New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00393
1963
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In The Wings
By DAVE HEPBURN
Negro Artists Revue Sends
Featured In Bids To All
Coming Exhibit Mets Players
The Wizardry Of Errol Garner
In the business of music, the name of Errol Gamer
as a pianist has been a standout for several years, not
only in this country, but seemingly all over the world.
The drive and energy of his left hand, the warmth of
his tones and the overall joy his work seems to generate
have all contributed to the fame of this phenomenon.
Yet very little has been written and
known about Errol. The man who wrote
“Misty” on an airplane, has himself had
a misty and unknown personality. Much
of this has been by Errol’s own design,
despite the management of his peri
patetic manager, Martha Glaser.
Errol, for a long time had been a self
effacing and modest fellow. Now, as
we sat in a mid-town restaurant and he
sipped scotch and French perrier water, HEPBURN
you could see that Errol was coming out of his shell
a little. Success has a way of doing that for one.
Knickers at 11
The "FTneot 1b Contemporary
Negro Art" wil be toe emphasis
of an Art Exhibit being inaugur
ated tn toe “Upper Fifth Ave
nue” area by the Lenox Terrace
Tenants’ Association, Inc., tex
turing some of the top Negro ar
tists in the United States, to be
held at the Association’s Head
quarters, 470 Lenox Avenue, on
June 28. 29 and 30.
The exhibit will also have a
special “Lenox Terrace Comer”
devoted to showing the work of
same of toe talented artists re
siding tn the Lenox Terrace it
sell.
Noted artists being specially
featured and presently committ
ed to participate are:
Charles Allen, Vrginia Cox,
Tom Feelings, Alvin Hollings
worth. David Cottea, Al Sargent
A “Private Preview” will be
held Friday, June 28 at 8 p.m.
for art critics, patrons and other
special guests. The exhibit will
The management of the New
York Meta baseball team hae ex
tended to the players an invita
tion from Lucille Lortel and Ar
thur Cantor to be guest of honor
at the June 5 performance
of “Put It In Writing,” the new
musical revue at the Theatre de
Lys. The Invitation was Issued
to Tom Meany. the Meta’ pub
licity man. who relayed it to the
players on the road.
The Mets are the euoject of a
show - stopping number called
"The People’s Choice" in “Put
It In Writing.” in which a coach
tells a rookie how to play toe
colorful, lovable and erratic
brand of baseball that has be
come toe trade-mark of New
York's Marvelous Team.
be opened to the public on Sat
urday and Sunday, June 29 and
30 from 2-8 p.m. Admission is
free.
He talked about playing piano in his knickers,
scarcely 11 years old, on the old river boats that went
up the Monongahela and played snatches with some
of the most famous names today. How did he develop
that solid right hand and the pumping left? Errol says
simply: ‘‘Most places I went to in Pittsburgh they
couldn’t afford drums and bass, so I played for all
three of us.”
Today Garner is evolving as a people’s artist whose
work is being lauded all over the world. Because he
is a mature artist, his work is loved most by mature
people; among his fans, Johnny Burke, the late Eleanor
Roosevelt, Pierre Salinger, Garson Kanin, Joan Craw
ford, director David Lean and Marian Anderson.
In Europe Errol says he tried to give them a little
of the old “him” and some of the new, but he always
reserved what he thought for after they had heard him.
Usually they were warmer. In every city he has played
in Europe, Errol has been mobbed. In London, Harold
Davison, an impressario, called him the best invest
ment since Judy Garland. In Rome it was similar
reaction. He had to get out by the side door after his
concerts. In Munich he had to play in the lobby to
satisfy his fans or they would not let him go to his
room. It was the same in Paris. “In most places.”
he says, “I never get to see any sights. I spend the
entire time in my room. I have thousands of dollars
worth cf photographic equipment but not a picture
have I taken. Afraid to go out.”
Just recently Errol’s new recording, a long player
called “One World Concert”, a Reprise release for his
new company, Octave, has hit the market, and it is
aimed at catching the ear of an international audience.
It’s also Errol at his best. After seven years of* not
hearing anything new from him it is refreshing. Errol
was tied up from 1950 until the settlement in 1962, in
a battle with Columbia Records. He had to put up a
cash bond of $45,000 and spent thousands for attorneys
and othe^ litigation costs. The whole settlement has
been sheathed in mystery and he took what his manager
calls “a blood bath,” but in the joint release that Errol
and Columbia put out, they both seemed pleased with
results.
