Monday June 28 times to be announced,
Theatre
Tanglewood Music Center Instrumental Fellows
String Quartet Marathon

Three 2-hour concerts

Sunday, June 27, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Monday, June 28, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group
Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
Mark Morris, choreographer
Program to include Grand Duo, with music by Lou Harrison, and a new work choreographed to Beethoven arrangements of traditional folk songs

Friday, July 2, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Pops Concert
Keith Lockhart, conductor
A tribute to the legacies of Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, and Keith Lockhart, in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the Boston Pops

Saturday, July 3, 7 p.m. Shed
Sunday, July 4, 7 p.m. Shed
James Taylor and Carole King
James Taylor and Carole King return to Tanglewood for two spectacular evenings as part of their 2010 World Tour, featuring a band of legendary musicians

Fireworks to follow the July 4 concert
Proceeds from the July 4 concert to benefit Tanglewood

Monday, July 5 8pm
Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
Falla, Suite from El amor brujo
Albéniz, Three pieces for orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio espagnol
Debussy, La Mer

Tuesday, July 6, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Emerson String Quartet
David Shifrin, clarinet
J.S. Bach, (arr. MOZART) Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, K.405
Mozart, Quartet No. 19 in C, K.465, Dissonance
Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581

Friday, July 9, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor

Friday, July 9, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 9, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Opening Night at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Layla Claire, soprano˚
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano˚
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
Mahler, Symphony No. 2, Resurrection

Fireworks to follow the concert

Saturday, July 10, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 10, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, July 10, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
All-Beethoven Program
King Stephen Overture
Piano Concerto No. 3
Symphony No. 5

Sunday, July 11, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Mozart, Serenade No. 6 in D, Serenata notturna
Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 5 in A
Strauss, Ein Heldenleben

Monday, July 12 8p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
*Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows:

Wednesday, July 14, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F, K.370
Villa-Lobos, Bachianas brasileiras No. 6,
for flute and bassoon
Gandolfi, Plain Song, Fantastic Dances
Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Thursday, July 15, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Haydn, Piano Trio No. 44 in E, Hob. XV:28
Shostakovich, Piano Trio No. 2 in
E minor, Op. 67
Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No. 2 in
C minor, Op. 66

Friday, July 16, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 16, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
Jordan Bisch, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms
Mozart, Requiem

Saturday, July 17, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 17, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Saturday program

Saturday, July 17, 8:30 p.m. Shed
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
Women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
American Boychoir,
Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, music director
Mahler, Symphony No. 3

Sunday, July 18, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
with special guest Arlo Guthrie

Sunday, July 18, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Audra McDonald
A New American Songbook
Singer/actress Audra McDonald blends classical training with an extraordinary dramatic sensibility, appearing with equal acclaim as opera singer, television actress, recording artist, and Broadway superstar. Her first Ozawa Hall concert offers an eclectic mix of standard favorites and songs written expressly for her by today’s finest music theater composers.

Wednesday, July 21, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Benjamin Bagby, voice and harp
Beowulf: The Epic in Performance
Through song and speech, and accompanying himself on a six-stringed harp, medievalist Benjamin Bagby vividly recreates his version of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf – the oldest extant complete poem in English, a narrative that tells the story of the chieftain Beowulf who defeats the monster Grendel in battle. Sung in old English as it may have been heard 1000 years ago, Beowulf draws us back into the world of tribal society and Nordic legend.

Performed in old English with modern English supertitles

Thursday, July 22, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Pieter Wispelwey, baroque cello and violoncello
piccolo
J.S. Bach, Complete Suites for solo cello

This is an extended concert with two intermissions.

Friday, July 23 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 23 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 23 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Debus, conductor
Cast to include :
Lisette Oropesa, soprano (Konstanze)
Ashley Emerson, soprano (Blonde)
Morris Robinson, bass (Osmin)
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows
Mozart, The Abduction from the Seraglio

Sung in German with English supertitles

Saturday, July 24, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 24, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, July 24, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Peter Serkin, piano
All-Brahms Program
Piano Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 2

Sunday, July 25, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Hans Graf, conductor
Lynn Harrell, cello
Steven Ansell, viola
R. Strauss, Don Quixote
Joh. Strauss, II Overture to Die Fledermaus
Joh. Strauss, II Amid Thunder and Lightning
Joh. Strauss, II Roses from the South
Joh. Strauss, II Free-shooter
Jos. Strauss, Free from Cares!
Jos. Strauss, Delirium
Joh. Strauss, I Radetzky March

Sunday, July 25 8p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
Program to include

Hindemith, Symphonic Metapmorphoses of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Conducting Fellows Keitaro Harada leading the TMCO in Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave Overture, Cristian Macelaru conducting excerpts from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Alexander Prior leading the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.

