Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1950 — Page 22

‘Student Prince’ Is First Musical of 4-Week Season

By Henry Butler

Jocal summer season since 1948, Charles Hedley's Starlight Musicals company,

opera tradition another year. Campaigners for live entertainment continue, hc With enough support, it i and the town will have another thing ‘to be proud of.

was last heard here in a

Indiana University the Fairgrounds,

- ” » DOWN in Bloomington, the IU opera students next Thursday will present “Firefly,” Rudolf FrimlPs operetta, to follow their recent production of “The New! Moon.” Staged in Bast Hall, the music school's trim new theater, the show will be directed by Ernst Hoffman and Walter 8. Russell. Also on the university circuit is the recital next Friday evening in Purdue's Hall of Music by Ennio Bolognini; cellist, and Robert McDowell, pianist. Mr. Bolognini,

building at-

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Up in Culver, the Playhouse will open week Tuesday with lowing substantial “Blithe Spirit” and ness.” And next Mill” will Wayne ~ Light Inc., in the upstate city's Park, to un through July will be followed Aug. 31 by

success “Ah,

Sunday,

Cpera

“Naughty Marietta.”

~ ” n INDIANAPOLIS NIGHT Cincinnati Opera,

syivania St, {will be 2 ‘railroad trip

40 p. m, DST (1:40 time), with starting immediately

HU Music Festival “To Be Held July 18

State Servies

BL, OOMING TON, July 8-

ee | Featival, a preliminary to

2 i ie 8 Cast-as the fragic heros of ficagoland Musie Festival, : “East Lynne," famed old melo- | . drama currently at the Brown will be school and amateur 4 County Playhouse, Nashville, is Rachel Slagel, Fairfield, III. The production by students Dr. Lee Norvelle's Indiana Uni. department will |

{ern Indiana, {a program featuring contest { ners,

Sundays through iy 23. [Stadium July 19.

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Summer Opera | - Opens Tuesday

“THE STUDENT PRINCE” Tuesday right will.open the busiest |

brightening the Fairgrounds stage for the next four weeks, will sustain the summer

hope the tradition

will [an aothentic genius of versatility,

unaccompanied recital last June 1

: ; on. I the Claypool, during the polio-| 8 als , A Diaties Sle; Wt benefit exhibit of the Winston day night of “Heavens to Betsy,” gem £ollestion. ou Tom Boyd's new musical, In the MEANWHILE, “Kast Lynne”

continues Fridays, Saturdays, and] Sundays through July 23 in Nashville’s: Brown County Playhouse. “Laura,” Wilder-! “The Red be staged by the Ft! Festivals, Franke,

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Tragic Heroine cursion again sponsored by a Gladys Alwes, next Saturday will " fake local patrons from Union

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for dinner in Cincinnati must be imade in advance at the Gladys] {Alwes Music Shoppe, 120 N. Penn-Train-departure time the return

{final curtain of Verdi's opera.

annual Indiana University Music!

Participating in the activities sicians from central and south-! the entire state of of | | Kentucky and southern Illinois. sl Climaxing the activities will be

featured musicians and al continue Fridays, Saturdays and [fireworks display in Memorial |

TODAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY

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i back, { The opera will be “La Traviata,” arring L u ¢ ve sta, [Charts Kian ee , Prince Karl (Earl William} and Kathie (Deane Carroll) draw a Weede. benign smile from Dr. Engel (Alexander Gray, seated] in "The Stu- ‘| Reservations for the trip and dent Prince,” Romberg operetta, opening the 1950 Starlight Musi-

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at the Fairgrounds.

Times. Amusement

Clock CIRCLE “Love That Brute,” with Paul Douglas and Jean Peters, at 1, 4:05, 9 and 10:20 Woman of Distinction,” with Ray Milland and Rosalind Russo at 2:35, 5:46 and 8:53.

ESQUIRE “David Harum," with Wil Rogers,

at. a. 4:35, 7:30 and 10:24 mboat ‘Round the Bend,” with ‘wi Rogers and Irvin 8 Cobb. at 3:15. 6:10 and 9:05. INDIANA Bright Leaf,” with Gary Cooper and Lauren en at 12:15. 3:30, 6.45 and 9:5 “Small ond, at 2:10,. 5:28 and 40. KEITH'S

“My Friend Irma Goes West, with Marie Wilson, Corinne Calvet toe = at 1:50, 4:40, 1:30 and 1072

Timber Fury,” with Zoro, at 12:50. 3:35 6:25 and 9:15. LOEW'S

“Father of the Bride,” with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, at 1:31. 3:36, 5:42, 7:49 and 9:56.

