Seiji Ozawa News

Musicians, composers, conductors and alumni will toast the 40th anniversary of the Tanglewood Chorus, the organization's all-volunteer, 300-member choir.

Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji Ozawa, the jazz fest and two James Taylor/Carole King shows that will sell out so fast it will warp the space/time ...

Winter hasn't even arrived but the Boston Symphony Orchestra is already planning for summer.

THERE'S NO underestimating what James Levine has meant for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The year 1979 is important in the history of classical music in China. Before Isaac Stern's trip, Seiji Ozawa visited Beijing in March with the Boston Symphony and returned to collaborate with the Central Symphony Orchestra in December.

Tanglewood's Jazz Festival, which garnishes Labor-Day weekend each year, has earned space in the pantheon of this most American music.

Those elaborate, fancy picnics that music lovers often enjoy on the lawn at Tanglewood - spreading out a blanket and setting out fancy linens, bouquets of flowers, crystal wine glasses and other accoutrements - aren't just for symphony concerts.

At the close of his Thursday night show at Tanglewood, singer James Taylor paused to deliver a heartfelt remembrance of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

SOURCE: Dawn Singh Publicity September 4 - September 6, 2009 The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 4-September 6, 2009 at the Orchestra's summer home in the Berkshire Hills in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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