“As Tanglewood’s classical season opens on Friday night, the Boston Symphony’s honeymoon with Music Director Andris Nelsons continues in full bloom,” writes Clarence Fanto in Friday’s (7/7) Berkshire Eagle (Mass.). “Nelsons has a dozen public appearances during his four-week residency this summer. His opening night BSO concert on Friday night is Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 2, the ‘Resurrection,’ with vocal soloists and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus…. Nelsons said he arrived nearly a week ahead of schedule late last month to prepare for his well-received outing last Sunday as a trumpet performer during the Tanglewood Music Center’s Brass and Percussion Extravaganza…. Spending hours in rehearsal with TMC’s young professionals, Nelsons, 38, said he felt ‘like a 22-year-old, or even like a 15-year-old student now, with all these students around.’ … Nelsons will close out the BSO season on Aug. 27 with the traditional Sunday afternoon Beethoven Ninth Symphony…. He’ll open the concert with the ‘Housatonic at Stockbridge’ section of Charles Ives’s ‘Three Places in New England’ … Nelsons may spend even more time here in future summers… He wants to step up his work with the TMC’s young conductors and instrumental players.” BSO Managing Director Mark Volpe also discusses the orchestra’s financial situation in the article.
Posted July 7, 2017
Photo of Andris Nelsons leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra by Hilary Scott
