Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, April 11. 1968 Pa0e TWQ THE MICHIGAN DAILY i -r' . . . . r I poetry and prose I records Starts FR IDAY Winners Claim Hopwoods Seraphim Offers Mozart Opera By MARCIA ABRAMSON The annual Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards for creative writing were presented to 26 students last night in a cere- mony at Rackham Lecture Hall.- The 17 major and 13 minor awards added up to $21,150. Poet Denise Levertov dis- cussed "The Origins of a Poem" in the annual Hopwood Lecture before the presentation. The' Hopwood Awards have been presented for 38 years' from an endowment fund be- queathed by playwright Avery Hopwood and vary in amount according to the quality of the work. Thomas Snapp, '68, won the, largest award of $2500 for " My Tower," in the major'. poetry category.' Mack Owen, Grad, received three awards totaling $,1950 with a major drama award of $800 for 'Two Plays," a major essay award of $400 for. "Strindberg and Beckett" and a major poetry award of $750 for "Small Town and Other Poems." Two awards were won by both John Conron, Grad, and Barbara Van Noord, '69. Con- ron received a major fiction award of $750 for "Seven Stories" and a major poetry, award of $750 for "Playing Games with the Atlantic." Miss Van-Noord won a minor fiction award of $400 for "Love Inter- rogate" and a minor' poetry award of $500 for "Ochre Ver- million." Three other awards were giv- en for m'ajor drama. James Hatch, Grad, won $1000 for "The Love Song of Dionysus Jones."Awards of $750 were given to Robert Hay, '68, for "The Crier in the Street" and Fritz Lyon, '68, for "Two Plays with Short Titles."' Additional major essay awards went to David Wru- bel, '68, who received $1000 for "Shelley's Phenomenalism;" Dale Harger, '68, who won $00 for "Two Essays in Literary Criticism" and James Garvey, Grad, ~who received $500 for., "Alain Robbe-Grillet and the New Aesthetic." Alan Boatman, who graduat- ed in December 1967, received the award for a major fiction noyel, "Summer's Lie." Other awards in the major fiction short story division were given to Joyce Winslow, '68, who won $1200 for "Benjamin, Burning" and Richard Higiri- botham, wh~o won'$700. for "Just Between the Three of Us." Additional major poetry, awards were $600 to Harriet Stolorow, Grad, for "In the Ca- sino There Are No Windows" and $400 to Joseph R. Fargnoli, By R. A. PERRY and Paminos, and Pedrillo is butI Opera records have always been a less engrossing and' less fanci- a major investment for the stu- ful Papageno. dent music-lover with a limited This early Singspiel, of course, budget. The only way to avoid the does not pretend to the inner} high price of multi-disc sets was sanctums of mystery and profun- to purchase a "highlights" ver- dity that Die Zauberflote does, nor sion, not a satisfying solution, or are the arias as intricately reveal- to settle for repressings of older, ing of individual character. It is sonically-dated performances on all surface charm and quaint mel- 6heaper labels, odrama, and, from opening aria Barring rare exceptions, such to closing chorus, thoroughly de- Osmin: one can almost see him, whip in one hand, frothing At the mouth in his desire for Blonde. The dialog has been included in this recording and has been given, with the aid of stereo separation, a most realistic reading. The or- chestra is kept at a swinging clipt by Josef Krips, who is responsible for much of the success of this high quality and low cost release. There were five Generals inside,,, and one Private outside,, The problem was to het the five Generals inside: and avoid getting waylaid by a beautiful countess 1 as the Glyndebourne Mozart re- I -Daily-Richard Lee Hopwood Lecturer Levertov cordings now on Turnabout, these sets could not compare in singing, direction, or sound, to the more expensive labels. Seraphim, the low-priced label released by Angel, is changing all that. Several months ago they is-. sued a splendid, new stereo re- cording of von Weber's Der Freis- chutz, and this month they have put on the market an all-new re- cording of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio that is easily the best version in the catalog.I Without exception the cast sings splendidly and energetically, the direction of Josef Krips is witty and idiomatic, and the recorded' sound emerges clear and well-de- fined. The Abduction from the Sera- glio is an early Mozart opera and