Word: tanglewood
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...addition to training young physicians, Zeitels also teaches students of voice at Tanglewood, the Berklee College of Music...
...Still, Tanglewood is by no means an unfriendly place. On the contrary, legions of elderly women in long black skirts will smilingly help you with directions, a program, or the best way to avoid having one's feet run over by passing wheelchairs...
...dominant animal at Tanglewood is, without a doubt, the social one, and here lies the crux of the enigma. The social animal does not come to a concert to listen to music; it comes to see, be seen and to be able to recount what it saw. Turnout was probably increased more by the magnitude of the soloists' reputations than the prerequisite quality of their playing. An up-and-coming pair of players might not have fared so well in this environment...
...Tanglewood certainly deserves its reputation as a magnet for musical genius and a germinating ground for talent. It wasn't the crowds that kept Aaron Copeland coming back for half a century...
...sadly, of the 15,260 people in attendance on Saturday, those belonging to minority groups also belonged to the ushering corps. Is Tanglewood not accessible to all, or just comfortable with its affluent and reliable if homogeneous and somewhat uninterested clientele? While the exceptional music continues to play, the management should consider ways of keeping the business separate from the cultural treasures...