UPDATE: TANGLEWOOD 2011, JUNE 23- SEPTEMBER 4

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1 UPDATE: TANGLEWOOD 2011, JUNE 23- SEPTEMBER 4 NEW CONDUCTOR ROSTER ANNOUNCED FOR FIVE OF BOSTON SYMPHONY S 21 SHED CONCERTS AT TANGLEWOOD THIS SUMMER; PROGRAMS UNCHANGED EXCEPT FOR SLIGHT ALTERATION TO OPENING NIGHT CHARLES DUTOIT TO LEAD BSO JULY 8 OPENER AN ALL- ITALIAN PROGRAM WITH SINGERS ANGELA MEADE, KRISTINE JEPSON, ROBERTO DEBIASIO, AND JAMES MORRIS AND BERLIOZ REQUIEM ON JULY 9 WITH TENOR RUSSELL THOMAS AND THE TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS JOHN STORGAARDS, IN HIS BSO DEBUT, TO LEAD ALL- SIBELIUS PROGRAM FEATURING VIOLINIST NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER, JULY 16 EMMANUEL KRIVINE TO LEAD ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM FEATURING PIANIST JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, JULY 24 HANS GRAF TO LEADS MOZART/MAHLER PROGRAM FEATURING PIANIST LEON FLEISHER, JULY 29 RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS AND STEFAN ASBURY TO JOIN CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH AND JOHN WILLIAMS FOR GALA TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE CONCERT, AUGUST 2 FULL SEASON DETAILS AVAILABLE AT The has announced a new conductor lineup for five of the BSO s 21 concerts to take place during the 2011 Tanglewood season. Charles Dutoit will lead the BSO s July 8 Opening Night Gala Concert an all-italian program with excerpts from Bellini s Norma and Verdi s I lombardi, plus music of Rossini and Respighi and the BSO s July 9 performance of Berlioz s Requiem. Making his BSO debut, Finnish conductor John Storgaards, Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, will lead the July 16 all-sibelius program with featuring Nikolaj Znaider in the composer s Violin Concerto. French conductor Emmanuel Krivine will lead the July 24 all-ravel program featuring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in both the Piano Concerto in G and Concerto for the Left Hand 24. Hans Graf, Music Director of the Houston Symphony, will conduct Mahler s Symphony No. 5 on a program with Mozart s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414, with soloist Leon Fleisher, on July 29. In addition, the

2 esteemed Spanish conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos who was already scheduled at Tanglewood to conduct the BSO on August 5 and 12, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra on August 14 and TMC faculty conductor Stefan Asbury will now take the podium for the gala Tanglewood on Parade concert on the evening of August 2, joining the originally scheduled conductors Christoph Eschenbach and John Williams. These programs were originally to be led by James Levine, who on May 6 announced his withdrawal from all of his scheduled Tanglewood appearances on the advice of his doctors. The 2011 Tanglewood season offers a kaleidoscopic array of many of the world s great musicians performing an impressive range of music from classical to jazz, pop, and rock, with performances virtually each and every day of the summer, June 28-September 4, at the Boston Symphony Orchestra s acclaimed summer home located in the beautiful Berkshire Hills, between Lenox and Stockbridge, MA. Full season details about the 2011 Tanglewood season, including downloadable photos and video, program listings, and artist photos and biographies click here: WEEK 1 (JULY 8 14) CHARLES DUTOIT TO LEAD BSO S OPENING NIGHT ALL- ITALIAN PROGRAM ON JULY 8 AND BERLIOZ S REQUIEM ON July 9 For the opening concert of the s 2011 Tanglewood season on Friday, July 9, Charles Dutoit will lead the, soprano Angela Meade, mezzosoprano Kristine Jepson, tenor Roberto DeBiasio, bass-baritone James Morris, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a gala concert featuring opera excerpts from Bellini s Norma and Verdi s I lombardi, as well as Rossini s William Tell Overture and Respighi s resplendent Pines of Rome. The previously announced program had included Verdi s Overture to La forza del destino, the overture to Rossini s La Cenerentola (now replaced by the William Tell Overture), and Canzonas for brass by Gabrieli. Maestro Dutoit will also step in to conduct the BSO, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and tenor Russell Thomas in Berlioz s monumental Requiem on Saturday, July 9. WEEK 2 (JULY 15 21) JOHN STORGAARDS LEADS ALL-SIBELIUS PROGRAM FEATURING VIOLINIST NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER, July 16 John Storgaards, in his BSO debut, leads the orchestra Saturday, July 16, and is joined by Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider (making his Tanglewood debut) for an all-sibelius program featuring the soaring Violin Concerto, the gripping Symphony No. 5, the beloved tone poem Finlandia, and Valse triste. WEEK 3 (JULY 22 28) EMMANUEL KRIVINE LEADS ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM FEATURING PIANIST JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, July 24 Emmanuel Krivine conducts an all-ravel program featuring Jean-Yves Thibaudet in both the Piano Concerto in G and the Piano Concerto in D for the left hand, on a program with Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Bolero. Mr. Krivine, who last appeared with the BSO at Symphony Hall in 2006, made his BSO debut at Tanglewood in 2002, when he led a program that included a performance of Ravel s Piano Concerto in G with Mr. Thibaudet as soloist. Mr. Krivine is Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and Principal Conductor of La Chambre Philharmonique.

