“Friday night may have seemed like business as usual at Tanglewood,” writes Jeremy Eichler in Sunday’s (8/20) Boston Globe. “But three hours before the concert’s downbeat, at the top of the hill behind Ozawa Hall, the occasion was anything but ordinary. It was a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the official launch of the BSO’s $30 million construction project, a four-building complex to house rehearsal and performance space for the Tanglewood Music Center as well as a new education and enrichment venture to be known as the Tanglewood Learning Institute…. Managing director Mark Volpe [and] music director Andris Nelsons [were] in attendance, as was Boston Pops conductor emeritus John Williams and the project’s lead architect, William Rawn, whose firm also designed Ozawa Hall…. Until now [the festival’s] educational component … has focused on training the next generation of professional musicians. The Tanglewood Learning Institute … allows the BSO to extend its educational vision to its own audiences in myriad new ways. The complex will be the first weatherized, all-season structure at Tanglewood, and the BSO plans to make the space available to the Berkshires community beyond the summer months. The buildings are due to open in summer 2019.”
Posted August 23, 2017
