Boston Symphony Orchestra announces 2007 Season for the Tanglewood Music Center

11:09AM / Thursday, April 19, 2007Print Story | Email Story

The Boston Symphony Orchestraâ€™s renowned summer music academy - opens its 2007 summer session on June 28 and 29 collaborating with the Mark Morris Dance Group in performances of Purcellâ€™s Dido and Aeneas, and closes the session on August 19 with a performance of Beethovenâ€™s Ninth Symphony under the direction of Rafael FrÃ¼hbeck de Burgos. Highlights of the Tanglewood Music Centerâ€™s 67th season include BSO Music Director James Levine leading the TMC Orchestra (TMCO) and Vocal Fellows and a cast of internationally renowned singers in a concert performance of Verdiâ€™s opera Don Carlo (July 28), Maestro Levine conducting TMC vocalists and instrumentalists in staged performances of Mozartâ€™s CosÃ¬ fan tutte (August 11-14), and TMC Vocal Fellows performing in a concert performance of Rodgers and Hammersteinâ€™s Carousel (July 10) with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops. Other highlights include a discussion of theater and popular music of 1930s with composers John Williams and Milton Babbitt. TMC fellows will also be featured in Tanglewood on Parade, an all-day musical celebration culminating in an evening concert featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, under the direction of James Levine, John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Rafael FrÃ¼hbeck de Burgos. Opening Exercises for this summerâ€™s TMC season will be at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, July 9, in Ozawa Hall. Maestro Levine will perform Bolcomâ€™s brief Graceful Ghost (Rag) for solo piano during Opening Exercises, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will perform music of Holst, Ravel, and BartÃ³k at an 8:30 p.m. concert that day. James Levine and The Tanglewood Music Center Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director James Levine returns to Tanglewood this summer, serving once again as the chairman of the TMCâ€™s opera and conducting programs. Maestro Levine will lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in a concert performance of Verdiâ€™s Don Carlo on Saturday, July 28, in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. The concert - the Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert - features the TMC Orchestra and Vocal Fellows, several in significant roles, as well as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a host of internationally renowned singers including soprano Patricia Racette (Elisabeth of Valois), mezzo-soprano Luciana Dâ€™Intino (Princess Eboli), tenor Johan Botha (Don Carlo, Infante of Spain), baritone Å½eljko Luc(ic'(Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa), bass James Morris (Philip II, King of Spain), bass Paata Burchuladze (The Grand Inquisitor), baritone David Won (The Count of Lerma), bass Jordan Bisch (A Monk) and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor. The concert performance of the operaâ€™s four-act version will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Levineâ€™s involvement with the TMC will also include his activities as chairman of the Opera Program, this year including a series of fully-staged performances of Mozartâ€™s CosÃ¬ fan tutte with the TMC Vocal and Instrumental Fellows. Performances will take place on August 11 at 2 p.m., and August 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. The Monday, August 13, performance will be conducted by one of the TMC conducting Fellows. All performances will take place in the Theatre. Stage director for this production will be Ira Siff, and the set and costume design team will be Michael Deegan and Sarah Conly. James Levine will additionally work with TMC singers and pianists in a series of vocal master classes, and with the Fellowship conductors on preparing a program of works for large ensembles to be presented on Sunday, August 12, at 10 a.m. in Seiji Ozawa Hall, as part of the TMCâ€™s regular Sunday morning concert series. Maestro Levine and Ira Siff will collaborate on coaching an evening of opera scenes with TMC Fellows that will close the TMCâ€™s â€™07 season on the night of Sunday, August 19, at 7:30 p.m., also in the Theatre. Mark Morris Dance Group Residency Back after a one-year absence, the Mark Morris Dance Group will again be in residence with the TMC, culminating in performances of Morrisâ€™ choreography of Purcellâ€™s opera Dido and Aeneas at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29, in Ozawa Hall. TMC Instrumental and Vocal Fellows will perform with the MMDG dancers for this production, which will be conducted by Stefan Asbury. During the residency, TMC Fellows will work closely with Mark Morris and will be coached in dance by the MMDG dancers, while the dancers will work on musical projects coached by the TMC Fellows. Orchestral and Conducting Programs Stefan Asbury once again serves as TMC Conducting Program Coordinator, with James Levine as the programâ€™s chairman. Others who will conduct the TMC Orchestra and work with the Fellowship conductors include Mark Elder, Music Director of the HallÃ© Orchestra, and frequent BSO guest conductor Rafael FrÃ¼hbeck de Burgos, chief conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Torino. Conducting Fellows will have opportunities to lead the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and conduct ensemble performances during the season. Conductor AndrÃ© Previn, will also coach the TMC Fellows for the July 9 opening TMCO concert. The TMC Orchestra programs will include the July 28 performance of Verdiâ€™s Don Carlo, under the baton of Maestro Levine, in the Shed. The TMCO will open its season on July 9, in a program led by Stefan Asbury and conducting Fellows that will include BartÃ³kâ€™s Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Ravelâ€™s Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Holstâ€™s The Planets. The second TMCO program, conducted by Mark Elder and conducting Fellows on July 16, will include Haydnâ€™s Symphony No. 92, Oxford, Stravinskyâ€™s Danses concertantes, and the Shostakovich Symphony No. 1. This year, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra performs Beethovenâ€™s Symphony No. 9 - a beloved Tanglewood tradition - on Sunday, August 19, at 2:30 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, under the baton of Rafael FrÃ¼hbeck de Burgos. The TMCO will be joined by soprano Melanie Diener, mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips, tenor Marcus Haddock, bass Raymond Aceto, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor. TMC Composition Program This year marks the Tanglewood Music Centerâ€™s fifth collaboration with Shakespeare & Co., one of a number of regular TMC inter-arts partnerships. As part of Tanglewood on Parade on August 15, TMC composers and performers will be joined by Shakespeare & Co. founder and director Tina Packer and actors for a fully staged and costumed one-hour version of Macbeth, featuring new music by six TMC Fellows. This project will be overseen jointly by TMC Composition Program Coordinator Michael Gandolfi and Ms. Packer, who will play the role of Lady Macbeth. The six TMC composition Fellows will work as a team, lending a variety of aesthetic styles and musical perspectives to this interdisciplinary project. TMC Composition Fellows will, over the course of the summer, work with resident faculty including John Harbison (chairman of the Composition Program), Michael Gandolfi, William Bolcom, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, and Colin Matthews. Guests who will also work with the Fellowship composers will include many of the composers participating in the Festival of Contemporary Music - including Joan Tower, Charles Wuorinen, Frederic Rzewski, and others - and Tanglewood artist-in-residence John Williams. String Quartet Seminar Each year the Tanglewood Music Center holds an intensive workshop in string quartet playing, which explores this repertoire from Haydn through the 20th century. The eleven-day seminar takes place at the beginning of the season, culminating in a String Quartet Marathon - three two-hour performances - on July 2 