A Berkshire Symphonic Festival Banner hangs above the road in Lenox, Mass. (BSO)

Serge Koussevitzky served as musi c director of the BSO from 1924 to 1949. (Egone/BSO Archives)

The horse ring on Dan Hanna's farm was the site of the first Berkshire Symphonic Festival concert on August 25, 1934. Henry Hadley conducted 65 members of the New York Philharmonic. (David Milton Jones)

Erich Leinsdorf, music director of the BSO, conducts at Tanglewood in 1965.

Leonard Bernstein at the climax of Mahler’s “Ressurection” Symphony performed by the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood on July 5, 1970. The sell-out crowd gave the guest conductor an 11-minute standing ovation.

Seiji Ozawa makes his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1964 at Tanglewood. (Whitestone)

Leonard Bernstein thanks participants in the “Bernstein at 70!” concert. (Left to right) Louise Edeiken, Adrienne Albert, Patricia Rutledge, and Kitty Carlisle Hart.

Midori, a then-14-year-old violinist, is applauded by conductor Leonard Bernstein after a performance with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood on July 26, 1986. (Walter H. Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives)

Foreign students at the Berkshire Music Center listen to Patricia Lissack play a piece on August 12, 1958. (Left to right) Maria Lopez-Vito and Marilyn Gatmaitan, both of Quezon City, Philippines, Atipet Usmanbus of Ankara, Wadad Mouzannar of Beirut, Liwiang Cruz of SanJuan Rizal, Philippines, and Shoshana Ben-Yohanan of TelAviv. Thirty students from 14 foreign countries were among the 350 who studied at the music center.

BSO hornplayer Daniel Katzen teaches students at Tanglewood on July 30, 1983.

Bonnie Papier of Boston, a student at Tanglewood, rehearses on July 10, 1975 with Leonard Bernstein for a Wednesday night performance by the student orchestra.

Seiji Ozawa talks with Leonard Bernstein during a lecture for Tanglewood students.

People walk down the road that leads to Tanglewood on Septemer 6, 1967.

People gather in the Glass Room, designed by Eliel Saarinen, at the grounds at Tanglewood on August 15, 1948.

Highwood Manor at Tanglewood serves as a gathering point for patrons on June 28, 1991.

The lawn audience covers up with umbrellas, circa 1955.

Outside the music shed an overflow audience sprawls on the grass at the Berkshire Music Festival on August 5, 1955. The six week festival featured the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

A crowd gathers July 3, 2010 for the James Taylor and Carole King performance.

Patrons arrive early to be sure of getting good seats for the concert on July 31, 1965.

Patrons enjoy a picnic on the lawn at Tanglewood.

Fans’ belongings were checked for bottles or cans at the James Taylor concert on August 5, 1976.

Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, and Yo-Yo Ma perform “Fire and Rain” at Tanglewood on August 28, 2009.

James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood on July 7, 2006.