Tanglewood Schedule 2012
2012 Tanglewood Season
Day by Day Listings
Check our home page for the BSO’s weekly highlights. All programs and artists are subject to change.
For more about the season, soloists and 75th Anniversary Celebration, read the original 2012 announcement and feature story.)
Programming Keys:
*connotes Tanglewood debut
**connotes Tanglewood and BSO debut
^connotes Tanglewood and Boston Pops debut
Friday, June 22, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Sunday, June 24, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Silk Road Ensemble
with Yo-Yo Ma, cello
The celebrated Silk Road Ensemble and the remarkable Yo-Yo Ma return to Ozawa Hall for an intimate presentation of musical riches from the along the ancient trade routes. With musicians from around the globe, the Ensemble will perform a special program that reflects a diversity of styles and nationalities, combining Western and non-Western instruments from the old and new worlds in ways which transcends cultural boundaries.
Saturday, June 23, 7 p.m. Shed
Diana Krall
Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Friday, June 29, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Mark Morris Dance Group Tanglewood Music Center Fellows Mark Morris, choreographer
Martin Pakledinaz and Katherine M. Patterson, costume designers Michael Chybowski and Nicole Pearce, lighting designers Phyllis Curtin, narrator
Something Lies Beyond the Scene
WALTON Façade: An Entertainment
Rock of Ages
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat, D.897, 2nd movement
Festival Dance
HUMMEL Piano Trio No. 5 in E, Op. 83
Saturday, June 30, 5:45 p.m. Shed
A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood
with Garrison Keillor
Live broadcast
Sunday, July 1, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Monday, July 2, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Instrumental Fellows String Quartet Marathon One ticket provides admission to all three performances
Monday, July 2, 7 p.m. Shed
Tuesday, July 3, 7 p.m. Shed
Wednesday, July 4, 7 p.m. Shed
James Taylor at Tanglewood James Taylor returns to Tanglewood with his astonishing band and surprise guests for three spectacular performances.
Fireworks to follow the July 4 concert Proceeds from the July 4 concert to benefit Tanglewood
Thursday, July 5, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Emerson String Quartet
MOZART Quartet No. 21 in D, K.575
ADÈS Four Quarters, for string quartet
BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130,
with original Grosse Fuge finale
Friday, July 6, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 6, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, July 6, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Opening Night at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM+
Leonore Overture No. 3
Symphony No. 6,
Pastoral Symphony No. 5
+Program of August 5, 1937
Fireworks to follow the concert
Saturday, July 7, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, July 7, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Saturday program
Saturday, July 7, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra Michael Stern, conductor**
Joshua Bell, violin Edgar Meyer, double bass
BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
TCHAIKOVSKY Meditation, for violin and orchestra
MEYER Double Concerto for violin, double bass,
and orchestra (world premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4+
+Performed on the program of August 7, 1937
Sunday, July 8, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Bernadette Peters, vocalist Broadway superstar
Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences with performances on stage and screen. With Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, she returns to Tanglewood with her singular style, presenting selections such as Let Me Entertain You, Fever, and Some Enchanted Evening.
