Music
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Magnificent Mahler and Barbara Cook Scintillates At Tanglewood
A Truly Festive Tanglewood Music Festival
By: - Jul 15th, 2008From now through Labor Day there is a compelling reason to attend the Tanglewood Music Festival. On Saturday we enjoyed Mahler's Symphony Number Two in C minor, conducted by Bernard Haitink. And we returned a couple of days later for an evening of the cabaret artist Barbara Cook.
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Keith Lockhart Conducts A Little Night Music at Tanglewood
Concert Version of Stephen Sondheim's Hit Show
By: - Jul 09th, 2008The original, 1973, Broadway production of "A Little Night Music" won Tony Awards for the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and the book of Hugh Wheeler. To date, however, there has not been a Broadway revival. Keith Lockhart led the Pops through a concert version of the musical to the delight of a Tanglewood audience.
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Following Triumphant Opening James Levine Cancels His Summer Tanglewood Appearances
Artistic Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival To Undergo Surgery This Week.
By: - Jul 08th, 2008This past weekend James Levine, artistic director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was given rave reviews for opening the Tanglewood season with a two day concert peformance of the massive and magnificent Berlioz Opera "Les Troyens." It was learned today that Levine will undergo surgery this week. His remaining Tanglewood duties are cancelled but he hopes to be back to cover the opening of the BSO.
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Magnificent Production of Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz at Tanglewood's 2008 Opening Night
James Levine Brings BSO's Rare Concert Version of the Opera to the Berkshires
By: - Jul 06th, 2008Anna Caterina Antonicci, soprano, was riveting as Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess ignored by her fellow citizens in the tragic opera, Les Troyens, by Hector Berlioz. A concert version of the enormous and ambitious work, conducted by James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra opened the Tanglewood 2008 season.
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Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56
An Absorbing Study by John Fass Morton
By: - Jul 02nd, 2008It was some 52 years ago when the Duke Ellington Orchestra ignited the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956. Tenor player, Paul Gonsalves broke out in 26 choruses between the sections of Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue. This was included in one of the first live recordings a hit for Columbia Records, "Ellington at Newport '56." The superb book by John Fass Morton truly does tell the Backstory of that moment in jazz history.
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James Taylor and Fireworks at Tanglewood on the Fourth
Mark Morris and Garrison Keillor Shoulder into Levine and Berlioz
By: - Jun 30th, 2008Tickets for the two James Taylor concerts on July 3 & 4 at Tanglewood sold out within hours of being put on sale. On Saturday evening the BSO summer residence offically opens with The Trojans (Part Two on Sunday afternooon) by Berlioz conducted by artistic director, James Levine. This past weekend during the Shoulder Season we attended perormances by the Mark Morris company and a broadcast of Prairie Home Companion.
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For Summer 2008:Tanglewood Announces Jazz Festival for Labor Day Weekend
Lively Season Planned for Lenox, Mass.
By: - Feb 15th, 2008The recently established tradition returns to Lenox, Mass with the annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Tickets to all Tanglewood events are now on sale.
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Jazz Pianist Oscar Peterson: 1925- 2007
Duke Ellington Dubbed Him the Maharajah of the Keyboard
By: - Dec 25th, 2007The Canadian born jazz pianist Oscar Peterson belonged to a tradition of improvisation and superb musicianship that was more mainstream than experimental. He cut many sides in a variety of combinations for Norman Granz and his Verve and later Pablo labels.
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Summer Home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2008 Tanglewood Season
James Levine Brings More Opera to the Berkshires
By: - Nov 30th, 2007The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2008 Tanglewood program with James Taylor celebrating the Fourth of July weekend and an even greater emphasis on opera but no great changes or surprises.
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Elgar at Bard, Weekend II
Of science and religion, Music Halls and World War I, Elgar's Symphonic work, and Gerontius
By: - Sep 06th, 2007The second weekend of the Bard Elgar Festival, the only major celebration of his anniversary in North America.
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Tanglewood Features: Ahmad Jamal and Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones and Roberta Gambarini, The Maria Schneider Orchestra, Bossa Brazil, and Kevin Mahogany's Kansas City Revue
Day Three of the Tanglewood Jazz Festival
By: - Sep 03rd, 2007The Labor Day weekend wound down with the Tanglewood Jazz Festival performances on Sunday that started in the afternoon and ended just around midnight. It was the last groove of summer.
