Tanglewoodâs 2021 season looks almost normal
By A.Z. Madonna Globe Staff,Updated April 8, 2021, 2 hours ago
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The six-week lineup announced Thursday features all the usual suspects. Clockwise from bottom left: Andris Nelsons, John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Keith Lockhart, and Emanuel Ax.
Last summer, Tanglewood opened its gates to the public just three days a week, with the scene behind its tall walls remaining eerie and silent. No strains of melodies floated across the grassy lawns by day. The Koussevitzky Music Shed sat empty and dark by night, panels displaying names from the regionâs high school class of 2020 who never got to toss their caps into the air. Even now, it feels almost dangerous to hope for anything more.
Albany Symphony Orchestra s 2021-22 season begins Oct 9
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When Beethoven resonates in a crisis
By A.Z. Madonna Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 4:22 p.m.
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Andris Nelsons leads a series of Beethoven-themed BSO Now concerts, which were released online in February.Aram Boghosian
In my first memory of Beethovenâs Symphony No. 6, âPastorale,â I am very young and small and wrapped in blankets in the guest room of my grandparentsâ North Jersey ranch house. My Grandma Alene and Grandpa Harold have disconnected the enormous grandfather clock in the living room; they know Iâm scared of the ominous bong. The golden final movement wafts through the cracked door and carries me off to sleep.
Celebrating the music of today is hugely important, and making heard contemporary composers of every visual colour and every invisible one, on every concert programme, I consider a responsibility towards the future. Six years ago, Chi-chi Nwanoku founded Chineke!, Europe’s first majority Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse orchestra, with whom I have performed, and recorded Errollyn Wallen’s Concerto Grosso.
Making music with others is all to do with treating them as individuals, and whether you can relate on a musical and human level. Our colour of skin is not the conversation, but when it is - racism is not my burden. 2020 changed the world, and while classical music continues to exceed expectations in a digital world, this is an apt opportunity to rethink and reboot and continue the progress.
12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents
Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the
Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. View here and on demand for one week.
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