Seth MacFarlane is one of many performing at Tanglewood next summer
Yes, the Family Guy.
Summer feels like a lifetime away, but the Boston Symphony Orchestra is here with a little bit of solace: a taste of its 2016 Tanglewood lineup.
The BSO and Boston Pops announced some guests scheduled to join the orchestras at the summertime music watering hole out in the Berkshires. In previous years, Tanglewood has hosted Sheryl Crow, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, James Taylor, and Idina Menzel.
A few highlights from the 2016 lineup: Pops conductor Keith Lockhart will team up with comedian/noted impressionist Seth MacFarlane — yes, the guy from Ted and Family Guy — on July 10. They’ll perform classic favorites from the Great American Songbook. On August 26, the Pops with perform John Williams’s score from Raiders of the Lost Ark, also led by Lockhart.
Andris Nelsons, who’s in his second season as director of the BSO, is conducting five different programs at Tanglewood, including Mahlar’s “Ninth Symphony’’ on July 29, Beethoven’s “Seventh Symphony’’ on July 30, the first two acts of Verdi’s “Aiga’’ with Nelsons’s wife Kristine Opolais in the title role on August 20, and selections from Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet on August 20.
Yo-Yo Ma is slated to perform with the Silk Road Ensemble on August 7 and then again with the BSO on August 27. Tanglewood on Parade is back August 2 for a full day of family activities, performances, and more. The super popular John Williams’ Film Night also returns on August 13.
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor will open the 2016 season on June 25. NPR’s popular news quiz show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! will be one of the final performances of the season on September 1.
More guests will be announced soon. Tickets go on sale January 24 at tanglewood.org.
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