PRE-CONCERT LECTURES
for the Tanglewood Season

2009 SCHEDULE IN BRIEF

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

Please note: No special musical expertise is required to attend the seminars. They are accessible to all audiences.

Preview of the Season

Saturday, June 27 "A Tanglewood Preview" FREE

Weekend No. 1

Friday, July 3, "Opening Night at Tanglewood! All-Tchaikovsky Program"

No Saturday lecture (July 4)

Weekend No. 2

Friday, July 10, "Two of the Big Bs"

Saturday, July 11 (Saturday's Tanglewood program) "Can an Anti-Semite Make Great Art?"

Weekend No. 3

Friday, July 17 "What Did Mahler Have Over Mozart? "

Saturday, July 18 "Mozart at His Greatest"

Weekend No. 4

Friday, July 24 "Romantic and Religious Passion"

Saturday, July 25 "The World's Greatest Lover"

Weekend No. 5

Friday, July 31 "The Magic Violin, and the Birth of Impressionism"

Saturday, August 1 "Magic Flutes and Pianos"

Weekend No. 6

Friday, August 7 "Carmina Burana: Twentieth-Century Medieval"

Saturday, August 8 "The Yo-Yo Ma Phenomenon"

Weekend No. 7

Friday, August 14, "Three Great Pianists 1: Rachmaninov's Third"

Saturday, August 15, (Saturday and Sunday's Program) "Three Great Pianists 2: Liszt's Second and Brahms's Second"

Weekend No. 8

Friday, August 21, "Late Haydn and Mozart and Their Influence on Early Beethoven"

Saturday, July 22, (Saturday and Sunday's Program) "All Mendelssohn, and the Beethoven Ninth"

Price per person: $25 per day, $45 per weekend.

Seating in the Lenox Library is limited. To hold your seats please send a check to:

Jeremy Yudkin, Tanglewood Lectures
P.O. BOX 2007
Lenox, MA 01240

or reserve by e-mail: info@SummerMusicSeminars.org

SIGN UP NOW FOR THE LECTURES AND RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT COUPON ON TANGLEWOOD TICKETS FOR EACH LECTURE YOU ATTEND!

Please make sure to indicate for which day or weekend you would like to reserve your seats.

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