Evening star., 1963-05-19
LOCAL GROUP TO TRAVEL NEXT YEAR

voluntarily missing a school
semester which they will
have to make up later.
Professional groups have
given up or postponed Ameri-
can concerts to appear over
seas under the program.
A Flying Start
For the coming season,
musical comedy and opera
have been omitted. These
attractions pose special prob
lems-language barriers, ex-
pense of production, scenery,
transportation Of large
groups and a mass Of freight
are some Of them. The matter
is being studied, and it is
hoped that solutions will be
found so that they can be
presented to audiences abroad
in future years.
BY and large, the revital-
lied Cultural Presentations
Program seems to be off to
a flying start.
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NEWS FROM HERE-The
University Of Maryland has
a new distinguished addition
to its music faculty. Com
poser Lester Trimble, for the
past few years director Of the
American Music Center, will
be teaching composition at
College Park beginning this
September.
In the Theatre Building
on the campus Of the CathO-
lie University today at 5 pm.
the third and last perform
ance of Jacques Offenbach's
light opera, La Perichole, will
be given under the direction
Of John Paul, head Of the
university's music depart
ment Opera ends the
week, also, with a production
Of Gounod'S Faust by the
Washington Civic Opera As
sOciatiOn at Carter Barron
Amphitheater Saturday, $3.50
pm. Frederick Fall conducts.
In case of rain, the perform
ance will be postponed to
next Sunday at $3.50 pm,
and If Carter Barron is
rained out that night the
show will go on in the De-
partmental Auditorium on
Constitution Avenue between
the Labor Department and
the Interstate Commerce
Commission buildings.
This is the week Of the
National Symphony's Merri-
weather Post Contest, an an
nual event in its Music For
Young America series. The
regional winners. all string
players, who will compete
for first prize Of $500 and
guest appearances with the
orchestra are: David w. Cole,
l6, cello. Upper Darby, Pa;
Glenn E. DicterOw, l3 violin,
Sherman Oaks, Calf; Barry
FincIair, II, violin, Woodside,
N. Y; Michael Flaksman,'l7,
cello, Akron, Ohio; Ellen Zoe
Hassman, IS, cello, Philadel-
phia: Jay HumestOn, II,
cello, Upper Darby. Pa;
Ralph II. Kirshbaum, l6,
cello, Tyler, Texas; Richard
Luby, l8. violin, New York
City.
Joseph ROisman, first vio-
lin OF the Budapest String
Quartet, has been named
chief Judge OF the Merri-
weather Post Contest. His
associates will be Werner
Lywen, concertmaster Of the
National Symphony. and
John Martin. principal cello
In the orchestra. MeSsrS.
Lywen and Martin will be
excused from playing curing
the competition TO enable
them TO act as judges.
Gene Chausow, who occu-
pies first chair among the
National Symphony French
horns, Is being sent 10 Monte
video, Uruguay under the
State Departments cultural
exchange program. He leaves
Tuesday. returning In August.
A dinner musicale is being
held at the residence Of the
French Embassy at 8 pm.
Tuesday. honoring the 10th
year OF composer Darius MIL
haud. The event is sponsored
by the Mills College Alumnae
Club OF Washington. On the
Mills College campus in Oak
land, Calf, there will be a
three-day Milhaud Birthday
Festival beginning Friday.
The composer. who has been
In residence at Mills since
he came to the United States
In 1910. plans 10 remain at
Mills after retirement. Per-
formers at the French En-
bassy affair will be Washing
ton musicians Nancy Els
worth, violin "a Mills alum
ma and Esther BallOu, piano.
Robert Shaw will conduct
the Cleveland Orchestra and
narrate an hour-long TV