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...After a three-year intermission for the war, Tanglewood at Lennox, Mass., was again the scene...
Goldovsky has had considerable experience in operatic production, having done work in Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Tanglewood. His casts will come primarily from those ventures, although local talent has been auditioned and will be used. The performances are guaranteed professional, and any slovenly work will be noticed and corrected by authorities...
...Koussevitzky had commissioned Peter Grimes in memory of his late wife, and he proudly proclaimed it the greatest opera since Carmen. He did not conduct its U.S. première, but left it to his prize protégé, Manhattan's Leonard Bernstein. The crowd in Tanglewood's barnlike opera theater got three hours of violent and raw emotion, and agreed that in plot, at least, Peter Grimes had much in common with Bizet's lurid tale of smuggling and murder...
...different evenings in singing Peter Grimes. Tenors Joseph Laderoute and William Home in the title role wrestled with the high notes which Britten had created for his good friend Tenor Peter Pears (pronounced Peers) whose coloratura-like soarings are a legend in England. The most unimpressed member of the Tanglewood audience was Composer Britten himself. Said he stiffly: "There's no use pretending it was professional. ... It was a very lively student performance...
Song for God. When he was eight years old Benjamin Britten revealed his unorthodox musical behavior by writing an angry song to be sung by God. He wrote a U.S. operetta named Paul Bunyan which got no place. At Tanglewood he glumly watched rehearsals wearing a pearl-grey jacket, a yellow tie and strap sandals...