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Susan Geller
Music

Breathing space in the heat of summer #this weekend

July 28, 2022
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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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Musicians rehearse with a Boston University Tanglewood Institute harp workshop. Press photo courtesy of BUTI
BU Tanglewood Institute
Music

Composer Valerie Coleman imagines new worlds in music

July 22, 2022
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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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Ann Hobson Pilot performs in a BSO Rehearsal for Opening Night. Press photo courtesy of the BSO
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Music

Generations of musicians honor BSO harpist Ann Hobson Pilot

July 22, 2022
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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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Families on the lawn at Tanglewood on a summer night listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Press photo courtesy of the BSO.
Photo by Fred Collins
Music

Contemporary composers weave sound at Tanglewood

August 4, 2021
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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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Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi brings Every Tree Speaks to Tanglewood.
Photo by David Grimmett
Music

Iman Habibi shapes new music (July 28 newsletter)

July 29, 2021
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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, a collective of dancers and choreographers, performs new work.
BodySonnet
Dance

BodySonnet dance collective embodies history at Chesterwood

September 8, 2020
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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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The Tanglewood Learning Institute runs year-round at the Linde Center in Lenox.
Photo by Winslow Townson
Music

Tanglewood Learning Center builds energy year-round

March 5, 2020
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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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Uma Thurman (shown here at Cannes) will perform as the narrator in Penelope at Tanglewood.
Uma Thurman / Courtesy photo
Arts

Penelope tells the Odyssey in Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s new work

July 25, 2019
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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, who conducted packed concerts at Tanglewood in Lenox for most of his life, works on a musical score at his desk.
Image of Leonard Bernstein / Public Domain
Music

Leonard Bernstein found his feet at Tanglewood

August 24, 2018
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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, director of Hesperion XXI, will perform at Tanglewood.
Photo by Quincena Musical-Iñigo Ibáñez

Jordi Savall weaves traditions from Mexico to Spain

July 7, 2016
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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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