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The Tanglewood Picnic: Music and Outdoor Feasts in the Berkshires
The Tanglewood Picnic Music and Outdoor Feasts in the Berkshires Author:Gina Hyams, Alana Chernila The Tanglewood Picnic: Music and Outdoor Feasts in the Berkshires by Gina Hyams celebrates the eight-decade tradition of picnicking on the lawn at Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in Lenox, Massachusetts. This gift book includes 150 photos of Tanglewood picnickers from the 1940s through the present from the Boston Symphony Orchestra A... more »rchives and audience members' family scrapbooks; a dozen classic picnic recipes (summer corn pudding, lobster sliders, brownies...); the ultimate Tanglewood picnic checklist; and foreword by best-selling cookbook author Alana Chernila.
When you ask people to describe Tanglewood picnics, more often than not, the first word they say is magic. The experience of picnicking on the lawn clearly adds up to something that's greater than the sum of its parts.
To picnic at Tanglewood is to participate in a grand tradition. Since 1937, music lovers have there to picnic during concerts. The 526-acre campus is a picnicker's paradise of sweeping lawns, woods, and a formal garden. Both the Koussevitzky Music Shed (a.k.a. the Shed ) and Seiji Ozawa Hall are open sided, designed so that the music pours out of the concert halls to be shared with patrons sitting in the cheap seats on the grass.« less