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i WWW C-2 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Sunday, Nov. 12, 1972 Former Rodeyite Directs New Mexico Tech Theater Original Art Contributed As Tierra Amarilla Benefit culture that has weathere. centuries and Illustrations include Our LadyJ of Innocence, from AbiquiuJ carved by Jose Aragon, Journal Sixtial SOCORKO Qualify drama at New Mexico 'lech? Yk. and this fall's production of "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner is proving to be no exception. Director Alan Marshall, formerly of Albuquerque's limi'-y Theater, feels thus is the most ambitious artistic undertaking ever mi's.

Adflie, mother of the Bundren family, lies on her deathbed as the play opens. The effect of Addie's demise on her kinfolk provides the dramatic focus. Addie and An.se Bundren, her n'er -do-well husband, have four sons and one pregnant I teen-aged daughter. Each of the children talae the death of their mother Marcn ana ban ttataei, ml October, are by the Canjiloni santero, Juan Ramon Velaz-f quez, who worked at the end last century. The Man Who Stands by His Own (January ana tne bagraaa amaua are 4u i V-' by the famed Taos sculptor Patrocino Barela favor of developers and speculators.

CALENDARS, WALL HANGINGS, Christmas cards and note paper are all silk screened by artists of the area as a donation to the project. Among these are the a i all known Rini Templeton, of Pilar, contributing a series of silk screen prints for a wall hanging, in an edition limited to 70 works. Silk screen Christmas cards and notes include a scene of Taos Blue Lake, by John De Puy; an Indian woman, by Kris Hotveldt; and a scene of Ranchos de Taos Church, by Glynn Gomez. The calendars, all printed on re-cycled paper, are suitable for a wall hanging or may be folded, map-wise, to fit into a wall calendar, to be used each month. ILLUSTRATIONS ON THE CALENDAR come from a Dr.

and Mrs. Bainbridge Bunting are opening their home, 5021 Guadalupe Trl. NW, for an open home from 3 to 7 p.m. Nov. 19 given by La Cooperative La Clinica of Tierra Amarillo.

An annual event, the open house offers an opportunity for the exhibition and sale of Christmas cards and 1973 calendars, original art work by artists and craftsmen working at Tierra Amarilla. Hie art work sale is conducted as a benefit for a Tierra Amarilla community organization that runs a medical, dental and maternity facility; provides legal and family counseling services and cooperatively cultivates the land. La Cooperativa Agricola del Pueblo de Tierra Amarilla is an attempt to reverse the tide of indigenous peoples being forced off their lands in river, town scenes, a burning barn and a wagon trek to a distant village, it has been called a "mock epic" because of the Odyssey-like nature of its theme. GETTING ADDIE BUNDREN BIRIED in her family plot in Jefferson, a town some forty miles away, la the main theme of the three-act play. Along the way, the Bundren family encounters problems both natural and man-made.

Panoramic, yet compact and dramatic, the play resembles absurd theater of the sixties as the days stretch out to more than a week and still the family trundles its grisly load on a rickety old wagon. The cast is lead by William Rane, Socorro artist, playing the father Anse Bundren. Rane has also designed the sets. Slierry Carnicorn is Dewey Dell, the impressionable daughter. Eddie Misquez, veteran actor of Tech dramatic performances, is Darl the crazy son.

The complete cast is made up of 38 characters, including 10 children. Lighting is by Steve Davis of Albuquerque. 1 The public is invited to attend this open house and benefit sales event. The program at 5 p.m. will be a presentation by various persons working on the project.

Additional information and art work of the project will be available after the open house by calling M. Lopez, 811 Adobe Rd. NW, Albuquerque. t-4 4 3 SAN ISIDKO: A recent of San Isidrt, the patron saint of farmers, is among silk screened prints illustrating a calendar issued by La Coftperativa La Clinica, Tierra Amarilla, suppert its numerous projects as a benefit for the community. The calendars will be for sale during an epen house Nov.

3 to 7 p.m., at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Bainbridge Bunting, 5021 Guadalupe Tr. NW. V-i 4 i i i fit Civic Groups Participate In Opening The University of Albuquerque chorus, under the direction of Dr.

