Tanglewood

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Tanglewood Music Hall

Tanglewood is the name of a musical rehearsal and concert venue in Berkshire County in the west of the US state of Massachusetts . It's there between Lenox and Stockbridge . Since 1937, it is the summer residence of the then of Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitzky conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra after this first open-air concert had been there 1,936th The Summer Festival in Tanglewood is one of the most famous music festivals in the USA and offers concerts from the fields of classical , jazz and popular music . In addition, there are musical training opportunities for high school students through the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) and the Tanglewood Music Center for budding professional musicians.

Tanglewood got its name from the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne , who, on the advice of his publisher , had moved into a small house called Tanglewood Cottage in Lenox in March 1850 .

From the 1990s to 2011 there was also a special jazz festival (Tanglewood Jazz Festival) every year on Labor Day weekend (the end of the season in Tanglewood), but this was canceled in 2012. It traditionally opened on Friday with Latin Jazz , the pianist Marian McPartland brought guests on Saturday and the main concerts on Sunday (afternoon / evening). Dave Brubeck played here a lot and Miles Davis , Wynton Marsalis , Natalie Cole , Diana Krall , Ray Charles , Nancy Wilson , Roy Hargrove , Roy Haynes , Freddie Hubbard , Jimmy Smith and Ahmad Jamal also performed .

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  1. ^ Tanglewood Jazz Festival canceled, Berkshire Fine Arts 2012

Coordinates: 42 ° 20 ′ 57 "  N , 73 ° 18 ′ 36"  W.