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The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 103

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UCD Music Group Plans Unusual Double Feature Ukrainian Dance Group Will Appear Here Twice lorico of Mexico on Feb 23" Season tickets are available at Breuner's box office -i A The New Music Ensemble of the University of California at Davis which has introduced many a startling innovation to the area in the last couple of seasons will start the fall with a new kind of program in Freeborn Hall Sept 7: a "twocon-cert" The twoconcert is a double bill with a two hour break for dinner The first portion will be given at 5 pm the second will start at 9 each half will be different but complementary music The event sponsored by the committee for arts and lectures will be free to students others will pay 50 cents There will be seating onstage The 5 o'clock portion will include the world premiere of "Sound Machine" by Philip Krumm the west coast premiere of "Prelude to Naples" for flute clarinet cello and piano by New York composer Joel Chadabe a new work for celes te percussion and poetry reader (haiku) called "Obos" by Harold Budd of Los Angeles and some group improvisations by the NME The second half will include the sonatas and interludes from John Cage's celebrated "Music for Prepared Piano" performed by Marvin Tartak "Liaisons" for solo and tape recorded vibraphone by the European Roman Haubenstock-Ramati performed by Stanley Lunetta Budd's "III" which features ensembles oriented along both jazz and classical lines and more improvisations Members of the NME several of them on the Davis music faculty include soprano Billie Alexander and instrumentalists Larry Austin Wayne Johnson Arthur Woodbury and Lunetta Guest performers will include Tartak Budd pianist Thomas Gentry of Sacramento State College flutist Barbara Johnson Krumm trombonist John Mizelle and cellist Fred Utter Marin Satire Play Dates Are Changed The Festival Theater Foundation production of "Oh What A Lovely War" a savagely humorous antiwar satire will be presented on a revised performance schedule the next three weeks the last of its run in the theater in San Anselmo Marin County To help the theater company prepare for the impending fall season performances now will be presented Thursday Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm and Sunday at 7:30 The run of the show will end on Sunday Sept 11 "Oh What A Lovely War" which features a cast of 20 actors performing in British music hall style is presented in the group's theater at Bolinas Ave at Kensington Rd San Anselmo Reservations may be obtained by calling 454-3000 in San Anselmo The renowned Ukrainian Dance Company from Kiev has been scheduled for two performances in Sacramento Nov 30 and Dec 1 The Nov 30 performance will be on the PM Series and Dance Series operated by Wilma Lewis Both performances will be at 8:15 pm in the Memorial Auditorium and tickets are available from Breuner's box office The company developed in its present form out of a Ukrainian art festival in Moscow in 1951 when the Ukrainian republic was emerging from the chaos of World War II The company- was formed to preserve through dance the customs and folklore of the country the peoples of whom has been uprooted by the war and its aftermath It was an immediate success in the Ukraine performing in factory ciubs on farms and in villages The company made its western debut in Paris in 1958 receiving 53 ovations in 120 minutes No single dancer dominates the company although there are many soloists Contemporary dances such as "In the Corn Field" and "The Embroiderers" are included with such historical ones as "The Cossack Spear Dance" and "New Boots" or "The Joys of Chumak Life" The company made its American debut in 1962 to loud acclaim The three event Dance Series will bracket the Ukrainians with Manuela Vargas and her Flamenco dancers on Nov 5 and a return visit by the Ballet Flok- IN SAN Sacramento tenor Haden Crites will be one of the soloists in the concert of German song to be given by the Pacific Singing Societies of the bay area in Stern Grove in San Francisco today at 2 pm Free to the public the concert will wind up the Stern Grove season Woodland soprano Nadine Salonites also will be featured and Anton Dorndorf director of the Sacramento Turner Harmonie will conduct the program which also will feature a 20-piece professional orchestra Acting May Improve In Lincoln Center Theater Music Students Are Increasing More than 15 million school students will be taking some kind of instrumental music instruction this fall when school starts There were only 3 million in this category in 1950 according to a study by the American Music Conference Cabrillo Finale Mozart's rarely performed opera "La Clemenza di Tito" will be given in concert version to end the Cabrillo Music Festival in Aptos tonight at 8:30 rymple has done her usual good job of rounding up "names" Jennifer Jones and Franchot Tone will appear in "The Country Girl" for example The eminent Judith Anderson will appear in "Elizabeth the Queen" The revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman in the role she created 20 years ago in the original Broadway production will have a Broadway run from Sept 21 to Nov 26 at the Broadway Theater The production was the first of this summer's two revivals at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center where it proved to be immensely popular in its allotted six weeks The show went on tour after the Lincoln Center engagement and it will be the first of the six revivals in three seasons at that theater to be brought back for further New York showings Just What You've Been Waiting For Automatic System clems ikelfi By Jack Gaver UPI Drama Editor NEW YORK-The fourth season of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center as ambitious and as be-plagued an operation as the American stage has known will begin Oct 13 with a production of Ben Johnson's 1610 satirical item entitled "The Alchemist" It is notable that the cast for this includes a few recruits to the company that co-directors Jules Irving and Herbert Blau started with last fall in their first season at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center A major criticism of their four productions in 1965-66 was that their company was woefully deficient in acting talent For "The Alchemist" they are bringing in such able players as Michael O'Sullivan George Voskovec and Philip Bosco That has to mean improvement The four-play schedule includes Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma" scheduled for Dec 8 the world premiere of a new play not yet announced Feb 9 and Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo" on April 13 The latter is an English version adapted by the late Charles Laughton from the original German and Laugh-ton himself played the title role in a brief New York engagement in 1947 City Center where the low-priced revivals are is returning to the drama department after several years of presenting nothing but the annual spring series of musicals Artistic director Jean Dalrym-ple has set a fall schedule of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl" Sept 29 Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo" Oct 20 Maxwell Anderson's "Elizabeth the Queen" Nov 3 The main attraction of these revivals at City Center is getting prominent players to work for practically nothing for two or three weeks and Miss Dal- Sacramenw California 'vs' TURBO-CLEAN Pools are Years ahead of The world's only fully automatic pool cleaning system is at MASTER POOLS by GEREMIA You don't lift a finger Creates total hydraulic motion Absolutely does not interfere with swimming enjoyment No complicated orunsightly gadgets floating in the pool or cluttering the deck No cleaning tools and equipment Eliminates expensive pool maintenance services Hydro Jet action scours your pool Newest Play Is Added To Guild's List "Philadelphia Here I Come!" by the Irish playwright Brian Friel has been added to the 1966-67 Theater Guild Play Series in the Geary and Curran Theaters in San Francisco Three plays already have been announced for presentation by the National Repertory Theater for their subscription engagement in January: O'Neill's "A Touch of the Poet" Moliere's The Imagi- nary Invalid" and Noel Coward's one-acters from "Tonight at 8:30" "Hostile Witness" with Ray Milland will open the Theater Guild Play Series in the Geary on Oct 10 "Generation" with Robert Young in a lead role will open at the Curran for three weeks on Nov 21 Subscription tickets are available from the Theater Guild office 414 Geary St MASTER POOLS Custom Gunlt Pools Fres Estimates Residential-Commercial 10 yr 100 Bank Financing mmmm inc WE RECOMMEND Dial 457-5755 1327 65th Street world's finest pool heaters Rely on Geremia's 43 years of leadership and experience the construction field Page L5 THE SACRAMENTO BEE SUNDAY- AUGUST 28 1966.

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