Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett to Perform At Tanglewood Next Summer
A celebration of Sir Neville Marriner’s 90th birthday and the pairing of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are among the highlights of the 2015 season at the Tanglewood Music Center, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops.
2015 is the inaugural Tanglewood season for BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, and it marks the 75th anniversary of the BSO’s summer academy, the Tanglewood Music Center program. More than 30 newly comissioned works from a range of composers—including André Previn, Robert Zuidam, and Detlev Glanert—will be performed.
Tanglewood’s 2015 Popular Artist Series will feature Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Huey Lewis and the News, and a still-unnannounced special guest for Tanglewood’s Independence Day celebration. Bennett performed at Tanglewood in August; on June 30, 2015, he and Lady Gaga will perform songs from their recent collaboration “Cheek to Cheek.’’
British conductor Sir Neville Marriner will celebrate his 90th birthday by leading the BSO through two Mozart symphonies on July 19. He’ll be joined by pianist Paul Lewis, a fellow Brit.
Other highlights of the season include six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and the Mark Morris Dance Group, regulars of the Celebrity Series of Boston.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is one of Tanglewood’s inaugural Koussevitzky Artists. Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax will recieve the title, named after Tanglewood founder and former BSO director Serge Koussevitzky, in honor of their performances with and educational contributions to the 2015 Tanglewood season, as well as their longtime work with the BSO. On Aug. 9, they will perform the complete Beethoven cello sonatas.
On Aug. 13, Ma and other cellists will perform “A Distant Mirror,’’ which will focus on music and literature from the 16th and 17th centuries; Ax and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will perform a Tanglewood-commissioned concerto by Zuidam on July 20.
The season runs from June 20 through Labor Day weekend. The headliner for the final concert of the season, scheduled for Aug. 23, has not yet been announced.
Tickets for Tanglewood’s 2015 season go on sale Jan. 25, 2015, at 10 a.m. Full details are at the Tanglewood website.
Here is a clip of “Anything Goes’’ by Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga:
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