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FROM EVERY indication, this year's Starlight Musicals series seems likely to be the best organized summer
season ‘we've had yet.
An example of problems solved is the reconstruction of the stage so as to bring it closer to spectators. ; That eliminates the wide gap of last year and the
year before caused by the practice of keeping the race track open for daily use. For the central portion of the
huge ndstand, the seeing and hearing will be greatly improved.
But we should not lose sight of the essentially make-shift nature of the Fair Grounds set-up for operetta, If the 1951 season is the success every clvic-minded person hopes it will be, we'll be able to plan seriously for the outdoor amphitheater so greatly needed. I've suggested before that the Butler University campus would provide a choice of several desirable locations for that amphitheater. It need not be gigantic in the stadium sense. Experience has shown that few summer audiences, barring the throng of 10,000 who attended Fabien Sevitzky's 1947 “Alda” production in Butler Bowl, have passed the 5000 mark. Wherever the amphitheater is put, it should be equipped with permanent indoor, rehearsal, workshop, storage and -similar facilities. That is the way to efficiency and economy.
new works with standard and familiar big items.
‘In symphonies, the Brahms Fourth, Beethoven Third and Fifth, Sibelius Second, Tchaikovsky First (recorded by Dr. Sevitzky and the orchestra for RCAVictor some years ago), Mendelssohn Reformation and Mahler First will be balanced by some less familiar items. Paul Creston’'s Third Symphony, Rachmaninoff’s “Youthful” Symphony, in a first American performance, and Arthur Honegger’'s “Skating Rink Symphony” will be novelties.
biennial regional convention of the American Guild of Organists will be held next Tuesday through! Thursday at Indiana University. Siegfried E. Gruenstein, Chicago, editor of the association's “Diapason,” is regional chairman for the convention. Prof, Oswald
G. Ragatz of the IU School of Music is in charge of local ar-
With 150 organists from Illidiana expected to attend, the con-
open competition Thursday morning. At that time the organist will be chosen to represent this region at the national convention next year. Meeting also on the IU campus next week will be the annual Church Music Institute, tomorrow through next Saturday.
I suggested he play the Honegger when Sonja Henle is in town, Dr, Sevitzky said he would take it under advisement. In the concerto field, Ruggiero Ricei will play the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the orchestra; Ru-|a dolf Firkusny the Brahms B flat for piano, Gary Graffman the Beethoven “Emperor,” Robert Casadesus the Beethoven G major, No. 4, and Oscar Levant the Gershwin. Dr. Bevitzky hopes to get time this summer to re-orchestrate portions of the Gershwin, especially in the second movement, where the late composer showed his
# » ” DR. SEVITZKY, incidentally, regrettably tardy struggles with had a considerable disappoint-|scoring technique. ment this spring in having to "nn
cancel his European conducting tour. He was all set for a quick trip over ‘and back, prior to his coming summer season with the
, San Diego Symphony, when his
physician ordered him to the hospital for surgery. Now he says he'll have to take it fairly easy until the San Diego opening concert July 31. But he is busily planning a series of distant engagements for next year which will take him to Vancoyver, B. C., In March; Italy, Switzerland and 8; in April and May and South America in July. His - 8an Diego program for this year will include such soloists as Monahem Pressler, pianist; Louis Sudler, = baritone; Mary Spalding, the Indianapolis Symphony’s harpist; Amparo Iturbi, Jose's sister And duo-piano teammate; Eugene List, pianist, and Carroll Glenn, violinist, who also will be heard in joint recital on Purdue University’s summer convocation series in the Hall of Music up in Lafayette July 20; Ethel Smith, organist who wowed
a pop-concert audience here last!
Symphony season, and Marjorie Lawrence, Metsopeiitan S0prano.
