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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1950)
2 Th' StaUtmm' ScJom Oregon, Sunday, April 9. 1950 Music for Today i i - : JON CHAIN I : !. ' i i -. Two Operas To Be Sung . Thursday I Charles- Wagner's Grand Opera company of 70 including orches- Ira and singers will play "Caval eria Rustlcana" and I PagUacd" tn the atase of the Salem high school auditorium Thursday night tender the auspices of the Salem rommunitT Concert association. Doors open at 7:30 o'clock. This is tha final program in the inter series of five attractions In the past ten years Wagner has established a reputation as America's leading producer of op era on tour. He selects his cast from sifted younger American ingers. Desire Defrere, stage dl- I rector of the Metropolitan Opera , for the past 18 years, lis director of the Wagner company, and Paul fereisach, conductor of the San Francisco and Metropolitan op eras, is musical director. Cirker ( and Bobbins of New York have executed the settings and new costumes, a departure from the usual custom of touring operas, which is to buy them from defunct companies. S tan-in in the roles of San tuzza and Turridu in. "Cavalleria Rusticana" are Shirley Bar din and Jon Craln with a supporting cast . ef Margaret Roggero playing Lu , cia. Frank Cappelll as Alflo, and Crace Hoffman as Lola. In "I pagliacci," Rafael Lagares and runa Falcon will take the lead ig roles of Canio and Nedda. Portland Choir Here Wednesday ; ; - On Wednesday the SO - voice choir of Concordia academy. Port land, will.be presented in concert t St. ; John's Lutheran church, 16th and A street, under the aus Bices of St. John's choir. The fol lowing; Is concert to be present ed under the direction of Martin t)obberfuhL Portland, who will also play two groups of organ numbers: f ocatta In D major Mr. Oobbcrfiihl AU Clory B To God On High Dacha) Rend Out Thy Light Gounod Holy. Holf. Holy Schubert With Tho Lord Thy Work Begta-Orobo Chorua Angels Rolled the Roclr Away.. Sao Walter Czarnetzkl, Barttona Break Forth. O Beauteous Heavenly Light . , ' ; Boh Art Thou With Me X $ lesu. Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Chorua Em Feita Burg -. Taulket Adagio From tint Sonata Gutlmant : Hallelujah Chora Handal . . Mr. Dobberfuhl loaanna To Tha Living LoroLKobertoa wear us, noiy iora Quartet. liraal May say leu The Lord O My Soul Ncvta Roberto iDOlitott-Ivanof i . i Chorua f erusaWm . 1 ' Allan AprUle. baa ureal ana uionoua Chorus Parker Haydan Coons Gather For Reunion Mrs. O. W, Coon of Salem oale krated her 82nd birthday on Sat urday, April 1, by having all of her ten children and their famt Hies with her for the first time In 44 years. Mrs. Coon (formerly Rachel Gibbs) was born in Oregon tm 1868 and was married to George W. Coon when she was 16 years Id. The couple spent their more than M years of married life in the Willamette valley, the earlier part on a homestead near the Wil lamette river. Her seven sons and three daugh ters who were present for the re union are: Mrs. May Thayer of 1alem: Thomas of Newport; Clar ence of Florence; Chester of Oak land, Calif.; Arthur of Grants Pass; Frances of Missoula. Mont.; Leston of Richland. Wash.; Evah Smith of Richland, Wash: Mildred Harmon of Salem and William of - The meeting of the clan was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Harmon of Salem. Other guests included: Mrs. Thomas Coon, Mrs. Clarence Coon and Glenna, Mrs. Arthur Coon and granddaughter; Mrs. Frances Coon; Mrs. Lesten Coon; Frank Smith and Janice; Mrs.: Bill Coon, Ronnie and Jerry; Mrs. Uda Teague of Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. Cal Keucher and daughter; Mrs. Tom Harmon, sr., Toxnmie, jr, and Dick; Mr. and Mrs. John Gra ham and son; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Holter, Louanne and Rodney of Alsea; Janice and. Ronnie Rexford f Florence; and Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Long and Gary of Salem. Mrs. Oliver Hasten will eliJcs of her European trip, spon sored by the Salem Art associa tion on Tuesday night at t o'clock In Music Hall on the Willamette university campas. The affair is free, and the public is invited. A afrscu.ill offering will be taken to benefit the association. Gorgo London, Ezio Pinza1, Isaac Stern Among Artists to Bo Heard on Air By Maxine Buren SUtesmaa Music Editor j Holders of memberships in the Community Concert series should be especially interested in the NevTYork Philharmomc- v Symphony broadcast on CBS today, as George London, one of next year's scheduled artists in that series,; will appear as a so loist. Leopold Stokowsky will direct the orchestra, eight soloists and 100 singers drawn from each of Westminster choir and Schola Cantorum in addition to 50 boy singers from a Manhattan public school in the broadcast of the monumental Mahler Sym phony No. 8 in E Major. Isaac Stern, violinist, will be heard on the Standard Hour to night and Ezio Pinza will help the Telephone Hour celebrate its i tenth anniversary on Monday. : Programs for today include: ! tiO, CBS Salt Lake Tabernacle choir, and organ in an Easter I program. 11:30, ABC Piano Playhouse. 