| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Berg, Strauss and MahlerPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood July 31, 2010 tbd, conductor
Hei-Kyung Hong, soprano
Program
BERG
Three Pieces for Orchestra
STRAUSS
Four Last Songs
MAHLER
Symphony No. 4
We regret to inform you that James Levine has withdrawn from his concerts with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center for the 2010 Tanglewood season due to further recuperation time needed after recent back surgery. An announcement will be made soon on a conductor... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 07/31/10 | Lenox |
25th Anniversary TD Bank Pops by the Sea concert at the Hyannis Village Green with guest artist, Idina MenzelPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra August 1, 2010 Join Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at the 25th Anniversary of TD Bank Pops By the Sea. Broadway powerhouse Idina Menzel – the multiple Tony Award-winning singer/actress who played Elphaba in the international blockbuster Wicked – will sing hits from Wicked and Rent, as well as songs from her album "I Stand." The program will also include the Cape Cod premiere of “The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers,” honoring Massachusetts native sons... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/01/10 | |
TMC: Chamber Music ConcertPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 1, 2010 Full-length chamber music concerts of both standard repertoire and contemporary works performed by TMC Fellows.
Works by BACH, THOMAS, and others.
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/01/10 | Lenox |
Sibelius, Elgar and MussorgskyPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 1, 2010 Charles Dutoit, conductor
Yo- Yo Ma, cello
Program
SIBELIUS
Karelia Suite
ELGAR
Cello Concerto
MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL)
Pictures at an Exhibition
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/01/10 | Lenox |
Strauss: Ariadne auf NaxosPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 1, 2010 Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Ira Siff, director
Eduardo Sicangco, set and costume designer
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra
Program
STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos
We regret to inform you that James Levine has withdrawn from his concerts with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center for the 2010 Tanglewood season due to further recuperation time needed after recent back surgery. Please note the new conductor... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/01/10 | Lenox |
Strauss: Ariadne auf NaxosPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 2, 2010 Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Ira Siff, director
Ensembles
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra
Program
STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos
We regret to inform you that James Levine has withdrawn from his concerts with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center for the 2010 Tanglewood season due to further recuperation time needed after recent back surgery. Please note the new conductor above.
Sung in... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/02/10 | Lenox |
Tanglewood on ParadePresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 3, 2010 Ensembles
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
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
Complimentary... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/03/10 | Lenox |
Strauss: Ariadne auf NaxosPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 4, 2010 Keitaro Harada
TMC Conducting Fellow
Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra
Program
STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos
We regret to inform you that James Levine has withdrawn from his concerts with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center for the 2010 Tanglewood season due to further recuperation time needed after recent back surgery. Please note the new conductor above.
Sung in German with English supertitles | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/04/10 | Lenox |
| Bernarda Fink with Anthony Spiri | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/05/10 | Lenox |
Mendelssohn, Mozart and TchaikovskyPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 6, 2010 Program
MENDELSSOHN
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K.449
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 6, Pathétique | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/06/10 | Lenox |
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival Concert IPresented by Newburyport Chamber Music Festival August 6, 2010 Opening fundraiser concert and reception with Trio Cavatina, 2009 Naumburg Award winner. Program includes Beethoven's Piano Trio No. 5 in D Major ("Ghost"); Richard Danielpour's "Faces of Guernica," specially commissioned for the trio, and, with guest violist David Yang, Brahms' Piano Quarte in C minor. | Newburyport Chamber Music Festival | 08/06/10 | |
Uptown Swing Dance with Joshua Fialkoff & J-StreetPresented by Hop to the Beat Dance Studio at Brookline Tai Chi August 7, 2010 Swing Dancing monthly to live music. The atmosphere is always fun and friendly with people of all levels attending. Beginners are welcome and you do not need to come with a partner. Lesson 8:15-9:00pm starts with basics for beginners and about the last 15 minutes include a different intermediate move each month. Live music for dancing 9:00pm-Midnight. | Hop to the Beat Dance Studio | 08/07/10 | Brookline |
| Beethoven and Dvorák (Open Rehearsal - Sunday Program) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/07/10 | Lenox |
Clare and the ReasonsPresented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA August 7, 2010 These indie darlings inspire frenzied flights of references in reviewers grasping to sum up their sound: The New York Times claims their "sweetly intricate chamber-pop ... somehow mingled folk-pop, Philip Glass, cabaret oompah and the Beach Boys," while The Deli NYC music blog says "Clare uses her sweet versatile voice, reminiscent of Nina Persson of The Cardigans, to swoop and dive through Bjork-sized intervals." | MASS MoCA | 08/07/10 | North Adams |
Boston University Tanglewood InstitutePresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 7, 2010 Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Young Artists Chorus,
Ann Howard Jones, Conductor
Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) is in residence at Tanglewood. Its educational programs are geared primarily toward gifted musicians of high school age.
