The Big Idea
JULY 24 Saturday
Bill T. Jones presents A Loneliness: Alone as a State of Being
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 celebrates the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, a prestigious dance-theatre company he founded with his late partner, Arnie Zane. Upon this occasion, Mr. Jones will give a keynote lecture reflecting on the work it takes to keep an arts institution alive for four decades; the fortitude needed to endure our changing and demanding world; and how his own assumptions about what it means to be an artist -- a movement artist, a Black artist, and a thinking artist -- have been challenged and adapted over the course of his illustrious career.
The distinguished Mr. Jones has been recognized with major honors including the Human Rights Campaign’s 2016 Visibility Award and the 2013 National Medal of Arts. He is also a Kennedy Center Honoree (2010) and the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Award (1994).
Photo: Christina Lane
The Big Idea is supported by Marillyn Tufte Zacharis
TLI Full Tilt
AUGUST 6 Friday
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with very special guest Branford Marsalis
8pm | Koussevitzky Music Shed
Performing Freedom Suite by Sonny Rollins and works by John Coltrane.
TLI-TMC OpenStudio
Master classes with expert teachers challenge, influence, and inspire TMC Fellows—the next generation of center-stage artists.
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.
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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, Marillyn Tufte Zacharis