Word: tanglewood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seventh Symphony or his Fourth Piano Concerto this summer not only could encounter these works at Ravinia, where Beethoven runs rampant, but could scarcely avoid them elsewhere: in upstate New York at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra (during its Beethoven festival); at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony's Berkshire retreat (during an all-Beethoven orchestral weekend); and at the Hollywood Bowl (during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Beethoven festival). Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles are each playing Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Stravinsky's The Firebird this summer. Rachmaninoff...
...Boston Symphony is regularly included in the list of "Big Five" U.S. orchestras. It provides employment for 102 musicians year round-including, since 1938, summers at Tanglewood, its magical retreat in the Berkshires-extensive touring, recording contracts, television appearances both as the B.S.O. and its lighter alter ego, the Pops. The orchestra has also largely escaped the labor problems that have afflicted other major symphonic ensembles and presents the image of a happy family. Says Bassoonist Sherman Walt: "It's a treat to play here." In a town saddled with the perennially flawed Red Sox, the B.S.O...
...infrequent American appearances occurred earlier this month at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass...
Williams, who studied at the University of California at Los Angeles and the Julliard School of Music, has conducted orchestras in London, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and at the Hollywood Bowl. He will conduct the regular Pops season in Symphony Hall at Tanglewood and at the Eplanade on the banks of the Charles