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Norman Lebrecht

February 01, 2023

They announced this summer’s highlights:

Shed:
Andries Nelson conducts the Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestras in works by Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tut, Orff Carmina Burana, Mahler 4, Prokofiev 5, and works by Iman Habibi, Wynton Marsalis, Jesse Montgomery, Carlos Simon, and John Williams. Nelson welcomes soloists Nicole Cabell, Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Kate Lindsay, Yo-Yo Man, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Daniil Trifonov.

Keith Lockhart will lead five Boston Pops programs, including a new symphonic version of Ragtime, a concert film presentation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™ in Concert, Star Wars: The Story in Music, a screening from the musical film franchise. John Williams and David Newman produced the John Williams Movie Night.

James Taylor and his all-star band perform on July 3 and 4, as part of the festival’s featured artist series; Additional notable artist producers Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Steve Miller Band and Train, as well as Don’t Tell Me Wait!

Xian Zhang and Kazuki Yamada make their debut. Welcome Giancarlo Guerrero and Dima Slobodeniouk. Youth and Family Concerts Executive Director Thomas Wilkins will direct the family program and BSO concert. And Anna Rakitina returns as assistant conductor of the BSO for the final concert.

OZAWA Hall and Linder Center highlights
Ozawa Hall to perform the Emerson String Quartet with Emmanuel Ax; The Horsemen with special guest Chris Thiele, Philharmonia Baroque in Handel’s Assis and Galatea; Lectures by Julia Bullock, Bruce Liu, and Alyssa Weilerstein, and special performances by the Danish String Quartet, Aaron Diehl Trio, and Kelly O’Hara.

The Tanglewood Music Center Fellows present weekly orchestral, chamber music, and vocal performances and have performed at the Contemporary Music Festival this summer, featuring Rina Ismail, Gabriela Lina Frank, Michael Gandolfi, Tebogo Monakgotla, and Anna Torvaldsdottir; Among TMCO’s guest conductors, Susanna Malki will conduct the final orchestral concert of the season, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Do you see a crowd drawing?

It’s a mix of old-new-old regime plans.

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