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14 • N. Y. AMSTER >Af1 x'.’EWS, Sat., Aprfl 21). 1963
Oberlin College Choir
The Oberlin College Choir ap- of tonal harmony that had all
peared at Town Hall laet Satuc- the magnrfkeoce of a great or
day afternoon Conducted by gan
The response and control and
Robert Fountain, the Choir had
especially choir’a superb diction
a wonderfully balanced sound aa
and superb singing, made this
the singers were not placed in
a aet vocal grouping. Waal ro-.ooc of the outstanding program'
suited was a beautiful bending of the reason.
Anna Xydis, Pianist
Amor Artia Chorale, Orchcslra
,*The Amur Artis Chorale and
Orchestra presented Handel's
*4Semele" at Town Hall last Wed
nesday evening. Conducted by
Johannes Somary, a thoroughly
dedicated musician, the audience
'Was treated to a moving per
formance of this great werk,
that is seldom heard live.
Betty Allen, mezrixwpran >,
,^ng the role of Juno. She gave
it a deeply sinister quality with
rich vocal gymnastics that rang
ed from Intense darkness to a
gOMamer softness.
Tile other artists, who made
this performance outstanding
were Helen Boatwright, Mar
garet Kangas, Marjorie Welloek,
Thomas Pyle, Donald Gramm.
Jeffrey Meyer, Blake Stern and
Lest Gocke.
Anna Xydte, pianist, under
look a verv ambitious program
last Tuesday evening at Town
Hall, The "Twenty-Four Pre
ludes” by Chopin required a
{well articulated patter of piano
sounds, which Mise Xydis gave,
: to most of them a ringing beauty,
a large velvety quality and a
lovely tenderness But her in
terpretation of Lisxt and Proko
Ifieff lacked the monumental qusi
Uy to give the “Sonata in B
Minor” and “Toccata” an en
[crgetic drive.
Since the entire program was
taped, she it thus enabled to
detect her errors in reflnea pro
Jection of pianistic beauty.
Metropolitan Opera
The curtain rang down on the,capture the evil and malicious
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longest season in Metropolitan
Opera hiatory last Saturday night
with the performance of Cliea's
“Adriana Lecouvreur." This work
missing from the opera reper
toire for over half a century
was revived at Renata Tebaldi's
request. However, Mary Curtis-
Verna sang the title role in the
final performance.
nature of Iago
Zinka Milanov. as Desdcmoiu.
was far from fragile In appear
ance and in the first three acts
gave a somewhat tentative per 1
formance. It became obvious in
the fourth act that she had been
saving her voice for she pulled
out all the stops. Her singing of
the “Willow Song” and the quiet,
beautiful "Ava Maria” had a
poignancy that was penetrating
The staging, coral singing and
masterful conducting of George
Solti gave this performance all
that \ »rdi could have hoped for.
Met Notes
While the opera did not sparkle,
the singing was refined, and
Franco Corelli received a tre
mendous ovation when it was
over. Dependable performances
were given by Irene Dalis, An
selmo Colzani and Paul Frank.
Silvio Varviso conducted,
bast "tHhello"
On Tuesday even.ng, the final [?"
It has been announced that
Rudolf Bing's contract, as Gen
eral Manager of the Metropoli
has becn «‘<*<»cd Jor
performance of Verdi s "Othello" "«t four years^. Besides
Junetta Jones, recent winner of
the National Councils Auditions.
Leontyne Price will appear in
works returning t o the reper
toire, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin” Verdi’s Requiem” and
a new production of "Aida."
Katherine Dunham has been en
gaged to create new chore
ography for “Die Meistersing-
er.”
was eung by James McCracken,
tenor, in the title role; Zinka
Milanov, Anselmo Colzani, Mig
non. Dunn, Paul Franke, Robert
Nagy, John Macurdy, Clifford
Harvuot and Ronald Reitan.
It was a glorious and deeply
moving performance. Mr. Mc
Cracken projected all the pas
sion and suffering of the duped
Moor with his dramatic acting
and a voice that excontpassed
a power and beauty that moved
the audience.
We express our thanks for
Mrs. Jessie Wood’s notes on
“Otello” and to the Mesdames
Gladys White and Jane Viazzi
Anselmo Colzani was in good for covering the closing of the
voice, but his acting left much opera as illness prevented our
to be desired, for he failed to doing so.
*
•*
16th Annual Spring Concert
INTERRACIAL CHORALE & ORCHESTRA
HAROLD AK9. Conductor EDWARD Ml'RRAV, Asslatant Conductor
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MARGARET RAE. Contralto
EARNEST MIRPHT. Tenor
WILLIAM SHORES. Baas
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In The Wings
By DAVE HEPBURN
Dixiy — Crazy Like Fox
An afternoon with Dizzy Gillespie is apt to be more
inspiring than you think. We sat in the corner of a
dining room of a motor inn in New York and over coffee
(Dizzy doesn't drink), proceeded to find out what
makes this so called “madman’’ tick.
First of all Dizzy is not dizzy at all. He got the name
in the very start of his career in Philly,
when he had just come up from North
Carolina. He couldn’t afford a case, so
he carried his horn in a paper sack,
and thus the name was hung on him—
"the dizzy kid with paper sack.” His
real name is John Berks Gillespie which
is a terrible name to latch on a jazz
artist. So Dizzy is just as happy with his
nickname.
“Besides,” says Dizzy, “when they hepburn
think you’re dizzy, there’s a whole lot you can get away
with and you can hear and remember a lot of things
they don’t credit you for. I’ve done it through the
years.”
Birdland
Freedomland
Moon Bowl
Lists Stars
FreedomUnd a big name band
and star policy has been ex
panded for the season which
started Saturday when Chubby
Checker and Si Zentner and his
Orchestra headed the opening
show in the Moon Bowl.