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/07/10 | Lenox |
Wagner, Sibelius, Copland and StravinskyPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 7, 2010 Program
WAGNER
Prelude to Lohengrin, Act III
COPLAND
Quiet City
SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto
STRAVINSKY
Suite from The Firebird (1919 version) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/07/10 | Lenox |
Summer Series: Schumann, Liszt, ChopinPresented by Boston Chamber Music Society at The Arsenal Center For The Arts August 7, 2010 This summer BCMS observes the 200th anniversary of the births of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann with a four concert series in their honor. As two of the most revered and beloved Romantic composers, their lives in many ways mirrored each other. Both began composing exclusively for solo piano, sustained turbulent love lives, and died before we could experience the full extent of their musical output. Though Chopin resided in France and Schumann in Germany, the music and ideology of the... | Boston Chamber Music Society | 08/07/10 | Watertown |
Pops in the Parks - A Renaissance EveningPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra August 8, 2010 Pops in the Parks - A Renaissance Evening. The Boston Pops Brass Quintet.
This program included renaissance brass, dances, canzoni, ayres by long-forgotten composers including the most prolific Renaissance composer, "Anonymous". The second half will feature show tunes from 20th century Renaissance men with works by Bernstein, (West Side Story), Williams, Leroy Anderson and Henry Mancini. | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/08/10 | |
TMC: Chamber Music ConcertPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 8, 2010 Full-length chamber music concerts of both standard repertoire and contemporary works performed by TMC Fellows.
Works by SCHUMANN, SCHUMAN, MARTINO, and others. | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/08/10 | Lenox |
| Beethoven and Dvorák | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/08/10 | Lenox |
Silk Road ConcertPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 8, 2010 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... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/08/10 | Lenox |
Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project TourPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 9, 2010 Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music. Throughout his explorations, he has transcended limitations and genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice. With an illustrious career spanning five decades and 12 Grammy® Awards including the 2007 Album Of The Year for ‘River: The Joni Letters’, he continues to amaze audiences. There are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock. As the... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/09/10 | Lenox |
| Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Pierre-Laurent Aimard | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/10/10 | Lenox |
COMEDY NIGHTPresented by NextDoor Theater August 10, 2010 Hosted by MATT D Featuring JIM COLLITON and FRIENDS OF GERTRUDE Buy tickets online at www.nextdoortheater.org or through our box office at 781 729 NEXT Free off street parking | NextDoor Theater | 08/10/10 | |
| Tanglewood Music Center:Vocal Recital | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/11/10 | Lenox |
Argentine Tango (Beginner) ClassPresented by Springstep at Springstep July 15-August 12, 2010 Get a taste of the elegant social dance that creates a unique, silent communication between dance partners, forming one body moving in coordination and harmony. Perfect for beginners, students in this class will work on connecting to a dance partner and to the music while building an Argentine tango vocabulary for the dance floor. Students are welcome to sign up with or without a partner. Everyone ages 14+ are welcome. Register online or by phone! | Springstep | 07/15/10-
08/12/10 | Medford |
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival Concert III Presented by Newburyport Chamber Music Festival August 12, 2010 The Festival Quartet-in-Residence will perform Haydn's String Quartet in D Major and Festival Composer-in-Residence Dmitri Tymoczko's "Little Tiny Boxes" (world premiere) and, with guest artist Jon Deak, contrabass, Dvorak's Bass Quintet in G Major. Deak will perform two of his pieces for solo bass, "B.B. Wolf" and "Sherlock Holmes' 'The Speckled Band' (Part I)." A reception will follow the concert. | Newburyport Chamber Music Festival | 08/12/10 | |
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival Concert IIIPresented by Newburyport Chamber Music Festival August 12, 2010 The NCMF Festival-in-Residence will perform Kodaly's Duo for violin and cello, Dvorak's "Cypresses" for string quartet and Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F minor. A reception follows the concert. | Newburyport Chamber Music Festival | 08/12/10 | |
Robles, Compañón, Luzuriaga, Frank, Golijov, Leng, and LópezPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 13, 2010 Program
ROBLES
El cóndor pasa
COMPAÑÓN
Colección de música virreinal
LUZURIAGA
Responsorio
FRANK
Illapa, for flute and orchestra
GOLIJOV
Mariel, for cello and orchestra
LENG
Preludio No. 1
LÓPEZ
Fiesta!
