Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 120

Ormamly Beginning 25tn Year 11 lUrlwmwd Hwf-PUpitf (tan Vpt IMA Art in Richmond Serious Nonsense Marks Art Cnnihutd from Ft ra( Pago recorded with the Mormon Tabernacle Cliurrh Tuisl jear" recall the mar tro asked ma tow 2 felt being on the lilt Parade Hh that retarding I thought to was pulling my leg I didn't know then what the Jilt Tirade This season tto riiladcl4ila Orchestra will give aome ron-j certs at tome then travel 120U0 miles to New England the Midwest and the South for 50 additional performancei Ormandy feels that radio and records have halped to Increase the range of symptonlo music tremendously The Philadelphia Orchestra this year la Inaugurating a new transcription service whleh will to offered to good music stations througlvtut tto country A series nf 13 full-length concerts taped in aiereo or monaural will to broadrast to thousands of music lover I Such mrnns of propagating By Joii I) Inj5kf Thm new rxlilbltlnn 11 of thorn first-rate offer wide variety of view Inc for Richmond callrrycnlnc Rihllr JVrnlyk palntinc drewlnc and print by ul Klee decorate the thratrr loiitiy at the Virginia Museum while upstair an exhibition of contemporary international glass apectnndar In Imth the quality of the objects and thetr method of hn oxhihiiuin rrmtie (5U- article on which being previewed at 3 jet thl aftertMin at the alerlini Sevfr rhsracterlatiri of Museum I enhijed Aria and Klrr'n unique art are exempli Ar-hlleetur by bluilent of ihe'j jlg Chilton which Inlwiily of freon(ii of work fmm lha pri- Shannon president of the Va( eolleflion of James till I nlvently will open lha exhl- garry of Nfw York Klee's seeming carelessness the Br ripped dripjed half-finished thing else that a whisper ran'(-hrarler 0j hi paint be at jmwerfut a a thmil As jnKi actually rarrfully con an artist rani Klee a ria( jt in to all of his whisperer preferring small wprka lhf ap(4aranre of apm sire simple design subtle ef aiMny and improvisation al-fecis disarmingly simple rom fjousj if technical perfection pnslllons and sermingly care 0 fpj picUrr a tests to the leu fragmented anil often ari-a Krfat rara )t said unfinished-looking Iilte wraps jhat Klre practirrd hi peculiar nf paper Ilia witty visual pun jjjni 0f ajeiching by the hour and haunting fantasies often piarmt practices mt hi leave ore more enthralled than initrument Actually Klee wa the hitorionic of hi fellow mafr era ft sm an employing rqiresslnnists In Germany or jjp ussortment nf sedlums the Intellectualiatiimi of hs (oflfn nixin gfVPra nf lhM(1 Cublest friend in fiance I jn nnf panting) and using earh 'medium for effects that are Klr (pronounced mogl propfr 0 Nora Kovarh and 1st) an Ralmssky will head a four-member tlanre group to lie presented at the Virginia Museum Theater Friday night Kovach RaltovskyDancc At Museum on Friday dreamed of" wtonJrma'ndv en-! A "'KP I anlirl appear together In "EVpana' dreamed of when Orinamly n-pjil(j al Virginia Museum lone of (he 230 dances for tered the Royal Academy of Theater when the Virginia orchestra composed by Em- Music In hla native Budapest at Dance Society opens its season: manual Chamhrier the age of five Four jeara with a ennrert by Nora Kovach Die second portion of the later he became a pupU of the ovk' will open with "Die great violinist Jeno Kubay rron danced by Ka ftr u'hnm he muned Ticket! for the series of flve vach and Rahovsky to music alter wnOT to waa nameo eVflU wIllnj lt hy Rirhard WacnPr Die pai At 17 Ormandy rfcelvedhlsrrporP( season tickets will dn deux fmm "Nutcracker" aviIhie until the ocningll to danced hy Karina and Academy and was awarded afIrr tthlch tickets Zyblne who also will to seen greea In violin composing and may purchased on an In- laier In Spectre dc la counterpoint lie gave concert dividual basis Rose" i Satire disguised by a naive childish called 'View of It I among the vlnlon i a frequent element of Paul artist' work currently on display at Klee'a work a In thl watercolor Virginia Museum of Fine Art ONT THING that eomc through to In hla painting is Klre'a pleasure In material for Kovach and Rolmvaky will dance the from tours and taught at the Budapest State Conservatory before accepting an invitation to make a concert lour of the Inited Clay) wa born In 179 pear Berne where hit father wa conductor of the Berne Phil-hamtonlc orchestra Young Klee began to draw at seven and to play the violin in his father's