Erich Barganier – Leila Adu

Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music

One of the world’s most beloved music festivals, Tanglewood is the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its training academy, the Tanglewood Music Center, as well as the Boston Pops.

The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood

July 25, 2024, 8 PM
Seiji Ozawa Hall
Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

Leila ADU-GILMORE United Underdog
Miya MASAOKA Praying for a Sign
Trevor WESTON A.N.S.
Valerie COLEMAN Portraits of Josephine
Nathalie JOACHIM The Race 1915
Tania LEÓN Indigena
Steven MACKEY Afterlife

Featured on NPR and NBC, Leila Adu-Gilmore wrote about how she composed United Underdog amid the pandemic and the racial upheaval of the last several years. “I was moved to honor those people who work hard and struggle daily — together yet apart — for the common good of all of us,” she said on her website.

Nathalie Joachim’s The Race 1915, a piece for solo cello and electronics, echos the themes in United Underdog and was inspired by the works of 20th century African American artist Jacob Lawrence, who was known for his raw, challenging works.

The TMC Festival of Contemporary Music seeks to showcase up-and-coming, path-finding, and groundbreaking new composers whose works we believe will define the next evolution of classical music. Leila’s piece is peformed with music by Pulitzer-prize winning Cuban composer Tania León, fellow American Arts & Letters Awardees Trevor Weston and her Princeton PhD composition mentor-friend Steve Mackey.

Leila with Rev. Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir in the The Neil Young Archives. Photo Credit: John Quilty

Leila joins Rev. Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir on stadium tour of the USA. In “Neil-alujah! Rev. Billy and choir to tour with iconic rocker Young,” The Village Sun writes:

Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are the opening act for Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Love Earth Tour. With 18 shows across the U.S., the tour kicks off Wed., April 24, in San Diego, then makes its way east, with a stop at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens on Tues., May 14, before concluding back in Chicago on May 23.

The radical East Village environmental / social-justice activists already have a long-standing relationship with the iconic rocker, who live-streams their free, secular Sunday performances from their Earthchxrch on his channel. They also opened for the Monsanto Years tour by Young and the band Promise of the Real nine years ago…

Typical for Neil Young tours, the Love Earth Tour shows will be at amphitheaters in the 6,000-to-30,000-seat range. Young and his wife, the actress Daryl Hannah, at whose wedding in 2018 Reverend Billy preached, have focused on environmental and health issues for many years. The Bridge School [for children with severe physical impairments and communication challenges] and Farm Aid are two of their best-known efforts…. This winter, the artist and activist collective turned their Earthchxrch, at 36 Avenue C, into a warming center and ad hoc English school for newly arrived migrants, mostly from West Africa.

TOUR DATES

Wed Apr 24 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre

Thu Apr 25 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre

Sat Apr 27 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Wed May 01 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater

Thu May 02 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion

Sun May 05 – Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater

Tue May 07 – Atlanta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

Wed May 08 – Franklin, TN – FirstBank Amphitheater

Sat May 11 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live

Sun May 12 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion

Tue May 14 – Queens, NY – Forest Hills Stadium

Fri May 17 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Sat May 18 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater

Mon May 20 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage

Wed May 22 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre

Thu May 23 – Chicago, IL – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island

Moonstone & Tar Sands //
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