Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1951 — Page 16

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Stage and Music— | ‘Piano Team and . Met Stars Next

Indianapolis Ballet Players Will Make Debut on Mar. 17

By Henry -Butler WITH THE SYMPHONY season closing this afternoon, pickin's will be slender for some weeks to come. Two important concert programs here this week are club-sponsored: Gold and Fizdale's two-piano recital at 2 p. m=Friday for the Matinee Musicale, and the Maennerchor's 8 p. m. concert Saturday at the Athenaeum, with Claramae Turner, Metropoli- : 2. y tan contralto, as soloist.

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cinating to reader and listener Also from the Metropoli- hoth, ‘And so he has gone beyond tan, bAritone Leonard Warren the solo. appearance routine of will Be heard in recital at 3 p. m, |\ast season, excellent though that was, into what might be called

next Sunday in Indiana University auditorium, Bloomington, as a regular feature of the auditorfum series, Church sponsorship is bringing two musical events: The Indiana University Singers, conducted hy

dramatic quartet of

music of using a actors.

the chamber performance distinguished n n ” "THIS WONDERFUL idea which -undoubtedly”Mr. Laughton

Dean Wilfred C. Bain of the 1U And his top-flight ‘partners are School of ‘Music, at 8 p. m. today doing —for-—mere—peanuts—on the in North ‘Methodist (‘hurch, and university circuit, would seem to : have a genuine future on the

Richard Purvis, organist of Grace Cathedral, San Francisca, in recital at 8 p.'m. tomorrpw in Zion

legitimate stage First of all, it involves no over-

Evangelical and Reformed head Practically the total cost : 23 . : : of Church. 1s artists’ fees, which, In slack "BALLET PLAYERS PLAN DEBUT—Anne Hunt Fullwood (center), Hoosier poet and ballet sce- ory CarMEYrTRam, and Mrs. Members ‘of the Columbia Club Sepsansy might be somewhat less| paris, and (left to right) Janet Sue Bassett, Mary Ruth Siebe, Jean Perry and Karen Mondragon |Ajice W. ‘Nichols, Ball State = may wish to be reminded of to- '" DUSY Seasons. Hence, price-i ,.o important participants in the Ballet Players new local company making a public debut at 2:30 [Teachers College, program chair-

scaling can be kept fairly reasonable, Secondly, the

night's chamber music concert at the club by musicians from the Indianapolis Symphony. Participating will be Stanley Weiner, concertmaster; Renato Pacinl, assistant concertmaster; Herbert Congdon, first violist, and: Jerome Carrington, first cellist, appearing af a string quartet, with Mary Spalding, harpist, and James Pellerite, first flutist, as as¢ sisting artists. on oy oH. A NEW BALLET, of local origin, will make its debut at the Murat at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 17. It is the Indianapolis Ballet Players, directed by Mar_Buerite de Anguera, choreographer “for the 1950 Starlight Musicals and the 1948 Butler Bowl operettas.’ bg . With Anne Hunt Fullwood, Hoosier-born peet, singer and elo- -, cufiohist, as author and Florence Kyte, New York song stylist, as

p. m. Saturday, Mar. 17, at the

LLaughton-Boyer-Moorehead-Hardwicke technique facilitates presentation of material deemed unsuitable for regular staging Shaw® “Don Juan in Hell” certainly would more than it could . gain hy staging according to Shaw's own directions, A script so profound in satire, so lofty in idealism and so poetically rhythmic in style as Shaw wrote would suffer by stage treatment. museum director. 8.2 It will: be sponsored by “the YET, as Mr. Laughton and his Mary Howes Woodsmall ‘Foundapariners did the Shaw piece Tues- tion of Indianapolis, established day, it was an experience more py H. H. Woodsmall in memory satisfying than 95 per .cent of of his mother to encourge acstage plays we're likely ‘to seein a feason. - % And that. fact suggests the availability of a great deal of splendid dramatic. writing now dompletely ignored hecause it 1s not easy to stage, All except the

cially for young people.

Ceramic Show To Open June 3

Indiana's first all-state ceramic show will be held at Herron Art Museum June 3 through July

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was much interested both as patron and worker. Prizes: will be offered, rangtng from: $25 to $300. Objects submitted must be original recent work of exhibitors. Entrants

composer, Miss de Anguera and verbally most slapstick of Mo- must be Indiana residents, her young troupe of dancers, | ..s playa, for example, are. Circulars of. instruction have many of them veterans of our strictly library -tems. So are heen sent to artists throughout operetta seasons, will put-on two things like Shelley's “The Cen- the state. : ohginal Bajlets especially de- i» sometimes called the finest ee rere - | signed for .c ren. yetic *drama in English after ” . F They will present “Lisa and De Aothearc, y Symphonic Choir ¢

True enough, college students and little theaters often do these esoteric things. But, with all due respect fo both groups, tHere's-a difference between amateur and fitst-rate professional performance, In the realm of dramatic reading, in the vocal interpretation of great literature, only the very best, performance: {8 efféctive.

