{"id":95088,"date":"2020-06-16T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=95088"},"modified":"2023-01-18T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:24:13","slug":"symphonic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/articles\/2020\/symphonic-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphonic Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin magazine-block-editorial-leadin is-style-text-over-image has-media has-box has-media-focus-right-middle has-text-position-x-left has-primary-theme\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"1452\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2020\/08\/Symphonic-Dreams-1.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2020\/08\/Symphonic-Dreams-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2020\/08\/Symphonic-Dreams-1-526x636.jpg 526w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2020\/08\/Symphonic-Dreams-1-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2020\/08\/Symphonic-Dreams-1-768x929.jpg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2020\/08\/Symphonic-Dreams-1-826x1000.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">CFA Alumni<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/tanglewood-symphonic-dreams\">Symphonic Dreams<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">From Boston University Tanglewood Institute to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. How a BU program prepares the next generation of musical talent.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar magazine-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">June 16, 2020<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/magazine\/authors\/joel-brown\/\">Joel Brown<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph magazine-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-dropcap-dimensional has-dropcap has-dropcap-color-primary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>They remember different things from their time at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/tanglewood\/\">Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI)<\/a>: Leonard Bernstein dropping by to conduct a Young Artists Orchestra rehearsal, or the chipmunk that interrupted another one. But for many musicians in today\u2019s top orchestras, BUTI was where their dreams began to turn into reality, and its lessons can be heard in the finest concert venues in the country.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, hundreds of promising high school musicians have come from all over the world to learn and play at BUTI\u2019s Lenox, Mass., campus, a historic estate just up the road from the Boston Symphony Orchestra\u2019s famed summer home, Tanglewood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThroughout my musical life, Tanglewood has been the through line,\u201d says BSO percussionist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/profile\/kyle-brightwell\/\">Kyle Brightwell (BUTI\u201904,\u201905,\u201906, CFA\u201912)<\/a>, also a lecturer at the School of Music. \u201cWhen I was a kid, it was something about the visuals of that place, the grass, the trees, the sun setting, the walk down to the science building where the percussionists played. It\u2019s so beautiful and the Tanglewood grounds are too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat hits you and stays with you; it\u2019s something you think about during the year, and it can be your true north, the center of your musical life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brightwell now teaches at BUTI. As an alum and BSO musician, he is not unique among the BUTI faculty, even in the percussion department. Several dozen BSO musicians teach at BUTI annually. More than a dozen of the BSO musicians onstage last summer at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/media\/12531061\/virtual-tour.html\">Koussevitzky Music Shed<\/a>, the main concert venue at Tanglewood, were BUTI alums who returned to the place that nurtured their symphonic dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>LISTEN, PRACTICE, AND PLAY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>BUTI offers programs in all orchestral instruments, voice, piano, and composition. Students, who on average come from 35 states and 10 countries, can take a two-week workshop or join a young artist program lasting up to six weeks. They face a full schedule of ensemble rehearsals and private lessons, master classes with alums like composer&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nicomuhly.com\/\">Nico Muhly (BUTI\u201996,\u201997)<\/a>&nbsp;and luminaries like pianist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yefimbronfman.com\/\">Yefim Bronfman<\/a>&nbsp;and violinist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anne-sophie-mutter.de\/en\/\">Anne-Sophie Mutter<\/a>, and solo practice in one of the tiny sheds that dot the grounds. They also have free rein to attend concerts at Tanglewood\u2019s venues, breathing in the heady musical air of that storied Berkshires attraction, where the first notes were played in 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some, their summer sojourn will be a cherished memory and music a hobby as they move on to college and a career in banking or medicine. But many go on to study music further\u2014at places such as CFA and the Juilliard School and as fellows in the BSO\u2019s postsecondary Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) program\u2014on their way to becoming professional musicians. There are BUTI alums in every major orchestra in the country. (Alums also thrive in nonclassical art forms: their ranks include crooner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harryconnickjr.com\/\">Harry Connick, Jr. (BUTI\u201983)<\/a>&nbsp;and actress&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/profile\/lauren-ambrose\/\">Lauren Ambrose (BUTI\u201994,\u201995)<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the short time students are with us,\u201d says Hilary Field Respass, executive director of BUTI since 2014, \u201cour job is to spark the passion, curiosity, and the skill potential that we know is there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/re-Stratton_McCrady_201810080026-1-684x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/re-Stratton_McCrady_201810080026-1-684x1024.jpeg 