Tanglewood : A Group Memoir

TANGLEWOOD: A GROUP MEMOIR

The story of Tanglewood ä the summer home of the Boston Symphony since 1935 ä 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.ÞA documentary coffee-table book including letters speeches interviews vintage newspaper articles and a treasure trove of photographs from the BSO''s archvies woven together by a narrative thread and commented on by the author.ÞAmong the dozens of stories included:ÞÛ 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 oratoryÞÛ 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 singersÞÛ Gunther Schuller''s 1979 Tanglewood manifesto is the talk of the music worldÞÛ Oliver Knussen relates how Rostopovich told the Shed audience of the death of Shostakovich after conducting the composer''s Fifth SymphonyÞÛ 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 pocketÞÛ The transformation of Tanglewood under the orchestra''s new Music Director James Levine