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...Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, was one of the gayest musical spots in unmusical 18th-Century America. Musical centre of this musical spot was the colonial governor's palace. In its spacious salons, between sessions of the Virginia Legislature, such distinguished amateurs as Thomas Jefferson gathered to make sweet music on viols, flutes, harpsichords. Now Williamsburg, restored by the Rockefellers, looks much as it did 200 years ago. But for Colonial Williamsburg Inc., looks were not enough. It wanted to restore the sweet sounds...
Last year, on the advice of Carleton Sprague Smith, affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
...Maxwell Anderson, the Lunts, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones. Because these people believe that future health and expansion for the U. S. theatre lies in the hinterland rather than in hectic Manhattan, the site pro posed for their festival theatre was on the campus of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va. First prize...
...Williamsburg. Va.. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told a dumbfounded audience that the only value of the town's restoration by the Rockefellers was to "show us how little we need this type of architecture now." Said he: "What has been done for you, or to you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced our cause of modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left...
Editor of the Raleigh, Va. News and Observer, son of Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mexico, 36-year-old Jonathan Daniels began his tour of exploration at Arlington National Cemetery. On through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth...