TANGLEWOOD S 75 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON, JUNE 22-SEPTEMBER 2

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1 TANGLEWOOD S 75 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON, JUNE 22-SEPTEMBER 2 THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF ITS FIRST-EVER FREE DIGITAL STREAM PROGRAM, A HIGHLIGHT OF THE BSO S SEASON-LONG CELEBRATION OF THE 75 TH ANNIVERSARY OF TANGLEWOOD 75 DIGITAL STREAMS RELEASED ONE PER DAY, JUNE 20-SEPTEMBER 2 OFFER A SNAPSHOT OF TANGLEWOOD S CONCERT HISTORY AND THE UNIQUE STORY OF THE FESTIVAL FROM ITS BIRTH IN 1937 THROUGH PRESENT DAY PROGRAM LAUNCHES JUNE WITH BSO PERFORMANCES OF VERDI S OTELLO LED BY ERICH LEINSDORF (1969); MOZART S SINFONIA CONCERTANTE LED BY CHARLES MUNCH WITH SOLOISTS RUTH POSSELT AND JOSEPH DEPASQUALE (1958); MENDELSSOHN S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 WITH RUDOLF SERKIN, LED BY SEIJI OZAWA (1975); AND HARBISON S SYMPHONY NO. 1 LED BY JOHN HARBISON (1984); AS WELL AS A BSO PENSION FUND CONCERT LED BY DANNY KAYE (1961); A TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER PERFORMANCE OF FOSS S INTRODUCTION & GOODBYES LED BY STEFAN ASBURY (2009); AND BRAHMS S CLARINET TRIO, WITH HAROLD WRIGHT, YO-YO MA, AND EMANUEL AX (1990) STREAMS TO BE RELEASED FREE OF CHARGE FOR 24 HOURS ON THE DAY OF EACH RELEASE AT BSO.ORG, AFTER WHICH THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE AS A DOWNLOAD FOR PURCHASE Bringing the celebration of Tanglewood s 75th anniversary beyond the BSO s summer home in the Berkshires, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announces details of its first-ever 75 free digital streams program (complete list appears below), designed to offer music lovers around the globe a glimpse into the storied performance history of the famed music festival founded in The Tanglewood 75 free streams will be available through tanglewood.org, with one free stream being offered each day of the summer, June 20-September 2, starting at 8 a.m. EST; when the 24-hour stream has ended, the digital music will be available at for purchase as a download. Most of the recordings featured have been digitized, re-mastered, and are being made available to the public for the first time ever, offered in MP3 128 kbps formats. Both 320 kbps MP3 and 24bit 44.1kHz FLAC versions will be available for purchase. QUICK OVERVIEW OF TANGLEWOOD 75 STREAM PROJECT The repertoire for the 75 streams has been chosen from a vast array of programs and artists and will feature many of the greatest conductors, composers, and performers of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, many of whom went on to have major careers and perform in the world s most prestigious concert halls and opera houses. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is grateful to the dozens of conductors, instrumentalists, and singers, who have generously allowed their performances to be included in this project. The 75 Tanglewood Streams have been organized by week, with each week offering a snapshot of Tanglewood performances over several decades, in works grand and simple, and in recorded sound of widely contrasting quality, providing listeners with a broad historical perspective no matter when they visit tanglewood.org to listen to a stream. In an effort to best reflect the wide range of musical genres that have played an important part in Tanglewood s rich history, each week will showcase one

2 performance from each of the following categories: operas and large-scale works; works led by BSO music directors and major guest conductors; great soloist appearances; composers as interpreters (both of their own and others works); Tanglewood Music Center performances; recitals; and popular music genres, including Boston Pops concerts, popular artists, and jazz. Starting with the first stream on June 20, visitors to the site will not only get to listen to some of the great performances from Tanglewood s 75 years of audio archives, but they will also have access to photos, program notes on works and performers written by the distinguished former Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer, and other information designed to offer listeners a historical context for the conductors, performers, composers, and music chosen to be featured in this special project. An essay by Anthony Fogg, the BSO s artistic administrator, about the sources, organization, and selection process behind the Tanglewood 75 Free Stream project can be viewed here. For crossreferencing purposes, appearing in links below are three different ways of viewing the music included in the 75 streams: a full concert listing with complete performance details for all the streams; a listing of artists featured in the streams; and a listing of composers and their works that have been included. For complete season programs, ticket information, and downloadable press photos, please