MAESTRO RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS LEADS BSO IN AN EVENING OF SPANISH MUSIC BY ALBÉNIZ AND DE FALLA, AUGUST 25

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1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DATE: August 16, 2012 TANGLEWOOD 75 TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CELEBRATION, JUNE 22-SEPTEMBER 2 BOSTON POPS CELEBRATES GERSHWIN AND THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK WITH KEITH LOCKHART, MAUREEN MCGOVERN, BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL, AND ILYA YAKUSHEV AUGUST 24 MAESTRO RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS LEADS BSO IN AN EVENING OF SPANISH MUSIC BY ALBÉNIZ AND DE FALLA, AUGUST 25 MAESTRO FRÜHBECK, BSO, AND TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCLUDE 2012 SEASON WITH THE WORLD PREMIERE OF JOHN HARBISON S KOUSSEVITZKY SAID:, SETTING WORDS OF TANGLEWOOD S FOUNDER, AND THE TRADITIONAL SEASON-ENDING PERFORMANCE OF BEETHOVEN S SYMPHONY NO. 9 CLASSICAL TANGENT PRESENTS TANGLEWOOD S ANNUAL AFTERNOON FAMILY CONCERT, AUGUST 25 HIGHLIGHTS OF TANGLEWOOD 75 FREE STREAMS AVAILABLE AUGUST AT TANGLEWOOD.ORG INCLUDE THE BSO IN STRAUSS S DON QUIXOTE LED BY CHARLES MUNCH WITH SOLOISTS GREGOR PIATIGORSKY AND JOSEPH DE PASQUALE (1953); THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA IN STRAVINSKY S SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS LED BY OLIVER KNUSSEN (1995); AND AARON COPLAND S ORCHESTRAL VARIATIONS LED BY LEON FLEISHER (1994) TICKETS, PRICED FROM $9 TO $117 FOR REGULAR SEASON CONCERTS, ARE AVAILABLE AT TANGLEWOOD.ORG OR AT ; TANGLEWOOD OFFERS FREE LAWN TICKETS TO YOUNG PEOPLE AGE 17 AND UNDER AND A 50% DISCOUNT ON LAWN TICKETS TO COLLEGE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR SEASON PRESS RELEASES, DOWNLOADABLE CURRENT AND ARCHIVAL PHOTOS, AND TANGLEWOOD HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY, VISIT TANGLEWOOD.ORG/PRESSKIT FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 BOSTON POPS CELEBRATE GERSHWIN AND THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK The final week of the BSO s Tanglewood 2012 season kicks off Friday, August 24, at 8:30 p.m., with the Boston Pops and Keith Lockhart performing music in celebration of George Gershwin and the creators of the Great American Songbook, including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Cole Porter. This Gershwin and Friends program will feature Broadway favorites Maureen McGovern and Brian Stokes Mitchell, as well as pianist Ilya Yakushev, who will perform Gershwin s Rhapsody in Blue. Composed in 1924 on commission from band leader Paul Whiteman for an experimental concerto-like work fusing jazz and classical idioms, Rhapsody in Blue

2 described by its composer as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our metropolitan madness has been a favorite of jazz and classical audiences alike ever since. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 BSO PLAYS SPANISH MUSIC WITH RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS On Saturday, August 25, at 8:30 p.m., conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos presides over a BSO program of music from his native Spain. The concert begins with Maestro Frühbeck s own arrangement of Albéniz s Suite española, but the main event is a complete concert performance of Manuel de Falla s La vida breve (Life is Short), an opera about the doomed love of a gypsy woman for an upper-class man, complete with Flamenco dancing and a Spanish folk singer a program which was very well received when it was first performed under Maestro Frühbeck in The two lead roles are sung by mezzo-soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera and tenor Vicente Ombuena. The cast also includes mezzo-sopranos Cristina Faus and Cátia Moreso, tenor Gustavo Peña, baritones Alfredo García Huerga and Josep Miquel Ramón, cantaor Pedro Sanz, Flamenco dancer Núria Pomares Rojas, and guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 BSO CONCLUDES ITS 2012 TANGLEWOOD SEASON WITH HARBISON AND BEETHOVEN On Sunday, August 26, at 2:30 p.m., the BSO s 2012 Tanglewood season comes to a close with its traditional performance of Beethoven s transcendent Symphony No. 9, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. This year, however, the final concert also offers a significant new-music event as Maestro Frühbeck and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus open the program with the world premiere of Koussevitzky Said:, a BSOcommissioned new work by Boston-based American composer John Harbison. The traditional season-ender then completes the program, as the orchestra and chorus joined by soprano Leah Crocetto, mezzo-soprano Meredith Arwady, tenor Frank Lopardo, and bass-baritone John Relyea bid Tanglewood 2012 goodbye. John Harbison felt the connection to Serge Koussevitzky seemed essential for a piece commissioned for the 75 th anniversary of Tanglewood. In honor of Tanglewood s founder, Mr. Harbison began by working with some of Koussevitzky s formal addresses to the Tanglewood family, often at Opening Day ceremonies. But after writing the third or fourth surging climax, Mr. Harbison said, I suddenly heard what I was doing in terms of the whole program, and experienced a discouraging overdose of uplift. In prelude to the matchless animation of Beethoven Nine, I did not want to hear the piece I was writing. Not wanting to let go of this idea, Mr. Harbison began to incorporate some of the things that Maestro Koussevitzky was reported to have said informally, while teaching, rehearsing, and conversing. Mr. Harbison commented, my research daily increased my sense of wonder at Koussevitzky s force, manifest in gestures large and small. This short piece Koussevitzky Said: is a way for someone who never saw or knew him to enjoy the time with him. Koussevitzky Said:, performed by the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus with conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, will be paired on a program with Tanglewood s now-traditional season closer, Beethoven s Symphony No. 9, bringing to end an anniversary season honoring the festival s past, present, and future. PERFORMANCES IN OZAWA HALL AUGUST 25 AND 26 SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 CLASSICAL TANGENT PRESENTS TANGLEWOOD S ANNUAL FAMILY CONCERT Tanglewood s annual Family Concert, featuring Classical Tangent, a group made up in part of BSO players who perform many different styles of folk music for classical audiences, will take place at 2:30 p.m. on August 25.

