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Thomas Wilkins conducts BSO Family Concert and Tanglewood’s annual Berkshire Day performance this weekend

By Sarah LaDuke

Published July 21, 2023 at 11:45 AM EDT

Thomas Wilkins

Thomas Wilkins is Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Boston Symphony’s Artistic Advisor, Education and Community Engagement, and holds Indiana University’s Henry A. Upper Chair of Orchestral Conducting. He completed his long and successful tenure as Music Director of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra at the close of the 2020/2021 season.

These weekend he will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in two programs at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA. On Saturday at 10:30am Wilkins leads the BSO Family Concert: May I Have Your Attention Please which will feature Rossini, Hayden, Jesse Montgomery, and more.

Sunday, Thomas Wilkins will raise his baton again to conduct a concert featuring Coleridge-Taylor, Ellington, and Jeff Midkiff soloing with the symphony on his Mandolin Concerto, “From the Blue Ridge.”

Sunday’s 2 p.m. concert is designated as the annual Berkshire Day performance - residents of Berkshire County may attend for free.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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