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11D 3 Week in Music: Eastman Festival --Southernaires Opera DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, SUNDAY, APRIL 2fi, 1942 r- I II 1l Gifted Quartet Will Appear With Civic FEW people who have heard the famous Negro singers, the Southernaires, think, of them as other than a gifted musical group. But the four famous voices, which will be heard as the assisting artists with the Civic Orchestra this evening, in the Kastman Theater, have bnck of them four distinctly different personalities. William Edmondson, the giant bass, for instance, is a native of Spokane, Washington. There he attended Spokane College, play PfOt jfOflf St Of OdCFO 1 bah mil a mn I i In lead "Rigoletto" roles Saturday at Auditorium are, from left, Hilda Eeggiani as Landi as the Duke, and Heidt as Maddalena. Figures in Eastman Ballet Ballet dancers in Eastman Festival Friday: Left, Joy Curtis, Margie Whitford and Jane Van Atta in "The Winter's Past;" right, Olive McCue, to be guest soloist.

'Met' Artists to Play Leads In Opera at Auditorium DICII in delightful arias and colorful costumes, Verdi's "Rigoletto" will be presented opera patrons Saturday night in the Auditorium Theater by the Rochester Grand Opera Company with leading roles interpreted by artists of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Three outstanding characters r. dominate this work. The hunch- Virormia IXlllCPlim back jester, Rigoletto, portrayed ilU3CUlU by the ever pleasing baritone, Riittc PairHnrtc Claudio Frigerio; the Duke of UyS) 1 CUIUHlgb Eastman Festival to Present Orchestras, Singers, Ballet 171 orchestras, one of the foremost string quartets of the 1 present day, vocal cohorts headed by the Eastman School Choir, a larpre dance corps, instrumental and vocai soloists including the distinguished 'cellist, Luijri Silva; Mac Morgan, a baritone Rochester. fuoco Andante teneramente, con em- ing football and baseball and organizing the college's first glee club.

On graduation, he studied voice at Chicago Musical College. Later he played the lead in three Negro motion pictures The Millionaire," "Thirty Years Later" and The Midnight Ace." To radio audiences he is known as the member of the quartet who intones the homespun sermons that are a feature of their weekly broadcasts: To-night's Program: Overture Leonore TTo. 3, Beethoven Andante Sostenuto from Symphony No. 1 Brahms Selections by Southernaires Sarabande, Gigue, and Badinerie Corelll Pavane pour une infante defunte Ravel Dance of the Hours from 'LaOioconda Ponchielli Selections by Southernaires Rims Selection, by Sout Capnccio rumHKy-ivomaiioii Southernaires Albright Director Takes New Job Gordon Washburn, for 10 years director of the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, has resigned to become director of the mueeum of Rhode Island School of Design, In Providence. During hU tenure in Buffalo Washburn's outstanding accomplishments were his purchases for the gallery's permanent collection, building a collection of modern art, establishment of a department of allied art and Industry, an educational department, and a large annual show for artists of Western New York.

Three Cagney Aides -s. D1 VJCl ly Ixolcs Hollywood (Wide World) James Cagney feels deserted. Michael Hurley (Red) Breen, hie standin for nine years received a letter from his conscription board and sped to the navy recruiting station. "None of that army stuff for old Red," he told Jimmy. "You know how I always hated to stand on my feet." Trouble was, Breen took along Bob O'Dell, Cagney's wardrobe man for six years, and Charles (Chuck) Griffin, Cagney's secretary for longer than that.

The Navy accepted all three. Composer-Singer To Be Heard Gustave Ferrari, composer-singer, will present a recital of French songs at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow when Mrs. Francis E.

Cunningham of South Goodman Street entertains the members of the French Alliance. A string quartet from the Eastman School of Music will assist. Ferrari will give his interpretations of Chansons Francaiaea of all periods. As composer-pianist-singer he has achieved a unique reputation. plicita Allegro con fuoco Finale.

May 1 Eastman Theater 8:20 p. m. Rochester Civic Orchestra, Dr. Howard Hanson, conducting. Dance Corp from Studio of Thelma.

Biracree; Thelma Biracree, choreogrnpher and atR director. Program of Italic! Suite of Dances from "'Merry Mount" Howard Hanson Juke Box Alex Wilder Gold and the Senor Comman- dante William Bergsma Step Into My Parlor BurriH Phillips Night Piece Kent Kennan The Winter's Passed Wayne Barlow Night Clouds Wynn York Dance LaVahn Maech New Composer a i i Award Listed TNDER a new plan, Town Hall, New York, will commission three new works by young composers studying at music conservatories and in the muslo departments of colleges and universities. The works will be performed in the Town Hall Forum concert of Feb. 17, 1943. For the first year of the new plan the composition faculties of the Eastman School of Music, Harvard University and the Juil-liard Graduate School will be invited to designate one student each.

