Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1950 — Page 70

THE BIGGEST event

=~ Sevitzky’s “Carmen” Friday and Saturday nights at

the Murat.

Dr. Sevitzky has cagily kept mum on some details

_ of this enterprise. At this

* certain whether Bizet’s opera will be presented in straight

"concert form or as a stage _ spectacle. In any case, the production “will be probably the most ambitious undertaking #f the Sym- -~ phony’s current season. Dr. Sevitzky's Butler Bowl #Carmen” in 1948 drew something like 12,000 spectators in its two nights. Like the “Aida” of 1047, it was a great achievement. ” ~ “

BOTH operas used a lot of local

_Stoge and Musie— Carmen Tops J Week's Events

. Imported Stars, Local Talent To Sing With Symphony

"By Henry Butler

ler University campus, where it

this week will be Fabien

moment of writing, it’s not

town, with parking facilities and income-producing rental space, so as to serve this town’s continual procession of conventions. The other has held that the auditorium should be located on the But-

could perform the same function

"Carmen" to be as IU's Auditorium or Purdue's ex} Friday and Sa y in the » ~ ~ i Indi i Orel WITH such a hall available, we ndiana S . ws! . could have all the attractions that - igh rr —— now pass us by, like the Sadler's Jack Beck ; lected

talent, in supporting roles and in the chorus. Local talent again will be represented in the production Friday and Saturday, with the Symphonic Choir, Edwin Bilteliffe, associate director, singing thé chorus parts: = : - The imported stars will be Irra Petina, Metropolitan mezzo-so-prano, as Carmen; Mario Berini, tenor, as Don Jose, and Louis

house in Bloomington and LaFayette,

grown entertainment, including grand opera, for which Dr. Sevitzky has a real flair. Our present plight imposes a low ceiling on possibilities. We can’t plan anything big without running into the snags Dr. Se- - vitzky found when he considered Budler, baritone, as Escamillo. . Local singers in supporting fons & Tegular stage version of roles will include: Naomi Pryor,| ,. : : : y number of wonderful enas Micaela, and james Tippey, a8 yo iainnment {ideas here have Doncairo. Others in the cast willl 3:4 pefore the a y were born, simfnelude Emalyn Remmel, Eleanor be fA yv because we're about a half Lyons, Ralph Nielsen and Robert contyry behind the times in the

Morton. oar {matter of theater space. PREPARATIONS for “Car- . » men” again have revived the Children Ss Yule

perennial question of when, where and how an adequate auditorium can be built here. The Murat is

Party Is Planned

impossible for opera. Even the On Jordan Campus

compact Charles Wagner produc ‘tions that visit us annually on the]

We could have a lot more home- |

Hall of Music. | Murat by Fabien Sevitzky. the | tra and Sym Wells Ballet, which packed the 3 For Purdue Players

Service LAFAYETTE Dec, 16 Jack H.

Beck, 2402 N. Delaware St. In-| dianapolis, has been selected for! membership in Purdue Players, idramatics honorary organization’ ‘at Purdue University. i i A senior In chemical engineerling, Mr, Beck is a graduate of Shortridge High School. He is the son of Mrs. Rose H. Beck.

| Off the Record—

Curtis Cooksey and Don Fellows, with a support-

Former Indianapolis Girl Sings New Christmas Hit Song With Bing

‘Carol Richards, Now Starring in Hollywood

Martens Concerts series have a|will sponsor a Christmas party| j.rennial “White Christmas.”

tough time finding orchestra space for 25 children from Fletcher

in that theater's narrow, venient pit. ip. There have been two schools of [College of Music campus. thought about the auditorium we|

There will be gifts for all the jjyed at 5236 Carrolton Ave,

Name of the new Decca disc

who formerly left

{ Miss Richards,

all want. One has held that the cpjgren, a huge lighted tree, re-| Indianapolis in 1944. In 1947 Bob

building should be located down

Jordan Concert {master of ceremonies. To Be Wednesday |

A Christmas concert by the dance from 8:30 to 11 p. m. + Jordan College of Music Sym-|

{freshments, group singing of car-| Hope heard her singing in Minneols and a German band for enter-|apolis and took her to Hollywood. tainment. David Hughes will be! The local gal who made

good

‘has been on radio and television

Following the party, Jordan with Hope, Crosby, Horace Heidt ®

|featured on several Decca Discs

Marking the beginning of the of her own. Currently she's star.

