Tanglewood Talks 2026 with Jeremy Yudkin

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Sum......More

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani.Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao.Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich.Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky.Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart.Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven.The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell.Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I.Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II.Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance.Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16. Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Terry A La Berry and Friends

Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joi......More

Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joining us for an outdoor event, children under 10 years old who enter the Library building must have their caregiver with them. The 2026 engagement of Terry A La Berry and Friends is generously sponsored by the Nancy F. Brown Memorial Fund.

Baby Circle

Lenox Library is excited to offer a low key and judgement-free group for all families. Join us for songs and bounces followed by play and chatting. Free baby weight checks available. Babies up to 15 months (actual or developmentally) and older siblings are welcome. The ......More

Lenox Library is excited to offer a low key and judgement-free group for all families. Join us for songs and bounces followed by play and chatting. Free baby weight checks available. Babies up to 15 months (actual or developmentally) and older siblings are welcome. The first Wednesday of the month will feature a craft for you to keep! April Pitroff Varellas, IBCLC, PMH-C from Berkshire Nursing Families will join us every third Wednesday of the month to answer your baby feeding questions. Group Leaders: Sara Jarvie is an early childhood development specialist. Stephanie Storie is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

Kids Graphic Novel Club

Join Lenox Library for an exciting club for kids in grades 3 – 6. Come talk about your favorite graphic novels and create your own! Meets once a month. Children under age 10 must have a caregiver with them.

Story Time

Join Youth Librarian Vanessa Justice for a fun story time each week! We will sing songs, read books, and follow up with an open play time. For children ages 15 months and up and their siblings. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home......More

Join Youth Librarian Vanessa Justice for a fun story time each week! We will sing songs, read books, and follow up with an open play time. For children ages 15 months and up and their siblings. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

BUTI Presents Midsummer Music

The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) invites you to a free community concert at Lenox Library on August 13, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. Experience outstanding performances by gifted young musicians as they share their passion for music with the Berkshire community. O......More

The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) invites you to a free community concert at Lenox Library on August 13, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. Experience outstanding performances by gifted young musicians as they share their passion for music with the Berkshire community. Open to all ages. This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. We hope to see you there!

Roche Reading Park, 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Tanglewood Talks 2026 with Jeremy Yudkin

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Sum......More

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani.Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao.Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich.Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky.Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart.Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven.The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell.Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I.Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II.Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance.Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16. Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Teeny Tiny Book Club

A club for teens ages 13-17 who will read short stories, novellas, poems, and other short writings. Participants will meet three times during the summer to talk about books and stories as a group. Meetings will happen outside in Roche Reading Park snacks will be provide......More

A club for teens ages 13-17 who will read short stories, novellas, poems, and other short writings. Participants will meet three times during the summer to talk about books and stories as a group. Meetings will happen outside in Roche Reading Park snacks will be provided. Teens may choose selections from a list of suggested materials or pick their own. They may also use these for writing reviews for the Teen Grand Prizes. Visit the youth desk at the Library to learn more. Fridays, July 10 & 24, and August 14, 2026: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Tanglewood Talks 2026 with Jeremy Yudkin

