{"id":976,"date":"2012-07-15T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=976"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T08:56:19","slug":"tanglewood-celebrates-its-75th-anniversary-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/tanglewood-celebrates-its-75th-anniversary-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanglewood Celebrates its 75th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanglewood 75th Anniversary
\nTanglewood\"\"<\/a>
\nLenox, Massachusetts
\nTanglewood, the premier summer festival in the United States, celebrated its 75th Anniversary on Saturday, July 14th.<\/p>\n

Tanglewood originated in an unlikely alliance between Henry Kimball Hadley, an associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and Gertrude Robinson Smith, a New York socialite who summered in the Berkshires.\u00a0 Hadley was also a composer, whose opera Cleopatra\u2019s Night, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, and disappeared into a black hole after seven performances.\u00a0 Robinson \u2013Smith\u2019s circle was wide. Including opera librettist Gertrude Stein and composer\/conductor Nadia Boulanger.<\/p>\n

Together Hadley and Smith created the first music festival in the Berkshires in a horse ring Hadley determined had perfect acoustics. Gertrude thought music would be ideal for the neighborhood farmers, but instead other socialites from New York who had homes in Stockbridge and Lenox, came in droves.<\/p>\n

The only real complaint about Hadley\u2019s programming was that selections from symphonies were thought to insult the sophistication of the listeners.\u00a0 Not so at the anniversary celebration, where bits of Rogers & Hammerstein and Haydn were served up.<\/p>\n

James Taylor is a regular now at Tanglewood.\u00a0 Having fled his New England boarding school, where Mrs. Norman Rockwell taught for her entire career, Taylor has returned as a gracious and giving Tanglewood regular.<\/p>\n

Emanuel Ax fell in love with the Berkshires and is a long time summer resident and supports the festival in many ways, but particularly as a performer.\u00a0 Yo-Yo Ma is another member of the Tanglewood family.<\/p>\n

The exciting and musically rigorous Andris Nelsons, young conductor of the Birmingham \"\"<\/a>Symphony Orchestra, took the stage for the wild and erotic Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy.\u00a0 Nelsons debut with the BSO came in New York early in the spring of 2011, when he gave a thrilling performance of Mahler\u2019s Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York.
\nAnnie Sophie Mutter accompanied on the violin.<\/p>\n

Nelsons returned after intermission with the Symphony Orchestra for Ravel\u2019s choreographic poem, La Valse.\u00a0 It is difficult to put Nelsons effect in words.\u00a0 With this great orchestra to work with him to bring forth everything a composition offers, musicians and conductor engage in a present search for the soul of the music.\u00a0 The music zings directly to the heart.\u00a0 Enough has already been said about how nice it would be to have Nelsons in Boston.\u00a0 He will be there in January for his first subscription series.\u00a0 If someone makes sure to serve him superior fresh sushi for breakfast, lunch and dinner, he may be seduced into a more regular friendship with one of the world\u2019s very great orchestras.<\/p>\n

David Zinman conducted the New York Philharmonic in a modern Beethoven Festival earlier this year.\u00a0 This evening, he brought together Peter Serkin, the Symphony, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Music Center\u00a0 Fellows in an exuberant performance of Beethoven\u2019s Fantasia in C Minor.\u00a0 In Zinman\u2019s Tohhalle Concerts in Zurich dancing in the aisles would automatically follow the concert.\u00a0\u00a0 The lovely lines of the chorale by Kuffner echoed in the night air:\u00a0 “accept you lovely souls, the gifts of beautiful art.\u00a0\u00a0 If love and power join together, humanity is rewarded by God\u2019s favor.”\u00a0 A celebration an extraordinary 75-year history.<\/p>\n

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