Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 69

H1.I Non non objective MUSIC' ART v. Feb, 10, mm. AF-OUS SUNDAY TJtmUKl Art Soon to Hang Ten Stories High What's Doing in Music i-1 A fins I v. 1 Mrc (hnp.alt'i ''Above Vitebsky," a raniUiy tasvof his home town In Russia show Jewish pfddior floating ebove the vlllupe roofs, Is one of 126 paintinrri In the Zacks collection of modern French rt now on vif-w at Walker Art center. The collection, Canada' youngest and most extensive private art collection, is considered one of world's finest assemblage! of School of Tans painting.

Auditions Set for Young Artists Contest lists of required repertory for the 1957 Minnesota young artists contest spott-sored by Women's Association of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra were sent out last week, to enable prospective entrants to start preparing now. Auditions In piano, violin, viola and 'cello will be held at the University of Minnesota Nov. and 30. Top limit for entrants is Winners will share the Maurice Rothschild-Young Quinlan award, will be eligible for scholarships and may also be accepted as soloists with the Minneapolis Symphony and a university summer session concert. Information may he obtained from the association at 88 S.

Tenth street, Minneapolis. Institute Has 4 Shows From Own Collections Four exhibitions diawn from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collections have been installed in the museum galleries for February. The first is a group of Persian illuminated manuscripts and book pages out of the great religious and secular literature of ancient Persia. Twenty -one land.cape paintings by American artists have been selected to represent 1 r0 years of American landscape painting. This exhibition, unlike the others, will remain on view through March.

Chinese textiles comprise the third display, and the fourth Is the exhibition of sculpture by the late John B. lian-nagan. The Louis Sullivan architectural exhibition will continue through Feb. 24. u.

i i 41 I J5' r-. at? 1 "HF.SE 30 famous signa tures represent virtual ly a rollcall of outstanding modern artists, mostly French or working In France, of the late 19th and 20th century. Paintings by each of them, and many others, are included in the Zacks collection of modern art at Walker Art center, on view there through March 17. painter who Is not non-ob-jevtive I don't like to describe him as 'traditional' or 'academic' doesn't have much chance. He has a hard time getting exhibited and a harder time selling." With these latter points, Rene D'Harnoncourt, director of the Modem museum, flatly disagreed.

D'Harnoncourt Is a tall, amiable giant who has been in the fight a long time and knows the arguments and the answers. "YOU JUDGE the museum by what we buy," he said. "A cross section of the permanent collection shows what the museum really believes In quality and excellence rather than any one particular movement." The collection shows everything from George Eel-lows' painting of the Demp-sey-Firpo prize fight and Kdward Hopper's "Home by the Railroad," both realistic, to Arshlle Gorky'i "Agony," an abstraction. As for the position of the "not non-objective" painter, D'Harnoncourt said, "no really good painter gets lost these days. There are so many people looking for a new talent." On the broad subject of the pros and cons of modern art, he said "When something new happens, some like it and some don't.

Those who don't find something in it degenerate or sinful or subversive anything to Justify not liking it." D'Harnoncourt noted that people frequently look at an abstract painting, the daubs and apparently aimless splotches, and say, "My A year-old boy can do the aame thing." His answer. Then he should. It would be wonderful for the family Income." Footloose I tm luinni --fl Three sailors of the 13 New Art Shows Miuilm and Spara ta Art hi- tetture, of ta'ierv, ues lav until March (lion of tiifMtern metltnai of la'i spares. I a Peterson Jacobson pai'Mifs i rirawmM, Aft (t- mv, openir( irulay for on ii. ii StsrdUh American Institute II.

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TKke'i at tioor cr bv mail from church. School Notes Phi Kho chapter of Mti Thl Tiisiton at Minneapolia Coltei of Musle haa elated Por.r.a Nelson premlent. Oiher oflireia ai Mars' 1 ti I'aulson, vira president; Ima' Sloka. and Don Mattinson, treasurer, Student Recitals M.uPhall School of Music auditorium: 8 m. Wednesday, piano pupl's of Mrs.

James Bliss, assisted by William Sowden. baritone anj Ziecler. accompanist; 8 pm. Thursday, piano pupiis or Kol.inrt Julian, assisted l)V Kohrt Cadisch, pupil of James Manley; 8 m. I ridav piano pupils of flsi Marin Campbell, assisted by Vlrsrnia Sears, pupil of Marel Aamndt, Bach Lecture-Recital Scheduled at 'IP A lecture-recital on Jo-hann Sebastian Bach will be given in Northrop auditorium at 11:30 a.m.

Thursday. A University of Minnesota convocation, it will be open and free to the public. The lecture will be by Johannes Riedel, assistant professor of music. The demonstration numbers will be played by Fdward Berry-man, university organist and choirmaster and organist of the Cathedral Church of St. Mark.

