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Page 2 Entertainment Saturday, August 25, 1962 The Ottawa Citizen Saturday. August 25, The Ottawa Citizen Entertainment Page 3 Here And There The GBC Symphony on record Music and the Theatre Music and Theatre Edited By Audrey M. Ashley rv7 A -to 'y 0 those flimsy ones into which it seemed almost impossible to return a record, once out. Air. Schneiderhan and Mr.

Starker are well matched in quality of tone (though Mr. Starker's is naturally a warm-' er tone) and their ideas on phrasing march well with Mr. Fricsay's. A very fine performance, though it will not oust certain matchless older discs from my collection. The review copy received was monophonic, but in theory this work should benefit from stereo treatment.

Carnival in Vienna! Various polkas and waltzes (Fire-Bell, Tritsch-Tratsch, Roses from the South, Explosions, New Pizzicato, etc) by Johann (Jr.) and By Lauretta Thistle Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in minor. Glenn Gould, pianist, with CBC Symphony conducted by Robert Craft (for Schoenberg) and Walter Suss-kind (Mozart).

Columbia, stereo, MS 6339. Columbia's management should have credit for giving a good deal of attention to Canadian artists. It's a pleasure to have the CBC Symphony on discs. The Schoenberg is of chief interest here, for both Mr. Gould and Mr.

Craft are well versed in the idiom. That idiom is dry and dust-swept by times, but the drive and tension of the performance hold our interest, especially in the buoyant finale. The Mozart playing is not ducting a coast-to-coast search to find the man he wants. On Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 8 p.m.

the CBC will broadcast a two-hour program of music selected from concerts given at this year's Stratford Festival. It will include the Lukas Foss work Time Cycle. Paul Scoficld, on the advice of his doctors, is taking an extended rest. This means the Stratford (England) opening of King Lear has had to be postponed. It's reported that 30,000 seats have already been sold for the show, which marks Scofield'a first appearance in this role.

Gordon Macpherson, conductor of the CBC Halifax String Orchestra, is studying piano and conducting in London, England, on a Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship. l-. 1 'X Ml very rewarding to the ear, and especially not when you consider that you can obtain the late Clara Haskil's performance (in Josef Strauss. Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Columbia, stereo, MS 6352. Tie re are sound effects, including a rifle for the Hunting Polka, to delight the stereo fan.

But the music maintains supremacy over circus effects, and the general effect is exhilarating. Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall. Julie Andrews and Carol BurneU, with Irwin Kostal musical director. Recorded live at Carnegie Hall June 11, and musical numbers re-recorded. Columbia, stereo, OS 2240.

This is a chancy undertaking, since obviously a good deal of the appeal of this show was visual, and also since there are so many references to TV shows, completely lost on those of us who don't see TV. On the credit side, there are some good lines in the Nausiev Ballet sequence, and excellent singing in the whirlwind History of Musical Comedy. Adventures in Resting, Vol. (Once upon a Cloud, and The Little Lost Kitten). Stories and songs by Jane Cone, monophonic, DL 4204.

Winnie the Pooh songs, music by H. Fraser-Simson, sung by Frank Luther. Decca, monophonic, DL 4203. The Cone disc is indeed restful; it's gauged for the nursery-school crowd, but will pull in older children too. Mr.

Luther's singing style is not quite sharply focussed enough to da justice to the Milne songs, but he is pleasant enough, and he certainly gets a generous number of songs on one record. (32). Comedienne Anna Russell is to make her British stage debut in a straight play next month. The play, by Tom Ewthfield, is appropriately entitled Spoof. The Lewisohn Stadium concerts in New York recently concluded their 45th year with the encouraging news of an increase in attendance of 20,000 over last season's figure.

And this in spite of the fact that fewer concerts were given. In England, Harold Balm is filming The Cool Kikado, an up-to-date version of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta with such innovations as Tokyo nightclub scenes, A Wandering Minstrel sung to an electric guitar, The Tit Willow Twist, and Three Little Maids From School wearing jeans. Joseph Papp, director of the New York Shakespeare Festival, is looking for a gifted young actor "who can convey sensitivity and intellect as weil as to play Hamlet next summer. He's thinking of con- Summer series of concerts will continue The Music for Summer series sponsored by The Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Federation of Musicians has proved so popular that it has been decided to extend it to include three more concerts. On Thursday.

Sept 8, at 7.45 p.m., the Band of the Governor-General's Foot Guards under Capt Alex McCordie will give a concert in the grounds of Christ Church at Bell's Corners. A jazz concert at Lakeside Gardens, Britannia on Sunday, Sept. 9 at 8.30 p.m. will feature the orchestra of Keith Clarke and the Paul Traversy Quartet And the GGFG Band will present a final program on the lawn of the Royal Ottawa Sanatorium (Westgate area) on Sunday, Sept 9, at 2 p.m. rt i--.

I Vancouver has new director for festival Dino Yannopoulas is to be the new Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Festival os of Sept. 1. Among his many successes, Mr. Yannopoulos ean lay claim to having introduced Maria Callas, in his Athens production of Tosca. A former pupil of Herbert Graf, he took over Tabarro at the Metropolitan Opera when Graf became ill in 1945, and was thereafter allied with the Met.