orchestra at 10 Ilia love for muiic remained with him all his life and after he married a concert pianist he often held mutinies In hla home for and sometime! with hia friend This musical Interest affected Klee's painting In two ways: the titles of his picture often refer to music In general or specific compositions in parti-rular and the picture themselves as some critics have pointed out suggrst musical compositions In their linear counterpoint and their emphasis on rhythmic movement A fore unable in the 20th All of Klee's works are dated manhered and Inscribed with titles a fart which also belies cnrrlrKMii'Nt as nn artist And In all of Klee works un- like the w-orks of most contemporary artists these titles are important for alwtract as Klee may he he insists nn an association between his plastic design and some Idea or object in our experience Sometimes these tit lei are obvious and factual aa In a suggest things that are beyond reason hut which invade the aaon i)ut which invade the Kovach and Rohnvsky will he assisted here hy Tania Karina and Alex Zyhino Karina has dancrd throughout the world Kglevsky of Association Mexico member Monte at the with Xaine" Zyhine Rahov-sky an act of then State in 192L I wa a long-cherished ambition but it turned into a night-made lte wa teamed with an Inexperienced manager and suddenly found himself without friend or money In a strange country had to play light music then even though didn't want ha recall! had no cliolce But today will not play anything I don't believe In or cannot perform well I never play something because It's the thing to do or because someone else is playing It I The four dancers will often with Andre Zybine is a leading dancer the Metropolitan Opera He I a native of and was a former of the Ballot Russe de Carla Howard Barr will be plana The program will open "Clair de danced by Karina and followed by Kovach and in Wedding Scene" exerpt from the third favorite devices: the suggestion though not the imitation of some exotic and often matter of fact several eon- cient style of art Ancient wall fia jPy Duv" where tiny cross-temporary composers and mu-1 paintings prehistoric rock car-sicianshavc become an Intriqued vings aboriginal aerawls works that they rval tapestries primitive woven tapestry-like oil painting whose design la partly painted and scratched into the paint or "A hatched lines and drab colors suggest the mood of wet weather Snmp of the titles! s-nf fviM a nurtia Soma 'The Physiognomy of a Blossom' i a Klee water-color also included In the current Virginia Museum exhibition have written compositions inspired by hia paintings In his first lecture in his Facer Lis-i lener series at three o'clock to- que of three style and partly goods are some of the styles adapted by Klee partly as a adapted by Klee parity as willy and sophisticated burin- one of three styles and partly Iff T) 1 1 rt rrgjons of fantaSy( in "SaintilllCC I ll 1)1 1 11 Ifl I vlVP im Tinhr mil al(lalllellll llr Vyj Recital at 4 Today of the Inner Light" and "Mus- cale "At the White Gate" for example is a Cubistic construction of transparent forms on a large white sheet IiiiprovisatioiiEiiseiiihle To Play Here October 14 One of the most unusual spontaneously hut with melo other day last sea-Rlchmond son was when she was chosen to accompany Barbara Bech young Richmond violinist when she gave her recital This waa of paper KLEE'S WIT DEFIES description It is satiric without being specific as In of (see illustration) and aerial view of a city which la however reduced to the block-shapes and flat bright colors of children's toys Klee's humor is both naive and sophisticated as in the whimsical "Physiognomy of a Blossom" (see ilhBtration) and Motpumental gt will gWf of Hearts" bolh adaptations of the Cubist idiom But Klee's "achnS from lhe greatest gift lies in his ability classical school to Gershwin to combine wit satire and as follows: Sonata Op 2 Ko2 fantasy with serious and cxcit- by ing statements in purely plastic terms Linda Carol Rathbun young pianist and president of the Junior Mualclana Club of Richmond will be presented In redtal by Florence Robert- son with whom she studies at the Richmond Academy of Ballet 5714 Grove ave at 4 pm today Misa Rathbuif daughter of Mr and Mrs Dick Rathbun of Beethoven Go-Round" by John Fowell Linda's first professional engagement She was also the first girl ever to be chosen to play with the Thomas Jefferson High School Band