The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 40

QTTAWAJQIIEliAIt inaVjinM flVJ DCS mnrwm US A 40 MUSICAL MATTERS A weu as lor rus musical prowess. urn tinei urn to refer to the period of Beechun't absence from British ihoree as "total eclipse." One such period ended in the Fall of 1956 when he returned to London after fulfilling numerous engagements in Europe and conducting a season of opera in Buenos Aires which had been described as a triumph. conductor, then 79, received a tumultuous welcome when he appeared in the Royal Festival Hall to conduct his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the opening conceit of the Royal Philharmonic Society's season. I was present at his next concert a few nights later. This time he shared the spot light with the distinguished 'cellist Chemiavsky and the orchestra was again the Royal miinarmontc In Utter year he had difficulty getting about, -but he did not auow this to be a source of embarrassment On this occasion he made a humorous remark when he nearly tripped on step leading to the platform and when the armchair which had been placed on the podium for bis convenience proved to be an obstacle, lie picked it up in disgust and resolutely moved it out of the way.

At the conclusion of the concert he treated the audKnce to on of bis "lollipop" encores. By inn time applause punctuated with shouts of Not to be outdone. Sir Thomas shouted "bravo" to the audience as be made his final exit That same week a bust of the conductor was unveiled in the RFH. Noting that sculptor David Wynne bad depicted him in a serious mood, Beecham de clared: "A OMiaguisbed sculptor has placed it on record that there are moments when I am tense and I cannot convince audiences of that at all." AND HOW did Beecham's players feel about him? Toronto writer George Klup put this question to members of Canadian orchestras who had worked under him. Following Is his account of these interviews: "He was a fine and humorous old gentleman." said double-bass, player Reginald Wood.

"He would tell us little anec- I "Ktndly mni Sincere." 1 v- Many Taking Part In Junior Concerts Close to 70 students wul take part in concerts being held this afternoon by the Ottawa Junior Music Club and the Ottawa West Junior Music Club and text Saturday by the Lauren-Jan Junior Music The Ottawa Club program at Donald Bell Concert April 10 Donald Bell's concert the Morning Music Club series is now scheduled for April 10. The Canadian bass-baritone was to have appeared February 27 but wa forced to postpone the engagement because. (ili- BALLET AT VANCOCVEK VANCOUVER The Vancouver International Festival win open July 24 with by the New York City Centre Ballet Benjamin Britten' opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream, which was originally scheduled to open the festival July 2. win now be presented AUgUSC TO Colorful Conductor By JEAN SOUTHWORTH WITH THE DEATH this week' of Sir Thomu Beecham the musical world lost one of Its most colorful figures a conductor famous for his caustic wit as N. -A "Virile and dynamic." dotes so that we would be relaxed before the rehearsal started.

There was laughter when Sir Thomas was around. and there was also the sense of a very fine musician." "There certainly was nothing temperamental about him in the last few years," said violinist Harry Berg art. "He wa kindly and sincere, making each phrase of his music mean something. Concert master Albert Pratt agreed. He played with Sir Thomas back to 1942 and then was no sign of the much publicized temperament "He was sweet and docile at rehearsals." he said.

"Rehearsals to him were a bore. but at an actual concert he was virile and dynamic" www ANOTHER, orchestra player admitted there had been a change from the earlier days when, once looking over at a cellist in an American orches tra. Sir Thomas requested that be "please keep in touch with me every now and then." At that' time the orchestra played a Joke 'on him. They sent 'a police officer into rehearsals with a summons for "breaking the speed limits in the Star Spangled Banner." Sir Thomas laughed. "If I took it at the pace they do in America, I'd receive a parking ticket," be quipped.

"Watching the face of Sir Thomas was a marvelous experience that only his orchestra shared," said violinist Pearl Palmason. "His eyes were bril liant and twinkling and be made his rehearsals Joy." She recalled one Toronto appearance when, he was obviously lame; probably from gout which periodically hit him. A lady came back afterwards and said she was amazed to see him conduct so well when be was so lame. "And since when," asked Sir Thomas, "did conductors con duct with their feetT Mis Palmason also recalled a rehearsal in London where the bassoon player came in after things were well under way. Sir Thomas stopped the orchestra and' waited for the player to take his instrument from its' case.

win continue as soon as the vacuum cleaner is In its place." he said. the National Museum will in. dude selections by a flute trio ana a string quartet The following wUl take part Ottawa cma Gray. Jtmlfr C07M, Wndr SlMntaun, JtMt cock. PwmU Kr.