Sunday, July 8, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
Program to be announced
Wednesday, July 11, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
André Previn, piano
MOZART Sonata No. 27 in G for violin and piano, K.379
FRANCK Sonata in A for violin and piano
PREVIN Tango, Song, and Dance, for violin and piano
PREVIN Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (American premiere)
Thursday, July 12, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music*
Benjamin Bagby, director
The Rheingold Curse:
A Germanic Saga of Greed and Vengeance from the Medieval Icelandic Edda
A dramatic presentation, sung in Old Norse with English supertitles
Friday, July 13, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
Friday, July 13, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, July 13, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Anne-Sophie Mutter, conductor and violin
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K.211 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219
Saturday, July 14, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, July 14, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program
Saturday, July 14, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons*, conductors
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello Emanuel Ax and Peter Serkin, pianos
James Taylor, vocalist
Special Guests Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
Program to include
COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
BERNSTEIN Three dance episodes from On the Town Selections from the Great American Songbook HAYDN Piano Concerto in D, 2nd and 3rd movements
TCHAIKOVSKY Andante cantabile, for cello and strings
SARASATE Carmen Fantasy, for violin and orchestra
STRAUSS Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy
Sunday, July 15, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2
Monday, July 16, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
Program to be announced
Wednesday, July 18, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS Complete Works for Piano, Program 1:
Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Scherzo in E-flat minor, Op. 4
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119
Thursday, July 19, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS Complete Works for Piano, Program 2: Four Ballades, Op. 10
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21, No. 1
Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. 21, No. 2
Variations on a Theme by Schumann, Op. 9
Sonata No. 1 in C, Op. 1
Friday, July 20, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 20, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, July 20, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Dan Zhu, violin**
BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) for violin and orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
Saturday, July 21, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, July 21, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program
Saturday, July 21, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Asher Fisch, conductor**
ALL-WAGNER PROGRAM+
Overture to Rienzi
Prelude and Love-death from Tristan und Isolde
Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Forest Murmurs from Siegfried
Prelude to Parsifal
Overture to Tannhäuser
+Program of August 12, 1937
Sunday, July 22, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kurt Masur, conductor
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491
Symphony No. 36 in C, Linz
Monday, June 23, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
Program to include
SCHONBERG Piano Concerto, Op 42
Wednesday, July 25, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
BRAHMS Complete Works for Piano, Program 3:
Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118
Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39
Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Books 1 and 2
Seven Fantasies, Op. 116
Thursday, July 26, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
RAHMS Complete Works for Piano, Program 4:
Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76
Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 2
Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Friday, July 27, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, July 27, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, July 27, 8:30 p.m. Shed
The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Marcelo Lehninger, conductor*
Nelson Freire, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
VILLA-LOBOS Momoprecoce, Fantasy for piano and orchestra
MUSSORGSKY (orch. RAVEL) Pictures at an Exhibition
Saturday, July 28, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, July 28, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program
Saturday, July 28, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano (Marguerite)
Paul Groves, tenor (Faust)*
Sir Willard White, baritone* (Méphistophélès)
Christopher Feigum, bass-baritone** (Brander)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
John Oliver, conductor
PALS Children’s Chorus
Andy Icochea Icochea, conductor
BERLIOZ La Damnation de Faust
Sung in French with English supertitles
Sunday, July 29, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
Monday July 30, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Program to include
MESSIAEN Oiseaux exotiques
STRAVINSKY Les Noces
Thursday, August 2, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Gerald Finley, baritone*
Songs by LOEWE, SCHUMANN, and BRITTEN
Friday, August 3, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, August 3, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, August 3, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Gerald Finley, baritone
MOZART Symphony No. 38, Prague
MOZART Arias from Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
RAVEL Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, for baritone and orchestra
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2+
+Performed on the program of August 7, 1937
Saturday, August 4, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, August 4, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program
Saturday, August 4, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2
Sunday, August 5, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
GANDOLFI New work (world premiere; BSO commission)
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Sunday, August 5, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Chris Botti, trumpet
and his band
Tuesday, August 7, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Tanglewood on Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stéphane Denève*, Keith Lockhart, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, and John Williams, conductors
Program to include
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
Recent film scores by John WILLIAMS
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
Fireworks to follow the concert
2012 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, AUGUST 9-13
John Harbison and Oliver Knussen, Festival Co-Directors
Thursday, August 9, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Friday, August 10, 2:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Saturday, August 11, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert
Sunday, August 12, 10 a.m. Ozawa Hall
Sunday, August 12, 8 p.m. Program to include
KNUSSEN’s Higglety Pigglety Pop!
