New-York tribune., 1922-09-24
Berkshire Chamber
Festival to Take
Place This Week
Five Hundred Invitations
Issued for Each Concert
by Mrs. Coolidge; Affairs
Will Be Held in Temple
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BERKSHIRE HILLS, Mass, Sept. %.
Mrs. Frederick s. Coolidge has is
sued 500 invitations for each of the
concerts to be given at the fifth an
nual Berkshire chamber music festival
IN her temple of music on South Noun
tain, in Pittsfeld, next Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. She has engaged
the Maplewood Hotel for the closing
reception to be given on next Satura
day night in honor of visiting mu-
sicians and other guests.
The temple of music is in beauti-
full park on the southern slope of South
Mountain, made famous by Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. The building is unpre-
tentious, being constructed of wooden
beams "a feet long ard IL inches in
diameter and wide, rough boards, all
of which were taken from textile mill
in Dalton. 1t is open to the rafters
Cushioned pews from a Methodist
Church in Concord, n. H., are the COM
Portable seats. The acoustics of the
hall are perfect.
The New York trio, composed of
Clarence Adler, piano; Scipione Guidi,
violin, and Cornelius Van Vliet, cello,
will present the third program on Fri
day afternoon. The string quartet of
the San Francisco Chamber Music So
and that afternoon will come the cli-
max of the festival in the presentati
by the Vending Quartet, assisted by
Ernest Hutcheson, piano, of Leo Vein
er's string quartet in T sharp minor,
which won Mrs. Coolidge's $1,000 prize
this year for the best quartet compost
tion submitted in competition.
MIR. George E. Turnure, of New York,
whose gifts to the 'Lenox Brotherhood
already total more than S25,000 is to
finance the building of the new $4,000
clubhouse on Walker Street, the con-
tract for which was let this week
Bowling alleys already built and
gymnasium now under construction are
to be connected with the new club. The
Brotherhood owns the property that
for many years was the home of the
Lenox Club until it bought the DR..
Richard C. Greenleaf estate
Mrs Andrew Carnegie has declined
to sell Shadowbrook her Lenox palace,
for hotel purposes. The villa and
grounds are to be kept up in the same
perfect condition they always have
been since the property was bought by
Mr.. Carnegie. Mrs. Carnegie expects
to be in Lenox when the foliage is at
It's height in October.
The Vending string quartet of
Stuttgart, Germany, will make its first
appearance in this country at the first
concert on Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
Coolidge, who is a gifted pianist, will
play in the Brahms program at the sec
ond concert on Friday morning, and
the other artists will be Mrs. Pablo
Casals, sopranos; George Hamlin, tenor;
contralto; Boris Saslavski, barytone;
Ernest Hutcheson, piano; Georges
Grisez, clarinet, and Hugo Kortschak,
viola.
The oldest autumn visitor in Lenox
is Mrs. j. Kearny Warren, of New
York, who is at the Curtis Hotel in
Lenox. Although ninetyfour years of
age she is very active and is q frequent
dinner and luncheon guest at the villas.
DR.. and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler
and Miss Sara Schuyler Butler, of New
York, were at the Curtis a part of the
week while en- route from Poland
Springs, Me-, to their city home.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. B. Freling
huysen and family, who were at the
Curtis, visited the Eastern States Ex-
position at Springfield.
Others arriving were Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick B. Stimson, of New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan G. Barnwell, of
Tuxedo; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Emlen Smith,
of Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Parker and Mrs. Charles Hurd Howell,
of Boston.
Mr.. Henry n. league, who has made
great success as manager and lessee
Of the Greylock Hotel at Williamstown,
has taken ten-year lease of the new
Miramir Hotel, which is to be opened
at Miami, Fla, the first Of January,
Arrivals at the Greylock this week in
clude Mr.. and Mrs. Sewell T. Tying, Mr..
and Mrs. Payson Merrill, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. J. Fullerton, Mrs. Henry A. Pattcr-
son and Mr.. and Mrs. W. Ruloff Kip,
Mr.. and Mrs ]. A. Cameron, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. A. Crawford, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mansfield Perry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White are hav-
ing series of brilliant weekend
house parties at Elm Court which will
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