CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINMAY-JUNE, 1970

INDEX

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

TRANSLATIONS

FINANCES AND GRANTS

NEWS FROM COMPANIES

MODERN PRODUCTIONS

FOREIGN OPERA COMPANIES

NEW THEATRES, STAGES and SETS

EDUCATION

AID TO COMPOSERS

VOCAL COMPETITIONS and WINNERS

NEW COS MEMBERS

BOOK CORNER

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KURT HERBERT ADLERSan Francisco OperaVICTOR ALESSANDROSan Antonio SymphonyROBERT G. ANDERSONTulsa OperaWILFRED C. BAINIndiana UniversityROBERT BAUSTIANSanta Fe OperaMORITZ BOMHARDKentucky OperaSTANLEY CHAPPLEUniversity of WashingtonEUGENE CONLEYNo. Texas State Univ.WALTER DUCLOUXUniversity of TexasPETER PAUL FUCHSLouisiana State UniversityROBERT GAYNorthwestern UniversityBORIS GOLDOVSKYGoldovsky Opera TheatreWALTER HERBERTHouston & San Diego OperaRICHARD KARPPittsburgh OpernGLADYS MAIHEWCommunity Opera

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CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETINVolume 12, Number 5 May-June, 1970

NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES

AMERICAN OPERAS

Harold Farberman is finishing a new, two-act opera, THE LOSERS, composed toan original story and libretto by Barbara Fried. The opera will be available fromFranco Colombo Publications and is presently under consideration for a premiereperformance in Spring 1971 by the Juilliard School. Mr. Farberman's first opera,Medea, was premiered in 1961 in Boston.

THE DEPOT by Bill Lee was performed for the first time in its entirety at JudsonHall, New York, on May 8 in a concert performance. The composer collaboratedin the premiere with the seven members of the New York Bass Violin Choir,singing, narrating and playing the bass fiddle. The opera tells the story of a negroin Snow Hill, Alabama.

Nicholas Flagello wrote THE PIED PIPER OF HAM LIN, a one-hour opera forperformance by pre-college children. The libretto, also by the composer, is basedon Browning's poem of the same title. It was heard for the first time on April 18at the Manhattan School of Music, where Mr. Flagello's The Judgment of St.Francis was premiered in 1966 and his The Sisters in 1961.

Kafka's AMERIKA with music by American Ellis B. Koh will be presented forthe first time by the Western Opera Theatre in California on May 27 in a concertversion. The story has also been used as a basis for an opera by Polish-born com-poser Haubenstock-Ramati.

American composer James Wade's first opera THE MARTYRED was premieredin Seoul, Korea, on April 8. The performance under the baton of David Shapiro,head of the opera department at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey,featured Korean soloists and the Korean Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Wade, a long-time resident of Korea, based the story of his opera on a 1964 novel by Korean-American author Richard Kim.

The Metropolitan Opera Studio is considering a concert performance of RobertBaksa's latest opera RED CARNATIONS for next season. The same group gavethe first concert reading of Mr. Baksa's Aria da capo last year.

PERELANDRA by Donald Swann with a libretto by David Marsh is based onC. S. Lewis' novel on interplanetary travel. It was premiered last November 21 bystudents from Bryn Mawr and Haverford College Drama and Music Departmentsin Pennsylvania and repeated at Riverside Church in New York. The performancewas co-sponsored by Galaxy Music Corp.

Dr. Rosemary Clarke is planning an opera after Aeschylus' Agamemnon, aftercompleting THE CAT AND THE MOON after Yeats. The same story also existsas an opera with music by Thomas Putsche.

John Crawford's THE TRAGICOMEDY OF DON CRISTOBAL AND ROSITAwas premiered on March 22. This is Mr. Crawford's first venture into opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti's first play (without music) THE LEPER was premiered atthe University of Florida in Tallahassee on April 22 during the Fine Arts Festivalthere.

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Two new operas by Canadian composers received their first hearings this season.Reverend Arthur Poynter's THE BIRTH OF OUR LORD was performed at theYorkminster Park Baptist Church in Toronto in December, and Thomas Hahn'sone-act THE WALL, based on a play by Verne Powers, was produced in May bythe Prince Edward Island Symphony and the ensemble of the P.E.I. UniversityOpera Workshop in Charlottetown.

It is interesting to note that this year's summer festivals (see listing) feature amore than average fare of contemporary works: Santa Fe: Berio's Opera, TheRake's Progress, Help, Help! The Globolinks, Le Rossignol; Central City: Of Miceand Men; Lake George Opera: Elephant Steps; Harford Theatre: Le Rossignol,The Consul; Caramoor Festival: The Growing Castle; Brevard Festival: Susannah;Oberlin Festival: The Rake's Progress; Houston Opera: Boesing's The Wanderer.

AMERICAN PREMIERES

The American Opera Center of the Juilliard School offered the first Americanperformance of Saverio Mercadante's IL GIURAMENTO on May 15. This wasthe most successful of Mercadante's one dozen operas, and, following its premierein Milan in 1837, it was heard in all major European and some South Americancities during the next twenty years. The text by G. Rossi is based on Victor Hugo'sAngelo. The production at Juilliard was repeated there on May 16 and 17 and willtravel to Spoleto, Italy, for six performances beginning June 26. Another recentItalian performance of the work took place in Bari in February.

Australian composer Malcolm Williamson's THE GROWING CASTLE, premieredat a castle in South Wales, England, in the summer of 1968 (see 9/68 Blltn.) willbe performed in the U.S. for the first time on July 3. A comparable Americansetting was found in the lovely renaissance-baroque estate at Katonah, N.Y., thehome of the Caramoor Festival. The composer has agreed to direct while accom-panying the work on the piano.

On April 26 the Opera Department of Washington University in St. Louis gave theAmerican premiere of British composer Ian Hamilton's PHARSALIA. The opera,first heard at the Edinburgh Festival in 1969, features seven soloists, including onenarrator, and eleven instrumentalists. It is dedicated to "the memory of all whodied or suffered through civil strife or war". It is published by Theodore PresserCo. and was performed at Washington University's Graham Chapel on a double-billwith Britten's The Burning Fiery Furnace.

Unearthing unknown operatic scores has become a hallmark of the MetropolitanOpera Studio and its director, John Gutman. Following last year's successful pre-miere of Cendrillon at the Newport Festival (see 6/69 Blltn.) the Studio willagain be heard there this summer. The Festival announced the Americanpremiere of AU TRAVERS DU MUR by the Polish composer, Joseph M.X.F.J.Poniatowski, Prince of Monte Rotondo, who was born in Rome in 1816 into Polishnobility and died in England in 1873. He spent the greater part of his life in Italyand France where he was a successful tenor and where he composed a total of tenoperas. Au Travers du mur was first heard in Paris on May 9, 1861. The RhodeIsland performance by the Metropolitan Opera Studio is scheduled for August 6.

The Mannes College of Music has offered the first American hearing of HansPfitzner's most important opera, PALESTRINA. The performance by the College'sorchestra and chorus under the baton of Carl Bamberger took place at New York'sSt. Paul's Chapel, but was limited to the opera's extensive first act in concert form.On the same date, May 21, the group also performed Palestrina's Missa Brevis.

DES ESELS SCHA TTEN is a children's opera after sketches by Richard Strauss,which was completed by Reverend Stephan Schaller and Karl Haussner, teachers ata boys' school in Ettal, Germany, where the opera was premiered in 1964 (see2/65 Blltn.). The opera will have its American premiere on August 14 in Flagstaffat the Northern Arizona University. It will be performed by high school studentsof the summer camp with Thomas Kirshbaum, conductor of the Flagstaff Sym-phony Orchestra, as musical director and Dennis Wakeling as director/designer.

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The first professional performance of Esels Schatten took place at the AccademiaFilharmonica Romana in Naples in 1967, and it is being performed in London thisMay. Boosey and Hawkes has published the vocal score and the libretto whichinclude an English translation by Maria Pelikan; score and parts are availablefor rental.

The rediscovery of the score of Scarlatti's ERACLEA (Naples, 1700) by DonaldGrout led to the American premiere of the work at Cornell University on April 26.The performance was in honor of Mr. Grout, music historian and author, who isretiring from the Cornell faculty this year.

The Hispanic Society of America sponsored the concert premiere of Spanish com-poser Leonardo Balada's MARIA S A BIN A, which took place at Carnegie Hall onApril 17. The story, by Spanish novelist Camillo Jose Cela, is based on a livecharacter, a woman involved with "hippy culture and the drug scene" who is nowsupposed to be seventy years old. The "symphonic tragedy" is envisioned for pro-duction using "some staging and visual background" and will be thus premiered inMadrid this summer. The composer studied in Barcelona and at the JuilliardSchool in New York.

New York's Clarion Concerts, Inc. and its director Newell Jenkins can be reliedupon to present one unusual opera in its American premiere each sason. Followingthis year's Medea in Corinto by Mayr, the group will perform J. A. Hasse's 3-actOL1MPIADE at Tully Hall on March 16, 1971, featuring Rita Shane, Helen Vanniand others. This prolific 18th century composer (1699-1783) wrote twenty-sixoperas, according to the Loewenberg's Annals of Opera. Olimpiade was originallyperformed in 1756 in Dresden and uses a text by Metastasio.

The American premiere of Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl's ANIARAscheduled at Indiana University in Bloomington for this season has been cancelled;the performances in April were replaced by Ariadne auf Naxos.—The openingnight of Kurt Weill's MAHAGONNY was postponed from March 18 to April 28.Josef Schenk's DER DORFBARBIER, erroneously announced by the GuelphFestival in Canada as a North American premiere, was actually premiered in theUnited States in New Orleans in 1842, and the most recent American productionwas given by the University of Oklahoma in February 1964. The Guelph perform-ances in May constituted the first Canadian performances.

The Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires scheduled the South American premiere ofSchoenberg's Moses und Aron for its current season.

EUROPEAN PREMIERES

Italian composer Giorgio Gaslini's COLLOQUIO CON MALCOLM X was pre-miered at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna on April 30 with subsequent perform-ances scheduled in Genoa. The same composer also wrote Ode per Naomi Ginsbergperformed in June 1969 in Lecco, Italy. — Franco Mannino's sixth opera, VIVI,was performed for the first time in Bari, Italy, on February 10. — Alberto Soresina,whose Amuleto was premiered in Bergamo in 1954, saw the first performance ofhis latest opera, TRE SOGNI, in Como earlier this season. This one-act opera wasperformed together with La Vindice by Morini. — A one-act opera, PERSEFONE,by Roberto Lupi, was premiered on January 7 in Florence on a double-bill withStravinsky's Oedipus Rex.

Paris' Opera Comique announced plans for the world premiere of Renzo Rossel-lini's latest opera, L'ANNONCE FAITE A MARIE, for October 30, 1970. It usesthe original text of ClaudeFs play by the same title and will be staged by PierreFranck with Jean Sebastian conducting. — The Marseille Opera plans a "PremierFestival de l'Opera Contemporain" for next winter with fifteen evenings devoted tocontemporary works.

Tito Schipa Jr., the 23-year-old son of the late tenor, composed a rock opera en-titled ORFEO 9. It was premiered at Rome's Teatro Sistina in January. — TheTheatre des Ambassadeurs in Paris, under the new directorship of Pierre Cardin,plans to present POPERA, a pop opera by 22-year-old Francois Wertheimer.

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German composer Hermann Reutter listed in the COS Directory of ContemporaryOperas with thirteen works, had his fourteenth opera, PHYLLIS UND PHIL-ANDER, presented on February 1 during the New-Music-Week in Hanover. -—Wilhelm Steffens, composer of Eli on which he collaborated with the late Pulitzer-prize-winner Nelly Sachs, adapted Dylan Thomas' play UNDER MILKWOOD.It will be performed by the Hamburg Opera Company during the next season underthe German title of Unter dem Milchwald. — Isang Yun, Korean composer nowresiding in Berlin, is writing SIMTJONG for premiere during the Winter Olympicsin Munich in 1972. — Last fall, the opera company in Saarbriicken, Germany,gave the first performance of a revised version of Boieldieu's JEAN DE PARIS(1812). Siegfried Koehler was responsible for the condensation of the two-actwork into one act.

Austrian composer/conductor Franz Salmhofer has written DREIKOENIG, whichwas performed by the Vienna Volksoper on April 13 for the first time. Otheroperas by the composer are Dame im Traum (1935), Iwan Sergejewich Tarassenko(1938), and Das Werbekleid (1946). — During this year's Gulbenkian Festivalin Lisbon, Braga Santos' TRILOGIA DAS BARCAS will be premiered. This is thePortuguese composer's third operatic work. — News from Czechoslovakia includesthe premiere date of the previously announced new opera by Ivan Jirko, THESTRANGE ADVENTURES OF ARTHUR ROW after Graham Green's Ministryof Fear, as being October 25, 1969 in Liberec. The composer is presently workingon his third opera, a one-act work called THE LADY MILLIONAIRE, plannedfor performances for next season together with the one-act THE PROSTITUTE.— KLEMENTINA, a new radio opera by Czech composer Jiri Smutny, won firstprize in a recent competition (for other operas by the composer see COS Directory).

Benjamin Britten has been commissioned to write the music for a filmed version ofShakespeare's THE TEMPEST to be shot next year in Bali — AGAMEMNON,with music composed by Oxford University student Richard Morris and with alibretto adapted by Anthony Holden, was given its first performance at the OxfordUniversity Opera Club on November 25, 1969. — Copenhagen's Festival Weeksin July will feature the premiere of Danish composer Erik Jorgensen's THEFAMILY OF MAN to be performed at the outdoor courtyard of CharlottenborgHall.

Composer Ivan Semenoff wrote the words and music for SIRE HALWYN, adaptedfrom a text by de Ghelderode. It was premiered in Nancy, France, on March 14while the composer's earlier, one-act opera L'Ours was presented in Tours aboutthe same time.

TRANSLATIONSThree new English translations by Ruth and Thomas Martin have recently been pub-lished. They are Millbcker's DER BETTELSTUDENT and Massenet's WERTHERboth available from G. Schirmer, Inc., and Rossini's LA GAZZA LADRA available fromFranco Colombo Publications.

Arthur Jacobs' latest translation is of Donizetti's LE CONVENIENZE ED INCONVENI-ENZE TEATRALI. It was performed this season by BBC, London and is available fromMr. Jacobs, 53 Friars Ave., London N 20, England.

Anne and Herbert Grossman are offering a new translation of MADAMA BUTTER-FLY which is available directly from them at their new address, 1235 Park Ave., NewYork, N.Y. Their previously listed translations, Gianni Schicchi, Lucia and Merry Wives,are also available from that address. (Please make the necessary changes in yourDirectory.)

Caldara's 1L G1UOCO DEL QUADRIGLIO has been performed at the WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis in English under the title of Charles of the Glitz in a translationby Charles Kondek. This eighteenth century work was presented in a modern setting.

Glinka's A LIFE FOR THE TSAR was sung in an English translation by David An-drews at Reading University in England.

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FINANCES AND GRANTS

With the present general economic gloom spreading proportionately to the wideninggap between recession and inflation, some recent announcements of grants in thearts offer a glimmer of hope that all is not lost for the arts. Of course, the recessionas well as the drop in the stock market will be reflected in the results of fund raisingdrives this year, and, as Howard Taubman points out in the New York Times, evenendowed institutions will feel the squeeze with the value of their endowment,mostly in stocks and bonds, shrinking at the same rate as stock prices drop.

The National Endowment for the Arts, while awaiting legislation for its futureappropriation, has made some grants in the musical field from current funds. Atotal of $706,000 was disbursed to twelve symphony orchestras and to the fourfollowing opera companies: The Center Opera Co., Minneapolis, The GoldovskyOpera Institute of Brookline, Mass, and New York, The Philadelphia Grand Operaand The Seattle Opera Company. The opera grants ranged from $20,000 to$40,000 and are to be used for commissioning new works and/or for additionalperformances in neighboring communities and in schools. — Next year's budgetof the National Endowment for the Arts, $20 million if fully approved by Con-gress, will provide $5.4 million for opera companies, orchestras, theatre and dancegroups and museums, with the largest amount of $3 million earmarked for orches-tras. In addition, about $1 million will be given in direct grants to individualcreative artists and $4,125,000 to State Arts Councils, doubling the largest previousgrants to these state agencies. Approximately $2 million will go towards "Touringof the Arts" and another $1 million for film and other experimental arts programs.

A new project just announced by the Office of Education will be a joint venture ofthat office together with that of the National Endowment to promote closercooperation between artists and educators. Commenting on this new programduring the St. Louis Conference of the Associated Councils of the Arts, James E.Allen, Jr., United States Commissioner of Education, described its purpose as, "onemeans of bringing the arts into the mainstream of the educational experience forall children and of bridging the gulf between the educational and artistic communi-ties". (Participants at the COS Conference in Minneapolis and readers of the 4/70COS Bulletin containing the report of that meeting will remember that these twoprograms were most urgently advocated by speakers and panelists for the survivalof opera and the arts in general.) For the new program, the Office of Education istransferring $900,000 to the National Endowment which will administer the pro-gram through State Arts Councils in twenty-six states. It is expected that another$600,000 will be raised locally in matching funds for the expansion of the project.Stating that almost one third of the Endowment's grants last year were youth-oriented, sponsoring either cultural events at schools or supporting endeavors byyoung artists, Miss Nancy Hanks expressed the hope that the new program willfurther enlarge the scope of federal activities for youth and culture.