3 WEEK 4 (JULY 29 AUGUST 4) HANS GRAF LEADS BSO IN MOZART/MAHLER PROGRAM FEATURING PIANIST LEON FLEISHER, July 29 The fourth week of Tanglewood 2011 gets underway on Friday, July 29, with Austrian conductor Hans Graf leading the Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert, featuring longtime Tanglewood presence Leon Fleisher in Mozart s elegant Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414, on a program with Mahler s Symphony No. 5. Serge Koussevitzky, BSO Music Director from 1924 to 1949, played a major role in the founding of Tanglewood, the BSO s summer home since 1937, and the Tanglewood Music Center (founded in 1940), the BSO s prestigious summer music academy for the training of professional musicians. Mr. Graf appears with the orchestra regularly, having last conducted the BSO at Symphony Hall in March He filled in for Maestro Levine at Tanglewood in July 2010, leading a program of music by Richard Strauss, Joh. Strauss II, and Joh. Strauss I. RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS AND STEFAN ASBURY JOIN JOHN WILLIMAS AND CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH FOR TANGLEWOOD ON PARADE CONCERT, August 2 One of the festival s most beloved traditions, Tanglewood on Parade (Tuesday, August 2), provides an opportunity to see and hear all of the festival s orchestras perform in a single extended concert. Besides the previously scheduled conductors Christoph Eschenbach and John Williams, frequent BSO guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Program Coordinator Stefan Asbury will now join the roster of conductors leading this gala concert, which will open with Wagner s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and close with the traditional TOP finale, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. In addition, the program will include Vaughan Williams s Serenade for Music, with 16 former TMC vocalists joining the under Stefan Asbury s direction, as a 90th-birthday tribute to Phyllis Curtin, who celebrates that birthday in December. Ms. Curtin s career in opera on both sides of the Atlantic established her as one of the most prominent and important American singers of her generation. In 1946, while a student at Tanglewood, she sang in the American premiere of Britten s Peter Grimes under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. Also highly regarded as an extraordinary teacher, Ms. Curtin has for decades drawn countless young singers to her master classes at Tanglewood, where she has been a Tanglewood Music Center faculty member since This lively evening features performances by the BSO, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Boston Pops, culminating in a dazzling fireworks display. TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER ORCHESTRA CONCERT, July 25 Please note that the previously scheduled concert performance of Debussy s Pelléas et Mélisande with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and cast of professional singers, which was to have taken place on July 25, will be replaced by a new Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra program. Details will be announced at a later date. H I G H L I G H T S O F TA N G L E W O O D : D E TA I L S AVA I L A B L E AT From an all-italian Opening Night program under the direction of Charles Dutoit on July 8, four appearances by living legend Yo-Yo Ma, a Boston Pops Cole Porter tribute led by Keith Lockhart, and the incredibly popular Film Night with John Williams, to the welcome returns of Itzhak Perlman and Christoph Eschenbach and special appearances by favorite artists Joshua Bell, Stephanie Blythe, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, and Peter Serkin to the closing BSO performance of Beethoven s Ninth Symphony under the direction of Lorin Maazel, Tanglewood 2011 brings classical music lovers and Boston Pops fans a wonderfully wide-ranging selection of artists and repertoire.

