The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 148

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lecturer will return to the Tuesday Clubhouse Thursday at 8:30 pm to deliver the Sacramento Opera Guild's annual operalog devoted in this case to Bellini's "I Puritani" Open to the public the event is in preparation for the San Francisco Opera Company's new production of the work which the guild will sponsor in the Memorial Auditorium Oct 5 with the renowned soprano Joan Sutherland as the star Tickets will be available at the door for for adults and 50 cents for students Popper who illustrates his discussions by delivering excerpts from the opera at the piano is a professor of music and head of the opera department at the University of California at Los Angeles He has also been called in to set up similar workshops on other campuses including that of Tokyo University A native of Czechoslovakia he came to America at the outbreak Jan Popper of World War II and won his first national attention as head of the opera workshop at Stanford University Puritani" first performed in 1835 was Bellini's last opera It is seldom performed because not many singers in modern times have been able to handle its spectacular vocal lines MARINE members of the United States Marine Band which frequently plays at White House functions and at government ceremonies in Washington DC will play a pair of concerts in Sacramento on Oct 20 The 168-year-old band on tour for the 75th year wears red uniforms which date from Colonial times The band is led by Lt Col Albert Schoepper The Capital City appearances are sponsored by the Luther Burbank Music Boosters group which is selling the tickets The Luther Burbank High School auditorium will be the scene of the concerts SF Opera Season Will Open With 'I Puritanr Group Will Promote Advanced Music at 8 pm with Glossop singing Rodrigo Saturday a new production of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" will be unveiled at 8 pm with the Spanish soprano Enriqueta Tarres making her American debut "Puritani" will be repeated Friday at 8 pm The San Francisco Opera Company will open its longest season Tuesday at 8:15 pm in the Opera House with Bellini's "1 Puritani" starring Joan same production to be given in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Oct 5 under Sacramento Opera Guild sponsorship The opening week will see 14 singers making their San Francisco or American debuts among them the Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus who will sing opposite Miss Sutherland in the Bellini opera: American soprano Claire Watson British baritone Peter Glossop and Bulgarian bass Nicola Ghiuselev LET'S GET NEE I( EE III Ruggles and ofters from the late 1920s to the early 1950s "Source" however will have "the international scope and intense variety demanded by today's music" The sponsors hope to provide a forum "whereby composers performers conductors teachers and all others interested in new music will be able to benefit from the firsthand experiences of their colleagues" For information write "Source" 330 University Ave Davis The editors and directors of the magazine include Larry Austin Wayne Johnson Paul Robert Stanley Lunetta John Mize Ile and Arthur Woodbury Music of the avant garde which has had an outlet in the activities of the New Music Ensemble of the University of California at Davis for the last two years will have a Sacramento platform this season in a concert series sponsored by a new organization called ComposerPerformer Edition The concerts will be given Oct 13 Jan 6 and May 5 in the First Unitarian Church 2425 Sierra Blvd at 8:15 pm Larry Austin of the Davis faculty one of the leaders of the group said they will feature important new chamber music by composers from around the world much of it to be performed for the first time The opening program will include works by Ben Glovinsky Sacramento State College music professor Mario Davidovisky an Argentine composer teaching at Columbia University Alvin Curran an American currently in Rome Robert Moran a composer in the John Cage tradition of chance David Reck a Texan A brand new "board 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Miss Watson will be heard in Verdi's "Don Carlo" Thursday lwot 4--41 )i now living in New York and Austin whose music has been performed frequently in the East and in Europe during the last year Future concerts will include music by Karlheinz Stockhausen of Germany a leading figure in the field who will be in residence at Davis this semester and Harry Partch a veteran individualist who composes music in a 43-tone scale for instruments of his own devising Season tickets will be priced at $5 those for single concerts will sell for $2 For further information write the group at 1614 54th St or phone 457-3173 Avanced Music Periodical Will Be Published A semiannual periodical devoted to publishing new music along avant garde lines was announced today by a group of composer-performers from Sacramento and the University of California at Davis most of them active in the New Music Ensemble at UCD Entitled "Source" it will begin publication in January and will be available by subscription only Each issue will feature six new scores in complete form by leading modern composers In addition the magazine will examine various relevant aspects of new music new techniques notational devices electronics improvisation and new instruments as well as the visual aspects of the field The group's announcement declares that the magazine will carry on the work of "New Music" a quarterly which published music by Ives Varese John Cage Henry Cowell Carl NOW! 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