Tanglewood’s Annual Berkshire Night10:19AM / Friday, June 26, 2009
BERKSHIRE COUNTY - Tanglewood’s annual Berkshire Night will take place on July 24, allowing 1,000 year-round residents of the Berkshires to enjoy a Friday-evening Boston Symphony Orchestra concert at the orchestra’s summer home for free. Maestro James Levine will lead the BSO in a program of Berlioz’s Le Corsaire Overture and Harold in Italy, featuring BSO principal violist Steven Ansell, and two works by Mussorgsky: the Prelude to Khovanshchina and Pictures at an Exhibition. The concert begins at 8:30 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed.
Massachusetts Berkshire residents with valid identification may obtain two free tickets per person at the Tanglewood Box Office from Monday, July 20, through Thursday, July 23. Box Office hours for Berkshire Night tickets are Monday, July 20, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, July 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Wednesday, July 22, and Thursday, July 23, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are subject to availability.
Before the Berkshire Night concert, guides will offer free tours of the Tanglewood grounds from 6 to 7 p.m., and children may take part in an instrument petting zoo from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Visitors Center. For more information on Berkshire Night, call the Tanglewood Volunteer Office at 413-637-5393.
Berkshire residents attending the concert may also attend the 6 p.m. prelude concert in Ozawa Hall, featuring members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and “This Week at Tanglewood” in the Shed at 7:15 p.m., the pre-concert panel discussion hosted by former Live at Lincoln Center host Martin Bookspan and featuring baritone Thomas Hampson, who will be performing Barber’s Songs with Orchestra and Thomson’s Five Songs from William Blake with the BSO on July 26. www.tanglewood.org |
