Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is the most honored work of Western Classical music around the world.  It has represented freedom and democracy throughout the ages. Professor Yudkin will tell this story with slides, videos, and musical examples.

Admission: $10 Member Price: $5

Presented by Jeremy Yudkin.

Jeremy Yudkin is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Beethoven Research at Boston University.  He received his BA and MA from Cambridge University and his PhD from Stanford University.  He has taught as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and for many years at Oxford University.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation Fellowship, the Center for the Humanities, the Camargo Foundation, Williams College, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

At Boston University he teaches classes on Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Bartok, Schubert, the history of opera, Renaissance and Medieval Music, rock music, nineteenth-century American music, jazz history, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, and the Beatles – to name only a few.  He is the author of TEN books, two of which have been awarded prizes.  He has given talks all across America as well as in Italy, Germany, France, England, Israel, and Russia.  And in the Berkshires he is famous for his pre-concert Tanglewood Talks, which are sponsored by the Lenox Library and are free to all comers.  They are held in the Lenox Town Hall every Friday and Sunday.  He has run this series every summer consecutively for forty-four years!  The Tanglewood Talks are on Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings throughout the summer.