Boston Symphony sets the stage for 2003 Tanglewood season

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The Boston Pops, James Taylor, the Temptations and Garrison Keillor and are among headliners for this summer's upcoming Tanglewood Music Festival - along with performances by the mainstay Boston Symphony Orchestra. The legendary BSO opens its 2003 season at Tanglewood on July 5, with Kurt Masur leading the orchestra, acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, in Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata, as part of an all-Russian program with Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. The 2003 Tanglewood season opens officially on June 24 with singer-songwriter James Taylor. Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra return to Tanglewood on June 27. Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion, with host Garrison Keillor, will broadcast live from the Koussevitzky Music Shed for the fourth consecutive year on June 28. Tanglewood's Independence Day celebrations will be highlighted by "the Temps and the Tops," an evening of Motown legends, on July 4. British classic rock group Jethro Tull appears in the Shed on August 12. This summer's Tanglewood season includes welcome returns to the podium by some of today's most esteemed conductors, including Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Sir Neville Marriner, and Mr. Masur; Christoph von Dohnányi's first-ever Tanglewood concert with the Boston Symphony; and the BSO conducting debuts of Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Peter Oundjian. Tanglewood's 2003 list of guest artists features an extraordinary lineup of 17 pianists appearing with the Boston Symphony and in recital - including Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Van Cliburn, Nelson Freire, Richard Goode, Joseph Kalichstein, Jeffrey Kahane, Lang Lang, Garrick Ohlsson, Peter Serkin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Dubravka Tomsic - as well as appearances by Joshua Bell, Jane Eaglen, Renée Fleming, Midori, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Itzhak Perlman, Christopher Plummer, Gil Shaham, and Dawn Upshaw. The Tanglewood Music Center's 2003 season is highlighted by the world premieres of new operas from Osvaldo Golijov and Robert Zuidam, both commissioned by the Boston Symphony for the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), and a groundbreaking TMC collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Including his two performances with the TMC and Mark Morris, Mr. Ma will appear in five concerts encompassing four widely diverse programs - with John Williams and the Boston Symphony performing the Elgar Cello Concerto, in recital with pianist Emanuel Ax, and in a special world music program entitled "Yo-Yo Ma's Brazil" - at Tanglewood throughout the summer. Season Overview The Boston Symphony Orchestra will give 22 concerts in the Koussevitzky Music Shed this summer, featuring an internationally acclaimed lineup of guest soloists, including Emanuel Ax (August 3), Yefim Bronfman (August 9), Sarah Chang (July 13), Van Cliburn (July 12), Jane Eaglen (July 26), Renée Fleming (August 10), Nelson Freire (July 19), Richard Goode (August 8), Denyce Graves (Opening Night at Tanglewood, July 5), the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio (July 6), Lang Lang (August 22), Yo-Yo Ma (August 16), Midori (July 18), the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (July 11), Garrick Ohlsson (July 27), Itzhak Perlman (August 23), Peter Serkin (July 20), Gil Shaham (July 26), and Dawn Upshaw (July 27). The 2003 Tanglewood season also features appearances by an esteemed roster of guest conductors, giving concertgoers the chance to hear the Boston Symphony in the hands of today's most celebrated maestros. In addition to Opening Night at Tanglewood, conductor Kurt Masur leads a second program with the Boston Symphony on July 13 featuring violinist Sarah Chang. Following upon his recent successes with the BSO both in Boston and at Tanglewood, Spanish conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos returns to Tanglewood to lead the orchestra in four concerts, including programs with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (July 11) and Van Cliburn (July 12), a concert performance of Falla's opera La vida breve (July 25) which reunites much of the cast from his acclaimed Symphony Hall performances last season, and the Verdi Requiem, with which he opened the BSO's 2002-03 subscription season. Former Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Christoph von Dohnányi - who attended conducting classes at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1952 - makes his first Tanglewood appearance with the Boston Symphony on August 3. Sir Neville Marriner returns to Tanglewood for the 2003 season's final weekend, leading an all-Mendelssohn program on August 22 and a program with Itzhak Perlman on August 23. Other conductors leading the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood this season include James Conlon (August 24), James DePreist (July 6), Hans Graf (July 19 and 20), Neeme Järvi (August 15), Robert Spano (July 18), Jeffrey Tate (July 26), Edo de Waart (August 9 and 10), and John Williams (August 16). In addition, this season features two highly anticipated conducting debuts, those of Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya on July 27 and newly appointed Toronto Symphony Orchestra Music Director Peter Oundjian on August 8. Pops comes to Tanglewood The Boston Pops will make three appearances at Tanglewood in 2003. Conductor Keith Lockhart will lead two of these concerts, including an "All That Jazz" program on July 15 featuring jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli, and an encore of the orchestra's award-winning "Fiddler's Three" Evening at Pops program on August 25, here featuring violinists Regina Carter, Eileen Ivers, and Lara St. John as soloists. For the third of this season's Pops concerts, Laureate Conductor John Williams encores a favorite from recent seasons, his "Film Night," on August 2 with singing