He was also the founder of the Athens Festival, and has served as Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Summer Opera. ierw; 01 ine same concerto. Mr. Susskind makes the orchestral introduction too syllabic, and Mr. Gould's playing is by times flaccid, by times arbitrarily thumping.

Moreover, he compounds the injury by admitting in the liner notes that he underrates the slow movement For the Schoenberg, however, this is a worthwhile disc. Brams: Double Concerto, for Violin and 'Cello. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violin, and Janos Starker, 'cello, with Berlin Radio Symphony conducted by Fer-enc Fricsay. Deutsche Gram-mophon, mono, LPM 18 753. First, it must be noted, with cheers, that Deutsche Grammo-phon has returned to a stiff cardboard jacket, instead of one tne famous Seventy -Six Trombones is vis- ible here as Ray Heindorf supervises the recording of Meredith WUlsonS music for the sound track of the film The Music Man.

I.o(se Provost as Mar tine, and Jean Lefebore to 31. The plot revolve around fashion-as Archibald, in scene from Au Petit Bon- able novelist, a jealous wife, at scoop hunt-he ur, a modern eomedg fey are Gilbert tng journalist and the woman who keeps Sauvageon which will be presented at Lake- the bin known as An Petit Bonheur. tide Gardens, Britannia Park, from Aug. 'Start where the children arer basic principle of Orff Method Theatre-on-Call plan keeps actors working The Nettes Theatre Corporation -in Germany, baa bit on a happy idea for keeping a large number of part-time actors busy. With something like 5,000 actors on call from Munich, Vienna and Stuttgart, as well as the Nuremberg- area, a Theatre-on-CaS system is being set up, with groups making themselves available on short notice to schools, factories, stores, busi-Kii associations or private homes.

They ean stage anything from a three-act play to a 15-minute political satire, and have a repertoire which includes works by Brecht, Frisch, and British dramatists. The actors, who work at other Jobs to make ends meet, are rehearsing at weekends and holidays. The Neues Theatre is installing a 60-seat theatre and rehearsal space in the premises it has ratted. It was never like th is in Sousa's day separate strand of sound could be pyramided on the other a that after a few sessions of r-recording there were more trombones on the sound track of the film than, perhaps, in the biggest band ever put together. A veteran of sound recording going back to the early 30s when he came out from New York and experience in Broadway musical "pit" orchestras, Heindorf worked on some of the most celebrated products of the Warner studio in that time (and they On the Carillon Robert Donnell.

Dominion Carillonneur, will present the fol. lowing program from the Peace Tower carillon tomorrow, Aug. 2. between 9 and It p.m.; Cartne Prelude No. 4 M.

van den Gfceyn Chorale Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring J. s. Bach Sonata in A Major P. D. Paradisi Vivace Allegro Revest" LUnS C' Debu ithe krd A M.

(c) What a Friend we have In Jesus c. Converse Walti from Serenade for Strings p. Tchaikowsky Auditions The Ottawa Little Theatre plans to open its 1962-63 season with the musical Take Me Along, based on Eugene O'Neill's play Ah, Wilderness. Director Joe O'Brien will be holding auditions at the Little Theatre on Sunday, Aug. 20, at 2 p.m.

and on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 8 p.m. The show will run from Oct. 15 to 20. Coming September 8th The Ottawa Citizen's Annual Music Pages Eagerfy anticipated and awaited.

The Citizen's annual feature pages devoted to music and theatre arts will be published this year on Saturday, September 8th. Edited by Audrey M. Ashley, The Citizen's Music and Drama Editor, these pages will contain a complete preview of the outstanding events in the worlds of music, drama, ballet and allied arts scheduled for Ottawa during the coming season, plus special articles and news releases covering international events. Music teachers and theatrical organizations who wish to advertise on these pages are invited to call The Citizen for information and assistance. PHONE CE 6-4545 (Local 281) By Lauretta Thistle TORONTO (Delayed) The first words Sxken in pubhc at the new concert hall in the spanking new F.dward Johnson Building of the University at Toronto were to introduce Cart Orff.

Ami the fir- speech was by the famous German composer himitelf. A rather tall, enfxr man. with an aquiline fare framed by retreating brownish hair, he spoke only tr: German, but his auxin-nee bad EnKhsh translations in front of them. Hi- sMke not alxxit his operas alxMit his great choral works, lull about the chants ami counting songs and taunting songs Is a that an; common to children all over the world. This fine new building will no dtHiht have Its share of sophisticated, "-far out" proRrams.

