Once again Jeremy Yudkin, Chair and Professor of Musicology at Boston University, will be doing Pre-Concert lectures at the Lenox Library. All lectures take place in the Lenox Library, Fridays and Saturdays 2:30-4 pm. $40 per weekend, $25 per day. The Library is located on Main Street a short walk from Brook Farm Inn, our Lenox MA bed and breakfast.
For reservations, email YudkinJaf@gmail.com.
Here is the schedule:
Weekend 1 (Opening Weekend)
Friday, July 8 The Berlioz Requiem. 400 People!
4 Offstage Brass Ensembles! Magnifique!
Saturday, July 9 Joshua Bell Sings a Violin Fantasy;
Tchaikovsky Weeps (the Sixth Symphony)
Weekend 2
Friday, July 15 Dvorak’s Greatest Work (The Cello
Concerto) and Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony
Saturday, July 16 A True Original: Sibelius, the
“Granite Man” of Finland with a Tender Soul
Weekend 3
Friday, July 22 On One Program: The Two Greatest
Masterpieces of Beethoven and Brahms
Saturday, July 23 Who WAS Ravel? The Composer of
Boléro or a Jazz Pianist?
Weekend 4
Friday, July 29 “A Transforming Experience”: Mahler’s
Fifth Symphony is HUGE!
Saturday, July 30 A Case of Daylight Robbery: Brahms’s
Fourth Symphony
Weekend 5
Friday, August 5 Classic Restraint, Romantic Angst:
Beethoven vs. Rachmaninoff and Strauss
Saturday, August 6 Mendelssohn’s Exquisite Violin
Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Mysterious Second Symphony (“Never Gonna Fall In Love Again”)
Weekend 6
Friday, August 12 “The Spanish Flair”: Carmen,
Rodrigo (both Classical and Jazz), Falla, and Granados
Saturday, August 13 Yo Yo Ma Channels Schumann,
and Brahms Escapes from Beethoven (Finally)
Weekend 7
Friday, August 19 The Real Story behind Beethoven’s
Eroica Symphony
Saturday, August 20 What Is It Exactly that Makes
Mozart Unique?
Weekend 8
Friday, August 26 “The Great American Opera” –
Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
Saturday, August 27 All Beethoven, All the Time: His
Symphonies 1, 5, and 9
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