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Last Saturday's concert at Tanglewood by the Israel Philharmonic was marked with distinction both before and after the actual performance...
When you make your first trip to Tanglewood, you half-expect to see college students like yourself who have come to enjoy live classical music at a reasonable price. If you've been in the music world for a while, you might even expect to see someone you know. If you don't remember the entrepreneur's adage--"location is everything"--then you'll be as surprised...
...Tanglewood, the summer music mecca in western Massachusetts, is an enigma of identity. It is associated with some of the most promising young talent on the eastern seaboard, but its clientele is composed of the wealthy elderly who populate the Berkshires and eastern New York. With their champagne and Heinekens in hand (one wonders how vigilant Tanglewood is regarding alcohol regulations), these folks can be seen leaving an orchestra's final piece prematurely to beat the traffic, or heard to say, "Where's the music coming from?" In the summer, college students in this sparsely populated area...
...encore provided some redemption for the audience, as the serious listeners were uncannily filtered from the crowd and began to approach the stage while Perlman and Zukerman released their notes into the air. Surprisingly, easily fewer than fifty of Tanglewood's own students showed up to listen to the headliners. Several more appeared after the show, when it was revealed that Perlman was staying late to receive people. The press was afforded no access except to the rapidly growing line outside the backstage doors...
Excursions to Cape Cod and Tanglewood are onthe agenda for the summer students, as well ascollege-hunting trips for the high schoolstudents. The Harvard Summer Orchestra plans togive three free concerts in air-conditionedSanders Theatre, which are expected to be popular...