Lenox Library Announces Schedule for Tanglewood Pre-Concert Talks

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Lenox, Mass.—Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University Jeremy Yudkin returns for the Lenox Library Tanglewood Pre-Concert Talks. 
 
The pre-concert talks will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
 
They are free thanks to the Town of Lenox; Margery and Lewis Steinberg; Lenox Library Association; and Adams Community Bank.
 
More information here
 
The schedule is as follows:
  • Friday, July 8: “It’s A Brand-New World.” 
  • Sunday, July 10: “Romanticism Old and New.”
  • Friday, July 15: “Love, Class, Humor, Revenge.”
  • Sunday, July 17: “Brahms’s Choral Masterpiece.”
  • Friday, July 22: “Wagner, Chopin, and Rachmaninov.” 
  • Sunday, July 24: “American Songs and Brahms 2.” 
  • Friday, July 29 and Sunday, July 31: “All of Beethoven’s Five.” 
  • Friday, August 5: “Jazzy Rhythms at Home and Abroad.” 
  • Sunday, August 7: “Beauty and the Universe.” 
  • Friday, August 12: “Mendelssohn, Debussy, Ravel.”
  • Sunday, August 14: “True Feeling Before and After World War I.”
  • Friday, August 19: No lecture.
  • Sunday, August 21: “Two Romantic Visions.”
  • Friday, August 26: “Dvo?ák and the Russians.”
  • Sunday, August 28: “Ode to Beethoven.” 

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Lenox Library Lecture Series to Feature Mark Volpe

LENOX, Mass. — Lenox Library will conclude the 2023-2024 season of its Distinguished Lecture Series this Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. when Mark Volpe, former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will discuss "My 23 Years at the Boston Symphony Orchestra."

During his near-quarter-century with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mark Volpe distinguished himself among orchestral administrators the world over.?He was responsible for all the activities of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, and Tanglewood, a scope of activities unmatched by any other orchestra in the world.?He drove the BSO’s artistic mission of musical excellence by bringing the BSO to the widest possible audience through live performances, traditional and new media, and a variety of social media platforms. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mark worked tirelessly to lead the BSO through the most challenging period in its history.

Now in its 17th season, the Distinguished Lecture Series is organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin, a resident of the Berkshires and Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University. Lectures are free and open to the public. Please visit https://lenoxlib.org or the Library's Facebook page for more information.

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