Tanglewood: A Group Memoir (Amadeus)

About this book

The story of Tanglewood the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1935 as told in first-person accounts by such Tanglewood luminaries as Leonard Bernstein Serge Koussevitzky Aaron Copland Erich Leinsdorf Phyllis Curtin Seiji Ozawa Yo-Yo Ma Dawn Upshaw John Harbison James Levine and many of the leading musicians critics and music professionals who consider Tanglewood a second home. A documentary coffee-table book including letters speeches interviews vintage newspaper articles and a treasure trove of photographs from the BSOs archvies woven together by a narrative thread and commented on by the author. Among the dozens of stories included: Student Lenny Bernstein writes the folks back home about Koussie and the Boiks; ten years later conductor Leonard Bernstein inspires the students with his own brand of oratory Boris Goldovsky reminisces about the glory days of the Tanglewood Opera Department where he discovered Leontyne Price Sherrill Milnes and an amazing number of soon-to-become-famous young American singers Gunther Schullers 1979 Tanglewood manifesto is the talk of the music world Oliver Knussen relates how Rostopovich told the Shed audience of the death of Shostakovich after conducting the composers Fifth Symphony Seiji Ozawa remembers his student trip to Tanglewood on a Bonanza bus with only a few phrases of English at his command and very few dollars in his pocket The transformation of Tanglewood under the orchestras new Music Director James Levine