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29 unusual facts about Tanglewood


Alexander Platt

He was educated at Yale University and a conducting fellow at Aspen and Tanglewood.

Annalee Dolls

The Playhouse plans to renovate the property to create a "Tanglewood type of setting" for their theatrical endeavors.

Artaria String quartet

In 1988 Artaria was invited to teach at the quartet seminar (directed by Norman Fischer) at the Boston UniversityTanglewood Institute in the Berkshires.

Charles Dutoit

He also worked with Herbert von Karajan at Lucerne as a member of the festival youth orchestra and studied with Charles Munch at Tanglewood.

Constantine Manos

At 19, Manos was hired as the official photographer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.

Daniel Alfred Wachs

As a pianist, he has performed in such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Salle Paderewski in Lausanne, and at such festivals as Aspen, Tanglewood and Verbier.

Daniel Lentz

Lentz achieved notability as a musician while a student at Brandeis University, when he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966.

Daniel Nazareth

In the summer of 1976, Nazareth was a recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and of the Koussevitsky Music Foundation Conductor's Award at Tanglewood, USA.

Daria Semegen

In a distinguished academic career in a field still heavily dominated by men, Semegen has received six grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; has been selected as a Fulbright fellow; and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Tanglewood, the Chautauqua Institution, and Yaddo — among a range of other awards and distinctions.

Edwin Barker

Mr. Barker's major teaching affiliations include the Tanglewood Music Center, Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music.

Elizabeth Parcells

During her concert career, Elizabeth Parcells sang at international festivals such as Tanglewood, Salzburg, Touraine, Bologne, Colorado, Luxembourg, Melk, Lisbon, Rheingau, Huddersfield and Torino.

Eva Ollikainen

In the summer of 2006, she was a Tanglewood Music Center conducting fellow, the only fellow that year who already had agency representation.

James Paul

Following his studies he was awarded the Serge Koussevitsky Memorial Conducting Prize presented by Erich Leinsdorf at the 1967 Tanglewood Music Festival.

Jessica Linnebach

As a well-renowned chamber musician, Linnebach has performed with artists who include Leon Fleischer, Gary Graffman, Lynn Harrell, Jaime Laredo, and Michael Tree, at venues that include the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Aspen, and Banff festivals.

Jethro Marks

As a chamber musician, Marks has performed at prestigious festivals around the world including Ravinia, Aspen, Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Mostly Mozart, and the BBC Proms.

John Trudeau

Trudeau began a search, hoping to find an area that would be like Tanglewood in Massachusetts, home of the Tanglewood Music Festival.

José Serebrier

The premiere was given to Eleazar de Carvalho, who later that same year became his conducting teacher at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home.

Knoxdale-Merivale Ward

It includes the communities of portions or all of Arlington Woods, Craig Henry, Tanglewood, Manordale, Crestview, Skyview, Parkwood Hills, Merivale Gardens, Grenfell Glen, Pineglen and Country Place.

Marquita Lister

During August 2011, Lister sang the role of Serena in Porgy and Bess at Tanglewood.

Maurice Goldman

That same year, Goldman won a scholarship to attend a conducting workshop at The Berkshire School Of Music, located in Tanglewood Massachusetts.

Michael Colgrass

He graduated from the University of Illinois (1954) with a degree in percussion performance and composition, including studies with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival and Lukas Foss at Tanglewood.

Reinbert de Leeuw

He was in 1992 guest artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival and from 1994–1998 artistic director of Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music.

Sanford Sylvan

He has performed at the Edinburgh, Marlboro, Tanglewood, Vienna, Holland, Oregon Bach and Carmel Bach festivals.

Søren Nils Eichberg

Other prizes and awards include a Tanglewood fellowship, the German Konrad-Adenauer Composition Grant and the Composition Stipend of the Danish Arts Foundation.

Tan Crone

She studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory, then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and finally in the United States at the New England Conservatory and Tanglewood.

