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Stage and Music—

Arena Staging

Antigone’

Symphony 3 4 : Program ‘Well Planned

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By Henry Butler

TONIGHT'S FINAL performance here of the 1952

Hollywood Ice Revue ushers

The Civic’s December production, “Mr. Barry's. Etch-

in a relatively light week.

ings,” will continue, of course, through next Saturday.

A bill of two one-act plays, “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” by Stephen Vincent Benet, and Sophocles’ “Antigone” will be done

in arena style in John Whistler|

Atherton Center, Butler University, next Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with a matinee Saturday. : With Howard L. Grigsby directing, the cast of the Benet play will include Richard .Brady, Indianapolis freshman class president, as Jabez Stone; Patty Payne, Ft. Wayne, as Mrs. Stone; Harold Gunderson, Indianapolis, as Mr. Scratch, the devil, and

John J. Malloy, Indianapolis, as

Daniel Webster,

Cast in “Antigone” are Jackie Stolkin in the title roils, Joan Myers, as Ismene; Pete Lupus, as Tiresias: Janet Lowe, as Eurydice, and Charles Marlow, as

accompaniment to the

{composition for sole piano, n ~ uw

Symphony in the Murat.

{hours of Christmas music.

lis Symphonic Choir, Edwin Biltcliffe, ists: Barbara Dennison, soprano; Farrell Scott, tenor, Jerome Speaker, Chicago, bass.

Compositions programmed

t chorus “Et Crucifixus est”); the Schu-, mann “Arabeske” and Rachman-| inoff’'s tremendously brilliant and effective variations on the Corelli] St theme best known as “La Folia,” melodies. which was Rachmanigoff’s last

A CHRISTMAS PROGRAM will| poem of marine inspiration. As of | next be Sunday afternoon's of-|yesterday’s fering by Fabien Sevitzky and the formance in the Carpenter was

This second “Meet Your Sym-|possible reasons: One, the strict phony” municipal free concert of budget limits on rehearsal time; {the season will present about two|two,

Assisting will be the Indianapo- Tchaikovsky's * Fifth Symphony

trained by

and three solo- , mezzo- like, ecstatic style of the Carpen-|

and ter piece, it is possible to guide|

in-

of planning. : And as of yesterday morning’s | dress rehearsal in the Mugat, | which I had to attend in order not to miss last night's “Fleder-| maus” at Purdue, the orchestra's | performance was splendid. ! Dr. Sevitzky opens this pair of] concerts with Mendelssohn's] “Ruy Blas” Overture—a fine ex-| ample of Mendelssohn's “affirmative” style of writing, with its nice| dynamic contrasts and flowing)

ISI INRA ARR

He continues with the late]: {John Alden Carpenter's “Sea | Drift,” an fmpressionistic tone

rehearsal,

the per-|

{the least satisfactory, for two

the necesssity of drilling the orchestra repeatedly on| major works of the program.

