Evening star., 1953-06-21
News Of Music
Festivals on the Air
Berkshire Programs Are Among Those
On CBS Summer Broadcast Schedule
News Of Music
By Alice Eversmon

The important European
music festivals that draw
crowds Of American tourists
each year, will be heard, in
part at least, over the Colum-
bia BroadcaSting System this
summer. Now. for the first
time in many seasons. an
American event will be includ-
ed in CBS'S program Of inter-
national festivals. Four of the
Berkshire Festival programs
will be sent out over a coast
forecast network.
To facilitate the sending Of
the Berkshire programs on
July 26. August 2, 9, and 16.
Charles Munich, conductor OF
the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira, has changed the hour Of
the Sunday concerts from 3
pm. to 2::30 pm. This will
permit an hour and a half Of
the programs to be heard over,
the air with the remaining
numbers, following the inter-
mission. being played for the
TangleWood audience only.
Worthy RivoIs
It is regrettable that these
concerts cannot be broadcast
internationally. They can vie
with any of the orchestral
events scheduled abroad for
scope and variety Of content
and for artistic delivery. The
effort made to acquaint the
music public Of this country
with what is going on in Europe
should not be made with the
sacrifice Of the American angle.
BY now, the European festivals
that have become part of musi-
cal tradition and have been
regarded almost with rever-
ance, have rivals in this coun-
try worthy of being interna-
tionally publicized. Certainly
the Berkshire Festival, the
18th since the concerts we're
inaugurated in 1884, Is one of
them.
Strouss and RoveI
The program for July rs,
which follows the customary
Bach Mozart Haydn series.
will be broadcast from the
Theater-C Concert Hall. It will
consist of Strauss 'Diverti-
mento after Couperin," Ravel's
LIE Tombeau de Couperin,"
Prokof1eff's Classical Symph-
ony," and Milhaud's la Crea-
ton du Monde" The part not
to be heard over the air will
be the performance Of Lukas
Foss' new cantata, "a Parable
of Death" The text is taken
from Rainer Maria Rilke'S
"Geschichten vom lieben Gott,"
and was commissioned by the
Louisville Orchestra which pre-
miered it on March II. It is
written for narrator, chorus,
tenor soloist and orchestra.
Vera Zorina, who was one of
the speakers in the Philadel-
phia Orchestra's presentation
of Honegger's Jeanne dare
au bucher," last November,
will be the narrator.
Pierre MonteuX conducts the
all-Tschaikowsky program on
August 2 from the Music Shed
with Jorge Bolet as soloist in
the concerto after the inter-
mission. Mr.. Munich will be
back on the podium for the
August 8 broadcast, directing
Schubert's Symphony No. S."
Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
and Strauss Don Quixote."
Gregor Piatigorsky and Joseph
de Pasquale take the solo por-
tions in the latter work and
Piatigorsky will play Saint
Saens' Concerto for Cello"
for the Tanglewood audience.
The final broadcast Of August
Is closes with excerpts from
Wagner's operas, preceded by
Schubert's Unfinished" Sym
phony and Chabrier'S "Bour-
rec Fantasque." Seymour Lip
kin's performance Of Ravels
piano Concerto for the Left
Hand" will not be broadcast.
Little Motive Music
It is remarkable to note,
however, that with the excep-
ton of Barber'S "Adagio."
Copland's Appalachian n
Spring." programmed on July