didn't get permanent membership with the boys" she ays "tat it jas lubstitufed for Toscanini fun while it lasted" Eddie him Ha worked his way become conductor of the Broadcasting System symphony orchestra In That year he was also appearances at summer tried out" puls It The tryouts led big opportunity In 1931 day John White will discus "The World of Paul Klee" and play same records of Klce-uv it i I Weaver sponsored her in a contest conducted annually by the Lion's Club She won the Richmond area award and then played for the host Club in the John Marshall Hotel Linda has been chosen by James Erb of the music faculty of the University of Richmond to play the piano part in the Virginia Museum Theater's production of to take place there next month example the glowing apoli nf yellow and brown gouache In of the narbarians" or the worn faded freaco-like texture of Castle" which Is done in pen and watercolor "Landscape rtalna" Is Ifco done in gouache but here It resembles batique rloth and Lands" which consist of hundreds of dots In water color arranged In horizontal rows suggests an anrient floor mosaic or an old roughly-woven piere of cloth This also la one of Klee's1 book illustrating and advertising For the past three weeks Helen Hull ha been attending rehearsals at the Barksdale Me- morial Theater in Hanover and sketching the actors as they come off stage The play is William Inge'a and the most recent of the sketches is of Nancy Masters who plays the part that Kim Novak did in the film version of the play Sketches of Bill Sullivan who plays William Holden's part Sandra Wade the tomboy sister Janet Kennedy the mother and Arthur Burgess the paperboy have already been finished Lalla Rolfe in the part played by Rosalind Russell and David Kilgore are re-enacting the marriage proposal scene for Mrs Hull to sketch next like to do them at rehearsal" says the artist the actors are still transformed into the characters of the play" Die drawings wil be on exhibit during the theater lobby during the run of the play which opened last night JDJ House" for example consists of just a few touches of pale watercolor washes on a large sheet of white paper and the little house and the fragments of a ladder that seem frightfully lost in the vaslness of space Rock Temple with Firs" is funny because it is not a representation of this subject at all but a maze of lines like a ed taken from tho ballet music o( lhe opera Their final number will he the Grand Pas de Deux fmm the second act of "Earner-elda" by Casa re Pugnl Other attractions on ths series include Mary Anthony one of the foremost America) contemporary dancers on De comber 9 Anne Wilson ballerina and choreographer whs will give a lecture-recital on the history of classical hallel on January 6 Marina Svetlova ballerina in the classic Russian manner on March 10 and Teari Lang modern American dancer on April 29 die harmonic and structural rules Foss calls this procesi classical counterpart t( jazz with eac musician listening and reactlnj as he creates Other offerings of the societj will Include the Hungariai Qurtet November 25 to lx followed by the Vienna Octet that was here two seasons ag and thrilled the big audience They will make their retun visit January 20 The fourth attraction in thl series will be the Beaux Art! Dio of New York whose pep formance has been described bj one critic as perfect ant complete evening" players will be here March 31 The final presentation will the Keller Hall Ensemble that will give program of worki by Beethoven Brahms and premiere By Fred son Bowen cated work but perhaps his mo popular This sets for soloist chorus and orchestra a seriei of secular medieval songs il Latin and Low German cela brating good living wine worn en and Lady Fortune Orffs style here is great! electic Some of the songs art in the medieval rhapsodic tra dltion but others are franklj modem in their setting ani Sibcllian overtones jostle wit Frlml even set against Bach ian flutes But the whole ha) life and an Infectious rhythn that make lt a stunning concer work and one to be played wit pleasure in the home Columbia has a new record ing (MS-6163 slcreol with Or inanely and the Philadelphia tht soloists Harsanyi Petrak am Presncll and the Rutgers Uni verslty Choir The spirit a Orffs work la transmitted wit rhythmic verve by ail except th soprano who must have got tht job as a friend of the manage ment Her lneptncss is particu lsrly distressing in the beaut