Tanglewood

A guide to the major music festivals of the Berkshires and environs with links to all schedules.

Over the busy Memorial Day weekend the arts were officially launched with overlapping openings all over the Berkshires. We opted to covering the events in North Adams.

The first known Cambodian opera, Where Elephants Weep is a hybrid of musical genres that bridges generations and cultures, decades after Pol Pot all but devastated Cambodia.

The London Symphony, releasing their own recordings on LSO Live, have set a new standard for orchestral recording, bringing stellar performances by Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Rostropovich, and Frühbeck de Burgos to a larger audience.

Garrick Ohlsson's played four Beethoven Sonatas with his usual mastery in spite of an undersized piano of poor quality

James Levine, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a dream cast headed by Christine Brewer and Johan Botha, presented a memorable Fidelio.

The Metropolitan Opera's beautiful production Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" is graced with a consistently excellent cast of singers.

Now in its 25th Year the Mark Morris Dance Company is launching a tour of 100 performances in the U.S. and Europe including a world premiere during its May schedule at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.

James Levine will conduct eleven concerts in an ambitious season, which includes a wealth of opera performances, several distinguished musicians from the Netherlands, and Hesperion XXI.

Sir Colin and the BSO were at the very top of form for Vaughn Williams stark postwar symphony and Beethoven's Pastoral Reflections

Sir Colin Davis and Imogen Cooper delighted the matinée audience at Symphony Hall with symphonies by Mozart and Haydn and a memorable reading of Mozart's great concerto.

Guest conductor David Lockington, Music Director of the Grand Rapids Symphony offers new work by Philip Sawyers and excels in Sibelius, while Dylana Jenson earned ovations with an exemplary Goldmark Violin Concerto.

BFA classical reviewer offers an enthusiastic retrospective of the summer season...with a few apologies and complaints

Two intensive weekends of music by Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Yo-yo Ma and Emanuel Ax carry on their long collaboration in an all- Beethoven evening shared between modern and historical performance practices. The concert was both fascinating and inspired

Bronfman and Frühbeck de Burgos captur the essence of Beethoven

Emmanuel Ax and Herbert Blomstedt excelled Saturday night at Tanglewood. Blomstedt's Bruckner Seventh was both original and moving.

Gustavo Dudamel, 26-year-old- Venezuelan conductor makes an unforgettable debut, and Imogen Cooper returns with superb Beethoven.

Book ended by the Colonial Theatre and the Berkshire Museum on one end of town and steps to the Barrington Theatre Festival on the other, Spice is the hot new restaurant in Pittsfield. No, make that the Berkshires.

Tanglewood regulars rave about the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, a group composed of music center fellows, young musicians, "who have completed much or all of their formal instruction

Music Critic Michael Miller has been out and about from Tanglewood to the Lizt Festival at Bard College and up to attend concerts in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Here he provides and overview of the season followed by several specific reviews.