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More Music, Less Money

By Henry Butler THE FIRST subject for today's column is the conclusion next Saturday of the Symphony's current seasonticket. selling campaign. : That campaign means big savings you'll find attrac-

tive, as super-market ads put it. It means more music for less the necessary vocal commenting money, If you buy your season on the tragiticket this week, you can hear comedy of music 11 concerts for the price of seven. and life in gen-

Students can do even better, eral. The instru with a 50 per cent discount on mental group, all the $24 and $19.80 season sub- familiar here,

will include Flip ¢ Phillips, Jacquet and Lesi ter Young in the { tenor sax depart-

scriptions. The lower figure, which turns out to be $9.90, gives a student 11 concerts at 90 cents each, or little more than a first-run picture costs.

So much for prelude. There'll be ment; Bill Harsomething of a fugue after a a4 ris. trombone: pause for routine announcements. Roy Eldridge, ow Mr: Jacquet trumpet; Hank

FIRST REMINDER concerns Jones a7 car Peterson, Jan lists ay Brown, lass, and the the Charles Wagner “La Travi {legendary Gene Krupa, drums. ata” production, opening the Mar- nr tens series at the Murat at 8:30) OTHER REMINDERS: “Peter :t Wednesday Pan,” the Barrie revival with inPy I; hex ahs . cidental music now on tour followIt will be a brilliant beginner, ing Broadway success, will’ play] for what Indianapolis hasn't had|ip ree nights in" IU too often in the past generation|Bloomington,

or #0: An opera season. With “La Oct. 22. iy

Traviata,” the Metropolitan's t incide with the Murat run of * “Fledermaus” (Dec. 10 and 11 a Kles: Aweigh,” op DOK,

IRE PA TT AN a Coke pe rae 2) “Lohengrin” with Metropolitan ngjanapolis stars at the Murat Feb. 23 andition's building program. 04, 1952, we'll have a small- scale Final memory-jog: Ernst Hoffrevival of what oldsters remem-/m a n’'s Indiana ber from the golden years of [University PhilEnglish’s. harmonic OrSecond reminder concerns thejchgstra — one of revised two-show program of NoT-tpe top studentman Granz’ Jazz at the Philhar- lt a c ulty orchesmonic at the Murat next Thurs-itras in t he day. Performances will be at 7:30lUnited States and 10 p. m. and, I venture to As announced earlier, the in- say, in the world imitable Ella Fitzgerald will do|__wi)) give its

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© ; Ap cuss Orchestra: A Social History of Musical Taste,” by Prof. John H. Mueller of the IU sociology department, Published last Monday by. the Indiana University Press the book certainly is tops in its field. Indeed, Dr. Mueller may be said to have invented the field, which is off the

one - way ‘street . of most music Dr.” Mueller history.

Not content with the hackneyed historical approach, Dr. Mueller examines the America orchestra in the light of its patronage, artistic aims and progress and the evolution of its clientele’'s taste, as revealed by program analysis, His long section “profiling” 17 leading orchestras, of which the Indianapolis Symphony is No. 16 in career-length, cludes material on .changes in popular taste wrought by orchestral programs.

rate analysis of taste progress in Indianapolis, though there has been remarkable growth, as re-

vealed in the annual balloting for|

season-ending, grams. An important point Dr. Mueller makes more clearly than any oth-

all-request pro-

auditorium, | er historian I've read is that the! starting Monday, symphony orchestra as we know |

it is largely an American creation.’

Its run unfortunately will co- European orchestras traditionally ‘Anh- are adjuncts to opera, the big benefit Royal Aibscmaniay

Con Under Sir Homas

‘pared “4s ‘a fund-raiser for thé am gave Bloomington and LafayHebrew Congrega- ette audiences

some marvelous

music, never had more than six to

10 annual concerts prior to the 1930s, Dr. Mueller tells us.

5 n = - LONG SERIES of concerts by {virtuoso orchestras are

{ World invention, Dr. Mueller says. | They have given us the world's highgst standard of performance. And they haye given us the | virtuoso conductor, as distinct

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|ductor, wifo served partly as stage director and vocal coach, in the manner of Toscanini at La Scala. Some critics harp against the

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INDIANA “Painting the Clouds with Sun.

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will be soloist. on the fifth program of Jordan’s Great Music series at 7:30 next Wednesday in the Odeon.

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leb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School, Miss Benkman, whose program will be sponsored by the Indianapolis Piano Teachers’ Association, has appeared in re-

Verdi's "La Traviata' at 8:30 p. m. next Wednesday at the | Murat, opening the Martens Concerts season.

Jordan Faculty Man On Tennessee Program

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Miss Lind’s KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. eh ; ~ cital and as soloist with symDavid Hughes of the Jordan c «o1- Catholic Guild roe phony orchestras in New York lege of Music facuhy. Butler onl Schedules Farce trate a lecture by and other cities, including a versity, will direct the All-Eastern Beldon Leonard, tour last year with the San

Tennessee high school orchestra: “The Mad Hatters.” a farce by| here Friday evening, Oct. 24. > G ~ a The concert by a 125-piece stu- Rurtz Brdon, will be the ( atholic dent orchestra will be a feature Theater Guild's .next production | of the Eastern Tennessee Educa- at 8:30 p. m. Oct. 26 and 27 in| tion Association's final meeting. the Indiana University Building, | Approximately 4 teachers and

also of the Jor- Francisco Symphony. dan factuly, on - ——

“Music for Violin" U.S. 20% Brighter

Alone.” In 1940, a little over three-

«The series .of unusual and difficult works will fourths of U. §. dwelling units had

include the B minor Partita of

INTRICATE — The Hargitays are featured in a snake dance at the Gigantic Strength and Variety Show. It will be held Sunday, Oct, 2I at 3 p. m. in

Murat Theater. Ticket prices are parents are expected to-hear the : : Bach, selections from the “Ob- electric lights, but by 1950, 94 per program in Knoxville’'s municipal; With Joseph Feld directing, the session” : . 3 “trical” World, $2.40, 3 .80 and $1.20. auditorium. cast. will a Barth Small, ession” Sonata of Ysaye, the cent did, says Elec lon

Miss Lind

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ists at each . concert (pianistsicolumim (classification 12) of The jine Smith, Paul McCaslin. Eliza- ‘ always seem to sell best in In- Limes Classifigd advertising sec- beth Glaze, Rita Small. Mr. Feld | i lis detitali But D (tion. That's where reliable serv- and Janet Myers. dianapolis; incidentally), uv Tlice-firms are listed for your conMueller points to a steady growth venience.

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