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...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...
Harvey Robinson '52, of Hollis Hall and Pittsfield, was elected chairman of the Union dance committee at a meeting Wednesday night in the Common Room. Chester Gordon '52 will act as business manager...
...trim little Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass, was fairly bursting with sculptured emotion last week. Some figures wept, some prayed, some chewed their nails. Another sat on a pedestal and seemed to scream...
...living artist. The rest, all done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian Sculptor de Strobl's vaster ideas look blown up (see below...
...From Pittsfield, Mass., a TIME reader and his wife write: "Please tell us how to reach the right people or organizations to put something like this across. We have the interest and the will...