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PRESS CONTACT:
Bernadette Horgan, bhorgan@bso.org
617-638-9280
For Immediate Release:
June 10, 2013
TANGLEWOOD OFFERS A WIDE ARRAY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
FOR VISITORS OF ALL AGES
TWO NEW EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES DURING TANGLEWOOD 2013 INCLUDE BSO 101: LISTENING UP CLOSE, A FREE MUSIC APPRECIATION SERIES, AND UNDERSCORE FRIDAYS, WITH COMMENTS FROM THE STAGE
ACTIVITIES AT TANGLEWOOD INCLUDE “THIS WEEK AT TANGLEWOOD,”
“TALKS AND WALKS,” AND SATURDAY-MORNING REHEARSAL LECTURES
ONE DAY UNIVERSITY AT TANGLEWOOD, AUGUST 25, IMMERSES PATRONS IN
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES IN A BEAUTIFUL BERKSHIRE SETTING
“WATCH AND PLAY” AND “KIDS’ CORNER” OFFER YOUNG CONCERT-GOERS A FUN WAY
TO LEARN ABOUT MUSIC BEFORE AND DURING WEEKEND CONCERTS
Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will offer two new programs this summer—BSO 101: Listening Up Close, a free music appreciation series led by BSO Director of Program Publications Marc Mandel with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Underscore Fridays, featuring BSO musicians speaking from the stage about the evening’s program during select Friday-evening concerts—in addition to an already established wide selection of education opportunities available for patrons of all ages. Other education programs include “This Week at Tanglewood,” a free 30-minute Friday-evening panel discussion series; “Talks and Walks,” a series of informal conversations presented by guest artists and members of the BSO family that takes place on Thursday afternoons; Saturday-morning rehearsal lectures, beginning at 9:30 a.m. before the Saturday-morning rehearsals; One Day University at Tanglewood, August 25; and Watch and Play and Kids’ Corner, weekend activities for children that coincide with the weekend concerts.
For complete season programs, ticket information, and downloadable press photos, please visit Tanglewood’s online press kit at www.tanglewood.org/presskit.
EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES
BSO 101: Listening Up Close
Four Wednesdays from 12:45-2pm in the Tent Club
July 10, July 24, August 7, and August 21
Now in its third season at Symphony Hall in Boston, BSO 101—a free music appreciation series led by BSO Director of Program Publications Marc Mandel with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—will be introduced for the first time to BSO fans at Tanglewood; the series will take place on four Wednesdays (July 10, July 24, August 7, and August 21) from 12:45–2 p.m. in the Tanglewood Tent Club. BSO 101 sessions will include brief introductory comments on the coming weekend’s orchestral programs, and then focus on two works to be played by the BSO on each of those Tanglewood weekends, examining and illuminating aspects of musical shape and form, and of the composer’s individual musical style. All of these sessions will include recorded musical examples, and each is self-contained so that no prior musical training or attendance at any previous session is required. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lunch, though there will also be an option to buy lunch at the Tent Club.
Wednesday, July 10
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 (concert of Sunday, July 14)
RAVEL Piano Concerto in D for the left hand (concert of Friday, July 12)
Wednesday, July 24
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414 (concert of Friday, July 26)
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 (concert of Sunday, July 28)
Wednesday, August 7
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 (concert of Friday, August 9)
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 (concert of Saturday, August 10)
Wednesday, August 21
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 (concert of Friday, August 23)
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 (concert of Sunday, August 25)
Underscore Fridays
The BSO’s Underscore Friday series, featuring BSO musicians speaking from the stage about the evening’s program prior to select Friday-evening concerts during the season, will be introduced to Tanglewood audiences in the 2013 season. Underscore Friday concerts will take place on July 12, featuring Kazushi Ono leading the BSO in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in D for the left hand with Leon Fleisher, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade; August 2, featuring the BSO, conductor Stéphane Denève, pianist Lars Vogt, soprano Lucy Crowe, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a program including Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, for soprano, chorus, and orchestra; and August 23, featuring BSO assistant conductor Andris Poga in his Tanglewood debut, leading the orchestra in Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds with Peter Serkin, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
“This Week at Tanglewood”
Friday evenings at 7:15 p.m., Shed
“This Week at Tanglewood” is Tanglewood’s free 30-minute Friday-evening panel discussion series that begins at 7:15 p.m. in the Shed prior to each Friday-evening BSO performance. Hosted by Martin Bookspan, former host of Live from Lincoln Center, the program features informal discussions with special guests and visiting artists, and offers an overview of the coming week’s schedule, including everything from BSO performances to Tanglewood Music Center concerts to children’s programming. Guests will be announced on BSO.org at a later date.