Brave Lion
Garner did do one thing, he braved the lion in his
den, and for hundreds of other little people who cannot
fight the big powerful recording companies that do
what they like with their work, he became a hero.
Few persons know of Errol as a composer but he
has done several fine songs, including Misty and Gas
light, and now he is in process of rehabilitating several
of his songs which have gone to publishing companies
through error and sometimes for beans. He is also
planning to take part in a movie, his first after turning
down six others because they “had hoodlums.”
When you ask him who he’d like to write music
and play it for, he answers mainly children; he loves
the simple things, nature, the circus and love. Which
doesn’t explain why he is scared to death of marriage.
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I STARS or TOMORROW -
Shown are some of the dancers
in the Variety Show produced
by Camp Miclsink to aid its
camp fund at Carnegie Hall last
Friday evening. As usual,
,
, ,
. 1cm kids showed their talents
in song and dance. VarietvShow
place was packed, as the Har- ls an annua, afla,r
WITH QUARTET — Carol Ivy,
a student at Brooklyn College,
will sing with the Ted Curson
Quartet at the Charlie Parker
Memorial Fund Program, Mon
day, June 3 at the Carnegie
International Endowment Cent
er.
O^NeilTs
“Servitude”
Reopening
AT GATE — After appearing in
Addis Ababa to entertain the
heads of 31 independent African
states meeting, at the invita
tion of Emperor Haile Selas
sie, Miriam Makeba comes into
the Village Gate, Tuesday, June
4 for a month’s engagement.
Teeners Doing
**Bye, Bye
Birdie”
The first New York production
of Eugene O’Neill’s “Servitude
will re-open, Friday, May 31,
at the Contemporary Center, 180
Seventh Avenue Sooth, following
an extensive run at its original
uptown location.
Featured in the cast will be
Ruth Morgan, Ann Gould, and
Lionel Simons under the direc
tion of Nil9 L. Cruz. Curtain
will be at 8:30.
College Choirs
The choirs of Xavier Univer
sity and Hampton Institute wiR
perform in a special Brahms
program on ABC Radio’s “Ne
gro College Choir” Sunday, June
2 (10:30-11 am., EDT). In New
York City the program is heard
over WABC, 7-7:25 t.m.
Choirs performing during the
remainder of June are:
June 9 — Wiley College, Mar-
toall, Tex.
The Teen Council of the Young
Women’s Christian Association
Castle Hill Community Center
will produce the Broadway musi
cal, “Bye, Bye, Birdie,” in their
auditorium at 625 Castle Hill
Avenue on Friday. June 7 and
Saturday, June 8 at 8 p.m.
Students from Music and Art
High School and the Juilliard
School of Music make up the
orchestra, and fifty teenagers
from the community are doing
the entire production including
sets, lights and staging.
Charlie Parker
Memorial Fund
Concert Monday
Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins,
George Russell, Jackie McLean
and Kenny Dorham, (members
of the musician’s committee in
terested in the Charlie Parker
(Memorial Fund being establish
June 16 — Morehouse College,
ed), have staged the fund raising
Atlanta, Ga.
June 23 — Shaw University
Raleigh, N. C.
June 30 — Lane College, Jack
event for Monday, June 3, 8:30
p.m. at the Carnegie Internation
al Endowment Center — 346
East 46th Street. New York City.
son, Tenn.
Portrait Of
GraceBumbry
On TV Show
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portrait of the career of
Bomhcy, rising young St
mezzo soprano. will be
presented on the “Repertoire
Workshop" program "Grace
Bumbry Sings” Sunday, June 2
(Channel 2, WCBS-TV, 4:00-
4:30 p.m.)
For her performance, Miss
Bumbry will draw from opera,
the classics and spirituals, in
cluding an aria from Verdi’s
“Don Carlo,” Franz Schubert’s
“An die Musik,” Saint-Saens'
“My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice,”
“Stay Well” from “Lost in the
Stars,” “Ching-a-Ring Chaw,” an
old American song arranged by
Aaron Copland, and "Stand By
Me,” composed for the singer
by her voice teacher, Ken Bill
ups.
Interspersed with the music
will be a discussion of her ca
reer by Miss Bumbry and Curt
Ray, a St. Louis television per
sonality who has been influential
in the rise of the mezzo soprano.
They also will touch upon the
opportunities that exist in Europe
for young American singers and
the need to become firmly es
tablished abroad, as Miss Bum
bry has, before a singer can win
American recognition.