Another project known as ARTS IMPACT (Interdisciplinary Model Program inthe Arts for Children and Teachers) is being organized by four national arts edu-cation organizations under the Education Professions Development Act and willbe administered by the U.S. Office of Education. The purpose of this project is astudy of the present educational climate of the public schools with regard to thechild's potential development as a human being and the effects of the arts on thisprocess. A two-year pilot project will be carried out in five states, Alabama, Cali-fornia, Ohio, Oregon and Pennsylvania. The national arts education associationsguiding the project include the Music Educators National Conference and oneorganization each representing theatre, dance and art. The program will be initiatednext fall and is estimated to cost $1 million.

As reported in the 1/70 COS Bulletin, the New York State Arts Council hadrequested the State legislature to appropriate $20 million for the arts in New York— a hitherto unheard of amount for such a venture. However, the unlikely becamereality and by the end of March the N.Y. State Council found itself in the positionof planning for a disbursement of $18 million. Preliminary plans outline thedistribution as follows: opera companies, including workshops and cooperativeorganizations $1.5 million; community music organizations (orchestras, conserva-

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tories and music schools) $3.2 million; museum aid programs $1.5 million, com-munity arts, science and historical organizations $6.5 million; dance organizations$2 million; theatre organizations $1.5 million; performing arts aid program$500,000; aid to individual artists $900,000 and community art centers and spon-sors $400,000.

The 1969-70 report of the New York State Council of the Art's activities duringthat year lists sponsorship of a total of eleven opera performances by theGoldovsky Grand Opera Theatre, the Turnau Opera, the After Dinner OperaCompany and the Metropolitan Opera Studio Ensemble. The Council's total outlayfor these performances amounted to $7,350. — The Council also aided in theestablishment of a Costume Collection through a grant to cover administrativecosts, e.g., preliminary storage and shipping, maintenance and fund raising. Thisorganization, headed by Robert Thomas, received as a gift all costumes of fifteenMetropolitan Opera productions no longer in use by the company and stage setsfor eight full productions designed for and used by the Metropolitan Opera Na-tional Company. These sets and costumes, presently stored in upstate New York,will be made available for rent beginning next season. Central Opera Service willcarry a list of the operas represented as well as details on rental in the Septemberissue of the Bulletin. — Other special projects of the N.Y. State Arts Councilincluded aid towards performances of Britten's Prodigal Son at the CaramoorFestival, the sponsorship of apprentice singers to sing lead roles at the ChautauquaFestival, organizational and directional assistance in various forms to the CapitalArtists Resident Opera Company, the Lake George Opera Festival, the OperaOrchestra of New York, Opera Today of New York, and the Opera Theatre ofRochester.

The Minnesota State Arts Council has recently made a grant to the Center OperaCompany for a tour to State high schools and colleges with its latest productionof an American opera, The Wanderer. Besides Minneapolis, the company traveledto twelve cities, also offering a lecture-demonstration on the history of opera en-titled "Opera Without Elephants".

The Center Opera Company was also one of seventeen recipients of grants from theFord Foundation, announced in May. The Foundation distributed a total of $2.1million to arts organizations, museums, theatres, dance groups, the Brooklyn Insti-tute of Arts and Sciences, the Henry Street Settlement School and the St. PaulChamber Orchestra Society. The Center Opera Company received $90,000 over afour-year period; one-third of it is "to help it develop a broader base of local sup-port" with the provision that the company raise $132,000 from new sources byMay 1973. The company is the only one in the United States to perform solelycontemporary works; of last year's four productions two were American operas inworld premieres and two were foreign contemporary operas presented in Americanpremieres. — The Ford Foundation also announced a new program of directgrants-in-aid for creative writers, concert artists and theatre directors. A totalamount of $575,000 will be available under this program over the next three years.For particulars regarding grants to concert artists and composers see the articleon page 12 of this issue.

Responding to the urgent appeal by American major conservatories and musicschools (see 1/70 Bulltn.) the Rockefeller Foundation has instigated a three-yearprogram of assistance to six major independent music education institutions. Thetotal amount available for this project is $895,000 and the institutions chosen forparticipation are: the Juilliard School ($265,000), the New England Conservatory($200,000), the Peabody Institute of Baltimore ($170,000), the Manhattan Schoolof Music ($100,000), the San Francisco Conservatory of Music ($85,000) andthe Cleveland Institute of Music ($75,000). The Cleveland Institute also received$3,000 from the Ohio Arts Council for multi-media performances in the Clevelandarea, produced by the Institute's Multi-Media Center established two years agounder a Rockefeller grant.

The Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music Inc. has published its first report,encompassing its activities since its founding in 1962. It is supported entirely byMartha Baird Rockefeller, the widow of John D. Rockefeller, who in her youthwas a successful concert pianist. Her first major philanthropic activities in music

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started in 1954 when she donated money to the Metropolitan Opera for new pro-ductions, an endeavor she still continues and which she expanded to include newproductions at the New York City Opera Company as well. In 1957 she began herAid to Young Musicians Program from which developed the M.B.R. Fund in1962. Under the guidance of its director, Donald Engle, and with the constantpersonal interest and counsel of Mrs. Rockefeller, the Fund has distributed over$3 million, concentrating in particular on the young performing artists and on per-forming groups open to young artists. There is hardly a successful Americansinger today who does not have his or her name listed on the roster of individualrecipients of the Fund, and organizations such as the Affiliate Artists Inc. havealso received substantial aid. There are fifteen operatic organizations that receivedbetween $3,000 and $100,000 towards the training and performance opportunitiesfor young singers, twelve opera companies received straight-out aid towards theirseason and nine companies received funds for the cost of sets and/or costumes forspecific productions. Four other opera companies were awarded money to facili-tate the engagement of additional artistic or administrative personnel. The diversityof purpose of the grants and the great number of artists aided through both indi-vidual as well as company grants make this fund one of the most important andvaluable contributors to music, even though its total dollar contribution may belower than that of other foundations.

One of the earliest programs sponsored by the National Endowment for the Artswas a housing project for artists in New York (see 10/65 Blltn.). In April the$13 million Westbeth was officially opened on West 12th Street, housing at present382 composers, painters, dancers, writers, sculptors and photographers. It willeventually be able to accommodate 1200 artists.

Of a total fund of $31.4 million earmarked for the sciences, humanities and thearts, Canada's federal agency, the Canada Council, distributed $4.1 million to thearts during the 1969-70 fiscal year. Among the twenty-six performing groups whichreceived federal subsidies during that period were the Canadian Opera Companywith $280,000, the Vancouver Opera Company and the Theatre Lyrique de Quebecwith $80,000 each and the Edmonton Opera with $35,000.

NEWS FROM COMPANIES

Due to increased costs following the new contracts with its unions and to thegenerally rising expenses, the METROPOLITAN OPERA announced a rise in itsticket prices, the first in four years. Next season the parterre boxes will sell for $20and $30 per seat instead of $17 and $25, orchestra and grand tier seats will gofrom $13.50 and $14.50 to $16.50 and $17.50 with the front seats in both cate-gories selling for the higher price; dress circle tickets will be raised from $9 to$10.75, balcony tickets from 6.50 to $7.75 and the family circle categories of$4.75, $3.50 and $2.50 will cost $5.50, $4 and $2.85 respectively. Standing roomin the orchestra and family circle will command $2.85 and $1.75 instead of $2.50and $1.50. The company also added two more series of subscriptions, bringing thetotal number of different series to twenty-two, ten series at ten performances, eightseries at nine performances, three series at eight performances and one at six. Inthis connection it is interesting to note that the recently published 1968-69 financialreport of the company showed that box office receipts amounted to $11.2 millionof which about 75% is from subscriptions. Other operating income amounted to$2.7 million which left the Association with a loss of $3.5 million before contribu-tions. (Total expenditures for the year-round operation with 285 performancesamounted to $17.4 million.) Ultimately contributions were raised in the amountof $4 million. The loss before contributions is expected to double within the nextthree years.

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The CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA which operated with total expenses amounting to$2.5 million for an eleven-week season of forty-two performances in 1969 received$1.5 million from box office intake while raising about $1 million in contributionsand from benefit performances. A very vigorous fund raising campaign in whichone board member announced that all contributions received within the last twoweeks of the fund drive would be matched by him one to two, netted the company$50,000 over the established goal. For the coming fall season, the Chicago Lyricoffers a total of eleven different subscription series, four series with eight perform-ances each, one with seven performances, and six with five performances, the latterconstituting split subscriptions of the eight-performance series.

The SAN FRANCISCO OPERA offers thirteen different subscription series forthe fall 1970, four each with four and five performances are splits of the full sub-scriptions of eleven operas (one series), ten operas (two series) and one serieseach of eight and seven operas. The company, operating with an approximate $3million budget, will offer forty-nine performances within its ten-week season.

The NEW YORK CITY OPERA'S schedule consists of three different seasons, aspring and fall season in New York (nine-week/sixty-nine performances and ten-week/seventy-seven performances respectively) and a winter engagement in LosAngeles (three-week/sixteen performances). Each season has its own individualsubscription series featuring three or four performances per subscription. As we goto press we learn that prices for the City Opera at the State Theatre have also beenincreased this year. As was the case last fall when prices rose one dollar from a$5.95 top to a $6.95 top, this category has now been increased to $7.95 beginningwith the fall 1970 season. All price categories have been increased accordinglyand the scale now is $1.50 to $7.95.

The SEATTLE OPERA COMPANY with a budget under $1 million and withperformances spread throughout the year, rather than performing in repertoirewithin a shorter season, also relies heavily on subscription. It features five differentseries, each including all five productions, four are the higher priced InternationalSeries and one the lower priced National Series. The company gives a total of25 performances plus a number of performances for students in and outside ofthe opera house.

In contrast to most American companies, who attempt to stabilize their incomethrough subscriptions, it is interesting to note that London's ROYAL OPERA hasfound subscription a disadvantage and is selling its tickets individually by mailorder or at the box office only.

OPERA TODAY, an organization with a "new concept of opera", will give itsfirst demonstrations in New York in June. COS members had a chance to see amodel of the "luminous hemisphere" and watch a sample production/projectionduring the National Conference in Minneapolis offered by Opera Today's directorPatricia Collins. The large scale demonstration in June will feature Spatial Varia-tions on a Piece of Benjamin Britten (Les Illuminations) presented in a 34-foot domeincorporating film and sound projected from twelve projectors and audio-speakers,a live singer and four live dancers. These will perform on a central stage sur-rounded by a 150-head audience all under the dome, which is made of interlaced,aluminum hoops covered with transluscent material. The company hopes to enlargeon its project and to offer full-length productions in a 60-foot dome, accommodat-ing an audience of 500, in the future. The dome is easily assembled and dismountedand can be set up in auditoriums, gymnasiums, convention halls, ballrooms, etc.

The WESTERN OPERA THEATRE, the touring arm of the San Francisco Com-pany, announced its first visit to Alaska where it will perform for two weeks inAnchorage.

Similar to the Metropolitan Opera Guild's arrangements of chartered tours toEurope for its members, the SAN DIEGO OPERA. GUILD is sponsoring a tripabroad for its members. In accordance with its geographical location, however, thesouthern Californians will visit four South American capitals. The date is July 24to August 9; for further information contact Mrs. David Porter, 4024 St. JamesPlace, San Diego, Cal. 92103.

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The MONTREAL SYMPHONY, which had suspended its operatic activitiesduring the last two seasons, will resume opera productions for the 1970-71 seasonunder the sponsorship of the Place des Arts.With the first Performance Listing for the 1970-71 season contained in this issue,here are some glimpses into the 1971-72 season: The Metropolitan Opera mightinclude new productions of Boris Godunov and Der Freischiitz, originallyplanned for the current season and deferred also from next season, in their 1971-72 schedule; at this time no further announcements have been made regard-ing the two remaining operas of the Ring, the new Siegfried and Gotterddmmerung.— The Chicago Lyric's 1971 fall season will feature Joan Sutherland and MarilynHome in Semiramide, Home and Hermann Prey in The Barber of Seville, GwynethJones, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Sherrill Milnes in Don Carlo. Thecompany will also embark on a four-year plan of new productions of the Ring,beginning next year with Das Rheingold. — The San Francisco Opera's announce-ment so far has been limited to Beverly Sills' participation in the opening nightproduction in 1971.—The New York City Opera Company is planning a newproduction of // Ballo in maschera during its spring season (3/21/71).

The previously announced meeting of directors of some American opera companies(see 1/70 Blltn.) resulted in the formation of an organization entitled Opera Pro-ducing Companies Enterprise for Related Activities in America (OPERA America)for the purpose of "inter-company cooperation". Preliminary guidelines for mem-bership were established as follows: professional companies (with AGMA con-tracts) producing more than one opera annually and giving more than oneperformance of each production. Membership dues will amount to . 1 % of theexpenses shown in the audited financial report of the previous year but will notbe less than $100 and not more than $1,000 annually. The following officers werechosen at a preliminary meeting in Washington in April: Robert Collinge president,Styrk Orwoll vice-president, Hobart Spalding secretary, William Matthews treas-urer, and the following producers as directors: Kurt Herbert Adler, Walter Herbert,John Ludwig, Russell Patterson and Glynn Ross. The first meeting of the organiza-tion has tentatively been set for January 1971.

MODERN PRODUCTIONS—MOD PRODUCTIONS

Responding to the request for "more relevant opera productions", the Boston OperaCompany's production of The Good Soldier Schweik, performed at Boston College,involved the students both in the promotion of the performances as well as in the per-formances themselves. Publicity and ticket sales were increased by such devices as mockbattles staged by students on various campuses and by multi-media shows using WorldWar I filmstrips which were later also incorporated into the opera production.

During the next season the Washington Opera Society will offer a novel setting for LaTraviata by placing the action in New Orleans at the turn of the century. Felicia Weatherswill be Violetta with Frank Poretta as Alfredo.Following its last year's success of a multi-media production at Washington schools, theSeattle Opera Company is offering Goodbye Soldier this spring in twenty-one perform-ances under the State Cultural Enrichment Program. The production combines Stravin-sky's Story of a Soldier, previously performed by the company at schools in 1967, withperformances of the Northwest Rock 'n Roll Band, film and still projection, kineticsculptures and dance.

In this connection the recent performances of Cost fan tutte as They All Swing with theuse of a Moog synthesizer at Hofstra College comes to mind and the Boston Opera pro-duction of The Rake's Progress two years ago set in the Motorcycle-gang-California.The previous report of performances of Tommy by the rock group "The Who" in stateand stately opera houses in Europe can now be amended by a report of two performancesof this opera by the same group at the Metropolitan Opera House on June 7.

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NEWS FROM FOREIGN OPERA COMPANIESLondon: Reorganizing Sadler's Wells will result in the formation of a single com-pany, rather than the present system of one resident and one touring group. Thecompany will perform at London's Coliseum Theatre from August through March,after which time it will split up into two groups for touring. During those monthsthe theatre in London will be free to book foreign attractions.—Sharing the CoventGarden Opera House, the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet companies program alter-nate performances during the season, except from April through June when theballet company is on tour and the opera company performs nightly. Covent Gardenitself is considering a major renovating job after the adjoining fruit and vegetablemarket, which gave the opera house its name, has moved to Battersea, probablysometime in 1973. Plans drawn up at this time include a lowering of the stage andthe addition of about 400 seats in the auditorium, estimated to cost $15 million.The possible addition of a smaller hall with a seating capacity for about 1,000people is not included in the first proposal and would add another $8-10 millionto the cost.

It is with particular regret that we have learned from Opera that the British Broad-casting Corporation will henceforth greatly curtail its operatic activity. The so-called "deferred relays", i.e., recording productions for later broadcasts, will betotally discontinued, while last year nineteen such recordings were made, either onlocation or in the BBC studios. During the next season BBC's own productions willbe cut from thirty-six to thirteen, and live relays from theatres will be reducedfrom twenty-two to seventeen. The only area where no cut-backs will occur is thatof commercial recordings and foreign video-tapes which will remain numericallystable. This cut-back in activity is especially significant in the light of recurringinsistent statements at conferences (Central Opera Service, National Music Council,Associated Councils of the Arts, etc.) that the future of opera lies in the communi-cations media, films, video-tapes and video-cassettes. One must remember, how-ever, the vast store of European operatic films already available.

West Berlin's Deutsche Gastspieloper, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Oper Berlin,will offer free performances of Die Kluge for workers at West Berlin plants andwill then embark on a three-year world tour with the Orff chamber opera.

The Paris Grand Opera will probably be closed for one whole year beginning Octo-ber 1, 1970. A major renovation is planned which will affect and modernize thestage, the auditorium, the lobbies, the backstage area and the workshops. MarcelLandowski announced that when the house reopens in the fall of 1971 a newensemble will be formed around a small nucleus of the present company under theartistic direction of Georges Pretre. It will aim for improvement of working con-ditions through collective bargaining, for an updating of the repertory and forgreater involvement of opera personnel in company matters. — Meanwhile theOpera Comique is negotiating new contracts for its personnel trying to establishits own resident ensemble of some sixty singers with its own conductors, stagedirectors and dancers. The members, who had hoped to be able to increase weeklyperformances from five to ten, settled for six performances a week. There is alsoa plan to add an "Ecole Superieure Nationale d'Art Lyrique" beginning with the1971-72 season.