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OaU Donaldson, Orf IvtaM Mmwah raVnlaSajr. NCT kaa. Viola-Piano Team Here March 27 The viola-piano team of Paul Doktor and Yaltah Menuhin wiU be heard at Glebe Col legiate March 27 In the Morning Music Club series of Monday evening concerts. Both artists come from distinguished musical families. Paul Doktor is the son of Karl Doktor of the famous Butch String Quartet and Yaltah Menuhin is the younger sister of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and pianist Hephzibah Menu- bin.

Mr. Doktor won first prize at the International Music Competition in Geneva in 1942, the only violist to receive this honor to date. In 1948 be took up residence la the United States. He is now on the fac ulty of Manne College of Music in New York. Miss Menuhin studied in Europe and in the United States under Carl Friedberg and Adolph Bailer.

She has given msny recitals snd hss appeared as soloist with lead. ing orchestras. At the Bath Festival in England she and her sister Hephzibah performed the Mozart Concerto for two pianos with their brother con ducting. Play Entries Coming In Mrs. Clsdys Watt, chairman of the Canadian Playwriting Competition sponsored by the Ottawa Little Theatre Work shop, reports that entries are coming in nicely for the 23rd annual competition.

Next Wed nesday is the deadline for en tries. The competition I for one- act Nays by Canadians. Mrs. Watt has also been re ceiving requests "from far and wide" for reading copies of plays which have won recognition in previous competitions. A catalogue of 21.

such plays was issued during the past year. A complete set of the plays has been sent to Brown Uni versity, Providence, RL for in clusion in the Canadian si tion of the Harris Collection of North and South. American original works. Orchestra Guild To Visit Putman, School The Ottawa Orchestra of Ottawa, which ha been giving a series of concerts; in the city intermediate schools, will visit Putman School next Friday. Pupils of Agincourt and Bel-Air schools will also attend the concert During the aeries the or chestra has played music by a number of composers, in cluding Purcen, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel.

Haydn, Grainger and Britten. Talks have also been given about the composers, the music and the Instruments. Art Notes The National Gallery As sociation wiU hold the last in its series of art-film programs Tuesday at 8.30 p.m. In the National Gallery auditorium. Two films will be shown for the first time in Ottawa De lacroix: Painter of Islam, a colorful' presentation of the wort or the great Romantic painter, and Bizen Ceramics, a study of the techniques of one of Japan's outstanding potter.

The popular Indian film, Radha Khrishna, will also be shown. Robert of the artists who took part in the recent "Artists in Action" presentation, is planning to give a 10-weeks course in portrait painting. Beginning April 4. A children's' art exhibition will be held Sunday afternoon. March 19.

at the Municipal Art centre, Billings Bridge, Deadline New Item for the Saturday Music and Drama Page' should be received by noon Wednesday. The deadline for advertisements is Thursday noon. LONDON CHOUt The 3-voio choral of the London Bible Institute will be heard at Parkdale Baptist Chnrch March 20 and at Cal vary Baptist Church the follow ing evening. The choir Is di rected by William G. Carey.

Li I J-. I I it- Igf MO l. 1 J-: -v u- rra nf i ANNE OF THE THOUSAND JAYS The Duke of Norfolk (Jim Mitchell) asiists Anne Boieyn (Madeleine Sans-cartier) with her cloak as she prepares to 1 eave for the Tower of London in thiai scene from the Maxwell Anderson plsy, A nne of the Thousand Days. The play will be presented March 13 to 18 as the tjiird production in the Ottawa Little Theatre's "Festival" series. Ruth Ruggles is the director snd the sets were designed by David Partridge.

A group of boy choristers from St. Matthew's Church will take part in the production, i Rapid Grip and Barton Photo) fi MATILDA LAZAROV1CH Concert Marks Anniversary Of Poet's Death A program commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko will be held in the National Museum tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. three Musical settings of poem's by Shevchenko will be sung by the combined Ukrainian choirs of Ottawa under the direction of J. J. Tokaryk and soloists Matilda Lazarovich, soprano, and O.

Hoshuliak, choir wiU be accompanied by J. Fiala and the soloists by Evelyn Greenberg. Selections from the. poet's work will also be read by R. Wasylenko and Vera Vasy- lenko.

