Music
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Crosby Stills and Nash at Tanglewood
The Dinosaurs Tour
By: - Sep 02nd, 2010When not collecting social security, or hanging out at the senior center shooting pool Crosby, Stills and Nash are out on tour. They brought their dino rock to Tanglwood last night to a sedate, not sedated, audience. Nice way to end a summer in the Shed.
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The Center For the Arts in Natick
September Schedule
By: - Sep 01st, 2010Concerts begin with Boston favorite Catie Curtis, Christine Lavin, Larry Carlton, and The Matt Haimovitz Trio
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Met Live in HD at the Clark
Also at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington
By: - Aug 30th, 2010In addition to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Great Barrington, the enormously popular Met Live in HD series of broadcasts has now been expanded to the Northern Berkshire Audience. The series, which is sure to sell out, as it has at the Mahaiwe for the past two seasons, will start on October 9 with Wagner's Das Rheingold.
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Garrick Ohlsson Delivers Pitch-Perfect Performance
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Kurt Masur Conducts Final BSO Tanglewood Concert
Beethnoven's Ninth Always Delievers
By: - Aug 30th, 2010There's nothing like listening to Beethoven's Ninth at Tanglewood. Kurt Masur ended BSO season at Tanglewood. Indeed an Ode to Joy.
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Ute Lemper Last Tango in Berlin
Multivalent Global Cabaret at the Colonial
By: - Aug 28th, 2010The remarkable singer, cabaret artist, actress, and painter, Ute Lemper, utterly captivated the audience last night at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It was a rich and diverse global excursion as she performed in five languages; English, her native German, Spanish, French and even Yiddish. The material spanned Brecht/ Weil and Jacques Brel to lyrics by the beat poet Charles Bukowski. Out there.
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2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Annual Event September 4 and 5
By: - Aug 24th, 2010As the summer season of 2010 winds down it is time yet again to swing in the Wood. The a nnual Tanglewood Jazz Festival returns to Lenox for he last hurrah of summer on September 4 and 5. Get a groove on before heading back to school and work.
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Dawn Upshaw at Tanglewood
A Little Night Music? Thanks but No Thanks
By: - Aug 21st, 2010Dawn Upshaw did her best, but still couldn't save the schmaltzy sherdherdesses. Descriptions of people engaging in such bucolic activities populate the “Songs of the Auvergne,†a selection of songs written by Joseph Canteloube and performed Friday night by Dawn Upshaw and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
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Callithumpian Consort at ICA/Boston
The Sinking of the Titanic
By: - Aug 21st, 2010ICA/Boston Callithumpian Consort performs British composer Gavin Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic. Audiences become passengers in a metaphor for our Post Crash Era.
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Wilco Wraps Solid Sound Festival
Will Return Next Year
By: - Aug 16th, 2010The total attendance for the weekend long Wilco Solid Sound Festival was about 10,000. But with weekend passes it is not clear just how many tickets were sold. Probably about half that figure. On an artistic level it was a great success. There was a nice mellow energy. With more advance planning and involvement from North Adams administration, merchants, vendors, artists and citizens it will surely be back bigger and better next year.
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John Williams Salutes Steven Spielberg
Film Night at Tanglewood
By: - Aug 15th, 2010The silver haired and silken tongued Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies was the host for the enormously popular John Williams Film night. The Tanglewood program entailed a tribute to collaborations with Steven Spielberg.
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Contemporary Music at Tanglewood
A Hotbed of Cutting Edge Music
By: - Aug 15th, 2010There is nothing hard-to-take about the music presented over five days im Osawa Hall at Tanglewood. Under the direction of Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen and John Harbison, 20th century composers sing and soar.
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Wilco Update
Groovin at Mass MoCA
By: - Aug 15th, 2010Up to 5,000 attended the Wilco Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA on Saturday. The day ended with a two hour plus Wilco performance on Joe's Field. The three day event winds down this afternoon with an acoustic set by Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy.
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Wilco Rocks Mass MoCA
Weekend Long Solid Sound Festival
By: - Aug 14th, 2010Two and half years of planning went into the three day Solid Sound Festival that brought the rock band Wilco to Mass MoCA. If all goes well the museum director Joe Thompson hopes for their return. The experimental Festival will be a template for future events on a large scale. It got off to a great start on a glorious summer night in the Berkshires.
