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Tanglewood is an estate and Music Venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts and is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival. It has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra 's summer home since 1937 . In addition to hosting world-renowned programs of classical, jazz, and popular music, it also provides musical training in the form of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for high school students and the Tanglewood Music Center for preprofessional musicians. Tanglewood was named for American author Nathaniel Hawthorne . Hawthorne, on the advice of his publisher William Ticknor , rented a small cottage in March 1850 from a railroad tycoon in the Berkshires ( Lenox, Massachusetts ), a sort of inland Newport Rhode Island for Americas wealthy of the Gilded Age . While there Hawthorne wrote '' Tanglewood Tales '', a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls. In memory of the book, the owner of the cottage renamed it "Tanglewood" and later a nearby estate took up the same name and began hosting concerts. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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