Evening star., 1961-09-24

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NEWS FROM HERE . 8.
Concerts at the National
Gallery begin tonight in the
East Garden Court. If
you don't already have tickets
for the New York Philhar-
mOnic this afternoon, you've
missed the boat. Understand
ably enough, the house is
completely sold out. :.
WGTS-FM (91.9 on the diaD
of Takoma Park, an educa-
tional radio station stated
and largely operated by stu
dents of the Washington
Missionary College, begins its
fall broadcast hedule.
Among its interesting offer
ings is the 26-week series of
'Music From InterlOchen,"
heard each Sunday at 7::30
pm, prepared at the Ma
tiOnal Music Camp for young
artists. Douglas Ken
nedy, director of the English
Folk Dance and Song Society
of London, will lecture to-
morrow night at $3.50 pm.
on the "Anglo-American Folk
Tradition" at the Phillips
Gallery. Tuesday night
on WTTG-TV, PM East
takes up the topic of Car
negie Hall. Conductor Leo
pOId StOkOwskf is a guest on
the IL pm. show, along with
people who live and work in
the Carnegie Hall studios.
If you want to discuss
music with Patrick Hayes,
you will have a chance to do
so on Wednesday at $3.50
pm. at the Jewish Com
munity Center. Our literate
impresario, one of Washing
tons best raconteurs, will tell
all as the JCC's 1961-62
"COffee and Conversation"
series gets under way.
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NEWS FROM THERE
Richmond: The Virginia
Chamber Music Society be-
gins its 1961-o2 five-event
series this Friday with a
presentation in English of
Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte"
by the Turnau Opera Play
ers. Philadelphia: Fri
day also marks the beginning
of the season for the Phila-
delphia Orchestra and Mae
Stro Ormandy. Soloist for
the evening is Organist E.
Power Biggs, and Gottfried
Won Einem's Philadelphia
Symphony" will receive its
world premiere. Cincin-
natl: The American Sym
phOny Orchestra League,
whose board of directors met
last week in Washington to
discuss the impending move
to the Nations Capital, is
sponsoring a two-week con-
ductors' workshop here with
the Cincinnati Symphony.
Max Rudolf, conductor of
the Cincinnati Symphony,
will supervise. San Fran
cisco: If the critical notices
are to be believed, the first
fruit of the long-awaited
Ford Foundation project for
the commissioning and per-
formance of new American
operas proved to be a juicy
lemon. Norman DellO JOiO's
Blood Moon," first heard
last Monday in a lavish per-
formance by the San Fran
cisco Opera Company,
aroused little but exaspera-
ton. Wrote Alexander Fried
of the San Francisco Ex-
aminer: Like many another
would-be rocket these days,
Norman Dello Joio's Blood
Moon badly misfired last
night at the opera house,
and muffed its high aim to
do something important and
fine for American musical
art" And Alan Rich of the
New York Times called the
piece "a feeble and hopelessly
inadequate stab at motivat-
ing a whole apparatus of
timeworn dramatic and mu-
sical structures thread
bare, overlong, and down.
right boring"
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