TANGLEWOOD "CELLO FELLOW"
Recipient of the Stephen and Dorothy Weber Fellowship
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Tanglewood is a renowned summer music festival by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in which Clayton participated as a "Cello Fellow" in the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra with this season being Tanglewood's most exciting summers to date!
To celebrate Tanglewood's 75th Anniversary, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus appeared with conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons; soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, James Taylor, and Anne-Sophie Mutter for a spectacular gala. The concert featured works by Beethoven, Bernstein, Copland, Haydn, Ravel, Sarasate, and Tchaikovsky, and included works by Tanglewood legends including Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
This gala was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances series which aired nationally on Friday, August 10th and was made available to major international broadcasters to bring Tanglewood’s 75th celebration to a world-wide audience. Watch their brief commercial below:
To celebrate Tanglewood's 75th Anniversary, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus appeared with conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons; soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, James Taylor, and Anne-Sophie Mutter for a spectacular gala. The concert featured works by Beethoven, Bernstein, Copland, Haydn, Ravel, Sarasate, and Tchaikovsky, and included works by Tanglewood legends including Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.
This gala was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances series which aired nationally on Friday, August 10th and was made available to major international broadcasters to bring Tanglewood’s 75th celebration to a world-wide audience. Watch their brief commercial below:
Select this link to view the entire PBS broadcast of the TANGLEWOOD 75TH ANNIVERSARY here.
In addition to the star-studded gala concerts, there was International radio broadcasts; an extraordinary offer of 75 Free Digital Streams; as well as free digital streams of master classes for the Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC). Local broadcast via WGBH’s Classical New England service, including 99.5 FM in Boston and 88.7 in Providence; in Albany on WAMC 90.3 FM and its network of translators, and in Connecticut on WMNR 88.1 FM, and live streams of the concert at www.classicalnewengland.org, www.wamc.org and www.wmnr.org after August 10th.
Read about Tanglewood's 75th Gala here or view their brochure.
TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA (TMCO) CONCERTS
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Cello Fellow
Sunday, July 1, 2012 @ 8:00pm TMC: String Quartet Marathon
- Venue: Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: String Quartet Marathon 8pm (Sunday), 10am & 1pm (Monday). One ticket provides admission to all three performance times TMC recitals, chamber music: Monday, July 2, 7pm (Shed) and Tuesday, July 3, 7pm. (Shed)
- Performed:
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HAYDN - String Quartet in G, Op. 77 No. 1
FRANK BRIDGE - String Quartet No. 4 |
(Photo: Thomas T Hofmann, aka Takushi Hofmann).
Sunday, July 8, 2012 @ 8:00pm Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Second performance on Monday, August 13, at 8:00pm by the TMCO
- Venue: Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya with Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. The instrumental fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, led by Peruvian conductor and music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Miguel Harth-Bedoya as well as TMC conducting fellows, lead colorful orchestral showpieces including Dvořák's In Nature's Realm, Op. 91, selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, and Respighi's Fountians of Roma, as well as the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's Dreamscape. The 15-minute work was inspired by a dream Schuller had, and was commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center. This work received its world premiere by this year’s class of Fellows during the first Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra concert of the 75th season. Mr. Schuller conducted his work. Dreamscape will be performed a second time on Monday, August 13, during the final Festival of Contemporary Music Concert, led by Oliver Knussen.
- Performed with TMCO:
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RESPIGHI - Fountains of Rome (conductor Vlad Agachi)
SCHULLER - Dreamscape (WORLD PREMIERE by Gunther Schuller, commissioned by the TMC) DVOŘÁK - In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 PROKOFIEV - Selections from Romeo and Juliet (conductor Harth-Bedoya) Listen to Fountains of Rome on Classical New England (WGBH) above.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012 @ 8:30pm Tanglewood's 75th Anniversary Gala Celebration
Tanglewood – 75 Years Old and Still Surprising, by Larry Murray, Berkshire on Stage
(Photo: Hilary Scott).
- Info: To celebrate Tanglewood's 75th Anniversary, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus appeared with conductors John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Andris Nelsons; soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, James Taylor, and Anne-Sophie Mutter in a spectacular gala. This wide-ranging concert featured works by Beethoven, Bernstein, Copland, Haydn, Ravel, Sarasate, and Tchaikovsky, and included works by Tanglewood legends including Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. This event was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances Series which aired nationally on Friday, August 10th to bring Tanglewood’s 75th celebration to a world-wide audience. Watch the PBS broadcast here.
- Program included:
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COPLAND - Fanfare for the Common Man
BERNSTEIN - Three dance episodes from On the Town Selections from The Great American Songbook HAYDN - Piano Concerto in D, 2nd and 3rd movements (soloist: Emanuel Ax)* TCHAIKOVSKY - Andante cantabile, for cello and strings (soloist: Yo-Yo Ma)* SARASATE - Carmen Fantasy, for violin and orchestra (soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter)* STRAUSS - Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome BEETHOVEN - Choral Fantasy *Performed with TMCO. |
Monday, July 16, 2012 @ 8:00pm Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
- Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00 - $53.00
- Info: Conductor Andris Nelsons with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellows.
