As an acclaimed classical soprano, Julia Bullock has performed around the world, and on a summer night she will sing surrounded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a pattern of West African drumming.
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Emerson String Quartet performs final Tanglewood concert
The internationally acclaimed four turn to Shostakovich’s ironic rebellion, Dvořák’s inspiration from the Ukraine and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s contemporary lyric strength — in one of their last performances.
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Chris Thile and the Knights expand classical bluegrass
What happens when Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter Chris Thile meets The Knights, an internationally acclaimed orchestral collective ‘on a quest to expand the boundaries of classical music’?
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Come here the music play! — #Berkshiresummer
‘What good is sitting alone in your room’ … Summer is opening all around us. As Cabaret takes the stage at Barrington stage Company, Tanglewood and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival are stirring.
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Kavakos plays Mendelssohn at Tanglewood
Greek violin virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos performs a modernist and French program infused with radical interpretative choices and the harmonic and compositional inventiveness of Debussy and Ravel.
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Breathing space in the heat of summer — #Berkshireweekend
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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