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Music With Arthur Parade We Celebrate Don Juan Liszt Cincinnati Enquirer Page 12, Section Sunday, March S. 1961 Library Film "URBAN SPRAWL," a short color film on wise regional planning for the ex- plosion-of the urban population Into suburbia, has Just been added to the Public Library's film collection. Though the locale Is the West Coast, the trend away from the core city locally poses the same problems now being intensively studied by the Hamilton County Regional Commission. The new department of Urban Geography at the University of Cincinnati will supply discussion leaders for community groups borrowing this pertinent film from Library's Films and Recordings Center. and constantly and he experienced Jew failures.

He topped off a lifetime of Don Juanism at the age of 59 In a wild, reckless affair with a young girl that would put our film lotharlos to shame. All this. I should say, is in his music (but not in all his biographies). It disfigures his music as it adds strength and spice. There are times when his music is nothing but preposterous.

At other times it is intoxicating and powerful. A thin line divides the one from the other. Thus it Is important to have good eyesight when dealing with Liszt ,4 were many others), for the disagreeable, plain, shrewish, fanatic Princess Wittgenstein. When his two children died he seemed not to suffer much remorse in those days the death of children was commonplace since medicine was primitive whereas in our days we set aside certain great periods called wars where we drop bombs on them. Chopin called Liszt's music pure thievery unoriginal, hack work.

We now know that the opposite is the case. There is much hack work to be sure. But there is also a most powerful, original mind at work. Liszt was a mass of contradictions. He became an Abbe in the Catholic Church, though he had been a freethinker and agnostic in his youth, and after an unparalleled career as piano virtuoso he gave up public concerts completely at the height of his fame.

Women were his only steadfast activity. He pursued them unwaveringly it) Cleveland Orchestra Maestro George Szell to direct Music Hall Concert March 14 Not Overawed By The Bard FRAXZ LLSET Is beir.f eeleUrated this season to the lEms "Song Without End" and on records and this week Bt Music Hall. Liszt spent so prodigious ftn amount of time and energy In the most fashionable boudoirs of Europe that It Is a wonder he could pet to a piano long enough for the exertions necessary to acquire his stunning technique and large repertory. In his day (he was bom 150 years ago and that Is the anniversary we note at Music Hall when Jorge Bolet plays his "Hungarian Liszt was derided as a composer. Not only in his day.

It has been fashionable to speaK with contempt of Liszt In many circles and I have succumbed to the temptation myself. (The fact that I may have weakness of character In one or two trivial details does not make me any the less acute In observing the same things in others.) Liszt's music was a good mirror of the man. It was a case of art Imitating nature and doing It splendidly. Liszt's music, particularly such a loose-jointed, free-swinging, fire-breathing piece as the "Hungarian Fantasy." Is pompous, glittering, insincere, gaudy, superficial and callow. Liszt was himself all these things and worse.

At its best, Liszt's music was an amalgam of Hungarian folk influences, and that hot-blooded, diabolical splendor of style that he evolved from the music of Beethoven, Berlioz and Chopin. Liszt, strange as It may seem, also was Influenced by Bach, as the stinging cid counterpoint in works like his "Sonata in Minor" and the "Dance, of Death," show us. Liszt's music was best when it was written for piar.o. His orchestral works are mostly failures. The supreme colorist at the keyboard, Liszt became pallid and external, weak and gaudy when he wrote for the orchestra alone.

The last major influence on Liszt was literature. When he came to Paris he read the works of Victor Hugo, Lamartlne and George Sand and attempted to set them to music, but to a perfectly non-objective manner. He sought a pro- ESQUIRE Art Theatre ICIiHot 0 Ludlow 4V 1-8750; German Film Today at 2:00 P. M. Only; "DAS BEKENNTNIS DER INA KAHfT (Confessions of Ina Kafir) plui German Traveloguel Gutting, a senior who has had numerous leading roles, was cast as Malvolio but a recurrence of a pulmonary ailment forced him to relinquish the role to Robert Theis.

WEDNESDAY i. EXCITING MBit; -AlASIAIR SIMDENNIS MICE- CAPY RAYMONOI-VinORIO It CM Pi zfi HEIRESS! if'U If fill if PLAYWRIGHT William Shakespeare does not ever-awe director Otto Kvapil of the Xavier University Masque Society. Kvapil, who is readying Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" for performances March 17, 18 and 19 at Xavier, cannot, take any part of this play seriously. "It has Just about the thinnest plot imaginable," he says. "We will play every character for laughs including the Duke.

