{"id":278216,"date":"2026-09-03T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278216\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:54:09","slug":"letter-concerts-atop-mount-penn-worth-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278216\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Concerts atop Mount Penn worth a try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Kline\u2019s Aug. 26 Berks Country column (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/08\/26\/mountain-folklore-good-news-from-the-mountain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGetting good news from the mountain\u201d<\/a>) outlined Corrie Crupie-Zana\u2019s plan to build a stage and hold concerts by the tower on Mount Penn. I think it\u2019s a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>While visiting Stockbridge, Mass., I heard about a concert that evening at a place nearby called Tanglewood. The outdoor setting on the lawn with thousands of people was something I wasn\u2019t expecting. It was a memorable night, and we returned the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Tanglewood is known as \u201cWhere the Music Goes in the Summer.\u201d The Boston Pops and Boston Symphony play there on summer nights along with the likes of John Nash, our entertainer that first night.<\/p>\n<p>We could have a \u201cTanglewood at the Tower.\u201d I think the setting would be perfect, and people would be able to enjoy all the mountain and Skyline Drive have to offer. Maybe a visit to the Pagoda after the concert for a coffee or cocktail. I can see the trail of taillights winding down Duryea Drive. If you build it, they will come.<\/p>\n<p>I definitely would build the stage big enough to accommodate our own Reading Symphony. Wouldn\u2019t it be wonderful?<\/p>\n<p>Mark Schrum<\/p>\n<p>Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Kline\u2019s Aug. 26 Berks Country column (\u201cGetting good news from the mountain\u201d) outlined Corrie Crupie-Zana\u2019s plan to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-278216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}