The three composers chosen for the first contest will be required to write works taking 15 minutes to play for a particular combination of instruments, to be performed by the Daniel Saidenberg Little Symphony, and conductor's score and orchestral parts must be in Mr. Saidenberg's hands not later than Aug. 15. A professional musio critic, a conductor, two members of the Town Hall Music Committee and a representative of the music publishing firm of Boosey Hawkes will form the committee of Judges. The winning composer will receive a cash prize of $250.

CHINESE TArESTRY ONK of the finest recent jobs of delineating Chinese character and courage, encased in the rovers of a novel, is Preston Schoyera "THE FOREIGNERS (Dodd, Mead it N. 617 pages, J2.75). Schoyer's is the language of authority. Since his graduation from Yale In 1933 he has made two extended stays in Chin, teaching and writing articles. On his last trip there, he barely escaped Jap Invaders, fleeing by foot and boat.

What he has to say breaks roughly Into two halves In the book. In the first is drawn a clear, and therefore sometimes barbed, picture of life in the international settlement in an inland city. Principal concerns of its inhabitants, for example, whether to erect statue to the memory of a missionary whp had indicated he wanted the statue raised, but who was so disliked by Chinese that to place him on a pedastal would be to invite trouble. In the second half comes the engulfing impact of the Nipponese invasion. Probably the value of the book, Schoyer's first, rests upon his ability to translate Chinese character into a common denominator understandable to the American.

He emphasizes and illustrates, for Instance, a factor that has been shipped too often that the Chinese has a deep-seated sense of humor. Schoyer's style seems to be leisurely, but this is deceptive, for his carefully backgrounded descriptions of scenes and individuals is the poVder to which he sets the fuse for the chaos that comes. FIRST LOVE SEVENTEENTH SUMMER, Intercollegiate Literary Fellow- shop prizewinning novel by Mau- Daly (Dodd. Mead and Company, New York, J2.50) This exceptional in its class, or perhaps in a class by Itself, since it portrays the agencies of first love from the point of view of 17 years. Angle Morrow and Jack Duluth in J)ALEV that all too brief summer find the commonplace transmuted into priceless treasure, and the drab and drear into rainbow hued dreams.

There were annoying complications, mental tortures, searing memories of misunderstanding, but when the season was ended, both realized that no summer again should be like that seventeenth. Maureen Daly, a senior at Rosemary College, Chicago, had. her first short story published when she was 15. Her short story, Sixteen, won a place in the O. Henry Collection of Best Short Stories.

JAILED WITH NIEMOELLER. I WAS IN HELL WITH ND3-MOELLER, by Leo Stein (Fleming H. Revell New York; 253 pagee, $2.50) Destined to go down through the ages as a Century martyr is Father Martin Niemoeller, who refuses to betray the faith and principles he upholds to his Nazi captors. Leo Stein, conuned for two years with Niemoeller, herein reveals something of the great character of the Pastor and also throws a floodlight of truth on the Nazi crime against civilization. This authentic human document contain a warning and lesson for the present generation.

IT FROM STEEL MILLS THE STRONG CITY, by Taylor Caldwell (Charles Scrib-rer's Sons, New York City; 680 pages, $3) A stirring tale of a man and his lust for power, and a novel that has strong ties with a period of American history. With its setting in the steel mill section of Pennsylvania, the tale is ebout Franz Stoessel, a young Bavarian immigrant, who early decided that America meant two things to him, money and power. Disregarding the lives of his fellow workers and friends, as well as the love of Irmgard, he finally achieves his ends only to find that his "strong city" is not impregnable and that power is not everything. Current Best Sellers ricriox 1. THE MOON IS DOWN, by John Steinbeck.

Viking. 2. DRAGON SEED, by Pearl S. Buck. John Day.

S. WINDSWEPT, by Ellen Chase. Macmillan. 4. FRENCHMAN'S CREEK, by Dauphne du Maurier.

Dou-bleday, Doran. 5. THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM, by A. Cronin. Little, Brown.

NON-FICTION 1. MISSION TO MOSCOW, by Joseph E. Davles. Simon Schuster. 2.

