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Thrilling Music at Tanglewood, Tannery Pond and Manchester
By Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires.com
01:20PM / Wednesday, August 03, 2016
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The Manchester Pops Orchestra will offer a program at Stratton Mountain on Aug. 6 that includes theme music from popular movies and TV, including 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Star Trek,' James Bond (007), 'Star Wars,' Harry Potter and much more.

With the arrival of August, we are at the height of the music festival season. Programs at Tanglewood offer a diverse and intriguing mix of solo piano music by two stellar virtuosi on consecutive evening recitals; the Boston Symphony performing a feast of Romantic fare: Dvorák, Liszt, Mahler, Brahms, Richard Strauss and also contemporary master John Adams; superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble; and much more.

For additional options, head to Tannery Pond, in New Lebanon, N.Y., for the luminous Miro String Quartet and to Manchester, Vt., for no less than three (!) diverse musical offerings.

 

Tanglewood

• Thursday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: Due to illness, Marc-Andre Hamelin will replace pianist Daniil Trifonov for this recital, and Ingrid Fliter, in her BSO and Tanglewood debuts on August 6, will be the soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Changes have also been made to the August 4th program, which now includes two sonatas by Samuel Feinberg composed in 1915-'16, Beethoven's "Appassionata" Sonata, Op. 57, and the grandiose Sonata in B Minor of Franz Liszt.

• Friday, Aug. 5, 8 p.m. in the Shed: Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, music director of the Nashville Symphony, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in two programs. Mr. Guerrero is joined by Yefim Bronfman for Liszt's innovative and sparkling one-movement Piano Concerto No. 2. The program will also feature the BSO in Dvorak's Serenade for Winds, Britten's arrangement of Mahler's "What the Wild Flowers Tell Me" (the original second movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 3), and Brahms' Serenade No. 2, which was dedicated to Clara Schumann and represents one of the composer's seminal steps along the long path to completing his First Symphony.

• Saturday, Aug. 6, 8 p.m. in the Shed: Argentinean pianist Ingrid Fliter will perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor. The program opens with John Adams' 1985 three-movement "Harmonielehre" (German for "study of harmory" – presumably named after the eponymous textbook by Arnold Schoenberg). Richard Strauss' virtuosic tone poem "Tyll Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" - a rollicking 15-minute orchestral romp that contains myriad remarkable evocations of the mischievous title character's misadventures - closes the program.

• Sunday, Aug. 7, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: BSO assistant conductor Moritz Gnann makes his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at Tanglewood with works by Mozart and Mahler. Acclaimed Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire joins Mr. Gnann and the orchestra for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, considered the composer’s first masterwork of the piano concerto genre, written in 1777 when he was just 21 years old. The program closes with Mahler's vigorous and at times brooding Symphony No. 1.

• Sunday, Aug. 7, 8 p.m. in the Shed: World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble return to Tanglewood, where the ensemble first performed in 2000. With musicians from around the globe, the Ensemble will perform a program that reflects a diversity of styles and nationalities, combining Western and non-Western instruments from both the Old and New Worlds in ways that transcend cultural boundaries. The historical Silk Road - a series of land and sea trade routes that crisscrossed Eurasia, enabled the exchange of goods and innovations from Japan to the Mediterranean Sea for some 2,000 years, until the 14th century. The Silk Road Ensemble performs music both traditional and new, suggesting a modern-day parallel to the cultural exchange that characterized the old trade routes in bygone centuries.

• Monday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m. in the Shed: The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and TMC Fellows perform Kurt Weill's "The Seven Deadly Sins," a satirical work with a libretto by Bertolt Brecht that the composer wrote shortly after fleeing Berlin in 1933; he dubbed the piece a "ballet chante," or "sung ballet." Acclaimed director Nic Muni presents "The Seven Deadly Sins" in a concert staging. The orchestra also performs Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 for soprano, bass-baritone voice, string orchestra, and percussion, an unorthodox work in 11 movements with text from poems by four authors — most on the subject of death — for which the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra is joined by Tanglewood vocal Fellows, and featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and bass-baritone Sanford Sylvan.

Tickets for all Tanglewood events can be purchased online, via SymphonyCharge, 888-266-1200 or 888-266-1200, and at the Tanglewood box office located at the main gate, on West Street in Lenox. For further information call 413-637-1600.

 

Concerts at Tannery Pond

The world-famous Miro String Quartet, one of America's highest-profile chamber groups, will be featured in a program of Brahms (the Quartet in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1) and Beethoven (the Quartet in B flat Major, Op. 130) at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. In this performance, the Miro will perform the original version with the landmark "Grosse Fuge" finale, which was later published independently as the composer's Op. 133.

Tannery Pond is located on the grounds of Mount Lebanon Shaker Village and Darrow School, New Lebanon, N.Y., one and a half miles east of the town center on Route 20.

Tannery Pond consistently presents exceptional chamber music performed in a historic building possessing outstanding acoustics and situated in a magnificent rural setting. Call 888-820-1696 or go online.

 

Manchester Music Festival

Fans of the wonderfully inventive Manchester Music Festival take note: There are three upcoming events this week to attend, with something for everyone!

• Thursday, Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m. at Southern Vermont Arts Center: From Spanish flair to a touch of klezmer folk music, MMF faculty and guests offer a stylistically varied musical trip around the world – a smorgasbord of musical styles - with music by David Baker, William Kroll, Aaron Copland, Joaquin Turina and more. Performers include Joana Genova and Heather Braun, violins; Kathryn Lockwood and Ariel Rudiakov, violas; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello with guests Michael Brown, piano and Duo Jalal.

• Saturday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m. at Stratton Mountain: A pops concert by the Manchester Pops Orchestra, at Stratton Mountain, led by conductor Ariel Rudiakov.  The program includes theme music from popular movies and TV, including "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Star Trek," James Bond (007), "Star Wars," Harry Potter and much more.

• Monday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., Young Artists Concert, Riley Center for the Arts, Burr and Burton Academy: Chamber music performed by participants of Manchester Music Festival's Young Artists Program. Coached by the resident music faculty, chamber works are presented with commentary by the musicians. Riley Center for the Arts at Burr and Burton Academy is located at 57 Seminary Ave. in Manchester, Vt. Admission is $10 for adults, and students and children are free.

For tickets and complete information, visit the Manchester Music Festival’s website www.mmfvt.org/concerts or contact the MMF by phone 802-362-1956.

 

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