Preview of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, by Larry Wallach
2010 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, AUGUST 12-16, CELEBRATES THE
70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER
Thursday, August 12, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall, Oliver Knussen, conductor
Friday, August 13, 2:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Friday, August 13, 8:30 p.m. Shed:
Saturday, August 14, 2:30 p.m. Ozawa Hall
Sunday, August 15, 10 a.m. Ozawa Hall
Sunday, August 15, 2:30 p.m. Shed, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor
Sunday, August 15, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and Orchestra, Stefan Asbury, conductor
Monday, August 16, 8 p.m. Ozawa Hall: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor
This summer’s Festival of Contemporary Music is so different from its predecessors that it really ought to be given a different title. In fact, “contemporary” music, in the sense of brand new works by up-and-coming young composers, will be conspicuously absent. Perhaps “Retrospective of Seventy Years of ‘New’ Music” would offer a more accurate description. In the past, the Fromm Foundation has offered commissions for new works to be premiered during this week with the composers presiding; this summer, the five-day event will look back on the entire seventy years of Tanglewood rather than the fifty-four years of the Festival of Contemporary Music, as supported by Fromm.
