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...Tanglewood, Edinburg, the various Stratfords, and other sites of art festivals throughout the world have nothing on Cambridge this summer. For within the walls of Harvard University, operating "in cooperation with the Summer School," there will presently arise a new festival devoted not to the works of one playwright or composer but to a long neglected style of dramatic production...
...Neill. An old miser dangles a noose from a barn rafter, hoping his son will hang himself. Instead, the son decides to torture the miser into revealing his money's hiding place. Composer Mennini spent a summer learning the ins and outs of opera composition at Tanglewood, and used his knowledge well. The rub was the music; it seemed too charmingly melodious for the gruesome plot...
...Town), and is regarded as one of the most talented of U.S. conductors. Two years ago, with five days' preparation, he directed Milan's La Scala orchestra in the seldom-staged Medea of Cherubini, starring Maria Callas. To composing and conducting, he added teaching at Tanglewood and Brandeis University, spends his spare moments with his wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre, and three-year-old daughter. He worries that he may be scattering his talent: "Diversification means you can arrive brand-new and fresh at each undertaking, but you may also lose your line of development, especially in composing...
Conductor Hugh Ross turned to the Tanglewood Choir and gave an incisive downbeat. Moderate, mezzo forte crescendo, basses and then tenors intoned the first portentous words: "Who must file." Sixty young voices joined in the first performance of a modern madrigal called Lament for April 75. Its lyrics: excerpts from the U.S. income-tax instructions...
Berkshire Festival (Mon. 8:15 p.m., NBC). Charles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Mass...