City Music Teachers Guild Elects Officers Officers elected recently by the Minneapolis Guild of Music teachers are J. G. Hinderer, president; Ruby Carlson, vice president; Vera Allen, treasurer; Judith Freeland, secretary, and directors Lola Green, Inpa Ingebretson and Es-telle Bastien. NO" (Verdi) Adrianna Guer-rlni other soloists, chorus orchestra of La Scala under Armando La Rosa (Urania UR-7175). A slow overture, eight arias, one duet, one trio, plus choruses resounding solos but a mushy chorus.

wlol 99.5 i ON'YOUR 1 Concert Goes Despite on 2 Accidents Contritions who were awake at the last symphony concert vunessra a rate tl.in two accidents in the evening. The head of Robert Tweedy's tympani stick flew off (in the finale of the MUSIC Tschaikows lourth) and the CHAT 'cello bow of Maurice Nash came apart (in the Beethoven concerto). A newly organized con-tr st. American Opera Auditions, will have an unusual award for winners-travel expenses to Italy and appearances in M.Ian and Florence opera houses. Preliminary auditions will be held In six American cities next October University of Illinois, Urbana, will offer no less than aix performances entirely devoted to new works by 14 contributing composers at its annual festival this spring Pianist Vladimir Horowltx will emerge from semi-retirement to play with the Symphony of the Air in New York March 24...

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Is off to Baghdad to build an opera house The Arn-tine government is in a hassle with music unions in Buenos Aires and as a result the city's symphony orchestra and the Colon theater's orchestra have been disbanded and the 1957 opera season may be Is there an older symphony croup in the world than the Lelpzig-Gewand-haus orchestra? This ensemble just celebrated its 175th birthday Antal Dorati, recently interviewed by horn player Andre Spey-er over KWKM's Symphony Notes program, declared that the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra should "emigrate to other fields" and add living opera to the Twin Cities' orchestral diet. Paintings Will Exhibited for Month' Recent paintings and drawings by Shirley Peterson Jacobson are beine shown for a month at "708'' art gallery, W. Twenty-second street and Lyndale avenue beginning Friday. Mrs. Jacobson studied at Walker Art center and is graduate of the Mincapolis School of Art.

The public is invited to the opening at 8 p.m. Friday. NI do you feel about modern Could you karn to love Picasso's multi-faced women, or do you prefer, over your mantel, a simple seascape In which a ship looks hke a ship and a seagull Is recognizably a white bird? It's a fmce argument, of long standing, 0F. DF.Vri.OP.MKNT In it hit the front pages in the form of an announcement from a man who holds such strong feelings about modern painting that he Is going to build his own art gallery, He Is Huntington Hartford, wealthy grandson of the founder of the A. and P.

grocery store chain. He disclosed -'plans to build a 10 story gallery In New York. It will be called the Gallery of Modern Art, and Hartford frankly hopes art lovers will contrast it with the adventurous and often avant farde Museum of Modern Art Hartford Is a slim, dark-eyed man of 45 who speaks with great fervor when he talks about painting. TO HIM, Picasso Is "an opportunist who has Jumped on one bandwagon after another." Contemporary painters are "too much Influenced by mathematics, architecture and modern psychology," and "more of the experiments Jn painting should be done in the studios and less In the art galleries." Vet he likes Salvador Dall. who painted the melting timepieces, and considers cubism and surrealism to have been "healthy attempts at a new way of expression." He feels that great art lies between photographic realism and pure abstraction.

Today," he says, "the Schubert Novelty to Be Performed A rarely heard guitar quartet by Schubert will be a novelty on the chamber music program of the First Unitarian society In the society's building at 8:30 p.m. Friday. Guitarist will be Roland Williams and with him in the quartet will be Philip Swanson. flute; William Bagwell, viola, and David Ferguson, 'cello. Other numbers on the program include a Bach suite for 'cello, a Haydn divertimento, Stravinsky's Duo Concertant and madrigals by di Lasso.

Music Forum to Meet The Music Teach era Forum will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Schmitt Music center. The program will Include discussion of teachers' problems and pictures of Mexico taken by Mrs. Ruby Carlson. PHILIPPE ENTREMONT Play Chopin recital mann's luminous playing, look up the Mozart violin sonatas he and Schneider-han have recently recorded (Decca DL-9862) which represent chamber music at its best.

Leonard Bernstein's SERENADE for violin solo, sfe i i'-f IT i Li V'J Ev.3 aaiiM'iaiittiSWiitiaVaaitii 0 fan- ing Baritone Recital Planned at'U' Akiel Ichlotx. Danish baritone, will give a recital at 8. .10 m. Friday In the auditorium of University of Minnesota museum of natural history. "Die program will feature Schumann's "Dichterhebe" and Ravel's "Don Quixote a Dulcinee." The concert will be a benefit for the scholarship fund of Sigma Sigma chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, women's professional music fraternity.

