Abstract

Music

This article presents information on the Berkshire festivals. It is only in recent years that the Berkshire Festivals have acquired a little of a real festival character by offering special events in addition to the mere repetition of the Boston Symphony's winter standard repertory that Serge Koussevitzky, a Soviet born U.S. orchestral conductor, offered in the initial years. The opera last summer was Woolfgang Mozart's "Idomeneo," for which one could not be sufficiently grateful to Boris Goldovsky. This summer it will be Gioacchino Rossini's unfamiliar "II Turco in Italia," which, according to Francis Toye contains some delightful numbers, notably a quartet, a quintet, and a duet between the heroine and her husband that must be accounted as one of the most plastic and varied essays of the kind ever written by the composer.