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BSO Will Perform Live At Tanglewood This Summer, With Some Adjustments

New England Public Media | By Jill Kaufman
Published March 19, 2021 at 6:10 PM EDT
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, which owns and operates Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, has announced it will hold live in-person concerts this summer, for the first time since COVID-19 shut down arts events and venues worldwide.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra, which owns and operates Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, has announced it will hold live in-person concerts this summer, for the first time since COVID-19 shut down arts events and venues worldwide.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, which owns and operates Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, has announced it will hold live in-person concerts this summer. The BSO hasn't performed a live concert since March 2020, when COVID-19 triggered cancellations of arts events worldwide. An abbreviated Tanglewood season will run for six weeks between July and August, about half the usual season. Performances will be no longer than 80 minutes, with no intermission.

Physical distancing will be required and fewer tickets will be sold for seats in Tanglewood's open-air music shed and on its lawn.

In a press release, the BSO said as of now, the fate of the 2021 Tanglewood Popular Artist series isn’t definitive.

Tanglewood is part of a vast cultural economy in the Berkshires. Jacob's Pillow announced earlier this month it would host outdoor dance events this year.

Since last year, Massachusetts cultural organizations lost $588.3 million in revenue and cut 30,00 jobs, according to surveys collected by the Mass Cultural Council.

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Jill Kaufman
Jill has been reporting, producing features and commentaries, and hosting shows at NEPR since 2005. Before that she spent almost 10 years at WBUR in Boston, five of them producing PRI’s “The Connection” with Christopher Lydon. In the months leading up to the 2000 primary in New Hampshire, Jill hosted NHPR’s daily talk show, and subsequently hosted NPR’s All Things Considered during the South Carolina Primary weekend. Right before coming to NEPR, Jill was an editor at PRI's The World, working with station based reporters on the international stories in their own domestic backyards. Getting people to tell her their stories, she says, never gets old.
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