684w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/re-Stratton_McCrady_201810080026-1-425x636.jpeg 425w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/re-Stratton_McCrady_201810080026-1-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/re-Stratton_McCrady_201810080026-1-668x1000.jpeg 668w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/re-Stratton_McCrady_201810080026-1.jpeg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BUTI was launched in 1966, after then-BSO music director Erich Leinsdorf saw the need for a program to complement the Tanglewood Music Center (then called the Berkshire Music Center), a preprofessional program. He contacted then-CFA Dean Edwin Stein and School of Music Director Wilbur Fulbright. The symphony and the summer program have had an ongoing partnership ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBU built what is, with [Michigan\u2019s] Interlochen, one of the two most important summer camp programs focused on high-level music making,\u201d says Mark Volpe, president and chief executive officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And BUTI is \u201cin proximity to one of the great orchestras in the world, in a place that\u2019s unique in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respass has been working steadily to put the institute on a firm footing, building its donor base, strengthening ties to the community, and growing enrollment to a record 441 in 2019. That trend was projected to continue this year until programs were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking ahead to summer 2021, Respass plans to add a two-week Young Artists Conducting Seminar and expand a wellness program to help students build healthy careers in the face of everything from repetitive strain injuries to stage fright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many young musicians, BUTI\u2019s appeal continues into adulthood. Brightwell went on to Juilliard for his undergraduate degree\u2014spending summers as a TMC fellow\u2014then came to BU for his master\u2019s degree. \u201cAfter BUTI, the question was, how do I get back there?\u201d says Brightwell. \u201cI got into Tanglewood Music Center, and after that, the only way to get back there was to get into the Boston Symphony. Amazingly, luckily, that\u2019s what happened for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>SURROUNDED BY TALENT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many who come to BUTI, Brightwell\u2019s musical talent and nascent ambitions made him an outlier at his high school; suddenly, arriving in Lenox, he was surrounded by talented kids like himself. \u201cThe peer recognition is huge,\u201d he says. \u201cJust to go and see, not in an ultra competitive way, how you stack up against the other best players in the country. I went in very humble or nervous\u2014I think most kids do; even if they put on a face of confidence, they think, \u2018Oh, all these kids are going to be so good, how do I measure up?\u2019 And usually what people find is \u2018OK, I\u2019m pretty good at this, but they\u2019re so much better than me at this other aspect.\u2019 So it validates you and it stretches you at the same time.\u201d One of Brightwell\u2019s BSO colleagues, cellist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/strings\/owen-young-cello.aspx\">Owen Young (BUTI\u201979,\u201980)<\/a>, says being surrounded by professional musicians during his stints as a BUTI student showed him how hard he would have to work to turn music into a career. He not only went to multiple concerts\u2014by renowned chamber groups as well as the Boston Symphony\u2014but rehearsed with star names too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BUTI Young Artists Orchestra performs Dukas\u2019s L\u2019apprenti sorcier\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13p5RxOQBjw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>In the video above, the 2019 BUTI Young Artists Orchestra performs \u201cL\u2019apprenti sorcier\u201d by Dukas. Video courtesy of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLeonard Bernstein (Hon.\u201983) came and did a rehearsal with us my first summer,\u201d Young says. \u201cAaron Copland was alive. You\u2019d see him driving around the grounds. There aren\u2019t supposed to be any cars on the grounds, and he was in this white convertible, going up the walkways. And Gunther Schuller came and did a few rehearsals, and Seiji Ozawa did too. When you see these brilliant people and how they rehearse and what they\u2019re asking for from the orchestra, you understand why they\u2019re so great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHearing the level of playing, we understood if you want to be a professional, this is the level you have to reach. And you think, how do you get there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge of emulating the mastery he was hearing&nbsp;made BUTI a bonding experience; some of Young\u2019s friends from those two summers are still friends 40 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt solidified for me that this is what I wanted to do. But there\u2019s no guarantee, right? It\u2019s a very difficult thing. It lit an extra flame under me, to know, if you want to go into this profession, you have to really go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay alignwide wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-full-f\">\n<div class=\"photo-f\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020-636x425.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/r3-Stratton_McCrady_201810110020-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><p class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">A BUTI performance at the annual Tanglewood on Parade celebration.<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At BUTI, students don\u2019t just listen to the masters\u2014or avoid their careening automobiles\u2014they are taught by them too. Brightwell can still summon up the key lesson of his BUTI experience, imparted to him by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timgenis.com\/\">Tim Genis (BUTI\u201984)<\/a>, principal timpanist of the BSO and now a lecturer in music and coordinator of the percussion program at CFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was telling us how to go about practicing difficult exercises or excerpts, and he said, \u2018You want to take everything that\u2019s hard about the passage and turn it on its head,\u2019\u201d Brightwell says. \u201c\u2018Spin it around, turn it upside down, play it in as many ways as possible until playing it feels easy.