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SFCTION HfmiifralauaIirnniflf TV, Radio ...5, 6E Drama Music TV Schedules Movies 3E Books 4E 7E Rochester, N. Oct. 27, 1963 Veteran Philharmonic Awaits Stokowski (ft I I 1 'i Is Leopold Stokowski, who arrives in Rochester tomorrow to start rehearsals as guest conductor for the opening of the Rochester Philharmonic's new season, pulling off another musical miracle in New York? See the story about it on Page 4E. By HARVEY W. SOUTHGATE Democrat and Chronicle Music Editor Ninety-one musicians will assemble on the Eastman stage shortly after 8 o'clock Thursday evening and start tuning up.

Around 8:25 or maybe it will be 8:30 late arrivals in the audience make it difficult to get a concert under way at the scheduled 8:15 81-year-old Leopold Stokowski will walk out from the wings at the left, mount the podium, bow, turn and raise his expressive right hand. With the first notes of the Stokowski arrangement of Bach's "Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott" the 41st season of the Rochester. 1 1 Philharmonic 0 ra will be under way. Three of those who were in the original orchestra which launched a new day in Rochester's musical fortunes away back in April, 1923, will still be playing. They are Harry Schatz, first violin; and Harold N.

Paley and George Neid-inger, second violins. Officially, although Stokowski is opening the season as guest conductor first of the six who will conduct the 15 concerts between now and the final one April 9 the Philharmonic will be a leaderless orchestra this year. But thfre is nothing new about that. In all Its years It has vi vi.i" 4 4- had only five full-time conductors, and two of those, Albert Coates and Eugene Goossens, shared the post in the orchestra's early years. Since 1936 only Jose Iturbi, Erich Leinsdorf and Theodore Bloomfield have been "permanent" conductors.

But the names of those who have appeared as guests would fill a musical Who's Who. Sir Thomas Beecham, Pierre Monteux, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Munch, Stokowski, Fritz Reiner, Josef Krips and a host of others would be on the list. THE NOTION that the Rochester Philharmonic has a substantial turnover of members each year is hardly borne out by the facts. Seventy -three are back from last season, which means that only nine of the 82 players under regular contract will be making their first appearances with the orchestra. The veterans include, of course, Millard Taylor, who will be concertmaster for his 20th year, and Ronald Leonard, first cellist for six years and just back from Budapest where he tied for second prize in an international violincello competition.

The new members of the orchestra are: Jason W7eintraub, oboe; Ross Powell, clarinet; Joan Bussenschutt and Irving Carlson, second violins; Jerry Kosmolo, viola; Ar-ter Enyeart and Linda Houghland, 'cello; Elizabeth Patterson and Henry Scott, string bass. Powell is a former Buffalo Philharmonic member now studying here at the Eastman School of Music for a master's degree. Kos-mala, a distinguished young Continued on Page 4E v. S. i I IT--I Awy JT jf AUDREY HEPBURN in Hollywood's Covent Garden market.

Audrey's Taking Her Bumps In Filming of 'Fair Lady' By JEAN WALRATH Democrat and Chronicle Entertainment Editor certmaster; Robert Sprenkle, oboe; Joseph Mariano, flute; Sidney Mear, trumpet. Schatz is one of three original members of the orchestra still in active service, will play Thursday. REST MARK Philharmonic members compare notes between rehearsal periods. From left, William Osseck, clarinet; Harry Schatz, violin; Eileen Malone, harp; Millard Taylor, con- 'Pops' Today, What's Doing This Week Ballet It is no life of a lady that Audrey Hepburn, under the eyes of Hollywood director George Cukor, is leading these days. She has been booted about as a "baggage," has brawled with servants who would shove her into a bathtub for a scrub, carted off among the refuse of a garbage container and made to sing before a camera with smut on her nose.

Ah, but it will be simply "luverly" if it all turns out as well as one can expect for "My Fair Lady." Miss Hepburn is the London guttersnipe who learns to speak like a lady, balance a cup of tea and waltz with the Prince of Transylvania. SHE IS LIZA DOOLITTLE of the Alan Jay Lerner-Fred-erick Loewe musical which is now becoming a movie. Rex Harrison, the Professor Higgins of Broadway and London, is her leading man. Cukor, one-time Rochester stage director, is creating the screen version for Jack L. Warner.