Caminos del Inka: A Musical Journey
Miguel Harth-Bedoya leads a musical journey through the ancient Inca empire... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/13/10 | Lenox |
Newburyport Chamber Music FestivalPresented by Newburyport Chamber Music Festival August 6-August 14, 2010 The Newburyport Chamber Music Festival is a week-long celebration of chamber music that includes concerts, lectures, open rehearsals, a children's concert with storytelling, a world premiere and opportunities to interact with world-class musicians. Many events are free. Venues include a historic church and a private, specially acoustically designed listening space in a converted carriage house. | Newburyport Chamber Music Festival | 08/06/10-
08/14/10 | |
Boston Pops on NantucketPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra August 14, 2010 Thank you to all those who join us at the Jetties for the Boston Pops on Nantucket concert to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital. The Pops on Nantucket is a tradition now: fine food, outstanding music, the gorgeous setting of an August evening on Jetties Beach. This event directly benefits NCH and our many programs which in turn benefits Nantucket residents and visitors alike.
Rated the Best Summer Event each year on Nantucket, in 2009
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops' annual... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/14/10 | |
Gershwin, Schuller and Bernstein (Open Rehearsal - Sunday Program)Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 14, 2010 Program
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 | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/14/10 | Lenox |
| Boston University Tanglewood Institute | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/14/10 | Lenox |
Film Night at TanglewoodPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 14, 2010 Ensembles
The Boston Pops
Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Chorus
Celebrating Steven Spielberg
Hear music from classic Steven Spielberg movies including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saving Private Ryan, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/14/10 | Lenox |
Summer Series: Chopin, Kodály, SchumannPresented by Boston Chamber Music Society at The Arsenal Center For The Arts August 14, 2010 This summer BCMS observes the 200th anniversary of the births of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann with a four concert series in their honor. As two of the most revered and beloved Romantic composers, their lives in many ways mirrored each other. Both began composing exclusively for solo piano, sustained turbulent love lives, and died before we could experience the full extent of their musical output. Though Chopin resided in France and Schumann in Germany, the music and ideology of the... | Boston Chamber Music Society | 08/14/10 | Watertown |
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival Concert IVPresented by Newburyport Chamber Music Festival August 14, 2010 In the final concert of the NCMF's ninth season, the Festival Quartet-in-Residence will perform Haydn's String Quartet in D Major and Festival Composer-in-Residence Dmitri Tymoczko's "Little Tiny Boxes" (world premiere) and, with guest artist Jon Deak, contrabass, Dvorak's Bass Quintet in G Major. Deak will perform two of his pieces for solo bass, "B.B. Wolf" and "Sherlock Holmes' 'The Speckled Band' (Part I)." A reception will follow the concert. | Newburyport Chamber Music Festival | 08/14/10 | |
Gershwin, Schuller and BernsteinPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 15, 2010 Program
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
Complimentary pedicab service (tricycle for carrying passengers) will be available pre-concert from parking lots to the Main Gate for this performance.
