Independent Star-News from Pasadena, California • Page 57

ERS A TWO-PART grand opera program featuring "Cavalleria Rusticana," and operatic arias sung- by noted Southern California artists will be presented Friday, May 8, at Citrus College auditorium, Azusa Glendora. Curtain time wiU be 8 p.m. Ed Hortori, chairman of the Citrus College music department, well known symphony conductor and choral director, and John Coppih of Montobello, member of the violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor of the Community Symphony Orchestra, are com- their talents In staging the event, which will be presented a second time Saturday, May 9, at Montfebello High School auditorium. Accompaniment will be pro- (Mr tomsjices tl tin ORANGE COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION MAY 8th ONE NIGHT ONLY P.M. MUIIETER, PRESENTS STAROFT-V's i HOOTENANNY WITH M1MENFOUUHOYTAXTON THE GAUHADS CHIDE MARSH TICKETS NOW AT BOXOFFICE, SO.

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Muaic 637 South Hill Slreel. L.n., All Mutual Acenclol, Wallitlia Music City Stores. vided by the Montebello Symphony Orchestra. Five San Gabriel Valley singers will take leading roles In "Cavalleria Rusticana," Mascagni's one act opera, which will be directed and conducted by Horton. Spotlighted will be Marsha Sherer, Glendora, Santuzza; Vernona Trowbridge, Azusa, Mama Lucia; Don Becker, Covina, Alfio; Joye Nelson, West Covina, Lola, and Ron Cobb, West Covina, Turiddu.

The opera will feature an appearance of the Citrus College opera chorus class. The stage setting will be designed and built by John R. Kniest and Pat Marshall, Citrus College drama students. Four singers will be featured in favorite numbers from three popular operas in the portion of the program under Coppin's direction. The prologue from "Pagliacci" will be sung by Roberjt Ravis, who has had leading roles in Los Angeles and Pasadena productions of "Annie, Got Your Gun," "Merry Widow," "Brigadoon" and "This Young World." Joannie Jellum, a winner of a Metropolitan Opera Young Artists audition, will present numbers from "La Favorita." Thomas Anderson, a Southern California winner in Metropolitan Opera auditions, will present numbers from "La Traviata," as will Lonna Arklin, anotiier well known artist.

A donation will be accepted. AN ORIGINAL composition by one of the participants in Hie Coleman Chamber Music Audition, Trio Verbrugghc by Bruce Van Nostrand of San Diego, will be presented on the Coleman Performance Award Concert at the a a a Shakespeare CHOi, 230 South Los Robles Avenue, today at 3:30 p.m. The public is invited to this complimentary concert; no admission tickets will be required. Members of the string trio who will play Trio Verbrugghe are Paul Severtson, violin, and Larry Laffoon, viola, and Van NOW THRU APRIL 30 TWO PERFS. TODAY, 3 P.M.

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Hid SL I. A. Ht Mriiil WilWi Mmic Cily Stout. by the judges, Josef Roisman and Boris Kroyt of the Budapest Quartet to play on this Sunday's concert. Portions of Schubert's Trio in Flat, Op.

100, will be presented by Linda Deutsch, violin (Sybil Maxwell), Paul Berlant, cello (Pascarella) and Gail Tremblay, piano (Earle Voorhies). The Brahms Horn Trio in Flat, Op. 40, will be given by Zina Schiff, violin, (Eileen Wingard and Peter Meremblum), David Jolley. French horn (James Decker and Wendell Hoss), and Morley Grossman, piano (Voorhies). The complete Shostakovich Piano Quintet will be played by Judy Eaton (Maxwell) Paul lYIolchek (Eunice Wennermark) Cynthia Slavett (Stanley Plummer), Peter Snyder (Pascarella) and Stephanie Sebastian (De Zuniga).

ONE OF THE most treasured possessions of Pianist Leonard Pennario is an autographed pic- for wlnrn he played in tie 7" White House. The artist will play a pro- gram of composers of the ro- mantle school. These will In- elude works of Chopin, Sam- uel Barber, Franz Schubert, fq Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Good seats are still available for this final event an event that Elmer Wilson calls one of the finest of his entire series, en THE MITZELFELT Chorale and combined choirs of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and the White Me- morial Church, with orchestra, will present "A German Re- quiem" by Johannes Brahms in two performances, April 26 at 8:15 p.m. at First Congrega- jo tional Church, Gth and Hoover, Los Angeles, and Friday, May 1, at 8:15 p.m.

at White Memorial Church, Brooklyn and Baiiey, Los Angeles. Dr. H. Vincent Mitzelfelt will conducl. Soloists will be Judith Dunn and Maurita Phillips, sopranos, and Paul Hinshaw, baritone.

The orchestra will be featured in Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Soloists will be Paul Shure, violin; Arthur Gleghorn, flute, Gordon Pope, oboe, and Malcolm McNab, trumpet. lure of Arlur Rubinstein, who inscribed his picture with these words: "To Leonard Pennario, with great admiration for his beautiful playing. America can well be proud of him." The pianist' will display his keyboard technique when he performs in Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Wednesday evening, May to close the current Wilson-Iligbee Concert Series.

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