On July 3 of next year, Maestro James Levine of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be opening the Tanglewood Festival with a program made entirely of Tchaikovsky works: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique, and the Piano Concerto No. 1. Pianist Yefim Bronfman will be featured during this opening performance. Levine and the BSO will be bringing Mahler and Brahms pieces performed this fall back for an encore during the summer season. He will also be working with the students of the Tanglewood Music Center, who will perform Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act III along with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Other highlights of next year's festival include "James Taylor and Friends," an extra week added to the Tanglewood season for master classes, workshops and concerts by James Taylor and select musicians. This segment will end with a Taylor-BSO collaboration concert featuring John Williams conducting.  Read more »