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Independent from Long Beach, California • 68

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of ted INDEPENDENT-PRESS-TELEGRAM Lang Beach 12, Sunday, May 27. 1962 William will Concert Bill Bowl Sets College Schedule to Present conduct Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in Hollywood. Bowl's opening concert of the season Tuesday, July 3. The 9-week series will offer a wide variety of programs. The opener will be the Bowl's concert since "Symphonies under the Stars" were inaugurated in 1922.

Soloist on the first program will be Grant Johannesen, pianist from Salt' Lake City. Ten conductors will direct the Philharmonic Orchestra in 18 TuesdayThursday symphony programs, with vocal and instrumental soloists. Saturdays will be given over to "Pops" concerts, ELEVEN symphonies are listed for the summer. Works. new to the Bowl repertoire win be d'idy's "Symphony on a French Mountain Air for Piano and Orchestra;" Schubert's Wanderer.

Fantasy" (arranged for orchestra by Franz Liszt); Saint-Saens' "Symphony No. and Webern's "Six The College Choir of Long Beach City College will present its annual spring concert, directed by Wayne B. Gard, at 8 p.m. Friday in the LBCC auditorium. General admission tickets will be available at the door.

In addition to the 80-voice choir, special ensembles taking part in the concert will be the Madrigal Singers, the Men's Quartet and a folk song trio, Bob and the Levee Men. Helen Davenport will be accompanist. The program will include classical and sacred music, spirituals, folk songs and musical comedy numbers. One of the major works will be Johann Pachelbel's "Shout to the Lord," a motet for double chorus based on Psalm 100. Soloists includes, soprano Sharon LaNobs and tenor Tom Westerman.

Members of the quartet are Westerman, Wayne Rodeman, Al Knight and Barry Brant. The Levee Men are Bob Simpkins, Mike Don- Pieces." nelly and Pat Donnelly. SHOP MONDAY NITE. 'TIL 9 P.M. STORE OPEN 9:30 DAILY Pfeiffer's LONG BEACH'S OLDEST FABRIC LINEN SHOP 2135 BELLFLOWER LONG BEACH Across the Street From Los Altos Shopping Center.

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Plenty of Free Parking in Rear of Store Downey Slates 'Art Unlimited' Fridays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Thurs- By ELISE EMERY closed for installation of Virginia Koshay, a.m. to 6 p.m. and Arts Page Editer Judging for the fifth annual "Art Unlimited" Festival at Downey Museum of Art will be done next Sunday from 9.

a.m. to noon by Dr. John W. Olsen, professor of art at Orange County State College; J. Arthur Morris, Downey photographer; and Ken Glenn, professor of art at Long Beach State College.

The museum will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. A $250 purchase prize and other awards will be presented June 8 'at 8 p.m. in the museum. Winning works will be exhibited in the museum's two summer shows beginning June 8 and July 27.

A number of Long Beach artists are sending entries. A SEPARATE SHOW by. the teaching staff at Downey museum also will open next Sunday and will include work by Fran Soldini, Jo Rebert, Jerry Campbell and Moselle Townsend. Mrs. Soldini, Long Beach artist and teacher, will show a new oil, "Into a Window." Three -paintings which she had intended to exhibit have been purchased by the Preston Ericksens of San Francisco for their collection.

THE STUDENT'S SHOW at Seal Beach Art Center, Ocean and Main, opened Saturday and will continue through June 5. Exhibitors are members of classes sponsored by Seal Beach Artists League and the teachers will judge one another's students' work. The classes, and teachers, are: mosaics, Winni Tarvin; oils, Richard Johnson, Darwin Duncan, Ed Ruggels and Pamela Mason; portraits, Dr. Bela Biro; figure drawing, Harold Chestnut; water colors, Richard Johnson; teenage paintings, Marge Vanderbilt; children's class, Pat Jones. Viewing hours are 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.

