Tanglewood Wraps Up Virtual Season

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival will enter its eighth and final week with a broad selection of state-of-the-art digital audio and video streams. These performances were recorded at Tanglewood’s dramatic spaces at the superbly designed Linde Center – a constituent part of the BSO's/Tanglewood’s new entity, the Tanglewood Learning Institute. Other concerts will include performances previously recorded and archived by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood. 

A unique, all-encompassing digital music festival, the wide range of programming replicates a choice selection of the previously announced 2020 live performances Tanglewood had hoped to present this summer, but which had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus. 

Here is this final week’s schedule of streamed events, from Wednesday, Aug. 19, through Tuesday, Aug. 23.

New content, recorded especially for the online festival:

• Aug. 19, 8 p.m.: Recitals from the World Stage featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson in an all-Beethoven program, hosted by Karen Allen.

• Aug. 21, 8 p.m.: BSO Musicians in Concert with violinists Julianne Lee and Lisa Kim, violists Steven Ansell and Rebecca Gitter, and cellist Oliver Aldort performing music by Mozart and Schubert and Daniel Bernard Roumain's "Filter" for solo violin, hosted by Lauren Ambrose. 

• Aug. 22, 8 p.m.: Great Performers in Recital featuring violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk in an all-Beethoven program, hosted by Nicole Cabell.

New Tanglewood Learning Institute content:

• Aug. 19, 1 p.m.: TLI MasterPass featuring a vocal master class with members of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and singer and TMC Vocal Arts Chair Dawn Upshaw.

• Aug. 20, 1 p.m.: TLI ShopTalks with Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart and BSO Associate Principal Horn Gus Sebring in a candid conversation.

Featured retrospective content:

• Aug. 17, 8 p.m.: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Encore Performances (July 2019) of Act III from Wagner's “Die Walküre,” with Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde) and James Rutherford (Wotan) conducted by Andris Nelsons, hosted by Stefan Asbury.

• Aug. 18, 8 p.m.: The Best of Tanglewood on Parade, a free video stream of highlights from past Tanglewood on Parade concerts featuring the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras, as well as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Children’s Choir in selections led by conductors Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, James Burton, and Seiji Ozawa, hosted by James Taylor.

• Aug. 23, 2:30 p.m.: BSO Encore Performances (August 2019) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, soprano Nicole Cabell, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, tenor Nicholas Phan, bass Morris Robinson, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, hosted by Jamie Bernstein.

For more information and for prices and access to all video or audio streaming concerts, lectures and special events, go online or call 888-266-1200. 

Pittsfield Celebrates Arbor Day at Taconic

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
06:10PM / Saturday, May 02, 2026

Mayor Peter Marchetti presented the framed original cover art for the day's program. 

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Generations of Taconic students will pass the tree planted on Arbor Day 2026 as they enter school. 

Pittsfield's decades-long annual celebration was held at a city school for the first time. Different vocational trades at Taconic High School worked together to plant the Amelanchier, or flowering serviceberry, mark it with a plaque, record the ceremony, create artwork for the program's cover, and feed guests. 

Parks, Open Space, and Natural Resources Manager James McGrath said the students' participation reflects the spirit of Arbor Day perfectly: learning by doing, serving the community, and helping Pittsfield grow greener for generations to come.

"It's not unknown that trees help shade our homes, help clean our air and water, they support wildlife, and make our neighborhoods and public spaces more beautiful and resilient," he said. 

"And Arbor Day is our chance annually to honor that gift and to remember that when we plant something today, we are investing in the future of our green world."

The holiday was established 154 years ago by J. Sterling Morton and was first observed in Nebraska with the planting of more than a million trees.

CTE environmental science and technology teacher Morgan Lindemayer-Finck detailed the many skilled students who worked on the event: the sign commemorating this Arbor Day was made by the carpentry and advanced manufacturing program, specifically students Ronan MacDonald and Patrick Winn; the multimedia production program recorded the event, and the culinary department provided refreshments. 

The program's cover art was created by students Brigitte Quintana-Tenorio and Austin Sayers. The framed original was presented to Mayor Peter Marchetti.