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...Tanglewood Tour...
...Serge Koussevitsky who, for so many modern American composers, was a source of both income and inspiration. Koussevitsky, Thompson recalls, "had a genius for challenging you into writing a work. It was at his insistance that I composed, on extremely short notice, a chorus for all the students at Tanglewood to sing at the festival's dedication in 1940. He made it sound like the most important commission ever offered a composer...
Chavez, called by music critic Paul Rosenfeld "the most important living Latin-American composer," has conducted more than 28 symphony orchestras in the Western Hemisphere in the last 25 years, including a guest appearance at the Tanglewood Concerts...
...could get) also consumed evening time. Some students asked for more social events, others for a less formally organized program; those who did not go away weekends found nothing planned after the Friday mixers, and Cambridge offered little to amuse them. A trip to Tanglewood and a tennis tournament which seemed always to be just getting underway were special events...
...came, to be entertained by panem and circenses. The panis was 600 gallons of rather watery punch, served on Wednesday afternoons in the Yard. The circus consisted of a plenthora of diversions, from concerts at Tanglewood to mixers in the Union...