The New England Music Scrapbook is concerned with popular music. We're not sure that the music of Serge Koussevitzky quite fits. Yet he built the Boston Symphony Orchestra into a first-rate performing unit and did more than anyone else we can name to nurture new American orchestral music. He made one of the great recordings of Peter and the Wolf, too.
All we can add is that Koussevitzky fans turn up in the darndest places ... like here ... and the picture that appears at the top of this page is our favorite. It seems likely the original is a BSO publicity photo. We came across it, uncredited, in that great academic music journal, the Boston Phoenix. (After all, Lloyd Schwartz did win the Pulitzer Prize for his classical music criticism in the Phoenix.)
While we greatly look forward to the tenure of James Levine, we think back with fondness to the brilliant success of Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky (1874-1951). -- Alan Lewis
Popular music, past and present,
with a New England twist.
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