Spring and summer finds a great increase in European operatic travel, not only ofaudiences but of companies as well, and it becomes a true case of musical chairswith touring companies vying for intermittently vacant opera houses in foreigncapitals. The list of the companies having guest-appearances in foreign capitals isstaggering and therefore mention of only a few can be included here. An exchangevisit of the Vienna State Opera and the Bolshoi Opera Company planned for 1971is of special interest since Leonard Bernstein will join the Vienna company inMoscow conducting Der Rosenkavalier with Christa Ludwig and Walter Berry,and Karl Bohm will lead Elektra and Tristan und Isolde with Birgit Nilsson. Thenext year, Leonard Bernstein will also make his Bayreuth debut, conducting Tristanund Isolde. Earlier this season the Bolshoi Opera visited Paris, playing at the GrandOpera; Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper will bring some of its contemporary operasto Vienna in the spring of 1971; it enjoyed an exchange engagement with theStockholm company earlier this season. The Deutsche Oper am Rhein will go from

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Diisseldorf to Prague this summer, the Cologne Opera will perform at London'sColiseum in the absence of the Sadler's Wells Company and the English OperaGroup will be seen in Ghent during the Flanders Festival. — The Hamburg Operais importing the team of Ming Cho Lee and Tito Capobianco from New York forits own production of Handel's Julius Caesar.

NEW THEATRES, NEW STAGES

In March the New York State University College at Fredonia initiated its newMichael C. Rockefeller Arts Center College Theatre with a performance of DonGiovanni by the opera department. — The University of Akron, Ohio, is planninga performing arts building at the cost of $7.2 million. It will house a 3,000-seatauditorium. — The seventy-seven-year-old Henry Street Settlement School on theLower East Side of Manhattan will add a $3 million Arts-For-Living Center to becompleted in late 1971. The building will include a recital hall seating 80 andstudios for dance, drama, art, pottery and a children's experimental studio. Thebuilding will also contain lounges and a coffee shop as well as a child care centerfor children whose mothers are taking classes at the school. Particular emphasiswill be placed on activities involving and relating to neighborhood groups. Thearchitects for the building are Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen, with Lo-Yi Chan asdesigner.

Following the success of the arts centers in Montreal (Place des Arts) and the onemore recently completed in Ottawa (The National Arts Centre), both Quebec andToronto are adding new arts centers to the Canadian scene. Le Grand Theatre inQuebec, designed by Polish-born architect Victor Prus and built at a cost of $14million will open this fall and will be the new home of Le Theatre Lyrique deQuebec, and the Conservatoire de Musique as well as of the symphony orchestraand the local theatre company. The opera house/auditorium will seat 1,865 peopleand the orchestra pit will accommodate 120 musicians. The Centre also harborsrehearsal and dressing rooms,, scenery workshops, 75 studios and one rehearsalhall 60 x 60 offering the same dimension as the main stage. A smaller auditoriumwith 600 seats, a restaurant, an art gallery and a garage complete the facilities.— The St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, operated by the Toronto Arts Foun-dation, does not feature a large auditorium but three smaller halls; one with an830-seat capacity to be used for theatrical productions was designed by HarryHomer and is adaptable to proscenium or thrust stage presentations. It can alsobe used for chamber opera. The second, 783-seat auditorium called Town Hallwas conceived for chamber concerts or recitals and film showings. The Centre alsooffers office space, workshops and rehearsal rooms for the Canadian Opera Com-pany, the National Ballet and other arts organizations.

The Goldovsky Products Corporation and its president, Boris Goldovsky, presentedhis Grand Portable Stage at a dinner and demonstration evening at New York'sArmory on Park Avenue on March 11. The invited audience was treated to ariasand operatic scenes performed on the stage which had been assembled the pre-ceding evening in the armory. The stage, complete with lighting equipment, velvetcurtain and platforms, is 24 feet deep, has a proscenium opening of 36 x 20 anda movable ceiling which can be cantilevered or suspended from overhead grids. Itcan be assembled by eight stage hands in about eight hours and disassembled inhalf the time. It can be installed in any enclosed area of sufficient size and, dueto the cyclorama and the movability of the fiberglass ceiling and lights on grids,the stage offers a great versatility. It is for sale for about $50,000, special arrange-ment may be made for its rental; further information may be obtained from theGoldovsky Institute, 154 West 57 Street, New York, N.Y. Optional equipmentincludes various spot lights, closed circuit TV with monitors, signalling devicesbetween conductor and backstage personnel, etc. In 1966 the COS Bulletin reportedon a preliminary scale model of this stage.

Dr. Elemer Nagy reports the use of his multi-screen scenery projection system bya large number of United States Army performing units for drama and musicaltheatre productions at military camps abroad and especially in the Far East.

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The United States Institute for Theatre Technology held its Tenth National Con-ference in New York on April 15 to 18. Both lectures and demonstrations duringthe three-day meeting concerned a number of interesting innovations, and a reportof the meeting will be published by USITT shortly. Meanwhile, a recent issue ofthe USITT Journal (Number 20) features "Theatre Abroad" and includes photo-graphs of very interesting and imaginative operatic scenery designed by the well-known Czech artist Josef Svoboda. Single copies of the quarterly are availablefrom USITT, 245 West 52 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 for $3.00.

Recent Sets and Costumes For RentDon Carlo San Antonio Grand Opera, 600 Hemisfair Plaza, San Antonio, Texas 78205.

Des: D. Oenslager. For rent or sale.Don Pasquale Baltimore Civic Opera, 11 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. 21202. For

rent, includes turn-table.The Magic Flute New Haven Opera Society, Box 6144, Hamden, Conn. For rent.Die Fledermaus same.Cost fan tutte same.

EDUCATION

Wayne State University has begun a Graduate Opera Division under the guidance ofRobert Cowden, formerly of the Chautauqua, the Detroit Grand and the MetropolitanOpera National Companies. Mr. Cowden hopes to establish a resident repertory operaticgroup similar to Wayne State's own Hilberry Classic Theater which offers a year-roundrepertory theater. The first production under the new Opera Division was Don Pasqualein February.

The Southeastern Massachusetts University has been created at North Dartmouth bycombining the Fall River and New Bedford Institutes, and it has added a music depart-ment, including opera, under Mr. and Mrs. Josef Cobert. In its second year now the operadepartment is visiting neighboring high schools with Hansel and Gretel and The Tele-phone under a State sponsored tour. The directors hope to be able to offer a bachelor'sdegree in music by next year.

The new California Institute of the Arts, originally announced in the 1/69 Bulletin, willopen this fall in Valencia, California. Mel Powell is dean of the school, LawrenceSmith, former assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, is director of the video-opera program and soprano, Marni Nixon, is director of the voice faculty.

The Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh offers a new Doctor of Arts degree. Thenew program is open to college and junior college instructors and highly qualifiedteachers at secondary schools for graduate work in education.

The American Choral Foundation has announced its third annual summer ChoralInstitute. It will be under the guidance of Margaret Hillis, director of the ChicagoSymphony Chorus and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and will be held at the AmblerInstitute and Festival of Temple University from July 5 to August 2.

For further news from the educational field see the article on Finances and Grants whichmentions a number of federally sponsored new programs. Summer workshops andinstitutes are included in the Summer Performance Listing.

AID TO COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS

The Ford Foundation, which instigated the Recordings-Publication Program (see 1/70BUtn.), will also be offering a direct grants-in-aid program to include concert artistsand composers. Vocalists or instrumentalists under 35 must be nominated for the pro-gram by professionals in their field. If accepted, they will receive up to $5,000 towardsconcertizing and/or $3,000 to $5,000 to commission a composer of their choice towrite an original work for performances by them. The Foundation is setting aside atotal of $575,000 for distribution to individual artists over the next three years; theprogram will start January 1971.

Closely following the announcement of the Ford Foundation's assistance program forthe recording of new compositions, comes an announcement of a new program under-taken by Acoustic Research, Inc. in collaboration with Deutsche Grammaphone Gesell-schaft. ARI, a manufacturer of recording equipment, is offering technical assistance and$300,000 for this new venture which is designed to record unknown or hitherto un-recorded contemporary compositions and to distribute and sell these records at thelowest possible price. DGG is manufacturing the stereo disks, which will sell for $2.00and carry the label AR-DGG. David Epstein is the director of the program and a com-mittee of established composers functions as judges. The first six LP records havebeen released and may be ordered from Acoustic Research, 24 Thorndike St., Cam-bridge, Mass. 02141 for $2.00 (no shipping charges). Fourteen half-hour broadcast tapeshave been prepared from the recordings and include some commentary. They areavailable free of charge to radio stations who are willing to present them without com-mercial sponsors on a weekly basis for a minimum period.

E. C. Schirmer Co., 600 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 02111 and the Handel andHaydn Societies are co-sponsoring a Choral Composition Contest. The work may not belonger than twenty minutes and may not feature more than two soloists. It may includea chamber orchestra; its text must be in English. The cash award is $500 and at leastone performance as well as publication of the winning work is guaranteed. Manuscriptsmust be submitted by September 1, 1970; further information may be obtained fromE. C. Schirmer.

Foreign competitions open to international composers include: — "Prix de CompositionMusicale Reine Marie-Jose" open to composers under the age of 50. Further informationis available from Secretariat, CH-1249 Merlinge-Gy (Geneva) Switzerland. — "PremioMusicale Guido Valcarenghi", Foro Buonaparte 18, Milan, Italy. — Sixth InternationalCompetition "Alfredo Casella", Accademia Musicale Napoletana, Via Pasquale a Chiaia62, Naples, Italy. See also article on "Finances and Grants."

The Guggenheim Foundation will disburse $2.5 million in fellowships to 286scholars, scientists, writers, artists and composers.

Edward Albee has established the William Flanagan Memorial Creative PersonsCenter in Montauk, Long Island, N.Y. in memory of his friend, the composerW. Flanagan. Fashioned after the MacDowell Colony, where creative artists maywork in peace and solitude, Mr. Albee will open the new Center to eight to tenartists in the first year. Talent and financial need will be the criteria for acceptance.

VOCAL COMPETITIONS

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Auditions announced the followingchanges in the age limits to become effective for the 1971 auditions. Applicants mustbe within the following age brackets between January 1 and April 15 of the year forwhich they are auditioning: sopranos 18-30; mezzos, contraltos and tenors 20-30; bari-tones 20-32; basses 20-33. For further details see Awards for Singers brochure; forwinners of the 1969 auditions see below.

The International Competition for Musical Performers held in Geneva this fall will bedevoted to Lieder and oratorio. Next fall (1971) singers will compete for the GrandPrix d'Opera. For details see Awards for Singers brochure.

The Young Musicians Foundation, now located at 135 North Grand Avenue, LosAngeles, Cal. 90012, offers its winner a $1,000 cash prize plus a concert appearance. Allfinalists receive a $500 career grant. All contestants must be under 26 on June 21, 1970(see Awards brochure).

The Budapest Music Competition for singers will be held from September 18 to October1, 1970. Age: under 33. Deadline: May 31, 1970. Applications: Budapester Inter-nationaler Musikwettbewerb, Liszt Ferenc ter 8, Budapest VI, Hungary.

The Francisco Vinas Voice Competition will take place in November. For further detailswrite International Competitions, Secretariat, Bruck 125, Barcelona, Spain,

WINNERSDue to the delayed opening of the Metropolitan Opera this season, the 1969 NationalFinals of the National Council Regional Auditions were not held until April 5, 1970.Of the ten finalists, chosen from twenty-three semi-finalists last spring, Miss Gilda Cruz-Romo, dramatic soprano from Fort Worth, Texas, was offered a Metropolitan Operacontract for next season. The contract date was advanced, however, when she wascalled upon to substitute for Martina Arroyo as Maddalena in Andrea Chenier on May8 in Atlanta. Miss Cruz-Romo, presently a member of the N.Y.C. Opera, also receivedthe $2,500 Mme. Lilliana Teruzzi Award. The other winners were bass-baritone JamesJohnson from Los Angeles who received the $2,000 Mrs. Frederick K. WeyerhaeuserAward, soprano Eugenie Chopin Watson from Baton Rouge who received the $2,000Gramma Fisher Foundation Award and soprano Elaine Cormany from New York whowas awarded a new $500 award in honor of Howard Hook. The other finalists werebaritone Fernando Barabino from Bloomington, Ind., tenor Perry Price from Vancouver,Canada, and sopranos Margaret Garrett from Sydney, Australia, Mary Foster Strebingfrom New York and Kristi Vensand from Winnipeg, Canada. Semi-finalist Frederickavon Stade, mezzo soprano from New York, received a Metropolitan Opera contract inJanuary and therefore sang but did not compete in the finals.

The 1970 semi-finals and finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditionswill follow each other closely with the semi-finals closed to the general public and thefinals, tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of November 1, again on the stage of theMetropolitan Opera.

The Kosciusko Foundation's Marcella Sembrich Competition gave its $1,000 scholarshipto 22-year-old mezzo soprano Cynthia Ocea Bedford from Hawaii. — Soprano MichelineRene was the winner of the annual award given by the Canadian Women's Club of NewYork. — Soprano Norma Burrowes and contralto Oriel Sutherland each won $2,000at the recent Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's competition held in Lisbon.

CONFERENCESNew England Conservatory, "Sixth Annual Symposium for Student Composers", Boston,

Massachusetts 4/2-6/70.The Associated Councils of the Arts, "Youth, Education and the Arts", St. Louis,

Missouri 5/20-23/70.National Music Council, Annual Meeting, New York, N.Y. 5/21/70.American Symphony Orchestra League, "Symphonies in the Soaring 70's", Denver, Colo-

rado 6/16-19/70. (25th Annual Conference)Calvin College & Bolt Beranek and Newman, "Visual and Performing Arts and Higher

Education", Grand Rapids, Michigan 8/3-7/70.Central Opera Conference, Santa Fe, N.M. 8/13, 14, 15/70

NEW COS MEMBERS

Bamberger, David S., New York, N.Y.Breyer-Graf, Miss Uta, New York, N.Y.Calif. State Univ., H. Lampl, Dir., Music Dept., Long BeachCollin, Miss Ann, New York, N.Y.Harford Theatre Assn., S. Lilienstein, Dir., Bel Air, Md.IMAGO, A Cavanaugh, Dir., San Francisco, Cal.Kaufmann, Jacobo, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaKohrs, Karl, Port Chester, N.Y.Lampl, Hans, Huntington Beach, Cal.The Mario Singers, M. Lalli, Dir., Denver, Col.Matsch, Mrs. Franz, New York, N.Y.Ohio State University Library, ColumbusRenan, Emile, New York, N.Y.Shea, John, Urbana, 111.Warren, James A., Ill, Los Angeles, Cal.Winkelvoss, Miss E. Lynn, Oberlin, O.

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BOOK CORNER

Dictionaries

It is exciting news indeed that the St. Martin's Press has just published the uniqueGROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS in a paperback editionthus making this most complete and comprehensive musical reference work avail-able at a considerable saving. In this fifth edition edited by Eric Blom, the Grove'scontains over 9 million words and close to 9 thousand pages and is bound intoten well-designed volumes of convenient size. They come boxed for easy storage.In spite of the greatly reduced rate of $60.00, (the hardcover edition sells for$150.00), the paperback books are on good quality paper and contain numerousillustrations. The publisher is to be congratulated for bringing this famous andextensive publication well within the reach of individual music students, teachers,scholars and performing musicians.

The musician or music aficionado who will settle for less information may findthe one-volume, 1200-page, hard-cover OXFORD COMPANION TO MUSICquite adequate. Published by Oxford University Press in its tenth edition, edited byJohn Owen Ward, it is copiously and attractively illustrated and is an informative,although necessarily more limited, reference book than the Grove's. It sells for$25.00.

The DICTIONNAIRE DES OPERAS by Felix Clement and Pierre Larousse, outof print for many years, is a welcome addition to the Music Reprint Series of theDa Capo Press. The two volumes represent the 1293-page unabridged version of the1905 revised edition (revised by Arthur Pougin) and includes the 1904 supplement.It is a wonderful document of its time and in some instances offers material notavailable from any other source. It is, of course, reprinted in the original French;the cloth-bound, two-volume set is priced at $47.00.

Also under its Music Reprint Series, the Da Capo Press is offering RUSSIANCOMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS: A Biographical Dictionary, compiled byAlexandria Vodarsky-Shiraeff and first published in 1940. This 158-page book inEnglish, with all names transliterated and phonetic guides to their pronunciation,costs $12.50.

General

In response to the newly awakened interest in Alexandre Scriabin and the re-emer-gence of his compositions, Faubion Bowers has written SCRIABIN, A Biography ofthe Russian Composer 1871-1915. This superbly written two-volume work presentsa total picture of the man, his times and his contemporaries, and Mr. Bowers, aScriabin scholar and expert, offers much insight into and analysis of the composer'smusic and artistic concepts which were prophetic of today's multimedia. The bookcontains numerous excerpts of letters, some not previously known, as well as newbiographical material helpful in understanding the artist and his works. Attractivelyprinted in Japan and published by Kodansha International, Palo Alto, California,the books are boxed and contain a number of photographs. The price is $25.00.

