Music: Music, Aug. 18, 1941

Between concerts of the Berkshire Festival at Stockbridge, Mass., elegant, white-haired Sergei Koussevitzky, conductor of Boston's Symphony Orchestra, lectured on how to conduct. Said he: "You must conduct your lives in such a way that when you come out on the stage to lead your orchestra you can truthfully say to your self: 'Yes, I have the right to appear be fore these lovers of good music. They can watch me without shame. I have the right because my life and my work are clean.' "

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