Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday , 1953 Page 11 music for everybody by Sigmund Spaeth what can to do for opera 1 television s experiments with grand opera have already brought out some interesting and possibly significant Points. One is that no telecast of an actual performance in the opera House can be As effective As a specially prepared studio show. Another is that such a specially televised opera particularly in the Case of less familiar material May easily have a far Greate audience Appeal than a Regula Lull sized stage production. The metropolitan s piping of a routine Una Apted Carmen into a number of local theatres prove commercially successful on the whole but was far from satisfactory artistically. About All tha could be said Lor it was that it gave thousands of new customers a Chance to see an adequate facsimile of an outstanding production As r appeared on the stage of the world s greatest opera House. Lack ing color and clarity of detail particularly in the Long shots it was naturally a far cry from the orig Inal. An improvement on the other hand television has admittedly improved on the stage versions of such new operas As 1 Benjamin Britten s Billy Budd Anc Leonard Bernstein s. Trouble in Tahiti while Menotti s Kamahl and the night visitors written especially for television is already a Yule tide fixture after Only a year of life and comparatively few performances of any kind. It is now available on records which should be a big help to its permanent by this time television should be aware of what All this proves and apply it even beyond opera. Tele vision is at its Best when using the technique of intimacy and at its worst when imitating the elaborate productions of stage and opera House. Music can be made As intimate and Perso Cal on television As the chatter of a Godfrey or a Gary Moore. The miniature screen in a living room is not adapted to spectacular effects but can make the average listener literally at Home with music or any other Art when presented in a simple human and unpretentious fashion. This is True even of the unrehearsed close of athletic events which Are thus far the most successful achieve ments of television. My new year s suggestion to television is Stop aping your betters and be your the worst professional perform Ance of the Lucia sextet this re Porter Ever heard was on the anniversary broadcast of Ity concerts. It would be unfair to name the artists involved. The should never have been asked to do such a thing unless strictly in private. On the Oiher hand ale Templeton s Handelin improvisation came off very Well on the same occasion. This writer has a vivid recollection of the worst male quartet in which he Ever lifted his so called voice. It was on information please and the other culprits were John Kleran Tenor Basil Rathbone Bari tone and Franklin p. Adams Bass with Clifton Fadiman registering a pained expression. Among the virtuosos of the har Monica the name of John Sebas Tian has gradually drawn level with that of Larry Adler and he is now a favorite of the night clubs As Well As the concert stage. Sebas his last name nobody could soloists in feb. 17 oratorio Ian had to drop Puglese because pronounce it. His fellow students at Haverford College settled for in his new English Versum of Puccini s la Boheme Howard Jiretz has used the tin pan Alley technique of one syllable to a singing two or More notes on the same English word or Syl Able creates an immediate effect of artificiality. Broadway music publishers have an almost Iron clan Rule against it. From the tune detective s note Book the old chromatic scale has turned up again in Dana Suess s incidental music for that Success us comedy the seven year itch Ler main theme goes right Back a step at a time to that of the third Man theme which Al ready echoed Jimmy Durante s Inka Dinka Doo Abb Dabba Honey Moon and the introduction to the Foradora sex Tette. Dorothy Collins was truly a Gladys krd2se these singers Are three of the soloists taking part in the Winnipeg philharmonic choir s production of Bach s famous oratorio., the St. Matthew Pas Sion which will be presented feb. 17 at the civic auditorium. Miss Kriese is coming from new York where she is study ing singing to take the Solo contralto role. She is a former member of the choir and was Winner of the Rose bowl at the 1950 Manitoba music festival. George Kent she won the top award in the Manitoba registered music teachers association scholar ship series two years ago. Or. Kent Nipes Tenor will have the role of the narrator whose major part is one of constant Recita Tives and few Arias. Or. Who is choir director at Knox United Church has been heard in several previous philharmonic choir productions. Gladys Whitehead will. Be Soprano soloist in the Bach work. Mrs. Whitehead is a Gladys Whitehead member of w. H. Anderson s sunday chorale which casts on cow sundays at 6 . She returned to Winnipeg two years ago after residing in Kenora ont. For four years. Mrs. Whitehead who is soloist at St. Stephen s Broadway Church has taken part in Many philharmonic choir productions. Next month she will adjudicate at the Ottawa music festival. Walter Kaufmann will con duct the 130-voice choir five soloists and 32-piece orchestra. Sweetheart when she Sang those Happy go Lucky Little commercials and said Golly with such a Larent enthusiasm for