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Ill) Slsicraan, Salem, Ore, Sun, Oct 7, '56 European Soprano Will Open Community Concert Series Elisabeth Schwankopf, the beauteous European toprano who be came an American concert sensation overnight, will be presented In concert Thursday, October 11 by the Salem Community Concert As sociation. This will be Miss Schwankopf s third U. S. tour. In con stant demand by European concert and opera bouses and busy with iter numerous recordings for An gel, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf can only spars eleven weeks lor her American visit Again, as la 1953, Schwankopf will begin ber tour with appear ances at tht San Jtsncisco Opera Company In San Francisco and Los Angeles. She will sing in "Cos! Fan Tutte the role that has brought her fame at La Seals, and in "FalsUH," in which Hal hi a . ftfcAtA11w HAkn(A4 European opera lovers. Her early musical training was 'acquired in Berlin and it was there, at the Berlin Civic Opera ui.un h vy- atic debut' Three years later, in ner penormances stirred the interest of Maria Ivogun, who prepared her for ber first lieder recitals, first of which was in Vi enna in 1M2, Star ef Vienna Opera Alter the war ended. Schwan kopf became the star of the Vien na Opera and It was through her VlMntea h..a." Sl- . - eaftftceuauic iU4l BUT first ittracted attentibn of Xht CoVftflt (ImrAmm Mian - Later, Schwarzkopf became the idol of the La Scala public. She sang the female lead In the world premiere at Venice of Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress," opened the first post-war Bayreuta Festival, per formed in Naples, Munich, Salt burg and major choral works at the Lucerne Festivals. Schwankopf! first American appearance came in 1953 and was one of the most spectacular and widely discussed debuts ever made in this country. : This beautiful blonde star of La Scala is in private life Mrs. Walter Legge, the recording di rector of EMI, the company that in America issues its discs under the "Angel" label. Miss Schwankopf appears as the first artist in a series of four concerts presented this sea son by the Salem Community Concert Association. Concerts are held at the North Salem high school auditoium and admittance is by season ticket only. No tickets. will be available at the door. Soprano Coming s . - i ,l 4 ' - V ? : Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, European soprano, who comes to Salem as first in the Community Concert Winter series Thursday night, October 11. Admission is by concert membership. ,TO "SUIT YOUR EVERY MOOD! TP ( V J X -J have jta complfttt wardrobt of eimme Classics L'AlMANT-attracts tad captivates all thoee who under itt epelL L'ORIGAN-bauntinglv fubtle.Mevokiag the picture ef glamour and luxttrj. CMERAUDCaointillatiog, alive and luxurious a the emerald itaeK. 'PARIS'-liflht, gay trsgTance.intriguisg and charming M the famous city Introductory offer. rFourworU-amoui fragrancet 3L CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 State St. (Corner ef liberty) WE OIYI GREEN STAMPS Musicians to Be Heard on Radio Program Stanley Butler will talk about Elisabeth Schwarzkopf during his weekly radio program on K-Gay this afternoon from J to 4 o'clock. Miss Schwankopf. European so prano, will be heard by members of the Salem Community concert Association Thursday night. Guest on the program will be Clorinda Topping, associate pro fessor of voice at Willamette Uni versity and well known singer on radio, concert and oratorio in western United States. "Types of Women Singers'' will be discussed by the two on the program, one of a regular series being conducted weekly on Sun days. Records of lieder and opera tic 1 U e r a t u r e with singers Schwarzkopf, Pons, Thebom, Al banese, Lehman and others will be played. Some o the numbers to be heard will be included on Miss Schwarzkopf's program Thursday. Stanley Butler, associate profes sor of music at Willamette Uni versity is a pianist, teacher, music critic on The Oregon Statesman and well known for his piano lec ture-recitals. Today's radio pro gram on K-Gay is the second in the winter series on music of in terest, when Mr. Butler discusses various phases of music and inter view musical personalities. Pi Phi Mothers Meet The Pi Beta Phi Mothers Club of Willamette University will hold its first fall meeting at the chapter house on State Street Tuesday afternon at 2 o clock. The new president, Mrs. Cass Nichols, will preside and plans will be made for the rummage sale. Tea host' esses will be Mrs. Preston Dough' ton and Mrs. Millard Doughton. DGul By CARL HALL Lionel Trilling, la his biogrsphy of Matthew Arnold, noted hew Arnold spoke of a world con fused and hostile and demanded that poetry give men an Intellec tual deliverance.' That deliver- ance, he says, is perfect, when we have acquired that harmoni ous acquiescence of mind which we feel in contemplating a grand spectacle that is intelligible to us: when we have lost that impatient irritation of mind which we feel in presence of an immense, mov ing, confused spectacle which, while it perpetually excites oar curiosity, perpetually baffles our comprehension." The eg centric emstlualism that Ignited the wrath ef Matthew Araald la his lime would, It he were alive today, doubt break forth aa added dimension ef indlg atiei. Far la tar time snedera painting, like much of contem porary poetry, has blooded so ex- knberantty that we are being aver whelmed with the mangled car cass of the subconscious. n our time emotionalism has taken a new tack and in the field of contemporary painting, espe cially here in America, it has raised