Music Scholarship Deadline Will Be Friday Friday will be the final day on which applications by contestants for National Federation of Music Clubs scholarships will be accepted by the Minnesota chairman, Mrs. Harry F. Gale, 5C08 F.merson avenue S. The young and student auditions will be in Scott hall at the University of Minnesota Saturday, March 9. This is the year that most, of the federation's biennial awards are available.

They include the Marie Morrisey Keith scholarship, $500; six weeks of opera workshop at Pennsylvania College for Women, three-year string scholarship at Peabody institute, Baltimore, with room and board; the Shreveport (La.) Society-Centenary college scholarship, $850, and the Ethel-wynne Kingsbury award, a Rural Art Show Is Displayed The American Swedish institute has on ehibition through February the rural art show which was a feature of Farm and Home week of the institute of agri culture at the University of Minnesota. It consists of paintings by artists living on farms or In small communities of the state and ranges from primitives to abstractions. Hours are 2 to 5 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays. Artist's Show Set Roland Brenner, Minneapolis artist, is showing through Feb.

28 a group of 24 Minnesota and Twin Cities scenes in watercolor and ink at Coffman Union art gallery. He has exhibited in the past at Walker Art center and at the Minnesota State fair annual art show. 1 ,1 a -l' jlrni it -rf- "on the town" is the theme ballet. "Fancy Free," and this photo of Eric Braun, John Kriza and Enrique Martinez, members of the American National Ballet theater, is one of many illustrations in the recently published "Ballet Decade," edited by Arnold Haskell (Macmiilan, $5). 2 Pianists Make Promising Record Debuts WAGNER RECITAL, aung by Kirsten Flagstad, soprano (London LL-1533).

The five songs Wagner composed for another man's wife (Frau Wesendonck), plus four excerpts from "Lohengrin," "Parsifal" and "Walkuere," sung in the grave, long-sustained tones of Flagstad's heyday, with not quite the vocal agility of yore. With the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Knappertsbusch. SONATAS NOS. 17 i 18 (Beethoven) Walter Glese-king, pianist (Angel 35352). The opus 31, Nos.

2 and 3 sonatas played with that almost feline wariness and subtlety Gieseking devel-oDed in his last years Beethoven that verges close on Mendelssohn in its glinting lights and slippery phrase. Wonderfully sensitive artistry for all that. HIGHLIGHTS FROM "LA FORZA DEL DESTI- DIALV By JOHN K. SHERMAN Two gifted pianists new to most American listeners are introduced on disks this month Philippe Entremont, 22-year old Frenchman, and Carl Seemann from Germany, an older and more mature artist who has appeared on earlier disks with the exceptional violinist, Wolfgang Schnelderhan, Entremont offers a CHOPIN RECrTAL (Epic LC-3316) containing seven pieces two polonaises, the A Tat ballade and four other items. At this stage of his progress, Entremont's highly resourceful technique Is ahead of his interpretive wisdom, for his playing, though full of color, is highly mannered and even fussy, full of retards and other elements of phrase-pawing.

This makes very "moony" Chopin, and illustrates a phase he may abandon when he recovers from being so young. Seemann is at the opposite extreme in his classic clarity -and balance as heard in the PIANO SONATAS OF MOZART, the first four, K.279 to 282 (Decca DL-9867). Here are crisp, crystalline patterns, fine rhythmic firmness and propulsion Mozart in a clear white light. If you want to hear more of See- I strings and percussion ia considered by I 1 1 1 Isaac Stern one of the finest modern American pieces for violin, and the performance on Columbia ML-5144 confirms his judgment in the warm and ingenious score here revealed. A free commentary on Plato's dialogue, "The Symposium," the serenade, we're told, is a series of related statements "in praise of love." It's in five movements, very violinistic, with rich melody and a jazzy finale, and Is played by Stern and the Symphony of the Air under the composer's direction.

SYMPHONY NO. 6 "PASTORAL" (Beethoven) Boston Symphony under Charles Munch (Victor LM-1997). A reasonable, relaxed interpretation, rich palette, pliant orchestra: Munch giving the work a worldly rather than rustic touch. DAY FE al -s, at VV! 1 1 1 la -4h'M i 1 KVt yh 111 1T- MSI 4v' xfil IP 1 1 -h REGISTRATION TIME iwiilCPilll Immortal Musk of the Masters Programmed to Enrich Your Musical Listening. True Hi-Fidclity Static Free Reception.

or EVENING 2-4424 Francis Oilman Miller, harpist, will be arpiSl joined by Mary Roberts Wilson, flutist, and Robert Maxeiner, baritone, in a program sponsored by Phi Beta, music and speech fraternity, at 8:15 p.m. Friday in Prudential Life Insurance auditorium. The concert is a benefit for Thi Beta's scholarship fund vvvv, m. fm fl-lrtflrtai' ''l-.