in Seiji Ozawa Hall. Participating Fellows will concentrate exclusively on the string quartet during this period. Distinguished artist coaches participating in the 2007 TMC String Quartet Seminar include cellists Norman Fischer, Bonnie Hampton, and David Geber; violinists Andrew Jennings, Mark Sokol, and Don Weilerstein; and violist Roger Tapping. BSO Involvement More than half of the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will again participate in Tanglewood Music Center teaching, coaching, and curriculum preparation this season. Each section of the BSO (winds, brass, percussion, and strings) works with their young counterpart musicians in the TMC. BSO musicians will supervise, lead, or participate in sectional rehearsals, repertoire and master classes, orchestral and chamber music activities, and in regular exchanges between the two orchestras. BSO musicians are also heavily involved in the auditioning process. TMC Faculty In addition to many members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center resident and guest faculty for the 2007 Tanglewood season consists of some of the finest musicians in the world, including cellists Norman Fischer, David Geber, and Yo-Yo Ma; pianists Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Ursula Oppens, and Alan Smith; violinists Pamela Frank, Andrew Jennings, Joseph Silverstein, Mark Sokol, and Donald Weilerstein; violist Roger Tapping, and vocalist Lucy Shelton. TMC musicians may also work with conductors James Levine, Stefan Asbury, Mark Elder, and Rafael FrÃ¼hbeck de Burgos, and composers John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, Milton Babbitt, William Bolcom, Elliott Carter, and Colin Matthews. Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Program The Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship program is for experienced musicians who have completed the majority of their formal training. The sole criterion for admission is musical excellence. The program is open to instrumentalists, including pianists; singers and vocal pianists; composers; and conductors. Instrumental Fellows participate in a program that balances work in orchestral and instrumental studies, a program chaired by BSO principal bass Edwin Barker, with work in chamber music, a program coordinated by TMC resident faculty member Norman Fischer. Master and repertoire classes are held throughout the summer under the guidance of Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians and other eminent artists. Singers and pianists participate in the Vocal and Opera Programs, including coachings, classes, and performances under the guidance of a distinguished faculty. The Vocal Studies Program includes Chairwoman Phyllis Curtinâ€™s master classes, master classes given by resident and visiting artists, classes in repertoire and language, and an intensive study of song, chamber music, and contemporary music. The Opera Program chairman is James Levine. Composition Fellows work with Tanglewoodâ€™s resident faculty and visiting composers and have their music performed at TMC concerts. Conducting Fellows participate in a program coordinated by Stefan Asbury, with opportunities to perform with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, to work with James Levine on opera projects, and to conduct ensemble performances during the season. Fellows also attend Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra rehearsals. Admission to the Tanglewood Music Center is highly competitive, with more than 1,500 musicians competing for only 150 positions. Those accepted into the program receive Fellowships that cover TMC tuition, as well as room and board expenses. History of the Tanglewood Music Center Since its start as the Berkshire Music Center in 1940, the Tanglewood Music Center has been closely tied to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its players, and its music directors. Serge Koussevitzky, who headed the BSO from 1924 to 1949, founded the school with the hope of creating a premier music academy where young instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, and composers could sharpen their skills under the tutelage of the Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians and other world-class artists, with the resources of a great symphony at their disposal. To this end, he also enlisted some of the dayâ€™s most important composer-teachers as faculty members, a tradition distinguished by the presence of such longtime TMC faculty as Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith. Koussevitzky helped develop that dream until 1950, a year after his retirement as BSO music director. Charles Munch, his successor in that position, took over the Tanglewood Music Center from 1951 through 1962, working with Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland to shape the schoolâ€™s programs. In 1963, new BSO Music Director Erich Leinsdorf took over the schoolâ€™s reins, returning to Koussevitzkyâ€™s hands-on leadership approach while restoring a renewed emphasis on contemporary music. In 1970, three years before his appointment as BSO Music Director, Seiji Ozawa became head of the BSOâ€™s programs at Tanglewood, while Gunther Schuller was appointed to lead the TMC and Leonard Bernstein became general advisor. Leon Fleisher served as Artistic Director of the Tanglewood Music Center from 1985 to 1997. In November 1997, Ellen Highstein became director of the Tanglewood Music Center, a position she holds today. According to recent estimates, 20 percent of the members of American symphony orchestras - and 30 percent of all first-chair players - studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. In addition to Mr. Ozawa, prominent alumni of the Tanglewood Music Center include Claudio Abbado, the late Luciano Berio, the late Leonard Bernstein, David Del Tredici, Christoph von DohnÃ¡nyi, the late Jacob Druckman, Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Oliver Knussen, Lorin Maazel, Wynton Marsalis, Zubin Mehta, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Ned Rorem, Sanford Sylvan, Cheryl Studer, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, Shirley Verrett, and David Zinman. Tanglewood History Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestraâ€™s summer home located in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, had its beginnings in 1936 when the BSO gave its first outdoor concerts in the area, a three-concert series held under a tent for a total crowd of 15,000. In 1937, the BSO returned to the Berkshires for an all-Beethoven program, again held under a tent - but this time at Tanglewood, the 210-acre estate donated by the Tappan family, initiating a new era in the history of the American summer music festival. In 1938, the 5,100-seat Shed was inaugurated, giving the BSO a permanent open-air structure in which to perform at Tanglewood. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed in the Koussevitzky Music Shed every summer since, except for the war years of 1942-45, and Tanglewood has become almost a place of pilgrimage to millions of concertgoers. The 1986 acquisition of the Highwood estate next to Tanglewood increased the festivalâ€™s public grounds by 40 percent and allowed for the construction of Seiji Ozawa Hall. This hall opened in 1994 with the Leonard Bernstein Campus, which became the center for most TMC activities. Seiji Ozawa Hall serves not only as a performance home for the Tanglewood Music Center, but as a thoroughly modern venue for the BSOâ€™s varied recital and chamber music offerings. Today, Tanglewood annually draws more than 350,000 visitors for orchestral and chamber music concerts, instrumental and vocal recitals, student performances, and the annual Festival of Contemporary Music, as well as performances by popular artists and the annual Labor Day weekend Jazz Festival. The season offers not only a vast quantity of music but also a vast range of musical forms and styles, all of it presented with a regard for artistic excellence that makes the festival unique. All programs and artists are subject to change. For further information, call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is on the Internet at www.bso.org.