Rut on this opening day the only music heard was based on melodic and rhythmic material no more complicated than you'd hear from a group of children in unsupervised play. The raw materials were simple enough, but the use made of them, In Mng. on simple In-struments or in movement too formal a term) kept a jtroup of 200 adults In thrall. Some of (the minority attending only the three-day conference on Elementary Music Education) were fretting their first glimpse of the Orff Method of Music for Children. But 180 of them (including Margaret HuKgett ol Ottawa) had already had some Interest or experience with it, and were in Toronto for an intensive two.

will suffice for endless variations on the xylophone and the glockenspiel and the drum. At the next level in the spiral of learning you add a third note add A to your and of the falling third and the resulting possibilities for improvisation of both tunes and accompaniment will keep you going for weeks. From there, step op to the five notes of the pentatonie scale, and you are in very good company indeed rubbing shoulders with many of our best nursery rhymes, with Scottish folk songs, with a good deal of class'cal Chinese music, and other respected citizenry. Man-learning-music stayed with the pentatonie or closely related scales for centuries, and Orff Method advisers recommend that children spend a relatively long time at this level too. Who Needs Pitch? For a part of the Orff Method, however, you don't need even two notes of established pitch.

"In the beginning was and you can start with your bare hands and progress through simple imitative clapping to "rhythmic phrase where the teacher begins a phrase and the children finish it. With the Orff Method making yards so fast on this continent, music teachers using traditional methods and traditional instruments naturally ask, "Is this new-fangled system a threat to my bread and butter?" Of these and other aspects of the Orff Method, more next week. To Be Continued week training course. The conference was organized by Dr. Arnold Walter, of the U.

of Faculty of Music, and by Dnreen HaQ. pioneer of the Orff Method in Canada. A good deal of the demand for the conference came from Toronto public school teachers, who have been using the Orff system for some years but felt the need of acquiring more skill in encouraging groups of children to improvise movement to music So the slender figure of Barbara Ilaselbach, one of the chief Orff Method teachers at the Salburg Mozarteum, was a key one at this conference. The basic principle of the Orff approach is that you start where the children are. Dr.

Orff believes that children have to recapitulate the progress of man from primitive music to the sophisticated, formal music of our western world. And they should be allowed to follow this route at a sieed appropriate to themselves. Primitive man concentrated on rhythm for a long time. (Dr. Walter quoted Hans von Bue-low's saying, "In the beginning was Orff-taught children learn to listen for rhythms in skipping chants and even ordinary speech.

Within their groups (all teaching is done in groups) they may take their own names and arrange them in a speech chant: "Mirian, Jennifer, David; Olive, Madeleine, Playground Tunes As for singing, the two notes of the falling third are commonplace on the playground where ARE and they By Irving Kolodia Safesrday Review Service LOS ANGELES, Calif. How many trombones are there in The Music Man? Of course, everybody knows there are 76 trombones mentioned in the famous song of Meredith WU1-son's famous musical, but how many do you suppose there are in the film version which is now attracting attention, good reviews and attendance as well as much money all over the country? 19? 26? 40? The opportunity to determine the answer directly from the source came with a visit lately to the brand new sound studio which Ray Heindorf, who supervised the musical's sound track, occupies with Buddy Cole, organist, arranger and general musical man par excellence. The question stemmed from a discus sion of recording techniques and the opportunities afforded by electronics to make an instrument sound not merely as well as it does in the player's hands, but even better. Challenged to provide the answer for the massive sound that comes from the sound track of The Music Man, Heindorf allowed that 12 trombones so many tenors and so many basses were enough to provide the raw material from which the roaring equivalent of 76 was produced. "Of course," said Heindorf, a broad shouldered, gray-haired man in his 50s, "we had each kind on separate channels, and by overdubbing we could do almost anything we wanted with 1 rcoucra in me musjeais of the Dick Powell-Ruby Keeler-AI Jolson era).

Now, with studio musicals less frequent but more elaborate, he is devoting himself to free-lancing, with such a project as The Music Man keeping him busy for a ten months stretch. However, he is looking forward to reaching higher sound standards than ever in the brand new studio constructed by him and Cole on the ground of the latter's home in North Hollywood. Unlike most studios, where walls are constructed and instruments then moved in, this one was built around Dinanlin Youthful movie-makers Canada Films announces that the shooting of its latest production will begin today. This is a film with a difference for one thing it has the intriguing title of "For Heaven's Sake Forget the Cow and Get Into the Suitcase and another interesting aspect is that it will be made in the producer's backyard. As a student film organization, the group has already made three or four films which have been confined to private view-ings.

But they have high hopes cf getting For Heaven's Sake, on television around Christmas time. The film will be produced by John Palmer and directed by Larry Kardish, and the cast includes Taunia Sawchuk, John Palmer, Cathie Wolfe, Peter Joyce, Anne Davelaar and Larry Kardish. Pressed for details of the plot, a member of the cast said it concerned a Prince and Princess who were supposed to marry, but the Prince prefers the Royal CowmUker and the Princess has her eye on the King's aide. The result is a series of farcial situations and mistaken identities. Wurlitzer organ removed piece by piece, rank by rank from the United Artists' Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.

Costing nearly $100,000 in 192S. it couldn't be duplicated today for a quarter of a million. When it is all in place and Cole rhapsodizes fondly on the keys and stois as Heindorf huddles over the controls, nostalgia will be more than rampant it wfll probably exceed, in quality and faithfulness, the sound of the original organ ilseif. them." That is to say, each.