- Performed with TMCO:
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BRAHMS - Tragische Overture, Op. 81
SCHUBERT - Symphony in B minor, D.759, Unfinished STRAUSS - Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (conductor Lehninger) 
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Saturday, July 21, 2012 @ 8:00pm Tanglewood Music Center: Chamber Music
- Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: Works by BARTÓK, GUBAIDULINA, MOZART, and SCHOENBERG. TMC recitals, chamber music, String Quartet Marathon, and Festival of Contemporary Music performances.
- Performed:
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SCHULHOFF - Sextet
 (Photo: Thomas T Hofmann, aka Takushi Hofmann).
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Monday, July 23, 2012 @ 8:00pm Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, TMCO explores 20th Century works by Ives, Schoenberg and Stravinsky
- Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00 - $53.00
- Info: Performances by the Tanglewood Music Center and the BSO's Summer Music Academy. Maestro Stefan Asbury and TMC Conducting Fellows take the reins of theTanglewood Music Center Orchestra for a program of 20th-century music. The program begins with Ives's Three Places in New England, the third movement of which pays musical tribute to the Housatonic River at Stockbridge, just a few miles down the road from Tanglewood. Also on the program are Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, featuring longtime Tanglewood guest Emanuel Ax as soloist, Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, based on a traditional Russian puppet character and one of the composer's several masterpieces composed for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
- Performed with TMCO:
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IVES - Three Places in New England (conductor Asbury)
SCHOENBERG - Piano Concerto, Op. 42 STRAVINSKY - Petrushka, 1911 version (conductor Asbury), watch the video of the performance below: |
Tuesday, August 5, 2012 @ 10:00am Tanglewood Music Center: Chamber Music
- Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: Works by BARTÓK, GUBAIDULINA, MOZART, and SCHOENBERG. TMC recitals, chamber music, String Quartet Marathon, and Festival of Contemporary Music performances
- Performed:
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SCHUBERT - Cello Quintet
 (Photo: Patty Ryan).
Photo: Sarah Stone
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012 @ 2:30pm Tanglewood Music Center: Cello Choir
- Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: The Boston Symphony Orchestra cello section performed with the Tanglewood Music Center cellists for a cello ensemble treat!
- Program included:
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VILLA-LOBOS - Bachianas Brasileiras No 1, mvt. I
ROSSINI - Barber of Seville Ouverture (Arr. Douglas Moore) FAURE - Cantique de Jean Racine Op. 11 (Arr. Blaise Dejardin) LENNON/MCCARTNEY - Cello Submarine (Arr. Larry Wolf) SOUSA - Stars and Stripes Forever (Arr. Douglas Moore)  (Photo: The Boston Cello Quartet).
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012 @ 8:30pm Tanglewood on Parade
- Venue: Tanglewood, Koussevitzky Music Shed (Lenox, MA)
- Tickets: $21.00 - $104.00
- Info: The festivities begin at 2pm when gates open to brass fanfares. Chamber, piano, and vocal music performances by the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and members of the BSO, take place around the grounds throughout the afternoon. Face painters and chair massagers will be located on the lawn, and Bonaparte, Boston's premier magician, will roam the grounds providing impromptu family entertainment. At 8:30pm, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, Stéphane Denève in his Tanglewood debut, Keith Lockhart, and John Williams share the podium for a program that will include Beethoven's Overture to Egmont, Stravinsky's Suite from The Firebird, and recent film scores by Mr. Williams, as well as the traditional TOP finale, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. This lively evening features performances by the BSO, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Boston Pops, culminating in a dazzling fireworks display Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.
- Program included:
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BEETHOVEN - Egmont Overture*
TCHAIKOVSKY - 1812 Overture* RAVEL - Mother Goose Suite Recent film scores by John WILLIAMS *Performed with TMCO. |
Monday, August 13, 2012 @ 8:00pm Festival of Contemporary Music
- Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa Hall 197 West Street, Lenox, MA
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: The annual Festival of Contemporary Music, directed by the distinguished composer-conductor and TMC alumnus Oliver Knussen in honor of his 60th birthday, highlights the works of a 20th century composer almost unknown in this country-Niccolò Castiglioni- and of four rising stars: English composers Luke Bedford and Helen Grime, and Americans Sean Shepherd and Marti Epstein, the latter presenting the world premiere of her new TMC commissioned string quartet. Knussen's own work will be represented by his one-act opera "Higglety Pigglety Pop," written in collaboration with Maurice Sendak; the performance will feature live video with images from the Sendak book by video artist Netia Jones. Additional highlights will be a Prelude concert lead by Gunther Schuller with short, rarely performed works by Charles Ives; and a piano recital by Gloria Cheng.
- Program included:
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BEDFORD - Outblaze the Sky
BENJAMIN - Duet (conductor Knussen) DEL TREDICI - Happy Voices (conductor Asbury) GRIME - Everyone Sang (conductor Knussen) SCHULLER - Dreamscape (conductor Schuller) BIRTWISTLE - Sonance Severerance 2000 (conductor Asbury) |
Sunday, August 19, 2012 @ 2:30pm The Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert
- Venue: Tanglewood, Koussevitzky Music Shed (Lenox, MA)
- Tickets: $11.00
- Info: Violinist Gil Shaham with conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra.
- Program included:
