PRE-CONCERT LECTURES
for the Tanglewood Season
Enjoy the music twice as much!
Presented by the brilliant and entertaining lecturer,
Jeremy Yudkin, Professor of Music at Boston and Oxford Universities,
and Lecturer at Tanglewood since 1983.
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Genuine testimonials:
"The best teacher on any subject I’ve ever had!"
"I'll never listen to music the same way again."
"He makes the Tanglewood concerts truly come alive!"
(For more testimonials, please click above on the tab "Raves about the Pre-Concert Lectures")
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Price per person: $25 per day, $45 per weekend
All lectures take place in the Welles Gallery of the Lenox Library on Friday and Saturday afternoons from 2:30 to 4 pm. The Lenox Library is situated in the middle of Lenox at 18 Main Street.
Please note: No special musical expertise is required to attend the seminars. They are accessible to all audiences.
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Detailed Schedule of Pre-Concert Lectures for the
Tanglewood Season, Summer 2009
All lectures take place in the Welles Gallery of the Lenox Library on Friday and Saturday afternoons from 2:30 to 4 pm.
Preview of the Season
Saturday, June 27, FREE LECTURE "A Tanglewood Preview"
A look at the highlights of the Tanglewood season for summer 2009
Weekend No. 1
Friday, July 3 "Opening Night at Tanglewood! All-Tchaikovsky Program"
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1
No Saturday lecture (July 4)
Weekend No. 2
Friday, July 10 (Friday's Tanglewood program) "Two of the Big Bs"
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4
Brahms, Symphony No. 4
Saturday, July 11 (Saturday's Tanglewood program) "Can an Anti-Semite Make Great Art?"
Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Act III
Weekend No. 3
Friday, July 17 (Friday's Tanglewood program) "What Did Mahler Have Over Mozart?"
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
Mahler, Symphony No. 6
Saturday, July 18 (Sunday's Tanglewood Program) "Mozart at His Greatest"
ALL MOZART PROGRAM
Mozart, Symphony No. 39 in Eb, Symphony No. 40 in G minor, Symphony No. 41 in C ("Jupiter")
Weekend No. 4
Friday, July 24 (Friday and Saturday's Tanglewood Programs) "Romantic and Religious Passion"
Berlioz, Harold in Italy (Viola Concerto)
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Brahms, A German Requiem
Saturday, July 25 (Sunday's Tanglewood Opera)"The World's Greatest Lover"
Mozart, Don Giovanni
Weekend No. 5
Friday, July 31 (Friday's Tanglewood program) "The Magic Violin, and the Birth of Impressionism"
Beethoven, Violin Concerto
Debussy, La Mer
Ravel, Daphis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
Saturday, August 1 (Saturday and Sunday's Tanglewood Program) "Magic Flutes and Pianos"
Mozart, Overture to The Magic Flute
Mozart, Flute Concerto No. 3
Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 2
Weekend No. 6
Friday, August 7 (Saturday's Tanglewood Program) "Carmina Burana: Twentieth-Century Medieval"
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 "Classical"
Orff, Carmina Burana
Saturday, August 8 (Sunday's Tanglewood Program) "The Yo-Yo Ma Phenomenon"
Cello Concertos by Faure and Shostakovich
Bizet, Symphony in C
Weekend No. 7
Friday, August 14 (Friday's Tanglewood program) "Three Great Piano Concertos Part 1: Rachmaninov's Third"
Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
Saturday, August 15 (Saturday and Sunday's Tanglewood Program) "Three Great Piano Concertos Part 2: Liszt's Second and Brahms's Second'"
Beethoven, Symphony No. 4
Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 2,
Brahms, Symphony No. 2
Weekend No. 8
Friday, August 21 (Friday's Tanglewood program) "Late Haydn and Mozart and Their Influence on Early Beethoven"
Haydn, Symphony No. 88
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K.503
Beethoven, Symphony No. 1
Saturday, July 22, (Saturday and Sunday's Tanglewood Program) "All Mendelssohn, and the Beethoven Ninth"
Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, Hebrides Overture, and Symphony No. 4 (Italian)
Beethoven, Ninth Symphony
Seating in the Lenox Library is limited. To hold your seats send a check to:
Jeremy Yudkin, Tanglewood Lectures
P.O. BOX 2007
Lenox, MA 01240
or reserve by e-mail: info@SummerMusicSeminars.org
Price per person: $25 per day, $45 per weekend. Please make sure to indicate for which day or weekend you would like to reserve your seats.
All lectures take place at the Lenox Library on Friday and Saturday afternoons from 2:30 to 4 pm.
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© Jeremy Yudkin, 2009