“For more than 80 years, Tanglewood, the bucolic summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has made the Berkshires a vital destination for classical music,” writes Michael Cooper in Wednesday’s (7/31) New York Times. “With the opening this summer of the Linde Center for Music and Learning, … Tanglewood is dramatically expanding its programming of lectures, talks and master classes—which explained the spicy recounting of the love life of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe and the photographer Alfred Stieglitz here one recent Saturday morning … part of a $399 weekend of activities related to the premiere of Kevin Puts’s ‘The Brightness of Light,’ an orchestral song cycle…. Tanglewood is offering … talks from a variety of people, including the playwright Tom Stoppard and Madeleine K. Albright, the former secretary of state… Tanglewood [is] home to the Boston Symphony’s summer academy, … called the Tanglewood Music Center… It can be difficult to accommodate all the practice and rehearsal needs…. It was that space crunch that led to the first discussions about Linde Center…. Mark Volpe, the Boston Symphony’s president and chief executive officer, said … it would mainly serve Tanglewood’s main goal: enriching the experience for people to enjoy classical music.”
Posted August 2, 2019
In photo: Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons (at far right) leads an OpenStudio Class with Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows at the BSO’s recently opened Linde Center of Music and Learning at Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Photo by Hilary Scott
