Tanglewood and The Boston Symphony salute Seiji Ozawa

12:00AM / Friday, July 05, 2002Print Story | Email Story

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood celebrate Seiji Ozawa's 29-year tenure as BSO Music Director - and his immeasurable influence on the orchestra and its summer home - with a weekend of special concerts July 12-14, featuring some of his closest friends and most cherished collaborators. On Friday, July 12, at 8:30 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, Mr. Ozawa - who first came to know the BSO, Tanglewood, and America as a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow in 1960 - takes part in the annual Leonard Bernstein Concert, leading the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in DvorÃ¡k's Cello Concerto, featuring his "musical brother," Mstislav Rostropovich, as soloist. This program, which opens with BSO Assistant Conductor Federico Cortese leading the TMCO in the Overture to Bernstein's Candide, closes with Brahms' Symphony No. 1 under Mr. Ozawa. This concert will be projected to section of the lawn on video screens sponsored by American Express Company. On Saturday, July 13, at 8:30 p.m. in the Shed, Tanglewood salutes Seiji Ozawa with "Seiji and Friends," a gala concert event featuring Mr. Ozawa, conductors Mstislav Rostropovich and John Williams, and a lineup of soloists to include soprano Jessye Norman, jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, the Boys Choir of Harlem, Dr. Walter Turnbull, director, and surprise guests. This concert is sponsored by NEC. This concert will be projected to section of the lawn on video screens sponsored by American Express Company. Seiji Ozawa leads his final Boston Symphony concert as Music Director on Sunday, July 14, at 2:30 p.m. in the Shed - a special program opening with a work for which he is renowned, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. The concert closes with Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, here featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and internationally acclaimed soloists including Peter Serkin, Christine Goerke, Cynthia Haymon, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Paul Plishka. The Emerson String Quartet returns to Tanglewood for a special performance of Beethoven's Razumovsky Quartets, Op. 59 Nos. 1-3 on July 16. Prior to the BSO concert on Friday, July 12, Boston Symphony Orchestra members Catherine French (violin), Kelly Barr (violin), Ronald Wilkison (viola), and Joel Moerschel (cello), with cellist Alexander Kniazev, will give an all-Schubert Prelude Concert in Ozawa Hall. This program includes the composer's Quartet No. 12 in C minor, K.703, Quartettsatz, and String Quintet in C, D.956. This concert is free to ticketholders for that evening's BSO concert. Tanglewood Music Center Concerts The Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO's advanced music academy for young performers and composers, continues its new series of Saturday-evening TMC Prelude Concerts on Saturday, July 13, at 6 p.m. in the Theatre. This program includes music of Enesco, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Ravel, and is free to ticketholders for that evening's BSO concert. On Sunday, July 14, at 10 a.m. in Ozawa Hall, Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center will give a chamber music concert featuring music of Gubaidulina, Lesemann, Mendelssohn, Riegger, and Schumann. Later that day, at 8:30 p.m. in Ozawa Hall, TMC Fellows will give a concert of vocal music by Britten, Djupstrom, Ibert, Poulenc, Shostakovich, Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. On Monday, July 15, at 12:30 p.m., Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center will give a Harp Recital in the Chamber Music Hall. Tanglewood Ticket Information Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is located in Lenox, Mass. The 2002 season continues through September, concluding with the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival over Labor Day Weekend. Tickets for the Leonard Bernstein Concert on July 12 featuring the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, conductors Seiji Ozawa and Federico Cortese, and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich are priced from $17 to $78, with lawn tickets available at $14.50. Tickets for the July 13 "Seiji and Friends" program and for Mr. Ozawa's final program with the Boston Symphony as BSO Music Director, on July 14, are priced from $27 to $88, with lawn tickets available at $15.50. Tickets for the Emerson String Quartet's concert on July 16 are priced at $32, $37, and $47, with lawn tickets available at $14. Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra tickets are $20 for inside Ozawa Hall and $10 for lawn tickets (please note: prices are for Ozawa Hall TMCO concerts only). Other TMC concerts and recitals in Ozawa Hall are priced at $10. To charge tickets to a major credit card, call SymphonyCharge at 617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200. Tickets are also available for purchase in person at the Tanglewood Box Office at Tanglewood's Main Gate on West Street in Lenox, Mass. American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club, Discover, personal checks, and cash are all accepted at the Tanglewood Box Office. The Box Office is open every day at 10 a.m. (9 a.m. for Open Rehearsals) and closed at 6 p.m. on non-concert evenings; at intermission on Shed concert evenings; and one-half hour after the start of concerts on Ozawa Hall concert evenings. Tickets may also be purchased online through the Tanglewood website, www.tanglewood.org. There is a service charge for each ticket purchased on line or by phone. Tanglewood concerts are broadcast live on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons in Boston on WCRB 102.5 FM, in Albany on WAMC 90.3 FM, and in Connecticut on WMNR 88.1 FM; in addition, Sunday afternoon concerts are broadcast in Boston on WGBH 89.7 FM. Tanglewood is handicapped-accessible. In consideration of all patrons, Tanglewood continues to offer a smoke-free environment this season. Designated smoking areas are marked outside the Tanglewood entrance gates. All programs and artists are subject to change. For further information on Tanglewood, including complete concert programs, call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 413-637-5165. Tanglewood is on the Internet at www.tanglewood.org.

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McCann Recognizes Superintendent Award Recipient

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:32PM / Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Landon LeClair and Superintendent James Brosnan with Landon's parents Eric and Susan LeClair, who is a teacher at McCann.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Superintendent's Award has been presented to Landon LeClair, a senior in McCann Technical School's advanced manufacturing course.

The presentation was made last Thursday by Superintendent Jame Brosnan after Principal Justin Kratz read from teachers' letters extolling LeClair's school work, leadership and dedication.

"He's become somewhat legendary at the Fall State Leadership Conference for trying to be a leader at his dinner table, getting an entire plate of cookies for him and all his friends," read Kratz to chuckles from the School Committee. "Landon was always a dedicated student and a quiet leader who cared about mastering the content."

LeClair was also recognized for his participation on the school's golf team and for mentoring younger teammates.

"Landon jumped in tutoring the student so thoroughly that the freshman was able to demonstrate proficiency on an assessment despite the missed class time for golf matches," read Kratz.

The principal noted that the school also received feedback from LeClair's co-op employer, who rated him with all fours.

"This week, we sent Landon to our other machine shop to help load and run parts in the CNC mill," his employer wrote to the school. LeClair was so competent the supervisor advised the central shop might not get him back.

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