Tanglewood




For other uses, see Tanglewood (disambiguation).














































Tanglewood
Former names Berkshire Music Center
Address 297 West Street, Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
Location
Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates
42°20′57″N 73°18′36″W / 42.34917°N 73.31000°W / 42.34917; -73.31000Coordinates: 42°20′57″N 73°18′36″W / 42.34917°N 73.31000°W / 42.34917; -73.31000
Owner Boston Symphony Orchestra
Capacity Koussevitzky Music Shed: 5,700
Seiji Ozawa Hall: 1,200
Construction
Built 1937–1938
Opened August 4, 1938
Renovated 1959
Tenants

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Festival
Tanglewood Music Center
Days in the Arts
Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Website
www.tanglewood.org

Tanglewood is a music venue 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, Days in the Arts 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.




Contents






  • 1 First seasons, 1934 and 1935


  • 2 Boston Symphony Orchestra era begins, 1936


  • 3 Festival moves to Tanglewood, 1937


  • 4 Music Shed opens, 1938


  • 5 Young musicians


  • 6 BSO and Tanglewood music directors


  • 7 Facilities


  • 8 Further reading


  • 9 See also


  • 10 References


  • 11 External links





First seasons, 1934 and 1935


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Tanglewood Music Shed and lawn




Seiji Ozawa Hall




The history of Tanglewood begins with a series of concerts held on August 23, 25 and 26, 1934 at the Interlaken estate of Daniel Hanna, about a mile from today’s festival site. A few months earlier, composer and conductor Henry Kimball Hadley had scouted the Berkshires for a site and support for his dream of establishing a seasonal classical music festival. He found an enthusiastic and capable patron in Gertrude Robinson Smith. Within a few months they had organized a series of concerts featuring the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, where Hadley once had been the Associate Conductor.[1] Staged in an amphitheater built on the estate's show horse ring, the first concert was attended by Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother. Heartened by the success of this effort, Robinson and Hadley organized another well received series of concerts in Interlaken the following summer.[2]



Boston Symphony Orchestra era begins, 1936


After two seasons featuring the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), under the direction of Conductor Serge Koussevitzky was invited to perform at the 1936 festival held at Holmwood, the home of Margaret Vanderbilt in nearby Lenox. The BSO gave its first concert in the Berkshires on August 13, 1936.[3] For nearly eighty years the BSO has remained the crown jewel of the music festival.



Festival moves to Tanglewood, 1937


In 1937 the festival site was moved to "Tanglewood", an estate donated by Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan.[4] "Tanglewood" took its name from Tanglewood Tales, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, while he lived in a cottage located on the estate.[5] On August 12, 1937 a decisive moment in Tanglewood’s history occurred during a thunderstorm that interrupted a performance of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. The "Boston Globe" reported that "Gertrude Robinson Smith strode purposefully to the stage when the concert stopped and addressed the record crowd of 5,000, haranguing: “Now do you see why we must have a permanent building for these concerts?’’ In minutes, more than $30,000 was raised." [6]



Music Shed opens, 1938


The following year, the Eliel Saarinen-designed, fan-shaped Shed (now known as the Koussevitzky Music Shed, or simply "the Shed") was constructed, with some 5,100 seats, giving the BSO a permanent open-air structure in which to perform.[7] Broad lawns extend beyond the Shed, providing outdoor space for concert goers and sweeping views of Stockbridge Bowl and Monument Mountain in the distance. At the opening ceremony for the Shed on August 4, 1938, Gertrude Robinson Smith's dedication comments were recorded and can be heard today.[8] The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed in the Koussevitzky Music Shed every summer since, except for the interval 1942–45 when the Trustees canceled 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.[9]Leonard Bernstein conducted the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood in August 1990 in what proved to be his very last concert. Deutsche Grammophon released a live recording of the concert on CD.



Young musicians


In addition to hosting world-renowned programs of classical, jazz, and popular music, Tanglewood provides musical training. In 1940 conductor Serge Koussevitzky initiated a summer school for approximately 300 young musicians, now known as the Tanglewood Music Center. Also, nearby is the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for high school students and Days in the Arts (DARTs) for middle school students. Other youth-symphony organizations have performed at either the Music Shed or Ozawa Hall, including the Norwalk Youth Symphony, from Norwalk, Connecticut, the Empire State Youth Orchestra, from Albany, New York, and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony (currently known as the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras).



BSO and Tanglewood music directors




  • Serge Koussevitzky (1936–1949)


  • Charles Munch (1949–1962)


  • Erich Leinsdorf (1962–1969)


  • William Steinberg (1969–1972)


  • Seiji Ozawa (1973–2002)


  • James Levine (2004–2011)


  • Andris Nelsons (2014–present)



Facilities







Boston Pops preparing to play under the direction of John Williams in the Shed




Ozawa Hall before a concert




  • The Koussevitzky Music Shed was inaugurated in 1938, with major acoustic refurbishment made in 1959. Originally unnamed, the Shed was re-dedicated to TMC's founder in 1988. Most BSO and some TMC orchestra concerts are held there.


  • Seiji Ozawa Hall opened in 1994 and is the place where most Tanglewood chamber concerts, as well as TMC orchestra concerts, now take place. Designed by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, Seiji Ozawa Hall has been ranked one of the two Best Concert Halls in the U.S. built in the past 50 years, one of the four Best Concert Halls ever built in the U.S., and the 13th Best Concert Hall in the world (from Leo Beranek's Concert Halls and Opera Houses). Seiji Ozawa Hall has received numerous awards for its architecture, including a National American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Interior Architecture (2000) and a National American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Architecture (1995). The acoustics of the hall were designed in conjunction with the architect by R. Lawrence Kirkegaard, of Kirkegaard Associates.

  • The Aaron Copland Library, Theatre, Chamber Music Hall and additional administrative, performance and practice buildings are spread throughout the Tanglewood grounds.



Further reading



  • Joseph Horowitz. Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 0-393-05717-8.

  • Andrew L. Pincus. Scenes from Tanglewood. Northeastern University Press, 1989.
    ISBN 1-55553-054-0.



See also



  • List of concert halls

  • List of opera festivals



References




  1. ^ "Berkshire Magazine, Madame Chairman" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2015.


  2. ^ "The Berkshire Eagle, Tanglewood tid bits". Retrieved December 19, 2015.


  3. ^ "BSO History of Tanglewood". Retrieved December 19, 2015.


  4. ^ "Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Biographical Note". Retrieved December 20, 2015.


  5. ^ "BSO, History of Tanglewood". Retrieved March 20, 2015.


  6. ^ "Berkshire Magazine, Madame Chairman" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2015.


  7. ^ Leo Beranek, "Concert Halls and Opera Houses" 2nd ed. NY:Springer, 2007
    ISBN 0-387-95524-0 pp. 93−97.


  8. ^ "Gertrude Robinson Smith speaks at the dedication of Tanglewood's historic Music Shed". Retrieved December 26, 2015.


  9. ^ Leo Beranek, "Concert Halls and Opera Houses" 2nd ed. NY:Springer, 2007
    ISBN 0-387-95524-0 pp. 89−92.



External links








  • Tanglewood official site


  • Dedication of the Music Shed at Tanglewood by Gertrude Robinson Smith | NBC Radio Broadcast – August 4, 1938 (YouTube)

  • Virtual tour of the Koussevitzky Music Shed




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