her sponsor. That she has been promoted to he hit Parade she is just another Londine Glamour girl making Ike a Singer. Over production is o blame. Today s quotation Shinn conservatory of music tuition in piano singing violin theory Harmony elocution Etc. Beginners classes at special rates. Easy payments practice rooms available studio for rent recital Hall for rent 356furby ph.3-0279 three doors North of Portage Man Hall in my Island Kost of us came from towns Here our knowledge of music had Een confined to school songs sunday school hymns and saturday night band concerts say nothing in disparagement of Uch music for i am still fond of t just As i am of Barbershop quartets but Young men and often without realizing the act Are ready and eager to go on rom the question Box q i would like you to Tell me what is the pitch used in recorded music in broadcast czech Buffalo . A All records Are presumably made at Standard which Means that a in the treble staff has 440 vibrations a second. Unfortunately the Speed of a turn table definitely affects pitch the faster the higher and consistency is therefore difficult to achieve. There is also a common delusion that the human voice sounds higher when it or broadcast. Questions May be submitted to Sigmund Spaeth in care of this music in Australia Hugh Bancroft will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Winnipeg Branch of the Manitoba registered music teachers association wednesday at 9.30 . In the t. Eaton company s Assembly Hall. Or. Bancroft who has recently re turned to Winnipeg after spending four years in Australia will speak of music in Australia. Date in things musical theatrical and managerial. Minneapolis Chic ago and new York were the cities. Operas concerts recitals and rehearsals were the musical events attended in addition to several top rated shows. The trip was also re warding for it brought renewed Contact with the giants of the in James nor text ailment Field. In route to Minneapolis i read Heartfelt wishes for a Happy new year new York stimulating to impresario Hunting musical artists for Winnipeg a. K. Gee president o celebrity conceits Canada limited and celebrity concerts series limited has returned from a three week trip to Minneapolis Chicago and new York. He was making arrange ments for bringing concert artists to Winnipeg and Western Canadian cities during the 1953-54 season. Here Are some of or. Gee s impressions. By a. K. Gee three weeks in three cities of the . Have brought me up to variety Marks pop concert Light music of several different countries will be featured at the Winnipeg symphony orchestra s first pop concert of the 1952 53 season thursday at 8.40 . In the civic auditorium. The concert is being endorsed by the joint Board of the International ladies garment workers Union educational department in co operation with the ladies garment manufacturing Industry. The. Participating manufacturers have arranged partial sub Sidy of pop concert tickets for Union Menteer. Here is the program which the orchestra under Walter Kaufmann will pre sent to die Fleder maus Johann Strauss Fibich selections from okla homa Richard Rogers new world symphony second movement Anton Dvorak second rhapsody Franz Liszt Annen Tritsch Tratsch and tick tack polkas Johann Strauss with avidity music and maestros by j. K. Sherman the Story of the great Minneapolis symphony orchestra and its famed conductors. The orchestra is Midway in its 50th anniversary season and its manager Arthur j. Gaines is Cele Brating his 40th year As an impresario. Or. Gaines and i discussed pro Grams for the matinee and eve Ning concerts at Winnipeg next april and we Laid tentative plans to tour the Western cities once again Regina Calgary Edmonton and Saskatoon in addition to Winnipeg the orchestra s second Chicago ranks second Chicago ranks second Only to new York for musical and theatrical activity in America. We heard the Chicago symphony orchestra under Kubelik and. Learned from its manager of the engagement of Fritz Reiner to succeed As conductor. At orchestra Hall i attended a colourful travelogue on Mexico and enjoyed too performances of Gigi and stalag 17. I found time to join hockey fans at the stadium to watch Tor onto Maple Leafs trim the Chicago Black Hawks 2-0 in an epic Battle both on the ice and Between the 54 customers. Television invaded the hotel room for one evening Only. Its Bugaboo Static Snow and spooks Are painfully distracting and its programs in the main painful and British movie break ing the sound Barrier was spec Sally entertaining after an evening of to. I watched to again in actors pick melodrama for festival baritone to offer european song fest a program of european Voca music presented by Gerard Mouzay French baritone at 2.3 . Monday before the women musical club at the civic auditorium. The 32-year-old Frenchman we made his professional debut in 1943 has made concert and operatic appearances in both Europe and tin United states. He will be accompanied by James Shomate at tin Here is or. Mouzay s program Italy so Ben s Lopeno i Well know my suffer Ings Pasquino Dorumsgaard Belezza Che s Ama to love a Beauty Scarlatti Dorumsgaard o cd state do Plag Fermi o cease to torture Mev. Scarlati drum sea Art Danza Danza dance dance Durant dance to Ray songs so Swift and Bright great Britain where the Bee Sucias Shakespeare s cym Bellune. Am