Sharps & Flats Alfresco

For thousands of U.S. music lovers, the summer downbeat has come. With packed picnic baskets and brimming vacuum jugs, sunburned families from Massachusetts to California are ready to follow top singers and instrumentalists into parks, amphitheaters, hills and valleys for a season of music with the sun, stars and mosquitoes.

The hot-weather lineup will be as varied as the locales. A few of the standouts:

P: Tanglewood, Lenox, Mass.: Charles Munch, conductor of festival concerts in place of the late Director Serge Koussevitzky (TIME, June 18); Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland teaching conducting and composing; instrumental, ensemble and vocal instruction.

P: Hollywood Bowl "Symphonies under the Stars": Gregor Piatigorsky, Yehudi Menuhin, soloists; Jose Iturbi, Alfred Wallenstein, Victor de Sabata conducting.

P: Lewisohn Stadium Concerts, Manhattan: Joseph Szigeti, Dorothy Kirsten, Claudio Arrau, Nathan Milstein, guest soloists; Alexander Smallens, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pierre Monteux, Vladimir Golschmann conducting.

P: Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia: Ezio Pinza, Oscar Levant, William Kapell, soloists; Monteux, Fritz Reiner, Andre Kostalanetz conducting.

P: Ravinia Music Festival, Highland Park, Ill.: Budapest String Quartet, Jan Peerce, guests; William Steinberg, De Sabata, Monteux, Mitropoulos conducting.

P: Cumberland Forest Festival, Sewanee, Tenn.: seminars in string-playing, choral work, conducting and composition; Roy Harris, director.

P: Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, N.Y.: instrumental and vocal school; Christopher Lynch, Gladys Swarthout, soloists; Franco Autori conducting.

P: Aspen (Colo.) Institute: Darius Milbaud; Paganini String Quartet.

P: Transylvania Music Camp, Brevard, N.C.: instrumental and ensemble instruction; Eileen Farrell, Eugene List, soloists.

P: Cincinnati Zoo Summer Opera: grand opera plus a few lighter productions; Fausto Cleva, Paul Breisach conducting.

P: St. Louis Municipal Opera: musical comedy and operetta revivals.

P: Red Rocks Musical Festival, Denver: Benny Goodman, Todd Duncan, soloists.

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