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...Pittsfield, Mass, Oct. 3--A cow's tail is worth $50, Berkshire County Commissioners decided in upholding a damage suit brought by Mark Drumm of Stockbridge against the owner of a dog that chewed the bossy's fly swatter off. The Commissioners agreed with Drumm that insect annoyance after loss of the fail reduced the cow's value as a milk given...
...performances anywhere, four first in the U. S. On the wall was a new bronze tablet, proclaiming Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge the "fairy godmother of chamber music." The unfamiliar harmonies bewildered many of the Berkshire neighbors but they knew that the tablet was placed where it belonged: it was in Pittsfield. 16 years ago, that Mrs. Coolidge began to concentrate on musical philanthropies...
...series of personal griefs was responsible for the first quartet, which she hired to play in her home. Within 15 months she lost her mother, her father and her husband. Dr. Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge, Chicago surgeon, who in 1904 settled in Pittsfield for his health. Her father had been Albert Arnold Sprague of Chicago, a wealthy wholesale grocer who had indulged his daughter's desire to study the piano and compose. Her house quartet gave her the greatest satisfaction she had ever known. She chose its programs, watched always for undiscovered talent. Often she, too, played with a remote...
Conductor Frederick Stock suggested the Pittsfield Festivals and to house them Mrs. Coolidge bought a little Cape Cod church, dismantled it and moved it to South Mountain. She commissioned scores from composers. They would dedicate them to her, give her the manuscripts. In six years her collection and her concerts had such prestige that she decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music...
Through it all. friends say, Mrs. Coolidge has longed to return to the friendly Pittsfield atmosphere. There was no other explanation for having the festival there last week instead of in Washington. Outsiders understand that each new work earned $500 for its composer. There were four new U. S. offerings-a rambling Sonata by Henry Eichheim; a conservative Quintet by John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque...