Tanglewood: A Place To Make Music (1985)

In 1985, BBC-TV, in association with the American cable channel Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E), produced two documentaries about Tanglewood, the music venue in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts that serves as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. They feature interviews with renowned composers and conductors Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Silverstein, and Leonard Slatkin. “So You Want To Be A Conductor?” and “A Place To Make Music” focus on the annual summer academy attended by emerging professional musicians, and chronicle Tanglewood’s origins and development. Written and directed by British composer and documentarian Herbert Chappell.

[@apocalipsereich6997]

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[@robkeeleycomposer]

I was fortunate to be in attendance in 1988, the year of Lenny Bernstein’s 70th. Nice to see the wonderful Phyllis Curtin and the lovely Naneen Boyce and dear Richard Ortner, although he’d shaved the beard three years after this! I know that Seranak piano so well. Such happy memories. But the humidity…and the skunks!!!

[@robkeeleycomposer]

A serious omission: where are the young composing fellows?

[@neil7137]

31:14 who did Previn mentioned when he said "[...] especially when coached by somebody with the understanding of ...?"

[@stefanufer608]

Joe Silverstein - then concertmaster of the Boston Symphony

[@neil7137]

@@stefanufer608 thank you for the info!

[@user-rn1lb8sx2c]

43:57 trumet

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And 44:30