Lenox Library 2023 Tanglewood Pre-Concert Talks
LENOX, Mass. — The Lenox Library welcomes back Dr. Jeremy Yudkin for the 40th anniversary season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.
These free programs will take place in the Lenox Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The 2023 Tanglewood Talk schedule is as follows:
Friday, July 7. OPENING NIGHT. "Musica Russia."
Tchaikovsky's "Fate" Symphony No. 4 and Prokofiev's acclaimed Third Piano Concerto, with a newly composed Fanfare for Brass and Percussion by Wynton Marsalis.
Sunday, July 9. "Something Old/Something(s) New."
The beloved Brahms Violin Concerto with two attractive new works by young composers Iman Habibi and Jessie Montgomery.
Friday, July 14. "The Genius Brothers."
The songs and orchestral masterpieces of George and Ira Gershwin, who were at the top of the witty, jazzy world of the Twenties and Thirties.
Sunday, July 16. "Elegance and Decadence."
Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 and the spectacular, over-the-top Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, based on bawdy medieval ballads.
Friday, July 21. "Music from and about America."
Copland's Appalachian Spring and Dvorak's delightful Symphony "From the New World."
Sunday, July 23. "Symphonic Colors and Stories."
Richard Strauss's Don Juan, Gabriela Lena Frank's La centinela y la paloma song cycle, and Prokofiev's great (controversial) Sixth Symphony.
Friday, July 28. "Fairy Tales and Suffragettes."
An "intensely potent" new staged oratorio by Julia Wolfe about the Nineteenth Amendment and Mahler's dramatic First Symphony.
Sunday, July 30. "Dreams and Romance."
Ellen Reid's brilliantly colorful When the World as You've Known It Doesn't Exist, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, and the stunning virtuosity of Paganini's Violin Concerto.
Friday, August 4. "Brahms and Strings."
The masterful First Piano Concerto of Brahms together with the mesmerizing string sounds of John Adams's Shaker Loops.
Sunday, August 6. NO LECTURE.
Friday, August 11. "Williams, Strauss, Ravel."
The Second Violin Concerto by John Williams, Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, and Ravel's hallucinatory, ambiguous La Valse.
Sunday, August 13. "Orchestral Color and Stories."
Julia Adolphe's colorful Makeshift Castle, the Cello Concerto No. 1 of Shostakovich, and Stravinsky's puppet story Petrushka.
Friday, August 18. "Exoticism in Music."
Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto No. 5 ("The Egyptian"), Carlos Simon's Four Black American Dances, and George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F.
Sunday, August 20. "Spirituals and Spirituality."
Choral "Spirituals" from Michael Tippett's pacifist 1941 oratorio A Child of Our Time, and the traditional season-ending performance of the transcendental Beethoven Ninth Symphony.
The pre-concert talks are made free with support from the Lenox Library Association.
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