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Connecticut Crossroads Magazine
Connecticut Crossroads (August 19/20 2006): This episode of the television magazine Connecticut Crossroads includes a segment about Music Mountain. It is about 12 minutes into the half hour program. To find the segment when the stream begins, move the clip position slider to the 12:00 minute mark in the show. (Real Player required.)
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Air Conditioning & Heating at Music Mountain
MUSIC MOUNTAIN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL WILL BE COOL
Falls Village, Conn. (March 4, 2005) For the first time in its 75-year history, Music Mountain, the nation’s oldest, continuous, summer music festival, will have a new cooling system when the new season opens on Sunday, June 12 at 3 PM. Hot, humid summer afternoons are now a memory thanks to Sharon residents Pat and Ben Heller, who have underwritten the entire cost of air conditioning Gordon Hall.
The system, which is being installed by Lakeville contractor Richard McCue, also incorporates heating. “The capacity to provide heat in the spring and fall,” said Music Mountain president, Nicholas Gordon,“ will lengthen the season into the school year.” Plans are underway to develop educational programs and concerts for Litchfield County schools.
When Gordon Hall was built in 1930, air conditioning was unheard of in rural Connecticut. Jacques Gordon, Music Mountain’s founder, and members of the Gordon Quartet, wore blue wool jackets, white flannel pants, shirts, and ties, and were equipped with two handkerchiefs, one for show, the other for need. The audience also was formally dressed. Women wore hats, gloves and long dresses, and were escorted by men in woolen jackets and ties.
“Even with the relaxed dress code of today, everyone seems to want air conditioning,” said Mr. Gordon, son of the founder, “and the instruments, including the Steinway concert grand piano, will also certainly benefit from a climate-controlled environment.”
Mr. Gordon added, "The Hellers’ generous gift will create the most significant change and improvement in Gordon Hall sinceits opening in the summer of 1930. While there is no way we can improve the already perfect acoustics of Gordon Hall, the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Heller will make the audience far more comfortable and able to enjoy wonderful music even more. We are enormously grateful."
Elyse Harney's Journal
Interview with Nicholas Gordon (August 26, 2004)