Word: mahkeenac
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...Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky favorite, beat out a frenzied boogie-woogie...
Tuesday night was spent at the "Oaklawn House" of Mr. E. G. Laird in Stockbridge. Yesterday morning the group resumed their tour, and visited eight more estates, of which three were situated on the shore of Lake Mahkeenac, Lenox. One of these, owned by Mrs. Carlos de Heredie, is of the Italian Renaissance style, constructed with colored brick and rarified ironwork. Another, that of Mrs. Albert R. Shattuck, was planned by Mrs. Edith Wharton, a well-known amateur landscape architect, Mr. Harris Fahnestock's estate in Lenox, the last to be observed, was studied chiefly because of its many gardens...
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