Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-01
THE ARTISTS
CIRCLE
BY Earl Galloway


ropolitan Opera company and will
star in the role of "Tosca" an
opera composed by Giacomo PUG
cini. The famous Opera Company
appeared in Chicago the last week
of May. Tosca was scheduled for
May 80.
Critics and musicians alike &C.
claim her recently released album
of Aida" as one of the most
highly artistic recorded perform
ances.
HENRY LEWIS, conductor will
make his debut as one of the first
Negroes to conduct the Grant Park
Symphony orchestra in Chicago,
August Is. Lewis a native of Los
Angeles, studied piano at the age
of 5 and started playing the
double bass in junior high school.
At II he was hired by Alfred Wal
lenstein for the Los Angeles Phil
harmonic for first desk double
bass. While serving in the Armed
Forces in Europe he became con-
ductor for the Seventh Army SYM
phony orchestra. In February, 1861
he was appointed substitute con-
ductor of the Los Angeles Phil
harmonic orchestra and made his
debut with the San Francisco opera
during the 1961-62 season.
WILLIAM WAKEFIELD, cele-
brated and world reknown bari
tone, is scheduled to sing a cycle
of Aaron COPELAND songs July 10
at Ravinia Festival concerts in
Highland Park a suburb of Chi
cago with the Chicago Symphony
orchestra with COPELAND as conduc-
tor. He recently performed this
cycle in New York with Leonard
Bernstein and the New York Phil
harmonic orchestra in Carnegie
hall and on television.
WALTER HENDL, Ravinia's
artistic director, announced that
ELLA FITZGERALD, celebrated
popular song stylist will make her
first appearance at Ravinia Fes-
tival concerts this summer with
her own company, July 18 and 20.
THE R. NATHANIEL DETT
MUSIC CLUB, a Chicago branch
of the National Association of
Negro Musicians, Inc, is celebrat-
ing it's 10th anniversary and will
present Marion Lewis, mezzo-sop-
rano and Horace McAfee, pianist
in recital, June "a.
THE FORD FOUNDATION re-
Gently awarded BETTY JACK
SON-KING, one of Americas fore
most young composers, a grant
for composition and study. In addi-
ton to many short musical crea-
tons for piano and voice, she has
composed several oratorios, one
opera MY Servant job" a re-
QUEEN in memory of her sister,
Catherine Jackson Adams and
Simon The Cyrenne" cantata
for Lent which received it's first
performance April 20 in Chicago.
The words were complied by DR..
William Faulkner.
KENNETH B. BILLUPS, nation
al president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Negro Musicians, Inc.
was in New York City, May 10
to receive the Musician of the
Year Award" during the scholar
ship concert of Enid Dale, pianist
and Raymond Firth, baritone spon-
sored by the New Carl Diton
branch of the MANN, Inc.
ELIJAH BENNETT, baritone
who won the additions for the
American Society of Musicians and
sponsored concert this season in
Chicago will appear with The
Roosevelt University Opera Work
shop as soloist. Later, he will go
to st. Louis, where he will be cast
in the musical Lost In The Stars"
with the Legend Singers of that
city.
ADELE ADDISON, famous con-
cert artist and soloist with many
leading orchestras will appear in
a gala benefit concert for project
Hope with Rosina Lhevinne, Mich
ael Rabin and the Julliard String
Quartet, in Carnegie hall, May 20.
She Is also scheduled to tour Eur
ope and Russia under the manage
ment of Sol Hurok.
BETTY ALLEN, soprano was
soloist with the Dessoff choir when
they presented Mozart's Requiem
at Carnegie Hall under the direc-
ton of Allan Miller.
AFRICAN SYMPHONY and
other featured compositions of
FELA SOWANDE, the Nigerian
composer, will be played by men,
bers of the New York Philharmon-
ic orchestra under the sponsorship
of the African Cultural Group in
Carnegie Hall, June 1.
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