music for a while Purcel i la sail upon the dog Star. Pudas wander the wanderer Schuber Der neg Lerlene the. Question Schubert die Krahe the Raven Schubert stand Chen Schuber Ronila Pendant k bal during the Ball to Chaikovsky Berceuse de la Mort death s Cradle song Moussorgsky a Vachna. Moussorgsky Spain Al Joaquin Nln Joaquin Nln Joaquin Nln Fiance Don que Schotte a Dulcinee romantic song Ravel Chanson Elque epic sons bore drinking Soni Manitoba bar association week s concerts monday Jan. 12, so Mouzay French baritone in re Cital before women s Musica club at civic auditorium concert Baa Thim Day Jan. In 8.40 a leg symphony pop concert civic Peggy Green a chill melodrama about a mad killer has been chosen by the actor s Guild of Winnipeg for its entry in the Manitoba regional drama festival in february. The play is night must fall the Broadway and London hit by Emlyn Williams which will be Given two pre festival performances Jan. 26 and 27 at the playhouse theatre. Both performances Are being sponsored by Phi sorority and proceeds will be used to continue the sorority s work for the cerebral palsy Nursery at the children s Hospital. Peggy Green will direct the play and those in the cast will be Ber Nard Behrens Helene Winston Des Kearney Arch Mcdonell mrs. Rob Ert Jarman Beth Ferguson and Rae Bryden. Mrs. Green will also take part in the play. Larry Wil son is business manager. Night fall was first produced in London in 1935 where it ran Lor Over a year before it was presented in new York. The play is not intended us a but rather a the audience realizes from the out set who the killer is. The play s new York however and under the magic spell of Bishop Sheen that tuesday night was lighted up. New York s people will celebrate the City s 300th anniversary this year. Feb. 2, 1653, Peter Stuyvesant received the municipal charter of incorporation of the City then known As Niew Amsterdam. Today new York City is the capital of the world in Many realms music theatre drama and garment making to name but a few. Its concert Halls Are Busy every afternoon and evening and often in the morning As Well its Madison Square Garden features a sports event almost daily its museums libraries colleges clubs zoos and its squares Are among the world s finest. The chief reason for going to new York in december was to at tend the fifth annual convention of the National association of con Cert managers of which i am a director and to visit All new York managements to discuss artists and attractions for the 1953-54 season. The association s meetings were most interesting and most profit Able for they brought me into con tact once again with colleagues from All Over America. Enjoy two shows other events attended were two performances by the new York philharmonic one featuring Rudolph Firkusny and the other Erica Morini violinist. I enjoyed Anna Russell s sold out con Cert at town Hall when she received a tumultuous reception. Theatrical performances caught were an evening with Beatrice Lillie and dial m for murder. At town Hall i enjoyed meeting our Friend Captain Knight with his Eagle or. Ramshaw presenting a splendid travelogue on Scotland and the Western Isles. On a sunday afternoon i viewed the new motion picture medium cinerama that creates a startling illustration of three dimensional reality at the Broadway theatre. This new medium must be seen to be believed. At Columbia concerts Christmas party i met Many artists Gladys Swarthout William Warfield Isaac Stern Jennie Tourel Dor Othy Kirsten Whittemore arid Lowe Hazel Scott Malczynski Siegi Arrau Carol Glenn Michael Rabin Svetlovs and Mildred Mil Ler. At a reception following Erica Morini s performance with the new York philharmonic i met or. George Szell the conductor and Ludwig Lewisohn also the Consul for India. In the hotel i met Paul Gregory producer with Charles Laughton of Don Juan in hell and John Brown s body. At or. Gregory s invitation i journeyed Over to Phil Adelphia to see the latter production starring Tyrone Power Ray mond Massey and Judith Anderson. Or. Gregory s plans for next sea son include a show called variations on Gilbert and Sullivan with Frank Sinatra Kathryn Grayson and Marjorie main and Herman Wouk s Caine Mutiny with other Hollywood names featured. I Hope to present one or these novel shows in Winnipeg and the West. Characters slowly discover what the audience knows from the first that the murderer is a person in their midst. The main character in night must fall is a Bellhop in resort hotel. Having already disposed of one of the lady and concealed her body in a pit he wins his Way on to the payroll of an elderly woman in a nearby House while police search the neighbor Hood for the first victim the egotistical Bellhop plots a second Mur Der. By Frank Morriss very much in the grand tradition f italian opera is Aida which has ust been issued by London on a recording by stars chorus and or Hestra of l a Academia i Santa Emilia in. Rome with Alberto Crede conducting and with. Ren Ita Tebaldi. Singing the title role the soloists in addition to mad ame include Mario Del Ilo Naco the Tenor As Rhadames be Stignani Mezzo Soprano As he vengeful Princess amneris Aldo Protti and Dario Caselli lassos As Amonasro and Ramfis ind Fernando Corena baritone As the King of Ethiopia. The recording gives record fans a Chance to judge another facet of he great talents