“Talks and Walks”
Thursday afternoons July 11 through August 22 at 1 p.m.
“Talks and Walks” is a series of informal conversations presented by guest artists and members of the BSO family. Featured guest artists in 2013 include conductor David Newman (July 11), conductor Vladimir Jurowski (July 18), BSO Principal Librarian Marty Burlingame (July 25), conductor Stéphane Denève (August 1), pianist Christian Zacharias (August 8), soprano Camilla Tilling (August 15), and BSO assistant conductor Andris Poga (August 22). The program begins with a 1 p.m. talk in the Tent Club, followed by a guided tour of the grounds at 1:45 p.m. Individual tickets are sold at the Tent Club on the day of the Talk, beginning at noon, for $14 (for Friends of Tanglewood) and $17 (general admission). Admission to the full series can be bought for $102. For more information, call the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers at 617-638-9391. The Talks and Walks Series is supported by a gift from the Claudia and Steven Perles Family Foundation in memory of Professor Benjamin M. Perles.
Saturday Morning Rehearsals/Pre-Rehearsal Talks
Saturday Morning Rehearsals take place on Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m. throughout the Tanglewood season. Rehearsals provide an inside view of the final preparations before a performance, and give patrons an opportunity to see the conductor, soloists, and orchestra work together in an informal setting, as well as learn more about the program through pre-rehearsal talks. The pre-rehearsal talks, which begin at 9:30 a.m., are presented by Marc Mandel, Director of Program Publications, and Robert Kirzinger, Assistant Director of Program Publications—Editorial. Saturday Morning Rehearsal Shed seats are reserved/ticketed seating only. Tickets range from $11-$30 and can be purchased at the Tanglewood Box Office, online at www.tanglewood.org, or through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200.
One Day University at Tanglewood, August 25
One Day University, the acclaimed adult education series, is returning to Tanglewood on Sunday, August 25, presenting three lectures by professors from Yale, Rutgers, and Columbia. Topics to be discussed include “The Nature of Genius: From Leonardo da Vinci to Beethoven” with Yale University’s Craig Wright; “Abraham Lincoln: Separating Fact from Fiction” with Rutgers University’s Louis Masur; and “Five Paintings Every Art Lover Should See” with Columbia University’s Tina Rivers. The cost for One Day University at Tanglewood is $159, and includes VIP parking and lawn admission for the 2:30 p.m. BSO season-finale performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, led by Bernard Haitink. Advance purchase is required. For more information or to register for One Day University at Tanglewood, call Symphony Charge at 888-266-1200 or visit www.tanglewood.org/onedayu.
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Watch and Play
Sundays – July 7 & 21, August 4 & 11 at 1 p.m.
Watch and Play is a free educational program designed to engage children in the day’s musical program with lively discussions about instruments, concert themes, and musical concepts. The interactive program is offered at 1 p.m. in the Chamber Music Hall on July 7, July 21, August 4, and August 11. Tickets to the Sunday-afternoon concert performance are required. Tanglewood offers free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under, allowing children to attend the concert and Watch and Play free of charge. Watch and Play is sponsored by the Boston Symphony Association of Volunteers in collaboration with the BSO Education and Community Engagement department.
Kids’ Corner
Kids’ Corner is a free children’s activity at Tanglewood offered at noon on Sundays before the afternoon concerts, and during the Open Rehearsals at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday mornings. On days with Watch and Play (July 7, July 21, August 4, and August 11), Kids’ Corner will begin at 2 p.m. Children accompanied by adults may take part in musical and crafts activities supervised by BSO staff. Interested families should check in at the Tanglewood Visitors Center. (Tickets to the Sunday concert or Saturday Open Rehearsal are required.) Tanglewood offers free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under, allowing children to attend the concert and Kids’ Corner free of charge.
Blackout dates for all ticket deals include Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (June 29), Melissa Etheridge (June 21), the Boston Pops Jerry Garcia Celebration featuring Warren Haynes (June 22), Joan Baez and the Indigo Girls (June 23), Jackson Browne (July 4), Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, and Guster (July 23), Steve Miller Band (July 29), Grace Potter and the Nocturnals with special guest Josh Ritter (August 19), and any other Popular Artist event. For Popular Artists concerts, free lawn tickets are only available for children under age 2.
