Tanglewood Pre-Concert Talks by Jeremy Yudkin
Dome Room 18 Main Street, Lenox, United StatesJuly 7, Opening Night at Tanglewood "Mahler’s Overwhelming Masterpiece, the Resurrection Symphony" (BSO/Nelsons)
July 7, Opening Night at Tanglewood "Mahler’s Overwhelming Masterpiece, the Resurrection Symphony" (BSO/Nelsons)
SPECIAL TALK: "How to Listen (Really Listen) to Music" (Mozart, Beethoven, and Ellington)
"A March through the Ages" Ravel, Haydn, Mozart, Adès (BSO/Nelsons/Trifonov)
"The Mythical and Musical Story of Wagner’s Ring" Wagner, Das Rheingold (BSO/Nelsons)
"The Power of Poetry and Fate" Bernstein, Tchaikovsky (BSO/Thibaudet)
"The Conjunction of Opposites" Beethoven, Britten, and Adès (BSO/Ax)
Join us for a reading of "John Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in the Gilded Age" by author Paul Hicks.
"Flawless Masterpieces" Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak (BSO/Dutoit/Bronfman)
"Jazzy Piano and an Orchestral Extravaganza" Stravinsky, Ravel, Berlioz (BSO/Dutoit/Aimard)
"The World of High Romanticism" Chopin, Rachmaninoff (BSO/Graf/Ohlsson)
"Schumann and Yo-Yo" Mozart, Schumann (BSO/Dohnanyi/Ma)
"Orchestral Riches and Riots" Dvorak, Brahms, Stravinsky (BSO/Shaham/Weilerstein)
"One of my best works!" Brahms, Beethoven (BSO/Dohnanyi/Znaider)
"Mahler’s Orchestral Songs and Brahms’s Pastoral Symphony" Mahler, Brahms (BSO/Keenlyside)
SPECIAL TALK: "Inside the Orchestra: The Classical Orchestra through the Ages"
For the 100th anniversary of "Summer", join members of the Mount interpretative team for a lively discussion of what Wharton called her “hot Ethan Frome.”
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentieth century. "Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study" by Robert Bagg (professor [...]
Bill Morgan is a painter and archival consultant working in New York City. He is the author of numerous books about Beat Generation history and its writers. Professor Jeremy Yudkin of Lenox conceived the idea [...]
Jeffrey L. Diamond is an award-winning journalist with four decades in television news. His body of work includes breaking news and investigative reports, major interviews and profiles, stories about the human condition, and dozens of [...]
Social Security is one of the most valuable and least understood benefits available to retirees today. This class will provide you with much needed information to help you understand the system, coordinate spousal and survivor [...]
Laura Smalarz, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Williams College, teaches a course on Psychology and Law which examines the legal system in light of psychological research findings, Supreme Court rulings, wrongful conviction cases and illustrative [...]
David Scribner has worked for 36 years in newspapers and publications, most of that time at the highest editorial level of his organization. Currently the editor-in-chief of the Berkshire Edge, he served as editor-in-chief for [...]
There will be a free, public, illustrated lecture by Dr. Karen Zukowski the evening of Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 6:30 to 8 at the Lenox Library in the Reading Room. The subject of the [...]
With live performances off the menu at Tanglewood this summer, the Tanglewood Online Festival instead is streaming several concert series. On Sunday afternoons at 2:30 they will stream BSO ENCORE PERFORMANCES from historic Tanglewood performances [...]
With live performances off the menu at Tanglewood this summer, the Tanglewood Online Festival instead is streaming several concert series. On Sunday afternoons at 2:30 they will stream BSO ENCORE PERFORMANCES from historic Tanglewood performances [...]
We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series with virtual talks this season. Our first speaker of the 2020-2021 season is Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post. His talk is entitled "The [...]
We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series with virtual talks this season. Michael Hannahan, Director of the University of Massachusetts Civic Initiative, will be the featured speaker on Sunday, October 18, 2020 at [...]
We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series with virtual talks this season. Tony Cenicola, photojournalist for the New York Times, will be the featured speaker on Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. His [...]
Click here to join the lecture at 5:30 p.m. Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770. On the actual anniversary date of December 16 this year, Jeremy Yudkin will celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday with our [...]
We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series with virtual talks this season. Adam Hochschild, author of Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, will be [...]