Tanglewood & Other Woods

Music was as ubiquitous as Muzak at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass. last week. As the Boston Symphony's 16th summer season came to a close, Pianist Artur Rubinstein and Conductor Charles Munch performed for 10,000 listeners in & around the wall-less Music Shed. Then Leonard Bernstein took the podium to lead a concert and a revised version of his 35-minute-long opera, Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23). At week's end, there were three orchestral programs, one for chorus and one of chamber music. The grand finale : a 280-man performance of Berlioz' massive Requiem.

Before the week was out, 4OO-odd young musicians of the Berkshire Music Center, which shares the well-clipped lawns of Tanglewood with the festival, had also wound up their six-week summer session --studying composition (with Aaron Copland, Luigi Dallapiccola), conducting (with Bernstein), and performance (with members of the orchestra). Their big show: Mozart's opera, La Clemenza di Tito, resurrected, rendered into English (and renamed Titus), produced and conducted by the New England Opera Company's Director Boris Goldovsky.

All across the U.S. last week, the midsummer air was resounding more or less tunefully as thousands of other summer music students neared commencement time with a scraping of catgut, tootling of brass and a thumping of piano keys. Among them:

P: The National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., where 1,600 students from eight through college age take lessons on their instruments, play in orchestras, sing in choruses, dance, paint, act and live a rugged life in rustic surroundings.

P: L'Ecole Monteux, at Hancock, Maine, where 50 young (average age: 30) professionals take a month of intensive podium training at Conductor Pierre Monteux's own school.

P: Salzedo Harp Colony, in Camden, Maine, where Harpist Carlos Salzedo teaches his technique to 38 men and women in an idyllic setting. Part of the curriculum: costume and deportment so that the performers may properly grace the stage when they play in symphony orchestras.

P: Composers' Conference and Chamber Music Center at Bennington, Vt., where about 50 composers and instrumentalists gather for two weeks in August to play for each other and the public.

Besides the special summer setups, the year-round institutions were also going full blast: 363 students at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, 400 at Manhattan's Juilliard, 1,300 at the University of Wisconsin's School of Music. Crowed Teacher Lotte Lehmann (in Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West): "What has Salzburg got that we haven't got?"

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