TANGLEWOOD SUMMER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Tanglewood Music Center (TMC)
The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer academy for advanced musical study, is considered one of the world’s foremost graduate-level educational programs for young professional musicians. TMC Fellows work closely with members of the BSO and renowned guest artists, performing some 40 concerts each season, including chamber music concerts and large-scale orchestral programs.
The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will perform four concerts during the 2013 season, concluding with the annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert in the Shed on Sunday, August 18, with conductor Christoph von Dohnányi in a program of Mozart’s Piano Concerto K.271 in E-flat with pianist Emanuel Ax and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Other guest conductors to lead the TMCO this season include Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos in a program including Kodály’s Dances of Galánta and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, July 8; and Stéphane Denève in an all-Debussy program including Jeux, Danses sacrées et profanes, and La Mer, July 22. Fellows from the TMC Conducting Program will also conduct works on these programs. The TMCO will also perform during Tanglewood on Parade on August 6.
Another highlight of the Tanglewood Music Center’s 2013 season includes the TMC’s annual collaboration with Mark Morris and the Mark Morris Dance Group on July 31 and August 1, with the dance company and TMC singers and instrumentalists performing Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with dancers, and TMC fellows performing Britten’s opera Curlew River in a fully staged production with stage direction by Mr. Morris.
Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI)
The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) is recognized internationally as the premiere summer training program for aspiring high school-age musicians. Tanglewood is the only program of its kind and is associated with one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. Under the guidance of distinguished professionals, and in the presence of the BSO, young people devote themselves to an artistic experience without parallel.
If it isn’t enough to have the BSO and Pops at Tanglewood, they also have other interesting activities that you don’t want to miss.
Created in 1966 at the invitation of then-BSO conductor Erich Leinsdorf, BUTI developed as a counterpart to the BSO’s Tanglewood Music Center. BUTI students share rehearsal and performance spaces with BSO members, and also attend a selection of TMC master classes and activities—many led by BSO members. BUTI students also enjoy free, unlimited access to all performances of the BSO and TMC throughout the summer.
Days in the Arts (DARTS)
Days in the Arts (DARTS), the BSO’s residential arts immersion program for Massachusetts youth, hosts over 400 middle school students at Tanglewood each summer. Founded in 1968, DARTS celebrates 45 years this season, offering intensive arts immersion programs to fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade students, some of whom come from schools with limited arts education resources. The students, from rural, suburban, and urban neighborhoods representing dozens of diverse communities throughout Massachusetts, spend five days completely involved in cultural exploration, engaging in intensive workshops, and making afternoon excursions to Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Shakespeare & Co., Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Norman Rockwell Museum, and Chesterwood for performances, tours, master classes, and a variety of hands-on demonstrations.
Approximately 50 students are chosen for each of the eight, one-week sessions of the DARTS program, June 24-August 16. At the start of a session, each student chooses to focus on the music, visual arts, theater, or dance disciplines and works within a small group to complete a project in this field. Each week has a central theme around which the cultural excursions, creative writing sessions, demonstrations, and master classes are built; the week’s activities culminate in a final performance showcasing each individual student’s artistic development.
OVERVIEW OF 2013 TANGLEWOOD SEASON
Among the special events of the 2013 Tanglewood season will be the presentation of the acclaimed, newly re-mastered 1961 film West Side Story, featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing Leonard Bernstein’s iconic score, while the film is shown on large screens in high definition with the original vocals and dialogue (7/13). Yo-Yo Ma, in one of two appearances this season, is joined by American string virtuosos Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, and Stuart Duncan to perform a program inspired by their recent genre-defying recording, The Goat Rodeo Sessions (8/15). The BSO’s season at Tanglewood opens on July 5 with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leading an all-Tchaikovsky program featuring violin virtuoso Joshua Bell in his 25th consecutive year performing at Tanglewood, and closes on August 25 with the welcome return of BSO Conductor Emeritus Bernard Haitink for the season finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The 200th anniversaries of the birth of Wagner and Verdi will be marked with two special BSO programs: Bryn Terfel, along with Katarina Dalayman and Amber Wagner, will be featured in Act III of Wagner’s Die Walküre under the direction of the acclaimed Wagner conductor Lothar Koenigs (7/20), and newly appointed BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons will lead the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and an acclaimed cast of soloists in the Verdi Requiem (7/27).