therefore possesses not the inef- fable grandeur, characterization, and humanity of those supreme operas Don Giovanni, Le Nozze de Figaro, and Die Zauberflote, yet it is lyrical and amusing, and holds both serene and virtuosic. What amazed me for the first time on rehearing this opera was the enormous similarity between it and Mozart's last opera, Die Zauberflote, at least in casting if not in depth of content. There is the sinister Pasha, who, like his later counterpart Sarastro, turns out to be quite benevolent. The evil lackey Osmin finds a later facsimile in the buffo part of Monostatos. Belmonte and Con- stanze are light-hearted TaminoI Shows at l -3-5-7-9p.m. ightful A few words on another new Nicolai Gedda's: Belmonte and Angel release: Mozart's Requiem Anneliese Rothenberger's Con- K. 626, in its form as completed, stanze are both beautifully and by Sussmayr, has always seemed expressively sung. The latter's to be a ponderous work of dubious flashy aria "Marten aller Arten" merit. Of the twelve sections, Mo- (Torture me and flay me) has zart only orchestrated three be- been given more fiery renditions fore his death, and Sussmayr then before, but the soprano does sur- applied the heavy orchestration mount the coloratura hurdles to the whole work, giving rise, as easily. Lucia Popp, as the viva- one critic has put it, to a "thick cious Blonde, adds another fine grey crust." performance to her growing cred- However, I have not heard a its. recording which brought out what PAUL jfk h 5 II rad, fdr "In Search of the amp. Graduate students are al- lowed to compete in the ma- jordivision. Undergraduates are eligible for minor Hopwood awards. Seniors may choose to compete in either major or minor contests. In the minor drama division, a special award of $1,000 was given to Melvin Gordon, '69, for "The clay: Golem." Two other minor awards were given in drama: $700 to John Slade, '70, for "Important Games," and $600 to Lawrence Kasdan, '70, for "Two One-Act Plays." Four awards were given for minor essay: Carolyn Delevitt, '69M, received an award of $500 for "Thoughts and Theses"; Laney Shaw, '68, $400 for "Two Essays"; Paul D. Mandel, $400 for "The Study of Japahese Haiku"; and Ross Miller, '68, $300 for "The 'Conversation' Poems." In the minor fiction division, in addition to the award to Miss Van Noord, three awards were given. An award of $300 went to Sharon Stiver, '70, for "Next Saturday Morning"; an award of $300 went to Leanore Block, '68, for "Portraits", and an award of $300 went to Mi- chael Williams, '70,_ for "The Tragedy of the Old Man with One Eye." In the minor poetry division, in addition to Miss Van Noord's award, an award of $800 was given to Michael Lermer, '69, for "The Forgotten Place." Judges in the drama division were actor Will Geer and Rob- ert G. Shedd of the University of Maryland, a former Hop- wood winner. Essay judges were critic Willard Thorp of Prince- ton University and Charles C. Walcutt, critic and author of the recent book "Man's Chang- ing 4 Masque" and a former Hopwood winner. Judges in the novel division were Don Barthelme and Joyce Carol Oates, both novelists and short story writers. In the short story division, judges were Katherine Gauss Jackson of Harper's Magazine, and Padma Perera, short story 'writer and former Hopwood winner. Poetry judges were poets Mil- ler Williams and John Woods. Prof. Robert F. Haugh of the English department, Hop- wood Committee chairman, an- nouncel the winners. VINS DEl FRANCE DETROIT-PARIS Jet $306 SJuly31--Aug.29 Special credit; must be given to j Gottlob Frick's thoroughly ogrelyI Steiger, ' Heat' Win Oscars By The Associated Press Rod Steiger and Katharine Hep- burn won the best actor and ac- tress awards at last night's an- nual Academy Awards presenta- tions for "In the Heat of the Night" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" respectively. "In the Heat of the Night" was named best picture of the year. Best foreign film was "Closely Watched Trains." Winning Oscars for best sup- porting roles were Estelle Parsons for "Bonnie and Clyde" and George Kennedy for "Cool Hand Luke." Mike Nichols won the best director award for "The Grad- uate." - - W ~U U UI glory and emotion there is in the Requiem as does the new version led by conductor Rafael Fruh- beck de Burgos. The four soloists and especially Wilhelm Pitz's l chorus seem unusually inspired. 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