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...Romano's Restaurant around the corner, many an oldtimer with a battered fiddle case shook his head sadly over his beer. Summer was over for the Philharmonic orchestra; it had been about as quiet as a monsoon. The open-air season at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium had piled up the largest deficit in the orchestra's 25-year history, most of which is written in red ink. Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning had demolished the sound shell...
Well, the summer season's over, and taken all in all it was a good season. More people than ever before flocked to the musical attractions at the Hollywood Bowl, the Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell, the Lewisohn Stadium and the Berkshire Festival, making it obvious to all eyes that the Americans are fast becoming the most music-loving and music-conscoius public in the world, if they haven't become so already...
...Lewisohn Stadium and the Berkshire Festival seem to me to illustrate very strikingly the two fundamental ideals of music presentation, and the difficulty, not to say insurmountability, of combining them. One ideal is that of hearing the best music performed by the best conductors, orchestras, and soloists, and clearly the Festival satisfies this requirement. The other is the equally important need of bringing music to the masses of the people frequently and at low prices, a condition abundantly fulfilled by the Stadium. But both of these topnotch institutions fall wretchedly short of one or the other goal...
Sportscaster Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, official announcer over Mutual's WOR of all games of the Brooklyn ("Them Bums") Dodgers (see p. 46), served as commentator with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony this week. He broadcast from the Lewisohn Stadium (where the Philharmonic played) Composer Robert Russell Bennett's Symphony in D for the Dodgers (TIME, May 26). In the Fourth Movement, "The Giants Come to Town," Red Barber chanted, against a rising crescendo...
Last week the Bostonians ended their third and most extensive summer (nine concerts) in the Shed. Though these nine concerts were small potatoes beside the 52 at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, the 24 at California's Hollywood Bowl, the Berkshire Festival, because of the polished perfection of its performances, still held its place as the No. 1 U. S. summer musical event. Its most ambitious undertaking this year: a performance of Bach's mighty B Minor Mass (with four top-notch soloists and a local chorus trained by Harvard's G. Wallace Woodworth) that would have...