This play boasts great poetry and we will not lightly dismiss it, but each character can only be played in a spoofing way. The way the Duke falls in and out of love, you could almost say that Shakespeare Invented 'instant Kvapil thinks that Sir Toby Belch and Sir. Andrew Aguecheek are two of Shakespeare's lowest characters. "Even Moliere does not descend that low." The Masque Players were originally scheduled to open the play March 10 but Illness of a principal necessitated recasting and pushing back of the opening date. Originally, John Piano Soloist Jorge Bolet plays at Symphony SH'W' i'Wiimu 1'iiiigi'ei JAZZ: The Charles Bell Contemporary Jazz Quartet is a new group; with piano, guitar, drums and bass, in the spirit of tne Modern Jazz Quartet The music is "third stream" that is, midway between progressive jazz and classical music.

The first recording produces a repertory of seven pieces in which music descending from several main sources is blended subtly, with a sophistication and charm encountered rarely in players so young. The sources of the Bell music are French Impressionism, Stravinsky, the Modern Jazz Quartet and the usual jazz sources gospels, New Orleans, South American music, etc. I recommend Columbia CL 1582 (or CS 8382, stereo) very highly, Indeed. DUKE ELLINGTON manages a deal of fun over Grieg's two "Peer Gynt" suites (Columbia CL 1597). The Ellington Strayhorn "Suite Thursday hopefully in evocation of Steinbeck's novel "Sweet Thursday," is the second side.

The suite, in four parts, begins with conventional blues, then a wild, roaring movement titled "Schwipti," next a quiet, rocking reverie "Zweet Zurszday," and the finale with a Ray Nance violin solo and a perky thematic statement by the duke. The finale Is a gem but the whole suite is full of unusual and original touches. "The Sound of Midnight Naked City" is a Kapp record (MS 7517, stereo) of Paul Phillips and band In a gaudilycolored music representing Broadway at midnight. Arrangements of "In The Still of the Night," "Dancing in the Dark," "I Cover theWaterfron "Stardust," etc. It is a genial combination of several liquid styles, coming together like water over a backdrop of colored lights.

Not very Introspective. Jimmy Rushing, a kind of dulcet Louis Armstrong, is backed by Dave Brubeck and quartet in expansive renditions of "Melancholy Baby," Blues In the Dark," and several others. Columbia CL 1553. "Embers and Ashes" ere "songs of lost love" sung by husky-voiced Shirley Horn on Stereo craft Records 16, 1650 Broadway, New Expanding NEW YORK VP) Roles are sometimes eliminated from shows in these days of high production costs, but "Under The Yum-Yum Tree" added one player to the cast several weeks after opening on Broadway. Charles Forsythe is the actor employed to portray the part of a milkman which author Lawrence Roman wrote into the script for increased comedy effect.

Lively ARTS Calendar Weekly service of CioeirmaN Instle lot gf fin Arts and ttie Junior Ueoua Week ef March ink 12 SUNDAY, MARCH MUSICi Coliept Conservatory of Music i Sigmund end Babette tffrorv test of three of Tan Sonataa of p. m. Unrred f-me Art Chamber Music Series Guild String Ouarfet, Tafr Museum, THEATER -Mar iemoryf -Wavers (ACT) "HnSi Ground." Wafton Creek Ttieeter, I.JO 0. m. St.

John Passion Pity it. John Auditorium, Often end Reoublic 2 p. in. TUESDAY, MAKCH 7 MUSICi Col Comorvatonr of Mmit Aiumni Association oresenri Jane Hobson, meito-sooreno. Concert Halt, ti30 0- m.

(Admission SI. 50). WEDNESDAY, MARCH MUSICi Chrijr Church i oroen ftcinet, THURSDAY, MARCH 9 THEATER: 1961 Fmt Am Review, "Fifth Annual Sooof on Culture" tmery Auditorium, 8:30 VISUAL ARrS-Contemoorary Art Cen-teri film Sarin on the Ria of the Screen Personality! "Biurrt Bizarre," Jean lout Berravlt and Jean-Pierre Aumont, and filmi "The Song of Ceylon." 8 m. FRIDAY. MARCH 10 THEATER: 1961 Fin An Review, "Fifth Annual Snoot on Culture" Emery Auditorium, 8:30 p.

m. Xavier University: Masque Society, Shakespeare's "Tweff Niorrf," Soutfi Hefl Cinpu 8:30 p. MUSIC: Cincinnati Symphony Orctiesitm: Joroe Bolet, pianist, Music Hell. 2 p. m.

