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 Dvorák'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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Winter Storm Warning Issued for Berkshires
Another snowstorm is expected to move through the region overnight on Friday, bringing 5 to 8 inches of snow. This is updated from Thursday's winter weather advisory.
The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., has posted a winter storm warning for all of Berkshire County and parts of eastern New York State beginning Friday at 4 p.m. through Saturday at 1 p.m.
The region could see heavy to moderate snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour overnight, tapering off Saturday morning to flurries.
Drivers should exercise caution on Friday night and Saturday morning, as travel conditions may be hazardous.
Saturday night should be clear and calm, but warming temperatures means freezing rain Sunday night and rain through Monday with highs in the 40s. The forecast isn't much better through the week as temperatures dip back into the teens with New Year's Eve looking cloudy and frigid.
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