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History of Tanglewood

Tanglewood Online Exhibits

Explore Tanglewood's rich history through these archival exhibits.
A banner announcing the 1939 Berkshire Symphonic Festival stretches across a tree-lined street with a single automobile on it.

A Festival Is Born: 1934-1936

Learn about the music festival's origins.
Aerial view of the Koussevitzky Music Shed surrounded by trees

A Great Future for the Festival: 1937-1938

How Tanglewood found its home.
Several students holding instrument cases and wearing vintage attire walk across the Tanglewood lawn with the Music Shed in the background.

A Dream Fulfilled: 1940

The founding of the Tanglewood Music Center changed the festival — and the world of music — forever.
Aaron Copland sits in the middle of a group of students on the lawn in front of a building for theatre productions

Women Composition Students of the Tanglewood Music Center

Follow the journeys of some of the women composers who were trained at the Tanglewood Music Center.
John Williams holds a baton while wearing a black turtleneck and a wristwatch

John Williams and the Boston Pops

A retrospective in honor of the composer's 90th birthday this year.