Tanglewood Music Shed and lawn.

Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood.

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. It has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 1171 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tanglewood ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 1171 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tanglewood ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 1002 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tanglewood ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 1002 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tanglewood ... A music venue is any location of a musical performance. ... Settled: 1750 â€“ Incorporated: 1775 Zip Code(s): 01240 â€“ Area Code(s): 413 Official website: http://www. ... Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. ... The Tanglewood Jazz Festival, is a summer music festival, featuring contemporary jazz artists. ... The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the worlds most renowned orchestras. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

History

Tanglewood was named for American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne, on the advice of his publisher William Ticknor, rented a small cottage in March 1850 from William Aspinwall Tappan in the Berkshires (Lenox, Massachusetts), a sort of inland Newport, Rhode Island for America's wealthy of the Gilded Age. While at the cottage Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales (1853), a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls. 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. Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... William Davis Ticknor (August 6, 1810-April 10, 1864) was an American publisher in Boston, Massachusetts and a founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields. ... The Berkshires (pronounced as berk-shurs or berk-sheers) is a region located in Western Massachusetts (with portions located in the adjacent states of Vermont, New York, and Connecticut). ... Settled: 1750 â€“ Incorporated: 1775 Zip Code(s): 01240 â€“ Area Code(s): 413 Official website: http://www. ... Newport as seen from the International Space Station. ... In American history the Gilded Age refers to the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1901, which saw unprecedented economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion. ... Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. ...

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 China 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) created the first viable credit rating agency in America. ...

In 1937 the BSO returned for an all-Beethoven program, presented at Tanglewood (210 acres), donated by the Tappan family. 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). Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience. ...

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. 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. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... BBN Technologies (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman) is a high-technology company that provides research and development services. ... Seiji Ozawa , born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor. ...

Tanglewood is also a a community of the last remaining members of Heaven's Gate. Founded within greater Indianapolis, these Heaven's Gate members predict the apocalypes to occur during 2012's solsitce. Members of this sect will sacrifice themseleves on this date in order to be rescued by their ancestor's within a spaceship near Earth.

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 Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for high school students and the Tanglewood Music Center for pre-professional musicians. Groton Place, Boston University Tanglewood Institute The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) is a summer festival for high school musicians located in Lenox, Massachusetts, USA under the auspices of Boston University. ... The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience. ...

In its early days, instructors included Aaron Copland (who headed the music composition faculty from 1940-1965), Paul Hindemith, and Olivier Messiaen. Koussevitzky himself taught conducting; his students included Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss. Bernstein conducted his first composition at Tanglewood in 1942 ("Sonata for Clarinet and Piano"). Other students have included Luciano Berio and Alan Hovhaness. Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. ... Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor. ... Olivier Messiaen Olivier Messiaen (IPA: ; born December 10, 1908 in Avignon, France; died April 27, 1992 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. ... Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (pronounced Bern-styne)[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. ... Lukas Foss (born Lukas Fuchs, August 15, 1922 in Berlin, Germany) is an American composer and conductor. ... Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Alan Hovhaness with an Indonesian rebab Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. ...

See also

• List of opera festivals
• List of major concert halls

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References

• Joseph Horowitz, Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. ISBN 0-393-05717-8.

External links

• BSO's official Tanglewood website
• Tanglewood Music Festival: provides information for those planning on attending the summer festival.
• Art of the States: Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra

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