The Big Idea
JULY 24 Saturday
Bill T. Jones, speaker
4pm | Koussevitzky Music Shed
Bill T. Jones (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, and Associate Artist for the 2020 Holland Festival. Mr. Jones has received major honors including the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award, 2013 National Medal of Arts to a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010.
Photo: Christina Lane
TLI Full Tilt
AUGUST 6 Friday
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
8pm | Koussevitzky Music Shed
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.
TLI-TMC OpenStudio
Master classes with expert teachers challenge, influence, and inspire TMC Fellows—the next generation of center-stage artists.
JULY 15 Thursday
Music Director Andris Nelsons
Conducting Masterclass with Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
8pm | Koussevitzky Music Shed
Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With these positions, Grammy Award-winning Nelsons is one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the scene today.
AUGUST 5 Thursday
Yo-Yo Ma
Cello Masterclass with Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
8pm | Koussevitzky Music Shed
Yo-Yo Ma’s multifaceted career is a testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works from the cello repertoire, collaborating with communities or institutions to explore culture’s role in society, he strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity.
AUGUST 12 Thursday
Leonidas Kavakos
Violin Masterclass with Tanglewood Music Center Fellows
8pm | Koussevitzky Music Shed
Leonidas Kavakos is recognized as a violinist and artist of rare quality, known for his virtuosity, superb musicianship and the integrity of his playing. Kavakos was awarded Gramophone Artist of the Year 2014, and is the 2017 winner of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark's highest and most prestigious musical honor.
TLI ShopTalks
JULY 10–AUGUST 14 Saturdays
5pm | BSO NOW streaming platform
Extend your Saturday night BSO concert experience through these candid conversations with conductors, soloists, and composers. Online only, available with concert livestream and video on demand. Hosted by TLI Director Sue Elliott.
Safe In Sound
In order to ensure the health and safety of everyone at Tanglewood, we need your help. Please review the new policies and procedures that will be part of you experience and so that we can warmly welcome everyone back to the grounds this summer.
Learn more about the health and safety framework for Tanglewood 2021
TLI is supported in part by a generous grant from the American Orchestras’
Futures Fund, a program of the League of American Orchestras made possible
by funding from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
TLI programming is presented with support from the following endowed funds:
Lois and Harlan Anderson Family Fund for Tanglewood, Judith and Stewart Colton Fund, Frelinghuysen Foundation Fund,
Rabbi Elyse Frishman and Rabbi Daniel Freelander Fund, Linde Family Fund for Tanglewood, Carol And Irv Smokler Fund
Annual support for TLI programming has been generously provided by:
Will G. Makris and Doug Reed, Ann M. Philbin, Carol and Irv Smokler, Antoine and Emily van Agtmael,
Robert W. Werner and Suzanne H. Werner, Harvey Young