STANLEY WEINER, concertmaster, is returning for the coming season, together with 90 per cent of the 1951 orchestra, Dr. Sevitzky said. With an experienced orchestra, the maestro is planning to include brilliant, technically to ugh symphonic poems, like the Strauss “Heldenleben,” the Stravinsky “Firebird” and ‘“Petrouchka” and Respighi “Feste Romance,” on next season's programs. And there will be other important events, like the special concert next Dec. 16, which will include Bach's “Christmas Oratorio,” Vaughan Willlams’ “Fantasy on Christmas Carols” and Pierne’s '“Cathedrales.” Probably the season’s biggest event, with soloists and the Symphonic Choir, will be the concert version of “Lohengrin” Feb. 23 and 24, 1052. Like last season’s “Carmen,” this will be a massive enterprise. continues to hanker after a production (“Where would I get the swan?” he asked whimsically). Maybe the time will come when a theater like the Indiana might be leased for an qpera production or two during the season. '
THE HOOSIER MAESTRO . » =»
also has tentatively decided on major works for the Indianapolisinot horse (if you've been reading Symphony's 1951-52 season. As/The Times lately) is that Sym-
Dr. Sevitzky|
AN ANNUAL BEEF (genuine,
those of us who love music but also have to eat. Local burghers beef themselves hoarse on the point. Actually, I find there are quite a few choice seats available for next season at $9.90 for all 11 concerts. That's 90 cents a program — certainly a sensational bargain for first-rate music. And at slightly higher prices you can have a wider choice of location in the Murat. What happens every year is strictly an Indianapolis habit, as box-office managers for all events know to their sorrow. People wait. The regular Symphony subgeribers delay renewal till months after the announced deadline, then pop their contact lenses with rage when they find their last geason’s seats have been sold. Or there's ring around a rosy or musical chairs when somebody wants to be shifted to another row. To move Mr. A, you have to move nearly everybody else from B to Z. In all that melee, like a con-vention-packed hotel, time and energy are wasted. A number of good seats remain unsold for the season. A corresponding number of music lovers stay away from concerts under the impression that they'd have to pay $3.60 top per concert. x » » A COMPARISON with any other symphony orchestra in the United States — certainly any
Taylor's Holiday article—probably would show Dr. Sevitzky and the Indianapolis orchestra giving just about best value for seasonsubscription prices. Anybody in this town who likes music can't afford not to subscribe. Even lazy souls like me who often find listening to records
rangements. : nols, Michigan, Wisconsin and In-|
vention program will include the| semifinals of the guild's national|
other of the “First 10” of Deems Nruman I Dedicate
easier than going to concerts have to admit the canned stuff can’t compare with the fresh. The best records give you only a fraction of what you hear in the concert nall. Music really comes to life only in a live performance.
18 previous Yeaps, he will gombins pnouy tickets cost too much for
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RECITALIST — Mischa Mischakoff, concertmaster of the
NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini, will heard in recital at 8:15 p. m. next Friday in the Odeon, as a feature of his teaching visit to Jordan College of Music. Mr. Mischakoff and Eugene Kilinski, Jordan violin department chairman, will give master classes at the col lege next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
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WASHINGTON, June 9 (UP)— President Truman’s trip to Tullahoma, Tenn., June 25 to dedicate a new Air Force research center will be a one-day affair, the White House said today.
Summer Players At Ohio U. Plan Shaw Festival
Times Special
ATHENS, O., June 9—A Shaw Festival commemorating the late George Bernard Shaw will be a feature of the Ohio Valley Summer Theater's first season here
June 18 through Aug. 11.
University Theater seating 300.
fes and a convocation on “The! Theater and Mr. Shaw,” with Barrett H. Clark, executive director
New York, as speaker.
The plays will be “Androcles| and the Lion,” July 5-7; “Candi-| da,” July 12-14; bound’s Conversion,” July 26-28, and “The Devil's Disciple,” Aug. -4 Films will be June 28, and “Caesar and Cleo-| patra,” July 19. The convocation will be held June 21.
Mr. Truman is expected to make a major speech on the occasion, first anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. The center is named for the late Gen. H. H. Arnold.
