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The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 135

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Sacramento, California
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135
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Eaglet Will Open Season October 3rd A' number of newcomers to the Eaglet Theater are in the cast of The Duke Of Sacramento which will open a four weekend run October 3rd in the Eaglet Theater as the first event of the Eaglet Play Series The rarely performed farce first copyrighted in 1856 is being directed by Anthony Reid with Emil Martin as musical director and Dunbar Beck as designer Set in historic California the show concerns the antics and schemes of the Duke played by Barry Rumbles and his cohorts the Marquis of Yuba and Don Alfonso played by William Lutz and Charles PettingelL Richard Potter is cast as Confidence the wronged but forgiving husband and Sherri Larimere appears as his wife Julia Other important roles are played by David Eardley Linda Steele Jack Ferguson Victor Finkle Ronald Feil Charles Latimer Ken DeGus-ta David Abramowitz Howard Martin and Dieter Arbe Conforming with the period style of production an olio will follow the play Included in the variety presentation are Marcella Peltier Phyllis Warren Irene Benigar Margaret Englin Ginna Akers Kathy Rice Michael McLean Beverly Becker and Myron Depew ytJ-A 1iv nfrfftrtHfrtt-J FOLK SONG The Smothers Brothers Tom left and Dick who really are brothers named Smothers will make their first Sacramento appearance October 5th in the memorial auditorium at 8:30 PM Tickets are on sale at the Civic Theater box office Caricature by John Oglesby UCD's New Music Group Stockton Arts mm mm mm mmmm Festival Will Will Perform Friday JayRob Plans New Version Of Fairy Tale Snow White And Rose Red will be JayRob Productions' next children's show opening October 5th The play an original by Adelene Winter adapted from the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm replaces Puss In Boots which has been postponed due to casting difficulties Mary Wroten has been selected to direct the production which elaborates on the fairy tale about a poor widow with two lovely daughters Snow White and Rose Red and how they befriended the animals including a bear and a bird which appear onstage in the JayRob version and their adventures with a bad tempered dwarf Children's theater admissions are 75 cents for children $1 for adults Seats are not reserved but for special group or birthday party seating arrangements phone Roseville Drama Group Will Open With Musical The Roseville Civic Theater will add a musical to its list of straight plays for the third straight season this year opening September 27th with Fiesta Grande! an original by Charles Courier and Edith Turcotte The 1960-61 season was opened with Stop And Let Him Catch You and the 1961-1962 season was closed with The Spellbinder both written and produced by June Phipps and Marian Stonesifer Fiesta Grande! will be repeated September 28 th and October 4th-5th in the Recreation-Theatre Building Royer Park Roseville and will be followed by four plays: A Shot In The Dark A Taste Of Honey A Thousand Clowns and the winning play of a $100 prize playwriting contest Fiesta Grandel features Ray Rankin Novella Baht Bill Wilber Amber Ellis Maria Gonzalez and Mary Jo Lopez in main roles and a supporting cast of fifteen The story has to do with events and people connected with the centennial celebration at Mission San Miguel California in 1897 Season and single tickets for Fiesta Grande! are now on sale at the Bonicelli Music Company box office 111 Vernon Street Roseville End Tonight An unusual program featuring Shakespeare readings choral music and joint orchestral and organ numbers will be offered at 7:30 tonight in the Stockton Civic Audi to--riiun to close the current Stockton Festival of the Arts Various art exhibits will be on view all day today in the hall including paintings sculpture weaving and professional photographic entries The Festival is free to the public Tonight's show will open with a half hour of Shakespeare by the University of the Pacific drama department under De Marcus Brown The Stockton Chorale will present one number and then Arthur Holton will lead the Stockton Symphony in a program featuring organist Fred Tulan Tulan who returned to Stockton recently after several years of study and concert work under top name conductors in Europe will join the orchestra in Bach's Sinfonia for organ with brass obbligato and Marcel Dupre's Concerto for organ and chamber orchestra He will also play an original for organ by Dave Brubeck Foot Loose And Fancy Free wish to play and a second which is semi improvised Domains I a previously unperformed work written in 1963 by Richard Swift chairman of the Davis music department for tenor voice flute clarinet trombone vibraphone and cello Swift's aim is to "explore both the structural and expressive qualities of sonorities" The three movements are settings of poems from Imitations by Robert Lowell which are translations of poems by Leo-pardi Villon and Baudelaire Concert for piano and orchestra written in 1957 and 1958 by John Cage perhaps America's most celebrated avant garde composer Dedicated to the painter Elaine de Kooning the work gives to the pianist a "book" of 84 different kinds of composition which he may play in whole or in part and in any sequence the orchestra "sepa- rated in space as far as is convenient in a concert hall" may involve any number of players on more or fewer instruments and a given performance may be extended or shorter in length than others "Harmonious fusion of sound" Cage writes "is not an The newly organized New Music Ensemble at the University of California at Davis dedicated to exploring new ideas in composition will offer another program of unconventional works Friday at 8:15 in Freeborn Hall with some west coast premieres among them The players will include faculty members and graduate students at Davis plus some distinguished concert artists from the bay area The music will include: A Broken Consort by Larry Austin of the Davis faculty composed in 1962 for flute clarinet horn trumpet percussion piano and string bass In six movements it applies the tone row technique of serial composition to certain elements of traditional jazz including the 12 bar blues The players are given room to improvise Serenade No 2 by Morton Subtnick noted California composer composed in 1962 for clarinet horn piano and percussion The work first performed this year in the Venice Italy Festival has a first movement which gives the players their choice of which musical fragments they No Fonteyn Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev have canceled the San Francisco and Berkeley dance concerts scheduled for September 26th 27th and 28th Sacramento California THE SACRATO BEE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22 igG? 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