of Renata Tebaldi who has already been heard in London recordings of la to Leme Madame Butterfly and Tosca. Each of these operas particularly the last two Are in Many aspects one woman shave. Aida which is in the spectacular manner is More a matter of ensemble and the recording company is supplied Madame Tebaldi with 11 the requisites of a first class icrformance1 in this respect. Aida abounds with excitement As Well As Melody. The big triumphal Cene the ballets and the exciting concerted numbers have been Given i a highly realistic manner and the greatest recording skill. But with All this grandeur the excellent performance of Madame Tebaldi is the one you will remember. For these ears at any rate his is the Ideal operatic voice. It full of Fervour rises to the dram tic moments with All the desired re and is capable of any amount f subtlety when this Quality is ranted. Above ail there is the ability to characterize with the Oice. To hear Madame Tebaldi s Nging of o Patria Mia and the vile scene is to hear great sing no. There Are Fine things about in performance too. Musically Jario Del Monaco is a routine Pera Singer but he has More than usual amount at voice and de vers his music ringing by. Ebe Stignani sometimes sounds Little tentative As amneris but lie is a music anly Singer. All the thers in the cast acquit them Elyes Well the orchestra is a Fine be. And the chorus vitality. All in All a first class performance of Aida and in the Case of Enata Tebaldi a really super la Ive one. Students to give 4 performances of the Mikado Daniel Mclntyre collegiate students will present Gilbert and Sull Ivan s the Mikado la four evening performances beginning Jan. 20 at 8.30 the playhouse theatre. G. Davies is charge of production and dramatics miss m. B. Perfect is dancing instruct Ress and Glen w. Pierce is music con Ductor. Those taking Solo roles include suspense lies in watching the other Maria Hermann and Betty Mcleod alternating As Yum Yum Betty Mcleod and Shirley Mcleod As Pitti sing Bonnie for d As Samey Mcleod. And Christel Rogalski As Katisha Hugo Unruh As the Mikado Charlie Hunt and Bill Fry Asko to Bill Grogan As poo Bah Charlie Hunt and Louis Klarke As pish Tush and Reg. Frederickson As Nanky poo. Or. Pierce win conduct a stud orchestra of 20 members and a 4s-voice girls chorus and a 30 member chorus of boys. Bernard Naylor Jack in Winnipeg or Winter visit Bernard Naylor who conducted in Winnipeg philharmonic and Ilalue voice choirs from 1932 to 935, is a Winter visitor in win Peg. Accompanied by mrs. Naylor he return to England in March in me for the first Public perform nce in London of his three latin motets for mixed voices. The performance will be Given 24 at Wigmore Hall by the Riana Madrigal society conduct d by Charles Kennedy Scott. These pieces were first Sung by the South Ondon Bach society in Chichester Cathedral in May 1950 and Broad ast by the bbl a few months Ater. They will be broadcast again be. 2 by the bbl chorus. Or. Naylor has been teaching on be faculty of music at Oxford uni Hersity and devoting considerable me to composition. When he re urns to England he will take up new Post at Reading University Here he will lecture in music for e , or. And mrs. Naylor Are the tests of mrs. Naylor s parents senator and mrs. T. A. Crerar 10 Brentwood Lodge. Outstanding Young violinist to perform with symphony Betty Jean Hagen first Cana civic auditorium Dian violinist to win the. Naum the Edmonton born violinist Burg award in new York and the gave her debut recital at new Pathe mar Corii prize in Paris will York s town Hall in 1950, As one be guest artist with the Winnipeg of the benefits of the Naumburg symphony orchestra at its sub award granted annually to the ascription concert Jan. Betty Jean Hagen festival entries deadline today Jan. 10 is the closing Date for entries to the-35th Manitoba musical Competition festival which opens March 16 for two weeks. The Early entry Date is made necessary by the Early festival dates this year a spokesman said. Three new British adjudicators Are coming to Canada this year As Well As g. H. Heath Gracie who is Well known to festival goers from his previous visits. The three newcomers Are Leonard Isaacs Gordon Clinton and John Russell. Met Soprano s recital Here slated Jan. 28 Victoria de los Angeles Spanish born Soprano of the metropolitan opera company will give her second Winnipeg recital Jan. 28 at the civic auditorium on the Cele Brity a major series. Most outstanding concert artist on the North american continent. The Paris prize of awarded in 1951, led to concert engagements in France Hollandt Switzerland and the Young violinist Ulso won the Eaton prize of in 1951 As the outstanding graduate of the senior school of Toronto s Royal conservatory of music. Her successes in Europe were crowned recently by the presenta Tion to her of the Harriet Cohen medal which is awarded in Lon Don annually to the outstanding Commonwealth artist of the year. Miss Hagen. Began her musical studies at an Early age. She won a scholarship for piano and violin. After studying with Clayton. Hare of Calgary she studied under Geza de Kresz at the Toronto conserva tory s senior school. She received a conservatory scholarship in 1949 and the following year won the first scholarship awarded by the Toronto women s musical club. She also received first prize in the ;