Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1951 — Page 25

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Stage and Music—

Civic’s Play Has

Timeless Theme

‘The Heiress’ to Open Friday; Jordan Revue Starts Wednesday

By Henry Butler | THE CIVIC'S April production, “The Heiress,” leads, this week's local stage events. |

Opening next Friday as the second presentation in the, Civic’s revised and improved Alabama St. home, the play has become generally familiar through screen and radio |

\ adaptations. |larger venture, “Rigoletto,” to be| Ruth and Augustus Goetz presented in English with or-| built it out of Henry James’ chestra accompaniment May 16, » 18 and 19.

‘“ : novel “Washington Square, | “DePauw also is planning a)

a rather grim study" of ultra-gen- presentation of “Darkness at] teel'New York society a century noon” June 7. 8 and 9, the com-| ago. |mencement week-end, which will| What gives.it a certain time- ipo one of a limited number of| lessness is the father-daughter | vp omoeq student productions of |

relationship pattern, in which the | cine ’ . i y Kingsley’s hugely successpatriarchal father kills his daugh-| ful Broadway play.

ter's marriage hopes on grounds Magan of decorum and expediency. In| SEVITZKY'S

{ FABIEN invita-/ this instance, the father reveals ,, to the Indiana University! the suitor as a fortune-hunter.

‘IChoral Union and Philharmonic In other dramatic instances, . such as “The {Orchestra to give the Symphony's

Barretts of Wim- ” _isixth pair of concerts in the compole Street,” the father has oth Ing season may well prove his.

er ways of asserting his unspok- toric en jealousy and subtle cruelty. Cer . : . ” ertainly it breaks precedent. Dramatists, like novelists, still "There are not too many Instances

deal with the theme of the spin- - : ee ster as a tragic character, rather OR record where a university aggressive and shrewd game New than comic character crude folk- Chorus and orchestra have filled york concert managers seem to in for a major symphony during expect.’

lore often has made her. ; In Jack Hatfield's Civie pro- the lstter’s tour. His first American tour. which

duction, Verla Brown will play] What Dr. Sevitzky has done, included an appearance here in Catherine Sloper, the unhappy/however, is carry to a new high Dr. Sevitzky’'s first season with heiress, and Alistair Stuart will the long-existent pattern of co-/the Symphony Dec. 3 and 4, 1937, be her determined father, Dr. operation between university peo- was sensationally successful. (He Sloper. {ple and symphony people. In fact, played again with the Symphony Others in the cast. are Jacquel- Dr. Sevitzky’s uncle, Serge Kous-|in the Murat Feb. 23 and 24, ine Hopper, Bess Wright, Vera sevitzky of Boston fame, regu-|1946). Weidlich, Gene Oakes, Frances larly depended for years on the sr = = Drury, Jerry Vance and Mary Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs BUT THE tough managerial Maillard. {for help in big choral works. system seems to have broken = = = | And I imagine that if Dr. Kous-|Barere's spirit, Miss Benkman THIS WEEK also brings activ-sevitzky had found in Cambridge tells ‘me. He lost interest in ity on the university circuit, with/a student orchestra as excellent|regular practicing, and would Indiana University’s Jordan River a3 Ernst Hoffman's IU Philhar- prepare with feverish activity Revue opening Wednesday In the monic, he might have sworn the and in a very short time any TU Theater on the Bloomington collegians in also as special [program he had to give. campus, and DePauw's triple bill deputies when occasion demanded.! The tremendous musical talent of one-act operas starting Friday. 2 8 =» * and facility even Horowitz might The 1951 Jordan River Revue FOR INDIANA, this arrange- envy are fortunately preserved in

dianapolis, as a man-chasin

is something of a miracle. Mrs. ment between Dr. Sevitzky and some recordings, including Claire Nunn, a sophomore In TU pean Wilfred C. Bain of the IU|“Simon Barere PI ays Lisztmusic school and the show's sole gchool of Music is bound to have Chopin,” an LP item recently

author, wrote the entire book, important results. It's part of a released by Remington Records,

music and lyrics in one week. | poogier declaration of musical Inc. This was after somebody Sug- ngependence. It says, in effect, |

gested she might try for the $100 (nat we don’t have to import an, he prize offered te student wile out-of-state orchestra when the 7 Local Students at IU the Dest book or t ie 1951 Show. 15041 team is playing elsewhere. Have Exhibits in Show : ! Indianapolis listeners who Tinea Sta "1 WOULD have had It done haven't heard Dean Bain’s chorus! BLOOMING TON, Apr. 7—Seven

gy oe Nan Is veporied ba or Mr. Hoffman's IU orchestra/Indianapolis students are exhibi-

are due for an exciting surprise./tors in an art show in the IndiTre been a busy stiinding For the visitors from Blooming-'ana University Fine Arts departappearances, cooking and keep-| ton will give as their major work ment: gallery, sponsored by Delta ing house for my husband ang William Walton's “Belshazzar’s Tau Mu, art honorary fraternity me” |Feast,” a tremendously effective The Students are oan Tway An ac 1 % i Biblical oratorio, which they per- an a ay, Si roadway SgBhin Uig Wiing learned | formed last Jan. 24 in IU audi-| Terrace; Richard Kenton Alber“hot” keyboard style in her na- tortum. {shardt, 26 Meridian Pl; ‘Martha tive Mississipp! from such great | Maybe if the coming program | L. Myers, 4725 E. 35th St.; Robert practioners as Earl (Father) |B0€s over well, we can persuade Hall, 2830 Guilford Ave. James Hines, Mary Lou Will ana Dean Bain and his staff to bring |J- McGarrell, 4009 N. New JerJelly Roll Morton. Formerly a US One of their first-rate opera|sey St. and Patricia Ann Thomas, vocalist with Shep Fields’ orches- Productions, now getting belated | 352% “roadway.