No doubt one of the most popular musical books of this decade will prove to bePablo Casals' JOYS AND SORROWS, His Reflections, as told to Albert E. Kahn.The wizened, 93-year-old musician relates his private, political and musical experi-ences where he has proven himself to be a pillar of strength, determination andintegrity. He allows his readers to share in his joys and sorrows, and the heartwarm-ing and humane story is the touching document of a great man. Published bySimon and Schuster, this generously illustrated, 300-page book sells for $7.95.

St. Martin's Press offers a beautifully executed 200-page biography, THE LIFE OFMOZART, by Hans Conrad Fischer and Lutz Besch for $10.00. Rather than writ-ing a scholarly treatise, the authors aim at the visual approach, using over 170 fineillustrations including photographs of letters, programs, manuscript pages, roomsand houses, landscape lithographs and numerous portraits. The book was originallypublished in 1968 by the Residenz Verlag in Salzburg with Macmillan & Co. andSt. Martin's Press responsible for the English version.

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An excellent guide for the singer as well as for the voice teacher and vocal coachwill be found in Pierre Bernac's THE INTERPRETATION OF FRENCH SONG.It is published by Praeger Publishers and priced at $12.50. Acknowledged as one oftoday's leading interpreters of French art songs, M. Bernac offers detailed guide-lines to the interpretation, the pronunciation and presentation of French vocalliterature, with copious examples of works by 18 French composers; some arerepresented by as many as forty songs. The 325-page book is further proof of theartist's impeccable taste and his gift for communication.

THE ORCHESTRAL COMPOSER'S POINT OF VIEW, Essays on TwentiethCentury Music by Those Who Wrote It, although unavoidably uneven, is neverthe-less a most interesting document concerning today's composers and their music.The following composers are represented in this 250-page book: Babbitt, Carter,Finney, Fricker, Henze, Krenek, Lutoslawski, Martin, Persichetti, Schuller, Tippett,and Vogel; the introduction is by William Schuman and the book is edited byRobert Stephan Hines. Each artist includes one or more musical examples. Thebook is published by the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman and is availablefor $8.95.

The third edition of Donald Mitchell's THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN MUSIChas just been published by St. Martin's Press and is available in an unabridged, 192-page paperback edition for $2.50. This latest edition offers an added chapter called"Music and 'Music' " which aims at analizing the relationship between post-Webernmusic and its audiences. The book is generally devoted to relating periods ofmodern music to the corresponding movements in art and architecture and repre-sents an interesting study of cause and effect in the arts.

Another paperback book published by St. Martin's Press is Robert Donnington'sWAGNER'S RING AND ITS SYMBOLS: The Music and The Myth. This 325-page book is a revised version of the one originally published in 1963. Treatingeach act in detail, it offers an illuminating analysis of the four Wagnerian operaswhich will be of interest to every Wagnerophile—layman and expert alike. Thenew paperback edition sells for $2.95.

Intended for the popularization of opera, Thomas Matthews' THE SPLENDIDART, A History of Opera, briefly touches on major operatic composers andoperatic works in popular terms. The writing is geared to children through juniorhigh school. The 200-page book, which contains some black and white photographs,is published by Crowell-Collier Press and priced at $5.95.

The following books are of special interest to administrators concerned with thearts whether affiliated with arts councils, foundations, corporations or performingorganizations.

The St. Louis Arts and Educational Council, in cooperation with the AssociatedCouncils of the Arts, is responsible for the book PERSUADE AND PROVIDE,an informative and instructive volume on arts development and financing and on theinvolvement of schools and the inner city in artistic endeavors. With an introductionwritten by Nancy Hanks, the illustrated, 256-page, cloth-bound book may beordered from ACA, 1564 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10036 for $7.50.The Twentieth Century Fund has published a report on performing arts centers,BRICKS, MORTAR AND THE PERFORMING ARTS, based on a "BackgroundPaper" by Martin Mayer and a TCF task force report. The 99-page book containsvaluable information and statistics regarding American arts centers. It is availablefor $1.00 from TCF, 41 East 70 Street, New York, N. Y. 10021.THE ARTS AND THE SMALL COMMUNITY, published by the ExtensionDepartment of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, represents a summary ofa national conference held in Madison and some subsequent studies involvingcommunities of about 10,000. This mimeo-offset handbook proposes a "NationalPlan" and offers various helpful suggestions for the promotion of the arts insmaller towns.BUSINESS IN THE ARTS '70, which promises to become an annual book, hasbeen published jointly by the Business Committee for the Arts and Paul S. Eriksson,Inc., with Gideon Chagy as editor. The book surveys a number of business-spon-

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sored arts programs, contains charts and pertinent articles by specialists in theirfield as well as many photographs. It is available for $6.95 from BCA, 1270 Avenueof the Americas, New York, N. Y. 10020.

The Province of Ontario Council for the Arts and the Methuen Publications ofToronto have published THE AWKWARD STAGE which reviews various aspectsof economics, administration, programming, education and audience developmentin the arts based on surveys of performing organizations in the Province of Ontario.Charts and photographs add to the interest as well as to the attractive format of the240-page publication which is priced at $10.95.

Listings

The WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL ARTS LETTER, 115 Fifth Street, S.E.,Washington, D. C. 20003, each year devotes two of its monthly newsletters to listings ofbooks and other publications in the arts. The latest such issue is June 1970. Annualsubscription for 10 issues is $12.00. Every six months the newsletter also lists all privatefoundations which are making their first contribution to the arts and humanities(minimum grants of $10,000). The WIAL has compiled these listings over the last threeyears and makes them available for a total of $12.00 for three lists mentioning over700 foundations.

The 1970 OFFICIAL ANNUAL ARTISTS DIRECTORY has been published by Musicand Artists, 1776 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10019 and is available for $4.00. Annualsubscription to the magazine, including the Directory and five news issues, is $6.00.

The Associated Councils of the Arts has compiled a helpful PUBLICATION LIST oftheir publications which may be requested from their offices at 1564 Broadway,New York, N. Y. 10036.

The latest issue of Arts in Society, published by the University of Wisconsin ExtensionDivision, Madison, is devoted to SOUNDS AND EVENTS OF TODAY'S MUSIC andis available for $2.00.

Every three years the Schwann Catalogue publishes an ARTIST ISSUE which wasrecently released for 1970. In its 300 pages it covers classical recordings arranged byperforming artists or groups and organized by categories. This listing may be orderedfor $2.00 from W. Schwann, Inc., 137 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

APPOINTMENTS

On May 14 the Metropolitan Opera Association's Board of Directors elected LOWELLWADMOND as its new Chairman replacing LAUDER GREENWAY who had beenChairman since 1956 and who was named Honorary Chairman. GEORGE S. MOOREwas reelected President; LANGDON VAN NORDEN was elected Vice-President re-placing Mr. Wadmond; WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER is replacing Mr. Van Norden asSecretary. Three new members elected to the Board of Directors are: MICHAELHAIDER (Chairman, Standard Oil of New Jersey), JAMES C. HEMPHILL (Gold-man, Sachs & Co.), and ROBERT J. DEVINE (Vice-President, Reader's Digest Assn.).Of the seven new members of the Association, two are singers, DOROTHY MAYNORand BLANCHE THEBOM.

Since the beginning of this season, REGINALD ALLEN, formerly of the MetropolitanOpera Assn. and Lincoln Center Assn., has been Acting Director of the AmericanAcademy in Rome.

HELEN M. THOMPSON, who assisted in founding the American Symphony Or-chestra League in 1943 and who has been its Vice-President since 1950, has been namedManaging Director of the New York Philharmonic. She replaces CARLOS MOSELEY,who was on the staff of the Philharmonic since 1955 and its manager since 1961. He, inturn, became the first full-time, paid President succeeding AMY AS AMES who wasnamed Chairman of the Board. The former Chairman of the Board, DAVID M.KEISER, remains head of the Music Policy Committee.

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The new Director of the Canada Council is London-born PETER DWYER, author,musician, producer, who formerly was the Council's assistant director for the arts. Hesucceeds Jean Boucher.

DORE SCHARY, playwright and Hollywood producer, was named by Mayor Lindsayas New York City's first Commissioner on Cultural Affairs. He will work directly underAugust Hecksher, Administrator of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs. Assistantadministrators Mrs. Doris Freedman and Arthur William Rashap will continue with theDepartment in their previous positions.

W. CALVIN PATTERSON has been named the new Chairman of the Michigan StateCouncil for the Arts by Governor Milliken. Mr. Patterson, who succeeds D. B. Varner(former Chancellor of Oakland University), is Senior Vice-President of the MichiganBell Telephone Co., and board member of the Detroit Symphony, the Detroit GrandOpera, the Interlochen Center for the Performing Arts and the Cranbrook Art Academy.

The Music Performance Trust Fund has appointed JEROME H. ADLER to succeedColonel Samuel R. Rosenbaum who retired.

The new Executive Director of the Reader's Digest Foundation is GEORGE F.SPRAGUE. In recent years, the Foundation has given substantial sums to music organ-izations through its President, Mrs. DeWitt Wallace.

In Colorado two new Musical Directors have been announced: THOMAS MARTIN,conductor, translator and member of the N.Y.C. Opera, becomes Musical Director ofthe Central City Opera Association and JORGE MESTER takes on the same positionwith the Aspen Music Festival.

The time has come for the annual game of conductors' musical chairs. ANSELBRUSILOW, formerly with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, has been appointedMusical Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for the 1970-71 season, he succeedsDonald Johanes. — BRIAN PRIESTMAN, formerly in Baltimore, succeeds VladimirGolschman as Musicial Director of the Denver Symphony beginning with the 1970-71season. — In the fall of 1971, HAROLD FARBERMAN, formerly conductor of theColorado Springs Symphony, will become Head of the Oakland (Cal.) Symphony,succeeding GERHARD SAMUELS. Mr. Samuels will move to southern Calif, wherehe will become Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under ZubinMehta. — MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS, the 25-year-old Assistant Conductor of theBoston Symphony who most successfully stepped into the breach to replace an indisposedSteinberg last season, has been appointed Associate Conductor of the Berkhire MusicFestival in Tanglewood of which Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller are the Co-Directors.

BENSON SNYDER, former Manager of the Western Opera Theatre in San Francisco,has been appointed Manager of the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Music Festival. —The Meadowbrook Music Festival of Oakland University and the Detroit Symphonyhas a new Manager in the person of SANDOR KALLAI. — JOHN CUNNINGHAM,Artistic Administrator of the Opera Company of Boston, becomes Manager of theCompany replacing MRS. R. C. McKAY who will become Executive Assistant to thePresident. — The 24-year-old CATHY FRENCH has been named Executive Directorof the American Symphony Orchestra which was founded by its Music Director, LeopoldStokowski in 1962.

Academia

Next season WOLF SIEGFRIED WAGNER, son of Wieland Wagner, will be stagedirector and scenic designer for the Opera Group of the University of Illinois in Urbana.He will also stage The Flying Dutchman for the Chicago Lyric Opera. — Next fallDAME ALICIA MARKOVA will take on her first teaching position when she joinsthe faculty of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as Lecturer on Ballet. Shewas Director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet 1963-69, prima ballerina of the DiaghilevBallet Russe of Monte Carlo and the American Ballet Theatre. Among the honors shereceived are: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, (1960), Dame of theOrder of the British Empire (1963), Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from LeichesterUniversity, England (1966). — Canadian composer, writer, teacher, pianist JOHNBECKWITH (composer of Night Blooming Cereus) has been appointed Acting Deanof the University of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music as of July 1. He replacesDr. Boyd Neel, who in 1953 replaced Sir Ernest MacMillan in that position. — British

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composer, RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT (The Mines of Sulphur) will be VisitingProfessor of Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore next season. —PHILIP YOUNG, of the Yale School of Music, was appointed Chairman of the Depart-ment of Music at the University of Victoria in British Columbia for the 1969-70 season.— The bass baritone YI-KWEI SZE will join the voice faculty of the Cleveland Instituteof Music beginning next September.

IN 1969 OPERA LOST . . .

Musician, author OWEN ANDERSON American, 61 years old, in New York 8/10/69.A graduate of the Chicago Conservatory, he was managing editor of the Music Journalwith opera his special interest.

Baritone, stage director VICTOR J. ANDOGA Russian/American, 85 years old, in NewYork 9/23/69. He began singing professionally in Russia in 1907. In 1922 he was stagedirector in Leningrad and at Milan's La Scala and in 1929 at the Metropolitan Opera.Later he also directed opera in Montreal, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. In 1941 he wasartistic director of the Ballet Russe. He was also well known as an operatic coach.

Technical director PERICLE ANSALDO, Italian, 80 years old, in Rome 9/29/69. Hewas technical director at the opera houses in Milan, Rome, San Francisco and BuenosAires and was responsible for initiating outdoor performances at the Baths of Caracallaand the Arena of Verona.

Conductor ERNEST ANSERMET, Swiss (Vevey), 86 years old, in Geneva 2/20/69.In Geneva and Paris he studied mathematics and music and later music with Mottl andNikisch. In 1915 he joined Diaghilev's Russian Ballet (he conducted the Ballet at NewYork's Metropolitan Opera in 1916), and in 1918 founded L'Orchestre de la SuisseRomande in Geneva and remained its director until his death. Considered a specialist onDebussy and Ravel, he also conducted much early Stravinsky. He was opposed, however,to 12-tone music and wrote a book on modern music and mathematics. He guest-con-ducted throughout the world, including opera in Hamburg, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, andthe Metropolitan Opera (1962-63 Pelleas).

Designer WILL STEVEN ARMSTRONG American (New Orleans), 39 years old, inNew Mexico 8/12/69 while on vacation. He graduated from Yale in 1957 and receivedhis first national award for stage designs in 1958 and another in 1962. He worked forBroadway, several Shakespeare festivals, opera {The Rake's Progress), New YorkCity Opera (Jeane d'Arc, Carrie Nation, etc.). He also designed costumes and engineeredlighting.

Basso buffo SALVATORE BACCALONI Italian (Rome), 69 years old, in New York12/31/69. He studied music and architecture and was a boy soprano in the SistineChapel Choir. He made his debut in Rome in 1922 and sang at La Scala 1925-40. In1931 he made his U.S. debut in Chicago and his South American debut in Buenos Aires,sang in San Francisco 1938-51 and at the Metropolitan Opera 1940-62 in a total of294 performances of 15 roles. He participated in a number of films and in 1964 wasco-founder and general director of the Hudson Valley Cultural Center for one year.

Conductor GIUSEPPE BAMBOSCHEK Italian/American (Trieste), 79 years old, inNew York 6/23/69. He joined the Metropolitan Opera as musical secretary in 1913and in 1916 became regular conductor, remaining there until 1929. He guest-conductedthroughout the U.S. and accompanied singers in concerts. From 1950 te 1964 he wasartistic director of the Philadelphia Grand Opera.

Music critic and talent scout ROBERTO BAUER German/Italian (Mainz), 62 years old,in Milan 12/17/69. An authority on classical records, he wrote music articles as well asthe "Catalogue of Historical Records". He also was the Metropolitan Opera's "Am-bassador to Italy".

Soprano MARGARET BAEUMER German, 71 years old, in Inning near Leipzig 12/69.She made her debut in 1921, toured the U.S. in 1930 with Johanna Gadski's GermanOpera Company and was the leading dramatic soprano in Leipzig 1934-53. After herretirement she taught in Leipzig for 15 years.

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Architect WELTON BECKET American (Seattle), 66 years old, in Los Angeles 1/17/69.This international architect and designer was also responsible for the Los Angeles MusicCenter (he showed slides at 1966 COS Conference) and for the J.F.K. Arts Center inMineola, Long Island, N.Y.Bass EDMUND BURKE Canadian (Toronto), 93 years old, in Pasadena, Cal., 2/19/69.He sang in England, Australia, and at the Metropolitan Opera 1922-23, but due to anaccident he had to give up his career and continued as a voice teacher.Coloratura soprano MERCEDES CAPSIR Spanish (Barcelona), 74 years old, in Suzzara,Spain, 3/14/69. She made her debut at the Teatro Liceo in 1914 and from 1923 to 1943sang leading roles throughout Europe. After retirement she taught at the BarcelonaConservatory.Conductor FRANCO CAPUANA Italian (Fano), 75 years old, in Naples 12/10/69while conducting Mose at the San Carlo Theatre where he was director. Between 1949and 1952 he was music director of La Scala, Milan.Soprano SARAMAE ENDICH, American (Steubenville, O.), 40 years old, in NewYork 6/12/69. She sang opera with the New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, theWashington Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and with many major orchestras in con-cert and oratorio performances.Composer WILLIAM FLANAGAN American (Detroit), 46 years old, in New York8/30/69. He studied at Eastman School of Music and at Tanglewood, also wrote musiccriticism and collaborated with writer Edward Albee on the opera The Ice Age. Albee isopening an artist colony for talented, underprivileged composers in Flanagan's memory.

Patron MATILDA FRELINGHUYSEN American, 81 years old, in Morristown, N.J.,417169. Among her philanthropies she sponsored the Emma Eames Scholarship at theNew England Conservatory of Music.Composer OTTMAR GERSTER German (Braunfels), 72 years old, in Leipzig 9/1/69.He wrote 4 operas, Liselotte (1933), Enoch Arden (1936), Die Hexe von Passau (1941)and Das verzauberte Ich (1949) and was professor at the academy in Weimar.Bass HOWELL GLYNNE Welsh (Swansea), 63 years old, in Toronto 11/24/69. Hesang with Sadler's Wells between 1946 and 1951 and again from 1956 to 1964. In theinterim he performed at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. In 1964 he moved to Canadawhere he was heard at the Canadian Opera and the Stratford Festival.

