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...peculiarly fitting that a Brahms chamber-music cycle, a veritable Brahmsi-orgy, spread out over no less than two months, should have been celebrated this Summer at the "Temple of Chamber Music" at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Eight concerts were heard on successive Sunday afternoons, the last taking place on Aug. 31. The event was made possible by the financial devotion of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, a real patroness, and by the artistic devotion of Maestro Willem Willeke, a real musician...
Nevertheless, the audiences at Pittsfield were large and enthusiastic (after their fashion) throughout the festival. They listened with intense and breathless concentration to the gradual development of embryo themes into tall, symmetrical skyscrapers of tone. When we add to this the fact that, in "popular" outdoor concerts this Summer, the concertos of Bach, the overtures of Beethoven and the symphonies of Brahms were among the best liked numbers, we can find ample refutation of the contentions of those deadheads who complain that U. S. Jazzmania is undermining the respect always due to the great triumvirate-"the three...
...secure large-scale results. Ultraviolet rays have the peculiar property of making the air through which they pass a conductor for electrical currents. They can be directed, and it is possible that a method will be devised for sending high-frequency "lightning" such as was produced in the Pittsfield laboratories by Faccioli (TIME, June 18, 1923) over an ultraviolet track. Such a combination would indeed be a fatal ray. Meanwhile, a prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without...
...Cummings C. Chesney, manager Pittsfield Works, General Electric Co., pioneer in polyphase and high-voltage transmission...
...skating, 100-yds., paced: Everett McGowan of St. Paul, 4 1/5 sec., in Pittsfield, Mass...