sensation Josh Groban. This year's Tanglewood on Parade, on August 5, features the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras led by Mr. Lockhart, Mr. Williams, Edo de Waart, and Charles Dutoit. Video screens will return to Tanglewood for the Koussevitzky Music Shed concerts on August 1, 2, 3, and 5. The 2003 Tanglewood season also features a diverse and varied lineup in Seiji Ozawa Hall, beginning June 29 and 30 with the Tanglewood Music Center's special collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The schedule continues with a special marathon event featuring Christian Tetzlaff performing Bach's complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin (July 9), mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in recital with Peter Serkin (July 10), pianist Dubravka Tomsic (July 16), Chanticleer (July 22), a rare United States recital by the Borodin String Quartet (July 24), the Emerson String Quartet (July 30), pianist Piotr Anderszewski (July 31), an all-Beethoven program featuring Sir Roger Norrington and the Camerata Salzburg (August 6), the Boston Symphony Chamber Players with pianist Joseph Kalichstein (August 13), the Juilliard String Quartet (August 14), Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax (August 19), the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Leif Ove Andsnes (August 20), and countertenor David Daniels and guitarist Craig Ogden (August 21). The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood Having given his final concerts as music director of the New York Philharmonic at Tanglewood last summer, Kurt Masur returns to the Berkshires to open the BSO's 2003 Tanglewood season on July 5. This special all-Russian program - the first of two BSO programs under Mr. Masur this season - features celebrated mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, in Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. This gala Opening Night concert, Mr. Masur's first performance with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood since 1985, also includes Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in the Gorchakov orchestration. On July 6, the esteemed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio joins conductor James DePreist and the Boston Symphony in Beethoven's Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano. This program opens with Overture of the Season by Thomas Svoboda and closes with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2. For the second weekend of orchestral concerts at Tanglewood this summer, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir makes its Tanglewood debut joining the Boston Symphony and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos for a special program on July 11. For the first half of this concert, some 300 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform a special arrangement of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with members of the choir's Orchestra at Temple Square and Music Director Craig Jessop. For the second half, Mr. Frühbeck de Burgos takes the podium, leading the Boston Symphony, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, baritone Russell Braun, and a soprano to be announced in Brahms' A German Requiem. Mr. Frühbeck de Burgos' second of four concerts with the BSO this season, an all-Beethoven program on July 12, features world-renowned pianist Van Cliburn as soloist in the composer's Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, on a program with his Symphony No. 7. Kurt Masur returns to the podium on July 13, leading the Boston Symphony and violinist Sarah Chang in Sibelius' Violin Concerto, on a program that opens with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and closes with Dvorák's Symphony No. 8. Midori makes her first Tanglewood appearance since 1994 during this season's third week of orchestral concerts, joining Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music (FCM) Director Robert Spano and the Boston Symphony on July 18 as soloist in Dvorák's Violin Concerto. This concert - the BSO's contribution to the 2003 FCM - also includes a work by FCM featured composer George Benjamin, his Ringed by the Flat Horizon, and two works by Stravinsky: Fireworks and the 1919 version of the Firebird Suite. Hans Graf returns to Tanglewood for two concerts with the Boston Symphony this season, each with an acclaimed pianist as soloist. The first of these, on July 19, features Nelson Freire in Schumann's Piano Concerto, on a program opening with Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 and closing with Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. The second, with Peter Serkin as soloist in Stravinsky's Capriccio for piano and orchestra, also includes Weber's Symphony No. 1 and Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter. On July 25, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos leads the Boston Symphony in a special encore concert performance of Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and many of the same soloists who performed the work to great acclaim at Symphony Hall in March 2002. Soprano Maria Rodriguez returns in the lead role of Salud, joined by mezzo-sopranos Jane Henschel and Allyson McHardy, tenors Vincente Ombuena and Vinson Cole, and baritone Gino Quilico, as well as Flamenco performers Pedro Sanz (vocals), Antonio Reyes (guitar), and Nuria Pomares Rojas (dance). Written early in the composer's career, this story of unrequited love features the chorus to great effect, along with elements of Spanish folk music, dance, and percussion. This program opens with Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. One of the world's great Wagnerian sopranos, Jane Eaglen, returns to Tanglewood for the first time since 1994 on July 26, joining conductor Jeffrey Tate and the Boston Symphony in excerpts from Wagner's Götterdämmerung, including Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music, and the Immolation Scene. Tanglewood favorite Gil Shaham is also featured in this concert, as soloist in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219. This program opens