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CHICAGO SUNDAY TKiBlWE: OCTOBER 2, I960 l'AKT 5- 1AGE 10 Foss Search Leads Condon at London House and Playing Every Set to Penillion and to Crwth By Will Leonard 1 mwHii Georg Brunis Jadin than that, you probably can achieve it. Pat Devereaux is head mixologist at the sparkling new drug Bar. JLate of an evening you're likely to encounter, in this quiet new late spot, patrons recognizable as Joan Fontaine, Rick Casares, Bob Newhart, Lenny Maxwell, Dan Sorkin, or Toni Lee Scott. And an ice cream soda isn't a bad way to end a long evening. Cabaret Calendar SUNDAY: George Lewis and his New Orleans band will be at the Red Arrow jazz club in Stickney.

Monday: Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers will open at the Cloister for a two week stay, together with the Ira Sullivan quartet. Wednesday: Frances Faye opens a two week engagement at the Trade Winds, with Marv Welch, comic. Dizzy Gillespie and his quartet begin a fortnight at the Sutherland hotel on the south side. Saturday: Pete Seeger will present folk 3ong concert at Orchestra haU The Diamond Steer, on Western near Devon, will start a three day grand opening celebration. Johnny Betts will be at the piano bar Tuesdays thru Saturdays.

Next Sunday: Cris Barber and his band, from London, will play a one nighter at the Red Arrow. And TV HEN we turned our backs for a few weeks' VV vacation George Gobel returned to the Empire room, Jiobby Short opened at the Playboy, June Christy at Mister Kelly's, Diana Trask at the Camellia House. Ken Nordine opened in a new spot, the Club Renaissance "dedicated to regenerating the cultural expression )f 20th century man in a converted tearoom 91 Kenmore avenue near Sheridan road, the Birdhouse opened where Way Off-Broadway closed, Max Hook returned to the piano at Jazz La Cantina observed its fifth anniversary downstairs of the Italian Village, and Jimmy Cassidy marked his second year at the honky-tonk piano in the Brass Bull of the Sheraton-Towers. Tony and Ted Smith's restaurant, the Town and Country on Ridge avenue, was a little different by celebrating its "twentieth of a century" anniversary. The staff has grown to more 'than a hundred since the place opened in 1955, and, at the rate of a half a dozen a day, they've served patrons more than 10.000 free birthday cakes," each consisting of a cupcake adorned with a Fourth of July sparkler.

Everybody set for the Indian summer picnic season? THOSE CITY SLICKER New Yorkers who try in vain to hear Eddie Condon play the guitar wouldn't believe their eyes, if they saw hint in Chicago. They go to Eddie Condon's in Manhattan -and they hear a fine band, but they practically never get to see the house guitarist, because it's his own place and he plays when he feels like it which isn't too often. At London House, however, he's there every set, filled not only with rhythm but with the old college try. This is Condon's first appearance in his old home town since a date at the Blue Note in 1948, and" it's a happy occasion. None other than Pee Wee Russell, hale, healthy, and in fine clarinet form, also is making a return appearance after too many years' absence Johnny Windhurst is the anchor man on trumpet and there are Bud Blacklock at.

the piano, Ros Rudd on trombone, and Phil Failla on drums. Come to think of it, one doesn't hear Eddie's guitar too distinctly even now that he deigns to play it. But his band, its arrangements, its performances, arid its spirit are a fine London House show. At the Cafe Continental JACK TEAGARDEN, known to the citizenry as Big never sounded bigger than he does in the subterranean Cafe Continental, where his trombone is lustrous as well as large. Heading a beautifully knit sextet whose personnel has undergone little change since Jack's Asian tour bf a couple of seasons back.

Don Ewell is one of the finest jazz pianists in this great land of ours, Don Goldie is a hard working trumpeter like his father before him in the old Paul Whiteman band, Ronnie Greb is an amazingly developed drummer at 21, and there's nothing wrong with Henry Cuesta on clarinet or Stan Puis on bass. In Skokie tvj THIS ISN'T an all-Dixieland column, altho it seems 1 i that way to this point. But Georg Brunis' debut in Skokie certainly is newsworthy, and besides, he's opening a brand new room. Dixieland Lane at the Orchard Twin bowling alleys a block south of the Old Orchard shopping center. Brunis' trombone is loud, sardonic, happy, slightly vulgar as it always has been.

