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Although U.S. foundations have poured out millions in support of the nation's composers, the big money has usually gone to the big names. For many a talented newcomer, a musical grubstake is still virtually impossible to find. In the audience at Tanglewood last week sat a man who has committed much of his time and most of his fortune to changing all that. He is 49-year-old Chicago Wine Importer Paul Fromm, and he was at Tanglewood to hear the works of two of his protégés, Ben Weber's Serenade for Strings...
...daughter to the temptations of a large inheritance.) He regards as one of his major triumphs the liberation of Composer Benjamin Lees (TIME, May 7) from the stress of film music writing. "If Ben kept it up, he would go to pieces musically," says Fromm. Last week's Tanglewood concert helped to get Composer Epstein a music teaching job. "We need the young composers far more than they need us," says Fromm. "All the foundation can do is see that they don't have to sell neckties...
...Tanglewood and the beaches are fine places to spend the weekend. But some students come to the Summer School to study. What are the chances of being able to study in weekends during the Harvard Summer School session...
...real music lovers' mecca, the piece de resistance of the whole summer's entertainment schedule, will be the annual Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, in the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Here symphony, choral and chamber music concerts will be given for six weeks, July 4 (this Wednesday) to August 12, on what the press agent calls "the spacious pine-clad estate where a century ago Nathaniel Hawthorne was a guest and told his 'Tanglewood Tales...
Many Summer School students will be taking to the Berkshires on their own each weekend, but for those without cars or with an especially gregarious spirit, the School will arrange a special group trip to Tanglewood on August 3, 4 and 5. Tickets for the trip, which can be purchased at the Yard, provide for bus transportation, comfortable lodgings, and concert tickets for the whole weekend, and cost...