daily. MAY EXHIBITS at Long Beach Museum of Art will close. a final showing from 1 to 5 p.m. They include a review of Arts of Southern California Architecture, ancient Japanese arms and armor, and Long Beach Art Assocation's juried show. During the week, various museum galleries will be Ormandy to Conduct at Festival Eugene Ormandy will conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra in the opening performance of Los Angeles International Music Festival June 4 at 8:30 p.m.

in Royce Hall, UCLA. On June 6, Franz Waxman will conduct the Los Angeles Festival Orchestra in a program celebrating the 80th birthday of Igor Stravinsky. The festival will move to the business administration building, Room 147, UCLA, June 7 for a symposium on the arts moderated by chancellor Franklin Murphy and Dr. John Vincent. ARGENTINA'S conductorcomposer Juan Jose Castro will direct the festival orchestra June 8 in Royce Hall.

Concluding concert June 10 will honor Sir William Walton on his 60th birthday; Walton will conduct the festival orchestra in the West Coast premiere of his "Symphony No. 2." LEARN TO SWIM CHILDREN ADULTS ENROLL NOW FOR CLASSES BEGINNING EVERYDAY THIS WEEK BEGINNERS ADVANCED GA 4-9968 SWIM ART Evening Day, and Classes 3950 CHERRY AVE. LONG BEACH June shows, which will open next Sunday with a reception from 2 to, 4 p.m. New exhibits will be paintings and drawings by Paul Darrow, water colors, drawings and graphics from the Museum Collection; and a loan exhibit by William Alexander showing his work as architect, patron and art collector. SUMMER ART classes in water color, sculpture, land and seascape, life drawing and folk guitar will begin in Community Arts Workshop, 2215 Via Anacapa, Lunada Bay, June 18.

Among teachers, for both beginning and experienced artists, are Robert Frame, Dumas and Byron Rodarmel. Marlyn Prior will have a Saturday morning class for high school students; Jim Bolin will teach children from 6 to 9 years of age. Folk absolute beginners" be offered by Moser. Mrs. Kenneth Fullerton, 4751 Ferncreek Drive, Rolling Hills, is in charge of registration and will supply further information.

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Anaheim St. She is shown with Dan Baurac. Others in the cast include Art Schwerin, Herb and Beverly Booth, Tony Rocco and Joyce Boynton. Major Minor Notes OJAI MUSIC FESTIVAL WAS IN WRONG HANDS T. P.T The Ojai Music Festival this year was definitely in the wrong hands.

It has been such an exhilarating and joyous experience in other years to motor up to that beautiful valley for three days of inspiring music. But this year, the programs were made up of contemporary music with a sprinkling of Mozart. What a waste with so much great music at our disposal! I suppose it was but natural that the director, Lukas Foss, a professor of music at UCLA, would associate himself mostly with UCLA musicians. The great exception was the appearance of the Roger Wagner Chorale for the entire program Sunday morning, Here again, contemporary composers were, featured, but composers whose works were palatable and enjoyable and worthy of Roger Wagner's magic touch. "And what kind of programming is an entire evening of Mozart concerti? It was very evident that the whole program was used for exploitation, Andre Previn THE HIGHLIGHT of the Saturday morning concert, made up of interesting modern works, was the exquisitely played "Quintet for Winds and Piano" by Mozart.

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In the concert Saturday night all sanity was thrown to the winds. It was like listening to a concert given by violent patients in an insane asylum. The madness of such a program of experimental and jazz improvisations with such titles as "Aria for Mezzo Soprano and Fontana Mix" was deplorable enough, but my heart sank at the sight of a capacity audience apathetically sitting through it all (though we noted many empty seats after intermis- sion), CAN YOU IMAGINE singer on the stage screaming, burping, hiccoughing, etc. while there were recorded sounds of yelping dogs, scratched surfaces, flushing toilets, steel riveters and the The whole evening was so painful and vulgar that many of the townspeople protested against furthering such a festival in Ojai again. A stranger remarked to me: "After what I have heard tonight, I do not think the atomic bomb is such a bad idea after.

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