Tanglewood's an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts and's the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. It's been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. History Tanglewood was named for American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne, on the advice of his publisher William Ticknor, rented a small cottage in March 1850 from William Aspinwall Tappan in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, a sort of i… (More on Tanglewood)