with the overture to Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. Peruvian-born conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya - currently music director of the Fort Worth Symphony and associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a recent winner of the Seaver Award, given annually to the most outstanding young conductor in America - makes his much-anticipated Boston Symphony debut July 27. Mr. Harth-Bedoya is joined by two popular soloists for this program, Garrick Ohlsson in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482, and soprano Dawn Upshaw in Osvaldo Golijov's Songs with orchestra. The concert opens with Rossini's William Tell Overture and closes with Kodály's Dances of Galánta. For his final concert with the Boston Symphony this Tanglewood season on August 1, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos reprises another of his Boston successes, the Verdi Requiem. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, mezzo-soprano Yvonne Naëf, tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini, and bass-baritone John Relyea join Mr. Frühbeck de Burgos, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for this masterwork, which opened the BSO's 2002-03 season in Boston last September. Christoph von Dohnányi leads his first-ever Tanglewood concert with the Boston Symphony on August 3. This program features Emanuel Ax in Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 and closes with Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, From the New World. The second of this season's Tanglewood conducting debuts occurs on August 8, when former Tokyo Quartet violinist and newly appointed Toronto Symphony Orchestra Music Director Peter Oundjian leads an all-Mozart program featuring Richard Goode as soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466. This program opens with Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and closes with his Symphony No. 39. Edo de Waart leads the first of two programs with the Boston Symphony this season on August 9, with soloist Yefim Bronfman in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. This program opens with a work given its premiere by Mr. de Waart in San Francisco almost two decades ago, John Adams' Harmonielehre. For his second program with the BSO, Mr. de Waart is joined by one of the leading Strauss sopranos of our time, Renée Fleming, in an all-Strauss program. Ms. Fleming will be featured in the composer's Four Last Songs, on a program with his Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments, Op. 7, and An Alpine Symphony. Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Neeme Järvi returns to Tanglewood on August 15 for the season's seventh week of orchestral concerts. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Mr. Järvi and the Boston Symphony for this concert, as soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto, a work that Mr. Thibaudet has recorded to great acclaim. This program opens with "The Moldau" ("Vltava") from Smetana's Má Vlast and closes with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. On August 16, John Williams leads the Boston Symphony in a varied program featuring Yo-Yo Ma as soloist in both Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mr. Williams' own Elegy for cello and orchestra. The concert opens with one of the Boston Pops' most successful commissions, Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise - here featuring Iaian Massie as Highland bagpipe soloist - and closes with the Symphonic Suite from Bernstein's score to On the Waterfront. Sir Neville Marriner leads the Boston Symphony in two concerts during the orchestra's final weekend of the 2003 Tanglewood season. For the first, on August 22, Sir Neville and the orchestra present an all-Mendelssohn program, including the overture and complete incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, here featuring soprano Kendra Colton, mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao, the women of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Tony Award-winning actor Christopher Plummer as narrator. This program opens with Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and also features acclaimed young Chinese pianist Lang Lang as soloist in the composer's Piano Concerto No. 1. Sir Neville's second BSO program, on August 23, features Tanglewood favorite Itzhak Perlman as soloist in Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, on a program opening with the overture to Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict and closing with Vaughan Williams' A London Symphony. James Conlon leads the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood season finale on August 24, a concert also celebrating the 65th anniversary of the dedication of the Koussevitzky Music Shed in 1938 and duplicating the program of that occasion, opening with "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott" from Bach's Cantata No. 80 and closing with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, featuring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, tenor Vinson Cole, bass James Morris, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor. Yo-Yo Ma Tanglewood is pleased to feature cellist Yo-Yo Ma in five performances this season, encompassing four distinct and diverse programs. On June 29 and 30 in Seiji Ozawa Hall, Mr. Ma will be featured in the Tanglewood Music Center's groundbreaking collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group, accompanying Mr. Morris' "Falling Down Stairs" with Bach's Suite No. 3 in C for solo cello, BWV 1009. The two artists teamed up on this work several years ago for a television special on the Bach suites, and this event promises to be a highlight of the 2003 season. On August 3 in the Koussevitzky Music Shed, Mr. Ma explores Brazil's extraordinarily rich and diverse musical culture and the broad range of Latino styles, from bossa nova to choro to samba to the Afro-Brazilian music of classical composer Villa-Lobos. Guests include Paquito d'Rivera (clarinet), Romero Lubambo (guitar), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Gergio and Odair Assad (guitars), and Kathryn Stott (piano). Mr. Ma returns to more traditional repertoire on August 16, joining John Williams and the Boston Symphony Orchestra as soloist in both Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mr. Williams' own Elegy for cello and orchestra in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Mr. Ma's final performance of the 2003 Tanglewood season features a recital with longtime collaborator and friend Emanuel Ax in Ozawa Hall on August 19. Details of this program will be announced at a later date. Tanglewood on Parade Tanglewood on Parade, the annual daylong celebration of Tanglewood, will take place on August 5. Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams, and conductors Edo de Waart and Charles Dutoit will lead the evening's Koussevitzky Music Shed concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, in a program to include Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Bizet's L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2, Gershwin's An American in Paris, a selection from Mr. Williams' American Journey, and the traditional closing performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with cannon and a fireworks display over the Stockbridge Bowl following the concert. Tanglewood on Parade is sponsored by Filene's. The Boston Pops In addition to its appearance at Tanglewood on Parade, the Boston Pops give three additional concerts this summer at Tanglewood. Guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli joins Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra July 15 in "All That Jazz," a program of America's favorite music, from ragtime and swing to the present. Boston Pops Laureate Conductor John Williams leads the latest installment of a Tanglewood favorite over recent seasons, his Boston Pops "Film Night," on August 2 with vocalist Josh Groban and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. The evening will spotlight some of Mr. Williams' celebrated work for film, including film clips and new music from his scores to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can. Mr. Lockhart also leads the final orchestral concert of the 2003 season on August 25, when the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra is joined by violinists Regina Carter, Eileen Ivers, and Lara St. John in an encore presentation of "Fiddlers Three," the Boston Pops' ASCAP-Award winning Evening at Pops show from last summer. These three violin virtuosos will celebrate their own unique musical worlds - jazz, Celtic, and classical - and then join forces for Christopher Brubeck's Interplay, for three violins and orchestra. Recitals and Concerts in Seiji Ozawa Hall The 2003 Tanglewood season at Seiji Ozawa Hall opens June 29 and 30 with a program that promises to be a highlight of the summer. One of the dance world's most acclaimed and most musical choreographers, Mark Morris, joins forces with the Tanglewood Music Center and cellist Yo-Yo Ma for a program of music and dance in Ozawa Hall. Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and the TMC Orchestra will accompany members of the Mark Morris Dance Group in two pieces - "Frisson," featuring Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments, and "Jesu, meine Freude," set to Bach's Jesu, meine Freude, Motet, BWV 227. Mr. Ma then revisits "Falling Down Stairs," his own recent collaboration with Mr. Morris on Bach's Suite No. 3 in C for solo cello, MWV 1009. The work was filmed for a television special and home video several years ago at nearby Jacob's Pillow, and the cooperation of Jacob's Pillow was central to this groundbreaking partnership. Craig Smith conducts these special concerts, with lighting design by Michael Chybowski and costume design by Isaac Mizrahi. In addition to these concerts, Mr. Morris and members of his company will work with the TMC for about a week on the relationship between music and dance, giving masterclasses to TMC Fellows during their Tanglewood residency. On July 9, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, renowned for his interpretation of the music of Bach, presents a special marathon performance of the composer's complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. On July 10, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and pianist Peter Serkin - close collaborators for many years - perform songs of Mozart, Brahms, and Debussy, plus Peter Lieberson's Rilke Songs. Dubravka Tomsic returns to Tanglewood July 16 for an Ozawa Hall recital. The program includes Haydn's Sonata No. 60 in C, Beethoven's Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109, and three works by Chopin: the Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49, Berceuse in D-flat, Op. 57, and Eight Etudes from Opp. 10 and 25. The 2003 Festival of Contemporary Music's annual Fromm Concert at Tanglewood takes place this year on July 20, with a trio of pianists exploring this year's FCM theme, "The Sacred and the Profane." Pierre-Laurent Aimard opens the concert with the American premiere of Shadowlines, a work written for him by FCM featured composer George Benjamin and scheduled for its world premiere this winter, and continues with selected Ligeti Etudes. 2003 FCM Director Robert Spano and pianist Ursula Oppens are also featured on this program, joining together for Messaien's Visions de l'Amen. The popular all-male vocal ensemble Chanticleer returns to Tanglewood July 22 for "Our American Journey," a showcase of the group's 25-year history together, including 17th-century Mexican sacred motets, American shape-note hymns, and world premieres of works by Steven Stucky, Jackson Hill, and Brent Michael Davids. One of the world's senior and most distinguished quartets, the Borodin String Quartet, makes a rare United States appearance at Tanglewood on July 24. Close collaborators with Shostakovich in Russia earlier in their career, the ensemble performs his Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122, and Quartet No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 133, on a program with Beethoven's Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3. On July 30, the Emerson String Quartet returns to Ozawa Hall for a program to include Smetana's Quartet No. 1, From My Life, Janácek's Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer, and Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, the latter featuring pianist Jeffrey Kahane in his Tanglewood debut. 