Music publisher DONALD H. GRAY American (New Rochelle, N.Y.), 66 years old,in Stamford, Conn., 10/21/69. He was president of the music publishing house, H.W.Gray Corporation.Music publisher GEOFFREY H. GRAY American, 68 years old, in New Rochelle, N.Y.,5/9/69. He was vice-president of the music publishing house of H.W. Gray Corp.,brother of Donald H. Gray. He was also past treasurer and a director of the MusicPublishers Association.Dramatic tenor CARL HARTMANN German (Solingen), 74 years old, in Munich5/30/69. He made his debut in 1928, sang in Bayreuth and throughout Germany; in1932 he toured the U.S. with Johanna Gadski's German Opera Company and sangWagnerian leads at the Metropolitan Opera 1937-40. He also performed in Chicago,Philadelphia and other major American cities.Music publisher WALTER HINRICHSEN German/American (Leipzig), 61 years old,in New York 7/21/69. He was president and owner of C. F. Peters Corporation. Hestudied music in Leipzig and entered into the family music publishing house, EditionPeters. He emigrated to the U.S. after 1933 and in 1948 opened C.F. Peters in New York.Baritone, impresario JOHN DAGGETT HOWELL American (California), 58 years old,in New York 6/9/69. He sang with the San Francisco Opera 1934-38 and was generaldirector of the Chautauqua Opera 1959-65. He also taught voice in New York and wasa coach for English diction at the Metropolitan Opera.

Contralto MARION IVELL American (Cambridge, Mass.), 88 years old, in New York12/17/69. One of the most famous Carmens of her time, she toured the U.S. with theSavage English Grand Opera 1898-1905. In 1906 she settled in Paris and sang atleading European opera houses until her retirement in 1935.Composer JOSEPH KOSMA, Hungarian (Budapest), 64 years old, in Paris 8/7/69. Hecomposed three operas: Les Canuts (Budapest 1959), Les Hussards (Lyons 1969), andElectronic Love. He also wrote numerous songs and composed music for film and ballet.

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Composer, editor, author WALTER KRAMER American (New York), 79 years old,in New York 4/8/69. On the staff of Musical America from 1910 to 1922, he laterreturned to that publication as editor-in-chief and subsequently became its managingdirector. He was also vice-president of the music publishing house, Galaxy Music, Inc.,and wrote over 300 compositions.Composer JAROSLAV KRICKA Czech, 87 years old, in Brno 1/23/69. This very pro-lific composer also wrote seven operas (see COS Directory), some based on folk talesand some for children. His first opera was premiered in 1916, his last 1953; none wasperformed in the U.S.Conductor KARL KRITZ Austrian/American (Vienna), 63 years old, in Syracuse, N.Y.,12/17/69. He studied in Vienna, conducted in Nuremberg and Berlin before comingto the U.S. in 1937. He was assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera 1946-49,then headed the opera workshop of the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth wherehe also founded the professional opera company (1949-59). In 1960 he was namedmusic director of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra where he initiated a singers-in-residence program and regularly performed some opera. He was a frequent guest con-ductor at the San Francisco Opera.Composer, radio-program producer ERNEST LA PRADE American (Memphis), 79years old, in Sherman, Conn., 4/22/69. He was on the music staff of NBC from 1929lo 1954 and also supervised the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, receiving the PeabodyAward for outstanding radio music programming 1947. In 1917 he wrote his only operaXantha.Composer FRANK LOESSER American, 59 years old, in New York 7/29/69. Amongthe best known works by this reknowned composer of musicals and songs are: TheMost Happy Fella (sometimes called a folk opera), Guys and Dolls, Where is Charley?,etc. Although he never formally studied music, he came from a professional musicfamily; his father and uncle were pianists, and the latter was also chairman of theCleveland Institute of Music.Administrator, cellist JOSEPH MALKIN Russian/American (Odessa), 90 years old,in New York 9/8/69. He was the founder/director of the Malkin Conservatory of Musicin Boston (1933-43) and was responsible for bringing composer Arnold Schoenberg tothe U.S. to teach at his school. As cellist he played in Berlin under Nikisch, in Bostonunder Muck, and from 1944 to 1949 at the New York Philharmonic under Rodzinsky,Walter and Mitropoulos.Tenor GIOVANNI MARTINELLI Italian (Montagua), 83 years old, in New York2/2/69. The world famous Italian tenor made his debut at La Scala in 1910 and sanghis last performance in Seattle in 1967 (Emperor in Turandot). In the interim he sangat many major opera houses in the world, took part in many important premieres andsang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1913 to 1946 in more than fifty different operas.Soprano FRITZI MASSARY Austrian (Vienna), 86 years old, in Beverly Hills, Cal.,2/69. She made her debut in 1902 and was especially known for her portrayal of leadingparts in Viennese operettas. She also sang legitimate opera in Vienna, Germany,Russia, etc.Composer DOUGLAS MOORE American (Cutchogue, L.I.), 76 years old, in Green-port, L.I., N.Y. 7/25/69. Well-known for his operas, a total of eleven (see COS Di-rectory), he was specifically famous for the use of American folk stories as bases forhis libretti (Baby Doe, Giants in the Earth, etc.). The latter brought him a PulitzerPrize in 1951; the former was the most performed full-length opera by an Americancomposer in the U.S. last season. He studied at Yale and in Paris and in 1926 he joinedthe music faculty of Columbia University and became head of its music department in1940. He retired from this position in 1960. He was also a conductor, author of twobooks and numerous articles, and former president of the National Institute of Arts andSciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Composer ANGELO MUSCO Italian (Palermo), 43 years old, in Palermo 1/1/69. Hewas artistic director of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo where his one opera, // Gatto-pardo, was premiered in 1967.Mezzo-soprano MARIA OLCZEWSKA German (Ludwigsschwaige), 76 years old, inKlagenfurt, Austria, 51 11169. She started her career in operetta in Hamburg and Leipzigand later sang opera throughout Germany and in Vienna until 1936. She was heard atCovent Garden 1924-33, in Chicago 1928-32 and at the Metropolitan Opera 1933-35.In 1947 she began teaching at the Vienna Musik Akademie.

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Bass GERHARD PECHNER German/American (Berlin), 66 years old, in New York10/22/69. He sang at the opera in Berlin until he emigrated to the U.S. He made hisAmerican debut in San Francisco in 1940 and joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1941where he was heard until 1966 in over 500 performances of 35 roles.

Soprano MARGARET RITCHIE British, 65 years old, in London 2/7/69. She made herdebut in London in 1927 and in the forties created many roles in new operas by Brittenand Vaughan Williams. In 1960 she started a summer school in Oxford.

Lighting designer JEAN ROSENTHAL American (New York), 57 years old, in NewYork 5/1/69. She devised the lighting for over 200 different theatre productions includingopera, musicals and ballet. She worked for the New York City Opera and lighted fiveproductions at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1967-68 season. She was the first tototally eliminate stage shadows. She founded the Theatre Production Service, a companywhich sells and rents technical theatre equipment.

Music critic and writer ROBERT SABIN American, 57 years old, in New York 5/24/69.He studied at the Eastman School of Music, joined the staff of Muscial America in1936 as critic and became its editor, a position he held until 1962.

Administrator, conductor FRANK ST. LEGER British/American (Madras, India, ofBritish parents), 79 years old, in Bloomington, Ind., 12/26/69. He studied in London,became accompanist to singers such as Melba and became conductor at Covent Gardenafter World War I. In 1939 he joined the Metropolitan Opera as assistant conductorand, under Edward Johnson, was promoted to musical secretary and finally to assistantmanager. He left the company in 1950 with Mr. Johnson and in 1953 was appointedprofessor at Indiana University in Bloomington where he remained until his death.

Patron HARRY SCHERMAN American, 83 years old, in New York 11/12/69. He washonorary chairman of the board of directors of the Mannes College of Music in NewYork and its new library has been named after him.

Soprano ERNA SCHLUETER German (Oldenburg), 64 years old, in Hamburg 11/69.She began her career as a contralto in Mannheim but in the late thirties changed todramatic soprano and sang leading roles throughout Germany and Italy and in 1953at Covent Garden. In the 1947-48 season she sang at the Metropolitan Opera.

Soprano LEONORA SPARKES JACKSON American, 90 years old, in Erie, Pa., 6/8/69.She sang smaller roles at the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1922 making her debutin Aida under Toscanini.

Tenor BRIAN SULLIVAN American (Oakland, Cal.), 49 years old, in Geneva, Switz.,6/17/69. He began his musical career in films and Broadway musicals, joining theMetropolitan Opera in 1948 where he sang until 1960. He later turned Heldentenor andsang many of the heavier Wagnerian roles.

Mezzo-soprano GLADYS SWARTHOUT CHAPMAN American (Deepwater, Mo.), 64years old, in Florence, It., 7/7/69. This nationally acclaimed artist, who at thirteen be-came soprano soloist at a church, made her formal debut in Chicago in 1924. During thefirst summer she learned 24 roles. She remained with the company through 1929 whenshe made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera where she sang until 1945. She participatedin many radio programs, in the first TV opera production and in five films and, becauseof her elegant appearance, was included in the list of the ten best dressed women inAmerica. Due to a heart ailment she was forced to stop singing in 1956 and for the lastfew years divided her time between her New York apartment and her Florence villa.

Composer RUDOLF WAGNER-REGENY Hungarian/German (Szasz-Regen, Transyl-vania), 63 years old, in Berlin 9/69. Of his twelve operas (see COS Directory), threeare cooperative efforts with the German author Caspar Neher. All but two operas hadone or more performances in Germany and Austria. The latest premiere was in Salzburgin 1961 of Das Bergwerk zu Falun after Hoffmannsthal. None of his operas have yetbeen performed in the U.S. More recently he was on the faculty of the East Berlin StateConservatory.

Composer GABRIEL WAYDITCH Hungarian/American, 80 years old, in New York7/28/69. Born Baron von Donhof, he came to the U.S. in 1902 and was the composerof fourteen operas, one of them a six-and-one-half-hour, eight-act work, Sahara. How-ever, only one, Horus, was ever performed (Philadelphia 1939).

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PERFORMANCE LISTING 1969-70 SEASON (cont.)

All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p."(with piano). — Performances and news items once announced will not be relistedat the time of performance.

ARIZONAUniversity of Arizona Opera Theatre, E. Conley, Dir., Tucson (see also 1/70

Blltn.)1/29, 30, 31/70 The Old Maid and the Thief tour w.o. 2/17 tour w.p.2/10/70 Opera scenes w.p.4/30 5/1/70 Argento's The Boor & Davis' The Pardoner's Tale5/6/70 Hin und Zuriick Eng. Farquhar & // Segreto di Susanna Eng. Aveling; w.p.7/13, 14/70 Suor Angelica Eng. Withers

CALIFORNIACalifornia State College Opera Workshop, C. Reims, Dir., Fullerton1/8, 9, 10, 11/70 Gianni Schicchi w.p. Eng. Grossman & The Magic Chair4/2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18/70 Carmen w.p. Eng. Martin7/22, 23, 24/70 The Italian Girl in Algiers w.p. Eng. MartinSan Francisco Opera Guild Talent Bank, Mrs. A. Crapsey, Dir.2/10, 11/70 Help! Help! The Globolinks 6 pfs.3/17/70 Die Fledermaus out-of-town6/13/70 Dr. Miracle Eng. Harris, 7/1/70 out-of-town w.p.also 41 pfs. w.p. of scenesSanta Monica Civic Opera Assn., J. Garrotto, Dir.10/25/69 Die Fledermaus Eng. MartinMil 110 Andrea Chenier5/23, 24/70 Un Ballo in maschera6/13, 14/70 The Merry Widow Eng. Davis8/22, 29/70 RigolettoStanford University Opera Theatre, S. Salgo, Dir., Palo Alto2/27, 28/70 Dialogues of the Carmelites Eng.University of California Music Dept., San Diego Branch at La Jolla5/1, 3/70 The Man on a Bearskin RugWestern Opera Theatre, R. Woitach, Mus. Dir., San Francisco (see also 1/70

Blltn.)5/27/70 Koh's Amerika prem.; cone. pf.

COLORADOUniversity of Denver Opera Theatre, Miss G. McGiffert, Dir.12/1/69 Orpheus and Euridice w.p.2/26, 27, 28 3/5, 6, 7/70 Gianni Schicchi & Suor Angelica & // Tabarro w.o.5/25/70 The Turn of the Screw w.p.University of Northern Colorado Opera Guild, C. Schmitz, Dir., Greeley

(formerly Colorado State College)12/4, 5/69 The Devil and Daniel Webster2/25, 26, 27, 28/70 Musical5/12/70 Carmen excerpts w.p., Eng. Card5/14/70 Cost fan tutte excerpts w.p., Eng. Martin7/30, 31 8/1/70 The Ballad of Baby Doe C. Christensen; Ludgin

CONNECTICUTThe Trouper Light Opera Co., M. Linden, Mus. Dir., at Darien H.S.4/18, 19, 24, 25/70 Princess Ida w. Stamford Symphony

DELAWAREChamber Opera Group, Wilmington10/8, 9/69 The Man on a Bearskin Rug

FLORIDAFlorida State University Fine Arts Festival, Tallahassee4/17, 18/70 The Unicorn, Gorgon and Manticore by Dance Theatre, Chamber Choir,

Instrumental Ensemble4/22/70 Menotti's The Leper (drama without music) prem.4/23, 25/70 Help! Help! The Globolinks & Amelia Goes to the Ball by State Opera

Assn. of FloridaGEORGIA

Atlanta Chamber Opera, F. Wolf, Dir.4/18/70 Idomeneo

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1969-70 Season

IDAHOBoise State College, Music Department, Georgia Standing, Dir.4/10, 11/70 Amelia Goes to the Ball

ILLINOISUniversity of Illinois Opera Group, L. Zirner, Dir., at Krannert Center, Urbana11/21, 22, 23/69 The Elixir of Love3/21, 22/70 Mavra & Renard & L'Histoire clu soldat5/22, 23, 24/70 La Boheme des: Laura Zirner8/8/69 12/16/69 4/30/70 Opera scenes w.p.

INDIANAIndiana University Opera Theatre, W. Bain, Dean, Bloomington

(see also 9/69, 1/70 Blltns.)4/25 5/2, 9, 16/70 Ariadne auf Naxos (replacing Blomdahl's Aniara)6/5, 6/70 La Traviata

KANSASKansas State College, Opera Workshop, L. Siegle, Dir., Pittsburg2/18, 20/70 The Devil and Daniel Webster & L'Heure espagnole6/22-27/70 Musical7/21-25/70 Musical7/14, 16/70 The Apothecary & Toch's Edgar and Emily

LOUISIANAUniversity of Southwestern Louisiana Opera Guild, G. S. Seaman-Griffin,

Dir., Lafayette12/13, 16/69 The Tales of Hoffmann Eng. Martin4/22, 24, 25/70 Die Fledermaus Eng. Dietz7/22, 23/70 Musical

MASSACHUSETTSBoston Conservatory of Music Opera Workshop, R. Gregorian, Cond.3/20, 21/70 The Magic Flute Eng.; st. dir: ProvostMelrose Symphony Orchestra, D. Sonnenschein, Mus. Dir.5/20/70 The Secret of Susanne Eng. Aveling; Ecclestone; Buice, Hunter;

dir/des: R. G. GouinNew England Conservatory Opera Dept., I Strasfogel, Dir., Boston

(see also 1/70 Blltn.)4/1, 5/70 Ba-Ta-Clan WGBH-TV and Radio; Eng.Southeastern Mass. Univ., Music Dept., J. Cobert, Dir., North Dartmouth3-4/70 Hansel and Gretel Eng., abbrev. vers. w.o., State supported tour to schools

28 pfs.MICHIGAN

Overture to Opera Co.. D. DiChiera, Gen. Dir. & Detroit Grand Opera Assn.4/8/70 The Barber of Seville Eng. Martin; Ewing; Hirst, Palmer; at Detroit

Institute of Arts; 4/3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21/70 on tourWayne State University, Graduate Opera Division, R. Cowden, Dir., Detroit2/27/70 Don Pasquale Dapper; Gloff

MISSOURIWashington University, Opera Theatre, H. Blumenfeld, Dir., St. Louis4/26/70 I. Hamilton's Pharsalia Am. prem. & The Burning Fiery Furnace

NEW JERSEYRidgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co., J. C. Edson, Mgr.Fall '69 Ruddigore 5 pfs. (Ridgewood, Teaneck, Newton, NJ.)Fall '69 Trial by Jury at Public Library in HackensackSpring '70 Princess Ida 8 pfs. fRidgewood, Leonia. Allendale, Bergenfield,

New Brunswick, Clifton, N.J.; Farmingdale, N.Y.)NEW YORK

Cornell UniversityFall '69 La Traviata PatenaudeCornell University, Opera Department, Ithaca4/26/70 Scarlatti's Eraclea Am. prem., cone, pf.; honoring D. Grout; cond: HusaNew York State University College Ooera Theatre, Fredonia3/70 Don Giovanni opening new Michael Rockefeller Arts CenterState University College Opera Workshon. H. Phillins, Dir., Potsdam5/21, 22/70 Lo Sposo dehiso & Help! Help! The Gloholinks7/28, 30/70 La Boheme

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Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, J. Howland, Mgr. (see also 9/69 Blltn.)5/21/70 Tosca DePaul

NEW YORK CITYBarnard College Gilbert & Sullivan Society at Minor Latham Playhouse4/28, 29, 30 5/1, 2m, 2/70 RuddigoreBel Canto Opera Company, at Madison Center3/15, 21/70 Madama ButterflyBronx Opera Company, at Bronx H.S. of Science4/17, 18, 24/70 The Marriage of Figaro cond: Spierman (4/24 at P.S. 70)Brooklyn Lyric Opera (see also 1/70 Blltn.)5/23/70 La Boheme at Fort Hamilton H.S.Carnegie Recital Hall3/29/70 Ray Crabtree's The Fool Marrs, Sharpe; Julio, SimuelClark Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Workshop, Miss N. Ornest, Dir.

