In Frigid Early Spring, Lining Up for a Rite of Summer in Western Massachusetts
The temperature was 25 degrees at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, with wind-whipped flurries in the air, as Gary Soldati pulled his pickup truck into the parking lot at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s outdoor concert venue in the Berkshires region of Massachusetts. Four hours remained before tickets for the summer season went on sale. Even…