War Masses By Two Composers At Tanglewood
Two wars and two mass settings by Haydn and Britten anchor Tanglewood programs. Boston performers Rowland Sturges, Mary Fraley Johnson, and Felix Viscuglia headline a free St Michael's College Playhouse recital in Lenox followed by the Haydn Mass in Time of War and Britten War Requiem premieres featuring notable soloists and choirs.
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Tanglewood
Lenox, Mass
Berkshire Fest
Winooski
Beethoven
Schumann
Saint - Seans
Brahms
Boston
St. Michael’s College
St. Michael’s Playhouse
Rowland Sturges
Mary Fraley Johnson
Felix Viscuglia
Miss Cox to Soloist in Dartmouth Summer Concert
Hanover New Hampshire pianist Mary Anthony Cox will be featured soloist in the Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra concert at Spaulding Auditorium Hopkins Center Sunday at 8 30 p m. under conductor Mario di Bonaventura Cox a Juilliard faculty member and Dartmouth Summer Music School instructor has studied in France with Ecoles d Art Americaines Fontainebleau and at the Conser vatoire National de Musique Paris. She will perform Concertino for Piano and Orchestra Opus 16 by Vincent Persichetti.
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Hanover
N.H
Mary Anthony Cox
Spaulding Auditorium
Hopkins Center
Mario di Bonaventura
Dartmouth Community Symphony Orchestra
Juilliard Preparatory School of Music
Dartmouth Summer
Miss Cox
Juilliard School of Music
Dartmouth
Robert and
Gaby Casadesus
Great Barrington
Mass
France
Ecoles d’Art Americaines
Fontainebleau
Conservatoire National de Musique
Paris
Cox
Vincent Persichetti
Cracker Barrel Bazaar Opens in Newbury This Weekend
The 12th annual Cracker Barrel Bazaar debuts July 31 at 10 30 a m and runs through August 2 in Newbury. The Art Show directed by Stan Mare Wright of Stowe at the Art Center Barn opens July 28 at 3 p m and continues through August 11. A sugar on snow mobile unit will operate on the Green.
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Newbury
Stan Mare Wright
Stowe
Art Center Barn
Munch To Conduct at Lenox Tonight
Charles Munch retired Boston Symphony Orchestra director leads the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood Lenox tonight at 8 and will conduct July 28 and Aug 3. The program includes Brandenburg Concertos Nos 6 and 2 Bach Suite No 2 for Flute and Strings and Suite No 3 for Orchestra. Soloists Roger Voisin Doriot Dwyer Ralph Gomberg Joseph Silverstein participate with Mrs Dwyer as soloist in Suite No 2.
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Doriot Dwyer
Ralph Gomberg
Joseph Silverstein
Dwyer
Fiedler Names Boston Pops at Tanglewood July 31
Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops at Tanglewood on July 31 for Berkshire Music Center. Pianist Leonard Pennario joins for Rachmaninoff and Litolff works. program opens with Berlioz Rakoczy March followed by Copland An Outdoor Overture. The lineup includes Khachaturian Gayane suite, Strauss waltzes, Rodgers No Strings, and Lawrence of Arabia theme.
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Lenox
Mass
Arthur Fiedler
Boston Pops Orchestra
Boston Pops
Tanglewood
Berkshire Music Center
Fiedler
Leonard Pennario
Rachmaninoff
Litolff
Copland
Gayne
Khachaturian
Strauss
Richard Rodgers
Jarre
Wellesley Club Sets Weston Theater Date
The Vermont Wellesley Club sponsors a Weston theater benefit on August 14 at the Weston Playhouse. The Weston Players perform The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie to raise funds for faculty salaries at the college. Mrs. Arthur K. Twitchell chairs the event, with grounds opened for picnics and swimming weather permitting. All seats are reserved for local alumni.
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Weston
Vermont Wellesley Club
Weston Players
Agatha Christie
London
Holes In Head Claim Stuns Cosmetic Researchers
In Chicago researchers estimate adults have upwards of 90 000 holes in the head from which hair grows. The finding, reported by UPI, notes the large number of potential hair follicles in the scalp.
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Chicago
UPI
Williamstown to stage two Albee plays this week
Williamstown Summer Theatre will present The American Dream and The Zoo Story July 23 to 27. The Zoo Story stars James Noble as Peter and Michael Ebert as Jerry with Tom Brennan directing. The American Dream features Carolyn Coates as Mommy and Sue Ann Gilfillan as Grandma under Dolores Ferraro’s direction.
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Tom Brennan
Dolores Ferraro
Berlin
Germany
New York City
Provincetown Playhouse
Central Park
James Noble
Peter
Michael Ebert
Jerry
York Playhouse
Albee
Daddy
Carolyn Coates
Mommy
Sue Ann Gilfillan
Grandma
Olympia Dukakis
England's Western Theatre Ballet at Jacob's Pillow
England's Western Theatre Ballet returns to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival for a second week July 23 to 27 with five ballets. Programs include Solitaire pas de deux US debut, Le Carnaval by Fokine, and A Wedding Present, a ballet about homosexuality.