ful Court of Love section bu not important elsewhere when the admirable tenor a I holds sway STOKOWSKI perhaps found I little more color in the score and his soprano is superior an the recording more closeup thai the Ionger-range Philadclpht model enforced by the lara group of performers But Ot mandy too has his separate vii tues and the fortunate listen can make a choice on persons preference between two exed lent versions of a most compel ling piece of modem music Music Off Records Virginia composer-pianist the Carnival" by Grieg Sonatina Op 13 No 1 by Kabalevsky Nocturne in flat Major and Poloniase in -E fiat Minor by Chopin and as her final number the familiar in Blue" by George Gershwin Last season she played a John Powell composition at a meeting of the Leschotizky So- tin da Carol Rathbun Puzzle Solution have to find message In music For example 1 can't! play jazz because it's something I know nothing about My parents had strong feelings about not subjecting me to popular music They would never take me to a restaurant- where the kind of music might be played they want me to hear" Ormandy did not allow the concert failure of hia first year in the United States to daunt up to Columbia first 1929 making as he to his when he As for his repertoire today Orpiandy says he prefers the works of the composers he happens to be playing at the time But I had to choose a composer for mood I would list Mozart Bach and Beethoven in that order" he say And how does he feel about his 25th anniversary with the Philadelphia Orchestra? "Very old" he says From Tht Associated Press hunting horn which In turn gives way to Penseroso' lovely soprano curfew song with its dramatic dock strokes Side one contains the famous laughing aria for Mirth side three perhaps the loveliest of the many beautiful hymn-like soprano arias Sad Virgin with a moving cello accompaniment Side four brings in the decision with excellent contrapuntal ehorus work but not before the tenor has sung perhaps his best aria to the well-trod stage" and the soprano has had another flowing prayer Me from Day' garish eye" In this oraloris there is no immediately hummable and I ru mortal melody like Where'er you walk" from on the other hand the dramatic music is throughout of the highest quality and interest as it alternates between activity and meditation extraversion and introversion Some of the arias win need an acquaintance with the ornamental baroque vocal contrasts with the clarity achieved by the men and the chorus The album box with its Blake llustrations is exe child's puzzle In cc'y a which Powell was what appears to be a page of a I present and earned from him medieval or Persian manuscript 80 interest in her work An-turns out at close range to be a design of completely non-recognizable spots of color Klee began in the macable tradition of Durer Holbein Stuck before he became associated with the Blue Rider group of German Expressionists Then the formal problems of Cubism the Freudian interest of the Surrealists and the art of primitive peoples psy-cholics and children all combined in his art His idea on art crystalized when in 1920 he began teaching first at the Rauhaus and then at the Dusseldorf Academy Although concerts to be heard In Rich mond will taka place at the Virginia Museum Theater when the Lukas Foss Improvisation Chamber Ensemble opens the season for the Virginia Chamber Music Society at 8:15 pm Friday October 14 Tickets are in great demand at museum box office for fve concerts In the series according to Mrs Bruce English president of the society Lukas Foss who heads his ensemble says of the programs: "Anyone to whom the word Improvisation means something makeshift random haphazard is in for a surprise So is the classically trained musician to whom Improvisation means solo Improvisation" The ensemble consists of 'cello percussion clarinet piano and horn all being played cuted with taste and imagination THE NEW YORK Pro Musics under Noah Greenberg has pretty well established itself as this country's most accomplished group in Renaissance Music Fresh Aldence comes to hand In Decca'a DL-79409 (stereo) "Spanish Music of the songs and instrumental soloes aptly made into a varied program with music from the 16th century This music is not specifically (which is to say gypsy or Moorish) but rather international in style But the texts are earthier than were ordinarily set in other countries This will prove to be an especially