12:00-12:30, CBS The New York philharmonic-Symphony, Leo I . pold Stokowskis, conductor. James Tassett, intermission I speaker. Symphony No. 8 in E major Mahler Magna Peccatrix . ...Frances Yeend . Una Poenitentium (Gretchen) ; Uta Graf Mater Gloriosa .; iCamilla Williams I Mulier Samaritana - i Martha Linton Maria Aegyptiaca .Louise Bernhardt Doctor Marianus Eugene Conley Pater Ecstaticus Carlos Alexander Pater Profundus -.. George London Westminster Choir Boy's Chorus Part 1 "Veni Creator Spiritus" Part 2 Final Scene of Goethe's "Faust : liSO, NBC "Harvest of Stars," with tenor James Melton; chorus and orchestra directed by Frank Black; Barry Thompson, narrator. Christ the Lord Is Risen Today. ; Traditional Melton and Chorus Panls Angelicus .Franck . Melton Handel Bizet Arranged Malotte Hallelujah Chorus from "The Messiah" Orchestra and Chorus Agnus Dei from "L'Arlesienne "Suite" ....... Melton The Resurrection Thompson and Chorus The Lord's i Prayer . . Melton and Chorus : I JO, NBC Pierre Monteux will direct the San Francisco Sym phony orchestra on the Standard Hour's 1200th broadcast, Isaac Stern will play the First Movement of Mendelssohn's Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor. The orchestra will also play Prelude and Good Friday Spell from Parsifal by Wagner and selected movements from Symphony No. 3 in C minor by Saent-Saens. On Monday, listeners to good radio music will hear: 8:10, NBC "The Voice of Firestone," with orchestra directed by Howard Barlow: Christopher Lynch, tenor. , It's More Fun Than a Picnic ' i .McHugh Orchestra Little Grey Home in the West .. Lohr Lynch Orchestra Lynch April Showers Medley Molly Malone Silent Worship Romanian Rhaoeodr .... Orchestra Then Youll Remember Me -Arr. -Trad. ..Handel Lynch JCnesco ..Balfa Lynch Il80, NBC The Railroad Hour," starring baritone Gordon Mae Rae, Carmen Dragon's orchestra and the Norman Luboff chorus; Nadine Conner, soprano. Naughty Marietta ' Herbert 9:00, NBC "Tha Telephone Hour," with Donald Voorhees and Music Week to Be May 7-14 The Salem District Oregon Mu sic Teachers association will have charge of the celebration of Na tional Music Week, May 7-14. In teresting programs are being planned for the week with the use of local musical talent, and the high standards of the week's ob servances heretofore will again be maintained. i '."America's Contribution to ithe Music; World" is the national theme this year. The inventive genius of the American mind has accomplished more for the music world, perhaps than any other quality.! The phonograph, patent ed in 1877, brought music to the remotest hamlet. Broadcasting has been ; simplified for artists and studios through recording devices in a j manner undreamed of in America's music history. Schools endowed from large es tates, i student scholarships and awards through competitions, I for outstanding talent, fellowships in the f ield of composition, the I or ganized! audience plan, and Ithe educational standards for music teachers combine in establishing a foundation upon which Ameri ca takes a leading place in the realm of music among the nations of the world. Pioneer Sewing Club Plans Quilting Party Statesman Newt Servtca PIONEER The Sewing club met at the hall for a no-host din ner with Mrs. Charles Brechtel in charge of the tables. j Mrs. jRoy Woodman, vice-president ! presided. On April 12, 1 the club will meet at the home of Mrs. 4-H Garden Qub Contests Opens Monday Young people throughout Mar ion county and in the city of Sa lem are eligible to participate in the special Sears - Roebuck Foun dation 4-H garden contest just an nounced for 1950, reports Jim Bishop and Anthol Riney, 4-H club extension agents for Salem and Marion county. Eligibility requires that the young person be nine years of age or older, enrolled in a 4-H vege table garden project, write a story not to exceed 200 words on the topic, "Plans for My 1950 4-H Garden," draw a simple sketch of the garden plot showing the size in feet, expected planting plan, direction of rows and names of vegetables in each row. Awards consist of payment for seeds and plants valued up to $4.50 to each of the writers of the best stories and plans. Seeds and plants must be adapted varieties for the local area. Each member in the contest will make a five-va riety exhibit from his garden in the regular 4-H club fair in Aug ust Cash and ribbon awards will be furnished by Sears. Stories and plans will be judged on completeness and arrangement of planting plan and quality of story. Both story and sketch of the garden must be in the 4-H club office, 475 N. "Church street, Salem, not later than May 15, 1950. All participants and others desiring to take a 4-H garden pro ject are to be regularly enrolled with the 4-H extension agents by May 1, Bishop said. Brechtel and quilting bee. they will have a the Bell Symphonic orchestra and chorus; Ezio Pinza, bass. Non Piu Andrai, "The Marriage of Figaro" , Mozart : Pinza .Scotch Poem MacDowell Orchestra Splendon Piu Belle in Ciel le Stelle "La Favorite" ..... Donizetti Pinza and chorus Street Parade and Bareback Riders from "Circus Day" i .Taylor I , Orchestra Farewell and Death of Boris, "Boris GodounofrV Moussorgsky j Pinza and chorus i Saturday April broadcasts include several excellent ones. Symphonies for Youth will be broadcast on KSLM at 10:30 a. mJ Toscanini on tour with the NBC orchestra will not broad cast that morning, on his usual program but in its place Milton Katims, NBC conductor, will direct a series of seven weekly "Spring Concerts" of light classical music beginning April 15 at 3:30. 11 a.1 m, ABC Let's Go to tho Met 'is ABCs new series. John I Brownlee in the title' role and Salvatore Baccalini as Lepor ello will be heard in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" recorded by the Glyndebourne festival orchestra under the baton of Fritz Busch. This will be the first of a series of two broadcasts of the opera. 3:00-4:00, CBS The Philadelphia, orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conductor. Harl McDonald, musical commentator. . ! 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