The Lenox Library is pleased to welcome back Dr. Jeremy Yudkin for another season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoons in Roche Reading Park. Some chairs will be provided on a first come, first served basis; we encourage you to bring a folding chair or blanket as backup.
The schedule for the Tanglewood 2021 Pre-Concert Talks is as follows:
Saturday, July 10
“Beethoven’s Best, with The Great Romantics” (Sibelius and Dvořák)
Saturday, July 17
“The Classical Heritage” (Mozart, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, and Brahms)
Saturday, July 24
“Folklore and Romanticism” (Copland, Stravinsky, Beethoven 3 and Schumann 4)
Saturday, July 31
“Music and Musical Titles” (Haydn, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, and Stravinsky)
Saturday, August 7
“At the Height of Their Powers” (Beethoven and Tchaikovsky)
Saturday, August 14
“The Turn of the Century” (Ravel, Elgar, and Brahms)
Once again, the pre-concert talks are FREE thanks to 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.