Interesting record for those prepossessed in favor of early music Andres Segovia is admittedly the greatest guitarist Hia newest record ia an ambitious pairing of two concertos for guitar and orchestra a form made practicable by microphone techniques The first is del by the Mexican Manuel Ponce dating from 1941 an agreeable but not outstanding exercise in local color More musically interesting is Joaquin Rodrigo's 1954 para un gentilhombre" that makes expert use of old dances and their tunes especially one favorite that escaped to Italy and England The Symphony of the Air under Jorda accompanies CARL ORFTS Burma" is not his most This sketch of Nancy Masters is one of a series being made of Barksdale Theater players by Richmond artist Helen HulL Helen Hull Sketching Performers One of the year's outstanding vocal sets comes in Decca's two-record DXSA-7165 (stereo) containing the Handel oratorio ed Penseroso" in a Musics AEteraa Presentation as performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The youthful cast Is quite extraordinary Headed by the soprano Adele Addison with John McCollum tenor and John Reardon baritone the chamber orchestra and chorus are conducted by Frederic Waldman A word muat he said for the engineering which provides full-bodied and alive closeup recording in splendid acoustics and II Penseroso" was written the year before The Messiah" at the height of Handel's powers Taking the text from Milton the librettist arranged alternate speeches in favor of Mirth and of Melancholy and Handel set these with a wealth of recitatives arias and airs often modelled on dance forma he waa hot Jewish Klee was Persecuted by the Nazis who had him dismissed from his teaching post raided his house repeatedly and finally had a book about him hy Will Groh-mann burned along with other "degenerate literature" In 1933 Klee fled to hie native Switzerland where he continued to work until his death in 1940 Exhibitions When Helen Schuyler Hull received the "most popular" prize for her painting at the Richmond Artist Association current exhibition at the Carillon last Saturday it was not the first time Both last year and this year her paintings were the public's favorites at the association's Miller and Rhoads show and at last year's Carillon show Mrs Hull walked away with both the popular prize and the artists' award for the best painting In the show A former president of the Richmond Artists Association Helen Hull is a busy artist presently restoring pictures copying aome portraits and working on other portraits from life and designing a mural "I believe an artist should make a living by his own hand" she says is a trade and an artist should be able to do a lot of A living example of her own philosophy Mrs Hull hag done murals designed the altar and needlepoint kneding cushions for SL Michael's Episcopal church In Bon Air and done ALMOST UNIQUE In Handel is the orchestral elaboration action as an independent commentary on the text and Illustrating it with delightful humorous and realistic touches Side two has a great deal of this music Here one may observe equal grace the ornate colors the strong bright string song oftura and the pure line of the the lark accompanying the ten- airs Her style and her execu-or's admit me" giving way to the portrayal of the nightingale in a little con- style for full appreciation but the long-breathed songs of Penseroso are timeless in their beauty Miss Addison's floating soprano Is ideally suited for the part and she handles with tlon are impeccable and one would cavil only at a slight Indistinctness in diction ttha SEPTEMBER M-OCTOBER Art and Architecture ol the Unlveriity of Vimlma Valentine Muieum THROUGH OCTOBER I Richmond Artiite Aftsnrlalinns fall exhibition Carillon Byrd Park wirkdayi 10-4 Sunday 2-1 THROUGH OCTOBER 2 Vtrjflnla Art-ili Rotating KxhiUUun Vligma Mu-wum THROUGH OCTOBER The Caleehy Junes (oiler tun id Modern Art and Drawings hy Sidney Meyers Twen-tieln century Cillery VI iliismsburg THROUGH OCTOBER Paintings hy: Kdward liicks 1110-1144 Abhy Aldrich Rn-kef eller Mueum Williamsburg I THROUGH OCTOBER 2J Paintings and Drawing by Paul Klee Virginia jjrtxl Museum lumL THROUGH OCTOBER II International Contemporary Uass Viigina Mueum THROUGH OCTOBER Paint-1 logs by Richard Kevorkian RK-hmund Peafessionai institute Dils certo before the coloratura so-iprano and flute duet begins The return of admit week's puzzle Page 10-L me" Introduces the sprightly.