Tanglewood, Concert hall in Lenox, United States

Tanglewood is a music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Its main building, the Koussevitzky Music Shed, is a red brick concert hall with a broad, low-pitched grey roof; the left gable wall has an arched top and a large rectangular window with pale mullions, and a long two-storey wing has a projecting timber-framed gallery with open bays above a brick base. The fan-shaped Shed seats about 5,100 people.

Concerts began in 1934 at Daniel Hanna's Interlaken estate, organized by Henry Kimball Hadley and Gertrude Robinson Smith with the New York Philharmonic. The Boston Symphony Orchestra first played in the Berkshires on August 13, 1936, at Holmwood in Lenox, and moved to the donated Tanglewood estate in 1937. After a thunderstorm halted a 1937 Wagner performance, $30,000 was raised on the spot for a permanent building. The fan-shaped Koussevitzky Music Shed, simplified by engineer Joseph Franz after Eliel Saarinen withdrew, opened on August 4, 1938.

The venue takes its name from a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who once lived here and drew inspiration from the surrounding landscape. The site continues to link literary memory with the sounds of classical music in an open natural setting.

Most performances take place during the warm months, when visitors can sit on the lawn and listen to the orchestra outdoors. Those who arrive early secure a good spot on the grass and can settle in for a picnic before the music begins.

Three music education institutions use the grounds alongside the performances, so young musicians learn and rehearse here while audiences stroll through the meadows. Visitors sometimes hear practice sounds drifting from the side buildings, mixing with the birdsong of the surrounding woods.