Music: Salt at Stockbridge

For the past six years the Boston Symphony's Berkshire Festival, near Stockbridge, Mass.,has provided an elegant musical salt lick amid the favorite summer grazing grounds of Boston's contented Brahmins. Spooned delicately out by the great Dr. Serge Koussevitzky and his flawless orchestra, the Festival's six annual programs have so far been noted more for purity than for pungency. But last week the Berkshire Festival produced an unusually big and tangy lump of salt. A brown, bosomy, 28-year-old Negro soprano named Dorothy Maynor, who went to Stockbridge to hear the music, ended up by...

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