visit Tanglewood s online press kit at SCHEDULE OF 75 FREE STREAMS CELEBRATING THE TANGLEWOOD S 75 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON Week One, June 20-26, 2012: Wednesday, June 20 VERDI Otello. BSO/Leinsdorf/Cassilly, Niska, Milnes (July 26, 1969) Thursday, June 21 MOZART Sinfonia Concertante. BSO /Munch/ Posselt, depasquale (July 11, 1958) KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto, 3 rd movt. BSO/Burgin/Posselt (August 1, 1954) Friday, June 22 - MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1. BSO/Ozawa/ R. Serkin (July 18, 1975) Saturday, June 23 - HARBISON Symphony No. 1. BSO/Harbison (July 19, 1984) Sunday, June 24 An Evening with Danny Kaye. BSO/Kaye (July 13, 1961) Monday, June 25 - FOSS Introductions & Goodbyes. TMCO/Asbury/TMC singers (July 20, 2009) Tuesday, June 26 - BRAHMS Clarinet Trio. Wright/Ma/Ax (August 2, 1990) Week Two, June 27-July 3, 2012: Wednesday, June 27 - BERLIOZ Beatrice and Benedict. BSO/Ozawa/von Stade, McNair, Garrison (August 8, 1984) Thursday, June 28 ROUSSEL Symphony No. 3. BSO/Haitink (July 8, 2006) Friday, June 29 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3. BSO/Leinsdorf/Cliburn (July 23, 1966) Saturday, June 30 BERIO Sinfonia. BSO/Berio/New Swingle Singers (August 22, 1982) Sunday, July 1 James Taylor and the Boston Pops. BPO/Williams/Taylor/TFC (August 30, 2009) Monday, July 2 KNUSSEN Symphony No. 3. TMCO/Schuller (August 5, 1981) Tuesday, July 3 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas, No Ohlsson (July 20, 2006) Week Three, July 4-July 10, 2012: Wednesday, July 4 GERSHWIN Concerto in F. BPO/Fiedler/Wild (1962/1967/1970) Thursday, July 5 BACH Suite No. 2 and Concerto No. 1 in C minor, for two pianos. BSO/Munch/Dwyer, Foss, and Lipkin (July 8, 1955 and July 5, 1957)

3 Friday, July 6 Excerpts from Inaugural BSO concert at Tanglewood and MOZART Symphony No. 25. BSO/Koussevitzky (August 5, 1937 and 1944) Saturday, July 7 MOZART Ruhe Sanft from Zaide, Marten aller arten from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Exsultate Jubilate K.165, and Ah se in ciel benigne stelle K.538, BSO/Leinsdorf/Sills (June 6, 1968) Sunday, July 8 BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Divertimento. BSO/Bernstein (July 4, 1981) Monday, July 9 MESSIAEN Turangalîla-Symphonie. BSO/Ozawa/ Yvonne and Jeanne Loriod (August 16, 1975) Tuesday, July 10 DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8. TMCO/Levine (June 30, 2008) Week Four, July 11-July 17, 2012: Wednesday, July 11 COPLAND El Salón México and Clarinet Concerto. BSO/Copland/Wright (July 5, 1980) Thursday, July 12 HAYDN Symphony No. 98 and KRENEK Die Nachtigall. BSO/Tilson Thomas/Beardslee (July 5, 1980) Friday, July 13 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9. BSO/Haitink/Ax (August 25, 1996) Saturday, July 14 BEETHOVEN Fidelio. BSO/Leinsdorf/Kuhse/Shirley/Krause (August 5, 1967) Sunday, July 15 STRAVINSKY L Histoire du soldat. Carter/Babbitt/Harbison/TMC Fellows (July 25, 2006) Monday, July 16 Performance by popular artist Tuesday, July 17 BRAHMS Liebeslieder Waltzes. Frank/Kallir/TMC singers (August 3, 1965) Week Five, July 18-July 24, 2012: Wednesday, July 18 WAGNER Die Walküre, Act 1, and Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde. BSO/Munch/Harshaw, dacosta, Pease (July 2, 1956 and August 1, 1958) Thursday, July 19 GRIEG/ELLINGTON Peer Gynt Suite. BSO/Ozawa/Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra/Marsalis (July 25, 1999) Friday, July 20 STOCKHAUSEN Gruppen. TMCO/Knussen/de Leeuw/Spano (August 25, 1993) Saturday, July 21 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17. BSO/Bernstein (July 4, 1975) Sunday, July 22 - WEBER Konzertstück. BSO/Leinsdorf/Bolet (July 26, 1968) PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2. BSO/Munch/Frager (July 28, 1963) Monday, July 23 WILLIAMS Angela s Ashes. BPO/Williams/McCourt (July 20, 2000) Tuesday, July 24 French and Latin American works. Curtin/Edwards (August 18, 1964) Week Six, July 25-July 31, 2012: Wednesday, July 25 - MOZART Requiem. BSO/Davis/Valente, Wolff, Riegel, Hale, TFC (August 8, 1971) Thursday, July 26 BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. BSO/Monteux (July 22, 1956) Friday, July 27 ELGAR Cello Concerto. BSO/Barenboim/du Pré (August 3, 1969) Saturday, July 28 SCHULLER Spectra. BSO/Schuller (August 21, 1970) Sunday, July 29 HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler. TMCO/Alsop (August 20, 1989) Monday, July 30 Silk Road Ensemble Tuesday, July 31 BEETHOVEN Septet. Boston Symphony Chamber Players (July 13, 1965) Week Seven, August 1-August 7, 2012: Wednesday, August 1 BERLIOZ The Damnation of Faust. BSO/Munch/Steber, McCollum, Singher (August 4, 1960) Thursday, August 2 MAHLER Symphony No. 8 and VARÈSE Amériques. BSO/Levine (July 8, 2005) Friday, August 3 BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1, BSO/Monteux/Fleisher (July 20, 1958)

