“Leonard Bernstein would have turned 100 this year, and to honor his centennial, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is pulling out the stops,” writes Jeremy Eichler in Thursday’s (11/16) Boston Globe. “The BSO has organized its entire 2018 Tanglewood season around a celebration of Bernstein. It will feature an array of Bernstein scores from across the many genres in which he was active, standard repertoire with which he was closely associated as a conductor, a gala tribute on his actual birthday, an archival exhibit, a colloquium on his political activism, and even a new program honoring the legacy of his Young People’s Concerts, to be hosted by his daughter Jamie Bernstein…. Bernstein’s stage and film works will be particularly well-represented…. BSO music director Andris Nelsons will lead a total of 13 programs next summer [and] participate in the summer’s culminating Bernstein gala performance … to be hosted by Audra McDonald [and featuring] the BSO joined by members of ensembles Bernstein conducted.” BSO artistic administrator Anthony Fogg said, “Tanglewood was the one place to which [Bernstein] returned most often. If any place was going to host a major celebration like this, it had to be Tanglewood.”
Posted November 17, 2017
