In 1940, Serge Koussevitzky, Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a mentor to Leonard Bernstein, created the Tanglewood Music Centre in Western Massachusetts. The Tanglewood Estate had been donated to the BSO three years earlier. It became the summer home of the orchestra, and a music school was established. The first faculty included the composers Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith. In 1950, what had remained of the estate including outbuildings, was purchased by a New York couple to create a performing space for folk musicians, including the conversion of one building into an Inn with accommodation. They also created what became known as The Music Barn, a venue that played host to many well known folk and jazz musicians. In 1957 they also established a not-for-profit music school. Their faculty included Max Roach and Gunther Schuller. In 1959, just before his seminal album The Shape of Jazz to Come was released, Atlantic Records sent Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry ...
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