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Evening star., 1962-01-07
By HERMAN SCHADEN
Star Record Critic

Those melodic wags from
merrie England, Gilbert and
Sullivan, are back again with
an up-to-date version of one
of their best comic operas,
The Gondoliers, in a 3-record
London album.
The sixth side is devoted to
Sir Arthur Sullivan'S first
success, Cox and Box, which
he set to F. C. Burnand's
lyrics.
Anyone addicted to Sulli-
vans lifting music and Sir
William Gilbert's jolly satire.
will find this eminently desir-
able. The cast is furnished by
the D'Oyly Carte Opera Com
pany, noted for its G & S
productions, with the New
Symphony Orchestra con-
Quoted by Isidore Godfrey.
By now all Savoyards know
the story of this mixup that
put two Gondoliers on the
throne of Barataria at the
same time, and of the happy
ending for Casilda who was
betrothed at the tender age
of six months. Equally anus
ing is the story of Cox and
Box, who were duped by the
clever Bouncer into renting
the same room, one sleeping
at night and the other by day,
unknown to one another.
First class all the way.
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TODAY'S GOOD
MUSIC DIAL
900. WASH-FM C97.1 Mc.1-

800. WASH-FM 1911 Nc.
MaSterworks of Music. Pur-
cells Come Ye Sons of Art.
1890, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1885 Me- - Sunday
Morning Symphony. Mo-
zart's Symphony No. 40 in
G Minor.
1880, WASH-FM 1O7.3 Me-
Music for Distinction. Ell
gar's The Dream of Geron-
titus.
1900, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Me-
Recital Stage. Jascha Hell
fetz. violin, performs Bach's
Unaccompanied Sonata No.
l in G Minor and Beetho-
ven's Sonata No. 5 in F.,
Opus "a.
2:05, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1885 Me- - Boston
Symphony Orchestra. Adele
Addison, soprano: the Lukas
Foss improvisation Ensem-
BILE. Works by Schubert,
Roussel and Foss.
800, WMAL-FM (1O7.3 Mc.)-
Washington Cathedral Con-
cert. Hoiby's A Hymn of the
Nativity; Berloiz' L'Enfance
du Christ.
3:06, WASH -FM 1911 Mc.)-
Opera House. Puccini's
Madame Butterfly"
4:30, WHFS-FM (1O2.3 Nc. J.
Great Sacred Music. St.
John Passion, Part /, by j.
S. Bach.
Sis, WASH-FM 1911 Nc. J.
Masterworks from France.
'Ravels Scheherezade.
500, WGMS AM-FM $50 Kc.
and 1885 McD--National
Gallery of Art Concert. Bev-
eridge Webster, pianist, per-
forms works by Beethoven,
Robert Helps, Ravel, Debus-
Sy and Chopin.
sos, WTOP-New York Phil
harmonic. Georg Solti, guest
conductor. Mozart's Piano
Concerto in B Flat Major;
Schumann's Symphony No. 4
and Janacek's Sinfonietta.
sos, WASH-FM 1911 Mc.)-
Symphony Hall. Stravin-
sky's Symphony No. l in E
Flat.
$3.50, WHFS-FM (102.3 Nc.
Box Seat. Donizetti's Lucia
De Lammermoor, complete.
Joan Sutherland.
1915, WMAL-FM 1O7.3 Me-
Musical Reflections. Tele-
mann's Trio Sonata in c for
Two Violins and Continue.
1880, WRC-Symphony for a
Sunday Evening. Delius'
Appalachia; Excerpts from
Tchaikovsky's Nutcra ker
Suite.
11:O5, WGMS AMIN $50 Kc.
and 1885 Mc.)-Orchestral
Masterworks. Strauss Bur-
lesque in D Minor.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Art Notes