Monday, August 13, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall,
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Friday, August 10, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, August 10, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, August 10, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
John Ferrillo, oboe
Malcolm Lowe, violin
John Gibbons, harpsichord
ALL-BACH PROGRAM
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Concerto in C minor for violin, oboe, and strings, BWV 1060
Concerto in D minor for two violins and strings, BWV 1043
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Saturday, August 11, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, August 11, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Saturday program
Saturday, August 11, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
PREVIN New work (world premiere; BSO commission)
ELGAR Cello Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Sunday, August 12, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano**
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Thursday, August 16, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Ébène String Quartet
MOZART Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421
TCHAIKOVSKY Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11 Jazz improvisations, arranged by the Ébène Quartet
Friday, August 17, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, August 17, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, August 17, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin**
COPLAND Suite from Appalachian Spring
BARBER Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Saturday, August 18, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, August 18, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Saturday program
Saturday, August 18, 8:30 p.m. Shed
John Williams’ 80th Birthday Celebration
Boston Pops Orchestra Conductors to include Leonard Slatkin with
Jessye Norman, soprano
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Gabriela Montero, piano*
Anthony McGill, clarinet BSO soloists
Surprise guests
This summer, the Boston Pops Orchestra presents a very special concert honoring the 80th birthday year of Laureate Conductor John Williams. A host of renowned musical guests including Jessye Norman and Yo-Yo Ma join the Pops in a spectacular evening of some of Williams’ most popular works for film and the concert stage, with some very special surprises in store. It will be a joyous celebration not to miss, as Tanglewood pays tribute to one of its most beloved maestros!
Sunday, August 19, 2:30 p.m. Shed
The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
Wednesday, August 22, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
FOSS For Aaron
J.S. BACH Cantata No. 209, Non sa che sia dolore
HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2, for wind quintet
BRUCH Kol nidrei, Op. 47, for double bass and piano
MOZART Divertimento in E-flat, K.289
Friday, August 24, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Prelude Concert
Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Friday, August 24, 7:15 p.m. Shed
This Week at Tanglewood
Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists
Friday, August 24, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Pops Keith Lockhart, conductor
Maureen McGovern and Brian Stokes Mitchell, vocalists
Ilya Yakushev, piano^
Gershwin and Friends
Join Keith Lockhart, the Pops, and favorite guest vocalists for a celebration of George Gershwin and the creators of the Great American Songbook including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern. and Cole Porter. The program alsofeatures Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue.
Saturday, August 25, 9:30 a.m. Shed
Pre-Rehearsal Talk
Saturday, August 25, 10:30 a.m. Shed
Rehearsal, Sunday program
Saturday, August 25, 2:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Family Concert
Classical Tangent
Saturday, August 25, 8:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Nancy Fabiola Herrera, mezzo-soprano** (Salud) Cristina Faus, mezzo-soprano** (Grandmother)
Cátia Moreso, mezzo-soprano** (Carmela)
Vicente Ombuena, tenor (Paco)
Gustavo Peña, tenor** (A Voice in the Forge)
Alfredo García Huerga, baritone** (Uncle Salvaor)
Josep Miquel Ramón, baritone** (Manuel)
Pedro Sanz, cantaor (Spanish folk singer)
Núria Pomares Rojas, Flamenco dancer
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar**
ALBÉNIZ (arr. FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS) Suite española
FALLA La vida breve
Sung in Spanish with English supertitles
Sunday, August 26, 2:30 p.m. Shed
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor
Leah Crocetto, soprano**
Meredith Arwady, mezzo-soprano*
Frank Lopardo, tenor
John Relyea, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
John Oliver, conductor
HARBSION New work for chorus and orchestra (world premiere; BSO commission)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
When do Tix go on sale
Tickets go on sale Sunday, January 29, 2012. Details in our overview: link here
When will Train perform?
SInce we compiled the day by day, Tanglewood has added Train on Friday, August 31 – http://wp.me/pT8Qm-4XX and a double bill of rockers Evanescence and Chevelle on September 1, 2012, story here: http://wp.me/pT8Qm-5kt . Also added to the docket are Thomas Wilkins, who leads the Boston Pops, Michael Feinstein, and Christine Ebersole in a season-ending “American Songbook” concert on Sunday, September 2, at 2:30 p.m.