The concert is being spon sored by the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. Waddington To Be Speaker Geoffrey Waddington, director of music for the CBC. will address a Joint meeting of the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers As sociation and the Ottawa Cen tre of the Royal Canadian CoUege of Organist in Jeff son Hail, st Matthew' Church, next Saturday evening. Limeliters Met In Los Angeles A chance meeting in Los Angeles resulted In tre formation of The Limelitert, who will appear at Glebe Collegiate March 24 in the Treble Clef series. The trio, comprised of Lou Gottlieb.

Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough. will be heard In their program ol "Folk Songs for Before their chance -meeting1 each of the performer had worked in single supper club acts. Yarbrough had been singing at a club in Aspen, Colorado called the Lunelit hence the group's nam. He Students Presenting World Harmonies9 A program of tolk music and dances entitled World Harmonies '61 will he held in Glebe Collegiate auditorium this evening -by the International Ottawa University Friendship dub. University of Ottawa students and ethnic groups of Ottawa and Montreal wiU take part Michael MacConaill is actmg as co-ordinalor and Dr.

Events Today The King of the Golden River, Theatre for Children production, Ridgemont High School, 2.30 p.m. Beauty and the Beast, Community Players' production. Fisher Park High School. 2.30 p.m. Ottawa Junior Music Club concert.

National Museum, 2.45 p.m. Ottawa West Junior Music club concert, Nepean High School, 2.45 p.m. World Harmonies '61, Glebe Collegiate, 8 p.m. Arms and the Man, Ottawa Drama Guild production. Academic HaU, 8.30 p.m.

Playing Widor Organ Symohony Organist Russell Green will plsy Widor Symphony No. 2 at his recital in. First Baptist cnurcn Thursday at 12.13 p.m. The program will also Include: ChapaUa dan Morta and Boaaca Mufrt Traueroda Llut Phantaay on "Wa all bellm In on God" Practorlua Canzrma Androa GabrlaUl Praiuda and Fusua In -O major Bach FILM CHANGED The Young Stranger, directed by John Frankenheimer, will replace the previously- announced Teresa as' the feature attraction -Ot. Film Society'! program 4.

at the National Museum Mon day night eventually took over the club and called in Hassilev as his partner. Hassilev, a professional actor, left Aspen to do quickie horror movie and to pay his expense opened a singing act in Cosmo Later he was joined by Yarbrough and- the act became iliatt At this tim Gottlieb, original member of the Gateway met the' duo. He decided to Join with them and The Limeliters opened at" a San Francisco night club three days "after the duo closed at Cosmo Alley. Emmett 0'Gradywill be mas ter of ceremonies. The Gover nor General has extended his patronage to the event The program wilt include music and dance of French Canada, China, Croatia, Ar menia, Scotland.

Haiti, India and the Dominican Republic There will also tie a "Blues number and a barber shop quartet selection. Ukrainian Ensemble At Museum The Ukrainian National Folk Ensemble, of Montreal, directed by, Peter Marunczak, Will give a program of Ukrainian folk dances and songs in the Na- tional Museum Wednesday at 8.15 p.m. Organized in '1951, the en semble consists 18 perform. era. It has given numerous concerts in Montreal and has appeared on television.

Luba Zuk. concert pianist and a member of the McGill University Faculty of Music, will play piano selections. Miss Xuk studied music at the State Conservatory in Graz, Austria, McGill University, the Quebec Provincial Conservatory and elsewhere. She recently from a concert tour of Cleveland, Chicago. Newark, and Philadelphia.

Mozartiana Chosen For Ballet Festival The Classical Ballet Concert; Group, directed by Nests Toumine, has been invited to present Mozartiana at the Northeastern Regiorel Ballet Festival In Dayton, Ohio, May This is the third successive year' that the company has been Invited to the festival: It is the only Canadian group represented. Mozartiana" will be. danced this evening DerJp River', where the Concert Group will give the first of five per formances in Ottawa-area cen tres. The company will appear In Buckingham March -18, Hawkesbury April 8, Cornwall May 13 and Pembroke. May 19.

i While Mozartiana had Its premiere In Ottawa some 10 years ago, it ha been corn- P'ete'y reworked by Mme. Toumine and this season It has been given new costumes. It Is a ballet in the pure classical tradition, using' the famous Tchsikowsky score based on themes by Mozart and Many Hit Songs In Babes in Arms Babes in Arms, the Rodgers and Hart musical which the Regis Players of St Joseph's will present in the Technical School March 23 to 25, is notable for a number of hit songs and others which only need to be heard to be popu lar. One in the latter class is You're Nearer, one of the more beautiful songs in the show. Favorites include Johnny One Note, My Funny Val entine, I Wish I Were in Love Again, The Lady is a Tramp, and Where or When.

