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Hailed today as one of the greatest American voices of all time, the 33-vear-old baritonemade his Met debut last January as Amonasro m Verdi’s Aida” and stepped from the ranks of a little-known singer to a regular member of the Metropolitan Opera.Conducting the performance will be Evan Whallon (whose wife is the former Jean Borg-man of Fairfield), resident conductor of the Springfield (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra, who has performed this stint for ♦heConnecticut Symphony Pops cm several occasions.Spirituals to Opera . ..The professional debut of the McClain Chorale, a group of Negro singers, will take place Sunday evening. August 7. at Lucille Lortel’s White Barn Theatre. Westport. Margaret Bonds, concert pianist, and Eugene Brice, baritone, will be soloists and the dance group of Louis Johnson and Company will be featured.Miss Bonds, a composer as well as a pianist, has received numerous awards in her career as concert artist and student of music. Among these are a Ros-enwald Fellow’ship, the Rodman Wanamaker National Prize, an award from the National Association of Negro Musicians and grants from Chicago Musical College and the Northwestern University School of Music. Hall T. .inson, director of the famous choir bearing his name, says “In her piano compositions based upon Negro spirituals Margaret Bonds has been singularly successful.” Another evaluation comes from Langston Hughes, poet and lyricist, w*ho says “Margaret Bonds is the most exciting young pianist I have heard in a long time.Baritone Eugene Brice ha» ippeared with various orgamza-MARGARET BONDS, concertpian'st, who will oppeor ot Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theatrein Westport on Sun. evening, Aug 7th, when the McClainChorale makes its professionaldebut there.tions, including the DePaur Infantry Chorus, the Margaret Hillis Concert Choir and the Interracial Fellowship Chorus. He has been on TV on the Ed Sullivan and Arthur Godfrey hows and the Ford Theatre.The Louis Johnson and Company dancers are led by Louis Johnson, known for his work in the Broadway musical “House of Flowers.” An expert on ballet, jazz, modern and acrobatic dancing, he will do a solo, “Harlequin,” from his “Kindergarten Suite,” and lead the company in “Lament,” a ballet to music by Villa-Lobos. In the company are Margaret Newman. George Liker, Ernest Paham. Georgia Collins and Claude Thompson.The McClain Chorale was organized by George McClain, the young conductor, to serve as an interpreter of Negro music and music by Negroes. It consists of 16 well-trained singers, many of whom have done solo workIn the program at the White Barn will be Negro spirituals, Creole songs, selections fromSamuel Coleridge-Tavlor, original compositions by Miss Bonds, art songs and selections from “Porev and BesstiCounty Flower Show . . .The Sixth Annual Mid-Summer Flower Show sponsored by the Fairfield County Horticultural Society will be held in the Mill Plain School, Fairfield, on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 16th and 17th, from 2-10p. m.The theme of this year’s show’, for artistic arrangements, is Flower Fantasies” as suggested by the fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm: Class I—“Beauty and the Beast”; Class II — “Snow White”; Class III — ‘The Emperor's Nightingale”; Class IV— Cinderella”; Class V — “Tum-belina”; Class VI — “A Fairy Banquet; and Class VII—“The Garden of Paradise”,Speakers for the Show will be: Aug. 16th. at 3:30 p.m., Mr. Leonard Wickenden on “OrganicGardening”; Aug. 16th, at 7:30 p.m., Mr. Jan S. Ohens on “Flower Bulbs for Fall Planting,” withKodachrome slides; Aug. 17th, at 3:30 p.m., Mrs. Ray Patten on “A Bag Full of Tricks for Flower Arranging”; Aug. 17th, at 7:30, Mr. Edmond K Swigert on “Your Responsibility to WildUfe”Cooperating with the Society are 22 County garden clubs, including: Bridgeport, Easton,Fairfield. Southport Woman's Club. Greenfield Hill, Greens Farms, Huntington, Jr. Club of Fairfield, Jr. Hou.se Garden Club of Bridgeport, Ixng Hill, Sasqua. Westport, Wilton, Country Garden Club of Monroe, Center Garden Club of Bridgeport, Little Garden Club of Fairfield, Norwalk, Stratford, BlackRock. Tashua, and Stratfield.Special displays of the event will include a “Collection Folio of Flower Arrangements” by the late John Taylor Arms, loaned through the courtesy of the Fairfield Garden Club, and ashS’!la'ga16Moratnlt;FjevaiPiMllclwtlSHPait)CwwwpaSflt;aatctetvrctcI1stFAIRFIELD COUNTY FAIR
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Fairfield County Fair
Fairfield, Connecticut, US
Thu, Aug 04, 1955
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