\u2019\u201d Genis demonstrated with a famously difficult xylophone passage from&nbsp;<em>Porgy and Bess<\/em>, first accenting every other note, then every third one, then every fifth or sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI still don\u2019t do that\u2014it\u2019s too difficult,\u201d Brightwell says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut, that was the light-bulb moment into how to get better. You make everything the craziest version possible of itself, and by doing that you go into these levels of detail, of phrasing, shape, and sound. You go deeper and deeper under the microscope, and then you get so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In the Classroom: A Lesson in Sound, Color and Interpretation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LosxXsSqKr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Get a peek into a BUTI flute workshop from the 2019 program. Video courtesy of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laphil.com\/musicdb\/artists\/2822\/dahae-kim\">Dahae Kim (BUTI\u201904)<\/a>, assistant principal cellist in the&nbsp;Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, says BUTI taught her that the key to playing in an orchestra is listening, so you can fit in with the scores of other musicians playing around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the beginning, I was overwhelmed. There\u2019s so much sound coming at you,\u201d says Kim, who went on to the New England Conservatory for her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees and played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra before Los Angeles. \u201cHaving to play with 10 other cellists\u2014I\u2019d never done that before. It felt very powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote magazine-block-bu-pullquote has-image-focus-center-middle has-primary-theme\"><div class=\"wp-block-bu-pullquote-inner\"><figure><\/figure><blockquote><div class=\"container-lockup\"><div class=\"container-icon-outer\"><div class=\"container-icon-inner\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"container-text\"><hr\/><div class=\"quote-sizing\">\u201cTHEY\u2019RE VERY MUCH PART OF THE ETHOS OF TANGLEWOOD.\u201d<br\/><\/div><footer class=\"caption\"><strong>BSO PRESIDENT AND CEO MARK VOLPE ON THE BUTI STUDENTS<\/strong><\/footer><hr\/><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond the thunder of a full orchestra, the bucolic venue\u2019s other, quieter sounds matter too, she says: \u201cI loved practicing in those little cabins on the grounds. The quietness surrounding you there\u2014you could hear the birds and the crickets\u2014it was almost therapeutic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all the wildlife had the same effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne day, we had a little chipmunk come into our rehearsal space,\u201d she says with a laugh, \u201cand it just ran around, and we were all screaming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-photoessay magazine-block-editorial-photoessay alignwide wp-block-photoessay js-block-editorial-photoessay\"><div class=\"photo-row-full-f\">\n<div class=\"photo-f\"><div class=\"wp-block-photoessay-media\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"941\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/symphonic-spread.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/symphonic-spread.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/symphonic-spread-636x598.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2022\/11\/symphonic-spread-768x723.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>BRINGING ENERGY TO THE BSO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Volpe says the influx of students gives the musicians of the BSO a boost every summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving the energy of 155 fellows and a few hundred BUTI kids on the campus is great, candidly, for the Boston Symphony, because it reminds the players and all of us what it was like to be 16 or 17 or 18 and have your whole musical life in front of you,\u201d Volpe says. \u201cWhatever cynicism you might have will be quickly dissolved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the final summer students leave, a week or so before the Tanglewood season ends, \u201cYou feel the energy just sag,\u201d Volpe says. \u201cI\u2019m not talking about a weekend where we have 8,000 at a shed concert, but a Tuesday or Wednesday, walking around the campus, it just feels different. They\u2019re very much part of the ethos of Tanglewood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Volpe says the importance of BUTI goes far beyond bringing a feel-good factor to the BSO, particularly given the state of music education in American schools. Half a century ago, big public schools had significant music programs, often mounting bands, orchestras, and other ensembles. Many are gone today, due to budget cuts and changing priorities, replaced by regional bands, if at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe world Leinsdorf lived in had a much better feeder system or infrastructure than what exists today in the public schools, so what BUTI does is even more important,\u201d Volpe says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program, he says, changes lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUTI certainly changed Brightwell\u2019s life\u2014and continues to shape his career today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had always dreamed of being a percussionist in an orchestra, which is kind of a funny niche,\u201d says Brightwell. \u201cWithout BUTI, I would never have gotten where I am.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories is-style-card has-three magazine-block-editorial-relatedstories\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-title\">Related<\/h3>\n\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-editorial-relatedstories-list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li 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