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Concerning your splendid article on Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. (“Where Music’s in the Air,” March 16) in Traveling in Style magazine, I would like to say there is a way to enjoy a concert at Tanglewood without making reservations.

On the afternoon before a concert, the conductor holds a dress rehearsal, and the public may attend for a greatly reduced price. The last time I attended, my family and I picnicked right in the music shed, out of the sun. During the playing of Mahler’s Third Symphony, Seiji Ozawa, the music director, interrupted the flow of music perhaps twice; otherwise, it was exactly as was to be heard that night.

KATHERINE McCORMACK

Tarzana