Tanglewood Summer Looking Strong

At Hampton Terrace in Lenox, summer reservations are coming in sooner than in past years. A couple of factors seem to be responsible. For the second year, the Boston Symphony announced their summer schedule in November instead of February and public sale of tickets occurred in February instead of April. Last year it did not seem to make that much difference in summer reservations as I think many people were caught off-guard and followed their old habit of not looking for the Tanglewood schedule until after New Year's. Possibly those people were surprised to find many seats already sold by the time they became aware that tickets were already on sale. This year we had a rush of calls in November. The other reason for a good summer has to do with the value of the dollar, the hassle of air travel and the cost of gas. Visitors to the Berkshires are generally affluent…people who regularly travel to Europe, the Carribean or to the west coast. This year, for the reasons mentioned above, they are committing a tank of gas instead and planning a long weekend in the Berkshires. We don't mind. CLICK HERE.