SUMMER MUSIC SEMINARS 2008 SCHEDULE

Preview Seminar: "A Tanglewood Preview"

Saturday, June 28, 2-3 pm
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

A look at the highlights of the Tanglewood season for summer 2008.

Seminar No. 1: "An Epic Opera": Opening Night at Tanglewood!

Saturday, July 5, 2-4 pm and Sunday, July 6, 10-12 am
Price: $100 for 2-day seminar

Berlioz, Les Troyens. The most magnificent opera of the Romantic era, based on Virgil’s Aeneid and containing some of the most beautiful music Berlioz ever wrote. An in-depth preview of this great work for the weekend.

Seminar No. 2: "Mahler's Second"

Friday, July 11, 2-4 pm. and Saturday, July 12, 2-4 pm
Price: $100 for 2-day seminar

Mahler's Second Symphony ("Resurrection"). The most ambitious and powerful symphony in Western music. A look at the creation and the meaning of one of the great symphonic works on tap at Tanglewood.

Seminar No. 3: "The Romantics: Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Mendelssohn"

Saturday, July 19, 2-4 pm. and Sunday, July 20, 10-12 am
Price: $100 for 2-day seminar

A famous musician and one who is about to become famous! The brilliant violinist Midori plays Tchaikovsky, and the new BSO assistant conductor Shi-Yeon Sung conducts Schumann and Mendelssohn in her debut with the orchestra. Get to know the works, and then go to the concerts and listen.

Seminar No. 4 "All Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven's Seventh"

Friday, July 25, 2-4 pm. and Saturday, July 26, 2-4 pm
Price: $100 for 2-day seminar

We’ll take a look at Brahms’s gorgeous Symphony No. 3 and powerful Piano Concerto No. 1 to be conducted by James Levine. Then for the Saturday concert we turn to the beloved Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, his masterpiece in melody and rhythm.

Seminar No. 5: "Weekend of the Superstars: Renée Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma"

Saturday, August 2, 2-4 pm. and Sunday, Aug. 3, 10-12 am
Price: $100 for 2-day seminar

Renée Fleming sings in Tchaikovsky’s wonderful opera Eugene Onyegin, and Yo-Yo Ma plays the Lalo cello concerto. Get familiar with both these works, and get fully prepared for these superb artists this weekend.

Seminar No. 6 : "Why was there Nobody like Mozart? Seriously!"

Friday, August 8, 2-4 pm, Saturday, August 9, 2-4 pm, and Sunday, August 10, 10 am -12 pm
Price: $150 for 3-day seminar

All Mozart all the time at Tanglewood this weekend! Symphony Nos. 38 and 39, Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, a concerto each for horn, violin, and flute, two delicious concert arias, plus the sublime Sinfonia Concertante.

Reservations

Seating in the Lenox Library is limited. Please indicate for which seminars you would like to reserve your seats. To hold your seats please send a check to:

Summer Music Seminars
P.O. BOX 2007
Lenox, MA 01240
413-637-2800
or reserve by e-mail:
info-at-summermusicseminars-dot-org

Please note that all deposits are refundable.