(see also 9/69 Blltn.)5/10/70 The Italian Girl in AlgiersCommunity Opera, Miss G. Mathew, Dir. (rev. sched. see also 1/70 Blltn.)3/8/70 Opera excerpts at N.Y. Historical Society3/16/70 Don Giovanni at Lincoln Center Library/Museum3 /21/70 La Gioconda at William O'Shay School4/5 5/10/70 La Cenerentola at Brooklyn MuseumComposer's Showcase at Whitney Museum5/5/70 Berio's This Means That rev. versionExperimental Theatre Club of La Mama, 33 Wooster St.3124170 Renard & 1 act playFifth Avenue Opera Assn., S. Friedberg, Gen. Mgr.1969-70 The Magic Flute tour to schoolsHenry Street Settlement Opera Workshop, A. Karns, Dir.6/2-6/70 Street SceneHispanic Society of America at Carnegie Hall4/17/70 Balada's Maria Sabina prem.Hunter College Gilbert & Sullivan Society3/15/70 RuddigoreHunter College, Opera Theatre, D. Lloyd, Dir.4/23, 24, 25m, 25/70 Elephant Steps Cogan/Greenwald; Steele, Lloyd, West;

cond: Kope, dir/des: Foreman; audio-visual: Gehr/Booth/DelsonJHL Opera, Miss L. Sudani, Dir. at Seaman's Church Institute6/3/70 L'Enfant prodigue & 11 TabarroJuilliard School, American Opera Center, Lincoln Center4/23, 25, 26/70 The Rake's Progress cond: Leinsdorf; dir: Capobianco;

des: Lee/Verona; opening of Juilliard Theatre5/15, 16, 17/70 Mercadante's // Giuramento Am. prem.; cond: Maderna;

dir: Capobianco; des: Lee; choreog: Limon; also 6/26/70 at Spoleto FestivalLighthouse Opera Workshop, at Lighthouse Audit., I l l East 59 St.5/21, 22/70 Thompson's Solomon and BalkisLittle Opera Workshop, at Goddard-Riverside Community Center3/8/70 Salieri's Little Harlequinade & Offenbach's A Husband at the Door

& Vernon's Grand SlamLittle Orchestra Society, T. Scherman, Philharmonic Hall

(see also 6/69, 1/70 Blltns.)3/22, 24/70 L'Enfance du Christ Vanni; McGowen, Riegel, David, Thompson;

(3/22/70 at Brooklyn Academy)Manhattan School of Music, Preparatory Division4/18/70 Flagello's The Pied Piper of HamlinMannes College of Music, Opera Theatre, C. Bamberger, Dir.

(see also 1/70 Blltn.)4/25, 26, 27/70 // Signor Bruschino & II Tabarro cond: Berl5/13, 14/70 Opera scenes by Opera Workshop, P. Berl, Dir.5/28/70 Pntzner's Palestrina Act. I, cone. pf. & Palestrina's Missa Brevis

by Mannes Orchestra and Chorus at St. Paul's Chapel; cond: Bamberger

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1969-70 SeasonMetropolitan Opera Studio, J. Gutman, Dir.4/11/70 The Barber of Seville at Staten Island Community College; cone. pf.6/12/70 "Opera Composers in Non-Operatic Moments" at Tully Hall6/18/70 "The Forgotten Schubert"6/22/70 "Twentieth Century Romanticism from France"New York Bass Violin Choir at Judson Hall5/8/70 Bill Lee's folk opera The Depot cone, pf.; prem.New York Opera Theater Workshop, L. Fowler, Cond. (see also 1/70 Blltn.)3/14 4/4/70 Rigoletto at Educational AllianceNew York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center (see also 1/70 Blltn.)3/12, 13, 16/70 Oedipus Rex & choral works; Troyanos; Hollweg, Estes, Michalski;

narr: R. Montgomery; cond: Abbado; Camerata Singers5/21, 22/70 Schumann's Das Parodies und die Peri Janowitz, C. Smith; Brilioth,

Engen; Westminster Choir; cond: Maazel5/27, 28/70 opera excerpts (Khovanshchina & The Queen of Spades) Milnes;

cond: KostelanetzNew York Pro Musica, J. H. White, Dir.3/8/70 "A Marian Play for Easter" at Medieval Sculpture Court, Metropolitan

Museum4/11/70 "In Praise of Oriana" at Tully Hall, 6/21/70 at CaramoorOpera Workshop of New York, Miss J. La Puma, Dir. (see also 1/70 Blltn.)3/20/70 La Traviata P.S. 413/21/70 Carmen 116 West 893/25/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 163 West 975/22, 29/70 Don Carlo P.S. 415/29/70 The Marriage of Figaro at P.S. 41; 5/30/70 Damrosch ShellStaten Island Civic Center for the Performing Arts5/2, 3/70 CarmenVillage Light Opera Group, R. Cumming, Dir. (see also 9/69 Blltn.)5/1, 2m, 2, 8, 9m, 9/70 Patience '70 at Fashion Institute (replacing Trial by Jury)The Who, at Metropolitan Opera House6/7m, 7/70 Tommy rock operaYoung Artists Opera, Miss V. Mauret, Dir., at O'Shea Audit.

(see also 9/69 Blltn.)4/26/70 The Impresario & Don Pasquale excerpts6/3/70 "Opera Masterpieces" at Steinway Hall

OHIOCleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater, A. Addison, Dir.

(see also 9/69 Blltn.)3/15/70 The Magic Flute scenes & orch. selections for "Afternoon for Children

Series"5/27, 28/70 L'Heure espagnole & L'Enfant prodigue & Benvenuto Cellini Act IDayton & Toledo Opera Companies, L. Freedman, Gen. Dir.4/18, 25, 26m/70 Lucia di Lammermoor (replacing Don Pasquale see 9/69 Blltn.)

Peters; Morell, ChristopherPENNSYLVANIA

Carnegie-Mellon University, Opera Workshop, R. Fellner, Dir., Pittsburgh3/13, 14, 15/70 Le Jeu de I'amour et du hasard & 11 TabarroDemi-Tasse Opera, Philadelphia and tour to colleges1969-70 The Impresario Eng.; dir: ButlerHaverford & Bryn Mawr Drama and Music Dept., W. Reese, Mus. Dir.,

Haverford11/21/69 D. Swann's Perelandra prem.; (11/24/69 at Riverside Church, N.Y.C.)Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, W. Steinberg, Mus. Dir. (see also 1/70 Blltn.)1969-70 Fidelio cone. pf.Temple University Opera Workshop, School of Music, D. Stone, Dean,

Philadelphia3/6, 7/70 Falstaff dir: Lucas

RHODE ISLANDRhode Island Civic Choral and Orchestra, L. Pichierri, Dir., Providence3/21/70 Mefistofele cone, pf., Barrington Boy's Choir; Lang; Barioni, Malas

VIRGINIADept. of Recreation and Parks, L. W. Barry, Dir., Richmond12/7/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors w. 2p.

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1969-70 SeasonWASHINGTON

Seattle Opera Company, G. Ross, Gen. Dir. (see also 6/69 Blltn.)4/ 70 Good-bye Soldier "Stravinsky and Rock" based on "L'Histoire du Soldat" with

Northwest Rock 'n Roll Band; 8 pfs. at Opera House and tourWashington State University Opera Theatre, Miss M. Davis, Dir., Pullman3/11, 12/70 The Man on a Bearskin RugWestern Washington State College Opera Workshop, Miss M. Terry-Smith,

Bellingham12112169 3/11/70 Opera scenes w.p.7/16/70 The Prima Donna w.o.II lino Don Carlo scenes w.p.University of Washington Festival Opera, S. Chappie, Dir., Seattle3/11, 13/70 Hello Out There & Die Kluge Eng. Guth; all pfs. w.p.3/12, 14/70 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Dent5/21, 23/70 Suor Angelica & II Tabarro8/19, 21/70 Trouble in Tahiti & Le Portrait de Manon Eng. Feist

WISCONSINBethany Methodist Church, Madison3/18/70 Owen's A Fisherman called Peter

CANADACanadian Opera Company, Prologue to the Performing Arts

(see also 6/69 Blltn.)1969-70 The Boor four-month tour to Ontario schools; 152 pfs.L'Ecole Normale de Musique, M. Tessier, Dir., Montreal4/5110 Schubert's Die VerschworenenGuelph Spring Festival, N. Goldschmidt, Dir.5/14, 15, 16/70 Schenk's The Village Barber Eng.; Calbes; Brooks, Boyd;

cond: Goldschmidt; dir: Verstraete; des: LordHamilton Philharmonic, B. Brot, Mus. Dir.12/10/69 La Serva padrona & The Telephone st. dir: Ubriaco12/17/69 Hansel and GretelMontreal Opera Guild, Mme. P. Donalda, Dir.2/70 La Boheme CarsonOttawa Symphony Orchestra, M. Bernardi, Dir., at National Arts Centre

(see also 1/70 Blltn.)2/17/70 The Impresario cone, pf.; LebroussPoudriere Theatre, St. Helen's Island12/69 Amahl and the Night Visitors FreudPrince Edward Island University, Opera Workshop, Charlottetown7/70 Hahn's The Wall prem., with P.E.I. SymphonyScarborough College Music Department, Toronto1/70 La Voix humaine & The TelephoneToronto Opera Society, G. Macina, Dir. at George Harvey School Audit11/69 La Traviata Coates; Gitto, w.p., stgd.2/28/70 IlTrovatore4/18/70 The Barber of SevilleUniversity of Toronto, Royal Conservatory Opera Department11/21, 23/69 L'Enfant et les sortileges cond: Barbini; dir: Besch12/6-13/69 L'Enfant et les sortileges spons. by Canadian Opera Women's CommitteeYorkminster Park Baptist Church, Toronto12/6/69 Poynter's The Birth of Our Lord prem.

ASIAKorean Symphony Orchestra, Seoul4/18/70 Wade's The Martyred cone, pf., cond: ShapiroVietnamese-American Association, Saigon3/14/70 Recital VAA Audit.4/ 70 Recitals by N. Nail at French Institute and American Embassy4/70 Carmina Bur ana by Saigon Choral Society; N. Nail, A. Ly; G. Leckron6/1, 5, 7/70 La Voix humaine & The Ugly Duckling Nail; cond: Beaudoin; dir:

Owens; des: Williams/LewisThe Final Performance Listing for the 1969-70 Season will appear in the September-October issue of the COS Bulletin.

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PERFORMANCE LISTING, SUMMER 1970

ALASKAAlaska Festival of Music, R. Shaw, Dir., Anchorage6/11-25/70 Festival orchestra and chorus; Folk arts festival; workshops in art song,

contemporary music, church music and percussionKings Lake Music Camp, Kings Lake6/28-7/11/70 Camp for H.S. students

ARIZONANorthern Arizona University Summer Music Camp, Flagstaff8/14/70 Strauss' Des Esels Schatten Am. prem.; cond: Kirshbaum; dir: WakelingSummer Festival, Flagstaff7/24-8/9/70 Symphony and chamber music concertsUniversity of Arizona Opera Theatre, TucsonSee 1969-70 listing

ARKANSASInspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, I. van Grove, Art. Dir., Eureka Springs6/15-7/25/70 "Opera in the Ozarks" and symphony concerts

CALIFORNIACabrillo Music Festival, R. Williams, Mus. Dir., Aptos8/21-30/70 Symphony concerts; guest cond: C. ChavezCabrillo Playhouse, San Clemente7/1-8/8/70 MusicalCalifornia State College Opera Workshop, FullertonSee 1969-70 listingCarmel Bach Festival, S. Salgo, Mus. Dir.7/17-26/70 Symphony and choral concertsClaremont Music Festival, at Pomona College, Claremont6/22-8/2/70 Instrumental and vocal concerts; workshopsGreek Theatre Association, J. Doolittle, Prod., Los Angeles6/24, 26, 27/70 Madatna Butterfly Kirsten, Casei; Morell, Guarrera; cond:

Alessandro; dir: KirstenHollywood Bowl, E. Fleischmann, Exec. Dir.7/7-9/5/70 Los Angeles Philharmonic; Ballet Folklorico de Mexico; rock groupsLyric Opera of Orange County, Miss V. Sun, Dir., Laguna Beach7/3-8/30/70 MusicalMusic Academy of the West, M. Abravanel, Dir., Santa Barbara7/21-8/30/70 Student concerts and recitals; opera workshop; master classes

by Lotte Lehmann8/22, 24, 26/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor Eng. BlattMusic at the Vineyards, N. Fromm, Pres., Saratoga6/27-8/30/70 Chamber music concerts; S. Salgo, Mus. Dir.8/15, 16/70 Annual opera pf. by Merola Opera ProgramOjai Festival, L. Morton, Dir., Ojai6/5-7/70 Pierre Boulez conducts premieres of his Domaines & Livre pour cordesRedlands Bowl Music Festival, H. Farbman, Mus. Dir., C. Perlee, Coord.7/7-8/21/70 Redlands Bowl Symphony & Chorale; Ballet8/7, 8/70 The Pirates of Penzance8/14/70 "Opera Vignettes" by San Diego Perf. Arts Center International Studio;

J. Popper, Dir.8/21/70 Madatna Butterfly Eng. MartinSan Fernado Valley State College, Opera Workshop, D. Scott, Dir.,

Northridge7/17, 18, 22, 24, 25/70 La Boheme6/26, 27 7/3, 4/70 MusicalSan Francisco Opera Guild Talent BankSee 1969-70 listingSan Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program (6/30-8/17/70)7/12/70 Audition winners concert; at Stern Grove; w. San Francisco Opera

Orchestra; cond: K. H. Adler8/2/70 Annual opera presentation at Stern Grove8/15, 16/70 Annual opera presentation at Paul Masson Vineyards, SaratogaSanta Monica Civic Opera Association, J. Garrotto, Dir.See 1969-70 listing

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Summer 1970

Sonoma State College, Summer Workshop, Rohnert Park6/22-7/3/70 Summer Opera Institute; dirs: P. Donovan, B. Goldovsky, A. SchoepStanford Summer Festival of the Arts, Stanford University, Palo AltoNo music festival this yearUniversity of California, Opera Workshop, H. Lampl, Dir., Long Beach7/23-27/70 A Letter to Emily & L'occasione fa il ladroYuba College Opera Workshop, D. Butler, Dir., MarysvilleSummer Workshop discontinued

COLORADOAspen Music Festival and Institute, J. Mester, Mus. Dir., G. Hardy, Pres.

& Dean6/29-8/30/70 Aspen Festival Orchestra; Aspen Chamber Symphony; workshops and

master classes8/6, 8, 9/70 Cost fan tutte dir: E. Nagy8/20, 22/70 "An Evening of Music Theater6/29-8/30 or 6/29-8/2 and 8/3-30/70 opera workshop; dir: E. Nagy

voice faculty: Margaret Harshaw, Adele Addison, Lorna Hay wood, Olga Ryss,Jennie Tourel, John McColIum, Benita Valente, Yi-Kwei Sze.Music Theatre Workshop; dir: R. Pearlman, I. Strasfogelapplications: Music Associates of Aspen, Inc., 1860 Broadway, N.Y., N.Y.

