We’re sharing iced coffee and a palm-sized blueberry pie — my old friend Teresa is here for the weekend, and we have been getting lost at Tanglewood.
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Composer Valerie Coleman imagines new worlds in music
Acclaimed composer Valerie Coleman considers the expanding future of orchestral music as she honors the musicians and composers who have opened the way.
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Generations of musicians honor BSO harpist Ann Hobson Pilot
Renowned harpist Ann Hobson Pilot and composer-flutist Valerie Coleman are sitting in a pavilion with windows clear enough for the afternoon sunlight and the sound of classical musicians at practice to stream in …
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Contemporary composers weave sound at Tanglewood
In many performances this summer, contemporary composers are bringing their work to Tanglewood, wound into concerts with music 200 or 300 years old.
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Iman Habibi shapes new music (July 28 newsletter)
Bright hot Saturday morning — we’re sitting under a hickory and listening to flute music. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is playing Iman Habibi’s ‘Every Tree Speaks.’
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BodySonnet dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood
BodySonnet, a new collective of dancers, returns to the Berkshires from New York City, drawing on Chesterwood and Andromeda for inspiration.
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Tanglewood Learning Center builds energy year-round
On a clear night the sun sets behind a hundred-year-old oak tree, and from the central concert hall the audience can look west into the massive branches and out across the Tanglewood campus in the snow.
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Penelope tells the Odyssey in Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s new work
Penelope is coming down to dinner slowly on the night Odysseus comes home. The high-walled courtyard with its cypress pillars is full of noise. She has stayed as long as she could in the shelter of the loom, in her workroom, and the sea below the house is dark in […]
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Leonard Bernstein found his feet at Tanglewood
The world is remembering Leonard Bernstein this summer. Aug. 25, 2018, would have been his 100th birthday, and on Saturday night the world will come to the Berkshires to remember him. Because in many ways he began here. He came as a student to the first class of what was […]
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Jordi Savall weaves traditions from Mexico to Spain
In Veracruz, on the coast of Mexico, a singer on a warm night is playing a rasguedo, a flamenco strum. In Seville a composer turns from church music to a secular song on a lute with doubled strings …
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