The National Gallery of
Art is exhibiting as a pair
two recent gifts from diff
ferent sources. Hung in
Lobby D off the East Gar
den Court are two pastel
paintings by Odilon Redon,
the late 18th century French
fantaSiSt and proto- o-Surreal-
ist. Wild Flowers" is the
gift of Mrs. Loula D. Lasker.
"Pansies" comes from the
Adele R. Levy Fund, New
York, as "a tribute to Les
sing J. Rosenwald," Mrs.
Levy's brother and the donor
of the Rosenwald print
collection to the National
Gallery.
The Corcoran Gallery of
Art has announced that %
paintings, drawings and
sculptures were acquired dur
ing 1861. Most of the new
acquisitions were gifts from
individuals.
New shows for the New
Year are as follows: George
Washington University Lii
brary, English water colors
and drawings of the 18th
and 10th centuries; the Obe-
lisk Gallery, recent paint
ingS by Pfriem; the Upstairs
Gallery and Potter's Studio,
paintings by Nan Hoover;
the Collectors Gallery, paint
ingS by Gladys Mintus,
Elaine Cafritz and Ruth
Levin.
Evening star., 1962-01-07

material for textural inter-
est. Artists have been throw
ing chunks of unnamed -
and even unnamable - ma
terial into paintings for
years now, but with Mr..
Greenburg, the experiment
works. The most dominating
of his four paintings is "Old
Olive Tree, Jerusalem" The
chunks and the enamel add
meaSurably to the feeling of
an ancient, gnarled monu-
ment of wood which stub
bornly keeps alive a flicker of
vegetable life.
The only abstract painter
on board is the other expert
mental artist, Ruth Inter
man. Her experimental ploy
is based on wax, possibly old
candles or crayons. At any
rate she apparently runs
melted wax across her sur
faces of maSonite, letting it
harden as it runs. So de-
scribed. this sounds precious,
but the effect is very strong.
Overall tonalities are within
a narrow range. family me-
tallic or mauve and very
pretty. In "Aviary" she sug-
geSts the figures of birds and
one of them, on continued
observation, seems to open up
into an infinite sky.
Maurice Youchim is a claS-
sical late eXpressionist, Sc
verely distorting figures and
heightening color contrasts
for the sake of immediate
impact. The i'm pact is
achieved, especially in
Boats" where the bold use
of color suggests st. Elmo's
fire playing about the mast
in the blast.
Louise Dunn Yochim-the
relationship. of any, is not
explained by the gallery-is
considerably looser than
M aurice Yochim. Among
other things she makes a val
liant effort to tame drip
painting into the uses of in
telligibility. The painting is
South Chicago" and it isn't
a nice thing to say about any
city. We're all family afraid
of Sentimentality, but the
artist has a large, tender,
pastel colored mother and
child called Destination Un-
known" which makes the IA
miliar statement without the
too familiar heart-tug.
Finally, Ann Roman has a
couple of solidly built flower
paintings, a "Harbor Scene"
and a very exciting mob scene
called Holiday" in which
hordes of people are trans
formed into shapes and
curved lines surging down the
canvas.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
MUSIC PROGRAMS
TODAY

VIENNA cHoIRE BOYS, Roman Zei-
linger, conductor, Constitution Hall,
3 pm. Haec Dies, Gal.us; Pueri
Mozart: Laudi ALA Vergine Maria.
Verdi; Die Engle und die Hirten,
Kodaly Opera, Herr und Madame
Denis, Offenbach; Lachelnd schlafst
du. Trio from THE Magic Flute"
Mozart: Gestortes Standchen. Mo-
zart: Roses from the South, Strauss.
NAT iONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACH
FRS OF STRING. Barker Hall,
YWCA. 18th and K streets NV.
pm Student recital.
RAYMOND MONTONI. viola: Robert
{. ShOne, organ. Washington Cathe-
dral, 3 pm. Prelude, Bowen; Com
munion on Proper for Fourth Sun
day of Advent, Bernier; Offertory
proper for Mass for Easter). Ber-
nier Festival Voluntary, Diemer
Poem for viola and organ, Sowerby
BEVERIDGE WEBSTER. riano. Ma
tional Gallery of Art, S pm. Six
Bagatelles, Op. 1876, Beethoven;
RecollectionS, Helps; Valses Mobiles
at Sentimentales, Ravel; L Isle
Joveuse. Debussy; Four Ballades
Chopin:
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Associated Artists

Five artists from Chicago
make up the new exhibition
at Associated Artists Gallery
and the gallery is having a
reception Monday evening
for members of Congress and
the administration from
Illinois.
The officials anG. legislators
have a good show in store
for them. The five painters
are all mature, knoWledgeable
artists. Mostly eXpressionists,
the show includes two sue
cesSful and completely mas
tered experiments in media.
Sam Greenburg has some
how added enamel to his
large paintings as we'll as
small chunks of unnamed
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Jefferson Place