4 Saturday, August 4 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, BSO/Koussevitzky/Vreeland, Kaskas (August 8, 1938) Sunday, August 5 ANJO, ICHIYANAGI, YAMAMOTO Three Spaces - Ten, Chi, and Jin: Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. BSO/Ozawa (August 22, 1975) Monday, August 6 MOZART G minor Piano Quartet and KIRCHNER Music for 12. BSCP/Previn/Volkov (1980 and 2001) Tuesday, August 7 CARTER Concerto for Orchestra. TMCO/Knussen (July 23, 2008) Week Eight, August 8-August 14, 2012: Wednesday, August 8 MOZART The Magic Flute BSO/Leinsdorf/Flagello, Sills, Berberian (August 6, 1966) Thursday, August 9 BEETHOVEN Overtures. BSO/Steinberg, ( ) Friday, August 10 - BRAHMS Violin Concerto. BSO/Monteux/Stern (July 24, 1959) Saturday, August 11 KIRCHNER Music for Orchestra I. TMCO/Kirchner (August 7, 1985) Sunday, August 12 RODGERS and HAMMERSTEIN Carousel. BPO/Lockhart/Eichenberger, Lazaar, TMC singers (July 10, 2007) Monday, August 13 STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Finale. TMC Orchestra and singers/leinsdorf (July 27, 1982) Tuesday, August 14 BEETHOVEN Quartet Op Juilliard String Quartet (July 8, 2004) Week Nine, August 15-August 21, 2012: Wednesday, August 15 SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder. BSO/Levine/Brewer, Meier, Botha, TFC (July 14, 2006) Thursday, August 16 Excerpts from WAGNER Götterdämmerung, BSO/Leinsdorf/Horne (August 20, 1967) Friday, August 17 TAKEMITSU riverrun. BSO/Ozawa/P. Serkin (July 12, 1985) BERNSTEIN Three Meditations from Mass. BSO/Ozawa (July 5, 1996) Saturday, August 18 FOSS Time Cycle. BSO/Foss/Addison (August 19, 1962) Sunday, August 19 SHERMAN Peter and the Commissar. BPO/Fiedler/Sherman (July 22, 1964) Monday, August 20 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5. TMCO/Masur (July, ) Tuesday, August 21 MOZART C minor Fantasy and Sonata. Arrau (July 21, 1964) Week Ten, August 22-August 28, 2012: Wednesday, August 22 Performance by popular artist Thursday, August 23 - DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No. 4 Dumky. Beaux Arts Trio (July 28, 1964 and August 20, 2008) Friday, August 24 STRAUSS Don Quixote. BSO/Munch/Piatigorsky, depasquale (August 9, 1953) Saturday, August 25 STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements. BSO/Knussen/TMCO (August 23, 1995) Sunday, August 26 LERNER/WILLIAMS My Fair Lady. Ensemble/Williams/Reeves, Stokes Mitchell (August 8 & 9, 2004) Monday, August 27 COPLAND Orchestral Variations. TMCO/Fleisher (July 7, 1994) Tuesday, August 28 Opening Exercises Speech Week Eleven, August 29-September 2, 2012: Wednesday, August 29 BACH Chorale and Magnificat. BSO/Ozawa/TFC (July 7, 1994) Thursday, August 30 - BRAHMS Alto Rhapsody and RAVEL Daphnis and Chloé Suite No.2. BSO/Koussevitzky/Brice (July 27, 1946) Friday, August 31 Excerpts from BERLIOZ Les Troyens. BSO/Levine (July 5 & 6, 2008)

5 Saturday, September 1 BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique. BSO/Davis (August 8, 1980) Sunday, September 2 - BIZET Symphony in C No. 1 and THOMPSON Alleluia. BSO/Ozawa (August 16, 1964 and July 14, 2002) 75 Free Streams Detailed Program Listing 75 Free Streams (Listed by Artist) 75 Free Streams (Listed by Composer) Essay by Anthony Fogg, BSO artistic administrator, about the sources, organization, and selection process behind the Tanglewood 75 Free Stream project TANGLEWOOD 2012 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Tanglewood s 75 th anniversary season will present a spectacular lineup of musical guests, while honoring legendary moments from the festival s rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts since The anniversary season will also look to the future with eight world premieres and new media initiatives including international radio broadcasts and major new streaming offers free to a worldwide audience. The Tanglewood 75th anniversary gala concert on July 14, featuring many of the iconic artists identified with the festival mentioned above, has been added to the line-up of the PBS Arts Summer Festival and will air nationally on Friday, August 10 at 9 p.m. ET as part of GREAT PERFORMANCES (check local listings). Highlights include a gala celebration with appearances by John Williams, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, and Anne-Sophie Mutter performing with the BSO, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestras (July 14); a special John Williams 80 th Birthday Celebration (August 18); an all-beethoven (BSO opener on July 6) and an all-wagner program (July 21), replicating two programs from Tanglewood s first season in 1937; and eight world premiere performances, spotlighting several composers who have had a strong connection with Tanglewood and the BSO, including Michael Gandolfi, John Harbison, André Previn, Gunther Schuller, and Edgar Meyer, as well as composers new to the BSO and its