image description — Performances were recorded at Tanglewood's new and breathtaking spaces at the superbly designed Linde Center – a constituent part of the BSO's/Tanglewood's new entity, the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI)

Tanglewood Online Festival Enters Sixth Week

By Stephen DanknerGuest Columist
09:51AM / Tuesday, August 04, 2020Print Story | Email Story

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival will enter its sixth week with an expansive range of innovative digital audio and video streams. These performances were recorded at Tanglewood's new and breathtaking spaces at the superbly designed Linde Center – a constituent part of the BSO's/Tanglewood's new entity, the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI). Other concerts will include performances previously recorded and archived by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.

A unique, all-encompassing digital music festival, the array of programming replicates a choice selection of the previously announced 2020 live performances Tanglewood had hoped to present this summer, but which had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus.

Here is this week's schedule of streamed events, from Wednesday, Aug. 5, to Sunday, Aug. 9.

New content, recorded especially for the online festival:

• Aug. 5, 8 p.m.: Recitals from the World Stage featuring the Danish String Quartet from Copenhagen performing Shostakovich's Quartet No. 10 in A-flat, Op. 118 and a folk song arrangement to be announced from the stage, hosted by Karen Allen.

• Aug. 7, 8 p.m.: BSO Musicians in Recital featuring Bonnie Bewick, Mickey Katz and Lawrence Wolfe performing traditional, folk, and contemporary selections arranged and composed by Bewick and Wolfe themselves, as well as a performance of #cellominute – a world premiere compilation of small works for solo cello featuring works by Nico Muhly and Marti Epstein, among others. Cynthia Meyers, Robert Sheena, Michael Wayne, Richard Ranti and Jason Snider round out the program with a performance of "Umoja" by celebrated composer Valerie Coleman and works by Paquito D'Rivera, hosted by Lauren Ambrose.

• Aug. 8, 8 p.m.: Great Performers in Recital from Tanglewood featuring pianist Daniil Trifonov performing Bach's "The Art of Fugue" hosted by Nicole Cabell.

New Tanglewood Learning Institute content:

• Aug. 3, 1 p.m.: TLI Open Forum: The Roaring Twenties presents "Black & Tan Fantasies or Harlem Realities? African American Popular Dance and Early Sound Film" with Christi Jay Wells.

• Aug. 4, 10:30 a.m.: TLI Open Forum: The Romantic Spirit presents "Liszt's Double Vision, or the Gothic Liszt" with Susan Bernstein.

• Aug. 4, 1 p.m.: TLI Celebrates Beethoven presents "Resonances: The Afterlife of Opus 131" with Megan Ross.

• Aug. 5, 10:30 a.m.: TLI Open Forum: The Romantic Spirit presents "On Romantic Listening, or What We Learn in the Dark" with Gabriela Cruz.

• Aug. 6, 10:30 a.m.: TLI Open Forum: The Romantic Spirit presents "Eugène Delacroix and Romantic Musicality" with Judy Sund.

• Aug. 6, 1 p.m.: TLI ShopTalks presents composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Augusta Read Thomas in candid, informal conversation.

• Aug. 7, 1 p.m.: TLI Open Forum: The Romantic Spirit presents a panel discussion and live Q&A with scholars Susan Bernstein, Gabriela Cruz and Judy Sund.

Featured retrospective content:

• Aug. 9, 10 a.m.: Tanglewood Music Center Chamber Concerts, an audio presentation of TMC Fellows performing chamber music of Thomas Adès, Conlon Nancarrow, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Niccolò Castiglioni, Harrison Birtwistle, and Francisco Coll, hosted by Norman Fischer with Michael Gandolfi.

• Aug. 9, 2:30 p.m.: BSO Encore Performances from Tanglewood of Andris Nelsons leading Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 (August 2018) with Susan Graham, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Boston Symphony Children’s Choir, hosted by Jamie Bernstein.

For more information and for prices and access to all video or audio streaming concerts, lectures and special events, go online or call 888-266-1200.

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Pennrose Breaks Ground in Lenox, Bringing 68 Units of Affordable Housing

Staff Reports10:21AM / Wednesday, October 07, 2026

LENOX, Mass. — Pennrose announced the groundbreaking of 238 Pittsfield Road, a 68-unit affordable rental community.

The development will bring much-needed affordable, family-friendly housing options to the area.

The community will consist of 10 residential buildings offering a mix of 23 one-bedroom, 38 two-bedroom, and seven three-bedroom apartments. Of the 68 total homes, 57 will be affordable for households earning from 30 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI) up to 80 percent AMI, with the remaining 11 units available at market rate rents.

A community building at the entrance of the development will offer resident-focused amenities, including event space and a fitness center, along with on-site offices for Pennrose management and resident services staff.

"238 Pittsfield Road builds on the progress that the Town of Lenox has made in addressing the region's pressing needs for affordable, family-sized rental housing," said Karmen Cheung, Regional Vice President at Pennrose. "This partnership with the Town of Lenox continues to deliver communities that give families of all sizes a place to call home. Together with Forge, these two communities reflect our long-term commitment to meeting the diverse housing needs of Berkshire families."

Currently only 7 percent of Lenox's housing stock is deed-restricted affordable, falling short of the 10 percent goal established by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Additionally, approximately 90 percent of the town's existing affordable housing is limited to seniors, and market-rate rental options remain sparse.

238 Pittsfield Road is located a mile down the road from Forge, a mixed-income community that celebrated its grand opening in August. Together, the two sister developments will add a total of 133 new affordable units to the town.

The project continues Pennrose's collaboration with the Town of Lenox and is guided by the goals of the Town's 2017 Housing Production Plan, 2021 Master Plan, and 2002 Gateway Redevelopment Plan.

The project is financed via federal 4 percent tax credit and state tax credit allocations from the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC), with the National Equity Fund as the syndicator and Rockland Trust and US Bank as the investors. Rockland also provided construction debt, and the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) provided both permanent debt and Workforce Housing Funds. MassDevelopment is the bond issuer, and EOHLC provided additional soft sources and operating subsidy. Finally, the Town of Lenox provided local Affordable Housing Trust and Community Preservation Act funds, as well as funds through the Commonwealth's HousingWorks Infrastructure Program (HWIP).

Haynes Construction is serving as general contractor and The Architectural Team as architect for the development.

Construction is underway and is expected to be completed in early 2028.

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