Chubby Checker, whose "Twist
and Limbo” records have sold
millions of copies, appeared In
the Moon Bowl matinees and ev
enings through Monday. The
Four Seasons, the hottest singing
group of the year, bowed In at
the Moon Bowl on Tuesday
where they have been Joined by
Frank Fontaine, comedy star of
the Jackie Gleason TV show.!
Fontaine will entertain through
April 21.
- Art K. Moss, Managing Direc
tor of Freedomland, stated that
$1,200,000 is being expended for
Moon Bowl talent including such
stars as Paul Anka, Patti Page,
Bobby Darin, Count Basie, Tony
Bennett, Tommy Sands. The Len
non Sisters, Xavier Cugat and
Abbe Lane, Della Reese, Kitty
Kallen, Johnnie Ray, Jerry Vale,
Dion, Lea Paul and Mary Ford,
and others to be announced.
Through the years, Diz, now appearing at Bird-
land, has run the gamut of jazz. He started in 1937 with
Teddy Hill and since then has played in every big band
there was, from Fletcher Henderson to Tiny Brad
shaw, and including Duke and Cab.
Omegas Set
Talent Hunt
he has been the “avant garde’’ of a goodly part of jazz,I TryOUt Date
What distinguishes Diz, however, is the fact that
TRIUMPHANT - lony Booker,
brilliant soprano, thrilled the
audience at the Naw England
Conservatory of Music College,
(Boston. Massachusetts with se
lections from Brahms. Mozart,
Massenet and Koechlin which
she sang in German, Italian,
French and English. Miss Boo
ker also treated her guests to
selections of Negro spirituals
and Afro-Cuban music. The
young singer received her Ba
chelor of Music degree from
the New England College and
will return there next year to
teach and study for her Mas
ters Degree.
even the instruments. Not enough credit has been
given him for heralding bop music, progressive jazz,
his own type of jazz, and jazz with all kinds of foreign
innovations. He introduced afro-cuban music into jazz
and he recorded the bossa nova at his “Musical Safari”
at the Monterry Festival long before Stan Getz. He has
recorded another Brazilian idom which he brought back.
It’s called the “Malakatu” but no one here knows it
yet.
I “When I can no longer be avant garde,” says Diz,
“I’m going to stop playing. Then I am going down to
Mexico and open a school and live in peace forever.
You know I heard someone say the other day that tto&yi
want to be hard to get rid of. That’s my life desire;
I want to be hard to get rid of. I want always to be in
people’s thoughts and my work must stand out.”
Fine Composer
Many people do not know what a fine composer
Dizzy is, because they always think of him in terms
of a performer. But Diz has produced some 50" well
known numbers and from now on is concentrating on
composing, along with some other things, like a tour
around the world playing with symphonies and doing
an educational TV program on WNDT with Father
O’Connor.
If you remember such numbeiv as “Manteca,”
“Salt Peanuts,” “Con Alma,” “Night in Tunisia,” “I
Waited For You” then you have heard Dizzy’s work
and through it all he says that Lorraine, his wife for
23 years, has been his sole arbiter. If it was good for
Lorraine, it was an automatic hit. That’s a pretty
good barometer for a dizzy trumpet player who, some
how has been able to keep a stable marriage in an
industry which cuts its teeth on divorces.
Jazz Concert
At Fordham
Friday Night
An Easter Holiday Musical Fes
tival will be held on Friday,
April 19 at 8:90 pm. at Ford
ham University Campus Center,
Father Philip S. Hurley, S.J.I
announced.
Disc Jockey William B. Williams j
will be master of ceremonies for
an all star jazz concert. Other
entertainers will be Andy Austin,
folk singer; Lila St. John, class
ical Jazz pianist; Nobel Sissle,
Arthur Sterling and His Conti
nental Jazz Sextet, and James
Bartow, singer, guitarist.
Father Philip (Hurley, S.J., is
a Fordham University professor
and chaplain of the Catholic In
terracial Council. The Council
is sponsoring this benefit per
formance. Mrs. Joseph Pericone,
wife of the Bronx Borough Pres
ident Is Honorary chairman of
the affair and Congressman chas
Buckley is co-chairman.
SONGS
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co.'a. singers, band leaden, radio «»■
lions. etc Percentage. Soflga and poems
examined free. Singers coached. Call
with material 2-8 p.m. (Sat. 2-8).
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Partial Cast
For Equity
Anniversary
Some casting has been an
nounced for the Actors’ Equity
Golden Anniversary Show pro
duced by Jean Dalrymple. The
production, proceeds of which
will benefit the Museum of the
City of New York, will be per
formed on Sunday evening. May
5 at 8:30 p.m.
Helen Hayes will appear in
the final scene of "Victoria Re
gina”; Beatrice Lillie will per
form “March With Me,” from
the original Chariot's Review,
which marked her first appear
ance In the United States; Rob
ert Preston will be featured in
"Trouble,” from “The Music
Man’; William Warfield will
render two selections from
“Porgy and Bess .”
John Fearnley functions as
overall (firector of the program,
Pembroke Davenport will serve
as musical director and con-
jductor and Cyril Ritchard is
master of ceremonies.
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Four Metropolitan (New York
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„ Tryouts will be held for all
prospective participants on May
17 at the Metropolitan School of
Music, 18 W. 74th St.
Interested applicants should
contact Walter Baker, 675E. 170th
St., Bronx. Telephone DA 8-8390.
Miss Berksteiner
In White Plains
OSSINING, N.Y. The Col
lins Berksteiner Branch of the
National Association of Negro
Musicians, Inc., is presenting
Constance Berksteiner in con
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Carver Center, In White Plains,
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