a whole new edifice unlike anything found in the history of art. Its very inadequate label, ab stract expressionism, while it lo cates ifl a general way a certain quality of work, does not give any indication of its consequence. We will admit, with grave exceptions, a portion of this so called advance guard to kinship with history, in that it was a consequence of a chain of esthetic events 'more then spiritual or physical events) which have come to a head in our day. To admit the inevitability of a Pollock or a DeKooning, how ever, does not admit the accept ance of the implications and ab dications from time and place which apparently are (admitted by the artist or not inherent in the work. Their efforts may have a therapeutic value but they cannot be equated- with a completely sat isfactory creative solution in the quest for esthetic truth and spirit ual reality. Grave Questions It is becoming obvious to more and more artists and estheticions that the work of the abstract ex pressionist raises grave and mo mentous questions that have a great bearing on the future of American art. One is not posing as a clarvoyant or a visionary about the future to raise these questions nor siding with phlistia. but rather trying to make an effort to see the potential in the present, and at the moment the indicaions are slim indeed. To accept what they offer us is to live on an Isolated and rootless tentacle of life; is it necessarily blindness or conservatism on our part to desire more then the absolute minimum which does not even have the sav ing grace of being intelligible? Are we not to question the neglect of light, of a communicable reve lation that rises above and hevnnd the technical pyrotechnics? Can we be blamed when we find the works idle things of the moment, V . " Leslie Circles to Meet The regular circle meetings ef the Leslie Methodist Church win be held Wednesday. The Edna Holder Circle will r eet with Mrs. A. W. Metzger, 171S N. ard Sf. with Mrs. H. Sanders assisting. Mrs. J. Murray will give the de votions and a program will follow. The Evelyn DeVries Circle will be entertained at the homeof Mrs. E. L, Dencer, V E. Bi sh St. with Mrs. J. Raines assisting. Mrs. T. W. Trick will give the devotions and Mrs. Mason Bishop is in charge of the program. PortlanH Symphony Will Play Three Concerts in Salem dated and cremated on their own premise? We live la a time wbea there b a great need ef mea who have vlsioa; creators, ne matter la what field, that see through the con fusions of oar Ihse and strive to Isolate tor all to see and experi ence a realm of values that radiate from a pole of personal Integrity and based oa a warm centered conscience. Values around which the human soul ean receive a semblance of sanity and worth in life. We now! live in a world that -demands,' above all else, a communicable meaning from content, whether on the surface of a canvas 6r in a' newly written law. Man must re-; solve his spiritual and emotional! tensions and the field of art can find its most fertile environment i in such a conflict. Surely modern art can afford such a mission. Salem's musical season will once again include three con certs by the Portland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Theo dore Bloomfield, with the opening performance scheduled for Tues day evening, October 16 at Wil lamette University's Fine Arts Auditorium, setting for all three programs. The Salem Symphony Society, sponsoring beet for the visiting orchestra, announces that season tickets are now available at Stevens and Son. On October IS, Mr. Bloomfield will conduct the Bach Toccata in C Major, Beethoven's Fifth Sym phony, the Sinfonietta of Avshal omov, and Respighi'i tone poem, The Pines of Rome. This will mark Mr. Bloomfield'i third ap pearance in Salem and will also be the prelude to season number ten of the Portland orchestra's Salem concerts, presented here under the auspices of the Salem Symphony Society, a group formed for the accomplishment of that very fa:t. 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Others who worked on groundwork arrangements were the late Paul Wallace, George Kaye, Miss Dorothy Pearce, Dean Melvin Geist, Frank Fisher, Mrs. Virgil Golden, Mrs. Max Rogers, Mrs. Harold Rosebraugh, Miss Alice Crsry Brown, and C. A. Kells. First Concert la INI i On January 7, IMS, the first concert was presented with Wer ner Janssen conducting.. He re turned with the orchestra in Feb ruary to complete the premiere season of two concerts, coming again next season to lead the or chestra in two more programs. From January, 1950, through March. 1953, the orchestra, then conducted by James Sample, made twelve concert engage ments here in Salem. Theodore Bloomfield became the perman ent conductor last year. Guest conductors who have led the Port land Symphony before Salem audiences include Ernest Bloch, Arthur Fiedler and, Igor-Stravinsky A total of twenty concerts and nine seasons, including the ap pearance of several notable solo- GOP Women to Hear Mrs. Davisson Salem Unit, Republican Women's Federation of Oregon has sched uled its monthly meeting for Mon day afternoon in the Capitol Room of the -Senator Hotel at 1 p. m. Mrs. John Cochran will preside. The guest speaker will be Mrs. W. C. Davisson of Lake Grove, whose subject will be "Why Labor Should Vote Republican." Miss Hattie Bratzel, Salem attorney and member of the club, who is a can didate for district attorney, will also appear on the program. During the meeting plans will be made for the local unit's ob servance' of Ike's Birthday cele bration on October 13. 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