The jefferson Place Gal
lery is greeting the new year
with what it brazenly calls
a new show of small paint
ing and sculpture. The show
is new only in the sense that
this particular hanging of
these paintings and sculp-
lures has probably not been
done before, but the work
itself has almost all been on
view at the gallery since the
opening of the fall season.
We should not, however,
be hunters after novelty and
many of these previously ex-
hibited works are worth TAX
ing another look at. AS a
matter of fact the show does
gain something from the
small size of most of the
works. The Jefferson Place
is traditionally one of the
most avid hunters after
novelty in town, or as the
gallery prefers to phrase it,
their artists share the COM
mon search for new and
significant forms" Most of
the new and significant forms
the gallery turns up are also
significantly enormous and
it is gratifying to see some
of the familiar manners done
on a small scale. The familiar
manners also display varia-
tionS new to this observer;
let us hope they are signif-
icantly variations.
Howard Mehring, for ex-
ample, has exhibited vast
paintings based or. the over
all patterns often used in
fine silk blouses or drapes.
In the present show. this de-
vice gains greatly from being
done small and in one paint
ing it is even varied by a
triangle of blank canvas.
Gene Davis, also, comes on
stronger in his relatively
small works now on view
than in the wall-size ver-
sionS of his vertical-Stripe
wallpaper designs. Again,
Mr.. Davis profits by depart
ing from the overall ap-
proach at least to the ex-
tent of leaving some empty
space between the groups of
stripes. In both cases. the
reduction in size reduces
viewer irritation and elimi-
mates the suspicion that sig
nificance is measured strictly
with a yardstick.
There is a fine small alb
Stract Orange Chair" by
Ben Summerford, a cheerful
orange dribbling by Mary
Driven and a nude in the
cleaning by Robert D'Arista
that reinforces the feeling
that the gallery ought to
have a one-man show for
this excellent painter.
Hilda Shapiro has a hand
full of small welded sculp-
lures, mostly of pipes and
tubes dynamically arranged,
and William Calfee has a
first rate tiny bronze figure,
the facade of an angel hover
ing over a form supine. AS
always, the mildly melan-
choly figures of Jacob Kainen
stand out as being significant
paintings amid the new and
significant forms.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven
teenth street and New York avenue
NV. Daily 10 am. to 4.3O pm. /;
Saturday 8 am. to 4:3O pm; sun
day and holidays: > to 5 pm; closed
Mon,
DUMBARToN OAKS RESEARCH IL
BRADY AND COLLECTION, 1903
Thirtysecond street NV. Daily, .
to 4 pm: closed Monday. Closed
indefinitely.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
and Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV. Daily, . am. to 4:30
pm.
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE
ARTS, Constitution avenue at Tenth
street NV, Daily, 8 am TO 4;30
y m.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Con-
Stitution avenue at Sixth street NV
Daily, 10 am. to PIN. Sunday, =
pm. to 10 pm.
PHILLIPS COLLECTION, 1921 Twenty
second street NV. Daily II am to
y pm Monday, am, to 10 pm;
Sunday. > to pm.
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TOMORROW

JOSEPH MIRANDA. organ. Westmore-
land Congregational Church S:3G
pm. Prelude and Fugue in f Major,
Lubbock. Three Chors1e Preludes
J, S Bach; Concerto in D Minor
Vivaldi-Bach; Four Organ Chorales
Lenel; Variations sur un Noel. Op
20 Dupre.
KOHoN STRING QUARTET. Textile
Museum, 1890 s street NV $40
pm. Kinder Foundation Concert
Pianist to be a1nounced. Pisnc
Mozart: Piano Quartet tfirst per,
formance, Evatt; Piano Quartet No
. in A. On, 26 Brahms.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
Arts Club

The Arts Club of Wash
ington is holding its annual
juried exhibition of work by
members. Juried or nom
juried, a members show at a
private club is usually its
own excuse for being and
this is a good thing because
no other conceivable excuse
for this exhibition is evident
on those ancient walls.
1t isn't that the work is
positively bad; it's just that
it isn't very good. There is
nothing to outrage the feel
ings. nothing to insult the
intelligence. But at the same
time there is nothing TO
Evening star., 1962-01-07