phony Orchestra, Chorale and holidays, a Christmas convoca-|ring in the musical “Little Boy Choir will be presented at 8:30ition will be held in Jordan's Re- Blue,” playing El Capitan The-

:. p. m. next Wednesday in Butler University's new Atherton Center.

hearsal Hall at 2 p. m.

ard Whittington will direct the .ghoral groups. {holidays on Wednesday, Jan. 3 4° Freda Zambara, contralto, and 1951, Tobert McClure; baritone, will be| - soloists, assisted by a quartet;’LUM 'N’' ABNER' OFF of Glenna McElwain,| wans of the “Lum ’n’ Abner’

oh *

i alt; Patt! Browne, soprano; Rich- show will be sad to hear that pro- *: ard Metcalf, tenor, and Mr. Mc-/ gram is currently off the air. An the oficial of the network which for-

#3 Clure. Accompanist for

0 Shots] Stoups will be Mary Eliza-| merly carried the program said

INDIANA

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INDIANAPOLIS |

ORCHESTRA | FABIEN SEVITZKY

Conductor

presents

CARMEN

||FRL,, DEC. 22, 8:30 P. M.|

FER AR eee pega A

with

IRRA PETINA | |

LOUIS SUDLER

and a full cast

'MURAT

Forest Trail...

vi Thursday. The Rev, Fr. Cornelius :: In this first full-scale musical!B, Sweeney, of SS. Peter and i program to be given in the new Paul Cathedral, will give the '! building, : Beldon Leonard will/Christmas message. Julius Huehn .! conduct the orchestra, and Rich-/{s in charge of the convocation. Classes will resume after the

he [the principals are residing in Hol-

SYMPHONY ' |

|'SAT., DEC. 23, 8:30. P. M.||

MARIO BERINI ||

next (ater in Hollywood.

Recorded sorfgs of Indiana University, played and sung by student musical units, are on sale at the IU bookstore on Bloomington campus. The three-record album includes IU's most popular , songs, ranging from the traditional “Hail to Old IU” to Hoagy Carmichael's “Chimes of Indiana.” *{ The discs were cut by the Uni. versity Singers,

Dean Wilfred C. Bain of the school of music,

{ly a British Broadcasting Co. an- | nouncer, supplied the narration. | Other new releases include: | » = » | RCA VICTOR -— The singers, ‘are hers but the songs are

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Musical, Left Here Six Years Ago By DONNA MIKELS

A GAL who hails from Hopsierland harmonizes with Bing: 2 > } Six sororities and fraternities c.,ihy on his new Christmas disc that bids fair to edge out his give a listen to The Ravens’ “Time 3, paint. I like to teach. And

“Mature, a theme asually for.

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is “Silver Bells” and the name of

incon-| Place Community Center at 6:30 11 former Indianapolis miss who shares vocal honors with the) m. tomorrow on the Jordan q,.,.ner is Carol Richards.

ing cast of some 35 other play-|

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Election Tomorrow Officers and directors for 1951 will be elected tomorrow noon at “the annual Christmas ‘the Indianapolis alumni chapter ‘of Sigma Delta Kappa, law fraternity, at the Claypool Hotel, Judge Hezzie B. Pike will pre|side.

« “I'm sure we're all aware the

his interest in the ideal can out\weigh his fear of the real,” Mr. “You're Just in Love.” Same Mattison explains. : team is featured on “The Place He's quick to add that his own | Worship” and “The reiatively cheerful outlook is the {House of Singing Bamboo.” \product of his personality. “What If you like harmony groups, y,y paint is what you are. I like

{Takes Care of Everything,” and; oven enjoy doing the adminis|“Don’t Look Now,” or the Mello-|i tive work of running a school. Tones, “What Are They Doing In|, y; the activities together pay me

| Heaven?” 3 in it,” he | Mitch Miller, his orchestra and 3 living: and I'm happy in it,

ihymns. Phil Spitalny’s all-girl ‘orchestra and choir sing “I'll See {You After Church on Sunday Morning,” and “It May Be On Sunday.” : Some of the top musical tunes f the season are waxed by Al

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Goodman's orchestra, the Guild

{ | students will attend an informal and others and has recently been, oristers and selected vocalists,

{They're the tunes from the mu|gical fable of Broadway, “Guys land Dolls”—*Guys and Dolls,” “More I Cannot Wish You,” “Sue Me,” “If TI Were A Bell,” “My

| Time of Day,” “I'll Know,” “I've Never Been in, Love Before” Lo / " wie the “Holbein and His ContemporBushel and a Peck,” and “Siti 0. exhibit opens today at Her-

| Down You're Rockin’ The Boat.”

| The Three Suns present such]

lconcert favorites as “Jalousie,” “Fiddle Faddle,” “Ritual Fire

| Dance,” “Malaguena,” “In A Per-

{slan Market” and "Hora Staccato.”

