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Britten's Peter Grimes, first produced in London in June 1945, had already been sung in Swedish in Stockholm, in Flemish in Antwerp, in German in Basel and Zurich. Last week at Serge Koussevitzky's summer music colony at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, U.S. audiences heard three performances in English...
...Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who directed the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...
...since Serge Koussevitzky introduced Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor in 1939 had there been such a buzz of anticipation in the Berkshires. Six thousand musical pilgrims, who had bought their tickets weeks in advance, sat shivering in Tanglewood's Music Shed. Outside, in the chilly evening, another 2,000 huddled in the dew-covered grass. They were gathered to hear the U.S. premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's new Ninth Symphony...
Next week, Tanglewood and its neighboring villages of Lenox and Stockbridge will be crammed with visitors anxious to hear what the rehearsing was about. They will hear the 110-man Boston Symphony Orchestra in nine concerts. U.S. premieres: Dmitri Shostakovich's new and brief (25-minute) Ninth Symphony, which Koussevitzky enthusiastically describes as "absolutely classic in form until sometimes it is very near to Haydn," and Peter Grimes, a widely touted opera in English by England's Benjamin Britten, commissioned by Koussevitzky and first played in London in 1945. The student production will be conducted by Leonard Bernstein...
...Koussevitzky, who will be 72 next week, is as full of energy-and superlatives-as ever. Says he: "At Tanglewood we will have all the great writers and artists and musicians working together. We will compose tragedies of our life in the Greek manner. In America today we have tragedies not less than the Greeks...