T Tanglewood — 2022/08/20-21

 Tonight the BSO celebrates John Williams' 90th Birthday and tomorrow we get a new piece and a couple of 19th Century staples of the repertory.

Saturday, Auguat 20, 2022. WCRB gives us the basics:

Saturday, August 20, 2022
8:00 PM

Ken-David Masur and the Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrate the iconic film composer's 90th birthday, joined by a stellar cast of soloists including Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, and James Taylor, tonight at 8!

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ken-David Masur, conductor 
Martin Grubinger, percussion
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Eric Revis, bass
James Taylor, vocalist
Jessica Zhou, harp

ALL John WILLIAMS program:

Sound the Bells!
Tributes (For Seiji)
Highwood’s Ghost
Pickin’ from Three Pieces for Solo Cello
JUST DOWN WEST STREET...on the left
To Lenny, To Lenny (For New York)
Escapades from Catch Me If You Can
Presenting James Taylor
"Throne Room" & Finale from Star Wars: A New Hope

The BSO performance detail page has nothing about this concert. So just relax and enjoy, with the comments of Ron Della Chiesa to add some information.

Sunday, August 21, 2022. Again we turn to WCRB for the essentials:

Sunday, August 21, 2022
7:00 PM (delayed broadcast of 2:30 PM concert)

Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman is the soloist in Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto, and Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and Unsuk Chin’s “subito con forza.”

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor 
Itzhak Perlman, violin

Unsuk CHIN subito con forza 
Max BRUCH Violin Concerto in G minor
Johannes BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

For this one we do have a performance detail page from the BSO. There we find a link to the program notes. There is not much description of "subito, con forza," but maybe you can get some idea. Well it's not long, so you might as well llisten, to be sure you get the whole violin concerto. Notes on that and the Brahms symphony are more extensive.

Again, I'll be at my high school class's 80th birthday celebration this evening, but I'm looking forward to the Sunday broadcast at 7:00. I hope you'll enjoy both.