Music: Spring Festivals

If music addicts had seven-league boots they might spend their winters striding between Boston, Philadelphia, Manhattan and Chicago. In summer they would go to Europe; in autumn perhaps to the San Francisco Opera. But spring would find them visiting a dozen smaller U. S. communities which year after year hold worthy local festivals. Already this spring Harrisburg, Pa., has had its annual Mozart concerts. Charlottesville was host to the Virginia State Choral Society. St. Louis concentrated on folk songs and sea chanteys. Rochester gave a hearing to contemporary native composers. Rich programs have...

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