In the lineup of Brunis' All-Stars are Nappy Trottier on trumpet, Floyd Bean at the piano, Hey-Hey Humphries on drums, and Ray Daniels on clarinet. It's a good room, small and simple, with satisfactory sight lines and acoustics. The Dixieland fans can't hear the bowlers in the adjoining lanes, and the bowlers can't hear "Tin Roof Blues" which is too bad. Sing Song Wong JADIN WONG, who defines herself as a sort of Chinese Myron Cohen only with more hair," admits her current engagement at the Brass Rail constitutes her Chicago debut. Jadin the name, she says, derives from jade heads a quartet of maidens billed as the Sing Song Girls, and sings Chinese songs written for her by a young man in the Bronx.

The S. S. girls include Michi Ono. a Japanese flamenco dancer; Mara Kim, in songs and dances: Saja Sin Lee. who stresses her middle name as she divesls herself of too much wardrobe; and Jadin.

the Chinese ambassador of humor." Sample of Miss Wong's humor: Perhaps I lay big egg foo yong." As we went to press Jimmy Wong, the Wabash avenue restaurateur who hosted parties for Suzie Wong and Anna May Wong in recent months, had not announced a date for a Jadin Wong party. Night Life on Oak Street THERE, on the very spot where the bartender at the Ranch restaurant used to mix scotch and seltzer, a registered pharmacist now blends phenacetin and codeine. Where the patrons used to ride a bar stool by mounting into a saddle, there stands a cosmetics display. But, tho the appearance of the shop on Oak street has been changed and brightened, the Musket Henriksen drug store on the premises still is something of a night spot. As a matter of fact, it's open all around the clock, which means it's lit when the signs on nearby Rush street have winked out.

The nonalcoholic dining lounge serves a delicious ice cream soda until 2 a. and should you come in with a prescription for a cup of coffee later -It HRT If lSTV' h4 "St 7 i mi 1 mi r- 1 xtfBXik j. 1 hen on By Thomas Willis The trouble with looking things up is you never know just where it will lead. This was impressed on us recently when a search for background on Lukas Foss' Improvisation Chamber Ensemble led us to crwth, via penillion. The ensemble makes its debut with the Philadelphia orchestra next weekend in the world premiere of Mr.

Foss' Concerto for Improvising Instruments and Orchestra. It will appear here Oct. 24 to open the Free Concerts Foundation series in the Natural History Museum's Simpson theater. On this program they will improvise a Concertino and a Trio and join the Festival String Quartet in the Introduction and Allegro from the aforementioned concerto and in an Antiphon for Five Im-provisors and String Quartet, also by Mr. Foss.

The concerto excerpt, which has been adapted by the composer for small scale performance, will be played twice to show the different possibilities of realization. A check of Tribune files revealed that four of the five participants. Mr. Foss. Robert a i flute, Richard Dufallo, clarinet, and Charles DeLancey, percussion, have been members of the group since it began playing as the University of California at Los Angeles Improvisation Chamber Ensemble in 1958.

Then there were six members instead of five. Howard Coif, cellist, has replaced Eugene Wilson, and William Malm, bass clarinetist, is no longer with the group. Mr. Foss. we discovered, has been here at least three times.

He played his own Second Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony orchestra in 1955. conducted at Ravinia in 1957. and lectured at the Arts club during the 1957-58 season. He joined the U. C.

L. A. faculty in 1953. Reports of the group's first concerts in 1959 would seem to indicate the music is neither the embellished melodic variation of the jazz musician nor the extemporized, espisodic polyphony of the great organists. According to one reviewer, the improvisations were based on a changeable four note series and a rhythm scheme was Hans Richter-Haaser, Nov.

20; Samson Francois, Nov. 27; Claudio Arrau, Dec. 18; Eric Heidsieck, Jan. 29; Rudolf Firkusny, March Sheldon Shkolnik, April Byron Janis, April Glenn Gould. April 16, and David Bar-Illan, April 23.

Leonid Kogan, the Russian violinist, lists works by Locatelli, Bach, Pro-kofieff, Ernest Bloch, and Wieniawski for his Orchestra hall recital Sunday afternoon, Oct. 16. The Prokofieff scheduled is the Sonata No. 2, in major, Opus 94a, a transcription made in 1944 of an earlier flute sonata. Andrei Mit-nick will be the accompanist.

The recital is the first item in the Allied Arts Music Series. Future concerts include I Solisti di Zagreb, the Yugoslavian chamber orchestra, Oct. 30; Jan Peerce, tenor, Jan. the Robert Shaw Chorale, (STan. 15; Irmgard Seefried, soprano, March 26; and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, April 30.