Stanley L, Shearer, Mayberry
road, Westminster Md.
(FIeldStone 6-7422) for fur
ther details.
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NEWS FROM HERE-Two
new members have been
added to the Department of
Music faculty at American
University. They are Eliza
beth BOOs, who has been
appointed instructor, and
George ManOs, lecturer and
director of the orchestra. ;.
A half-hour program of
American hymns sung by the
Choir Of the Church of the
Ascension (EpiscOpaD of New
York will be televised on the
Lamp Unto My Feet" pro-
gram today (WTOP-TV, 10
am E. ABC looking for an
answer to the extraordinarily
popular Leonard Bernstein
children'S concerts, has called
upon Arthur Fielder, director
of the Boston Pops, for "Mu-
sic for the Young" (WNIAL-
TV, Friday, 7::30 p.mD.
NEWS FROM THERE
New York: The big city has
just established a new cul-
tural office to stimulate
greater interest and partic-
ipation in the arts. Headed
by Robert w. Bowling, the
new post will be known as the
Office of Cultural Executive
of the City of New York. .
Boston: 29-year-old Joseph
Silverstein, heard a fortnight
ago as SoloiSt with the New
York Philharmonic, has been
named the new concertmaster
of the Boston Symphony. He
takes over from Richard
Burgin, who is retiring after
40 years in the post. Los
Angeles: This town is in the
middle of a Contemporary
Music Festival presented by
the University of Southern
California. A WallingfOrd
Riegger memorial concert is
scheduled for Wednesday.
San Francisco: Seiji Ozawa,
a 25-year-old japanese who
is an assistant conductor of
the New York Philharmonic,
is replacing Aram Khachatu-
rian, who was to appear as
guest conductor of the San
Francisco Sym p Ony this
Wednesday and Saturday.
WORDS ON MUSIC-The
very active Presidents Music
Committee of the People-to-
People Program has released
a very handy brochure called
The PerfOrmi ing Arts in
Washington, 1961-62 Season
Ito acquaint our large inter-
national population with the
wealth of these activities
available to them" here.
Local residents will also find
it very useful; copies are
available from the office of
the Committee at 734 jackson
place NV. without charge. E.
Provocative and SOLDERING.
reading is the testimony Of
Helen M. Thompson, eXecu-,
tive secretary of the Ameri-
can Symphony o C h e tr a.
League, on Economic Con-,
ditiOns of Symphony Orches-
tras and Their Musicians.
The brochure can be obtained
upon request from the leagut
BOX 164, Charleston, w. Va.
Evening star., 1962-01-07
TUESDAY

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Pierre Monteux, conductor soloist:
Freda Gray-MasSe, zzo-contralto
Constitution Hall. $50 pm. SYM
phony No. 3 in F Major, Brahms;
Dido's Farewell, Purcell: Ozean Du
Ungeheuer. from "Oberon." Weber
naDhnis and Chloe Suites l and ;
Ravel
LOIS MARSHALL. soprano; Weldon
Kilburn, piano. Assisting artist.
Sidney Forrest, clarinet. Pan Ameri-
can Union, $50 pm, Fairest Isle
Purcell-Britten; | attempt from love
There's not a swain on the plain
Purcell -Britten: If music be the food
OF love, Purcell l-Britten; Hark! The
echoing air. Purcell-Britten Bot.
schaft Brahms; Sonntag. Brahms
Die Mainacht. Brahms: Widmung
Schumann; Der Nussbaum. Schu-
mann; Ich grolle NIGHT, Schumann
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. Schubert;
Parto parto, from "Clemenza da
Tito" Mozart; Three songs. Barber;
Siete Canciones Populares, de Falla
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SUNDAY, JANUARY IA

For full details, see next Sundays
lStingsD
ARLINGTON MUSIC THEATER, York
town High School, Arlington, 3 pm.
MARIE SCHUMACHER BLATZ. organ
Trinity Episcopal Church, 4:3O D m
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY CHORALE,
Norman Scribner, conductor. Wash
inston National Cathedral, s pm.
JOSEPHINE CARUSO, piano. National
Gallery Of Art. s pm.
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WEDNESDAY

