September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
At the Newport Music Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, music lovers experience 19th-century chamber music the way it was meant to be heard: in the grand rooms of grand mansions. While getting lost in the sounds, audience members also take in trompe l’oeil ceilings, sweeping double staircases, stained glass, and flourishes like wraparound balconies, colonnades, and massive chandeliers. From vast terraces they can hear the sea lapping on the shore nearby.
For roughly two weeks in July, giant mansions built by the robber barons of the 19th century—the Vanderbilts ...
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