If Miss Hepburn has appeared uhtil now as a fragile little figure, her performance of "Wouldn't It Be Luverly?" disproves it. She was put to the test on the first day of filming. In singing that number she races through Covent Garden market, bounces onto vegetable carts and whirls about in the arms of assembled dustmen and garbage men. She dances a jig with an old lady. Before noon that first morning she had been rudely bumped 25 times by an actor the 25 times that Cukor directed the scene be shot before he was satisfied.

R. CUKOR is rumored to be an extraordinarily exacting man. He has become famous as a woman's director through such shows as "The Philadelphia Story," "Ca-mille," "Born Yesterday," "A Bill of Divorcement" and "Little Women." After making 12 takes of a scene with Rex Harrison following the 25 with Miss Hepburn, he explained to a reporter, "I try to get the peak of a performer People think it extravagant to take scenes over and over, but it's a question of getting it as right as possible within human limitations." It took three weeks to complete 30 scenes. At that rale, the 165 scenes, with 17 musical numbers, may be completed by Christmas. Leagues Under the Sea." Palace has "Cry of Battle" with Van Heflin.

"The Haunting" is a chiller at Loew's. Paramount still has "A New Kind of Love" with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Regent's present offering is "The Running Man" with Lee Remick and Laurence Harvey. on Wheels" opened at the Little yesterday. "The Mouse on the Moon" with Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas opened at the Coronet Friday.

"Irma La Douce" is in its 16th week at the Cinema. And "The L-Shaped Room" stays at the Fine Arts in its third month. On the Stage Douglas: Tm Going to Do a Play This Year' By JACK GAVER communication with the audience. He wins or loses on his own." "One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest" is a dramatization by Dale Wasser-man of Ken Kesey's highly esteemed novel of a year ago about what happens when a breezy gambler (the Douglas role), who is NEW YORK (UP!) Regardless of the outcome of the venture, the important thing is that Kirk Douglas has done it come back to the stage, that is. In too many interviews to recall, I've heard film stars some never on the In Music First Rochester Pops concert of the I season is set for 4 o'clock this after- noon at the Eastman, with Dr.

Paul i White conducting; Millard Taylor will be soloist in "Fritz Kreisler Favor- ites" Earlier, at 3 p.m., Eastman School students of Jose Echaniz will play the second three of Mozart's I 18 piano concertos at Cutler Union Tonight at 8:15 at Memorial Art Gallery the Ars Antiqua will open its I baroque concert season American Ballet Theater comes to the Eastman Theater tomorrow night at 8:15 in 1 CMA Artist Series Tuesday night at 8:15 Ars Antiqua repeats its opening concert, again at Memorial Art Gallery I Rochester Philharmonic opens its I 41st season at the Eastman Thursday I night at 8:15 with Leopold Stokowski I as guest conductor All-University Symphony Orchestra gives its first I concert of season Friday night at 8:15 in Strong Auditorium, U. of R. campus, Dr. Ward Woodbury conduct- ing Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale will give a concert at the col- lege auditorium. North Chili, Friday at 8:15 p.m.

Eastman School Sym- phony Orchestra will be heard in its 1 first concert of season Friday night at 8:15 in the Eastman Theater Saturday evening at 8:15 Sunday's Pops concert will be repeated at the I Eastman Piano concert by Roman I Rudnytsky in Todd West Room, U. of 1 8 p.m. next Saturday. At the Movies TO OPEN "Wuthering Heights," made in 1939 with Merle Oberon and I David Niven, has been reissued and I will open Wednesday at the Palace. On Thursday Loew's will get "Johnny Cool," a gangland story, with I Henry Silva and Elizabeth Montgom- I cry.

The Paramount will introduce "Mary, Mary" on Friday with Benny Nelson and Debbie Reynolds Com- I ing to the Regent Friday will be "The Life of St. Maria Goretti," a religious picture, for four-day run. NOW SHOWING "Cleopatra" go- 1 ing into its 12th week at the Riviera. Monroe Theater keeps "20,000 Tomorrow First "Pops" concert of the season will be given at the Eastman Theater this afternoon at 4 o'clock by the Civic Orchestra. Tomorrow evening ballet returns to the Eastman Theater.