Tanglewood

The 210 acre Tanglewood estate was gifted to the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1936 by Mary Aspinwall Tappan (descendant of Chinese merchant William F. Sturgis and abolitionist Lewis Tappan.) The estate was named after a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

While living in "the Little Red House" on the Tappan family estate, Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales (1853), a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls.

Tanglewood, New South Wales

Tanglewood is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Timothy Hutchins

Timothy Hutchins has appeared as guest principal with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and with Leonard Bernstein at the latter’s last appearance, recording Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony at Tanglewood.


Boston Baroque

With Pearlman as its music director, the ensemble presents an annual subscription concert series in Greater Boston, Massachusetts; has performed on tour in Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles's Disney Hall, and at the Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals; and has toured internationally.

Boston Musica Viva

In addition to its Boston concert season, Boston Musica Viva’s touring engagements have taken them to Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Tanglewood, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan.

Catherine Ransom Karoly

She has participated in numerous music festivals including Marlboro, Tanglewood, and the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Christopher Wilkins

In his hometown he had performances with orchestras like Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood estate and Boston Philharmonic Orchestra which was guided by Benjamin Zander.

Frank Battisti

In 2001, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute established the "Frank L. Battisti Tanglewood Institute Conducting Residency" which is awarded each summer to a talented young wind ensemble conductor.

Gilbert Kalish

From 1968 to 1997 he was a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center and served as the "Chairman of the Faculty" at Tanglewood from 1985-1997.

James Yannatos

Subsequent studies with Nadia Boulanger, Luigi Dallapiccola, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith, and Philip Bezanson in composition, William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein in conducting, and Hugo Kortschak and Ivan Galamian on violin took Yannatos to Yale University (B.M., M.M.), the University of Iowa (Ph.D.), Aspen, Tanglewood, and Paris.

Jan Meyerowitz

In 1946 Meyerowitz emigrated to the U.S. and became an assistant to Boris Goldovsky, director of the opera program at Tanglewood.

Linn County, Kansas

There are several lake communities in the county (Linn Valley, Lake Chaparral... Tanglewood Lake), which are quick getaways for city dwellers who spend their weekends or holidays there.

Marble Valley

Marble Valley is an international collective of individuals moulded together by Steve West, Pavement's drummer since Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and with David Berman on the Silver Jews albums, Starlite Walker and Tanglewood Numbers.

Michael Stribling

His sister, Patrice Stribling Nelson, is also an accomplished musician, performing at Carnegie and Tanglewood as well as directing a choir that performed before Queen Elizabeth II and President George H. W. Bush.

Stephen Jaffe

Jaffe's music has been performed across the United States, Europe, and China (including the Nottingham, Tanglewood, and Oregon Bach Festivals) by ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra, the R.A.I. of Rome, the North Carolina Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Miami String Quartet, and the Ciompi Quartet.

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Originally formed for performances at the BSO's summer home at the behest of the BSO's conductor designate Seiji Ozawa, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is the official chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops Orchestra year-round, performing in Boston, New York and Tanglewood.

Tanglewood Guitars

Tanglewood Guitars was founded in London in 1988 and later moved to Biggin Hill, Kent and opened additional warehouse space Wetherby in Yorkshire.

Tanglewood International Tennis Classic

The Tanglewood International Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament played in Clemmons, North Carolina from 1971-1973.

Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum

After the Morgans' deaths, the house was rented for several years to Margaret Vanderbilt, then purchased in 1925 by W. Roscoe and Mary Minturn Bonsal who in turn sold the house in 1945, after which it served as a dormitory for Tanglewood music students, a summer hotel, the Michel Fokine Ballet Summer Camp, and community housing for the religious organization The Bible Speaks (now known as Greater Grace World Outreach).

William Kroll

In the midst of his performance schedule, he taught at various facilities, first at the Institute of Musical Art (1922–1938), then at the Mannes College (1943), the Peabody Conservatory (1947–1965), Tanglewood (as of 1949), the Cleveland Institute of Music (1964–1967), and also at Queens College beginning in 1969.