tra. Mrs. Nunn currently is ma-|Dational recognition. _- , =] Ine

counting in the School of Business| 2 Piano keyboard last Monday while working to d his doo in Carnegie Hall, while Eugene tor's degree. Ormandy and the Philadelphia

MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE—Josephine Justice, In-co-ed, all but throttles Dan Wrzesien, South Bend, with Bill Stephenson, Indianapolis, as onlooker in a comedy scene from the 1951 Jordan River Revue now in rehearsal at the Indiana University Theater, Bloomington. The student-writ. ten musical revue will be presented Apr. 11, 12, 13, 14, 20 nd 21

STUBBORN—The late George Bernard Shaw, posing for a portrait by the modern British painter Augustus John, insisted on keeping his eyes

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Coeds to Alternate In Opera Leads

Workshop. at IU |

To Present ‘Rigoletto’

Times State Service

BLOOMINGTON, Apr. 7-—Jean| and Phyllis Hagel, Washington, Ind., will al-|

Ray. Indianapolis,

/ternate in the leading feminine {role in Verdi's opera “Rigoletto” {to be given Apr. 27-28 and May '4-5 by the Indiana University]

Opera Workshop.

Miss Ray and Miss Hagel will|, in the, to bel: in English under super-|t

sing the role of Gilda forthcoming production, given

vision of Hans Busch, stage di-| rector, and Ernst Hoffman, music

director. Other cast members include Jack De Lon, Kokomo; Virgii

Hale, Buffalo, N. Y.; Mary Hensley, Martinsville; Diane Griffith, | Des Moines; John Borneman, Elk-|

hart; ton;

Jerauld Reinhart, Beaunoni Espina,

Leyte, P. I.; Richard Dales, Louisville; Mary Bushfield, Jefferson-

ville; Wis.;

Orville Shetney,

dale, Ill.; Donald Slagel, Topeka, and Donald Vogel, Columbus.

Chorus members will include:

Dorothy Botkin, Louisville; Gylith BritDanville; Rosemary Odessa, Fords, N. D.:

ton, Ladoga; Janet Hollowell, Mildred Richards, Princeton: Anglin, Elkhart: Sylvia Debenport, Tex.: Ruth Haxo. Grand Lillian Miskavich, Worcester, Mass.: Rawlings, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Coudres, North Liberty Hudson, N. Y.; Robert Tucker Keith Archer, Dearborn, Kohoutek, Minot, N. D Lakewood, O.: Harold Thompson, Okla.: Arthur Etris, Philadelphia, Marvin Solley, Louisville; Robert Cook, Neb.; Tom Boyd, Mark Nice, Bloomington: wartz, Gary; Lee E ; William Steiner, » and Claude Zet

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{Franz Bodfors, pianist of the De{Pauw music faculty, will present {the fifth in his current series of jall-Bach recitals at 8:30 p. m. | next Thursday in Harrison Hall.

Prof. Bodfors, recognized as a

closed. The Shaw portrait is | one of more than 50 paintings | exemplifying British art in the |

past half-century now on view

at Herron Art Museum, under |

sponsorship of the English Speaking Union, of whose Indianapolis branch Dr G. H. A. Clowes is chairman.

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Columbia Discs Run Gamut of the Ages

Range From 239-Year-Old Handel Classic To 4-Year-Old Samuel Barber Selection

THE AGELESS quality of good music is aptly illustrated by the group of seven new records forming Columbia's latest release of long-playing masterworks. They range from the 239-year-old “Faithful Shepherd Suite” by Handel down through the 142-year-old “Emperor Concerto” by Beethoven, the 53-year-old “Piano Music of Edward MacDowell,” to the 4-year-old tone poem “Knoxville: ‘Sum= » ” 2 mer of 1915’ ” by Samuel Barber. manner “II Pastor Fido” It is

8 8 8 BEETHOVEN: CON CER T O| smooth, soothing music full of No. 5 in E-flat Major for Piano! appealing melody. and Orchestra (Op. 73) is played| The Haydn symphony bss a on a 12-in. record (ML-54373) by | great success story attached to it. Rudolf Serkin, piano, and The It was written on assignment by Philadelphia Orchestra conducted the composer at the age of 58, |by Eugene Ormandy. 'in London where he had been in- { This is generally known as the duced to go for a series of cone “Emperor Concerto,” is one of certs by the 8. Hurok of that day, the mighty creations of Beet-{Saloman, the impresario who had

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