Grier Davis, will be joined by a chamber orchestra of members of the Albuquerque Symphony in a special Stanley Fletcher In Concert Today ft t. Alan Marshall Jazz Band Features Rhoads Arrangements The University of New Mexico's 18-piece Jazz Band will cut loose with a varied program Nov. 17 at 8:15 p.m. in Keller Hall, Fine Arts Center. Among arrangements by Prof.

William Rhoads is "Flamingo'' featuring five flutes, "Monorail" scored for four French horns and new treatment of a Latin classic, "Perfidia," starring four bassoons. Rhoads said the group also will improvise that is, jam both within the entire group and among the ensembles. All musicians are students, featured on four trumpets, four trombones, five sax ftt 9- 1 Ami nt'emp'ut at Tech. The play in S.x'orro Nov. 16 and rutis through Nov.

11). Audiences over the past three years have had the to see such fine dramatic works as "After the Fall" by Arthur Miller, "Viet Rock" by Megan Terry and, last spring, a rousing adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' presented by the New Mexico Tech Fine Arts Dept. ItOBKIlT LYNN'S AD.M'TION of the Faulkner novel has Imhmi produced on stage only once 1 a fore, by (he Dallas Theater Center in low. The play concerns a poor white Mississippi family in the from a different viewpoint. To Anse it means the chance to get some new teeth.

To the daughter, Dewey Dell, it's a chance to get to town for some "medicine." Although it contains some comic overtones, the play has a typically tragic Faulknerian cast to it. Having become discouraged by early attempts to earn a living bv writing, in lt)29 Faulkner took a job shoveling coal on the night shift at the Oxford, Miss, power plant. Here lie wrote "As I Lay Dying," using a wheelbarrow for a table, legend has it. The play is difficult to stage since it involves such backgrounds as a running OP KM. OM KKT: Dr.

Grier Davis, chairman of the University of Albuquerque doiart merit of music, rehearses members of ihe UofA Chorus for a concert to be presented Wednesday at p.m. (luring the opening of the new Fine Arls Learning Center. Left to right, are Jane Grvziec, Yvonne Darner and Fran concert marking the opening of the new Fine Arts Learning Center at the University, St. Joseph PI. NW.

A program of two works by Johann Sebastian Bach will be presented Nov. 15 at 8 p. m. in the Stage Two section of the center. The public is invited, and a reception and tour of the building follows.

The chamber orchestra will perform "Orchestra Suite No. 3 in Davis said the work is "probably the most popular of Bach's short orchestra works and includes the well know 'Air' commonly known as an 'Air for G-vstring." Joined by members of the First Congregational Church choir, the University of Albuquerque choral group and the orchestra will present Bach's "Magnificat." The setting of the work, Dr. Davis said, "is the song the Virgin Mary sang before Jesus was born, and when she found her cousin Elizabeth was also to have a child. John the Baptist." He said it is one of the Christian texts most frequently set to music. Choir soloists In the "Magnificat" include Marcia Peter, soprano; Flora Roussos.

mezzo; Fay Davis, contralto; Forrest Turpin, tenor, and Jerry Sanders, baritone. No a 1 1 are necessary for the Nov. 15 ces Watei Journal photo) ophones and five rhythm instruments the sax-oplwnists also switching to flute and bassoon as the free-swinging occasion demands. Admission is $1.25 for adults and 5(1 cents for students. Gary Kirk Haliman Gittings Prints Prints fin.

Contemporary Croffi including Indian Goods Weavers yarns, looms, lessons GALLERY ONE 14 Nob Hill Center Ph. 264-0777 life. Just after the Napoleonic wars there emerged this whole Romantic trend. For instance Liszt, with his long hair and dandyish attire and even one ef the first "women's lib" movements in his relationship with Georee Sands. She wore men's clathes, smoked cigars and even cared for Lisat at her villa from time to time.

Prf and Mrs. Fletcher spent his sabbatical leaves in "far away places," including San Miguel, Munich, with a long say in Bavaria, "where we attended 26 opera performances," he recalled. Prof, and Mrs. Fletcher moved to Albuquerque primarily because of the exceptional quality of musical performances here, making their decision after attending several summers at the Santa Fe Opera. They also spent several summers in Colorado, where he was guest artist at the Rcky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park; and a season at Hummingbird Music Camp, in Jemez Springs, influenced by their friendship with the K.