True enough, in the Scraibin-|

the orchestra with a minimum of | drilling. But I personally was not |

HOL gon”) Ga stuff at | talk that

ROBER/ on a possi Barbara diverce bec of 1952: “I wis answer. 1 it. I have

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speaker for the people of Thebes. | Y satisfied with tonal effects here| ! ETTY All are residents of Indianapolis; clude a Christmas Overture, OYland there, and I imagine Dr. Se-| B Tr “ iIColeridge - Taylor; Dr. Sevitzky's| it eith ‘ up ? Additional participants in The, “ 7 "lvitzky wasn't either. : : ed W : " \transcription of the “Zion Hears h b Dr. Se-| trimm Devil and Daniel Webster” include| W ’ ions What may have been Dr. Se-| II's R Alice Rose Moore Martinsville; Be" Watchmen’s Voices,” from vitzky’'s boldest gesture in plan-| | Farrell's Jane Sisson Vera Hollander, | B2¢1' Cantata No. 140, “Sleepers, ning the program was getting : that pase : pissoth (Awake; Unto Us a Child Is] ] : out of a Robert Earl Smith, Sanford ig Mack Harrell, the baritone solo-| - i i ; ) v ’ : ae \ at FEO j . : ereys ta 5 2 film with 1 Schwartz and John McCardle, aijEa Bach cantate x Tegan ist, to sing Brahms’ “Vier ernste J i Lewis, of Indianapolis. lules Cathedrales” of Plerne Gesaenge.” Neither Mr. Harrell's MOSTLY VOCAL — Star entertainers appearing on local Gary Graffman, young American pianist on the Symphony's fifth She wail ae Bill Joris pas Toby Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, SuPerd "le Dor te Profundity | boards betwen now and New Year's will be mainly vocal or dra- pa of subsariplien Sonearts (Murat, Dec. 22.2% lower lof) Fradsis | that will h “IVaughan Williams Fantasia on| , : . ‘ arch, co-starred with his wite, Florence Eldri in Lillian Hell- . son, all of Indianapolis; Stanley Crug! s Carols and the Hallelu-| Songs” would seem attractive to matic. In the usual order, starting upper left, they are: Farrell -~“""h, " ) Highicde, || THE LONGEST CURRE! : ; “hristmas Carols an allelu il ’ ; ; : : ; . man's "The Autumn Garden," the Murat's first play of the season, |} LaFFINEST FUN Levine, Chestnut Hill, Mass., and jah Chorus from Handel's Mes. a listening public nurtured, let's Scott, Indianapolis tenor, who will be heard with Fabien Sevitzky opening New Year's Eve; Justyn Blackwell, in the ‘cast of the Booth || SHOW OF ALL Tie. WOOQMIRAR Abe Schankerman, South Bend. [gjah. say, on the singing of Mario . le : : . aay s . ea : { pg ages shows Sissi Sa. ihisisinn opriate place lanza ging and the.Symphony in a free municipal concert of Christmas music Tarkington Civic's current attraction, "Mr. Barry's Etchings.” con-.§ Ee eplehly LM SM ERR SR I EER a 38 AN-KPPP / + AE ThA seten ¥ - p > argos 57 Ne Mr A SC erie FA " oy rT p . s p SOME MUSICAL events de. to mention again the Symphony's| Yet 1 think Dr. Sevitzky “Wins next Sunday at the Murat; Rita Stevens, Tom Barry and Audrey, _tinuing through. next Saturday and Donald Dame, one of the stars | I was serve particular mention here. forthcoming series of WFBM-TV|his gamble in this instance. Mr. vocalists heard over loudspeakers but seldom seen with the 1952 of the Metropolitan Opera's touring Fledermaus’ (Loew's Theater, | bara Pa Coe oe the reditsl Wednesday | Shows, which will open Dec. 18,/Harrell's singing -is- altogether Hollywood Ice Revue, in its final Coliseum performance tonight; next Friday and Saturday). | funny thi evening in Caleb Mills Hall by With Gates Motors as initial spon- wonderful. It's beautifully toned ™- : = Ee AUDIE Patricia Benkman, young San S°T- Subsequent programs, on and intelligently controlled. '® COL-TEN CAFETERIA © 00D in UT's Francisco pianist now resident in:D€¢: 25, Jan. 1, and Feb. 5, 12, 19 Pepth of Personality | Cor. COLLEGE and TENTH 0 story has i <0, , e yi Mr. ) ; ’ Indianapolis and 26, 1952, will be sponsored by, Mr. Harrell has the depth of or an FRIED CHICKEN the 1870's The Cathe svening LeutslD® Gibson Co. of Indianapolis|personality to understand ® FEATURING ® ENTERTAINMENT Be f re ’ and Arvin Televis - ’ i CAN Swann and Marian Laut, duo-ipys I Vin Vision of Colum-Bratims earnestness in this jatef of CHICKEN DINNER % THE BAN-DEE ORSON danists. will zive a ject ital us, ina. song cycle. With sensitive 'mu- y 750 Virginia Ave. FR-0570 Sam have Panis 5, Z1ve a lec Ure-red! a4) Ey (hes Re | sicianship, he molds the phrases SUNDAYS nd THURSDAYS THE U. 8. 8. BAN-DEE aH $60,000 0 Music for Two Pianos” in! : ® a ® pay ) h usc: 10 no . [to the Scriptural words Brahms | \ Ravenswovd B S the current Great Music series of | Times Amusement | éhose, H t letelv. ih 90c Without Dessert The U. S. Butler University’s Jordan Col-/ | chose. He gets completely the au- ® © 0-0 © © 0 0 © of his sal y Clock i... 9 @¢ -3 9 : | | sterity, the nobility and the uni- { until all is lege of Music in the Odeon, 106! NURAT A 8 E. North St. | “Indianapolis Symphony,” Dr. Se- | versal yearning of Brahms’ ser-| | LUNE] | viteky conducting, Mack Harrell, |jous mood, reminiscent of the | | s 1 Miss Benkman's. first local ap-| Metroolitan bapitghe. soloist, at 3. |(~ L000 Requiem. This perform- FINAL TIME by’s favor an > ae 3.30" Barry's Etchings,” comedy. |ance, with Dr. Sevitzky’'s magnifi- | for-a two dianapolis Piano Teachers’ Asso- “Submarine Command," with Wil- jeent accompaniment ha TODAY | THE 1: . lam Holden, Nancy Olson and |fnusical experience. foreign ca: ciation. In private life, she is the| William Bendix. at 1:10. 4:10, 7 and As for the Tchaikovsky Fifth,| The Nation's ro ha wife of Ozan Marsh, chairman of 5.4COrky of Gasoline Alley” at 2:85, |a bit of confession: I've never| METROPOLITAN OPERA STAR Number One Band cleared of He Pilaf Separtment, of Bue} iia ESQUIRE {been one to walk five miles | Y the time in vers y's Jordan College. of] Power arte 0 \ndith Tyrone | through a blinding snowstorm to MACK HARRELL i RA sons are Sie: | at 336 TIeMeEg Jain, Clifton Webb. | hear that symphony. And yet | NY stocks, in She has been serving as music . INDIANA | yesterday, alone in the dark au- Soloist with AN assets. director for the Riddick Plano yuiye\urie® 1% Bios" tuien'st ~|ditorium with no distractions or | Advance Sale Tickets $1.33 ul Ah d 10. |

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