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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1964
Page
12
Public notices this week outline Tanglewood's 1964 programs with top guest conductors and soloists. Despite excellent balance and anticipated audiences, critics say the season lacks bold novelty, risking only modest stimulation while financial and artistic aims clash.
Erich Leinsdorf, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, releases the complete eight week 1964 line up. The schedule spans 24 concerts July 3 to Aug 2 with chamber orchestra weekends and six full orchestra programs. Guest conductors include Ormandy Steinberg Monteux Burgin Stokowski and Levi Strauss. A detailed brochure with tickets is available from the Berkshire Festival Ticket Office in Boston.
Tom Brennan will return this summer as associate director at Williamstown Theater, directing half the shows. Nikos Psacharopoulos will direct the other half and supervise the resident Equity company in the Adams Memorial Theater at Williams College for a 10th season. Brennan recently directed Three-Penny Opera in Milwaukee and Crime and Punishment off Broadway with Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich. he also staged Long Day's Journey Into Night in Princeton using Williamstown personnel.
The Nice opera house, a jewel box dating from 1875 and modernized in 1960, hosts a five month season with good sight lines but weak voices and a small orchestra. The reviewer notes strong acting and color, yet spots tense Italian recitatives replaced by French dialogue and overall performance flaws versus Italian standards. Nice remains a cultural hub on the French Riviera with Italian flavor and a growing population.
Hollywood UPI reports 34 records inspired by Lawrence of Arabia film shown nationwide. An album arrangement by Steve Allen adds to the wave of Lawrence related releases following the movie’s success.
Brennan has toured the United States and Canada with Circle-in-the-Square’s Under Milkwood as lead and directed New York productions including Easter, All in Love, The Purification, Rise in Flames, and Glory in the Flower, the last three ANTA shows. He acted off Broadway in Pullman Car Hiawatha, Between Two Thieves, and the Synge trilogy with the Trish Players, and has appeared with the Oregon and Antioch Shakespeare festivals. He is a member of the Directors Unit of the Actor's Studio.
A catalog style list of top fiction titles and notable political and public life books. Entries include The Spy Who Came in From the Cold The Group The Venetian Affair and profiles such as A Day in the Life of President Kennedy The White House Years and When the Cheering Stopped.
Sheinwold notes players chase value at the table and warns that a “free” finesse costs points. West opens nine spades, dummy’s queen is run, costing South 730 points. East signals clubs to time the run, while South pursues clubs to pressure the ace early in the play.
The article analyzes a bridge hand where signals reveal West knows South holds three clubs, blocking dummy’s access. It concludes the correct play is to preserve dummy’s spade honors and win 10 tricks by a sequence starting with the deuce of spades from dummy, forcing out clubs, then using dummy’s queen as an entry.
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Tour Orchestra return to RPI Field House in Troy on April 20 at 8 30 p m after several years absence. The ensemble is famed worldwide for light classical music and broad appeal.
George Rickey of East Chatham New York presents kinetic sculpture at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston through April 26. The exhibit follows a similar show last June at the Old Berkshire Arts Center. Rickey teaches design at RPI Troy and has focused on sculpture in motion since 1949. The Boston show is at 100 Newbury Street.
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