VISUAL ARTS: PubHc Library: Films: "Birds: How We Identify Them;" "OriiO Fishing Fever; "Blacktop, 12 and 1 p. tn. SATURDAY, MARCH II THEATER: 1961 Fine Am Review, "Fiftii Annual Sooof on Culture." Emery Auditorium, 8:30 p. m. Xevior Umver-t'tv, Masoue Society, Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," South fieri Campus, 8 30 p.

m. MUSIC: Cincinnati Symphony Orchfstre: Jorge Bolet. pianist. Music Hall, 8:30 0. m.

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 THEATER: Xeviar University, Masoue Society, Shaltesoeara's "Twelfth N19M," South Hall Campus, 8:30 p.m. St. John Passion Plav, St. Jano Auditorium, GVmo and Republic 3 p. MUSICi Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Untvaraitv of Cincinnati Gie Club, special concert, sponsored by UnHrarsnty of Cincinnati, 3:15 P.

Wtbon Me-inortel Hall (admission charge), EXHIBITIONS ART MUSEUM: Indian sculpture knf by fh Kevorkian Foundation, New York, Wvrouflh September 1. Albert P. Striet-mann Collection, Prints bequeamed I960 and shown In memory of the Museum's Trustee and through August 31. Collection of Antique English Silver Coffee Pots, March 2, Aoril 2. CINCINNATI ART CLUB: One-Men Show, Norman Doene.

Saturday Sunday afternoons through. March 19. PUBLIC LIBRARYi Exhibitions: Collec-tor's choice: Fina Arts Cincinnati, through March 20. Modern Italian Art, fwough March 11. Planting Your Garden, through March 18.

CINCINNATI MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: Permanent and temporary exhibits on all phases of natural history. Open daily 9-5 p. m.j Sundays 2-5 p. m. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: Pha-tograohs by idifh McKea Harper, through March 30.

KHAE ART GALLERY! Cincinnati Artist, 6roup Show 1 Paul Craft, Parrel I broers. Stand Brod, Robert Brunnar, Carol Schean-gold, Clint Orlemenn. Hours 2-5 P. Saturday and Sunday, tfwougn March 5. 9940 McKelvey Rd.

CAR MEAL HOUSEi Stuyvesan Van Veen, leo ftabkin, Walercolors and mixed me. dn through Marcit 6. Open daiiy 1-5 p. m. (induding Saturday and Sunday).

HIGHLAND GALLERYi Edgar Tefur, Contemporary sculpture, through March 12. Camera images by James Durrell a printroom exhibit, through April 2 (2828 "sEVe'n1" CITIES GALLERYi Paintings by Don Gottschalk, evenings, except Monday after 7:30 p. m. or by appointment. TAFT MUSEUM: Children's International Art Exhibition, sponsored by the Red Cross, March 10, March 27.

Dates and times subject to chanoe. for listings contact the Cincinnati Institute of fine Arts. 400 Dixie Terminal Building. PA 1-2468. Anti Amplifiers NEW YORK George Abbott, veteran Broadway stager, scorns any increased use cf amplifying equipment in legitimate theaters.

"If they can't hear 'em, get a new company," is the Abbott slogan concerning audience ability to hear performers. in "Florello," Abbott permits use of microphone In one scene only because the action takes place in a broadcasting station. ROARS AND SO WILL OU its pdniu ine racriC York 19. Miss Horn's manner is "LAMBERT, Hendricks and Ross sing Ellington" on Columbia CL 1510 with the Ike Isaacs Trio. Some very mad vocal treatment of Ellington instrumentals.

"Jo and Jazz" is Jo Stafford making' an honest woman out of her material. Miss Stafford Is known for her hit parade sins of the past. She turns to jazz (Columbia CL 1561) with the brass and reeds of her voice polished brightly for the occasion. Miss Stafford takes to jazz like a cat purring after catnip. The trombones of J.

