Tanglewood
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Tanglewood is a music venue and festival in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. It has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937. Tanglewood is also home to three music schools: the Tanglewood Music Center, Tanglewood Learning Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Besides classical music, Tanglewood hosts the Festival of Contemporary Music, jazz and popular artists, concerts, and frequent appearances by James Taylor, John Williams, and the Boston Pops.
Key facts
- Venue.name
- Tanglewood Music Center
- Venue.logo_image
- Tanglewood_Logo_2024.png
- Venue.address
- 297 West Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, US
- Venue.location
- Lenox, Massachusetts, US
- Venue.built
- 1937–1938
- Venue.opened
- August 4, 1938
- Venue.renovated
- 1959
- Venue.owner
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Venue.former_names
- Berkshire Music Center
- Venue.seating_capacity
- Koussevitzky Music Shed: 5,700 Seiji Ozawa Hall: 1,200
- Venue.tenants
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Boston Pops Orchestra Tanglewood Festival Chorus Tanglewood Music Festival Tanglewood Music Center Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Tanglewood Learning Institute Boston University Tanglewood Institute
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- concert hall
- Named after
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lenox
- Owned by
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Location
- Lenox
- Official website
- www.tanglewood.org
- Image
- Seiji Ozawa Hall (exterior), Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts.JPG
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- Commons category
- Tanglewood
- inception
- 1938-08-04
- date of official opening
- 1938-08-04
- native label
- Tanglewood
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Early beginnings
- Boston Symphony Orchestra era begins, 1936
- Festival moves to Tanglewood, 1937
- Music Shed opens, 1938
- Later history
- Aaron Copland
- Young musicians
- BSO and Tanglewood music directors
- Facilities
- Further reading
- See also
- References
- External links
Tanglewood is a music venue and festival in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. It has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937. Tanglewood is also home to three music schools: the Tanglewood Music Center, Tanglewood Learning Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Besides classical music, Tanglewood hosts the Festival of Contemporary Music, jazz and popular artists, concerts, and frequent appearances by James Taylor, John Williams, and the Boston Pops.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tanglewood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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