Central City Summer Festival, T. Martin, Mus. Dir.6/20-8/25/70 La Boheme 22 pfs.6/27-8/25/70 Of Mice and Men 18 pfs.Colorado Philharmonic Festival, W. Charles, Dir., Evergreen7/10-8/21/70 Orchestral ConcertsUniversity of Northern Colorado, GreeleySee 1969-70 listingSilvermine Guild Chamber Music Center, New Canaan7/12, 26 8/16, 30/70 Concerts

CONNECTICUTYale Concerts, Music Shed, Norfolk7/3-8/22/70 Yale Summer Orchestra, cond: Meier

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIACarter Baron Amphitheatre, WashingtonOpera discontinued

FLORIDAFlorida International Festival, Daytona BeachDiscontinuedFlorida State University, School of Music, Summer Music Camp, Tallahassee6/28-8/8/70 Summer seminar; opera production; musical comedy; opera dir:

M. PollockPensacola Junior College Summer Opera, S. Kennedy, Dir.7/29, 30, 31 8/1/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor

ILLINOISGrant Park Concerts, Chicago (6/24-8/23/70)7/25, 26/70 Orfeo ed Euridice C. Smith; cone. pf.8/1, 2/70 Rigoletto Wykoff; DiGiuseppe, Patrick; cone. pf.8/15, 16/70 Dvorak's Rusalka Smith-Meyer; cone. pf.Ravinia Festival, I. Kertesz, Dir., Highland Park6/25-9/27/70 Chicago Symphony, N.Y.C. Ballet, Birmingham (Eng.) Repertory

Theatre, Rock-jazz-blues concerts7/9, 11/70 Otello Lorengar; McCracken; cond: Kertesz8/6, 8/70 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Alexander, Cossa, Hale; cond: PataneUniversity of Illinois, L. Zirner, Dir., Opera Group, Urbana7-8/70 Graduate courses in opera history and music criticism.University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville5/21-6/20/70 American Institute for Orchestral Conducting with St. Louis Symphony

under W. Susskind, J. Morel, M. Abravanel, L. Slatkin; spons. by NationalEndowment, M. B. Rockefeller Fund for Music

7/2-8/9/70 Mississippi River Festival; St. Louis Symphony, other groups

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Summer 1970INDIANA

Indiana University, Opera Theatre, W. Bain, Dean, Bloomington7/25, 29 8/1/70 Fidelio 7/6-12/70 Beethoven choral festival

KANSASKansas State College, Opera Workshop, PittsburgSee 1969-70 listing

LOUISIANANew Orleans Recreation Department, Opera Workshop, A. Cosenza, Dir.7/27, 29/70 R.S.V.P. & Cavalleria rusticana at Jesuit H.S. Audit.University of Southwestern Louisiana, LafayetteSee 1969-70 listing

MAINEBar Harbor Festival, F. Fortier, Art Dir.8/1-14/70 Concerts and other eventsMount Desert Festival, M. Raimondi, Mus. Dir., Northeast Harbor7/14, 28 8/4/70 Chamber music, soloists include: Bogarde, White, Monteux, Jahoda,

Raimondi, Ajemian, Dupouy, Rudiakov, Zaratzian, Sanders, Cherry, ComposersQuartet

MARYLANDConcerts under the Stars, Baltimore (6/19-8/7/70)The Harford Theater, S. Lilienstein, Art Dir., Bel Air6/26, 27, 28 7/3, 5, 6/70 Don Giovanni dir: Voinche7/10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19/70 The Nightingale dir: Stolzfus & Pagliacci dir: Wicke7/24, 25, 26, 31 8/1, 2/70 The Merry Wives of Windsor dir: Lindquist8/7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16/70 The Consul dir: Kondek8/21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30/70 Fidelio dir: GolzMerriweather Post Pavilion of Music, Columbia5/24-9/13/70 Washington National Symphony, ballet, pop concerts

MASSACHUSETTSBerkshire Music Festival, S. Ozawa & G. Schuller, Dirs., Tanglewood, Lenox7/3-8/23/70 Boston Symphony Orchestra; conds: Bernstein, Ormandy, Steinberg,

Schuller7/6-8/15/70 Boston University Opera Institute; dirs: Adelaide Bishop, Felix Popper71 lino Cost fan tutte cone, pf., Curtin, Stratas, Elias; Shirley, Krause, Flagello;

Cond: Ozawa8/15-20/70 Festival of Contemporary Music

MICHIGANAnn Arbor May Festival at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor5/70 Philadelphia Orchestra; cond: T. Johnson; University of Michigan Choral

UnionCalvin College, Festival of the Arts, Grand Rapids8/3-7/70 Chicago Symphony String Quartet; electronic music; Detroit Symphony.

Conference: "Visual and Performing Arts and Higher Education", Bolt Beranekand Newman

Detroit Symphony, S. Ehrling, Mus. Dir.6/11-21/70 at Michigan State Fairgrounds, Detroit6/25-8/16/70 at Meadowbrook Festival, Rochester8/18-30/70 at Belle Isle, DetroitMeadowbrook Music Festival, S. Kallai, Mgr., Rochester6/25-8/23/70 Detroit Symphony cond: S. EhrlingNational Music Camp, M. Utgaard, Art Dir., Interlochen6/28-8/24/70 Workshops7/9, 10/70 Opera scenes; guest dir: B. Goldovsky7/18/70 Down in the Valley & Sister Angelica

MISSOURIOpera Theatre of America, Inc., E. Murphy, Art. Dir., St. Louis6/15, 16/70 Cost fan tutte pf. on Goldenrod Showboat

NEBRASKAUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha Opera Workshop, R. Ruetz, Mus. Dir.6/22-8/1/70 Opera Workshop7/31 8/1/70 The Magic Flute Eng. MartinUniversity of Nebraska Opera Theatre, J. J. Zei, Dir., Lincoln7/29, 30, 31 8/1/70 Don Pasquale (replacing Faust see 1/70 Blltn.)

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Summer 1970

NEW HAMPSHIRECongregation of the Arts, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, HanoverMusic discontinued; this summer visual arts onlyNew Hampshire Music Festival, T. Nee, Mus. Dir., Center Harbor7/9-8/15/70 Symphony and chamber music concerts7/14, 16, 18, 20/70 Cost fan tutte cone. pf.

NEW JERSEYGarden State Arts Center, Telegraph Park6/13/70 Mignon, La Donna del Lago, Rossini's Otello, excerpts; M. Home;

N.J. Symphony, cond: H. Lewis7/13, 14/70 Rogers and Hammerstein concert; N.J. Symphony, cond. H. Lewis8/12, 15/70 N.Y. Philharmonic, cond: Kostelanetz8/24, 25/70 Les Ballets Africains8/26, 29/70 "An Evening of Gershwin" Tyler; W. Warfield, Wild; N.J. Symphony,

cond: H. Lewis9/8, 10, 11, 12/70 Moiseyev Dance Company

NEW MEXICOJune Music Festival, Little Theatre, Albuquerque6/5-19/70 Chamber musicSanta Fe Opera, J. Crosby, Gen. Dir. (7/3-8/22/70)7/3, 11 8/8, 19, 22/70 La Traviata cond: Crosby; dir: Mansouri; des: Darling7/4, 10, 17, 24, 29/70 Help! Help! The Globolinks cond: H. Johnson; dir: Menotti/

Ronstadt; des: Kim/Nikolais; choreo: J. Woodbury & Le Rossignol cond:Baustian; dir: Hebert des: Kim

7/18, 22 8/1, 15, 21/70 Le Nozze di Figaro cond: Baustian; dir: Hebert; des: Klein7/25, 31 8/5, 20/70 Anna Bolena* Vanni, Davidson; cond: Crosby; dir: Mansouri;

des: Darling8/7, 13/70 The Rake's Progress* cond: Moriarty; dir: Hebert; des: Klein/Mess8/12, 14/70 Berio's Opera* prem.; cond: D. R. Davis; dir: Berio/Sklarsoloists include Blegen, Bruno, Davidson, Kraft, Niska, Shuttleworth, Tinsley, Vanni;

Beni, Driscoll, Gramm, S. Johnson, Opie, Perry, Reardon, Shirley, Townsend,Walker

NEW YORKAdirondack-Champlain Festival7/5-9/30/70 Concerts in Schroon Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Saranac Lake, Lake

Placid, Pittsburgh (N.Y.) and Burlington, (Vt.)Caramoor Festival, J. Rudel, Art Dir., Katonah (6/20-7/12/70)6/20, 26/70 Idomeneo* Niska, Sauler; Shirley, J. Stewart, Stillwell; cond: Rudel;

dir: Capobianco; des: Verona/Harrow6/21/70 "In Praise of Oriana" New York Pro Musica, J. White, mus. dir.6/27, 28 7/4, 5, 11, 12/70 Concerts and recitals7/3, 10/70 Williamson's The Growing Castle Am. prem.; Carson, Williams; Holms,

Metcalf; con. & dir: WilliamsonChautauqua Summer Festival & Institute, W. Hendl, Dir., L. Treash, Dir.

Opera Theatre (7/2-8/30/70)7/17, 20/70 Faust7/24, 27/70 Fidelio7/31 8/3/70 Die Fledermaus8/7, 10/70 Aida8/14, 17170 Cost fan tutteLake George Opera Festival, D. Lloyd, Mus. Dir. Glens Falls7/28m, 29, 31 8/6, 8, 29m/70 Don Giovanni (8/2 in Manchester, Vt.)8/4m, 5, 7, 21, 25m, 27, 29/70 La Boheme8/llm, 12, 13, 14, 15/70 Silverman's Elephant Steps & "Opera Today"8/18m, 19, 22, 28/70 Haydn's L'lnfldelta delusaManhattanville College, Purchase7/18-8/15/70 Symphony concertsOpera Under the Stars, L. Treash, Dir., Rochester7/2, 4/70 Tosca Coen; Nelson, McDevitt7/16, 18/70 The Elixir of Love Virkhaus; McDevitt7/30 8/1/70 The Tales of Hoffmann Virkhaus, Huehn; Nelson, Christopherfor all above cond: McArthur; dir: Murray; des: Struthers

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Summer 1970

Saratoga Performing Arts Center Festival, Saratoga Springs (6/13-9/6/70)6/13-9/6/70 Folk and rock concerts 7/1-26/70 New York City Ballet6/ 25-27/ 70 Musical 7/30-8/23/70 Philadelphia Orchestra8/23/70 Excerpts from Verdi operas; Cruz-Romo; Alexander; cond: RudelSouthampton College, Fine Arts Theatre, H. Kohon, Dir., Southampton6/23 7/7, 21 8/4, 18/70 ConcertsState University College Opera Workshop, PotsdamSee 1969-70 listingSummer Savoyards, C. Athorn, Mus. Dir., Binghamton7/31 8/1, 7, 8, 9/70 lolanthe pf. at N.Y. State Univ. at Binghamton

NEW YORK CITYManhattan School of Music, Stephen Maxyni, Dir., Summer School6/8-7/31/70 courses for pre-college, bachelor and master degree candidates6/8-7/3/70 opera workshop for coaches and conductors; dir: G. Schick6/8, 15, 22/70 lectures "A Practical Look at the Professional Vocal Career"

Judith RaskinMaster Institute Opera Workshop, O. Farb, Dir., Riverside Drive6/13/70 Opera scenesMetropolitan Opera Assn., R. Bing, Gen. Mgr., in N.Y.C. Parks6/30 7/3, 8, 15, 17/70 Lucia di Lammermoor Moffo/Boky/Robinson; Konya/

DiGiuseppi/DiVirgilio, Guarrera/Goodloe, Macurdy/Sgarro/Plishka7/1,4, 11, 18/70 Pag/wed Amara/Stratas/Cruz-Romo; Tucker/Nagy, MacNeil/

Polakoff/Guarrera, Goodloe/Gibbs/Cossa, Schmorr/Goeke/Velis; cond: Adler7/7, 10, 14/70 La Boheme Kirsten/Stratas, Boky/DePaul; DiGiuseppe/Naghiu,

Christopher/Cossa, Plishka/Macurdy, Boucher; cond: BehrNaumburg Concerts, Central Park Mall5/30/70 Carmen excerpts; solo: Bonazzi; cond: Neel7/4, 31/70 Symphony concerts9/1/70 Faust & Mefistofele scenes, cone, pf.; Craig, Evans; Walker, M. Smith

cond: BuckleyNew York Philharmonic Promenade Concerts, A. Kostelanetz, Cond.5/27-6/20/70 Symphony concertsNew York Philharmonic in N.Y.C. Parks7/20-8/18/70 Symphony concertsPhilharmonic Hall, Opera Film Series (7/15-27/70)7/15, 19/70 Die Meistersinger von Niirnberg§ Saunders; Cassilly, Tozzi; cond:

Ludwig; dir: Liebermann7/16/70 Fidelio%7117170 Le Nozze di Figaro Germ.7718/70 Der Freischiitz§7/20/70 Zar und Zimmermann%7/21/70 Elektra7/22, 26/70 Carmen dir: Karajan; Salzburg Festival production7/23/70 Cos) fan tutte with Vienna Philharmonic; cond: Bohm7/24/70 Der junge Lord West Berlin Opera production7/25/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci La Scala production7/27/70 Don Giovanni with Vienna Philharmonic; Salzburg Festival production§ Hamburg State Opera productionsQueens Opera Assn., J. Messina, Dir., Forest & Cochran Parks, Queens6-7/70 // Trovatore, Aida, 2 others to be announced

NORTH CAROLINABrevard Music Center & Festival, H. Janiec, Dir. (7/1-8/16/70)7/4/70 Don Giovanni Eng. Dent 7/17/70 Susannah7/10/70 Madama Butterfly Eng. Gutman 7/31/70 Kismet7/15/70 The Pirates of Penzance 8/7/70 Aida Eng. Duclouxguest soloists in recitals include: Kirsten, Warfleld, McCracken7/28-8/6/70 Band and Orchestra Directors Institute; spons. by Presser Foundationapplications: Box 349, Converse Station, Spartanburg, S.C. 29301Eastern Music Festival at Guilford College (6/18-8/1/70)

OHIOAkron University, Firestone Conservatory, Miss H. Montoni, Dir.6/5, 6/70 Opera scenes; guest dirs: B. Goldovsky, Fred. Popper

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Summer 1970Blossom Music Festival, P. Boulez, Art Dir., Cleveland (6/18-8/23/70)6/16-8/23/70 Cleveland Orchestra; guest conds: Bernstein, Haitnik, Previn,

Copland, Skrowaczewski8/14-23/70 New York City BalletCincinnati May Festival, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, M. Rudolf, Dir.

(5/16-23/70)5/22/70 Carmina Bur ana with Pennsylvania Ballet Company5123170 Wilfred Josephs' Mortales comm. by May Festival, cond: RudelCincinnati Summer Opera, S. Orwoll, Dir., at the Zoological Gardens7/8, 11/70 Tosca* Saunders; Lavirgen, Paskalis; cond: Guadagno7/10, 12/70 11 Trovatore Lacambra, Grillo; Cassilly, Farrar; cond: deAlmeida7/15, 18/70 Cavalleria rusticana Lang, DeCarlo; O'Leary, Patrick & Pagliacci

Crane; Morris, Patrick, Wagner; cond: Guadagno7/17, 19/70 Samson and Delilah Verrett; Cochran, Farrar; cond: deAlmeida7/22, 25/70 Otello* Costa; del Ferro, Paskalis; cond: Guadagno7/24, 26/70 Carmen Verrett, Crane; Novoa, Darrenkamp; cond: Lee7/29 8/1/70 La Traviata Cruz-Romo; Alexander, Kimbrough; cond: Herbert7/31 8/2/70 Madama Butterfly* Weathers, de Carlo; Stewart, DarrenkampOberlin College Music Theater, R. Lazarus, Dir., Oberlin (7/8-8/8/70)8/7-11/70 Madama ButterflyII15-18/70 The Pirates of Penzance7/22-25/70 The Rake's Progress7/29-8/1/70 The Barber of Seville8/5-8/70 CarouselOhio State University, Opera Theatre, P. Hickfang, Dir., Columbus6/15-20/70 Opera workshop; guest dirs: B. Goldovsky, A. Schoep7/29, 30, 31 8/1/70 The Consul

OREGONPortland Opera Association, Inc., in Portland City Parks7/31 8/1, 2/70 The Magic Flute

PENNSYLVANIAAmbler Festival and Institute of Temple University, D. Stone, Dean,

R. £ . Page, Dir., Ambler6/26-8/16/70 Pittsburgh Symphony cond: Steinberg and guests7/26/70 Opera concert; Steber, Carson; diGiuseppe; cond: Rich6/29, 30/70 Street Scene cond: Buckley; dir: Lucas7/29, 30/70 Die Kluge & II Tabarro cond: Rich; dir: Lucas7/5-8/2/70 Choral Institute '70 dir: Margaret HillisChatham College Opera Workshop, Mrs. A. Keister, Fndr., Pittsburgh7/27-8/21/70 Opera Workshop; 2 full productions; mus. dir: R. Woitach;

st. dir: R. FlusserEphrata Cloisters, Ephrata6/27 7/4, 5, 11, 18, 25 8/1, 2, 15, 22, 29, 30 9/5, 6/70 Vorspiel der neuen Welt

music dramaPenn State University, G. Meier, Guest Cond., University Park6/21-7/3/70 Symphony Music Workshop; groups in residence: Alard String Quartet,

Bowling Green Quintet, Thalia TrioPittsburgh Festival of the Arts at Point Park College6/13-7/10/70 Workshops and concerts and ballet6/13, 14/70 The Environmental CircusRobin Hood Dell, Philadelphia6/15-7123/70 Philadelphia Orchestra; conds: Mehta, Barenboim, Kostelanetz,

Skrowaczewski, de Burgos; Children's concerts; cond: W. SmithRHODE ISLAND

The Newport Music Festival, G. Sauls, Gen. Dir., R.I. Arts Foundation7/30-8/8/70 Chamber music, recitals, films8/6/70 Poniatowski's An Travers du mur Am. prem., perf. by Metropolitan

Opera StudioTENNESSEE

Sewanee Summer Music Center, Miss M. McCrory, Dir., Sewanee6/21-7/26/70 Concerts by students and faculty; instrumental workshops

TEXASHouston Opera in the Park7/30, 318/1, 2/70 Boesing's The Wanderer State supported pfs.

