In Friday’s (11/18) Boston Globe, Jeremy Eichler reports, “The Boston Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the 75th anniversary season of Tanglewood next summer with several world premieres, concerts based on programs from its inaugural season, and new media initiatives. Composers John Harbison, André Previn, Michael Gandolfi, and Edgar Meyer will each have new works premiered by the BSO, and a new work by Gunther Schuller will be performed by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Select performances will be broadcast internationally, master classes from the Tanglewood Music Center will be streamed on the Tanglewood website, and the orchestra will offer 75 free streams, one per day, of notable performances from its archives. … The 75th anniversary will be a season-long theme, beginning with opening night (July 6), whose all-Beethoven program led by Christoph von Dohnanyi will replicate the first BSO program performed on the Tanglewood grounds, on Aug. 5, 1937. … Also modeled on a concert from August 1937 will be an all-Wagner program (July 21) led by Israeli conductor Asher Fisch in his BSO debut. … Three young composers who are recent TMC alums—Ju Ri Seo, Adam Roberts, and Matti Kovler—will have new works premiered on TMC programs.”
Posted November 18, 2011
