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The World of Music . . . Atop Music Mountain

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 10:00am
The Music Scene
By
Fred Baumgarten
Nicholas Gordon on the stage in Music Mountain’s hall with his costant companion, Polo. Photo by Marsden Epworth

This is just a wild guess, but Nicholas Gordon must be, or must have been, a heck of a tennis player. The long-time director of the Music Mountain Summer Music Festival in Falls Village will tell you why he’s proud to have had his programming called “deeply conservative” by The New Yorker magazine; what is different about this season (its 83rd); how Shostakovich made it into the core chamber music repertory; and that a Music Mountain radio broadcast might be heard in, oh, Mongolia, perhaps.

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