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Summer 1970VERMONT

Composer's Conference and Chamber Music Center, Bennington(8/16-30/70)

Marlboro Music Festival, R. Serkin, Dir.7/11-8/23/70 Chamber Music and Symphony Concerts; P. Casals guest; composer-

in-residence: L. KirchnerSt. Michael's College, Fine Arts Department, W. Tortolano, Chmn., Winooski7/12, 19, 26 8/2/70 "Music in Vermont" concertsSouthern Vermont Art Center, Manchester7/5-8/30/70 Music eventsUniversity of Vermont, Burlington7/8-29/70 Lane Summer Music Series

VIRGINIADept of Recreation and Parks, L. W. Batty, Dir., Richmond8/5, 7/70 The Marriage of Figaro Eng. Martin

WASHINGTONUniversity of Washington Festival Opera, SeattleSee 1969-70 listingWestern Washington State College, BellinghamSee 1969-70 listing

WEST VIRGINIAOglebay Institute, Opera Workshop, B. Goldovsky, Dir., Wheeling8/3-24/70 opera workshop; F. Popper, A. Schoep, asst. dirs.8/20/70 Die Fledermaus

WISCONSINPeninsula Music Festival, Fish Creek8/8-22/70 Symphony concertsPerforming Arts Center, pert, by Viennese Touring Group, Milwaukee7/25-8/30/70 Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles

dir: A. PichlerWisconsin University, Milwaukee6/22-8/1/70 Chamber music concerts

FIRST PERFORMANCE LISTING, 1970-71 SEASON

All performances are staged with orchestra unless marked "cone, pf." or "w.p."(with piano). — Performances and news items once announced will not be relistedat the time of performance.CALIFORNIA

San Francisco Opera Assn., K. H. Adler, Gen. Dir.9/18, 23, 26 10/4, 9 11/22, 281770 Tosca Crespin/Kirsten; Spiess/Domingo,

MacNeil/Quilico, Van Dam/Monk, Capecchi/Grant, Fried; cond: Cillario;dir: Mansouri

9/19, 25, 29 10/7/70 Falstaff Costa, M. Price, Chookasian, Anderson; Evans,Richardson, Burrows, Ulfung, Berberian, Manton; cond: Bartoletti;dir: Evans/G. Hager

9/22, 27 10/2/70 Siegfried Lindholm, Nadler; Thomas, Stewart, Ulfung, Berberian;cond: Suitner; dir: P. Hager; des: Skalicki/West

9/30 10/3, 6, 11, 16 11/26/70 Carmen Fassbiinder/Davidson, Marsh, Matsumoto,NadJer; Chauvet/Domingo, Van Dam/Monk, Grant, Fried, Manton;cond: Perisson; dir: Mansouri; des: Bay also 11/16 in Sacramento and 5 studentperfs.

10/10, 13, 18, 21/70 Nabucco Lippert, Anderson; MacNeil, Tozzi, Bjoerling, Grant,Fried; cond: Cillario; dir: P. Hager; des: Nomikos/West

10/17, 20, 23, 28/70 Cost fan tutte* M. Price, Berganza, Sciutti; Davies, Rinaldi,Capecchi; cond: Pritchard; dir: Ponnelle; des: Ponnelle/West

10/24, 27, 30/70 Salome Silja, Cervena, Hadler; Ulfung, Nienstedt, Peterson,Van Dam, Monk, Grant, Fried, Manton; cond; Gregor; dir: Wagner/Ebermann;des: Wagner/Darling

10/31 11/6, 10, 15, 18/70 Tristan und Isolde Nilsson, Martin; Vickers, Dooley,Tozzi, Monk, Grant, Davies; cond: Suitner; dir: P. Hager;des: Bauer-Ecsy/West

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1970-71 Season11/3, 8, 13, 21, 25/70 Faust Beckman, Anderson, Cervena; Vanzo, Soyer, Cossa;

cond: Perisson; dir: Erlo; des: Skalicki/West11/7, 11, 20, 24, 29/70 Otello* Kabaivanska, Nadler; McCracken, Paskalis, Davies,

Grant; cond: Gregor; dir: Ponnelle; des: Ponnelle/West11/14, 17, 27/70 The Rake's Progress Marsh, Anderson, Peterson; Van Way, Dooley,

Grant, Fried; cond: Schuller; dir: P. Hager; des: Skalicki/Colangelofhonoring Dorothy Kirsten's 25th anniversary with the company.

CONNECTICUTConnecticut Opera Assn., F. Pandolfi, Gen. Dir., Hartford10/20/70 Aida Arroyo, Casei; Thomas, Shinall11/17/70 La Traviata Sills; Bottion, Ludgin1/27/71 La Boheme Galli, Shelle; di Virgilio, Darrenkamp, FoldiH17171 II Trovatore Crader, Grillo; Meliciani, Lavirgen4/21/71 Madama Butterfly student pfs. 4/20, 21, 22/70 Weathers, de Carlo;

di Giuseppe, SchwartzmanFLORIDA

Family Opera of Miami, P. Csonka, Mus. Dir.12/6/70 Hansel and Gretel5/2/71 The GondoliersOpera Guild of Greater Miami, A. di Filippi, Art. Dir., E. Buckley, Mus. Dir.1/25, 27, 30 2/2t/71 Ernani Maragliano; Prevedi, MacNeil, Raimondi2/15, 17, 20, 231771 // Barbiere di Siviglia Boky; Bruscantini, Tozzi, Foldi3/15, 17, 20/71 Les Contes d'Hoffmann Lance, Guiot, Mesple; Bacquier, Kellytin Fort Lauderdale

GEORGIAAugusta Opera Co., I. Strasfogel, Art. Dir., Augusta9/10-13/70 Carmen Eng. Martin

ILLINOISLyric Opera of Chicago, Miss C. Fox, Gen. Dir.9/28 10/2, 7, 10/70 Der Rosenkavalier* Brooks, Ludwig, Minton; Berry, Garaventa;

cond: Dohnanyi; dir: Neugebauer; des: Schneider-Siemssen10/5, 8, 11, 14, 17/70 Turandot Nilsson, Weathers; Tagliavini, Washington;

cond: Votto; dir: Merrill; des: O'Hearn10/16, 19, 24, 28, 31 11/4/70 Lucia di Lammermoor Deutekom; Tucker, Mittelman;

dir: Frisell/Benois10/22, 30 11/2, 11, 14/70 La Traviata* Caballe; Gedda, Cappuccilli; dir: De Lullo;

des: Pizzi11/6, 9, 18, 21, 23/70 Billy Budd* Lewis, Uppman, Evans; cond: Bartoletti;

dir: Evans/Anderson; des: Piper11/13, 16, 25, 29 12/5/70 L'haliana in Algeri Marimpietri, Home; Taddei,

Garaventa, Trimarchi; dir: Mansouri; des: Luzzati11/20, 28, 30 12/9, 11/70 Madama Butterfly Weathers, Krebill; Tagliavini,

Trimarchi; dir: Aoyama; des: Lee12/2, 4, 7, 10, 12/70 Bluebeard's Castle Martin; Evans; dir/des: Puecher, &

Gianni Schicchi* Marimpietri, Greenspon; Garaventa, Gobbi, Washington;dir: Gobbi; des: Ghiglia

other artists include: Garabedian, Zilio; Andreolli, Giorgetti, Kraus, Michalski,Paige, R. Thomas, Velis, Voketaitis, Wicks, Yarnell

MARYLANDBaltimore Civic Opera Co., R. Collinge, Mng. Dir., Baltimore10/29, 31 11/2/70 Faust Neblett; di Virgilio, Diaz, Darrenkamp; cond: Comissiona;

dir: Lucas2/18, 20, 22/71 The Barber of Seville Eng.; Scovotti; Fredericks, Malas;

cond: Mueller; dir: Lucas4/22, 24, 26/71 Madama Butterfly Kabaivanska; Lavirgen, Clatworthy;

cond: Mueller; dir: LucasMINNESOTA

St. Paul Opera Company, G. Schaefer, Gen. Mgr.9/29-10/11/70 The Telephone & The Medium, Antheil's Venus in Africa & La Serva

Padrona; 5 pfs. each alternating double-bills at Crawford Livingston Theatre10/20, 23, 25/70 Of Mice and Men at O'Shaughnessy Audit, at College of St.

Catherine1971 Spring program to be announced

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MISSOURIKansas City Lyric Theatre, R. Patterson, Gen. Dir., Kansas City9/22, 26 10/2, 8, 14/70 Of Mice and Men C. Christensen; R. Williams, D. Holloway,

R. Jones9/23, 29 10/3, 9, 15/70 The Marriage of Figaro Eng., D. Coulter, Christensen,

Guliet; Hook, Palmer9/24, 30 10/6, 10, 16/70 Othello Eng., N. Shade; Williams, Palmer, Jones9/25 10/1, 7, 13, 17/70 Cavalleria rustkana & Pagliacci J. Highley; Cathcart, Hook;

& Shade; Knoll, R. Highley, HollowayNEW YORK

Ithaca Opera Association, K. Baumann, Dir.10/21, 22/70 Don Pasquale Hassan; at Kaufman Audit.

NEW YORK CITYClarion Concerts, N. Jenkins, Dir., Fully Hall3/16/71 Hasse's L'Olimpiade cone, pf., Am. prem., Shane, Vanni, Caplan; Conrad,

Collins4/20/71 Pasquini's Didone abbandonata & Scarlatti's // Primo omicidio cone, pf.,

Sciutti, Stark, Bonazzi; Best, BerberianMetropolitan Opera Assn., R. Bing, Gen. Mgr., Lincoln Center

(first dates only)9/14/70 Ernani Arroyo; Bergonzi, Milnes, Raimondi; cond: Schippers9/15/70 Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci Cossoto; Domingo, Colzani; Stratas;

McCracken, Sereni, Walker, Velis; cond: Cleva9/16/70 Les Contes d'Hoffmann Grist, Elias, Lorengar, von Stade; Gedda, Bacquier;

cond: Baudo9/17/70 Norma Sutherland, Home; Tagliavini, Giaiotti; cond: Bonynge9/18/70 La Traviata Zylis-Gara; Aragal, Merrill; cond: Bonynge9/25/70 Orfeo ed Euridice* Tucci, Bumbry, Robinson; cond: Bonynge9/29/70 Madama Butterfly Pilou; Konya, Guarrera; cond: Molinari-Pradelli10/3/70 Un Ballo in maschera Caballe, Grist, Dalis; Domingo, Merrill;

cond: Molinari-Pradelli10/9/70 Andrea Chenier Tebaldi, Chookasian; Bergonzi, Colzani, Corena;

cond: Cleva10/15/70 Lucia di Lammermoor Scotto; Pavarotti, Sereni, Raimondi; cond: Franci10/20/70 Don Pasquale Grist; A. Kraus, T. Krause, Corena; cond: Franci11/7/70 Tosca Crespin; Domingo, Gobbi, Corena; cond: Molinari-Pradelli11/14/70 Parsifal* Ludwig; Brilioth, Stewart, Siepi, Macurdy; cond: L. Ludwig11/16/70 Aida Arroyo; Tucker, MacNeil, Flagello; cond: Cleva11/27/70 Elektra Nilsson, Rysanek, Resnik; Stewart; cond: Bohm12/16/70 Fidelio* Rysanek, Mathis; Vickers, Berry, Tozzi, Driscoll, Macurdy;

cond: Bohm12/31/70 La Perichole Eng.; Stratas; Uppman, Ritchard; cond: Allers1/ 16m/71 Die Frau ohne Schatten Rysanek, Ludwig, Dalis; Nagy, Berry, Dooley;

cond: Bohm1/23/71 // Barbiere di Siviglia Home; DiGiuseppe, Milnes, Tozzi, Corena;

cond: Schippers1/26/71 Carmen Pospinov-Baldani; Vickers; cond: Morel2/19/71 Werther* Ludwig, Blegen; Corelli, Reardon, Corena; cond: Lombard3/1/71 La Boheme Kirsten, Boky; Konya, Sereni, Hines; cond: Cleva3/2/7111 Trovatore Arroyo, Chookasian; Tucker, Milnes; cond: Mehta3/20m/71 Don Giovanni Moser, Zylis-Gara, Pilou; Siepi, Gedda, Corena, Uppman,

Macurdy; cond: KripsNew York City Opera, J. Rudel, Gen. Dir., Lincoln Center9/9, 12, 26 10/2, 8, 14/70 Mefistofele9/10, 22, 30 10/4 10m 11/lm, 11, 14/70 Lucia di Lammermoor9/11, 13m, 15, 19m, 27m 10/3m, 9/70 La Boheme9/12m, 16, 20, 26m 10/4m, 17m/70 Madama Butterfly9/13, 18, 23, 29 10/11/70 The Marriage of Figaro Eng.9/17, 19, 24 10/1, 10, 31m/7O La Traviata9/20m 10/16, 24m, 30 ll/8m, 14m/70 La Cenerentola Eng.9/25, 27 10/3, l lm 11/7, 13/70 Manon10/7, 18m, 20, 27 11/5/70 Don Rodrigo

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10/15, 18, 21, 24 11/6, 8/70 Roberto Devereux* des: Lee/Verona10/17, 22, 25, 28/70 Faust10/23, 25m, 31 ll/7m/70 Pelleas et Melisande10/29 11/4, 12, 15/70 Rigoletto11/1, 3, 10, 15m/70 The Makropoulos Affair* Eng.; dir: Corsaro; cond: Oetvos

NORTH CAROLINAThe Charlotte Opera Assn., Mrs. J. Henderson, Pres., Charlotte10/26/70 // Trovatore2/1/71 L'Elisir d'amore4/19/71 Carmen

PENNSYLVANIAPittsburgh Opera, Inc., R. Karp, Gen. Dir.10/22, 24/70 Madama Butterfly Stratas; diVirgilio, Turgeon12/10, 12/70 Vn Ballo in maschera* Caballe; Marti, Tipton1/21, 23/71 Boris Godunov DeCarlo; Hines, MacWherter, Velis3/11, 13/71 // Trovatore Owen, Rankin; Lavirgen, Milnes4/15, 17/71 La Traviata* Peters; Duval, Sordello

TENNESSEEChattanooga Opera Assn., S. Landau, Mus. Dir., Chattanooga10/6, 8/70 Die Fledermaus4/20, 22/71 La Boheme

TEXASDallas Civic Opera, L. Kelly, Dir.11/6, 8, 14/70 The Merry Widow Kirsten, Wells; Reardon; cond: Rescigno11/13, 15, 17/70 Madama Butterfly Scotto, Malagu; Prevedi, Patrick, Ricciardi;

cond: Rescigno; des: dalla Corte11/21, 22/70 "Gala 101" (// Tabarro & Carmina Burana) Olivero; Merighiero;

Tajo; Scovotti; diGiuseppe; cond: Rescigno; dirs. Castelli, Skibine11/28, 30/70 La Voix humaine Olivero; semi-staged12/4, 6/70 Rigoletto Rinaldi, Malagu; Buzea, Mastromei, Zaccaria, Enloe;

cond: Rescigno; dir: Maestrini; des: Scarfiotti/HallHouston Grand Opera, W. Herbert, Dir., Houston10/6, 9, 11/70 Fidelio* Barlow; Cochran, Dooley, Macurdy; cond: Herbert;

st. dir: Igesz: des: Jampolis11/10, 13, 15/70 Die Fledermaus Fenn, Kova, Mavrikos; Poretta, Khanzadian;

cond: Rosekrans1/12, 15, 17/71 Pagliacci & The Moon Baynard; McCracken, Quilico; & Remo;

conds: Herbert & Rosekrans2/6, 19, 21/71 Aida Krilovici, B. Wolff: Lavirgen, AUman; cond: Herbert3/30 4/2, 4/71 Lucia di Lammermoor Sills; Alexander, Fredricks; cond: Rosekrans

WASHINGTONSeattle Opera Association, G. Ross, Gen. Dir., Seattle9/24, 26, 30 10/21, 3/70 Madama Butterfly Reale; Labo; cond: Holt11/12, 14, 18, 20t, 21/70 Les Contes d'Hoffmann Sutherland; Alexander, Treigle;

cond: Bonynge1/21, 24, 27, 29t, 30/71 Le Nozzc di Figaro Fenn, Miljakovich; Lackner;

cond: Chappie3/4, 6, 10, 12t, 13/71 Don Carlo Ross, Cossotto; Vinco4/22, 24, 28, 30t 5/1/71 Carmen Cortez, Mandac; diVirgilio; cond: Katims^National Series in English with young American singers

CANADACanadian Opera Company, H. Geiger-Torel, Dir., Toronto9/18, 24, 28, 30 10/8m, 10, 15m, 17m/70 Don Giovanni* Schauler, Thomson, Little;

Diaz, Rubes, Brocks, Eng. Martin; cond: Feldbrill; dir: Geiger-Torel;des: Schaefer

10/3 Guild, 7, 9, 13/70 Fidelio* Silja; Peterson, Ludgin; cond: Bender;dir: Alexander; des: Laufer/Day

9/22, 26 10/1, 5, 10m, 14, 16/70 Carmen Pospinov-Baldani, Roslak; Bonhomme,Opthof: cond: Bernardi; dir: Geiger-Torel; des: Schaefer

9/19, 23, 26m 10/2, 6, 12. 15/70 La Traviata Koszut; Arab, Quilico; cond: Barbini9/25, 29 10/3m, 8, 17/70 Faust Zarou; Walker, Garrard, Opthof, cond: Barbini;

dir: Major; des: Lawrence

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