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops will be joined by country music legend Vince Gill on July 7 and American Songbook stylist Michael Feinstein on August 16. For the ever-popular Film Night, this year on August 25, John Williams and the Boston Pops will be joined by guest conductor David Newman and renowned vocalist Audra McDonald for what has become one of the signature events of the Tanglewood season. American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, along with special guest Sara Watkins, returns to Tanglewood on July 4, with fireworks following the concert, and Grammy award-winning jazz bassist/vocalist/composer Esperanza Spalding will bring her Radio Music Society Tour to Tanglewood on August 4. A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor returns to Tanglewood for their fourteenth consecutive live broadcast from the festival on June 29.
The 2013 Tanglewood season will present a spectacular lineup of the world’s most celebrated piano virtuosos, including legendary figures Leon Fleisher (7/12) and Menahem Pressler (8/20); these programs will take place in celebration of Mr. Fleisher’s 85th birthday and Mr. Pressler’s 90th birthday. Other featured soloists will include such established masters as Emanuel Ax (8/18), Yefim Bronfman (8/10), Christoph Eschenbach (7/26), Paul Lewis (7/24), Garrick Ohlsson ( 7/28), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (7/19), Peter Serkin (8/23), and Christian Zacharias (8/11). Two stars of the younger generation, Lang Lang (8/3) and Daniil Trifonov (8/22), will also be featured.
Emmanuel Music will present a concert performance of John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby (7/11), in celebration of the composer’s 75th birthday. The Tanglewood Music Center, with Mark Morris directing, will present a double opera bill of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Britten’s Curlew River (7/31, 8/1), in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth. In addition, Tanglewood is honored to present the U.S. premiere of George Benjamin’s highly acclaimed opera, Written on Skin (8/12), in concert performance, to take place during the Festival of Contemporary Music (8/8-12).
SEASON TICKET INFORMATION IN BRIEF AND SEASON DATES
Tanglewood’s 2013 season opens on Friday, June 21, and closes Sunday, September 1. For detailed information about the 2013 Tanglewood season, including how to purchase tickets, priced from $9 to $117 for regular season concerts, visit www.tanglewood.org. Tickets are available through Tanglewood’s website, www.tanglewood.org, through SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, and at the Symphony Hall Box Office at 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA. Tanglewood continues to offer free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college and graduate students, as well as a variety of special programs for children, including Kids’ Corner, Watch and Play, and the annual Family Concert, this year to take place Saturday, August 24. New this season, one of the BSO’s most popular discount ticket offers, $20 tickets for attendees under 40, will be available for BSO and Boston Pops performances in the Shed. Tanglewood will also offer the BSO’s popular college card at the orchestra’s summer home for the first time this season. Blackout dates include all Popular Artist concerts; July 5, 7, 13, 18, 25, August 4 and 24.
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TANGLEWOOD, THE BSO’S SUMMER HOME SINCE 1937
One of the most popular and acclaimed music festivals in the world, Tanglewood—the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home since 1937—is located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills between Lenox and Stockbridge, MA. With an average annual attendance of more than 300,000 visitors each season, Tanglewood has a $60 million impact on the Berkshire economy each summer. Tanglewood presents orchestra concerts by the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and visiting ensembles, featuring many of the greatest classical musicians of our time; recital and chamber music concerts in the intimate setting of Ozawa Hall; programs highlighting the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center; and performances by some of today’s leading popular artists. New this year—$20 tickets for attendees under 40—will be available for BSO and Boston Pops performances in the Shed. Tanglewood is family-friendly, with free lawn tickets available for children and young people age 17 and under, a 50% discount on Friday-evening lawn tickets for college and graduate students, and a variety of special programs for children, including Kids’ Corner, Watch and Play, and the annual Family Concert, this year to take place on August 24. Tanglewood is also the home of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s preeminent summer music academy for the advanced training of young professional musicians, and Days in the Arts, a residential arts-immersion program that gives 400 fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders from communities across Massachusetts the opportunity to explore the arts throughout each week-long session of the summer. These are just two of the BSO’s many educational and outreach activities, for which more information is available at www.bso.org—the largest and most visited orchestral website in the country, receiving about 7 million visitors annually and generating over $75 million in revenue since its launch in 1996. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is online at www.bso.org. Music lovers can follow the BSO on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bostonsymphony or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bostonsymphony.
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For further information, call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is online at www.bso.org. All programs and artists are subject to change.
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