Tanglewood Music Festival ( English Tanglewood Music Festival ) - an international music festival in the United States. Founded in 1934 under the auspices of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), whose main conductors are traditionally artistic directors of the festival. It is held in the summer at the Tanglewood estate, near the village of Lenox in Massachusetts annually (not conducted in 1942–45).
The basis of the festival repertoire are symphony concerts of BSO. Besides them since the 1960s. The festival featured chamber music, jazz, pop music and (since 1964) modern music. Management was especially significant for the development of the festival in 1936–1950. S.A. Kusevitsky , who raised the prestige of the festival to the world level. On his initiative in 1940, the Tanglewood Music Center was organized as part of the festival (name since 1985, originally Berkshire Music Center) - the Summer Academy of Music with teaching conservatory disciplines for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and composers. Within the framework of the summer academy, world-famous musicians regularly gave master classes - Kusevitsky, L. Bernstein , L. Fleisher, S. Ozawa , J. Levine and others.