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart collaborated in writing the music and lyrics for some 23 Broadway shows and in addition produced and wrote the book for several of these. They began working to gether in 1917 and during the next 26 years wrote some 65 hit songs. Garrick "Gaieties, produced in 1925, featured such song! as Manhattan and Sentimental Me. Their final show was A Con necticut Yankee, which was produced st the old Martin Beck Theatre in November. YAFFA YARKONL popular Israeli singer, who will appear at the Jewish Community Centre March 19, under auspices of Parliament Chapter.

B'nai B'rith Women, mm New Records MOZART: Concertos, Na 12 in flat, K. 482 and No. 21 in K. 488. Robert Casadesus with orchestra cond.

by George Szell (Columbia stereo MS 6194, LP ML 5594). Casadesus may not have the final say on either of these, but his statement of each are surely most satisfying. No. 22 has not been weU represented on discs since the gem of 78's by Edwin Fischer, making this a doubly welcome addition to the catalogue. Some, notably are more suave with No.

23, but we find nothing to quibble about here. Balances between orchestra and soloists and quality of recording are exemplary. MOZART: Symphony No. 15 in K. 385, Symphony No.

E. flat, K. 843. The Cleveland Orchestra cond. by George Szell (Epic stereo BC 1106).

Tightly drawn, magnificently- spirited performances of these two masterpieces are presented In a recording which is a model of stereo sound. HANDEL: Ode for St. Ce- St. Patrick's CYO Group In Comedy The Senior Catholic Youth Organization group St Patrick's parish win offer its' annual St. Patrick's Day presentation March 18 to 18 in the church hall at 7.45 p.m.

The. group is doing Yon Can't Beat the Irish, a 'three act comedy by Wilbur Brown. In. the cast are Dorothy Garvin, Margaret Crockett, Bill Ryan, Michael O'Grady, Art Wright, Roger Des-Rlvieres, Theresa Darcy, Bob Ryan. Sadie -MacNeii and Clare White.

BEHAN IN TORONTO Irish playwright Brendan Behan Is to appear at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre March 20-25 in connection with the new jazz revue, Impulse, NEW, WORK. American composer Aaron Copland has written a new chamber work, a Nonet for three violin, three viola and three 'cellos, 1943. It included such songs as. My Heart Stood Still. Thou Swell and To Keep My Love Alive.

Other Rodgers and Hart songs which have enjoyed continued popularity are Blue Room, My Heart Stood Still. You Took Advantage of Me, With a Song In my Heart and Where or When. The Regis Players' production of Babes in Arm is being directed by Bernard Mc-Manus. Brother Norman St Louis is in charge of the mut and choreography is by Bill Dick. Shakespeare Cast Named The cast hss been announced for the Ottawa Little Theatre Workshop production of Shake speare Tweirth Night, which will be presented April 6 to 8.

Michael Meiklejohn is the director. John Kierstead will appear as Orsino, Jacqueiyn Baumberg as Viola, Margaret Ann Montague as Olivia, lan Fellows as Mal-olio, Ross Smedley as Antonio and Larry Aubrey as Sebastian. Others in the cast are Paul Morek Bruce Feather, Peter NichoUs, Mary Miller, Hugh Petrie, George Bloom, John Lillico and Peter Cowan. .1 Musical Festival At Parkdale Crradel The Parkdale Citadel Band wiU hold a musical festival next Saturday evening at the Salvation Army Parkdals Citadel. The program wiU mctuda vocal selections by Mrs.

Wtnni- fred Watson of Hamilton and trombone solo by Dr. William Lorimer of Preteott SHAKESPEARE ROLES Jessica Tandy I to play Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Cassandra in Troilus and Cressida at the American Shakespeare Festival. Stratford, Conn, this Summer. cilia's Day. Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, Adele Addison, soprano; John McCoUum, tenor, Rutgers University Choir (Columbia stereo MS 6206).

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