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Lloyd Geisler, conductor. Constitu-
ton Hall, 2 pm. Youth concert.
American Salute, Gould; Largo. Per-
golesi: La Mer, Sd movement. De-
busy; Prelude to Pelleas ct Nell
sande, Faure: Little, Fugue in g
Minor. Bach: Symphony l04, I'd
movement, Haydn: Finale from
symphony No. ,, Tchaikovsky.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Pierre MOnteux, conductor. Soloist:
Freda Gray-Masse, meZzo- contralto
Constitution Hall. $40 pm. Re-
peating Tuesdays program.
STATES MARINE BAND, Ii.
Col. Albert SchOepper, conductor
Soloists: James Erdman, trombone;
Joseph Leo, clarinet; william Jones,
baritone (vocan. Departmental
Auditorium. $40 pm. National
Fencibles. Sousa: In Bohemia. Had
ley; Legend. Crestnn: Concerto for
trombone and band, Rimsky- -Korsa-
kov; Neapolitan Scenes, Massenet:
Evening star., 1962-01-07
NEWS OF MUSIC
Lois Marshall to Give
Pan American Recital
By IRVING LOWENS
Star Music Critic

One of the brightest spots this Music Calendar
is the Pan American Union recital Tuesday night by the great
Canadian soprano Lois Marshall Although Constitution Hall
the street will be playing host to the National SYM
phony Orchestra under guest conductor Pierre Moneux the
evening if you want to get seat the Hall of the
Americas where Lois Marshall will be holding forth you had
better early
Consider the fourconcert November December series
during which the phenomenal Brazilian pianist Joao Carlos
Evening star., 1962-01-07

MafClnS, went Jnr0ugn Jne
complete well Tempered
Clavier." Martins was rela-
lively unknown, having played
in Washington only once
before (hardly surprising
since he has just celebrated
his 2lSt birthday, but the
SRO sign was up each time
he appeared.
Or think back to the Octo-
ber recital of violinlst Jaime
Laredo, returning to the
scene of his first triumphS.
The brilliant Bolivian young
ster. now an International
celebrity, packed them in.
1t seems that Washington
is beginning to realize that
the Pan American Unions
annual musical series has
come of age. 1t is now a first
rate affair and an adorn-
ment to the cultural life of
the Nations capital.
Fine Talent Now
Things were not always so
happy.
Not too long ago, concerts
in the Hall of the Americas
were dull indeed, primarily
social get-togethers which Sc
rious music-loverS studiously
avoided.
Now, high artistic quality
Is the order of the day, and
the Pan American Union has
emerged as a genuine clear
ing-houSe for the interpretive
and creative musical talent
of all the AmericaS-includ-
ing our own America.
The moving force behind
this gratifying change in
direction is Guillermo Espin-
oSa, dynamic Chief of the
unions busy music division
and organizer extraordinary.
Old habits are difficult to
destroy, but Mr.. ESpinosa is
one of the most stubborn peo-
pie imaginable, and he was
quite serious about changing
things, as people discovered
very soon after he arrived on
the local scene.
Worthwhile Series
To get what he wanted
a worthwhile concert series
he insisted on the integrity
of music and musicians and
he used ability rather than
social connection as his yard
stick of value.
The change took time, but
when he was ready (some
four years ago., he invited
the music-lovers of Wash
ington to see what he had
done by completely revamp-
ing the Unions ticket-distri-
button system. Now all you
have to do. if you want to
attend a union concert, is
to write to the Music Divi-
sion, Pan American Union,
Washington 6, D. c., and say
so. Tickets will be forthcom-
ing-no charge.
What is in store in the
months ahead?
After the Marshall recital,
those in the know are most
eagerly anticipating the ap-
pearance. on January 25, of
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West End Gallery

