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...first success with the elegantly simple Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900, later designed the Helsinki railroad station and Finland's National Museum. An old friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and functionalism, Saarinen emigrated to the U.S. in 1923, designed (with his son) the Tanglewood Mass, music center and the Des Moines Fine Arts Center, worked unceasingly on his far-seeing city planning schemes...
Stanger was an assistant to Leonard Bernstein '39 at Tanglewood in 1943 and 1949. When he was there he conducted the main Tanglewood Orchestra several times. Last year he conducted the Wellesley College Orchestra...
Additional Summer School attractions are the July concerts of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and special trips to Tanglewood will bring the Berkshire Festival within easy access...
...evenings from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Emmanuel Church in Boston to read and play reportorial music of such well known composers as Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, and Sibelius, and to improve their knowledge of orchestra work. The group is planning several concerts to raise money for scholarships to Tanglewood, the Berkshire Music Center...
While the best many another U.S. symphony musician can hope for is a 20-week season, the Boston musicians, most of whom also play in the Boston "Pops" and at Tanglewood in the summer, get 49 paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...