music
live performance returns
A Tanglewood concert during normal times.
The wait is over! Guests will once again
be able to enjoy live music on the Tanglewood grounds this summer. All performances will be held in the open-air Koussevitzky Music Shed—with appropriate distancing limits— and will last up to 80 minutes with no intermissions. Distanced lawn seating will, of course, also be available. The regular season will run July 9 – August 16 and feature BSO Conductor Andris Nelsons leading eight orchestra programs in this reduced, six-week season. BSO concerts will take place Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, with Friday evenings reserved for Boston Pops concerts and guest chamber music artists. Guest artists will include Emanuel Ax, Lisa Batiashvili, Yefim Bronfman, Karina Canellakis, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Anthony Marwood, Wynton Marsalis, Baiba Skride, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Daniil Trifonov. Updates to the Popular Artist Series will be announced shortly, with a target date of late August and early September for these concerts.
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Close Encounters With Music will present two evenings of “Wine and Song” at The Mount in Lenox. On May 23 in the courtyard, soprano Sonja Tengblad, contralto Emily Marvosh, and pianist Joseph Turbessi present songs of nature, summer, flowers, meteorology and pollution by composers ranging from Schumann, Handel, and Delibes to Cole Porter, Aaron Copland, and Tom Lehrer. On June 13 in the garden, the award-winning New York-based a cappella vocal jazz ensemble West Side Five will offer innovative takes on jazz standards. Later in the summer, CEWM’s Berkshire High Peaks Festival invites the public to participate virtually in two weeks of daily master classes and talks by distinguished musicians, July 20 – August 2. Highlights include late-night jamming and moonlight sonatas; workshops on technique, historical performances, jazz and improvisation; sessions on performing and appreciating world music; open master classes with international faculty artists and pedagogues; talks by leading contemporary more news and features at theBerkshireEdge.com