Opening today at the West
End Gallery is an exhibition
of paintings and drawings by
a young Washington artist,
AleXiuS Jerome Burgess. Mr..
Burgess has not shown widely
here before this and the eX-
hibition reveals no compelling
reason for him to do so now.
On the contrary, there are
excellent reasons for him to
retire to his studio and work
intensively and privately for
a long time before ventur-
ing out again.
The most urgent area of
concentration for such pro-
gram of private study is
drawing in general and per-
Spective in particular. The
West End Gallery rather spe-
cializes in representational
art, which is good because
most galleries specialize in
everything else. Mr.. Burgess
is in the gallery's tradition
of realism, but his work
shows forcefully the truth of
the Biblical saying, Not ev-
eryone who says, Lord, Lord,
shall enter the Kingdom"
In the first place, the art
iSt paints fairly large-size
pictures on corrugated card
board. If you're an abstract
expressionist, you can get
away with this and even find
new values in the material.
In a catalog preface, for eX-
ample, you can have some
one point out that in choos-
ing cardboard to paint ON
you are elevating the flotSam
and jetsam of everyday life
into the austere realm of art
and so on in that style for
several thousand words.
You can't do this if you are
a realist painter. The ques-
ton of physical durability
aside, the stuff completely
lacks the visual bounce pro-
vided by high-grade Utrecht
linen (canvas) or its various
limitations. This results in
dimming down on just about
anything that is put on card
board unless it is painted
much more thickly than Mr..
Burgess is doing. More Seri-
Gus than that, cardboard
throws into high relief any
defects in craftsmanship in
any department of painting
and especially in drawing.
The sad fact is that Mr..
Burgess has an awful lot to
learn about drawing and ev-
cry bit of what he doesn't
know yet leaps from the
cardboard pictures.
There is hardly a picture
without serious error in
drawing. The leg of a table
assaults the eye because it
is physically impossible the
way it is painted. In one in
terror with a view of the out
side world, the open door is
slanted into the room at
about an angle of 80 degrees
along its top, but by the
time you get to the bottom,
the door is flat against the
wall. This is fun-houSe ar
chitecture and utterly mex
cuSable.
The reason all this is worth
going into is that in spite
of these outrages, there is
something in the work worth
saving. Mr.. Burgess has a
very nice feeling for light
and almost every picture has
a light-and-color passage in
it that makes you weep for
the ClumsineSs surrounding
it. The obvious solution for
his present state of profi-
cheney is to become an ac-
ton painter and build a new
manner on his gift for light
and color. One can hope,
however, that he persevereS
and brings his drawing up
TO standard instead.
Evening star., 1962-01-07

the Uruguayan soprano,
Raquel Adonaylo. Miss Adon-
alyo is in this country to re-
cord for Columbia Records
Alberto GinaStera's "Cantata
para America Magica," the
sensation of the Inter- Amer
ican Music Festival held
here last spring. If she lives
up to the promise she showed
on that occasion, her Pan
American Union concert may
we'll turn out to be one of
the most memorable events
of the year.
Also scheduled are-among
others-pianist Stewart Cor
don and bass Paul Matthen,
both absolutely first rate
artists.
AS for next season, Mr..
ESpln0Sa mas plans.
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CULTURAL CENTER STAMP?
Back in 1884, an act of
Congress authorized the issue
Of receipts for hunting IL
cenSes in the form of attrac-
tive stamps, with the money
collected going to maintain
waterfowl life in the United
States.
Philatelists being what they
are, demand became so great
that the stamps were finally
put on public sale.
Would it not be similarly
possible to authorize the is
sue of receipts for contribu-
tions to the National Cultur-
al Center in the form of
stamps, with the money COL
lected going to help defray
the cost?
Could be that stamp COL
lectorS would buy these also.
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LOCAL MET ADDITIONS
Friday is the deadline for
filing applications for the
Middle Atlantic Regional Au-
ditionS sponsored by the Ma
tional Council of the Metro
politan Opera Association.
The additions will take place
in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Gallery on January 10
and 20.
The regional additions are
designed to find singers
whose voices have operate
possibilities; candidates must
be sponsored by a voice
teacher, music school, or
some other knowledgeable
agency, but no professional
experience or finished train
ing is required. Upon re-
quest. each contestant re-
CeiVeS a critical eValuation
from the judges.
Blanche Thebom of the
Met and Theodoate John
son, publisher of Musical
America, will judge the pre-
Inns on the 10Th; John Gut
man handles the finals on
the goth.
Last years national audi
tionS winner, tenor George
Shirley. recently made his
Metropolitan Opera debut
and will sing the title role in
the Opera Society's produc-
ton of Stravinsky's Oedipus
Rex, to be conducted here by
the composer on January 10,
81 and %.
Interested singers from
Maryland, Virginia, District
of Columbia or Delaware
should write or call Mrs.