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Pupils tc Compete For Awards
The Indiana Federation of Music Clubs will have its annual Junior Division Festival tomorrow at Jordan College of Music, 1204 N. Delaware St. More than 200 junior club members from throughout Indiana will compete for state and national awards. Registration at 9 a. m. will open the day's sessions. A program at 2:30 p. m. will be presented by the following representatives of
various clubs: John Kirkpatrick, pianist, Waynetown; Eddie Steward, vocalist, and Rilla Hybarger, pianist, Crawfordsville; Raloh Lieber, vocalist, Michigan City; Sara Trobaugh, pianist, Kokomo; Nick Steinhardt, pianist, Greenwood; Sharon Wilson, pianist, Kokomo; Mary Beth Wright, marimbist; Janice Miles, accompanist; Sandra Lou Adams, marimbist,
panist, all of Indianapolis; the Brookside Rhythm Band, Mrs, Herman Karch directing, Margaret Johnson, violinist, Muncle. Junior State Board members are: wood, in charge of scrap book; Mesdames Leigh B, Freed, North Manchester, junior extension; L. E. Hubbard, Spencer, club rating; B. M. Guthrie, Kokomo, Stillman Kelley Scholarship; Albert Heep, Indianapolis, junior composers; Frank Hastings, Muncie, religious education; Omer Waraneke, Rushville, junior ensemble; Marshall C. Harvey, publicity; H. N. Edington, festival, and Caryl H. Cook, ' counselor, all of Indianapolis.
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THE INSURANCE ad which promises to become an American prose classic has now been set to music and recorded. Metropolitan opera tenor Jan Peerce recites “What Is A Boy?” the sentimental c haracterization of “the magical creature you can lock out of your workshop, but not out of your heart” originally written as a payroll pamphlet for New England Life Insurance Co. . The reverse side is not, unfortunately, the companion article, “What Is A Girl?” It's a straight vocal of “Because of You” with Hugo Winterhalter’s and chorus.
THERE'S LOTS of talk about April Stevens vocal, the Cole Porter-written, Henri Renebacked ballad, “I'm in Love Again,” on Victor. The copy was so good that they're going to record the orig{inal. The English and American { versions on the Chinese hit, “Rose, Rose I Love You” pulled ir so many juke-box nickels and recordbuyer dollars that Columbia is releasing the original Chinese version, sung by Hong Kong cabaret {singer, Miss Hue Lee. It supple{ments the Frankie Laine version {which is selling like hotcake makers wish hotcakes sold.
Jan ‘Peerce
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| COLUMBIA—Here’s an opera singer singing words written by a pop singer. Metropolitan Opera tenor Richard Tucker has re{corded “Tell Me,” for Columbia's new Black Label. The tune is based on an old European folk song which was refurbished and given new lyrics by Jobuiat vocal-
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By DONNA MIKELS ; Don't be surprised if you suddenly find yourself humming and singing snatches of a tune you didn’t know you
It probably will be “Truly, Truly Fair,” a pop tune that sneaked in when you thought you weren't listening to a dise- jockey show or the restaurant juke box.
ist Alan Dale. Dale has recorded it himself in Columbia's “pop” series. For the Count Basie fans, it's His new “Little Pony” and “Beaver Junction.”
with Les Scott and the Skylarks team up on “Black Ball Ferry Line” and a hymn, “The Wondrous Word. > The Ravens are at top harmony on “You Xoolish Thing” and “Honey, I Don’t Want You,” Likewise easy listening is Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames on “In the Cool of Evening,” and “My Love Has Gone.”
RCA VICTOR—If you talk to yourself, you're boobyhatch-bait but if you sing to yourself that's something else, Mindy Carson climbs aboard the self-duetting bandwagon with “Lonely Little Robin” and “You Only Want Me W h e n You're Lonesome.” Nice ballad-
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Song,” and “West Indies.” For those in the hinterlands who have to enjoy their Broadway hits through the medium of records RCA Victor releases the original cast of the hit “Make A Wish” in three-speed albums. Star Nanette Fahray, baritone Stephen Douglass and Harold Lang who stole the show in “Kiss Me Kate” are a few of the people behind the microphones on tunes which include “Who Gives a Sou?” “That Face,” “Paris France,” and the title song.
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