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Herbie Hancock at Tanglewood
Imagine the Jazz Master at 70
By: - Aug 10th, 2010Grammy winner of album of the year Herbie Hancock brought his Imagine tour to Tanglewood. The recent Imagine album took two years to record on location in seven countries with all stars representing eleven nations.
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Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood
Yo Yo Ma’s World Music Project
By: - Aug 09th, 2010Yo Yo Ma formed the Silk Road Ensemble in 1998. The performance last night at Tanglewood was quite different from what we experienced several years ago. There is more of an emphasis on commissioned works and arrangement's of traditional music some going back thousands of years. It was the exotic high point of a rich and diverse Tanglewood season.
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Richard Goode at Tanglewood
A Gem Delivered on a Perfect Summer Night
By: - Aug 07th, 2010On Friday night, pianist Richard Goode, with the assistance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, gave the audience at Tanglewood a pitch-perfect performance of Mozart’s jewel-like Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-Flat, K-449. The piece for full orchestra sounds more like a chamber music work, probably because of Mozart’s precise, minute-like composition.
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Tanglewood On Parade
Tribute to 30th Season of John Williams
By: - Aug 05th, 2010It was a glorious summer evening for Tanglewood on Parade. The popular annual concert featured a tribute to the music of John Williams. This is his 30th season. Some special friends joined him on stage including Keith Lockhart, Stafan Asbury, Julian Kuerti, Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor. It ended with a big bang of 1812 Overture followed by fireworks.
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Yo Yo Ma Silences the Wind
Cello Virtuoso Left Tanglewood Crowd Speechless
By: - Aug 03rd, 2010Few cellists â€" or musicians of any kind for that matter â€" have the power to entrance an audience, leave them speechless by playing just a few notes. Yo Yo Ma reminded the massive crowd attending Sunday afternoon’s performance at Tanglewood why he remains one of those gifted, magical musicians.
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Ariadne auf Naxos at Tanglewood
Rising Stars in Student Production
By: - Aug 03rd, 2010This season three of the Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows who performed in Ariadne auf Naxos are headed for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Audrey Elizabeth Luna, a scampy temptress and comedienne, as the delicious Zerbinetta makes her Met debut as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote. Emalie Savoy who performed the role of Ariadne/ The Prima Donna joins the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Cecelia Hall, the mezzo-soprano as the Young Composer will make her Met debut as the Second Priestess in Gluck’s Iphigenie en Tauride.
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Gilles Vonsattel Delivers at Tanglewood
Substitute Soars with Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1.
By: - Jul 26th, 2010Pianist Peter Sirkin was forced to cancel due to illness, but substitute virtuoso Gilles Vonsattel stepped up and delivered an enthusiastic performance of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 on Saturday at Tanglewood.
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Bethel Woods, Celtic Woman and a Dancing Cat
A Woodstock Pilgrimage
By: - Jul 26th, 2010“Collecting Woodstock†is an immersive work-in-progress. Less a collection of artifacts than of information, the multimedia exhibit documents a decade of civil discontent with the sights and sounds of celebration and anihilation, ascension and assassination, idealism and disillusionment. Nothing much has been sanitized, except inasmuch as time has distanced us from the immediate conditions of psychedelic squalor that characterized a generation and that necessarily prevailed when “we were half a million strong†and gathered in a field some 15 acres square.
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The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music
Tanglewood August 12-16
By: - Jul 21st, 2010The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music, August 12-16, will be the culmination of a season-long celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO’s renowned summer music academy for young professional musicians, with performances of works by the TMC’s distinguished composition faculty over the course of its history.
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Betty Buckley at the Colonial August 11
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 21st, 2010Betty Buckley received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
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Audra McDonald at Tanglewood
Broadway in the Berkshires
By: - Jul 19th, 2010Broadway star and four time Tony winner, Audra McDonald is on the run. It took some 26 hours of travel time, including multiple delays in Mexico City, to reach a scheduled Tanglewood concert. From the stage of sold out Ozawa Hall she announced that she was about to perform for the Obama family. Despite all that jet lag she settled into a stunning and intimate evening of show tunes. The evening was a highlight of what is proving to be a sensational season in the Berkshires.
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