A row of barnlike sheds stands on Lorin Maazel?s farm in the rolling hills of Rappahannock County. They?re simple prefabricated sheds, the kind you can pick up at any home-supply store, decorated like miniature barns: the kind of sheds people set up in their yards to store the power mower, the mulch, the lawn tools. On Maazel?s farm, they contain high-quality Yamaha keyboards. They?re practice rooms for the young opera singers and instrumentalists taking part in the Castleton Festival.
They also have air conditioning. ?The first week,? says Nancy Gustafson, an operatic soprano who finds herself in a role she hadn?t prepared for as Castleton?s general director, ?everyone was coming to me going, ?It?s really hot in there.? We knew we were putting in air conditioning; we just didn?t have time to put it in.?
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