J. Johnson are put to work accompanying voices on Columbia CL 1547 which they do with a fat, melancholy sound. "SIN AND SOUL by Oscar Brown is the brilliant singing of an irrepressible spirit, a man of astounding originality and style. Oscar Brown Jr. Is a tremendous talent, as a rundown of his activities indicates a singer, actor, poet, composer but as a singer alone this young bard is sensational.

(Columbia CL 1577.) He sings jazz, nonsense songs, Negro songs and others, with a stark, pulsing style. Next to Miriam Make-ba he is the most singer I have heard in eons. MEZZO Jane Hobson, mezzo soprano," and well-known concert singer who graduated from the Conservatory of Music, will give a recital Tuesday evening in the concert hall, accompanied by Dr. Laurence Willhlde. OPEN SUNDAYS BIG STAGE SHOW FAMOUS UTIN BEAUTY CHILE PEPPER li "HOTTEI THAU HOI" STRIPPERS GALORE COMICS SABRA $AMARR MISS ARABIA the Is Terrific AM eM VIMfs) EMM JAMES MASON BOONE Terry Thomas FROM 6 P.M.

FROM 2 P.M. ACADEMY AWARDS Actor Ptir Ustinov LAST 3 WEEKS! aesejMMl 3 i 3 I fij Vol vi vi u7 gram music of mood and style, a free but binding interpretation of the stuff of novels. He spoke about music in purely literary and philosophical terms, deriding learned analytical terminology as humbug. His career with the ladies was as spectacular as his career at the keyboard but career at the keyboard, but behavior was as admirable as it was Interesting. He threw over the beautiful Countess D'Agoult, who was the ndvelist Daniel Stern and the mother of his three acknowledged children (rumor has it that there 1 11 fvltusnc THE SYMPHONY this week presents Jorge Bolet in a piano concerto by John La Montalne and Liszt's "Hungarian Fantasy.

Max Rudolf also will conduct the Mendelssohn "Italian Symphony" and "Don Juan" by Strauss. Bolet, whose massive technique has been put to use on several occasions to Cincinnati most memorably in the Prokofiev "Second Concerto" a few years ago brings an unfamiliar concerto, La Montalne's. But the work is conservative and familiar enough to idiom and structure. The themes and harmonic structure are such that you do not need more than a knowledge ofStraussto understand them and the piano writing is big and bold. Tuesday a week hence, March 14, George Szell brings the Cleveland Orchestra to Muslo Hall for a concert that should show off 'to good advantage this great orchestra.

Many people consider It the finest American orchestra and many others think that It Is no less excellent than the Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Boston orchestras, admittedly our best. This writer heard the Cleveland Orchestra to Severance Hall about two seasons ago give, under George Szell direction, an overwhelmingly dazzling performance of a profoundly complex modern work, the Rochberg "Second Symphony," as well as startllng-ly brilliant performances of several standard pieces. Szell surely Is one of our EVENINGS 8 P.M. (SUN. 7:30) MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED RD.

PO 10222 DJotfes greatest musicians. He was a prodigy pianist and several records that he made some years ago were collector's items. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will give a concert Sunday, March 12 at Wilson Auditorium, 3:15 p. m. The orchestra, directed by Max Rudolf, will perform in combination with the UC Glee Club.

Robert Sayre, solo cellist, will also be featured. Erik Kahlson, viollst, leads the Guild String Quartet in a free public concert today at the Taft Museum. Compositions by Sibelius, Reger and Dvorak will be performed. The concert is made possible by a grant from the Music Performance Trust Fund. Achille DiRusso and Herbert Silbersack violins: Arthur Bowen, cellist, Kahlson and guest artist Jack Wellbaum, flutist, will be heard.

The Harvard Glee Club will give a concert April 7 at Emery Auditorium. Now that Harvard Is a branch of the government you may learn something about polities as well as music by attending. Roland Johnson, alumnus of the College of Music and formerly conductor of the College Orchestra, has been appointed conductor of the Madison, Wisconsin Civic Symphony and Chorus, beginning next fall. He succeeds Walter Heermann of Cincinnati, who retires at the close of the present season. Johnson, presently conductor at the University of Alabama, will conduct Felix Labunski's "Symphonic Dialogues" March 5.

The Knoxvllle Collega Choir and Octet will perform at the Carmel Presbyterian Church. Lee Place and Reading Road, at 5 p. m. today. This concert is for scholarships.

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