Music was as ubiquitous as Muzak at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass. last week. As the Boston Symphony's 16th summer season came to a close, Pianist Artur Rubinstein and Conductor Charles Munch performed for 10,000 listeners in & around the wall-less Music Shed. Then Leonard Bernstein took the podium to lead a concert and a revised version of his 35-minute-long opera, Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23). At week's end, there were three orchestral programs, one for chorus and one of chamber music. The grand finale : a 280-man performance of Berlioz'...
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