Lloyd Higgins family. The Fletchers are parents of tw daughters, Amaryllis, a jrfessr violin at Rochester, and April, now in schol at the University of California, in Berkeley. April is secretary of the Sierra Club, in Berkeley, and recently patici-pated in the rescue of birds from the oil slick off the coast. FLETCHER HAS C0-CERTIZED around the world and played chamber music in such places as Greece, Yugoslavia and Crete, One of his Mst recent appearances, since their move here, was at the University of Arizona, Tucson, during the state music convejitiori there. Programmed for today's concert are Two Preludes: Op.

45 in Sharp Minor, by Chopin, and his Twenty-four Preludes, Op 28. Folleving the intermission, Fletcher will play Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and his Capriccio: "on the departure of a beloved brother." This will be followed by Liszt's Tv.x pieces frem "the Years of Pilgrimage" and Hungarian Rhapsedy No. 8. 111 tyt As I 4 1 1 ft Vtfv A Cornell NS Alb. N.M.

1 1 "tuprntp- By FLO WILKS a nil Fl internationally celebrated pianist, ill present a program of Romantic Piano Music Nv. 12 at 4:30 m. in Keller Hall, University of New Mexice Fine Arts Cent or, as a feature the State Convention of New Mexico Music Teachers c-sponsored by the UNM School of Music. Recently retired from the music faculty of the University of Illinois, a post he occupied since 1937, Fletcher and his wife are now residents Albuquerque. Their home at 723 Fairway NW, in Lee Acres, otfers them the restful privacy of spacious grounds, grass and trees, conducive to his creativity.

Fletcher has been an important figure in music for nearly four decades, since his first Chicago appearance under Izler Solomon in 1936. He has achieved nationwide recognition as concert artist and teacher, composer, writer and lecturer on musical performance and teaching. His nost recent publication is the second volume of New Tunes for Strings, published in August by Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. PROF. AND MRS.

FLETCHER met when both were students at the University of Michigan, where he was studying with Guy Maler. Born in Manchester, England, he began his musical education at 5 or 6 years of age, with his mother, a soprano. The family participated in i al gatherings," Everybody played a little piano! However, I wanted to play like Paderewski not that I'd ever beard him, but I heard about him!" "I was studying In Berlin when Hitler took over that country'," Fletcher recalled. "I had a scholarship for study there, but then there was the bank the banks closed and I had no money. I was rescued by a friend who loaned me mney and a nice professor friend who borrowed $100 from his cook (she didn't believe in banks-) FIstcher reveals his basis for in-depth understanding youth in a program note, prefacing a concert of music by Chopin, acclaimed almost widely in the press, and even praised in a publication of "Runes," a book of new letters presenting the "under 30" point of view.

"YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY are filled with the urges and desires felt by that same age group a century and mre ago," Fletcher said. "They have the compelling interest in things far away, and many of them manage to go by tramp steamer, the Peace Corps, and perhaps live in a cave in some remote area." "There's the same pattern of Local Artists Win Awards 5' v'. i-4 I 1 1 '''-v. 4 Some diamonds were born to be cut above. And Zales has them.

myVM 'II Journal Special COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Ten Albuquerque artists won awards in the 4th annual National Art Show in Colorado Springs, sponsored by the Pike's Peak Artists Assn. Judges of the exhibition are Jack Erickson. president of the Western Arts of America; Addie White, Texas artist Cecil R. Young also of Texas, an internationally known artist; Ruth Little, also from Texas; Zoltan Steiner, artist from Czechoslovakia, and Rosanna Todd, artist.

Pat Dugin, Albuquerque, won second place in mixed media, Amy Walker, Santa Fe, Elizabeth Wolgamott and Claire Haute, of Albuquerque, won honorable mentions. Mildred Brisbane and Gale Waddell, both of Albuquerque, won honorable mention In watercolor. Shirpoyo of Islcta Pueblo, Gladys Salamone and Clella Wiley, both of Albuquerque, won honorable mention in oils, Joseph B. Rivard received honorable mention in acry lics. si.

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