2002 Gilmore Artist Award for piano winner Piotr Anderszewski, who recorded Beethoven's Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, to great acclaim two years ago, performs his signature work on July 31 in Ozawa Hall on a program with music of Bach: Three Preludes and Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 893, and Partita No. 1 in B-flat, BWV 825. Sir Roger Norrington brings his Camerata Salzburg chamber orchestra to Ozawa Hall on August 6 for an all-Beethoven program to include a complete performance of The Creatures of Prometheus and his Symphony No. 3, Eroica. August 10 and 11 bring a highlight of the 2003 Tanglewood season with the world premieres of two BSO opera commissions for the Tanglewood Music Center from two of the TMC's brightest recent alumni, the Argentinian-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov (TMC '90) and Dutch composer Robert Zuidam (TMC '89). Scheduled for back-to-back performances as a double bill, both works are chamber operas of approximately 60 minutes in length, and will feature the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and Vocal Fellows. Both operas were commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra specifically for the Tanglewood Music Center. Two established artists will sing the lead roles - soprano Dawn Upshaw in the Golijov and soprano Lucy Shelton in the Zuidam - allowing the TMC players and singers the unique opportunity to work alongside professional counterparts who have established musical relationships with these composers. The Golijov work, Ainadamar, features a libretto by David Henry Wang (who wrote the acclaimed Broadway play M. Butterfly) and chronicles the last days of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca before his murder during the Spanish Civil War, as witnessed by the women in his life. It will be sung in Spanish and led by Robert Spano. This production is a joint commission of the BSO, Lincoln Center, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Details on additional performances of this work will be announced at a later date. The Zuidam opera, Rage d'amours, deals with the story of Juana La Loca, the 16th-century queen of Spain who upon the sudden death of her husband went insane and was committed for nearly the entirety of her reign. TMC Conducting Faculty member Stefan Asbury will lead these performances, which will be sung in old Spanish and old French. Production teams for both operas will be announced at a later date. Joseph Kalichstein joins the Boston Symphony Chamber Players in Ozawa Hall on August 13 in Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60, on a program with John Harbison's Quintet for Winds and Lutoslawski's Chain I, the latter led by conductor Ludovic Morlot. The Juilliard String Quartet returns to Ozawa Hall on August 14 with a program to include Haydn's Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3, Schuller's Quartet No. 4, and Beethoven's Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130 (with rondo finale). Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax perform in recital at Ozawa Hall on August 19, in a program to be announced at a later date. On August 20, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, with pianist and director Leif Ove Andsnes, performs a program to include Rameau's Dardanus Suite, Haydn's Piano Concerto in F, Hob.XVIII:3, and two works by Mozart, his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456, and his Symphony No. 40. Countertenor David Daniels is joined by guitarist Craig Ogden on August 21, in a program to include a selection of early Spanish songs plus works by Purcell, Dowland, Bellini, and Fauré. "A Prairie Home Companion" Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion, with host Garrison Keillor, will broadcast live from the Koussevitzky Music Shed for the fourth consecutive year on June 28. A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood is sponsored by Lands' End and Select Comfort. July Fourth Celebration, Lincoln Center Jazz, and Popular Artist Series Tanglewood's 2003 Independence Day festivities feature "The Temps and the Tops," a Motown July Fourth Celebration, on July 4. The Tanglewood grounds open for family entertainment at 2 p.m., with fireworks over the Stockbridge Bowl to follow the concert. Wynton Marsalis and the renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra make their first appearance at Tanglewood since 1999's Duke Ellington Centennial Celebration on July 27, performing a program called "Rhythm Is Our Business" in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Singer-songwriter and Tanglewood favorite James Taylor kicks off the summer at Tanglewood on June 24 with a concert in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Grounds open at 5 p.m. for this concert. On August 12, Jethro Tull and Orchestra perform in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. Grounds open at 5 p.m. for this concert. Tanglewood Jazz Festival The 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival will take place the weekend of August 29 through August 31, with evening and afternoon concerts. Details about specific artists and programs will be made at a later date. The 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival is sponsored by Fidelity Investments. Other Concerts at Tanglewood In addition to the BSO's weekend symphonic concerts in the Koussevitzky Music Shed and weeknight chamber concerts and recitals in Ozawa Hall, the Tanglewood season will also include Saturday-morning general admission Open Rehearsals in the Shed, including free, informative pre-rehearsal talks; and Friday-evening Prelude Concerts in Ozawa Hall, featuring members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, often