Lenox

American  

[len-uhks] / ˈlɛn əks /

noun

1. a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate Tanglewood in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.

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Example Sentences

Enchanted with Lenox, Mass., and the rustic charm of the Berkshires, they bought a large portion of the historic Wheatleigh estate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another pianist, Dave Brubeck, spent more than one summer in residence there with his family, teaching at the short-lived but influential Lenox School of Jazz—the same program that jolted the jazz establishment in 1959 by cultivating a pair of brash young originals, the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and the trumpeter Don Cherry, joint heralds of an incipient avant-garde.

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Mr. Gennari, who grew up in Lenox—a little too late for the splendors of Music Inn, except as a point of community pride—is perfectly equipped to tell this tale.

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He traces the seismic impact of Martin Williams’s “A Letter From Lenox, Massachusetts,” which championed Coleman in the Jazz Review.

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And he shows how Music Inn incubated a “Third Stream” hybrid of jazz and classical music through the work of the composer Gunther Schuller and others at the Lenox School of Jazz.

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