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TANGLEWOOD INTERVIEW: Actors join Boston Symphony Orchestra for theatrical ‘Romeo and Juliet’ concert on Friday, July 11, in the Shed

The theatrical concert version of "Romeo and Juliet" does not feature the ballet’s full score. Instead, it features excerpts Director Bill Barclay selected to support a narrated theatrical experience.

CONNECTIONS: Christmas — as we know it — began in Stockbridge

Christmas as we know it—the trees and wreaths, bells and caroling, gifts and good food—is a 19th-century invention. The authors, literally, of the modern celebration were a Stockbridge spinster and a German immigrant: Catharine Sedgwick and Charles Follen.

CONNECTIONS: Puritans banned Christmas, Stockbridge restored it

The road from outlawing the celebration of Christmas to Christmas as we know it was a long one: 207 years from 1659 to 1856.
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