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...Arizona barber. Ulysses Kay left Tucson in 1938 with a degree from the University of Arizona and a strong urge toward music and composition. There was time for an M.A. at Rochester's Eastman School and advanced study at Tanglewood and Yale before Pearl Harbor. Then came the Navy and the hitch in the band. Finally, along with more study at Columbia on the G.I. Bill, came the succession of prizes and (since last year) a full-time job as editorial adviser in the Manhattan offices of Broadcast Music. Inc. (B.M.I.). His trip to Tucson was his first visit...
...enthusiasm was gratifying, but it also aggravated his old problem: whether he is a conductor, composer, pianist, or some workable combination of one or more of these. Opera makes a new distraction. "I'm fascinated by it,"he says. With a leave of absence from his chores at Tanglewood promised for this summer, he thinks he may go back to Europe and write a "real big opera." He is quite sure he could resist the distraction of podium and keyboard, , if only because it is harder to,,make flying trips now that the Bernstein menage includes wife, child...
...particular hope when she heard last summer that "one of my gods," veteran First Flutist Georges Laurent of the Boston Symphony, was retiring. But she had experience and solid training (at Rochester's Eastman School), and she applied for the position anyway. In July she traveled to Tanglewood for an audition with Conductor Charles Munch. She played him some Bach, waited while other applicants took their turns, then went back twice more to show what she could do with Debussy and Ravel. Munch took two months to decide. It was not until fortnight ago that a phone call came...
Music was as ubiquitous as Muzak at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass. last week. As the Boston Symphony's 16th summer season came to a close, Pianist Artur Rubinstein and Conductor Charles Munch performed for 10,000 listeners in & around the wall-less Music Shed. Then Leonard Bernstein took the podium to lead a concert and a revised version of his 35-minute-long opera, Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23). At week's end, there were three orchestral programs, one for chorus and one of chamber music. The grand finale : a 280-man performance of Berlioz...
Before the week was out, 4OO-odd young musicians of the Berkshire Music Center, which shares the well-clipped lawns of Tanglewood with the festival, had also wound up their six-week summer session -studying composition (with Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola), conducting (with Bernstein), and performance (with members of the orchestra). Their big show: Mozart's opera, La Clemenza di Tito, resurrected, rendered into English (and renamed Titus), produced and conducted by the New England Opera Company's Director Boris Goldovsky...