3 The program will include traditional tunes arranged by Ms. Bewick for the ensemble, including Oh, When the Saints Go Marchin In and L Chaim Rebbe, as well as original works, including Tunes with Friends and Mad Lib Song, an interactive piece about Tanglewood. Pre-concert activities including crafts and an instrument playground will take place from 12:30-2 p.m. in the Hawthorne Tent, located on the hill above Ozawa Hall. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 CHICK COREA, GARY BURTON, AND THE HARLEM STRING QUARTET PERFORM IN OZAWA HALL Following the annual matinee Boston Symphony performance of Beethoven s Symphony No. 9 on Sunday, August 26, the legendary Chick Corea will take the stage of Ozawa Hall, joined by Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet at 8 p.m. Chick Corea and Gary Burton appear at Tanglewood as part of their Hot House tour, exploring their expansive take on the standards. The tour is in support of their upcoming album, Hot House, to be released on September 4. One Day University at Tanglewood, August 26, 2012 One Day University, the acclaimed adult education series, is returning to Tanglewood on Sunday, August 26, presenting three lectures by professors from Columbia, Brown, and Vanderbilt. Topics to be discussed include FDR and the Path to WWII: What We Know Now That We Didn t Know Then with Columbia University s Richard M. Pious; Where Are My Keys? Understanding How Memory Works with Brown University s John J. Stein; and The Beatles and Beethoven: Hearing the Connection with Vanderbilt University s Michael Alec Rose. The cost for One Day University at Tanglewood is $149, and includes VIP parking and lawn admission for the 2:30 p.m. BSO season-finale performance of Beethoven s Symphony No. 9, led by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Advance purchase is required. For more information or to register for One Day University at Tanglewood, call Symphony Charge at or visit BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TANGLEWOOD Tanglewood, one of the world s most beloved music festivals and the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, celebrates its 75 th anniversary season, June 22-September 2, with a spectacular lineup of musical guests and programs that spotlight Tanglewood s rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts at their best since Tickets, priced from $9 to $117 for regular season concerts, are available at tanglewood.org or at ; tanglewood offers free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college and graduate students. A complete concert listing for these programs appears at the end of this release. TANGLEWOOD 75 FREE STREAMS, JUNE 20-SEPTEMBER 2 Bringing the celebration of Tanglewood s 75th anniversary beyond the BSO s summer home in the Berkshires, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presents its first-ever 75 free digital streams program, 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

