Tanglewood, one of the country’s premier music festivals and summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, located in the Berkshire Hills of Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, celebrated its 85th season.

The 85th season offered audiences a wide range of programs and events that spotlighted favorite guest artists and repertoire, while introducing dynamic new performers, conductors, and composers, with 48 artists in their Tanglewood or BSO debuts, and works by 28 living composers, including world premieres and five BSO commissions.

SHED HIGHLIGHTS

Andris Nelsons conducted the Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Music Centerorchestras in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Orff’s Carmina burana, Mahler 4, Prokofiev 5, and works of  Iman Habibi, Wynton Marsalis, Jessie Montgomery, Carlos Simon, and John Williams; Nelsons welcomed soloists Nicole Cabell, Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Kate Lindsey, Yo-Yo Ma, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Daniil Trifonov.

Keith Lockhart lead five Boston Pops programs, including a new symphonic version of Ragtime, a concert film presentation of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™ in Concert, Star Wars: The Story in Music, a showcase for music from the movie franchise; John Williams and David Newman conducted John Williams’ Film Night .

James Taylor and his All-Star Band presented performances on July 3 and 4, as part of the festival’s Popular Artist Series; additional Popular Artist performers include Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, the Steve Miller Band, and Train, plus Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!

Xian Zhang and Kazuki Yamada made their conducting debuts; Giancarlo Guerrero and Dima Slobodeniouk made welcome returns; Youth and Family Concerts Conductor Thomas Wilkins lead a Family Program and a BSO concert; and Anna Rakitina returned for her final concert as BSO Assistant Conductor

Additional details available at tanglewood.org