Word: caramoor
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...This summer he will play at the Marlboro chamber music festival in Vermont before performing the Brahms double concerto with the Orchestra of Saint Luke's at the Caramoor Festival, which he describes as a smaller version of Tanglewood...
...CARAMOOR, devoted only partly to opera, is located 40 miles from Manhattan in exurban Katonah and thus barely qualifies as regional. But its locale, an Italian villa surrounded by 180 wooded acres, makes the summeiiong festival a remote, ethereal world apart. Opera performances are held in a 1,500-seat outdoor Venetian theater. The stage is built around three dozen 9th century Greek and Roman columns smuggled out of Italy decades ago and subsequently bought by the late Walter and Lucie Rosen, who owned Caramoor...
...also music director of Washington's new John F. Kennedy Center. As if that were not work enough, he is also consultant to the Wolf Trap Farm summer festival in Vienna, Va., and is music director of both the Cincinnati May Festival and the elegant, intimate Caramoor summer festival in New York's Westchester County...
...Caramoor Festival in Katonah, N.Y., which every June and July presents new and rarely heard works in the Renaissance setting of a 180-acre estate...
...afternoon of the performance, seated in a back row with her shawl around her shoulders, was the grande dame of Caramoor herself: Mrs. Lucie Bigelow Rosen. A sprightly woman in her late 70s, she is the widow of Walter Rosen, a multimillionaire investment banker who built Caramoor (from the Italian for "dear love") in 1930 and spent the rest of his life filling it with art treasures. He was an amateur pianist, and she made music on the theremin (an electronic instrument that is played by waving the hands over a magnetic field to produce strange, mellifluous wailings...