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...catalogues and locomotives set raucously to music. Since then, two of the six are all but forgotten. Two more became familiar names to U.S. concertgoers: Darius Milhaud, who constructs brassy, dissonant symphonies at California's Mills College, and Arthur Honegger, a hit the past two summers at Tanglewood. U.S. movie audiences heard Georges Auric's scores in such movies as Caesar and Cleopatra. That left No. 6 unaccounted for. Last week he reached...
Goldovsky, who made a place on the concert and lecture platform long before his operas began to draw critical praise, holds one unshakable belief: that acting and direction are as vital to opera as singing and orchestration. In his summers at Tanglewood, he has trained not only a fine corps of performers but also a small group of directors, musicians, and production...
Last year's production of "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni" proved to all who saw them the advantages of this new fluidity in opera. Mozart's "Idomoneo", produced at Tanglewood in 1947 for the first time on this continent, was a superb example of Goldovsky's ability to produce works considered impossible by most companies...
...usually affable musician works up a fine contempt discussing the Metropolitan Opera Company, which he claims has horribly stunted the growth of American opera. His early Tanglewood work amazed the New York critics, who have since learned that an evening of opera need not be four hours of vocalizing by a group of overweight prima-donnas...
Mies Addison, a vivacious young artist from Springfield, has had considerable experience on the concert and opera stage. She spent last summer under Beris Goldovshy at Tanglewood, and has made various appearances this winter...