James Levine cancels his Tanglewood engagements, with an updated 2010 Season Preview, and a Backwards Look at 2009

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The news I have been expecting has now officially arrived:

BSO announces changes to 2010 Tanglewood schedule.

James Levine will withdraw from his concerts with the BSO and Tanglewood Music Center due to further recuperation time needed after recent back surgery.

Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the BSO opening night performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 on July 9, and Stravinsky’s 

Symphony of Psalms
 and Mozart’s Requiem on July 16, as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 on July 17.

Christoph von Dohnányi will conduct the staged Tanglewood Music Center Production of Strauss’s 

Ariadne Auf Naxos 
on August 1 And 2.

Johannes Debus will have his BSO Debut, conudctin Mozart’s 

The Abduction From Seraglio
 on July 23

Hans Graf will lead the BSO in program of marches, waltzes, and polkas by the Strauss Family on July 25 .

An announcement about substitute conductor for program of Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Soprano Hei-Kyung Hong on July 31 will be forthcoming.

These and other changes have been entered in the season schedule below.

Read the full article on the Berkshire Review for the Arts!

Michael Miller