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...handful of professionals, though he had anticipated Schoenberg's experiments in atonality by two decades. Not until two years later did really popular recognition begin to even the score. When Ives got the 1947 Pulitzer Prize (for a composition that lay unplayed in his West Redding, Conn, barn for more than 40 years), he was already 72. Last week, when the first American recording of his Second Symphony, performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, was released by Columbia, the old man had been dead for six years...
Vermont-where there's chamber music in the barn; see Music, "We Are All Students...
...most exciting chamber music recitals in the U.S. originate in a wooden box in a small, white clapboard cottage in Vermont. Into the box go requests for performances of everything from Mozart to Schoenberg; out of the box come twice-weekly concerts played in a converted cow barn by some of the world's most famed and gifted instrumentalists. Last week the barn echoed to Beethoven's Sextet in E-Flat, Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Occasion: a concert at Vermont's Marlboro Festival...
...TORNADO RIDE. A peaceful drive through farmland suddenly turns into a daymare as the customer gets what he's paid for. Caught in the core of a twister, he looks up to see barn doors, bodies, toilet seats, privy doors, cows, etc., whirling about his head in the howl and whoosh of a wind machine. The illusion is complete, as the tourist car actually moves slowly across the interior of a huge drum that spins at 75 revolutions per minute...
...theme of this book is one of the great, enduring cliches of U.S. literature: the dowager of a North Carolina first family finds her old way of life in ruins after the Yankee barn burners go home. But the variation on the theme-how in shoring up the fragments she found a little of herself as well-is, in Novelist Pierce's skilled hands, made almost...