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

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 millionin revenue and cut 30,00 jobs, according to surveys collected by the Mass Cultural Council.

Jill Kaufman has been a reporter and host at NEPM since 2005. Before that she spent 10 years at WBUR in Boston, producing "The Connection" with Christopher Lydon and on "Morning Edition" reporting and hosting. She's also hosted NHPR's daily talk show "The Exhange" and was an editor at PRX's "The World."
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