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Show Gentle Music Best For Summer Nights THE turn of mind which dictates dic-tates that summer is easygoing and therefore unsuitable for cultural cul-tural pursuits, is apt to be the thought of a person unaware of the adaptability of good music to the soft breezes and languid nights of July and August. To fee! that classical music should be relegated rele-gated to the attic, like winter apparel, ap-parel, as soon as warm weather sets in, is to deprive oneself of unlimited un-limited pleasures. Music for summer consumption should be gentle, lyrical, and charming, says the eminent music critic George Marek, writing in the July issue of Good Housekeeping, and he suggests several compositions composi-tions which fill this description. As a fitting change from the heaven-storming heaven-storming fifth, is Beethoven's refreshing re-freshing "Pastoral" Symphony, a work which Mr. Marek describes as "the little girl of Beethoven's symphonic sym-phonic children." In a recent recording re-cording of it for Victor Records, Maestro Toscanini has brilliantly succeeded in capturing all its resplendent re-splendent wonders. Papa Haydn is another composer wThoso music, especially the "Farewell" "Fare-well" Symphony, is good summer fare. Other compositions which make delightful summer listening are Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Sym-phony, Eimsky-Korsakoff's opulent Scheherazade, and for robust tastes, Richard Strauss' Til Eulen-spiegcl. Eulen-spiegcl. These are only a few of a vast selection of pieces which are now available on records and playing play-ing them '- -h to enliven a sir " " ''e. |