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25, 1964-TWI .M.r V E'aA6 v Al 1'iJ.-V
'RIAL,' 'SORCERER':
G&S Survives Crises,
Slates Two Light Operas
May Festival Climaxes Musical Society's
By MICHAEL HARRAH
A beleaguered tradition on cam-
pus is the University's Gilbert and
Sullivan Society, whose problems
with calendaring and productions
have become perennial.
Still and all, the
out two spirited
every year.
Society turnsj
performancesj
For the 1964-65 season, the, So-
ciety has scheduled a double bill
in the fall and a single production
in the spring.
The fall offering, to be staged
in November in Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre, will be two of the early
G&S light operas.
'Trial by Jury'
The first, "Trial by Jury" is
only 40 minutes in length and
originally wasuintended by its cre-'
ators as a curtain raiser for an-
other show long since forgotten.
A one-act operetta, all in song,
the plot deals with a suit of breach
of promise of marriage. It has
long been a favorite of audiences
the world over.
The second show on the bill,
"The Sorcerer" is less often' done.
It is the story of a magic love po-
tion and what befalls the villagers
who partake it.
Unlike "Trial by Jury," how-
ever, "The Sorcerer" contains a
good bit of dialogue in addition
to its musical numbers.n
Not Named Yetd
The spring production has not
'yet been selected. General try-
outs for the fall show will be held,
during the opening weeks of the
semester, following a mass meet-
ing, to be announced during reg-
istration week, for prospective cast
and crew.
This past year the Gilbert and
Sullivan Society presented two
successful productions., "The Mi-
kado" in the fall was well-received,
only to have its productions cur-
tailed by the assassination of the
President. The spring production
was the popular "olanthe."
Members of the Gilbert and Sul-
livan Society are drawn from all
over the campus and are not re-
stricted to any one school or de-
partment. Preparations emanate
from the basement of the SAB and
rehearsal rooms in the Michigan
Union until production week when
everything moves to the Michigan
League.
By GAIL BLUMBERG
The University Musical Society
was founded in 1879 to maintain
a high quality of musical presenta-
tion to the University community.
The Society has filled this posi-
tion by growing with the Univer-
sity in the scope and number of
its presentations.
For its 86th year, the Society's
program will contain several Ann
Arbor premieres in four widely
diversified concert series: Choral
Union, Extra, Chamber Arts and
Chamber Dance.
The opening concert of the 86th
Choral Union Series on Sept. 25
will be given by the Chicago Sym-
phony Orchestra under the direc-
tion of their new conductor, Jean
Martinon, who is now completing
his first season. The series will
continue with Antonio and Les
Ballets de Madrid, a company of
Flamenco dancers, singers and
guitarists which will be making its
premiere appearance in A n n
Arbor.
The Warsaw Philharmonic, ap-
pearing Oct. 14, and the local
debut of Russian violinist Leonid
Kogan, Nov. 4, will be the next
two. programs. The New York City
Opera Company will return to Ann
Arbor Nov. 22 with a production
of Gounod's "Faust." The series
also includes Stanislaw Skrowac-
zewski conducting the Minneapo-
4.
!is Symphony Orchestra (Feb. 8) ;
Rosalyn Tureck, pianist and Bach
specialist (March 1); Baritone
Robert Merrill (March 12) and
the National Ballet of Canada
(April 3).
The Extra Series was begun to
supplement the regular Choral
Union programs. In this, its 19th
year, it will open Oct. 2 with the {nfix pge r "{.gth ywh
London Symphony Orchestra with
Georg Solti conducting, and the d Uy
Nov. 9 American debut of the Rus-
sian mezzo-sporano Irina Arkhi -
pova. On Nov. 22, the New YorkdJ ;yn
Opera Company will present the
"Merry Widow." hr{.vy d in h h 2
The Berlin Philharmonic withhk
Herbert von Karaian conducting
will be here Jan. 30. The final Sunday afternoon in front of Hill Aud. finds patrons anxiously awaiting performance time
presentation of the series will be
the Polish Mime Theatre from
Warsaw, appearing March 6.
The second Chamber Arts Ser- The brilliant musicians shown
ies will open Oct. 28 with the So- on this page are among those who
cieta Corelli from Italy. It will visited the University to perform
present the New York Chamber in last spring's May Festival. ga hnh
Soloists (Nov. 17); the classical Again next spring, the Univer-
gutarist Andres Segovia (Jan. 20); sity Musical Society will wind up
the Paris Chamber Orchestra with the school musical year by pre-
Paul Kuentz, conductor, and Bach senting a May Festival. There's . .
trumpeter Adolf Scherbaum (Feb. every indication that the 72nd
14); and the Netherland Chamber will equal the high mark set by
Choir with Felix de Nobel con- the people shown here, who made rr.sr,-rf'r*n
ducting (Feb. 27). The two final the 71st Festival a memorable .
presentations will be the Chicago event.hh rea k e i 9
Little Symphony with Thor John- The ormy usuallyexter d .
son conducting (March 7) and over a period of three days, with
Solisti di Zagreb with Cellist An- a rich array of, operatic, classical
tonio Janigro (March 30). and symphonic fare. It is recog- ... x "
In addition there will be a nized as one of the best events of R°1
Chamber Dance series, also for its kind in the country.
th eodyawoeporm TeFsia ea hnteis to be announced. The Budapest Boston Festival Orchestra came ~:..
String Quartet will give several to Ann. Arbor in 1894 to play a- F
special concerts. series of nine concerts.
The concerts used to be perform-
ed in old University Hall, whosern4 f{,
Union Plians 'so50 seats were jammed with
msclovers from Michigan and COMPOSER-CONDUCTOR Igor Stravinsky and University Musical' Society chorusmaster Lester
surrounding areas. The series is Coy review the score of Stravinsky's "Persephone." which its comtposer will conduct. Eighty--
4 y or te fist 12year theBos- year-old Stravinsky considers a composer-conductor .performance a trure realizatilon of what
ton Orchestra participated in the composer intended.
Ever fal a radiionin mss-Festival- but after 1905 the Chicago
cal comedy returns to delight the Orchestra took over until 1936,
campus under the mystic pseudo- when Ormandy's performers be-
nym of MUSKET (Michigan Un- gan to play here.
ion Show Ko-eds Too). Sponsored by the University r ** >,'."/.
Musical Society, the Festival at-
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Director Jack Rouse, Grad, returns ps to bring new talent as well
to stage his second consecutive as well known artists to the atten . : f {' :>fi; f.{:.<. :
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ROBERT CRAFT, a conductor
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the Philadelphia Orchestra In,
Arnold Schoenberg's "Five
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EUGENE ORMANDY, music director of the
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THE LINE-UP of double basses waiting for their cue from Ormandy during
Richard Strauss's tone poem "Ein Heldenleben" shows some players locating
the first note of the entrance and others watching their fellow orchestra membeq ,
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