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/15/10 | Lenox |
Solid Sound FestivalPresented by MASS MoCA at MASS MoCA August 13-August 15, 2010 Wilco headlines and curates this three-day event of music, art, comedy, interactivity and more. Featuring the band’s only East Coast performance of the summer, this new festival also presents individual performances by all the Wilco members’ side projects: Glenn Kotche’s On Fillmore, The Nels Cline Singers, The Autumn Defense featuring John Stirratt and Pat Sansone, Mikael Jorgensen’s Pronto. Other festival events include additional musical performances, a fully... | MASS MoCA | 08/13/10-
08/15/10 | North Adams |
OthelloPresented by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at The Parkman Bandstand July 28-August 15, 2010 Othello, known as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, is a captivating story about the fall of a charismatic Moorish general through the betrayal of one of his most trusted soldiers. Set against a backdrop of war, Othello is a powerful story about love and jealousy that focuses on the passions and personal lives of its major figures. Othello, with its intimate domestic setting, is widely regarded as the most moving of Shakespeare’s great tragedies. Performances take place... | Commonwealth Shakespeare Company | 07/28/10-
08/15/10 | Boston |
Side-By-Side-By-Sondheim Musical RevuePresented by Marblehead Little Theatre at Marblehead Little Theatre August 6-August 15, 2010 Mark your calendar now for Marblehead Little Theatre’s Side-By-Side-By-Sondheim, a tribute to composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, which will come to 12 School Street, Marblehead, MA August 6-8 and 13-15. Show times are 8 p.m. with an additional show on both Sundays at 2 p.m. Director Anne Lucas, producer Doug Hill, and music director Betty Lautner, all of Marblehead, have assembled a cast of talented singers that will explore Sondheim’s upbeat and lyrically complex work... | Marblehead Little Theatre | 08/06/10-
08/15/10 | Marblehead |
Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of VeronaPresented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston at The Lyric Stage Company August 12-August 15, 2010 By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Carey
Presented by the teen company of Lyric First Stage, our summer intensive theatre program for young artists.
Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona explores the foolish behavior of couples in love. This new imagining places Shakespeare’s classic comedy in a vaudeville style. Best friends Valentine and Proteus, the two gentlemen of Verona, travel to Milan and learn about the world of courtship, but love for... | The Lyric Stage Company of Boston | 08/12/10-
08/15/10 | Boston |
Festival of Contemporary MusicPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood Main Grounds August 12-August 16, 2010 About the Music
August 12 - August 16
Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, and John Harbison
festival co-directors
Robert Spano, guest conductor
The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the TMC, and the seven decades of great composers who have led and taken a major role in its composition program, teaching the next generation of composers and inspiring the next generation of performers. Programmed by the three living... | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/12/10-
08/16/10 | Lenox |
| Australian Chamber Orchestra | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/18/10 | Lenox |
Ébène String QuartetPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 19, 2010 Ensembles
Ébène String Quartet
Program
MOZART
Divertimento in D, K.136
BARTÓK
Quartet No. 1, Op. 7
BEETHOVEN
Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/19/10 | Lenox |
Mozart, Canteloube, Golijov and RavelPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 20, 2010 Program
MOZART
Symphony No. 31, Paris
CANTELOUBE
Selections from Songs of the Auvergne
GOLIJOV
Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
RAVEL
Mother Goose (complete) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/20/10 | Lenox |
| Tanglewood Family Concert | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/21/10 | Lenox |
Higdon, Bach, Suppé, Sarasate and Bizet (Open Rehearsal - Sunday Program)Presented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 21, 2010 Program
HIGDON
blue cathedral
SARASATE
Song of the Nightingale, for violin and orchestra
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 | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/21/10 | Lenox |
Mendelssohn and BeethovenPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 21, 2010 Program
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 | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/21/10 | Lenox |
Summer Series: Chopin, Brahms, SchumannPresented by Boston Chamber Music Society at The Arsenal Center For The Arts August 21, 2010 This summer BCMS observes the 200th anniversary of the births of Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann with a four concert series in their honor. As two of the most revered and beloved Romantic composers, their lives in many ways mirrored each other. Both began composing exclusively for solo piano, sustained turbulent love lives, and died before we could experience the full extent of their musical output. Though Chopin resided in France and Schumann in Germany, the music and ideology of the... | Boston Chamber Music Society | 08/21/10 | Watertown |
Higdon, Bach, Suppé, Sarasate and BizetPresented by Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood August 22, 2010 Program
HIGDON
blue cathedral
SARASATE
Song of the Nightingale, for violin and orchestra
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 | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 08/22/10 | Lenox |
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