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15 minutes with Josh Groban
By Benjamin Cassidy LENOX, Mass. Few singers have a more distinctive voice than Josh Groban, and few venues are better suited to host his ballyhooed baritone than Tanglewood. The 38-yearoldâs operatic pop is a natural fit at the site that hosts classical and popular music during the summer months. âA multidimensional music-loving audience is built into a place like Tanglewood, which makes an artist like myself who kind of dances between a lot of different worlds vocally feel very welcome and feel like I can really let all my influences hang out, and it will be accepted, and it will be understood,â Groban told UpCountry during a late May phone interview. Renowned composer and conductor John Williams first invited Groban to perform at Tanglewood in the early 2000s. Groban recalled being struck by the campusâ natural beauty, as well as all of the picnickers on the lawn. Most recently, he appeared with the Boston Pops at the Koussevitzky Music Shed in 2014. Since that time, UpCountryOnline.com | 49