Thursday, July 29, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Andreas Haefliger, piano
Songs by Brahms and Schumann

Friday, July 30, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, July 30, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, July 30, 8:30 p.m. Shed
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Glinka, Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev, Suite from Romeo and Juliet

Saturday, July 31, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, July 31, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Saturday program

Saturday, July 31, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Hei-Kyung Hong, Soprano
Berg, Three Pieces for Orchestra
Strauss, Four Last Songs
Mahler, Symphony No. 4

Sunday, August 1, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor˚
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Sibelius, Karelia Suite
Elgar, Cello Concerto
Mussorgsky, (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition

Sunday, August 1, 7:30 p.m. Theatre
Monday, August 2, 7:30 p.m. Theatre
Wednesday, August 4, 7:30 p.m. Theatre
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor (August 1 and 4)

Keitaro Harada, TMC Conducting Fellow (August 4)

Ira Siff, director

Eduardo Sicango, set and costume designer

Matthew McCarthy, lighting designer

Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos

Sung in German with English supertitles

Tuesday, August 3, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Tanglewood on Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
TBA, Keith Lockhart, and 
John Williams, conductors
Always a highlight of the season, Tanglewood on Parade this year salutes John Williams on the occasion of his 30th Tanglewood summer. The program will include some of Mr. Williams’ most popular concert and film scores, as well as the traditional TOP finale, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

Fireworks to follow the concert

Thursday, August 5, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
Anthony Spiri, piano
Program to include songs by Schumann,
Granados, and Rodrigo

Friday, August 6, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 6, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 6, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Richard Goode, piano
Mendelssohn, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K.449
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

Saturday, August 7, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 7, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, August 7, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Shi-Yeon Sung, conductor
Hilary Hahn, violin
Wagner, Prelude to Lohengrin, Act III
Sibelius, Violin Concerto
Copland, Quiet City
Stravinsky, Suite from The Firebird (1919 version)

Sunday, August 8, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Arabella Steinbacher, violin
Beethoven, Violin Concerto
Dvořák, Symphony No. 8

Sunday, August 8, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Silk Road Ensemble
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
The celebrated Silk Road Ensemble and the incomparable Yo-Yo Ma return to Tanglewood in an extraordinary presentation marking their 10th anniversary. Featuring virtuoso musicians from around the globe, the Ensemble will perform a special program that reflects the diversity of its membership, combining styles and genres (Persian, Asian, Azerbaijani, and more) with Western and non-Western instruments to create a musical experience that defies classification and transcends cultural boundaries.

Tuesday, August 10, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Program to include works by J.S. Bach and Carter

Friday, August 13, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 13, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 13, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Caminos del Inka: A Musical Journey
Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads a musical journey through the ancient Inca empire with specially created videography by the renowned Peruvian photographer Gabriela Fit. The breathtaking images of Machu Picchu, floating island villages, and the expanses of the Peruvian plains are matched to stirring and evocative music, from the time of the Conquistadores to the sounds of the first new classical voices of 21st-century Latin America.
Program to include
Robles, El cóndor pasa
Frank, Illapa, for flute and orchestra
Golijov, Mariel, for cello and orchestra

Saturday, August 14, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 14, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, August 14, 8:30 P.m. Shed
Film Night at Tanglewood
Boston Pops Concert
One of the season’s most popular traditions, the annual Film Night concert is a celebration of music from the movies. In his 30th summer at Tanglewood, John Williams presents a memorable evening that recreates
some of the great musical moments in Hollywood history.

Sunday, August 15, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor
Thomas Martin, clarinet˚
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Gershwin, An American in Paris
Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
Bernstein, Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, for clarinet
and jazz ensemble
Gershwin Piano Concerto

Sunday, August 15, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Harbison, Full Moon in March
Knussen, Where the Wild Things Are

Concert performances, presented as part of the 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music

Monday, August 16 8p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows and Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor

Wednesday, August 18, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tognetti, violin and leader
Steven Isserlis, cello
Elgar, Introduction and Allegro for strings
Schumann, Cello Concerto
Vasks, Vox amoris, for violin and strings
Mozart, Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

Thursday, August 19, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Ébène String Quartet
Mozart, Divertimento in D, K.136
Bartók, Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 7
Beethoven, Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor,
Op. 131

Friday, August 20, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 20, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 20, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Mozart, Symphony No. 31, Paris
Canteloube, Selection from Songs of the
Auvergne
Golijov, Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Ravel, Mother Goose (complete)

Saturday, August 21, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 21, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, August 21, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
Jeremy Denk, piano
Mendelssohn, Overture to A Midsummer 
 Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn, Double Concerto in D minor for
violin, piano, and strings
Beethoven, Romance No. 2 in F, for violin 
 and orchestra
Beethoven, Symphony No. 4

Sunday, August 22, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
Adele Anthony, violin (Bach, Navarra)
Higdon, blue cathedral
J.S. Bach, Concerto in D minor for two violins
and strings
Suppé, Poet and Peasant Overture
Sarasate, Navarra, for two violins and orchestra
Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen, for violin and orchestra
Bizet, Suite from Carmen

Tuesday, August 24, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
All-Chopin Program
Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp, Op. 36
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 47
Fantasia in F minor, Op. 49
Two Nocturnes, Op. 27
Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 28

Thursday, August 26, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
All-Chopin Program
Three Nocturnes, Op. 9
Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Variations brillantes in B-flat, Op. 12, on a rondo
from Halévy’s Ludovic
Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Friday, August 27, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Friday, August 27, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists

Friday, August 27, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman, conductor
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
Poulenc, Gloria
Holst, The Planets

Saturday, August 28, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk

Saturday, August 28, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Open Rehearsal, Sunday program

Saturday, August 28, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák, Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Sunday, August 29, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kurt Masur, conductor
John Oliver, conductor (Bach)
Nicole Cabell, soprano
Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano
Marcus Haddock, tenor
John Relyea, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
J.S. Bach, Jesu meine Freude, for chorus
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9