Tanglewood 75th anniversary season tickets on sale as of Sunday, January 29: Season Preview and Concert Schedules, by Michael Miller
Tickets went on sale for the Tanglewood 75th anniversary season, Sunday, January 29, 10:00 am attanglewood.org, 888-266-1200, or Symphony Hall box office in Boston, Massachusetts
Last November Mark Volpe, Managing Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Fogg, Artistic Administrator, and members of the orchestra presented the 75th anniversary season of the festival in a low-key event, which, as relaxed and friendly as it was, brought back memories of old Boston in its restraint. No one attempted to hide his pride in this important anniversary of what is undoubtedly the key music festival in North America, but nobody did anything that would be out of place at the Somerset Club either.
One could say the same thing about anniversary programs at Tanglewood. To observe that the season, which includes hommages to programs performed at the first festival, as well as some important new commissions, is not terribly different from any other season in memory is to recognize how faithfully the festival has remained true to its traditions and founding purposeāone entirely rooted in music, largely conceived by Serge Koussevitzky. The guiding has been relatively simple, bringing together the central works of the classical orchestral repertoire with new music, much of it commissioned by the Boston Symphony and most of it American. If in later years solo recitals, chamber music, and opera joined this, the work of the BSO remained at the core. Like every Tanglewood Festival since the beginning, the 75th anniversary season will include a wealth of the classics and a choice lickings of the new.

