Dr. Serge Koussevitzky was in his favorite summer pasture last week, and frisky as a yearling. His costumegrey flannel trousers, blue flannel jacket, white wool beret and white shoesmade him look like a jaunty boulevardier at the beach. Visitors to Tanglewood, Dr. Koussevitzky's music colony near Lenox, Mass., try to compliment the maestro by calling it "an American Salzburg."
Maestro Koussevitzky thinks it no compliment. He bangs an angry, sunburned fist down on his piano. "Why a Salzburg?" he snaps. "Let's have courage to say it. In early stages Salzburg was ideal placenow...