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S.F. Symphony Work Shines Frldoy. Morch 7. THE TIMES Son Motto--18 Aldo Ceccato, principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony, is serving as guest conductor this week and next for performances with the San Francisco Symphony in Seiji Ozawa's absence. He opened his a Wednesday night at the Opera House with a fascinatingly well- chosen and well-directed program of four works by two composers.

Although only Mozart and Prokofieff were represented in the concert, Ceccato scheduled their pieces in a way which gave a succinct aural history of the music of Western civilization from the 1760s to the 1920s. The works showed not only the personal of the two composers i a neously demonstrated the evolution of classical form as well. When presented this way, Mozart and Prokofieff show up as having a great deal in common in their artistic thinking. Both are uncommonly straight-forward in their presentation of musical a i a and both are uncommonly talejlnted in their ability to develop large palettes of emotional responses through subtle nuances in their compact writing. Mozart's Symphony No.

4 in Major, R. 19. was written during a trip to London when the composer was only nine years old. The short three-movement symphony is much more than just a pleasant little ditty whipped off by a precocious child. It has a considerably stronger sense of drama developed within it than one might logically expect from any composer so young.

Ceccato treated the work not as a curiosity but as a serious piece of composition, and brought from it its full artistic value. The Sinfonia Concertante in Hat Major for Four Wind instruments. K. Anh 9, is from Mozart maturity and shows start lingly just Welsh Choir In S.M. The Royal Welsh Male Choir will provide a happy musical evening for Trl-Clty Concert Association members on March 10.

Fine singing is a tradition in Wales and this choir was given the right to use the Royal prefix after a command performance at Windsor Castle before Queen Victoria. Works by Benjamin Britten and William Mathias share a program with readings from the writings of Dylan Thomas by narrator Barry Ashton. Soprano Esme Lewis sings a group of songs to the strains of a Celtic harp. The choir has toured most of the English-speaking world and is now on its second United States coast-to- coast tour. Admission to the concert at San Mateo High School is by membership card only.

how completely the composer developed. Good as the opening Symphony No. 4 had been, the difference between it and the Sinfonia Concertante was like that between night and day. The breadth of the sound and the depth of its conception were stupendous by comparison. The writing for the four solo instruments as well as a i a groups in the orchestra was i a a i of organized but independent thoughts blended into a rich result.

Ceccato and the four soloists kept a feeling of fluidity uppermost in the music, but it was not a transient, flighty fluidity, it was the fluidity of supple, reliable grace. Ceccato plodded too much through the first, three move- i of i "Classical Symphony." It was not i the fourth movement that he brought out the bubbling sense of unleashed motion that carries the music forth as if in one uninterrupted breath. Only when that feeling is present can the work convey the incredible virtuosity of its concise writing and construction. Proko- fieff's ballot "Chout" concluded the program in an orgy of dazzling orchestral display. It is a work truly representative of our century In the enormous contrasts juxtaposed within it some tonal 'and some definitely not.

Ceccato was brilliant in his interpretation of it and the orchestra was brilliant in its playing of it. They responded to Proko- fieff's constantly changing moods with perfect discipline and precision. --Robert Burmister IHM Players Resume Show The Immaculate Heart of Mary Players will present the second series of their melodrama entitled Silver Veins and Circus Trains or Virtue Was Her Only Treasure on March 7, 8, 14 and 15 at St. Michael's Hall, Ralston and the Alameda in Belmont. The San Mateo County Arts Council has granted S100 to the group specifically for the funding of tickets for senior citizens.

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CM. Irani 1:30 M. My 1st Hr. SI.SO On htfMto Professor Heads Palo Alto Theatre QUINCY JONES Prolific Composer Quincy Jones, one of the most prolific musical composers, and his special guest star, soul singer Eddie Kendricks open Circle Star Theatre's 1975 season for four performances March 14 and 15. Renowned as a conductor, composer, arranger and performer, Quincy Jones' musical triumphs are numerous.

Born in Chicago and raised in Seattle, he played trumpet as a kid and worked combos with Ray Charles when they were both teen-agers. Jones has arranged hits and LPs for recording artists Sammy Davis Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Sarah a a Aretha Franklin, and many others, and has scored over 25 major motion pictures including "Mirage," Sidney Poitier's "The Slender Thread," and "Walk, Don't Run," since his initial success with "The a Musical composer and arranger of the theme music for the hit TV series, "Sanford and Son." Jones recently co- produced a tribute to Duke Ellington titled "Duke i We Love You Madly!" which aired over CBS. John Cochran, assistant professor of drama at Stanford, sees his new job as managing director of the Palo Alto Community Theater as a bridge between town and gown. "I want to reestablish the close relationship between the campus and the Community Center dramatic productions that there was in the early 50s," the 38-year- old actor, producer and director said in a recent interview. "I hope to bring Drama Department students, faculty, and technical designers down here to lecture on their specialty, an idea which already has the approval of Prof.

Charles R. Lyons" (chairman of the department). Lyons has reacted favorably to another Cochran proposal to offer the Drama Department's spring presentation of "Mammie's Town" in the Community Theater May 13-17. "Mammie's Town" is a musical based on the life of Mammie Pleasant, a famous San Francisco madam of the middle 1800s. It has a cast of 45 and an eight-piece orchestra.

Book and lyrics have been written by Elizabeth Means of Los Altos, with music by Harry Booker of Hollywood, who writes for singers Stevie Wonder and Carla Thomas. Cochran will focus his entire attention on Stanford and Palo Alto, limiting his former connections with San a i West Coast Black Repertory Theater, which he co-founded, and as producer-director for Black theatrical groups in Los Angeles. Last month he directed "Five on the Black Hand Side" at Stanford. He will continue to the Black Student Union's arts group, which he has assisted since 1969. The spring production will be either the musical "Pippin" or "Raisin in the Sun." Cochran holds the performing rights to Joseph Walker's drama "The River Niger," which won several Broadway theater awards.

He hopes to produce it locally. He will continue to teacn an i i a acting course at Stanford which meets twice a week as well as advise two advanced degree candidates who are minoring in dramatic art. A native of Georgia, he was brought up in Detroit, where he was graduated from Wayre State University in basic medical science. He used this training as an Air Force medic while stationed at bases in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He holds a master's degree in social work with a theater arts minor from the University of Southern California.

Wherever he was located, he recalls with a chuckle, he managed to either act in, produce, or direct local productions, "sometimes all three at once." While serving as a social worker and i leader at Hathaway House for Children in Watts, Cochran was "discovered" by a Hollywood producer who got him roles in television and movies. Cochran directed an ETV production, "The Progress of the American Negro" and stage productions of "The Brewd Tree," "Oedi pus Rex." and "Blues for Mr. Charlie" while in Hollywood. In 1964 he founded The New San Francisco Players, for which he produced and directed "Mr. Charlie" again, as well as "The Cave Dwellers," "The Rain Maker," and "Where the Cross Is Made." A year later he went to Pittsburgh, where he founded a similar company of black performers.

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