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Many a U.S. dancer stashes away part of her winter's earnings in her tights, to satisfy a summer ambition. She wants to get to Jacob's Pillow, the Tanglewood of the dance. Last week, while city studios gathered dust, the thrifty, as well as the talented who can get scholarships, were doing their pirouettes, entrechats and extensions in the spruce air of a 200-acre Berkshire farm...
...early in Tanglewood's season, and the sounds that came out of the Berkshire woods were more cacophonous than symphonic. In the vast Music Shed, a student orchestra was rehearsing; in a nook of the carefully pruned gardens, a student agonized in solitude with his French horn. Strolling amid these sights & sounds was a short chunk of a man with a square face and a wild mane, who looked like a composer. He was-he was also guest of honor at Serge Koussevitzky's Berkshire Music Festival. His name: Arthur Honegger...
Last week, between teaching classes in composition at Tanglewood, Composer Honegger toyed with a lunch of roast ham and pineapple (a gastronomic dissonance he had never encountered in France) and talked about his music. He had no favorites: "Our works are rather like our children, children that are grown up and married. Once completed, they start on a life of their own." The Boston Symphony scheduled one of the children, Symphony for Strings, for its first major Berkshire concert next week...
Among scores of rotting and deserted New England summer palaces whose owners have decided that taxes and the servant problem were too much for them, one in the Massachusetts hills has achieved a final use which places it in a position unique on this continent. "Tanglewood," the Berkshire estate where Nathaniel Hawthorne reputedly wrote several of his major works, has become the summer home of more than four hundred music students from all over the world, who combine a summer of study under topnotch instructors with the chance to hear a baker's dozen of concerts by the Boston Symphony...
...Tanglewood season should produce a varied and expertly-presented program for the music-lover. It's a long haul from Cambridge, taking even the most inspired driver about four hours, but the Cambridge-worn student could hardly find a better place to forget the heat than here where Dr. Koussevitzky and his staff have accomplished a musical miracle for America's youth...