FLIGHT TO ARRAS, by Antoine de St Exupery. Reynal Hitchcock. S. DEFENSE WDLL NOT WIN THE WAR, by William Fergus Kernan. Little, Brown.

4. BERLIN DIARY, by William Ii. Shirer. Alfred A. Knopf.

5. INSIDE LATIN AMERICA, by John Gunther. Harper Brothers. (Frm rUislifri Hitkly) I Qilda; Bruno Winifred Richmond, Va. (JP) The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the purchase of four paintings at a preview of the museum's third biennial exhibition of cntemporary American paintings.

They were selected from a list of 10 recommended by a five-man artist jtiry. They included "Old House and Elm Trees," a watercolor by Charles Burchfleld of Garden-ville, N. "Torso Writh Green Earrings," oil painting by Barnard Karflol of New York City; "Young Girl," oil painting by Theodore C. Tolos of San Francisco, and "The Storm," paintinjr by Carl Zerbe of the art school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr.

Zerbe and Polos also were awarded John Barton Payne medals. The biennial exhibition Was established by the museum in 393R through a $50,000 endowment from the late Judge John Barton Payne, former head of the American Red Cross. Six paintings have been acquired for the museum's permanent collection through the pJBt two biennials. EES TER-REEF-EEC1 Carmen Amaya, the Spanish gypsy dancer, who's in Hollywood doing her stuff for "Panama Hattie," only knows one word of English. She has to have a translator with her wherever she goes, even on the set.

However, the one word she does know goes a long way especially in Hollywood. The word is "ter-reef-eec." WHEN YOUR WANTS CVERYTHING IN MUSIC-MUSICAL 1 a I 1 i.toot "VI Only Stunt Pianist Booked Here TIERE U. always something new in music. Proof of that la furnished by Henry Scott, the piano humorist who will mix serious playing with his special brand of musical humor when he appears aj soloist with the Civic Orchestra in the Eastman Theater next Sunday evening. This will be the final concert of the current season in the F.aatman theater.

Guy Fraser Harrison will conduct. Scott, a celebrated pianit with sense of humor, is a graduate of Syracuse University. After he had gained more than ordinary notice as a campus entertainer, he progressed rapidly as a concert artist. His performance culminated in a recital in New York's Town Hall in 131L Aside from that he has appeared in movies and the radi frequently. Recently he captivated audiences in the RalnNyw Room in Radio City.

New York. Scott will play a classical work with the orchestra. Then he is scheduled to reappear in a group of his own specialties, including impressions of swing pianists Vincent Lopez, Eddie Duchin and Teddy Wilson, and his particular brand of Templetonlan humor at the keyboard. In aditlon to other stunts performed by thU unusual artist, he is widely known for his ability to play difficult works while wearing mittens on both hands. Additional music and art news will be found on Page 9D.

Amtricip-mid cilin citiiy at love we. AY.10-- ertJ ill lt the te out Stcinway and othr entntandiel iiutrumtnu th Hammond ia aiilhl ta Kocheatcr only at our atort. ARE MUSICAL COME TO IN'jTRUMrNTS PlANO OnGANS RADlO? i I.ik th Books Describe Life Today In Europe The Rochester Public Library prepares this weekly column. AH books mentioned here are in the library's collection. L1 IFE in occupied countries of lEurope, and the underground activities of patriots in those unhappy countries, have provided the subject matter for a few of the very fine novels of this year.

John Steinbeck's Moon is Down is a moving story, short but perfect in its presentation. It is probably laid in Norway, but it laight equally well be Holland or Czechoslovakia. It ia the story of the ordinary people of the country, in their contacts with the invaders and conquerors. In The Edge of Darkness, by William Woods, the scene is definitely Norway, and the em-phaais is more on the guerilla warfare which the Norwegians wage against the Nazis. The story in Dawn Breaks by Franz C.

Weiskopf, takes place in Czechoslovakia, and is concerned with the underground activities by which loyal Czechs still are able to fight for their country and against the agressor. In all three of these novels the characters have the reality which comes from simplicity and closeness to fundamentals, and the dignity which surrounds man in his moments of heroism and trial. Readers to whom these novels appeal will not want to miss an earlier book by Robert Nathan, They Went on Together. In this short novel, as in the Steinbeck one, the locale is vague end hence, universal. It is the story of refugees, particularly refusree children.

In connection with this story, which is so perfectly executed as to defy description, we should like to quote part of Robert "Nathan's "Frayer for Exiles" from his volume, A Winter Tide. "Take to Your heart which weeps for all of us, These children very small and far from home. Thene are no soldiers weighted with a sword. These are but babies fed with bitter bread Their only roof and dwelling is Your word, Your love the only pillow for their head. Watch over them and guard them all forlorn.

