THE LENOX LIBRARY and THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENT

Jeremy Yudkin’s

PRE-CONCERT LECTURES

FOR THE TANGLEWOOD SEASON


“All you need are willing ears and a love of music.” So says Jeremy Yudkin, the Tanglewood pre-concert lecturer, who will once again be presenting his series of lectures about the Tanglewood concerts at the Library every weekend during the summer season. Participants rave about the experience: “He really brings the music alive,” says one. “He is entertaining, warm, and brilliant, all at the same time!” says another. Come to the free opening lecture on Saturday July 3 at 2:30 and see for yourself!

All lectures take place on Friday and Saturday afternoons from 2:30 to 4 in the Welles Gallery of the Lenox Library.

$25 Per Day, $40 for the weekend
$245 for the entire season
(Season passes entitle you to a 20% discount on all Tanglewood concert tickets!)

For more information or to sign up now, email:
yudkinjaf@gmail.com
or visit
www.summermusicseminars.org

The 2010 Tanglewood Pre-Concert Lecture schedule is below


JEREMY YUDKIN has been teaching at Tanglewood every summer since 1983. He is Professor of Music at Boston and Oxford universities, and his interests are wide and varied, including everything from medieval music to the music of the Beatles. Jeremy has written 8 books: on medieval music and manuscripts, on a sixteenth-century music primer, and on jazz. His most recent publications include The Lenox School of Jazz and Miles Smiles, Miles Davis, and the Invention of Post Bop. He is also the author of one of the most successful music-appreciation textbooks. It is entitled simply Understanding Music. Helping all people understand music is one of his greatest passions. He founded the Pre-Concert Lecture Series to create a place for music listeners to learn. Every year his lectures illuminate all the concerts played at Tanglewood. He is a compelling, lively, and friendly speaker. Participants rave about the experience.

2010 TANGLEWOOD PRE-CONCERT LECTURE SCHEDULE

Sat. July 3 “A Tanglewood Preview” FREE

Weekend No. 1

Fri. July 9 “Opening Night at Tanglewood: Mahler’s Magnificent Symphony No. 2(“Resurrection”)”

Sat. July 10 “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Third Piano Concerto: The Secrets of What Makes Them Great

Weekend No. 2

Fri. July 16 “Mozart’s Requiem: His Last Great Work. But Who Was it Written For?”

Sat. July 17 “The Great Mahler Third Symphony: Music for the Creation of the World”

Weekend No. 3

Fri. July 23 “Mozart’s Wonderful Comic Opera: The Abduction from the Seraglio”

Sat. July 24 “All Brahms: The First Piano Concerto and the Second Symphony”

Weekend No. 4

Fri. July 30 “The Russians are Coming!: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Glinka ”

Sat. July 31 “Richard Strauss and His Greatest Masterpiece: The Four Last Songs, Plus Elgar’s Gorgeous Cello Concerto”

Weekend No. 5

Fri. August 6 “Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony (“Pathetique”), Together with Mendelssohn and Mozart”

Sat. August 7 “Two Violin Concertos, Two Violinists, Two Composers: Beethoven and Sibelius”

Weekend No. 6

Fri. August 13 “Music for the Incas: Robles, Frank, and Golijov”

Sat. August 14 “A Little Jazz Music: Concert Jazz by Gershwin, Bernstein, and Schuller”

Weekend No. 7

Fri. August 20 “Mozart, Morlot, and Mother Goose!”

Sat. August 21 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Beethoven and Mendelssohn”

Weekend No. 8

Fri. August 27 “Music of the Spheres: Holst’s the Planets”

Sat. August 28 “Music from the New World: Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony”


For more details go to:

www.SummerMusicSeminars.org