Evening star., 1962-05-13

their option for next season
on the same seats they occu-
pied expires Tuesday. And
the OSW's first recording,
Igor Stravinsky's lie Ros-
signol," conducted BY the
composer, has been released
by Columbia Records and is
drawing rave notices across
the Nation. !. Wednesday
night at $50 pm. over
WTTG-TV (Channel Sd, Gui.
hrist Andres SeE0via will be
presented on the FESTIVAL
Of Performing Arts"
Among the winners Of Ford
Foundation awards to 80
young American singers, each
of whom receives $2,500 for
special coaching in acting,
for learning new operate
roles, or for other purposes
to extend and deepen pro-
fessional experience, were
Tenor Stanley KOIk, Bass
Splro Malas and Soprano
Shirley Verrett-C Carter, al Of
whom were heard here with
the Opera Society Of Wash
ington last season. The
big First international Jazz
Festival, slated to begin here
this month, is beginning to
pick up steam. Tickets are
available at Festival Head
quarters. (734 jackson place
N.W.) as well as Super City
Music Stores. the NSO Box
Office. Discount Record
Shop, Quality Music Co.,
Pershing Squart Booth. the
Drug Fair at Seventeenth
and K streets NV, and the
Bond Clothiers at Seven
Corners.
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BITS AND PIECES-En-
rique Jorda has terminated
his contract with the San
Francisco Symphony Orches-
ira, but viii stay on through
the 1928 season to give the
management time to find
another conductor, thus
bringing to an end o scrap
which involved George Sell
Of the Cleveland Orchestra
and music critic Alfred
Frankenstein. =. Douglas
Moore, composer Of "The
Ballad of Baby Doe" and
other well-known operas, as
well as Mcdowell Professor
Of Music and chairman Of
the Columbia University Ml-
sic Department, retires next
month after SO years on the
faculty. Musicians to
receive $4,000. grants by the
National Institute Of Arts
and Letters this year are
Ernst Bacon, John LaMon-
taine, George Rochberg and
William Sydeman. The
Empire State Music Festival,
in operation since 1865, has
been forced to cancel its 1862
summer season for lack Of
funds. One Of the most
unusual items to be exhibited
by the Society Of Friends Of
Music in Vienna this summer
is o single leaf containing
the original manuscript Of
Beethoven's song "Ich Lebe
Dich." On the reverse, Franz
Schubert wrote an Adagio In
d minor for piano. Johannes
Brahms certified its authen-
ticity by signing IT. himself!
= 4 .
WORDS ON MUSIC
David EVEN, who turns out
books the way other people
write checks, has another
new one out this week-The
World Of Great Composers
(Prentice-Hall: Si0), q sur
vey Of 81 composers, each Of
whom gets q chapter divided
into four parts: A biograph-
ical sketch, q portrait Of the
man. an appraisal Of his
work, q statement by the
composer. The so-called
portrait Is supposed to be
written by q contemporary"
of the composer. and turning
to the first chapter / dis
covered that Palestrina's
contemporary" was Zoe
Kendrick Pyne. Continuing,
] found that Monteverdi's Is
David Even, Vivaldi's Is
Donald J. Grout, and so on.
A small point. but indicative
Of the slipshod workmanship
that characterizes the book
as q whole. Furthermore,
Mr.. Ewen's extracts are so
skimpy as TO be very close to
worthless. At the price, this
is a good one to mass I'M