4 Tanglewood 2011 also presents some of the best from the worlds of jazz, pop, and rock, including four extraordinary appearances by singer/song writer legend James Taylor and the first Tanglewood performance by Grammy award-winning Train, to the annual Garrison Keillor s A Prairie Home Companion program and the season-ending Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival. From a world premiere performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group, two all-ravel solo piano programs by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a concert version of Handel s Orlando, and a recital by Stephanie Blythe to the debut of the Mark O Connor String Quartet, and mid-season jazz appearances by Brad Mehldau and John Pizzarelli s Radio Deluxe, the Ozawa Hall schedule offers concertgoers a rich variety of performances in the intimate surroundings of this acclaimed concert setting. Nurturing and presenting the best of the future of classical music, Tanglewood 2011 brings the debut of 27 important new artists, a Festival of Contemporary Music program under the esteemed direction of Charles Wuorinen, and a wide variety of orchestral, operatic, and chamber music performances by the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO s worldrenowned music academy for young professional musicians. TICKET INFORMATION IN BRIEF The 2011 Tanglewood music festival, now in its 74th year as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, opens on Tuesday, June 28, with a world premiere performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group, and closes with the annual Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival, September 2-4. For detailed information about the 2011 Tanglewood season, including how to purchase tickets, priced from $9-$115, visit Tickets are available through Tanglewood s website, and through SymphonyCharge at Tanglewood continues to offer free lawn tickets to young people age 17 and under and a 50% discount on lawn tickets to college and graduate students. Tanglewood brochures with complete programs and information on how to order tickets are available by calling For further information, please call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at or visit For Berkshire tourist information and reservations, contact the Berkshire Visitors Bureau at or TANGLEWOOD 2011: NEW CONDUCTORS ANNOUNCED FOR THE FOLLOWING BSO CONCERTS AT TANGLEWOOD, JUNE 23-SEPTEMBER 4 Friday, July 8, 8:30 p.m. Shed Opening Night at Tanglewood Charles Dutoit, conductor Angela Meade, soprano ** Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano Roberto DeBiasio, tenor** James Morris, bass-baritone Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor BELLINI Excerpts from Act 1 of Norma ROSSINI Overture to William Tell VERDI Trio from Act 3 of I lombardi RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

5 Saturday, July 9, 8:30 p.m. Shed Charles Dutoit, conductor Russell Thomas, tenor Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor BERLIOZ Requiem Saturday, July 16, 8:30 p.m. Shed John Storgaards, conductor Nikolaj Znaider, violin ALL-SIBELIUS PROGRAM Finlandia Valse triste Violin Concerto Symphony No. 5 Sunday, July 24, 2:30 p.m. Shed Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano ALL-RAVEL PROGRAM Valses nobles et sentimentales Piano Concerto in G Piano Concerto in D for the left hand Boléro Friday, July 29, 8:30 p.m. Shed The Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert Hans Graf, conductor Leon Fleisher, piano MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K.414 MAHLER Symphony No. 5 Tuesday, August 2, 8:30 p.m. Shed Tanglewood on Parade Boston Pops Orchestra Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, John Williams, and Christoph Eschenbach, conductors Program to include WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Serenade to Music TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet, Overture-fantasy TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture Fireworks to follow the concert PRESS CONTACTS: Bernadette Horgan, Director of Public Relations ( bhorgan@bso.org); Kathleen Drohan, Associate Director of Public Relations ( kdrohan@bso.org);