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Crossing Open Ground: Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Aug 13 2026
17:00
Boston University Tanglewood Institute Campus
Lenox, USA
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ABOUT THIS EVENT

In partnership with Boston University Tanglewood Institute, BSO presents environmentalist composer John Luther Adams’ Crossing Open Ground, an outdoor work for winds, brass, and percussion. Led by conductor Christopher Rountree and director Dimitri Chamblas and featuring 40 BUTI musicians, the piece offers an opportunity to rediscover and reconsecrate our sense of place. Throughout the performance, each performer and listener is free to follow their own individual path through the physical and musical landscape. The New Yorker called Adams “one of the most original music thinkers of the new century.” With Crossing Open Ground, he invites us to listen to the older, deeper natural world beneath our feet.



THE VENUE

Boston University Tanglewood Institute Campus
45 West Street
Lenox, 01240
USA


Phone: (617) 353-3386
Website: https://www.bso.org/venues/boston-university-tanglewood-institute-campus


His music perfectly echoes the landscape he loves: impersonal, relentless, larger than human scale, yet gorgeous, a quiet chaos of colors, suffused with light. It’s not a climate everyone could live in. But for those who want to bathe their ears in an aural aurora borealis while staying warm inside, it’s a spiritual odyssey well worth taking. - Kyle Gann
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