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Tanglewood is an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts and is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. A music venue is any location regularly used for a Concert or Musical performance Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Lenox Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills in western The Tanglewood Jazz Festival, is a summer Music festival, featuring contemporary Jazz artists It has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based at Symphony Hall in Boston Massachusetts, USA Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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History
Tanglewood was named for American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4 1804 – May 19 1864 was an American novelist and Short story writer Hawthorne, on the advice of his publisher William Ticknor, rented a small cottage in March 1850 from William Aspinwall Tappan in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, a sort of inland Newport, Rhode Island for America's wealthy of the Gilded Age. William Davis Ticknor ( August 6 1810 - April 10 1864) was an American publisher in Boston Massachusetts, USA and a founder of Please note that this article on the Berkshires is about a geologic and cultural region in the United States for other uses see Berkshire (disambiguation Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km south of Providence In American history, the Gilded Age refers to major growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class during While at the cottage Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales (1853), a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls. Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853 is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. In memory of the book, the owner renamed the cottage "Tanglewood", and the name was soon copied by a nearby summer estate owned by the Tappan family.
Tanglewood concerts can be traced back to 1936, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its first concerts in the Berkshires. This first three-concert series was held under a tent for a total crowd of 15,000. That same year, Mary Aspinwall Tappan (descendant of Chinese merchant William F. Sturgis and abolitionist Lewis Tappan), gave the family's summer estate - Tanglewood - to the orchestra. William F Sturgis (February 25 1782 - October 21 1863 was a Boston merchant in the China trade. Lewis Tappan (1788 - 1873 was a New York Abolitionist who was most responsible in making sure the Africans of the Amistad had their freedom
In 1937 the BSO returned for an all-Beethoven program, presented at Tanglewood (210 acres), donated by the Tappan family. Ludwig van Beethoven ( English ˈlʊdvɪg væn ˈbeɪtoʊvən, 16 December 1770 &ndash 26 March 1827 was a German Composer and Pianist. In 1938 a fan-shaped Shed was constructed, with some 5,100 seats, giving the BSO a permanent open-air structure in which to perform. Two years later conductor Serge Koussevitzky initiated a summer school for approximately 300 young musicians, now known as the Tanglewood Music Center (formerly Berkshire Music Center). WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes -->Dr The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed in the Koussevitzky Music Shed every summer since, except for the interval 1942-45 when the Trustees cancelled the concerts and summer school due to World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Shed was renovated in 1959 with acoustic designs by BBN Technologies. In 1986 the BSO acquired the adjacent Highwood estate, increasing the property area by about 40%. Seiji Ozawa Hall (1994) was built on this newly expanded property. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations
Young musicians
In addition to hosting world-renowned programs of classical, jazz, and popular music, it also provides musical training in the form of the Tanglewood Music Center for pre-professional musicians. The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances Also nearby is the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for high school students. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI is a summer festival for high school musicians located in Lenox Massachusetts, Other youth-symphony organizations have also performed at either the Music Shed or Ozawa Hall, including the Norwalk Youth Symphony, from Norwalk, CT, and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony.
See also
References
- Joseph Horowitz, Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall, W. This is an inclusive list of opera festivals and summer seasons and music festivals which have opera productions A concert hall is a cultural building which serves as performance venue chiefly for classical instrumental music W. Norton & Company, 2005. ISBN 0-393-05717-8.
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