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Conductor Ian Niederhoffer says “Music has the unique power to transport its audiences to a time that no longer exists.”

Thomas Wilkins will lead The Boston Symphony Orchestra in two programs at Tanglewood this weekend: Saturday’s “BSO Family Concert: May I Have Your Attention Please” at 10:30 a.m., and Sunday’s Berkshire Day concert at 2 p.m., featuring music by Coleridge-Taylor, Ellington, and mandolinist Jeff Midkiff. The concert on Sunday is Tanglewood’s annual Berkshire Day performance - residents of Berkshire County may attend for free.

Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is widely considered as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today. He'll be busy at Tanglewood this season conducting seven concerts in July and five in August.

New York Youth Symphony Conductor Michael Repper tells us about growing as a musician, his youth, and David Benoit.

On Saturday, November 5, The Hudson Valley Philharmonic, with guest Conductor Christine Howlett, will perform Richard Einhorn’s “VOICES OF LIGHT” at The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, New York. Einhorn’s 1994 composition accompanies a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent film classic “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”

Renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, whose rich association with The Boston Symphony Orchestra dates back to his time as a TMC Fellow (1968-69). He will be joined by the remarkable young Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev in his BSO and Tanglewood debut for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on Saturday, August 27 at Tanglewood’s Shed.Then, Thomas will lead the BSO in Tanglewood’s traditional season-ending performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s intensely expressive, innovative, but ultimately uplifting Symphony No. 9 on Sunday afternoon at Tanglewood at 2:30 p.m.Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra, and Co-Founder and Artistic Director Laureate of the New World Symphony. Born in Los Angeles, he is the third generation of his family to pursue an artistic career.

Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. The Grammy Award-winning Nelsons is one of the…

Since his Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, Trumpeter and Conductor Byron Stripling has become a Pops orchestra favorite,…

Having celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as Boston Pops Conductor this year, Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston…

Over the past five decades, John Mauceri has conducted symphonies, operas, ballets, musicals, and film music around the world, and served as music…