Far in the west amidst the alien corn." Victory Gardens May is the time for planting Victory Gardens, which citizens of Rochester and its suburbs have been planning during this last month or two. Even though you are an experienced gardener, you will probably like to look over some of the new books o.i this subject which the Library has acquired. The Food Garden, by Laurence and Edna Blair. Gardening Without Bunk, by Samuel J. Boal.

A Manuel of Home Vegetable Gardening, by Francin C. Coulter. Grow Vour Own Vegetables, by Paul W. Dempsey. Home Vegetable Gardening, by Charles H.

Xissley. How to Grow Food for Tour Family, by Samuel K. Ogden. Garden for Victory, by Jean-Marie rutnam. Vegetables in the Garden and Their Legends, by Vernon Quinn.

Twenty-five Vegetables Anyone Can Grow, by Ann R. Bobbins. Asparagus 'Production, by Homer C. Thompson. All of the books in this list have been published this year.

In the Introduction to one of its recent pamphlets the National Recreation Association says, The goal of physical fitness is reached over the highway of sports and recreation." With the approach of warm weather, a whole group of outdoor sports will be taken up again. Here is a selected list of good books on a number of summer sports1 and recreations. Golf, br IHr Berg. Streamlined Tennis, by Mary K. Browne.

Learning to Salt, by Harold A. Calahan. The. Camper's Guide, by Frank II. Cheley.

Racing Small Boats, by William T. Crosby. Tenins as av Hobby, by Henry I. Cumminga. The Book of Canoeing; How to Bnv or Make Your Canoe and Where to Take It.

by Alee R. Fills. Birycling as a Hobby, by Roland C. Gelst. Swlmlnr, by R.

J. If. Klphuth. fewlmming undamentals, by Mathew Mann. Rowing, bv G.

C. NlrUalls. Better Golf with Brains, by Alex Pendleton. Mantua, a modern playboy, in terpreted by Bruno Landi, tenor of the and Gllda, the Duke's daughter, a part entrusted to winsome Hilde Reggianl, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan. Supporting the leads will be Stanley Carlson, bass-baritone, cast as Sparafucile, the assassin; Winifred Heidt, beautiful American mezzo-soprano, interpreting the role of Maddelena, his daughter, and Sydney Morton, bass, raat as the Count of Mnnterone.

Also in the cast will be Rose Ma-rone, contralto, as the nurse; Reggy Streebing, another talented contralto, as the Countess, while Edward Rizzo, baritone, will be heard as Marullo. The ballet figures prominently in "Rigoletto" and to meet the demands of the dancing numbers, Mrs. Josephine director of the sponsoring organization, entrusted this task to Miss Mary Girard Tierney, whose lightness afoot has thrilled audiences on three continents, including the Metropolitan. Gabriele Simeone will direct the musicians with Bennie Al-tierl in charge of staging. The Rochester Grand Opera Chorus, directed by Edward Barbieri, promises to be smoother and more opera-conscious than in any previous performance.

Profiting from the experience of its first sell-out house, the management has engaged a staff of professional ushers and an- nounces that no will be admitted to the auditorium after the curtain rises until the end of the first act. Diamond Receives New Award David Diamond, Rochester composer, has won his first award from the Society for the Publication of American Music, which will publish his Quintet in minor for flute, string trio and piano next fall. The work was commissioned by the League of Composers. Diamond, 26, studied with Bernard Rogers at the Eastman Shcool of Music, with Roger Ses-siona and Paul Boepple in New York, and with Nadia Boulangcr in Paris. His Concerto for Cello and Orchestra will be given its first performancee next week in the Eastman School Festival.

Already he had works performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the National Orchestral Association, NBC Symphony, the Orchestra of Radio-Zurich, the Coolidge Quartet and the Barrere-Britt Ensemble. He has won the Elfrida Whiteman Fellowship, the Juilliard Publication Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Ballet Guild commission. Berkshire Series To Continue Berkshire Symphonic Festival Is planning to present a series of nine concerts in August by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under direction offDr. Serge Kous-sevitzky.

Ninth annual season of this important summer musical event will open on July 30. As in previous seasons, the concerts will be held on Thursday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons of the first three weekends in August, with the final concert on Aug. 16. New Opera Company Plans Fall Season The New Opera Company of New York has dropped its plans for a spring season, but will resume activity next Nov. 3 for a fall series.

