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A press release announcing the commencement of the very first Summer Music Festival, listing many familiar names seen in other sources regarding the first concert. The release announces "to the name of Tanglewood, Aspen and Hollywood and Stony Brook, Long Island". It lists a capacity crowd of 2,000 expected. It describes Long Island as "culturally and geographically" being 'well suited for a major music festival... As one of the most important and fastest growing territories in the United States...with leaders in the arts and sciences." (Drafts of releases are housed in physical archive.)