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By DONALD SOSIN
A big plum, for seasonal gift-
giving is a six-record set from
Columbia entitled The Art of Jo-
seph Szigeti (M6x 31513). Issued
in honor of the' great violinist's
80th birthday, the set contains
historic performances dating
,. back to 1908, with most from the
30's and 40's. The choicest exam-
'f' ples are ,Prokofiev's First Con-
certo, and some of the shorter
encore pieces. Other works in-
clude the Beethoven, Brahms
and Mendelssohn concertos, two
Beethoven sonatas with Artur
* Schnabel, recorded live in 1948,
by which time there are flaws
in intonation and passage-work,
but still a vast amount of mu-
.W sicality and hints of the extra-
ordinary playing that pervades
the earlier performances.
Other violin music on Colum-
' bia:
Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante
r Stern, Zukerman, Barenboim,
English Chamber Orchestra (M
' 31369).
This is heavenly music - mak-
ing. It is no surprise that Pin-
chas Zukerman, at 24 one of the
finest violinists around, is also
an excellent violist, and he and
Isaac Stern match bows in this
Tips for the
classical shopper
divinely beautiful' work. The
slow movement is worth the
price of the record alone for the
uncanny teamwork in the solo
parts. Another work in the genre
by Mozart's contemporary, Karl
Stamitz, rounds out the album. A
must for string connoisseurs.
Stern is also featured in a
double album called The Great
Beethoven and Brahms Violin
Concertos, which makes me
wonder if there are not-so-great
concertos by these men that Co-
lumbia is hiding from us. Such a
qualifier is superflous where
Stern is concerned, and he is
aided in these eloquent perform-
ances by Bernstein and New
York (in the Beethoven), and
Ormandy and Philadelphia (in
the Brahms). A reissue, previous-
ly available as separate albums.
* * *
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli,
the unpredictable Italian genius,
sometimes k e e p s audiences
waiting up to an hour after start-
ing time for his piano recitals.
But in a new record of works by
Chopin on Deutsche Grammo-
phon (2530 236) there is no de-
lay in getting to the best of
Michelangeli's playing. He per-
forms ten Mazurkas, with a wide
variety in mood within the set
form; a prelude ,a ballade and
a scherzo. It is a sensitive col-
lection, executed with the auth-
ority and fire that have earned
Michelangeli the epithet "the
'Horowitz of Europe."
Glenn Gould's interpretation of
Book Two of Bach's Well - Tem-
pered Clavier (Columbia D3M
31525) would make anyone's
stocking richer by a large de-
gree. The three records are
now available for Gould's hum-
ming, his rhythmic and articu-
lative quirks, one still has to ap-
tOv.
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9 Courtship of Eddie's Father
50 Flinstones
56 Maggie and the Beautiful
Machine
6:30 2 4 7 News
9 I Dream of Jeannie
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56 Making Things Grow
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preciate how much sense he
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forty-eight masterpieces.
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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos.
Anthony Newman and friends.
(Columbia M2 31398). This set
has my no-holds-barred recom-
mendation. The playing is stun-
ning, the interpretations thought-
ful and exhibiting a good deal
of common sense. The perform-
ers, besides Newman, who is a
young harpsichord wizard, are
other young musicians - Annie
and Ida Kavafian, James Kreg-
er; and well - known New York
pros - Karen Phillips, Walter
Trampler, Shelley Gruskin.
Newman conducts from the
harpsichord, and his interpre-
tative ideas include using a
transcription of a trio sonata for
organ as the second movement
of the third concerto; there are
also all sorts of little ornamen-
tations and improvished caden-
zas that add charm and a feeling
of spontaneity. The sound is ex-
cellent, and the mixing makes it
not-unpleasingly plump, even
with only one or two on a part.
56 Zoom
7:30 2 what's My Line?
4 Festival of Family Classics
7 Wild Kingdom
9 All Outdoors
50 Hogan's Heroes
56 Consumer Game
8:00 2 Harlem Globetrotters Pop-
corn Machine
4 Adam-12
7 Paul Lynde
9 News
56 How Do We Get From
Here to There?
50 Dragnet
8:30 4 McMillan and Wife
7 Movie
"Every Man Needs One,"
9 One Thousand and One Nights
50 Merv Griffin
56 Playhouse New York
9:00 2 Medical Center
10:00 2 Cannon
4 Search
7 Julie Andrews
9 Benny Hill
50 Perry Mason
56 Soul!
10:30 9 This Land
11:00 2 4 7 News
9 CBC News
50 Mancini Generation
11:20 9 News
11:30 2 Apollo 17
4 Johnny Carson
7 Dick Cavett
50 Movie
"Stop, You're Killing Me."
(1952)
12:00 2 Movie
"An Eye for an Eye." (1966)
9 Movie
"Alcatraz Express." (1962)
1:00 4 News
7 Blue Angels
1:30 7 News
2:00 2 Movie
"Sherlock Holmes and the
Deadly Necklace." (German
(1964)
3:30 2 News
25 years of
Gilbert and Sullivan
By THOMAS FIELD
With this weekend's production
of Gondoliers the Gilbert and
Sullivan Society marks its 25th
anniversary on campus.
The Society has always been
open to any interested students
and functions financially inde-
pendent of the University.
The initial spark for the organ-
ization came in the fall of 1946
from an enterprising co-ed,
Gloria Katlan, who had per-
formed Gilbert and Sullivan at
her New York high school and
felt that the campus, whose cul-
tural activity was at a low,
could use such a group. Her first
advertised meeting was mildly
successful but trouble developed
later on and the group all but
died out by the end of the
school year.