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Kurt Elling, Randy Crawford and Joe Sample Headline at Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Day Two of the Three Day Event
By: - Sep 02nd, 2007During its second day Freddy Taylor again demonstrated what is meant by Festival which is more than just a bunch of concerts. The evening featured the vocalists Kurt Elling and Randy Crawford, accompanied by pianist Joe Sample and his trio.
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Hugh Masekela and Pancho Sanchez at Tanglewood
Weekend Long Tanglewood Jazz Festival Sizzles on a Cool Night
By: - Sep 01st, 2007Now in his sixth season Freddy Taylor has brought the annual Labor Day Weekend long Jazz Festival to venerable Tanglewood. Last night there was hot jazz wafting through the cool breeze.
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Brüggen, Bezuidenhout, and the Orchestra of the 18th Century at Tanglewood
with a digression on Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Fr�hbeck de Burgos and the TMC Orchestra
By: - Aug 29th, 2007A Tanglewood summer relatively rich in historically informed performances ended officially with a mostly impressive Beethoven Ninth under Frühbeck de Burgos with a postlude by the splendid Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under their founder Frans Brüggen with young fortepiano master Kristian Bezuidenhout.
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Mozart-da Ponte: Cosi Fan Tutte at Tanglewood
James Levine, Ira Siff, and the TMC Opera Fellows in a splendid evening
By: - Aug 23rd, 2007In just a few years James Levine has succeeded in making Tanglewood world-class center of operatic studies. He, director Ira Siff,designers John Michael Deegan and Sarah Conly have created an unforgettable production of "Così Fan Tutte."
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Nalini Ghuman, Musicologist, Visa Revoked, Cancels Talk at Bard Music Festival
American-trained academic unable to return to teaching post in California
By: - Aug 21st, 2007The US State Department continues a harmful trend.
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Edward Elgar and his World, The Bard Music Festival 2007
A broad view of the great English composer
By: - Aug 17th, 2007Three weekends of lively performances and lectures on Sir Edward Elgar, the greatest English composer since Purcell, who was also well-represented in the Berkshires this summer.
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Yo-Yo Ma and James Levine Play Dvorák at Tanglewood
One of the summer's most popular events.
By: - Aug 16th, 2007Yo-Yo Ma's commitment and interpretive brilliance overcome a flawed accompaniment.
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Verdi's Don Carlo at Tanglewood with Levine and the TMC Orchestra
Zelijko Lucic and Luciana d'Intino excel in an uneven cast
By: - Aug 04th, 2007The much-loved Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra under Jsmes Levine gave Verdi's middle-period masterpiece a unique quality last weekend.
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The Police were Arresting
A Fenway Reunion for Roxanne and Co
By: - Aug 03rd, 2007Our man Mark Favermann was just steps from the stage at the rock event of the summer a reunion performance by Police at Fenway Park.
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Zemlinsky at Bard: a Review
A Splendid evening of musical theater, not to be missed
By: - Jul 29th, 2007Outstanding singing and conducting and brilliant productions bring Zemlinsky's "Florentine Tragedy" and "The Dwarf" to life.
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Bard Summer Opera Preview: Zemlinsky's
Double bill of one act operas after Oscar Wilde
By: - Jul 25th, 2007Leon Botstein will conduct Olivier Tambosi's stylish productions of these decadent works by Alexander von Zemlinsky, the under-recognized teacher and brother-in-law of Arnold Schoenberg.
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Aston Magna: Johann Sebastian Bach and King Frederick the Great Meet Again
this time, more cordially
By: - Jul 17th, 2007In a beautifully played concert musicians of Aston Magna evoked the infamous encounter between King Frederick the great and J. S. Bach which led to the creation of the Musical Offering.
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Hesperion XXI led by Jordi Savall play Sephardic Music at Tanglewood
Montserrat Figueras sang
By: - Jul 16th, 2007Hesperion XXI thrilled a close-to-capacity non-specialist audience in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
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Andre Previn Jazz Trio at Tanglewood
With Jim Hall and David Finck in Seiji Ozawa Hall
By: - Jul 16th, 2007Accompanied by David Finck, bass and Jim Hall on guitar, the composer and conductor Andre Previn performed jazz for a sold out audience at Ozawa Hall.
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