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...Principal guest conductor Bernard Haitink directed with both ease and authority. His precise baton yielded wonderful control, yet there was never a sense of stiffness or tension. His elegant podium manner was only further complemented by the sound he received from the orchestra. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, directed by John Oliver, sounded alternately warm and earthy in the right moments (such as the opening), although perhaps not “heavenly” enough for the beginning and end of the last-movement setting of Psalm 150, with its plaintive Alleluia’s. Stravinsky reveals in this movement...
...Syrinx pantomime. Yes, he hit all the notes, but his gestures and timing were right on as well, resulting in an all-around impeccable delivery. Other members of the woodwind section played their most difficult and taxing parts brilliantly. The strings, however, were not at their strongest, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sang their wordless parts too directly and without the distance sometimes required in this music. Haitink conducted effortlessly, and took the final “Danse Generale” at a brisk, exciting tempo, which proved to be very effective. This was programming at its best: two twentieth...
...field of education, however, is one in which Schuller has no critics. He taught at the Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, the Lenox School of Jazz, and was artistic director of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood for a number of years. As president of the New England Conservatory of Music from 1967 to 1977, he started groundbreaking jazz and ragtime programs. His various books, such as Early Jazz, The Swing Era and Horn Technique, have also been widely praised as landmarks in musical scholarship...
...trio), the Beaux Arts Trio has set the standard for piano trios as well as other chamber ensembles. The group has performed at all the world's major music centers from New York to London to Vienna, as well as some of the most prestigious music festivals including Tanglewood, Aspen and Ravinia. In addition, their recordings have won awards and honors including the Gramophone Record of the Year, three Grand Prix du Disques and a Grammy nomination...
...performance hall at Tanglewood is named...