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Sum......More

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin is back with the 43rd season of Tanglewood pre-concert talks.  These programs will take place in the Town Hall auditorium, located at 6 Walker Street, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Summer 2026 schedule will be as follows: JULY Sunday, July 5. Portraits of Lincoln. Celebrating American and Abraham Lincoln with Aaron Copland, Philip Glass (world premiere!), and John Williams. Friday, July 10. Tchaikovsky. His towering Piano Concerto No. 1 and excerpts from the immortal Swan Lake. Sunday, July 12. Chopin, Brahms, and Jani.Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Second Symphony, and “What do flowers do at night?” Friday, July 17. Renée Fleming/Hampson/Wakao.Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Carlos Simon’s Meditations on Grace, and excerpts from John Adams’s Nixon in China. Sunday, July 19. Hayden, Beethoven, Shostakovich.Haydn’s brilliant Symphony No. 22, Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Friday, July 24. Mozart and Tchaikovsky.Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Tchaikovsky’s experimental Third Symphony (“Polish”). Sunday, July 26. Tchaikovsky and Mozart.Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Salonen’s Gambit, and Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Symphony No. 5. Friday, July 31.Wagner, Sibelius, and Beethoven.The Tristan Prelude, Sibelius’s magnificent Seventh, and Beethoven’s masterful “Emperor” Concerto. AUGUST Sunday, August 2. Nelsons/Joshua Bell.Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris, and Schumann’s Third Symphony. Friday, August 7. Yo-Yo I.Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine Brahms, String Sextet, Op. 36, and his Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Orchestra. Sunday, August 9. Yo-Yo II.Tavener, Mahámátar, Kalhor, Venus in the Mirror, and Golijob, Azul. Friday, August 14. Music and Dance.Dance for Martha Graham, Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Sunday, August 16. Bruch, Violin Concerto, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, which moves from fatalism to triumph. (Beethoven’s Fifth, anyone?) Friday, August 21. No lecture. Sunday, August 23. Beethoven’s Ninth! Photo by Ben Garver About the speaker: Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He has served as Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford, Harvard, and the Sorbonne.  He is the author of ten books, including From Silence to Sound: Beethoven’s Beginnings (2020) and Understanding Music (Prentice Hall, 1996, 2016), and edited the recently-published 550-page volume The New Beethoven.  He also researched and published the first-ever book on the Lenox School of Jazz (2006).  He has given hundreds of lectures across Europe, the United States, and Russia and has won numerous awards, including an Award for Excellence in Historical Research for his book on Miles Davis (2008).  At Boston University, where he teaches courses on Beethoven, Bartók, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles – among many others – he has been nominated ten times for Metcalf Awards in Teaching and once as Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The pre-concert talks are free thanks to the Lenox Library Association’s Goodwin Fund.

Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240, United States

Terry A La Berry and Friends

Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joi......More

Musical performers Terry A La Berry and Friends are back for their 18th season! Fun interactive music for our littlest friends. Come join in the fun! This event is held outdoors in Roche Reading Park next to the Library. Please bring a blanket or folding chair. When joining us for an outdoor event, children under 10 years old who enter the Library building must have their caregiver with them. The 2026 engagement of Terry A La Berry and Friends is generously sponsored by the Nancy F. Brown Memorial Fund.

Baby Circle

Lenox Library is excited to offer a low key and judgement-free group for all families. Join us for songs and bounces followed by play and chatting. Free baby weight checks available. Babies up to 15 months (actual or developmentally) and older siblings are welcome. The ......More

Lenox Library is excited to offer a low key and judgement-free group for all families. Join us for songs and bounces followed by play and chatting. Free baby weight checks available. Babies up to 15 months (actual or developmentally) and older siblings are welcome. The first Wednesday of the month will feature a craft for you to keep! April Pitroff Varellas, IBCLC, PMH-C from Berkshire Nursing Families will join us every third Wednesday of the month to answer your baby feeding questions. Group Leaders: Sara Jarvie is an early childhood development specialist. Stephanie Storie is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula. Please note: If you or your child has any signs of illness, please stay home. We look forward to seeing you the following week! During the summer months, this event takes place outside in Roche Reading Park.

Junior Librarian Event: Pencil Wands

Make back to school magical! Join us for a morning of crafting as we prepare for the new school year. Use pencils, crafts supplies, and some fairy magic to make your own pencil wand! For students of all ages, while supplies last. Hosted by our Junior Librarians!

Junior Librarian Event: Character Creation

Join Lenox Library and our Junior Librarians for an afternoon of art and fun! Illustrate characters inspired by a spooky summer story written by us. Use art supplies to draw or build your own monster! For all ages.