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...Berkshire Festival, on the other hand, is musically irreproachable. Koussevitzky himself directs nine splendid concerts a year. And in addition to the concerts themselves, other musical activities are beginning to center around Tanglewood. On a nearby mountain, a very fine string quartet gives a series of weekly concerts extending throughout the summer, with well-known pianists as guest artists, and on another mountain a fine ballet festival extends for several weeks, performing nearly every...
...baton of Serge Koussevitzky, delicately perform each year a carefully chosen sheaf of symphonies for visitors and tourists at Stockbridge in Massachusetts' Berkshire Hills. In & around an acoustically perfect, wedge-shaped $80,000 pavilion (called with New England sobriety a "Music Shed"), which rises on the greensward at Tanglewood, where Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote, visiting Boston Brahmins and socialites, whether lying down or sitting up, take their summer music as critically as their winter...
...years pilgrims have gone to the No.1 U. S. summer music shrine, the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, to admire the precision of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the benevolent tyranny of its greying conductor, Serge Koussevitzky. This year, besides the festival, Tanglewood houses a new project also dear to Koussevitzky, the Berkshire Music Center, intended to be a top-flight summer school for musicians...
...Tanglewood he brought Composers Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith to teach composition; G. Wallace Woodworth, Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Music, for choral instruction; Herbert Graf, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director, to teach opera dramatics; New York Times Music Editor Olin Downes, Composer Roy Harris, and many another to lecture. By last week the month-old centre, with its 300-odd students, had worked its creator up into a well-turned ecstasy. Said Koussevitzky: "How can I speak of something part of myself, so much of my heart, a cherished ideal? It's like my child...
...With its tanglewood of woozy detail, the Dream of Venus took months to assemble, twice postponed its opening. A typical headache was to find water for "Venus's Pre-natal Château" tank that was clear and nondistorting. Ordinary filtered city water finally filled the bill. Another headache was to find 17 girls able to do virtually a vaudeville act under water. Some, like puckish little Kelcey Carr (see cut}, were plucked out of Greenwich Village dives, some were recruited from strictly amateur ranks through friends of the management. All are comely and most...