4 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. Tanglewood 75 Free Streams available August 22-28, at tanglewood.org: Wednesday, August 22 GERSHWIN An American in Paris. Pops/Fiedler. (August 9, 1974) 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 DIRECTIONS FOR REVIEWERS TO ACCESS TANGLEWOOD 75 STREAMS Members of the press wanting to obtain a press-only digital music subscription of the Tanglewood 75 Anniversary Free Digital Streams, can visit for directions. Please allow hours for your Press Subscription to be provisioned. You will receive an confirmation when your subscription is ready. Once you receive your confirmation , log into your account and access your subscription via your purchases history in your account. Radio and other broadcast outlets are allowed to use up to 3 minutes or 25% of the duration of any given music selection (work or movement); mention of project name and details on how to access the streams must accompany on-air usage. PURCHASING STREAMS FOR DOWNLOAD 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. MP3's are priced at $.89 for tracks 7 minutes or less, and FLAC are priced at $.99 for tracks 7 minutes or less. Any content longer than 7 minutes will be priced according to duration, with operas costing $16.99-$ A music subscription for the Tanglewood 75 streams is available for $50 for MP3s and $60 for FLAC, offering all 75 days worth of content as it is released for download. (Some select content will not be available for purchase with the subscription after the 75 day period is complete.) FREE PRELUDE CONCERTS BY MEMBERS OF THE BSO The Boston Symphony Orchestra s free Prelude Concerts in Ozawa Hall take place at 6 p.m., before each Friday-evening Shed concert. On Friday, August 24, the Boston Cello Quartet (BSO cellists Blaise Déjardin, Adam Esbensen, Mihail Jojatu, and Alexandre Lecarme) will perform a program featuring seven new arrangements and two work premieres, including Blaise Déjardin s The LvB Sandwich and Tetsuro Hoshii s The Life of Birds. LOOKING AHEAD TO THE WEEK OF AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 2 Three-time Grammy award-winning rock group Train returns to Tanglewood on Friday, August 31, at 7 p.m. to kick off the Labor Day Weekend festivities at Tanglewood. Up-and-coming pop star Andy Grammer and Nashville-based singer/songwriter Mat Kearney will open for Train. Grammy award-winning rockers Evanescence perform in the Koussevitzky Music Shed on September 1, at 7 p.m. Hard rock outfit Chevelle will open the Saturday-evening performance. On Sunday, September 2, Michael Feinstein joins BSO Youth and

5 Family Concert Conductor Thomas Wilkins with special guests Christine Ebersole and Betty Buckley for a special Boston Pops concert to close out the 75 th Tanglewood season. Further details of the Labor Day Weekend festivities will be announced at a later date. For complete season programs, ticket information, and downloadable press photos, please visit Tanglewood s online press kit at TICKET INFORMATION IN BRIEF Tanglewood, this year celebrating its 75 th anniversary as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, opened 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, 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. TANGLEWOOD 2012 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS Tanglewood s 75 th anniversary season presents a spectacular lineup of musical guests, while honoring legendary moments from the festival s rich tradition of presenting summertime concerts since The anniversary season also looks 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 featured many of the iconic artists identified with the festival and 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). Season 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 also presents 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. Popular music offerings also include a performance by the rock group Evanescence (September 1), a Chick Corea concert (August 26), and Garrison Keillor s annual Prairie Home Companion broadcast (June 30). In addition to the star-studded gala concerts and historically resonant programming, Tanglewood s 75 th Anniversary reaches 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 professional-caliber musicians.

6 The anniversary is also celebrated with a specially commissioned commemorative poster and stamp. In addition, special anniversary banners appear in towns throughout the Berkshires and a series of musical instrument sculptures are scattered throughout the region to remind visitors of the anniversary. 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 350,000 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)

7 TANGLEWOOD CONCERT LISTING, AUGUST All programs and artists are subject to change *connotes Tanglewood debut **connotes BSO and Tanglewood debut ^connotes Tanglewood and Boston Pops debut Friday, August 24, 6 p.m. Ozawa Hall Prelude Concert Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Friday, August 24, 7:15 p.m. Shed This Week at Tanglewood Panel discussion with moderator Martin Bookspan and guest artists Friday, August 24, 8:30 p.m. Shed Boston Pops Keith Lockhart, conductor Maureen McGovern and Brian Stokes Mitchell, vocalists Ilya Yakushev, piano^ Gershwin and Friends Join Keith Lockhart, the Pops, and favorite guest vocalists for a celebration of George Gershwin and the creators of the Great American Songbook including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern. and Cole Porter. The program also features Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Saturday, August 25, 9:30 a.m. Shed Pre-Rehearsal Talk Saturday, August 25, 10:30 a.m. Shed Rehearsal, Sunday program Saturday, August 25, 2:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall Family Concert Classical Tangent Saturday, August 25, 8:30 p.m. Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Nancy Fabiola Herrera, mezzo-soprano** (Salud) Cristina Faus, mezzo-soprano** (Grandmother) Cátia Moreso, mezzo-soprano** (Carmela) Vicente Ombuena, tenor (Paco) Gustavo Peña, tenor** (A Voice in the Forge) Alfredo García Huerga, baritone** (Uncle Salvador) Josep Miquel Ramón, baritone** (Manuel) Pedro Sanz, cantaor (Spanish folk singer) Núria Pomares Rojas, Flamenco dancer Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitar** ALBÉNIZ (arr. FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS) Suite española FALLA La vida breve Sung in Spanish with English supertitles Sunday, August 26, 2:30 p.m. Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Leah Crocetto, soprano** Meredith Arwady, mezzo-soprano* Frank Lopardo, tenor John Relyea, bass-baritone Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor HARBISON Koussevitzky Said:, for chorus and orchestra (world premiere; BSO commission) BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 Sunday, August 26, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall Chick Corea with Gary Burton and the Harlem String Quartet