Dancer Percival Borde to Speak at Jacob's Pillow
Percival Borde, noted dancer and instructor, will give the ninth lecture in a 10 part series at Jacob's Pillow in Ted Shawn Theater. The talk titled The Dance in Africa Past and Present will be free with nominal admission. Borde, a Trinidad native, leads the Primus-Borde School of Dance in New York with Pearl Primus and will present his company August 17 through 21.
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Percival Borde
Jacob’s Pillow
Borde
Africa
Ted Shawn Theater
Trinidad
New York City
Jacob's Pillow
Ronnie Gilbert billed at Potting Shed Lenox
Folk singer Ronnie Gilbert appears nightly through Aug. 22 at the Potting Shed Lenox with flamenco guitarist Juan Serrano and the Music Inn Jazz Trio. Toshiko, Miss Gilbert’s guitarist, is Sam Brown, once with Belafonte and Makeba. Gilbert, a former Weavers member, debuted solo in Greenwich Village. Her repertoire blends folk, contemporary, and blues.
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Ronnie Gilbert
Lenox
Juan Serrano
Music Inn
Toshiko
Miss Gilbert
Sam Brown
Harry Belafonte
Miriam Makeba
The
Weavers
Greenwich Village
Five Young Composers To Be Honored At Tanglewood Fest
BMC director Erich Weinsdorf announced a five day festival at Tanglewood August 15 to 19. The Berkshire Music Center and Fromm Music Foundation present four commissioned world premieres plus one from the Samuel Wechsler Commission. Five composers Charles Dodge Donald Harris Fred Myron James Randall and David Beck will be featured with additional works and 11 other pieces. A panel on August 16 moderated by Aaron Copland will introduce the composers. The August 17 chamber concert spotlights a retrospective of Aaron Copland marking 25 years at Tanglewood.
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Erich Weinsdorf
Berkshire Music Center
Tanglewood
Fromm Music Foundation
Chicago
Music Center
Samuel Wechsler
Friends of the Berkshire Music
Charles Dodge
New York City
Donald Harris
Paris
Fred Myron
Buffalo
N.Y
James Randall
Cleveland
Ohio
David Beck
Princeton
N.J
Aaron Copland
The
Berkshire
Special Copland Retrospective at Tanglewood Concert
A special Tuesday evening concert at Tanglewood honors Aaron Copland on the Berkshire Music Center's 25th anniversary. The program titled A Retrospective Concert of Music by Aaron Copland is part of the Berkshire Festival's chamber music series tied to the festival of contemporary American music August 15 to 19, with Fromm Music Foundation involvement.
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Aaron Copland
Berkshire Music Center
Copland
Center
Serge Koussevitzky
Berkshire Festival
Tanglewood
Fromm Music Foundation
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Sher To Perform At New Marlboro Chamber Concert
Pianist Daniel Sher will headline the New Marlboro Chamber Players concert at Red Fox Music Barn in New Marlboro on August 14, with a Bach Concerto in F Minor and Weber Trio in G Minor. The program features Gretchen Moore on flute and Peter Spurbeck on cello in the Weber Trio. William Haroutounian and Jack Erwin will perform Schubert Fantasie for Violin and Piano.
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Daniel Sher
New Marlboro
Jack Erwin
Emily Winthrop Miles Exhibit Opens Aug 18 in Lenox
The Lenox Library Art Gallery hosts a memorial exhibit of Emily Winthrop Miles from August 18 to September, titled Glimpse of an Artist's Life. The show features sculpture drawings and photographs, plus furniture designs, needlepoint works, and some poems for sale to benefit the library. The exhibit was organized by her sister Mrs. Darwin Morse with Walter Rick of Sharon Conn.
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Emily Winthrop Miles
Lenox Library
Lenox
Sedgwick Hall
Mrs. Miles
Miles
New York
Abastenia St. Leger Elberle
Daniel Chester French
Brenda Putnam
Harriet W. Frishmuth
Corey L. Miles
Sharon
Conn
National Audubon Society
Brooklyn Museum
Kenneth Callahan
John F. Kennedy
White House
Kent To Manage Hartford Symphony
David G. Kent, former Tan glewood box office manager and subscription ticket master for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, appointed manager of the Symphony Society of Greater Hartford. He replaces Oleg Lobanov who left to head the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Kent, a Port Angeles native, joined the BSO staff in 1958 and since 1962 has led the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra in Providence.
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David G. Kent
Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Society of
Greater Hartford
Oleg Lobanov
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Port Angeles
Wash
Kent
BSO
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Providence
GOP Returns Kelly's Check After Desk Rifling
William Cody Kelly, fired as a top aide to GOP national Chairman Ray Bliss after a desk rifling incident, has learned a $3,000 contribution was returned by Langhorn Washburn, Republican financial director, who also warned him against attending an upcoming donors’ gathering at Eisenhower’s Pennsylvania farm. Kelly had been accused of prying Kovac’s desk to obtain contributor lists.
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Washington
UPI
William Cody Kelly
GOP
Ray Bliss
Langhorn Washburn
Kelly
Washburn
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Frank Kovac
Kovac
Naval Academy To Recruit Top Scholars
The U S Naval Academy will use athletic recruiting methods to attract top high school talent nationwide. Rear Adm. Draper L. Kaufman announced plans to search for academic leaders and leaders such as class officers, targeting 189 National Merit Scholar semifinalists and other commended students who showed interest in the academy. These students rank among the top 2 percent in U S high schools.
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Annapolis
U.S. Naval Academy
Draper L. Kauffman
Naval Academy
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