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't -SILOUIS POST-DISPATCH Todays Women Pianists Win at Young Artists Auditions IF 1 fl (i I KSwgM lilliipiif -Is' Miss Sissy Pass practices on a dummy keyboard be. ft fore the preliminary stages of the Young Artists audi tions. By Peggy Swanson Of ihe Post-Dispatch Staff i BARTON WEBER COMPETED for it for five years before winning in 1967. Samuel Krachmalnick won it in 1943 and went on-to become musical director for the Metropolitan Opera Tour show director. For Richard East- White, Post-Dispatch Photographer Barton Weber, one of two 1967 winners, bends over the keyboard In his final competition piece Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.

4 in Major. His accompanist is Rees Allison, a winner of the competition last year. Judges in upper left are (from left) Irwin Umlauf, Mn. Nevin Harner, George Howerton and Mrs. Charlton B.

Rogers Jr. The judge in tha foreground is Harner. of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." The other finalists Glenn Bater, William Hughes, Miss Cathy Kautsky, Don Nevins, Thomas Schmidt, Charles Moore, Vin-cenzo Benestante and Robert Harris chose works by Rossini, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn and Beethoven. ing Company and a Broadway hanj. who won it in 1937, it was a stepping stone to leads in the national "South-Pacific" company, the Ed Sullivan show and othfer television roles.

Miss Shirley Parnas won it in 1953 and coached her student, Alan Marks, to victory in it in 1967. "it" is the coveted first prize In Ijie annual Young Artists auditions sponjored by the Women' Association of the St. Louis Symphony Society. In the last 31 bears, more than 60 young persons in the St. Louis area havfe been placed on the winner' list.

In recent years each winner has received only a email cash prize along with an appearance with the St. Loifis Symphony Orchestra, but to the winners, the prize means imih more. "It proves something to myself. It means the beginning of something else," said 21-year-oldpianist Barton Weber after being named one of two 1967 winners last Sunday. "I have appeared with the St.

Louis Synjphony Orchestra three times but this appearance has a sjiecial meaning. I have entered this contest six times ancf now I've finally won." and Marks, a 17-year- it' i if I -I 1 jj O. I i- I fj Mrs. Sanford N. McDonnell, chairman of the Young Artists Committee of the Women's Association of the 'St, Louis Symphony alternate after a finalist.

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Donald Robb, dean of the School New Mexico, was head judge, Piano judges were ms3 JE, beth Travis of the department 0f music, of Mi'intm Nevin L. Harner of the derail ment of music of William Woods College, and Steven Barwick of the department of music of Southern Illinois University at Canbondale. Voice judges were Howerton; Mrs. Harner of the William Woods music department, and (Irwin TTmlniiif t-U Stephens College music depart ment. JKobb and Mrs.

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in a waiting room filled with coffee and crumpets (provided by Aeolian), committee members and large supplies of advice that in Mozart there is no place to Some entrants, such as Miss Sissy Pass, managed some last minute warmups on false keyboards; others did a little appropriate reading (Marks worked on Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our In groups of three, contestants were ushered upstairs where judges waited with stopwatches and blank papers for comment on rhythm, rubato, technique, phrase attack, dynamics, interpretation, stage presence, pedaling and tone. Each entrant gave 10 minutes of baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary pieces. By 1:30 p.m., there were 12 surviving contestants and eight exhausted judges. "The level of talent is much ejtnow From 8 P.M. Wed.

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Each played a concerto of his or her own choosing. Weber, for example, chose Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in Major, Marks played the first movement of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto. Violinist Joseph Alongi, the only finalist who did not play piano or sing, chose the first movement of Mozart's A Major Concerto No. 5.

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