The Bach Society opens its- series of baroque chamber music concerts this week with a program of Bach and Handel sonatas. OPENING OCT. Stk The "Finian's Rainbow" Star DOROTHY CLAIRE and th Rogues MONDAY PARTY NITE AUDREY FLORENCE TRIO featuring FRANKIF RAWnA77n ff I llf lllltIM I I mm imbV TUESDAY MAMBO CHA CHA Ent. Dancing Nitely No Covr. No Admission Amptt Fre Parking 3 Tftmmrr9i i'4 0CK WEST OF USE WATER ir BEACH HOTEL it 53 cJ3L Wong Ken Xordine 1 Dizzy Gillespie and his quartet will be playing jazz in the round in the Sutherland hotel beginning Wednesday.

Beriosova Wagner's Prelude to "Die Meistersinger," Schumann's Symphony No. 2, in major, and Proko-fieff's Symphony No. 5, in flat major. Also on the orchestral agenda is the special concert Saturday, Oct. 15, at which Sviatoslav Richter, the Russian pianist, makes his American debut as soloist in Brahms' Piano Concerto No.

2, in flat NORMAN WALLACE Is Now at 12 West I Maple. That hJ Ron Urban, magician in the colorful ice revue, Persian Paradise," in the Boulevard room of the Conrad Hilton hotel, shows off his performing pastel doves to Boulevard-Dears Mary Lou Goodwin (left) and Jane Conlon. Ben Arden is now in his fourth year as bandleader in the Empire room of the Palmer House. Sylvia, his wife, is first violinist and featured soloist with the orchestra. Current attraction in the Empire room is George Gobel.

Lukas Foss agreed on before the plaj ing started. Furthermore the formal outline of tht longer sonata movements was written on small cards and consulted by the players during the performance. We turned to a musical dictionary in search of further enlightenment. The definition "the art of performing music as an immediate reproduction of simultaneous mental processes wasn't much help. Neither was the list of famous composers who improvised, which started with Francesco a i i 1325-1397 and ended with Bruckner.

None of the related practices diminution, thoro-bass, cadenza, jam session seemed to apply. At the very end tf the article was the curt suggestion. "See Penillion." We did. "Penillion." it said. "An ancient form of Welsh music practice See Bards executed by a harpist and a singer with the former playing a well known harp air and the latter extemporizing words and a somewhat different melody to fit the harpist's tune and harmonies.

The harpist can change his tune as often as he wishes: the singer, after a measure or two. is expected to join with proper words and music." Two people extemporiz-inginstead of just one, and with overtones of competition, intellectual stimulation, and downright fun. It seems something like what Mr. Fos has in mind as he seeks to free his performers' imagination and retain the traditional forms. Crwth? It's Celtic for that harp played by the bards See above.

to be presented Wednesday night in the Hubbard Woods school auditorium, Winnetka, and repeated Friday night in the home of Robert Lifton, 4947 S. Kimbark av. Both concerts start at 8:30. The Bach Society Players are Nancy Humphrey, harpsichordist. Robert Quick, violinist, Bernard Goldberg, flutist, and Karl Fruh, cellist.

Sidney Harth, concert-master of the Chicago phony orchestra, will play a violin recital at 8:30 Sunday night, Oct. 16, in De Paul university's Center theater, 25 E. Jackson blvd. Use Sass. will, be the accompanist.

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Contact our Mr. Herbert H. Hofmann 3901 W. Irving Park Road IN 3-0100 Concerts and Recitals The Royal Ballet Returning Dec. 18 Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers begin a two weeks engagement at the Cloister Monday.

Also on the bill will be Ira Sullivan and his quartet. Svetlana Quintet and Harold Siegel, string bass, will appear. The program holds Haydn's String Quartet in minor, Opus 76, No. 2 "Quartet of the Hinde-mith's Kleine Kammer-musik," Opus 24, No. 2, for woodwind quintet, and Beethoven's Septet, Opus 20, for violin, viola, horn, clarinet, bassoon, cello, and string bass.

The same program will be played Tuesday in the Howard school auditorium, Wilmette. It is the first in the section of 4he series. Members of the woodwind group are Samuel Baron, flute, Jerome Roth, oboe, John Barrows, horn, Arthur Weisberg, bassoon, and David Glazer, clarient. Leonard Pennario plays the opening recital in the Allied Arts Piano Series at 3:30 next Sunday afternoon in Orchestra hall. i t's transcription of Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in minor, a Haydn sonata in major, Liszt's Sonata in minor, Ernst Toch's "Profiles' and Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Cou-perin-" are on the program.