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Fokine
Russia
Western Theatre Ballet of England
Theatre Royal
Bristol
England
Western Theatre Ballet
Jacob’s Pillow
Robert Verbrugge
Peter Darrell
Muriel Large
Hazel Merry
Clover Roope
Sylvia Wellman
Peter Cazalet
Laverne Meyer
Simon Mottram
Browen Curry
Gail Donaldson
Weekend stage and concert highlights across Vermont and nearby New York
Dorset Playhouse offers A Thurber Carnival at 8 40 tonight and Sunday. Mischa Elman violinist and Joseph Seiger pianist perform at 8 30 p m Sunday in Manchester. Gallery shows The Eight and six one man exhibitions through tomorrow. Colonie Summer Theatre presents Damn Yankees with Van Johnson at 5 30 and 9 15 tonight and 8 p m Sunday and Monday. Victor Borge in music and comedy arrives Tuesday and runs through next Sunday. Brigadoon stars Mindy Carson. Williamstown Summer Theatre offers The Night of the Iguana today at 5 and 9 p m final shows. Edward Albee plays The American Dream and Zoo Story run July 23 27 with eight forty weekday shows. Weston Playhouse stages Marriage Go Round final 3 and 8 30 today and 8 30 p m Sunday. Tanglewood hosts Dr Charles Munch conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra at 8 p m tonight and the war mass concert at 2 30 p m Sunday. Marlboro Music Festival features Brahms Duet for Mezzo and Alto and the Faure Trio at 8 30 p m today. Dvorak Duets for Soprano and Tenor Brahms String Sextet and Hindemith Quartet at 4 p m Sunday.
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Dorset Playhouse
Dorset
Southern Vermont Art Center
Manchester
Mischa Elman
Joseph Seiger
Colonie Summer Theatre
Latham
N.Y
Damn Yankees
van Johnson
Victor Borge
Weston Playhouse
Weston
Tanglewood
Lenox
Mass
Charles Munch
Boston Symphony Orchestra
BSO
Dr. Munch
Marlboro Music Festival
Marlboro
Brahm
Faure
Peter Serkin
Mike Tree
David Soyer
Dvorak
Hindemith
Poet Haberly To Address Vermont Poetry Group
Professor Lloyd Haberly known as a poet will speak at the Vermont Poetry Society festival in Stowe on August 3 at the Tollhouse Annex. The PSOV Council meeting at 11 a.m. precedes the 1 p.m. luncheon.
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Haberly
Vermont
Lloyd Haberly
Vermont Poetry Society
Tollhouse
Stowe
Psov Council
Arthur W. Hewitt
Riverton
J. Richard Barry
St. Albans
Havenor Greene
Morris B. Wilcox
Burlington
Lloyd Squiers
Waterbury
WDEV
John Baptist Jackson prints exhibit at Hopkins Center
Hanover hosts 41 prints by John Baptist Jackson, 18th century master of the color woodcut, on view at Hopkins Center Art Galleries through August 4. The show, first at the Smithsonian, travels nationally via the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service. Jackson helped revive chiaroscuro woodcut and reinterpreted paintings through prints after Venetian masters.
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Hanover
N.H
John Baptist Jackson
Hopkins Center
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service
Saint-Gaudens Museum Hosts Lyric Soprano Concert Sunday
The Saint-Gaudens Museum in Cornish will present lyric soprano Winifred Keane in a 4:30 p.m. Sunday recital in the sculptor’s studio near the garden. Accompanied by Arthur W. Quimby, the program features English songs, Frauenliebe und Leben, works by Ives, and French and Italian pieces in original languages.
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Philadelphia Art Alliance
Carnegie Recital Hall
New York
Alexander Gretchaninow
Roger Schumann
Charles Ives
Keane
Arthur W. Quimby
Plainfield
Museum
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Longy School of Music
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Viscaglia
New England Conservatory
Encyclopedia International
Erich Leinsdorf
Haydn
Benjamin Britten
Italy
Vienna
Britten
Wilfred Owen
Jeanette Scovotti
June Genovese
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George Hoffman
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Abraham Kaplan
Phyllis Curtin
DiVirgilio
Tom Krause
Orrie Sherer
Lord and Taylor’s
Macy’s
Lynn Gratiot
Connecticut
Richard Jensen
The
Flaming Museum
Rosina Lhevinne
Jeannine Dewis
Aspen
Colo
Cracker Barrel Bazaar
Fienberg
Main St
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Wellesley Club
Vermont Group
Queen
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Williamstown
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Titian
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Venice
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UPID
Stanford University
Thomas Sherman
Little Orchestra
Ira Allen
University of Vermont
Lane
Saint-Gaudens Museum
U.S. Steel
South Works
William E. Haskell
Saint-Gaudens
Cornish
New Hampshire
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Claremont
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Mark Fisher
North Bennington Road
Swift's Premium
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