David Noel Edwards is a writer, composer, and recording artist from Canaan, New York. He has been writing for the Berkshire Edge since 2015, mainly about music, but also about books, birds, and reptiles.
August 16 through 18, enjoy Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, and an evening of computer-generated dinosaurs enhanced by the music of beloved film composer John Williams.
It's a day combining music from the BSO, TMC, and Pops, with an instrument playground, lawn games, kids crafts, face painting, ice cream, and more, all to celebrate Seiji Ozawa, who died on February 6 at the age of 88.
This weekend at Tanglewood: John Williams' Film Night with Ken-David Masur and David Newman, conductors. Also this weekend: Alan Gilbert conducts an all-Beethoven program featuring Kirill Gerstein, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis.
A nine-time GRAMMY Award winner, Drucker has recorded the complete works of Bach for unaccompanied violin, all of Bartók’s sonatas and duos, and countless pieces with the Emerson Quartet.
Some of the strangest music I have ever heard was at Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music. So why do I recommend putting it at the top of your bucket list?
A high point of Friday's program will be Mr. Barker's performance of Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto in a program with Yefim Bronfman performing Scriabin's "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire."
In 2017, the BSO performed "Das Rheingold," and in the summer of 2019, Andris Nelsons led the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in all three acts of "Die Walküre."
Clean guitar sounds and transparent textures give "Brass in Pocket" something of a lean, new-wave sheen. All the better to convey the essence of Hynde's music, which is her attitude: cocky, sexy, provocative—and whip smart.
Bring your own chairs or blankets, and arrive hungry, because you will definitely want to enjoy the diverse offerings of area food trucks. Not to mention the beer and wine garden.
Some of the most amazing things you will hear at a Ted Rosenthal performance are not feats of manual dexterity but feats of on-the-fly, intellectual prowess.