EYRIU “Rocketship X-M.” with Bridges and Osa Massen, at 4:12, 7:98 and 10:08, “Operation Hayat,” with Bili Wil liams and Ann Rutherford, at 2:53. 5:00 and 8:47

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-DANCE-

TONIGHT

WESTLAKE |

Nick Craciunoiu’s Orch.

“Saturday Night

Harry McCready’s Orch.

Cast as s Alfredo

Tenot Charles Kullman will

sing the role of Alfredo in Traviata’ for the Cincinnati Zoo Opera next Saturday eve. ning, when an Indianapolis Night excursion from here is being

pay a visit to

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Composer-author Tom Boyd and Patty Wilson (standing), as |-1mpromptu in C-Sharp Minor,” Benjy and Isse, comic couple in “Heavens to Betsy,"

Betsy Ross (Mary Jane Vandivier) in the new Cock & Bull Players’ Major.” On the other side of the

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| Program on 5 LP Discs

ion of Orchestra and Piano Numbers Is Between Ancient and Modern Categories

AN INTERESTING program of so-called classical music that

| |is not too ancient and not too modern, not too heavy and not too

light, ‘can be enjoyed from the little group of only five of Co-

OFFENBACH: GAITE PARISIENNE, ‘played by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra - conducted | SNE by Efrem Kurtz (MI 4233). Saucy capacity of a piano virtuoso; but and flavorsome ballet music, full it will make an impression on the lot delectably lively and charm- !most unpracticed hearer. Then ‘ing melodies, © which can be ‘we move on to a popular symgd enjoyed even though Phony-— don't get to see on a stage MOZART: SYMPHONY NO. 35 the mid-Nineteenth Century Pa-/in D Major, better known as the |risian setting ~ whose spirit is “Haffner Symphony,” played by [epitomized in that naughty and Fritz Reiner and the Pittsburgh ‘sprightly dance ‘the “can-can” Symphony Orchestra, (ML 4156).

+ lumbia’s 12-inch long-playing records that we want to niention ! here. We open with— %

which plays so important a role Mozart turned out this lovely sym- :

iin this ballet. And on the other phony in incredibly short time, {side of the same record-— less than two weeks, on Soran sion of the Haffner family, to celeoy AN MUSIC 0 inyed brate the granting of a title of harmonic (ML4233). A rousing NODIlity to their young son. On [collection of six outstanding short the other side compositions by five famous Rus-| BACH: SUITE NO. 2 in B sian musicians of the past and Minor for Flute and Strings, {present. Included are such favor- played by Sebastian Caratelll, {ites as the “Waltz” from Tchai- flute soloist, accompanied by {kovsky's “Eugen Onegin,” Glin- Reiner and the Pittsburgh Symjka's “Life of thé Czar,” Proko- phony (ML 4156). In Bach's day, {fiev’'s “March,” and Rimsky-Kor- a suite was a- group of dances, isakov’'s “Flight Of the Bumble alternately slow and fast in gen {Bee.” Next we hear some excellent eral, and held together by unity {piano music— of key, and that describes this CHOPIN RECITAL by Gyorgy Work. Finally, we wind up with Sandor, piano, (ML 4193). The OTe very modern music— [gifted yourig Hungarian pianist, DAVID DIAMOND: MUSIC for {pupil of Bartok, plays three char- Shakespeare's “Romeo and Ju-

tra Society, Thomas K. Scherman conducting (ML 4303). One writer has referred to Mr. Diamond's earlier compositions as F-Sharp neo-romantic lines, with expansive sonorities and somewhat opaque polyphony,” and that will give you an idea. On the other PASTORALE side, Norman Dello Joio's “Concerto for Harp and Orchestra” played by Edward Vito, harp, and Scherman and his Little Orchestra Society group. Ultra stuff,

born genius who revolutionized [piano composition, They are, “Fantasie in F Minor,” “Fantasie “Barcarolle

and in

same record— BEETHOVEN: otherwise known as Sonata No. 15 in D Major (Op. 28), also played by Sandor (ML 193.). One of the most relaxed of Beethoven's piano sonatas, dis-

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ities. And we find still more San-

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BACH: CHROMATIC FAN{TASIA and Fugue in D Minor, lalso the “Fantasia in C. Minor,” ‘Overture in the French (Partita No. 7 in B! Minor), all played by Gyorgy Sandor, piano, on the two sides of

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