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Calendar
By Alice Eversmon

Calendar
By Alice Eversmon
The Berkshire Festival Of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra will
get underway this afternoon with
an an-Bach program as the first
event. 1t will be followed by .
Mozart program on Tuesday. the
special honoring Of these masters
comprising the preliminary con.
certs Of the larger series. ~
At the Berkshire Music Center.
chamber music and choral pro-
grams have been in progress sincs
July 4 as part Of the Festival.
This year. however, two special
events will be included. On Satur-
day, the Little Red House" Of
Tanglewood will be dedicated by
the National Federation Of Music
Clubs as shrine. and mammoth" t,
benefit on August by the Boston
Symphony and the Music Center
will be staged for the aid Of needy
musicians in Europe.
The Little Red House" Is the
building newly erected on the site
Of Hawthornes Red Cottage where
"The House Of the Seven Gables"
and THE Wonder Book" were writ
ten. 1t stands on the same founda-
tion and has outwardly the exact
appearance Of the cottage where
Hawthorne lived over q year and
where his daughter. Rose, was born.
Inside, however, 1t has been con-
structed for the music making that
will be heard there when 1t be-
comes the permanent adjunct Of
the Music Center at the persenta-
ton ceremonies on Saturday. DR..
Serge Koussevitzky. who will ac-
cept the gift, will have studios In +
1t for advanced orchestral con- :
Quoting.
Practice Studios Seat IS Each.
The restoration Of the cottage and
the gift Of 1t to the Berkshire Music
Center is the outcome Of the project
started in l94l by Mrs. Guy Patter- !,
son Gannett. then president Of the
National Federation. The war and
the difficulty in acquiring both
building permits and materials held
up the fulfillment Of the plan until
last summer Mrs. Royden J. Keith
had succeeded Mrs. Gannett by that
time as president Of the National
Federation, but the supervision Of
the building project remained In
Mrs. Gannett's hands.
The house has now two practice
studios seating IS people each, q
kitchen and reception room as well
as a lobby. There remains only the
garden to be planted as it was In
Hawthorne's day to complete the
external resemblance to the origin
al. even to the old pump which
supplied the author and his family
with water.
Present at the ceremonies will be
Manning Hawthorne Of West Tor.
rington, Conn, oldest living great.
grandson OF the author and Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, great.
grandson of the poet, who are COLI
laborating on book on Hawthorne.
Members OF the federation have
come from all parts of the country
for the celebration which, beside the
dedication, will include many social
events at which music will play q
large part, preceded by q concert
in honor Of the National Federation
by the Advanced Student Orchestra
on ON. Friday l,sa. conducted by Kous-
'Tangiewood on Parade"
The name "Tanglewood," where
the festival IL held, stems from
Hawthorne's writings. For the bene-
flt concert on August 3 the title of
the four-hour event will be 'Tangle-
wood on Parade" The students Of
the music center. each department.
identified by banners, will open the
festivities with . parade. There are
462 students.
Later performances Of the Or
chestral, choral, operatic and cham
Der music groups will be held In
their respective buildings and .
grand concert" will be led by DR..
Koussevitzky.
Taking part in the major events
will be Maurice Evans and Cornelia
Otis Skinner, who will apear In
excerpts from Shakespeare plays.
The benefit for the impoverished
musicians of Europe is in line with
Dr. Koussevitzky's generous thought
Of them during and after the war.
At the opening Of the Berkshire Mu-
sic Center on July he made q
plea that cultural as well as material
aid be sent to Europe, ITO the moral
ly hungry and mentally destitute
peoples" Knowing well by actual
experience that Europeans consider
this country as void Of cultural
foundation and interest" as he ex-
pressed 1t, he asks that everything
be done to dispel this conception.
It is q sound idea and one that
must be adopted by American mu-
sicians. Yet the task will be q diff
ficult one for 1t means the destrlc-
ton of barriers-that Of infinite re-
spect for the European musical
learning by those who for years
sought education there and by the
public who accepted what Europe
indorsed, and the feeling among
Europeans that Americans are tall =,
ented but not profound. Perhaps at :.
the music center, on which DR..
Koussevitzky will concentrate all his
attention after his retirement from
conducting next season, the way
may be found to solve these prob
lens.
WARREN ?. JOHNSON, csssnist
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