(cato. . | Like the Mambo- Perez Prado Men's Concert juhbed the “Glenn Miller of Mexchoir, a special university and the j.,” and an orchestra have an IU band, under supervision of ajhbum full of same in his new| |book, “Mucho Mambo.” The music was] {arranged by Prof. William A.| Adam. Lamar W. Crask, student|Rosemary Clooney blend beauti-|

radio announcer who was former-:

“ " » COLUMBIA-—-Guy Mitchell and itors occupied during the day.

fully two tunes from ‘Call Me Madam,” “Marrying for Love" and

{chorus put their all into “Smile, {Smile, Smile,” and “The Sea of { Moon.” Frank Sinatra strikes a be{guine stride on “I Am Loved” and |it’s backed by “You Don’t Remind Me” from “Out of This World” {Doris Day pipes “1482 Sheep” and |“You Love Me” both tunes from {“The West Point Story.”

GETTING a painting into the Metropolitan Museum's current big American show this fall gave

The painting, a beach scene called “The Song,” is one of 307 selected in final judgment from 6300 preliminary entries from 34 states. “The Song,” which won no prize but has the prestige of being in the 5 per cent selected for the show, previously had won top prize in the Indiana Artists’ Club show at Ayres’ in 1948. Its slightly checkered career has even involved a change of name. Somewhere along the line, it was temporarily called “Low Tide.” Mr. Mattison began it early in the spring "of '48. He did it in

Art Exhibit Goes

Into Its Final Week The ninth and final week of

Iron Art Museum. | Costliest of art shows in Her{ron’s history, this collection of [73 Nerth European Renaissance | paintings. valued: at more than {$1 million, will be on view from {1 to 6 p. m. today and mext Bun{day, and from 9 a m. to 5 p. m. {Tuesday through Saturday. An additional evening showjing, from 7 to 10 p. m. Wednesday, has been scheduled for vis-

in his Herron School :studio, instead of on location, “I spent about all one summer on it, making a lot of changes. I'd hate to have my students know that I changed my composition right on the canvas,” he told me. 3

tison says, with a kind of grim humor. : “But an artist can Jook at the world with the view that this ig not what he wants. He can hope for his ideal, as he sees it. And

a boost to the Mattison optimism. |gaid.

somewhat unorthodox .fashion—|

world 1s falling apart,” Mr. Mat-

“It started out being a picture of the North Carolina coast, and wound up being a Connecticut peach scene,” he added. Industrious painting and sketching all along the coast, from the Carolinas up to Maine, previously had given him plenty of imaginative material to work with. 2 8 = : “ONE THING 1 tried to convey in this picture is the sense of light that you get'around water. it has a cool color scheme, with only little threads of strong color. Take those threads out, and the picture would be grey,” he

Mr, Mattison is the subject of a chapter in E. W, Watson's “20 Painters and How They Work,” a recent publication of WatsonGuptill in New York. The chapter, containing examples of his work, mentions his interest in reasonably pleasant subjects. He admits some artists might see things quite differently, “Some painters just seem to enjoy ugliness. I suppose that in the cheerfullest era of the world you might find some artist who was just naturally a sourpuss.”

n » n BUT he hasten to add that an artist's individual view is more

important than his adherence to any school of painting. From a 1928 Prix de Rome winner who admits he spent years getting

: Donald Mattison . . . reasonably cheerful. a Mattison Looks for Cheerful Themes "swe Even Though World Is ‘Falling Apart’ Landing of Painting in Metropolitan Exhibit

Brightens Outlook for Indianapolis Artist

By HENRY BUTLER DONALD MATTISON, director of Herron Art School, thinks an artist can retain some degree of optimism éven today.

teaching influences in his early career, the statement is significant. “There are a lot of explanations of the creative process. You can read that stuff till the cows come home, but, gosh, it's a conscious and unconscious process, plus a heck of a desire to express. I wouldn't give two cents for a student who didn't change,” he said, explaining the variety of moods and styles apparent in any Herron School exhibit. Like Fabien Sevitzky bemoaning the shrinkage of good-music budgets all over the country, Mr. Mattison takes a dim view of the absence of art work from building projects. X “They can’t put murals in new buildings nowadays. The plumbing costs too much,” he concluded.

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