Other pianists appearing on the series are Jacques Klein, Nov. I Alyne Dumas Lee, soprano, will give a recital at 3:30 this afternoon in Orchestra hall. The program includes sacred songs by Buxtehude, Schuetz, and a Sebastian Bach, French songs and arias by Gluck, Debussy, Bachelet, and Lalo, lieder by Schumann and Schubert, "Ozean, du Unge-heuer from Weber's Ob-eron," and English songs by John Alden Carpenter, Samuel Barber, Richard Hageman, and Bernard Brindel. The second concert in the Fine Artst Quartet series of chamber music programs will be at 8:30 Wednesday in the Prudential building auditorium. In addition to the quartet, the New York Woodwind '-Zi major.

Other works on the program are Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Mozart's Symphony No. 40, in minor. Opening dates to keep in mind as the symphony season gets under way Tuesday subscription series, Oct. 25; popular concerts, Saturday, Nov. 12; youth concerts, series Oct.

18, series Nov. 1. Our NEW LOCATION Ruth and Bill Relnhardt's mtines Bt P. M. nightly Uxccpt Sunday) NO COYER SU 7-2907 I When the Royal Ballet returns to the Civic Opera house for 17 holiday performances opening Dec.

18, it will have Margot Fonteyn as guest artist and four new productions, two of them choreographed by Frederick Ashton. They are "La Fille Mai Gar-dee," which in this version has music by Ferdinand Herold, adapted by John Lauchery and is desigend by Oscar Lancaster, and Ondine," adapted from the story by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, with music by Hans Werner Henze, and scenery and costumes by Lila i6 Nobile. Antigone is John Cranko's ballet, with music by Mikis Theodorakis, and scenery and costumes by the Mexican artist, Rufino Tamayo. Baiser de la Fee," Igor Stravinsky's ballet based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, is choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan and designed by Kenneth Rowell. Also to be presented are Les Sylphides" and the full length ballets "The Sleeping Beauty," Le Lac des Cygnes" and "Giselle." Heading the company are Nadia Nerina, Svetlana Beriosova, Anya Linden, Annette Page, Michael Somes, Brian Shaw, Alexander Grant, David Blair, Bryan Ashbridge and Donald Macleary.

The schedule: Sunday night, Dec. 18 "La Fille Mal Gardee." 3Ionday night, Dec. 19 "La Fille Mai Gardee." Tuesday night, Dec. 20 La Fille Mai Gardee." Wednesday night, Dec. 21 "Ondine" first Chicago performance.

Thursday night, Dec. 22 Ondine." Friday night, Dec. 23 The Sleeping Beauty." Saturday matinee, Dec. 24 "The Sleeping Beauty." Saturday night, Dec. 24 Sleeping Beauty." Sunday, Dec.

25 No performance. Monday night, Dec. 26 The Sleeping Beauty." Tuesday night, Dec, 27 Le Lac des Cygnes the full length Wednesday night, Dec. 28" Giselle." Thursday night, Dec. 29 Giselle." Friday night, Dec.

30--" Baiser de la Fee," "Les Sylphides," Antigone." Saturday matinee, Dec. 31" Les Sylphides," Le Baiser de la Fee," "Antigone." Saturday night, Dec. 31 "La Fille Mai Gardee." Sunday matinee, Jan. 1 "Le Lac des Cygnes." Sunday night, Jan. 1 "Le Lac des Cygnes." John Lanchbery is the principal conductor.

Hoot Gibson Back HOLLYWOOD Hoot Gibson, one of the top western stars in the early days of Hollywood and now liv-ing retirement in Las Vegas, returned to the limelight in Ocean's Eleven," to portray a deputy sheriff. Symphony Rehearsals Begin I The Chicago Symphony orchestra reassembles for rehearsal Monday in preparation for the opening of its 70th season, under the direction of Fritz Reiner. Two out of town concerts are scheduled during the preliminary rehearsal period at 8:30 Saturday in Wheaton college auditorium and at 8:30 Monday, Oct. i0, in the Pabst theater, Milwaukee. The orchestra hall season begins with a pair of concerts Thursday, Oct.

13, at 8:15 and Friday, 'Oct. 14, at 2 o'clock. All four of these concerts will have the same program I I "1 I nr I IN CHICAGO 1 A. I rJLTS 1.