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Concerts
This Week
WEDNESDAY, May 29 - Con>
1 Forum Orchestra Concert,
McMillan Theatre, 8:30 pm.
PrQiopQgdes at Philharmonic
Hall tinder direction of Andre
Kostelanetz, preview, 8:30 pm.
With Carl Safldburg and Theo
dore Lettvin, soloists.
FRIDAY, May 31 — Promen
ades at Philharmonic Hall in
Vienna Night with Beverly Sills,
soprano and the Robert Herget
Dancers, 8:30 p.m. Also Satur
day, June 1 and Sunday, June 2
at 8:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, June 2 — Nora Holt’s
Concert Showcase (radio) fea
tures Vincent Campbell, tenor;
George Polgar, pianist and Helen
Jones, Accompanist with Larry
Fuller, announcer, 6:30 - 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, June 3—James
Jolly, pianist, Judson Hall, 8:30
p.m.
THURSDAY, June 6 — Helen
Phillips, soprano; St. Martin’s
Little Theatre, Lenox Ave. and
122nd St., 8 p.m.
‘Seeds’ Opening
At Judson Hall
Roberta Bailey’s newest then
trical work, “Seeds That Grow,
will make its debut at Judson
Hall, 165 W 57th St., Sunday
evening, June 2. Curtain at 8
pm.
The three-act drama spells out
the tragedy that overtakes two
families, one wealthy the other
poor, when the caretaker’s son
marries the landowner’s daugh
ter-
’
Philip Noton will direct the
cast composed of: Phil Living
ston, Bobby Jones, Barbara Tay
lor. Audrey Griffen, Gene Fore
man, William Martino, Iola
Smith, Alfred Puryear, Frank
Nanola, Deborah Derow, Gladys
Clemons, Birdie Hale, Arlene
Smith and Mary Foreman.
Charlie Parker Memorial Fund Program
Monday — JUNE 3rd — 830 p.m.
at Carnegie International Endowment Center
345 lost 44th Street
New York City
Freddie Redd Quintet
Kenny Dorham Quintet with Joe Henderson
Ted Curson Quartet with vocalist: Carol
Ivy
Debut N.Y, School of Jazz Ensemble
Al Dreares Quintet with Richard Williams,
Ill Person:
Added Attraction:
• trumpet
Dan Morgenstern, Master of Ceremonies
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Piano Pupils
To Join Frat
Seven piano pupils from the
class of Wilson King. 187-17 119th
Drive, St. Albans, have register
ed as candidates for membership
in the National Fraternity of
Student Musicians sponsored by
the National Guild of Piano
Teachers of which their teacher
is a faculty member.
They are Arthur Bonner. Da
vid Humphrey, Genee Jackson,
Pafrkie Bate*, Audrey Weeks,
Susan Jackson and Michael Por
ter.
The audition will take
In Carnegie Hall. Studio
5.
Carnegie Seeks
Concert Talent
Auditions for lingers, choral
groups, pianists and other muslci
ans for the 198344 concert season
will be held June 6 at Carnegie
Hail, Studio 858, at 7 p.m.
For further information call
Donna Elliott Associates, CO
4300.
Bernstein
Picks Blues
Of Johnson
During the past 50 years there
have been more than 1,000 bules
songs written and many have
been recorded by various sing
ers.
Freddie Redd’s Quintet, Ted
Curson's Quartet afiff the Kenny
Dorham Quintet with Joe Hen
derson on saxophone will lead
the parade of stars who will per
form. The NY School of Jazz
14-piece ensemble will also per
form.
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Veterans Administration says.
Recently Leonard Bernstein,
I the famous symphony conductor,
More than 300 of the Members wan given the task of selecting
one blues composition that be
could define as "real jazz” and
his choice, believe it or not,
was "Empty Bed Blues.” which
was written by Negro composer
J. C. Johnson over thirty years
ago
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Mr. Johnson, one of the most
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standard hits as “Believe It Be
loved,” “Trnv’lin’ All Alone,”
“Don’t Let Your Love Go
Wrong." “Louisiana,” and "Give
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Just to name a few.
Mr. Bernstein, on his record
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“Empty Bed Blue**' apart at its
musical seams, eo to speak, and
performs a technical, well-tailor
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fitting this music Informatively
for the listening pleasure of
music lovers as well ae his
torians of Tin Pan Alley.
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One of the most beautiful
statues of a Bodhisattva, con
sidered by scholars to be among
the most important Chinese
sculptures in existence, is on
loan to the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art by Governor Nelson
A. Rockefeller.
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