The opening bill will include a new opera by Dr. Walter Damrosch, 'The Opera v-ioan, airectea Dy the composer, and Moussorgsky's "The Fair of Sorochinsk." Later the company will give Tchaikovsky's "La Vie Parisienne," Verdi's "Macbeth" and a new light opera yet to be announced. audiences have come to know well, solo dancers headed by Thelma Biracree and Olive McCue, as guest artists, make up the performance units of the six performances of the annual Eastman School Festival of American Music which opens tomorrow night in the Eastman Theater. Dr. Howard Hanson is director of the festival and conducts three of its performances; other conductors are Dr.

Paul White, Dr. Herman Genhart, Frederick Pen-nell and as guest conductor, Victor Alessandro, conductor of the Oklahoma State Symphony Orchestra, graduate of the Eastman School in 1937 with degree Bachelor of Music from the class in conducting of Dr. White. In recognition of the 20th chonol com versary of the. Eastman School the programs are of music posed by graduates and faculty members of the school.

No tickets are needed for admission to these concerts; four of which are In the Eastman Theater; two in Kilbourn Hall. The programs of the six events follow: Apr. 27 Eastman Theater 8:20 p. m. Eastman School Junior Symphony Orchestra; Eastman School Choir; Dr.

Paul White and Dr. Herman Genhart, conductors; Victor Alessandro, guest conductor. Joe Clarke Steps Out Charles Vardell Jr. "Music" Harry Lamont Rae Stubbs, soloist Songs for a Rainy Night Gardner Head (a) Nocturne (b) All Day I Hear (c) I Hear an Army Mac Morgan, soloist (First public performance' Lake Spray Paul White "Listen to the Lambs' Nathaniel Dett "Ain'a That Good News" William Dawson Hush'd Be the Camps Robert Ward Blessed Are They Kent Kennan (First performance) Eastman School Choir and Orchestra Symphony No. 1 Robert Ward Apr.

28 Kastman Theater 8:20 p. m. Eastman School Senior Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Howard Han-pnn, conductor. Kan fare Festival Gustave Soderlund Scenes from The Passion Bernard Rogers (a) Introduction b) The Temple (c) Gethsemane Mac Morgan, soloist Assisted by Vocal Ensemble (First performance) Three Moods for Dancing Wayne Barlow (a) Neo-classic (b) Impressionist (c) Cubist Symphony No.

3... Howard Hanson Apr. 29 Kilbourn Hall 2:30 p. m. Eastman School Little Symphony of Phi Mu Alpha, Frederick Fen-nell, conductor.

Divertimento for Strings Anthony Donato (First public performance) Serenade for Clarinet and Strings Homer Keller Fantasy on a Western Folksong George McKay Concerto in One Movement for Oboe and Orchestra Allan McHose Five Miniatures Paul White Larghetto for Strings. Ming (First performance) "wnoopee-ti-yi-yo" Gail Kubik thirst public performance) Andante for Flute and Strings Hunter Johnson Poem for Viola and Orchestra Edmund Haines Dorothy Fennell, soloist Rhapsody for Horn and Or- Frederick Woltmann Promenade Kent Kennan Campo di Fiore Kent Kennan Apr. 29 Kilbourn Hall 8:20 p. m. The Gordon String Quartet String Quartet Herbert Inch String Quartet No.

1 William Bergsma Quartet in minor Anthony Donato Apr. SO Kastman Theater 8:20 p. m. Eastman Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Howard Hanson, conduett.r; Luigl Silva.

soloist. Selections from McGuffev's Readers BurrUl Phillips (a.) The One Hoss Shav (b) Priscilla and John Alden Suite "Once Upon a Bernard Rogers (a) The Tinder Box Soldier (b) Song of Rapunzel (c) Story of a Darning Needle (d) Dance of the Twelve Prin- CPSSGS (e) Ride of Koschei, the Deathless Concerto for Cello and Orchestra David Diamond Modorato assal-lento-allejp-o Ada trio con summa espressione (Elegy) Allegro vivace Symphony No. 1 "Nordic" Howard Hanson Andante solenne. allegro con "(to i it. 1 Wso I ere "iiiiS-f Vtucte 1 I ft vcini 1 of" eo Distinguished String Ensemble Members of Gordon String1 Quartet, to be heard in Kilbourn Hall Wednesday evening in Eastman Festival: Seated, at left, Jacques Gordon, first violin; Fritz Magg, cello; standing, Samuel Weiss, second violin; William Lincer, viola.

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