Word: tanglewood
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...BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL (July 5-Aug. 25) evokes the shade of the late great Serge Koussevitzky, who conducted the initial summer concerts of the Boston Symphony, and of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who once lived in a little red cottage on the edge of the 210-acre estate called Tanglewood. Wrote Hawthorne: "There is a glen between this house and the lake through which winds a little brook with pools, and tiny waterfalls over the great roots of trees . . . Beyond the lake is Monument Mountain, looking like a headless sphinx wrapped in a Persian shawl, when clad in the rich and diversified autumnal...
Ozawa, 27, is already a conductor honored in many lands, but not in his own. He left Japan four years ago, successively won first place (and 100,000 francs) in the Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre, the Koussevitzky Memorial Scholarship for the best young conductor at Tanglewood, and a place at the side of Leonard Bernstein as an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic...
...more concerts are scheduled for the chorus. On August 9 the group will sing at the Castle Hill Music Festival. It returns home for a televised performance in Sanders Theatre on August 16.Listening at Tanglewood...
...open shed required powerful voices and assurance of one's own part. To achieve this, Miss Hiatt asked the members to practice special breathing methods and mild calisthenics. The chorus also practiced singing while sitting in the audience section of Paine Hall. This simulated the accoustics of the Tanglewood shed, where sound is only projected outwards, making it almost impossible for the different sections of the chorus to hear each other. Some accoustical problems, however, could not be anticipated or prepared for. On the day of the concert, after three sunny rehearsal days at Tanglewood, the rains came. The sound...
...initial weeks of the Chorus' existence were not entirely devoted to rehearsal, although most of it was spent in song. When not rehearsing, the members flocked together around guitars and recorders. Singing in busses, men's rooms, snack counters, and the lake shores of Tanglewood, they continually attracted attention...