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Music was as ubiquitous as Muzak at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass. last week. As the Boston Symphony's 16th summer season came to a close, Pianist Artur Rubinstein and Conductor Charles Munch performed for 10,000 listeners in & around the wall-less Music Shed. Then Leonard Bernstein took the podium to lead a concert and a revised version of his 35-minute-long opera, Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23). At week's end, there were three orchestral programs, one for chorus and one of chamber music. The grand finale : a 280-man performance of Berlioz...
...devote only about two months to composition. He left his composing hideaway in Mexico to rush to Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's deathbed last summer, then agreed to conduct at Tanglewood and teach in Koussevitzky's place at the Berkshire Music Center. Lennie also substituted for Charles Munch as conductor of the Boston Symphony when Munch fell ill last winter. And he accepted a new double assignment: professor of music and director of the school of creative arts at Brandeis...
...collector in Fort Lauderdale sent Joan Miró's Dancer Listening to Organ Music in Gothic Cathedral; a San Franciscan contributed a sculpture by Britain's Henry Moore. From Switzerland, Norway and The Netherlands came such prizes as Henri Rousseau's The Hungry Lion, Edvard Munch's The Cry, and Marc Chagall's Homage to Apollinaire...
...assurance and ardor that bordered on fanaticism." L'Aurore's critic said, "Never before have we heard anything comparable to the sumptuous sonority of the strings and mordant quality of the trumpets." Said one Boston musician: "We did our best because we realized what it meant to Munch and Monteux to play in Paris...
Ahead for the Boston: The Hague, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfort, Berlin, Strasbourg (Munch's home town), Lyons...