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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2013 15:27:35 GMT -5
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Post by dave on Aug 31, 2013 15:41:58 GMT -5
And you can stop at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Pops. Harry Connick Jr. performing there this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2013 16:36:22 GMT -5
And you can stop at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Pops. Harry Connick Jr. performing there this weekend. I really enjoy his music. I will have to run over. Now if I can find my Happy Potter broom off I go!!!!!!! |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 31, 2013 19:29:21 GMT -5
I love Tanglewood. Been there many times for pops concerts with bus groups. The last time I was there was when my niece graduated from Albany Law School and they held the commencement there. It is a beautiful place for concerts, but the orchestra sounds much better when they play in Symphony Hall in Boston. Their sound during holiday concerts at Symphony Hall sends chills up a person's spine.
I have a tape of one of the Christmas concerts conducted by Arthur Feidler. Although we do still have a cassette deck with our stereo component system, I would love to have it put on CD. We have a 30 disc changer for CD's and during the Christmas season, we turn it on in the morning, load all the holiday CDs
and often listen to it on low volume all day. We have speakers throughout the house. Puts us right in the spirit.
I am sure you will find ample parking for your Harry Potter conveyance in downtown Lenox Alan, lol. As for the Rabbi's and the shakespeare company, I guess I am not cultured enough to truly appreciate that sort of thing. I managed to get through what Shakespeare I was forced to read in high school and college, but really have no taste for it. I have to envy those with that can read it and truly enjoy it, or watch it played out on stage and understand what is being said, lol.
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Post by dave on Aug 31, 2013 21:28:23 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but it seems to me I read that not all of the crowd of Pops musicians make it out to Lenox each summer and you don't hear all the regular pros at Tanglewood as you would in Boston. I've never heard the formal symphony on Sunday, just the rehearsal on Saturday. More fun ( you can get up and run around within reason, getting closer to the orchestra section you want to hear, take a break with a picnic out on the lawn, etc.) and of course it's much cheaper. The grounds are beautiful, although for a concert SPAC in Saratoga is laid out better, but too small. I've heard James Taylor at SPAC, but never at Tanglewood. And although we would often drive over to the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge for lunch, I am really sorry to say I missed JT with Yo Yo Ma on the Inn's front porch on the summer day this was recorded. And I just happened across the following. The occasion was a 2011 Tribute to Yo Yo at the Kennedy Center and I believe this was Yo Yo's arrangement that he had previously recorded with James Taylor (with whom he has been friends since Yo Yo was a student of James' father in North Carolina.) In the video you see the audience recognize the "Sun, Sun, Sun" refrain and turn toward Yo Yo as he sits with the Obamas. The President mostly looks either bored or serious. Probably thinking about a new wrinkle with Obamacare.  |
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