March 27, 1955 (vol. 65, iss. 124) • Page Image 7
… TRAVEL SUPPLEMENT 1 2UIr4lilaU lJattg SUNDAY MAGAZINE Sunday, March 27, 1955 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN PAGE ONE _. I r - + wr+ PICTURESQUE FRAME: The village of Thun in the Bernese Oberland…
…- tionally a little more frantic than that of Cannes. The Festival here takes place in the heat of August and has the full complement of blue-jeaned auto- graph seekers who gather before the theaters in the…
…, Music Literature NEXT SUMMER, when thousands of Americans flock to Europe, the man- agers of music festivals will nightly thank the gods for the naive idea that great music is even greater in impressive…
…. Many Americans not yet aware of this will leave the festivals disappointed. The average American, accustomed to our bigness of sound and technical super- iority, has no conception of the varieties of the…
… characteristic European intensity of subtlety and nuance. He will be almost as confused by European musical insight as he is with the strange language he hears. He will also be chagrined to find these festivals…
… featuring his own American per- formers, a number sponsored this year by ANTA, the American National Theatre and Academy. The New York Philhar- monic, for instance, will again highlight the Edinburgh Festival…
…, and the New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra will each manage to hit a number of festivals. (Even Europeans suffer from the demands of virtuosos; I see that this latter group will climax…
… the Strasbourg Festival with Yardumian's Armenian Suite, so begrudgingly received at our own May Festival last year), THE ATTITUDE of most festival-goers (which they will never admit), is that the music…
… more important than the music performed in them. Many Americans will even wonder what Yardumian has to do with Strasbourg, and why his musi is not performed in a special festival in Armenia (which, after…
… all, may not be a bad idea). Mr. Yardumian notwithstand- ing, the festival programs seem excep- tionally ambitious and appetizing to a can-fed American musical public; even these, though, are quite…

















