Her Wonderful Doll,” a new treatment of the Cinderella theme, and “Voices of Spring Ballet,” a fantasy in which an angel helps a poor girl become Tecognized as a Prima ballerina® « The “Lisa” item was given a private preview last January, and proved to be a quite delightful combination of play with ballet. » EJ ” CHARLES LAUGHTON and his three stellar associates in “Don Juan in Hell,” last Tuesday in Indiana University auditorium, certainly demonstrated thrilling new possibilities ii a long-ne-glected art: Dramatic reading. What used to be the staple of home entertainment — recitation, elocution—got itself laughed out of existence when fashions changed about 30 years ago.

Seeking Singers The Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, heard with Fabibn Sevitz-

Feb. 23 and 24, now is seeking additional members, according to Robert Armstrong, president. Tenors particularly are needed, Mr. Armstrong said, in the choir’s !current preparation for an appearance in May with Ernst Hoffman and the Indianapolis Philharmonic, Orchestra. 4 Qualified singers may apply for membership at the choir's regular rehearsal at 7:30 p. m. next Tuesday in Second Presbyterian Church, Vermont and Pennsylvania Sts. .

IU Berkshire Quartet To Play Thursday

Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Mar. 3—The Berkshire - Quartet, Indiana University School of Music resident ensemble, will play a Haydn-Bee-thoven program at 8:30 p. m. next Thursday in Recital Hall. Urico Rossi, first violinist; Al-

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Even the thought of “dramatic bert Lazan, second violinist; agagement on readings” would make many of David Dawson, violist, and| Tan id us mildly ill—until and unless we Fritz Magg, cellist,. have pro-| Ranks of the fop e3 entertainment .

had seen Mr. Laughton, first on his solo tour last season, and then on this current tour with Charles

ven's B flat Quartet, Op. 130. Boyer, Agnes Mooreh»ad and Sir ———— Cedric Hardwicke.

With great imagination and PLAY PIANO BY EAR with the essential common sense | THE MODERNWAY—THE ADULT WAY

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Art Teachers To Open Parley

Two-Day Session "At Terre Haute - |

Times State Service newly organized Indiana Art Ed-| ucatorsy Asoclation will hold its first convention at Indiana State] Teachers College next, Friday and]

Saturday. Basic theme for the two-day | |gathering of art teachers from | {elenientary, secondary and col-| lege tlasses will be “Reaching the “Child Through Art.” | | With Elmer J. Porter, head of] |the ISTC art department, as gen-| eral chairman, principal speakers lwill include Dr. Wilhelmina Hill, | |specialist of the U. 8. Office of |Education; Manuel Barkan, as|sociate professor of art education] (at Ohio: State University, and ) [Jack Bookbinder, special assist-| lant, school district of Philadel|phia. | . Miss Olga M. Schubkegel, sup-| lervisor of art in Hammond, is? [president of I. Reasor, instructor ‘in art att ISTC. is vice president. Aiding with convention plans , are Miss Julia Duenwig, ‘art sup-| Terre Haute city,

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Times Special i CINCINNATI, Mar. 3—The| [famed Ballet Theater will give! matinee and evening performances here in Taft Auditorium’

Saturday, Mar. 17. Programmed for the matinee are “Designs With Strings.” | |#Billy the Kid," “Pas de deux From Black Swan” and “Fancy |

Free.” The evening show will include |

heme and Variations,” “Fall “River « Legend,” “Pas de Deux | From the Nutcracker” and | “Rodeo.” . {

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LECTURER TODAY—Lowell OES Unit fo Meet Thomas Jr. will give a lecture” [© Prospect Chapter, OES, will and a series of color films on hold a meeting and election of “Inside Forbidden Tibet," the [officers at’7:45 p. m. tomorrow in subject of his recent book, "Out ‘Masonic Temple, = Prospect st of This World,” at 8 p. m. to- and State Ave. Mrs, Bonnie day at the Murat. " . ”|Stephenson will be Worthy Ma: __ tron and Ralph Barrett will ‘be

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