joined by distinguished guests. After their successful debut last season, Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center will once again offer Saturday-evening Prelude Concerts in the Theatre. Friday and Saturday Prelude Concerts are available free of charge to patrons attending the respective evening's concert in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Conductor James Conlon leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert in the Koussevitzky Music Shed August 17. This program features the world premiere of Mr. Conlon's own orchestral suite of music from Zemlinsky's opera A Florentine Tragedy. The remainder of the program includes Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, the latter with Joshua Bell as soloist. In addition to the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra's participation in the Leonard Bernstein Concert on August 17 and Tanglewood on Parade on August 5, TMCO concerts are scheduled for July 8, July 21 (as part of the Festival of Contemporary Music), and July 29. Details of these programs and the remainder of the 2003 TMC season will be announced at a later date. The Tanglewood Music Center was founded at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Lenox, Mass., in 1940 by then BSO Music Director Serge Koussevitzky, who wanted to create a premier music academy where young performers and composers would study with Boston Symphony musicians and other world-class artists. Today, according to recent estimates, 20 percent of the members of American symphony orchestras and 30 percent of first-chair players are alumni of the Tanglewood Music Center. TMC tickets are only available one hour before concert time. TMC Orchestra concert tickets are priced at $25, and tickets for all other TMC concerts are priced at $10. Friends of Tanglewood at the $125 level or higher will receive free admission to TMC Ozawa Hall concerts (excluding July 19) by presenting their membership cards at the Box Office. For TMC Orchestra concerts in Ozawa Hall, Friends of Tanglewood will receive free tickets by presenting their card at the Main Gate Box Office eight to 10 days prior to the concert. Detailed information about requesting tickets will follow in the Friends of Tanglewood benefits package. For more information about becoming a Friend of Tanglewood please call 617-638-9267. The Festival of Contemporary Music The 2003 Festival of Contemporary Music (FCM) will be held July 17-21 under the direction of Robert Spano. This year's FCM will include works that explore the theme of "The Sacred and the Profane," and highlight the music of young American composer Jennifer Higdon, György Ligeti in his 80th birthday year, and the English composer-conductor George Benjamin. Complete details of the 2003 Festival of Contemporary Music - to include five days of new music performed by Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and distinguished guest artists - will be announced at a later date. Video Screens By popular demand, video screens will be brought back to Tanglewood again this season. During the evening concerts in the Shed on August 1, 2, 3, and 5, two large screens will allow lawn patrons to view the concert. On August 2, as part of the Boston Pops Film Night, an additional screen will be positioned over the orchestra for those seated inside the Shed. Program Listing Tuesday, June 24, 7 p.m., Shed Popular Artists Series JAMES TAYLOR Friday, June 27, 8:30 p.m., Shed Rhythm is Our Business LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA with WYNTON MARSALIS Saturday, June 28, 5:45 p.m., Shed A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood with Garrison Keillor Live broadcast Sunday, June 29, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall Monday, June 30, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER VOCAL FELLOWS AND ORCHESTRA CRAIG SMITH, conductor YO-YO MA, cello MARK MORRIS, choreographer MICHAEL CHYBOWSKI, lighting designer ISAAC MIZRAHI, costume designer 'Frisson' STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind Instruments 'Jesu, meine Freude' J.S. BACH Jesu, meine Freude, Motet, BWV 227 'Falling Down Stairs' J.S. BACH Suite No. 3 in C for solo cello, BWV 1009 Friday, July 4, 7 p.m., Shed Independence Day Festivities The Temps and The Tops Family entertainment throughout the day (grounds open at 2 p.m.); fireworks to follow the concert. Saturday, July 5, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Sunday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 5, 8:30 p.m., Shed Opening Night at Tanglewood BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KURT MASUR, conductor DENYCE GRAVES, mezzo-soprano TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky, Cantata MUSSORGSKY (orch. Gorchakov) Pictures at an Exhibition Sunday, July 6, 2:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JAMES DEPREIST, conductor KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO SVOBODA Overture of the Season BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 Wednesday, July 9, 7 p.m., Ozawa Hall CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, violin J.S. BACH Complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin This is an extended concert starting at 7 p.m.. There will be a one-hour intermission at approximately 8:15 p.m. Thursday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall LORRAINE HUNT LIEBERSON, mezzo-soprano Peter Serkin, piano Program to include songs by MOZART, BRAHMS, and DEBUSSY, plus Peter LIEBERSON's Rilke Songs Friday, July 11, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor (Brahms) CRAIG JESSOP, conductor tba, soprano RUSSELL BRAUN, baritone MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR and members of the ORCHESTRA AT TEMPLE SQUARE, CRAIG JESSOP, music director BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms BRAHMS A German Requiem Saturday, July 12, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Sunday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor VAN CLIBURN, piano BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 Sunday, July 13, 2:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KURT MASUR, conductor SARAH CHANG, violin TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet SIBELIUS Violin Concerto DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 Tuesday, July 15, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART, conductor JOHN PIZZARELLI All that Jazz Wednesday, July 16, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall DUBRAVKA TOMSIC, piano HAYDN Sonata No. 60 in C BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109 CHOPIN Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49 CHOPIN Berceuse in D-flat, Op. 57 CHOPIN Eight Etudes from Opp. 10 and 25 Friday, July 18, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, July 18, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ROBERT SPANO, conductor MIDORI, violin STRAVINSKY Fireworks DVORÁK Violin Concerto BENJAMIN Ringed by the Flat Horizon STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919) Saturday, July 19, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Sunday program: Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 19, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HANS GRAF, conductor NELSON FREIRE, piano BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra Sunday, July 20, 2:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HANS GRAF, conductor PETER SERKIN, piano WEBER Symphony No. 1 STRAVINSKY Capriccio for piano and orchestra MOZART Symphony No. 41, Jupiter Sunday, July 20, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall 2003 Festival of Contemporary Music The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD, URSULA OPPENS, and ROBERT SPANO, pianos BENJAMIN Shadowlines ( American premiere) LIGETI Selected Etudes MESSIAEN Visions de l' amen Tuesday, July 22, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall CHANTICLEER Our American Journey The popular all-male vocal ensemble showcases its American heritage in a program including 17th-century Mexican sacred motets, American shape-note hymns, and world premiere works by Steven STUCKY, Jackson HILL, and Brent Michael DAVIDS. Thursday, July 24, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall BORODIN STRING QUARTET BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122 SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 133 Friday, July 25, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, July 25, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor MARIA RODRIGUEZ, soprano (Salud) JANE HENSCHEL, mezzo-soprano (Grandmother) ALLYSON MCHARDY, mezzo-soprano (Carmela) VICENTE OMBUENA, tenor (Paco) VINSON COLE, tenor (A Voice in the Forge) GINO QUILICO, baritone (Manuel) tba, bass-baritone (Uncle Sarvaor) PEDRO SANZ, folk singer ANTONIO REYES, guitar NURIA POMARES ROJAS, flamenco dancer TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS JOHN OLIVER, conductor SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, Unfinished FALLA La vida breve (concert performance) Saturday, July 26, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Sunday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 26, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JEFFREY TATE, conductor GIL SHAHAM, violin JANE EAGLEN, soprano HUMPERDINCK Overture to Hänsel und Gretel MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K.219 WAGNER Excerpts from Götterdämmerung Siegfried's Rhine Journey Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music Immolation Scene Sunday, July 27, 2:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA, conductor GARRICK OHLSSON, piano DAWN UPSHAW, soprano ROSSINI Overture to William Tell MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482 GOLIJOV Songs with orchestra KODÁLY Dances of Galánta Wednesday, July 30, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall EMERSON STRING QUARTET JEFFREY KAHANE, piano SMETANA Quartet No. 1, From My Life JANÁCEK Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 Thursday, July 31, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, piano BEETHOVEN Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 J.S. BACH Three Preludes and Fugues from The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 893 J.S. BACH Partita No. 1 in B-flat, BWV 825 Friday, August 1, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, August 1, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, conductor SONDRA RADVANOVSKY, soprano YVONNE NAËF, mezzo-soprano GIUSEPPE SABBATINI, tenor JOHN RELYEA, bass-baritone TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS JOHN OLIVER, conductor VERDI Requiem Saturday, August 2, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Saturday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, August 2, 8:30 p.m., Shed Film Night at Tanglewood BOSTON POPS CONCERT JOHN WILLIAMS, conductor JOSH GROBAN, vocalist TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor John Williams leads the Boston Pops, with special guest Josh Groban, in an evening of his celebrated work for film, including new music from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can. Sunday, August 3, 2:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, conductor EMANUEL AX, piano BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World Sunday, August 3, 8:30 p.m., Shed YO-YO MA and guests Yo-Yo Ma's Brazil Yo-Yo Ma explores Brazil's extraordinarily rich and diverse musical culture, and the broad range of Latino styles, from bossa nova to choro to samba to the Afro-Brazilian music of classical composer Villa-Lobos. Guests will include PAQUITO D'RIVERA (clarinet), ROMERO LUBAMBO (guitar), CYRO BAPTISTA (percussion), SERGIO and ODAIR ASSAD (guitars), and KATHRYN STOTT (piano). Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 p.m., Shed Tanglewood on Parade BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA EDO DE WAART, CHARLES DUTOIT, KEITH LOCKHART, and JOHN WILLIAMS, conductors BRITTEN A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra BIZET L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 GERSHWIN An American in Paris WILLIAMS Selection from American Journey TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture Wednesday, August 6, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall CAMERATA SALZBURG SIR ROGER NORRINGTON, conductor ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM The Creatures of Prometheus (complete) Symphony No. 3, Eroica Friday, August 8, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, August 8, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PETER OUNDJIAN, conductor RICHARD GOODE, piano ALL-MOZART PROGRAM Symphony No. 29 Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466 Symphony No. 39 Saturday, August 9, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Sunday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, August 9, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EDO DE WAART, conductor YEFIM BRONFMAN, piano ADAMS Harmonielehre TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 Sunday, August 10, 2:30 p.m., Shed The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EDO DE WAART, conductor RENÉE FLEMING, soprano ALL-STRAUSS PROGRAM Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments, Op. 7 Four Last Songs An Alpine Symphony Sunday, August 10, 8:30 p.m., Theatre Monday, August 11, 8:30 p.m., Theatre TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER VOCAL FELLOWS AND ORCHESTRA STEFAN ASBURY, conductor (Zuidam) ROBERT SPANO, conductor (Golijov) LUCY SHELTON, soprano (Zuidam) DAWN UPSHAW, soprano (Golijov) ZUIDAM Rage d'amours* (libretto by Robert Zuidam) GOLIJOV Ainadamar*^ (libretto by David Henry Hwang, after Federico García Lorca) *world premiere; commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the Tanglewood Music Center ^co-production with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Tuesday, August 12, 7 p.m., Shed Popular Artists Series JETHRO TULL and Orchestra Wednesday, August 13, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS JOSEPH KALICHSTEIN, piano LUDOVIC MORLOT, conductor LUTOSLAWSKI Chain 1 HARBISON Quintet for Winds BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 Thursday, August 14, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET HAYDN Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3 SCHULLER Quartet No. 4 BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130 (with rondo finale) Friday, August 15, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, August 15, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA NEEME JÄRVI, conductor JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, piano SMETANA "The Moldau" ("Vltava") from Má Vlast GRIEG Piano Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 Saturday, August 16, 10:30 a.m., Shed Open Rehearsal Saturday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, August 16, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JOHN WILLIAMS, conductor YO-YO MA, cello IAIAN MASSIE, Highland bagpipes MAXWELL DAVIES An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise ELGAR Cello Concerto WILLIAMS Elegy for cello and orchestra BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront Sunday, August 17, 2:30 p.m., Shed The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA JAMES CONLON, conductor JOSHUA BELL, violin ZEMLINSKY (arr. Conlon) Suite from A Florentine Tragedy (world premiere) TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Tuesday, August 19, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall YO-YO MA, cello EMANUEL AX, piano Program details to be announced Wednesday, August 20, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall NORWEGIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA LEIF OVE ANDSNES, piano and director RAMEAU Suite from Dardanus MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456 HAYDN Piano Concerto in F, Hob.XVIII:3 MOZART Symphony No. 40 Thursday, August 21, 8:30 p.m., Ozawa Hall DAVID DANIELS, countertenor CRAIG OGDEN, guitar Program to include early Spanish songs, plus works by PURCELL, DOWLAND, BELLINI, and FAURÉ Friday, August 22, 6 p.m., Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Tanglewood Festival Chorus John Oliver, conductor Friday, August 22, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIR NEVILLE MARRINER, conductor LANG LANG, piano CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, narrator KENDRA COLTON, soprano ZHENG CAO, mezzo-soprano WOMEN OF THE TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS JOHN OLIVER, conductor ALL-MENDELSSOHN PROGRAM The Hebrides, Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 Overture and Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream Saturday, August 23, 10:30 a.m. Open Rehearsal Sunday program; Pre-Rehearsal Talk at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, August 23, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SIR NEVILLE MARRINER, conductor ITZHAK PERLMAN, violin BERLIOZ Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A London Symphony Sunday, August 24, 2:30 p.m., Shed Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Koussevitzky Music Shed BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JAMES CONLON, conductor SONDRA RADVANOVSKY, soprano STEPHANIE BLYTHE, mezzo-soprano VINSON COLE, tenor JAMES MORRIS, bass TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS JOHN OLIVER, conductor J.S. BACH 'Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott' from Cantata No. 80 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 Monday, August 25, 8:30 p.m., Shed BOSTON POPS ESPLANADE ORCHESTRA KEITH LOCKHART, conductor REGINA CARTER, EILEEN IVERS, and LARA ST. JOHN, violins Fiddlers Three Three virtuoso violinists celebrate their own diverse musical worlds - jazz, world music, and classical - then join forces with the Boston Pops for Christopher Brubeck's Interplay, for three violins and orchestra. Friday, August 29, through Sunday, August 31 Tanglewood Jazz Festival Artists and programs to be announced
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McCann Recognizes Superintendent Award Recipient

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

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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