With help from two other
members, Ben Hazard and Jim
Ueberhost, Katlan scheduled an-
other meeting the following fall
that was advertised with posters
reading, "BOYS, GIRLS, DO
YOU LIKE TO SIN?, DO YOU
LIKE TO DANCE?" The absence
of the final "g" in "sing," whe-
ther intentional or not, seemed
to have helped attract the good-
ly crowd that turned up for the
meeting.
The fledgling group, working
without University assistance,
had trouble at first, but manag-
ed to survive. Prof. Kenneth
Rowe of the English department
and his wife provided valuable
help to the Society.
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To raise money each member,
was asked to contribute a two
dollar deposit. Before the term
was out the group had put on
their first play, an euthusiastic-
ally received production of The
Mikado, and ever since has stag-
ed at least two Gilbert and Sulli-
van operas a year.
Two Englanders, W. S. Gilbert
and Arthur Sullivan, the former
a humourist with a knack for
words and the latter a composer
of lively, ebullient music, collab-
erated during the later part of
the 1800's on some 14 comic op-
eras that brought this theatre
form to its ultimate in refresh-
ing hilarity. The Gilbert and
Sullivan works have demonstra-
ted a lasting popularity over the
years and are kept alive by a
countless number of amateur
theatre groups throughout the
English speaking world.
The local G&S Society uses a
repertoire of eleven operas so
that each is repeated about once
every five years.nAlthough they
are generally enjoyed by all
ages, Prof. Harry Benford and
his wife, who have been advisors
to the Society for fourteen years,
feel that the Gilbert and Sulli-
van operas are primarily a
"middle-age phenomenon" and
says that the Society's presenta-
tions are attended mostly by
townspeople.
According to Prof. Benford and
the original foundress, now
Gloria Bennish, the Society has
always been a dedicated and
enthusiastic group.
Bennish, who now resides in
Ann Arbor, recalled one year
in which the two leading players
in the term's production, Pina-
fore, were confined by doctor's
orders to the Health Service
B'iilding for the week of the per-
formance because of s o r e
throats. With hel from friends,
the two managed to sneak out
from the building each night,
make the performance, and
then sneak back in.
The present members of the
Society, which number over a
hundred for the presentation of
Gondoliers, are, according to
Bennish. "exactly the way we
were." The group's participants
attest to a sense of joy in what
they do that holds them togeth.
er. Throughout the year they
have parties, picnics and hold
annual events like a Halloween
Costume Party and a Christmas
Caroling Night.
The Society elects officers each
year who select the two operas
to be performed and the direc-
tors for each. Mass meetings are
held in September and January
for anyone interested in trying
out for the term's production.
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Participants need not be concen-
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Cyndy Haidostian, happens her-
self to be majoring in Political
Science.
Over the years, the Society has
expanded and improved - al-
though it is still an independent
group and is financied through
box office receipts and contri-
butions through FUMGASS, an
acrononym for Friends of the
University of Michigan Gilbert
and Sullivan Society.-
FUMGASS has over 300 dues
paying members and actively
seeks out former members of
the G&S Society. It publishes a
m o n t h 1 y newsletter, GAS-
BAG, and helps the Society with-
some of its activities. The Gil-
bert and Sullivan Society, has an
auxiliary group, the Small Com-
pany, which presents less ambi-
tious shows during the year. Lat-
er on this school year it will be
pres2Tting a work by Gilbert &
Gross-nith entitled Haste to the
Weddi::g.
Sever:A past participants in
the Society have gone on to pro-
fessional theatre. Now a Broad-
way performer, one member,
Marian Mercer, participated
back in the early '50's. Ara Ber-
berian has become a star for the
Metropolitan Opera and Frank
Poretta has worked with the
New York City Opera. Bill Flem-
ming, a television sports com-
mentator, was in the chorus for
the Society's first performance
25 years ago. The group is hold-
ing a twenty - fifth anniversary
celebration this Saturday for
past and present members and
friends of the group.
Marco (James Bryan) embraces the woman of his dreams Gianetta
(Ashley Putnam) in a scene from University Gilbert and Sullivan
Society's production of The Gondoliers opening tonight.
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SOCK HOP TIME-Straight from their recent engagement at
Detroit's Roostertail, Jimmy and the Javelins and Chas-
tity and the Belts kick out the last day of classes with
music from the fifties tonight at 8, West Quad Dining
Room.
ART FAIR-SGC sponsors a December Art Fair featuring
works by local artists Sunday from noon to 6, Union
Ballroom.
DRAMA-Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents The Gondo-
liers tonight, tomorrow and Friday at 8, Saturday at 7,
10, Mendelssohn.
MIME-Ann Arbor Mime Troupe presents Alice's Adventures
Under Ground tonight, tomorrow Friday and Saturday
at 8, Schorling Auditorium, School of Ed Bldg.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC-University Philharmonia, Josef Blatt
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day at 4, UGLI Multipurpose room; NLF film on chemi-
cal and biological warfare today at 4, 1041 Randall Lab-
oratory; AA Film Coop, Friedkin's The French Connec-
tion, Thurs., 7, 9:30, Aud. A; Cinema Guild, The Adven-
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Cinema II, Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers Fri., Sun.,
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Cinema II, Phantom of the Opera with piano accom-
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