Balanchine Ormandy to headline Saratoga Festival schedule
Balanchine and Ormandy announce open ing programs for the 1969 Saratoga Festival. New York City Ballet opens July 3 with four performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream, plus 31 ballets in repertoire through July 27 with 75 dancers and a 65 member orchestra. Ormandy leads Philadelphia Orchestra starting July 31 with Gina Bachauer to debut in Prokofiev Third and a Russian program including Tschaikowsky and Moussorgsky works. Concerts run through Aug. 25 with 8:30 p.m. weeknights and 3:30 p.m. Sundays.
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Saratoga
N.Y
George Balanchine
Eugene Ormandy
New York
New York City Ballet
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Balanchine
Capital District
Ormandy
Gina Bachauer
Philadelphia Orchestra
Serge Prokofieff
Tschaikovsky
Moussorgsky
Ravel
Parents With Beliefs and Standards Shaped Teen Growth
Dr. James Toolan of Bennington and Marlboro colleges spoke on Understanding Adolescence at Williams town Mass. He argued that parents with clear beliefs and authority aid growth while rebellion is normal. He urged honesty over hypocrisy, discussed hair as identity, and said church and state norms clash with youth views on war. He advised giving teens responsibility, allowances, and work to mature them.
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Williamstown
Mass
James Toolan
Bennington
Marlboro Colleges
Family Life Institute
Dr. Toolan
Selectmen table letter opposing 4 percent sales tax
Bennington selectmen debated a tax letter but halted action. Joseph E. Higgins urged sending a letter to state legislators opposing the sale tax’s bias toward essentials and urged reconsideration of income tax as an alternative. Fellow member J Duncan Campbell questioned the board’s role and favored no firm stance.
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Bennington
J. Duncan Campbell
Board of Selectmen
Campbell
Vermont Soldiers' Home seeks 265937 for 1970 budget
Col Edward Giles, commandant of the Vermont Soldiers Home in Bennington, asked a joint House Senate Appropriations Committee for 265,937 in state funds for fiscal 1970, noting a total budget of 365,937 with about 100,000 from federal sources. The 63 residents include veterans from the Spanish American War to Korea as plans for a new 40 bed nursing care complex proceed.
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Montpelier
Edward Giles
Vermont
Bennington
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Giles
Col. Giles
Deane C
Vermont Soldiers’ Home
Scale Insects Being Watched For Damage to Sugar Maples
Vermont forestry officials monitor a newly described scale insect Cryptococcus williamsi found on sugar maples in 1965. The pest, widespread in light infestations, could threaten Vermont's valued maples. beech declines due to a related scale and Nectria disease prompt broader investigation.
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Montpelier
Edward B. Walker
Department of Forests and Parks
Vermont
John Andrews
Eagle Square Manufacturing Company
Pittsfield, Vt
New Hampshire
McCullough Foundation Trustees Explore Mansion Use
Trustees of the McCullough Park Foundation heard executive director Mrs. L John Isselhardt review mansion uses in North Bennington and propose diverse future functions. The 1864 mansion, leased by the McCullough family for community purposes, is undergoing refurbishment as committees report progress and consider educational seminars lectures and demonstration programs.
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McCullough Park Foundation
L. John Isselhardt
McCullough
North Bennington
Holland to Address Unitarians on Society and the Poor
Daniel J. Holland executive director of the Bennington Rutland Opportunity Council will speak at the Bennington Unitarian Fellowship on Sunday at 10 30 a m in the Bennington Free Library The talk will cover the public responsibility to the poor and explain the Office of Economic Opportunity programs and philosophy and contrasts with last month's speaker Neil Rappaport Holland’s Vermont roots and 1968 Outstanding Services Award noted.
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Daniel J. Holland
Bennington - Rutland
Opportunity Council
Bennington Unitarian Fellowship
Bennington Free Library
Holland
Neil Rappaport
Opera Will Honor Saintly Indian Girl
Milan reports soprano Virginia Gordoni plans an unfinished opera titled Kateri about Katherine Kekakwitha the Mohawk converted Catholic saint candidate. The American-born composer and star soprano works between engagements at La Scala and Paris, hoping to finish the work tracing Kateris life from birth near Albany through sainthood considerations by the Vatican.
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Milan
Italy
UPI
Kateri
Virginia Gordoni
Katherine
Kekakwitha
Vatican
Gordoni
Virginia Copeland
la Scala
Paris Opera
Albany
N.Y
Canada
Milford
Conn
Copeland
Virginia
Meno
Broadway
Europe
Gari Gordoni
Mrs. Gordoni
Goddard Harpsichordist Prepares Winter Tour
Goddard College arts center director Ray McIntyre a nationally known harpsichordist will open his winter tour with a concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York on February 19. He will also perform February 9 at Lehigh State College in Avilla and February 17 at Amherst College. He travels with his concert size Trute and Wiedberg harpsichord built in 1794. McIntyre highlights his Bach gigues interpretation in a forthcoming article and has a background writing and directing for arts films and recordings of Couperin Loeillet and Telemann.
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Plainfield
Goddard College
Ray Mcintyre
New York
Carnegie Recital Hall
Mcintyre
Barre
Lyndon State College
Aville
1St College
Amherst
Mass
Trute
Filbert St
Philadelphia
The
Music Quarterly
Music Library Association Notes
Detroit Institute of Arts
Couperin, Loeillet
Telemann
Music Library
Army Private Woodward Assigned to Vietnam Duty
On Viet Duty Army Private First Class Thomas A Woodward 19 son of Mr and Mrs Michael Wood ward of 136 McKinley St Bennington was assigned Dec 24 to the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku Vietnam as an aircraft maintenance man.
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Thomas A. Woodward
Michael Woodward
McKinley St
Bennington
4Th Infantry Division
Pleiku
Vietnam
Flaming 25-Foot Snow Dragon to Herald Dartmouth Carnival
Dartmouth College readies its 59th Winter Carnival with a 25-foot flaming snow dragon on the College Green. Senior designer Gregory Lovaas drew inspiration from a flaming dragon in Minneapolis and consulted Pyro-Fox Gas, Hanover Fire Department, and Army Terrestrial Sciences Center for safety and feasibility.
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Dartmouth
Hanover
N.H
Dartmouth College
Minneapolis
Lovaas
Pyro-Fox Gas Company
White River Junction
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