Music: Music at Yaddo

A showplace of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. is Yaddo, 500-acre estate of the late Banker Spencer Trask and his poet wife, Katrina. For twelve years Yaddo's three-story stone, Victorian-Gothic mansion has been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young...