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Possible Measles Exposure at Boston, Logan

12:05PM / Wednesday, December 24, 2025

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday that an out-of-state adult visitor who spent time in Boston and Westborough earlier this month was diagnosed with measles and was present in a number of locations.

This could have resulted in other people being exposed to measles virus.

The visitor arrived at Logan International Airport on American Airlines flight 2384 from Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 11 at 2:39 p.m. They stayed at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Boston-Westborough in Westborough and departed the state on Dec. 12 via Logan at 9:19 p.m. on JetBlue flight 117 to Las Vegas.

DPH is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local partners to identify and notify those who may have been exposed to measles from this individual.

"Measles is a highly contagious, airborne disease, which has increased significantly in the United States because of the unfortunate decrease in vaccination rates. It is also a preventable disease," said Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein. "This current situation serves as an important reminder of the critical role vaccination plays in protecting our communities. While Massachusetts has not had a measles case this year, 2025 saw the highest number of nationwide cases in more than a decade — nearly 2,000 in 44 jurisdictions, and sadly, three deaths.

"Fifteen years ago, measles had been considered eliminated in the United States, but that tremendous progress is at risk. Vaccines are one of the most important public health interventions ever — they are safe, effective, and lifesaving."

Measles is very contagious. However, the risk to most people in Massachusetts is low because the vaccination rate in the state is high. People who are not immune and visited any of the locations on the following dates and times may be at risk for developing measles.

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