The Lenox Library is pleased to welcome back Dr. Jeremy Yudkin for the 40th anniversary season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks. These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Today’s program, “Elegance and Decadence,” will explore Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and the spectacular, over-the-top Carmina Burana of Carl Orff, based on bawdy medieval ballads.
Once again, the pre-concert talks are FREE thanks to the Library, a department of the Town of Lenox, and the Lenox Library Association.
Dr. Jeremy Yudkin
About our speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University. He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne. He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven. He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006). He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008). At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year.