Music by Fritz Kreisler will be featured in today's matinee all-Viennese pops concert program. The same program will be repeated next Saturday evening at 8:15. Dr. Paul White will conduct the Civic Orchestra, with violinist Millard Taylor performing Kreisler's "Caprice Viennois," "The Old Refrain" and "Liebes-freud." Also on the program are Johann Strauss' Pizzicato Polka, Egyptian March and "Charity Ball" Polka, Richard Strauss' "Rosenkavalier" Waltzes and Carl Goldmark's "Im Garten." The American Ballet Theater which comes to the Eastman tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. as second event in the Artist Series, is the same company that danced at the White House in May, 1962, for President and Mrs.

Kennedy and guests. The company is under the co-direction of Lucia Chase, once a premier dancer with the Mordkin company, and Oliver Smith, dancer and choreographer. Hie program here will include "Concerto." created only this year, which aims to fuse the abstract tradition of the past with a romantic score of the present. The popular "Billy the Kid." with music by Aaron Copland, is also on the bill, while a third number is called "Etudes." in which the mood and performance the classical. an individualist and a Community Players open their Playhouse season with "Take Her, She's Mine," Broadway hit of last season, at 8:30 p.m.

Friday. First Children's Theater production of season. "Rapunzel." will be presented next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at the Eastman with the Rochester Pops Orchestra, Paul White conducting. At the Galleries "Landscape: East and West," as--senibled by Memorial Art Gallery in cooperation with Utica's Munson-Wil-liams-Proctor Institute will open a month-long stay at the gallery here next Saturday after a Friday night members' preview; opening at the same time will be the Gallery show of the Arena Group. Today is final chance to see the Michener Collection of American paintings and the Art Club Shtow The Weaver's Guild of Rochester will open a month-long exhibit at Rundel Library on Friday; also showing there will be paintings by Walter Pylyshen-ko, Rochester artist.

Next Sunday an exhibit of Polish folk art opens for two months at Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. Modern paintings in "The Romantic View" stay on view at the Schuman Gallery through Saturday. One-man photography exhibition, "Between Two Worlds," by William B. Giles, continues at U. of R.

Fine Arts Gallery three more weeks. "Photographs '63" are at Eastman House. stage express wishes to work in the theater; even outline detailed plans in that direction. It was a rare one really meant it, let alone made it. free soul.

He was obligated in many directions. How could he indulge a whim and say, "I'm going to do a play this year?" But here he is, after 17 ears away, up to his hawk-I i countenance in a drama called "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's which opens a two-week tryout stand in Boston tomorrow night. How did he-do it? -x- SIMPLY FOUND something I wanted to do badly enough to find the time to do the star said. "And I felt that if I waited much longer, I'd just get too scared ever to try the stage again. "And I don't mind telling you that I'm frightened enough right now that I've actually made the plunge.

But I'm enjoying it in spite of that. "This is another world. The theater stirs the juices. It brings a different set of 'muscles' into play. I'd almost forgotten how good it can feel to work in a medium where, when the director has done all he can in rehearsals, the actor is in complete control of his Play wrignt Wasserman tried to acquire the dramatic rights to Kesey's novel and found he was competing with a film company that turned out to be that of Douglas.

They settled on an agreement for Wasserman to write the script. DOUGLAS RECALLED that when the play opens here at the Cort Theater on Nov. 14, he will be just across the street from the playhouse where he had his first New York stage job in November, 1941, appearing in "Spring Again" in the minor role of a Western Union messenger. "If the play works," the star said, "I'll stay the whole season. The original idea was for me to do four months, but I changed that myself.

I felt that so long as I started this, I owed it to all concerned to stay around." Kid Douglas once worked a summer vacation, in a Rochester tin can factory. It was while he icas a student at St. Lawrence University and, of course, before he became an actor. Kirk Douglas battler against conformity, clashes with the rules-ridden way of life in a state mental hospital. "It is both comic and tragic," Douglas explained.

"It also is a bit earthy but not for sensation's sake; that element is simply inherent in the characters and the locale." DOUGLAS is involved not only as the star but as a co-p roducer. This is through his Eric Productions firm, in alliance with I) a i Merrick, Edward Lewis (an official in Douglas' organization) and Seven Arts, the film and television production company that has provided the $175,000 backing for the play and later will finance the film version. Douglas gave me this pitch a few years ago, and him I believed. A stage-trained actor, an earnest and hard worker, there could be no doubt of his sincerity. But I thought afterwards that he couldn't possibly do it.

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