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In 1997, Ellen Highstein — with formidable credentials as a composer and music educator — was brought in as TMC director following a.

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Tanglewood Music Center

Annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, US

The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops. The center operates as a part of the Tanglewood Music Festival, an outdoor concert series and the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO).^[1]

History

The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) was founded in 1940 as the Berkshire Music Center by the BSO's music director, Serge Koussevitzky, three years after the establishment of Tanglewood as the summer home of the BSO.^[2] He served as director of the center until one year after his retirement with the BSO, when he was succeeded by new BSO director Charles Münch, who ran the TMC from 1951 until 1962. Munch was succeeded by BSO director Erich Leinsdorf, who was TMC director from 1963 to 1970.^[3]

In 1970, three years before he was appointed as Music Director of the BSO, Seiji Ozawa took over BSO activities

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LENOX — At most classical orchestral concerts, the double bass section saws away intently with little recognition, tucked away to the side like wallflowers at a wedding. Unless jazz is on the bill, string chamber ensembles neglect these purveyors of the lower register almost entirely.

If You Go

What: Tanglewood Learning Institute Concert: Bartok, Balch, Britten and Balliett.

With double bassists Benjamin Levy, Edward Kass, Peter Walsh, John Stovall, Todd Seeber, Carl Anderson, and Charles Clements; harpist Charles Overton and tenor Eric Carey. Earl Lee, conductor.

Where: Linde Center for Music and Learning, 3A West Hawthorne Road, Lenox

When: 3 p.m., April 10. Concert is 1 hour with no intermission. Available on demand via BSO NOW, April 28 to May 28.

Admission: $20, general admission

Tickets and information: 617-266-1200 or 888-266-1200, bso.org

COVID-19 safety protocols: Masks required regardless of vaccination status. Proof of full vaccination and ID or recent negative test required. Find the most recent updates at bso.org/tanglewood/s

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LENOX — The Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s pre-eminent advanced-study academy for promising young musicians, is widely viewed as a crown jewel. But even jewels may need polishing on occasion.

Currently, about 40 percent of BSO musicians are alumni, and up to one-third of players in the nation’s other major orchestras have studied at the TMC, which has 140 students each summer.

It was Tanglewood founder and BSO conductor Serge Koussevitzky who set up the institute (first known as the Berkshire Music Center) in 1940 as part of his central vision for the orchestra’s new summer home.

In 1997, Ellen Highstein — with formidable credentials as a composer and music educator — was brought in as TMC director following a controversial leadership shakeup orchestrated by BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa. She was appointed by Ozawa and the incoming Managing Director Mark Volpe, who retired in June 2021.

Highstein is retiring after directing the TMC’s annual Festival of Contemporary Music (FCM) opening on Thursday. Last January, the BSO’s new president and CEO, Gail S