audiences. The 75 th anniversary season will also present James Taylor (July 2, 3, 4), Yo-Yo Ma with his Silk Road Ensemble (June 22 and 24); Joshua Bell (July 7); Jean-Yves Thibaudet (August 5); Mark Morris Dance Group (June 28 and 29); Chris Botti (August 5); Wynton Marsalis (August 20), and Train (August 31). Bernadette Peters (July 8), as well as Maureen McGovern and Brian Stokes Mitchell (August 24), make welcome returns with the Boston Pops. In addition to the star-studded gala concerts and historically resonant programming, Tanglewood s 75 th Anniversary will reach out to a worldwide audience by way of international radio broadcasts; an extraordinary offer of 75 Free Digital Streams, available for purchase after a 24-hour free period; as well as free digital streams of master classes for the Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the BSO s renowned summer music academy for the advanced training of young professionalcaliber musicians. On the fun and light hearted side of the BSO s Tanglewood 75 th season, the anniversary will also be celebrated with a specially commissioned commemorative poster and stamp. In addition, special anniversary banners will appear in towns throughout the Berkshires and a series of musical instrument sculptures will be scattered throughout the region to remind visitors of the anniversary.

6 TICKET INFORMATION IN BRIEF Tanglewood, this year celebrating its 75 th anniversary as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, opens on Friday, June 22, with the return of Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, and closes September 2, with a Boston Pops concert led by Thomas Wilkins and featuring the ever-popular Michael Feinstein. For detailed information about the 2012 Tanglewood season, including how to purchase tickets, priced from $9 to $117 for regular season concerts (non-benefactor tickets to the July 14 Gala Anniversary Concert are priced from $30 to $250), visit Tickets are available through Tanglewood s website, and through SymphonyCharge at Tanglewood continues to offer free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college and graduate students. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TANGLEWOOD, THE BSO S SUMMER HOME SINCE 1937 One of the most popular and acclaimed music festivals in the world, Tanglewood the Boston Symphony Orchestra s summer home since 1937 is located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills between Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. With an average annual attendance of more than 300,000 visitors each season, Tanglewood has a $60 million impact on the Berkshire economy each summer. Tanglewood presents orchestra concerts by the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and visiting ensembles, featuring many of the greatest classical musicians of our time; recital and chamber music concerts in the intimate setting of Ozawa Hall; programs highlighting the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center; performances by some of today s leading popular artists; and a season-ending Labor Day Weekend festival. Tanglewood is family-friendly, with free lawn tickets available for children and young people age 17 and under, a 50% discount on Friday-evening lawn tickets for college and graduate students, and a variety of special programs for children, including Kids Corner, Watch and Play, and the annual Family Concert, this year to take place Saturday, August 25. Tanglewood is also the home of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO s preeminent summer music academy for the advanced training of young professional musicians, and Days in the Arts, a multi-cultural arts-immersion program that gives 400 fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders from communities across Massachusetts the opportunity to explore the arts throughout each week-long session of the summer. These are just two of the BSO s many educational and outreach activities, for which more information is available at the largest and most visited orchestral website in the country, receiving about 7.5 million visitors annually and generating over $70 million in revenue since its launch in The Boston Symphony Orchestra is online at Music lovers can follow the BSO on Facebook at or on Twitter at SPONSORSHIP The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is proud to support Tanglewood and its education initiatives for Massachusetts students. Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation is proud to be in its ninth year as the official chauffeured transportation provider of the BSO. Steinway & Sons Pianos selected exclusively for Tanglewood. This Week at Tanglewood is sponsored by Harvard University Extension School. # # # TANGLEWOOD PRESS CONTACTS: Bernadette Horgan, Director of Public Relations (bhorgan@bso.org) Kathleen Drohan, Associate Director of Public Relations (kdrohan@bso.org)