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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. AUGUST 26. 1963 Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Saigon - U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, talking to newsmen about the tense situation in Viet Nam: "I've been advised not to take any long walki." Washington - -Undersecretary of State W. Averell Har riinan, insisting during a television appearance that Russia will observe the test ban treaty: "The Russian government and people want to avoid destroying everything they have built up." Washington - Sen. Jacob K. Javlts (D-N.Y.), speaking of alternatives to compulsory arbitration to avert a nation wide railroad strike: "The only ultimate assurance that the railroads will operate is the presidential power of seizure." Hollywood - Mrs. Pat Sheehan Crosby, suing her hus band. Dennis, for divorce: "I'm sorry this had to happen. Dennis is a sweet person." Britt Festival's Final Concert Is Varied Program; One Repeat By R. D. WERNER For the final concert of the Britt Music Festival conduc tor John Trudeau chose a var ied program with one wel come repeat. Opening with another of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti, 2 in F Major for trumpet, flute, oboe and solo violin, the players were James Smith, Gretel Shanley, Peter Christ and Charles Heiden. The interesting thing about this concerto is that the trum pet part is for piccolo trum pet in F. The extremely high notes of .the music are only possible on this instrument and of course Mr. Smith did it superbly. This man is such a master over his instrument and at times his blending with the flute was pure magic. A real tourte de force. Folk Songs . Elizabeth Pharris, contral to, was soloist in an aria by Mozart and five French folk songs arranged by Britten. They were all with orchestral accompaniment. The aria of Mozart was very well done, but there must be some other You Can Count on Us . . . 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This is music from the heart, without pretense and we were happy to hear it again. The orchestra played it better this time. When all is said and done there is no substitute for string music. One can listen to it for hours without tiring. Perhaps that is why it is the backbone of the symphony i orchestra. I Chorus and Orchestra j The final number on the program was Vaughan-Wil- liams very beautiful Sere-1 nade to Music. The festival chorus joined with the or chestra in a well balanced i rendition. This is music by ' contemporary composer who was truly a master of the I first order. Besides being an authority on British folk songs and who collected them from their sources, the same as Barlok and Kodaly did with Hungarian folk songs, he was a most thoroughly trained mu sician and orchestraler. And for many years he was a chor al conductor. Small wonder that the Serenade is such a wonderful piece of music. Here is beauty and art that uplifts and makes one know that as old Papa Haydn said, "It comes from God." Solo passages in the work were by Julie Gandl, soprano and Mirs Frohnmayer, con- tralto. They sang true and their voices were a most pleas ing sound on the night air. Three Paintings The orchestra members, aft er a few words by the concert master Charles Heiden, pre sented the conductor with three paintings of the festival by Eugene Bennett. Tribute was paid to Mrs. Bert Pree for "a great job, well done" which is most cer tainly true. This writer still thinks she must have had 16 elephants to help her. All con cerned are definitely in her debt and the flowers she re ceived were just a very small expression of their gratitude. For an encore Trudeau had the orchestra perform again the Stravinsky Pulcinella suite. This is difficult music and much too long for an en core and altogether too much to ask any orchestra to do after a full evening, and at the end of two very heavy weeks. It showed, too. The players did not do nearly as well as when they played it before. Well Played Series And it seems appropriate to say a few things about the music and players on the whole. To this reviewer the choice of music played with a few exceptions was not cal culated to please the audience. It was all extremely well played and the orchestra can go away knowing they did a magnificent job, including the chamber music players. B u t the concentration on ancient i and modern only, left too much of a gap for any real popular appeal. An interesting thing about ! the scries was that all instru mental soloists were those who blew into their instru- j ments. They were all very fine, to say the least, but over- j worked. The first cellist was wasted and the concertmaster ' was overworked. A solo by either or both of these people would have been most wel-' come. I Unsung Heroes Two unsung heroes were Peter Christ, oboist, and Gor- i don Solie, bassoonist. Their! work was outstanding. 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