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SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSIC MAN WILL BE HEARD TUESDAY IN SINGERS' SEMINAR CONCERTA galaxy of talent, familiar andunusual melodies, new favoritesjoining old; all this with no charge for admission when the Singers1 Seminar offers its spring concert tomorrow night at 7:30 in the Convention Hall of Shamrock Village,The most exciting and unusual feature of the evening will be the presentation of selections from Meredith Willson’s eat musical comedy, The Music Man,0 with WIRAfs Sam Lawdet* outlining the plot as the story unfolds. Soprano Jacqueline Smith makes her Fort Pierce debut in her solo “My White Knight*” Two favorites, Jean Harvey and Claire Mitchell, will bo heard in “Dream of Now” and “Goodnight, My Someone,” while Lawder gives a rhythmic salesman’s pitch in “Trouble.” The entire chorus raises the roof with the brilliant “76 Trombones.” Brooks Atkinson, veteran drama critic of the New York Times, writes of the “Music Man” as “If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsey, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like the ‘Music Man’ . . . a marvelous show,” and the Singers’ Seminar introduces it to Fort Pierce,The men of the group, assisted here and there by the women, romp through an authentic Trinidad Calypso classic, during which a new voice, tenor Carl Farina, advises bis male cohorts that it is best to “A]ways Marry A Woman Uglier Than You!” Cyn* thia Kay, on the other hand, will be the only distaff member when she accompanies the men in .the rousing “Stouthearted Men'5 of Sigmund Romberg.Local talent galore comes to the fore in Arthur Potlorffs arrangement of “Once In A While,” when the new Seminar group, “The Suicide Squad,” accompanies Mandy Arter, who carries the melody on his tenor saxophone. Supporting the 1'Suicide Squad” will be string bass, and Whipple, piano.adept barber • shop arrangement spices up the old favorite “W*d* ding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine/1 also a “Suicide Squad” offering, “Three Jeans and A Jo,” women's quartet, who have become popular with their generous contributions of entertainment at civic, church and charity atfairs, will he heard in “Lazy River” and “Dream.” The members of this quartet are Jean Brown, Jean Harvey, Jean Randel and Joann Sullivan.Soloists are spotted throughout the whimsical “JBetsy from Pike.” Sopranos Marion Enns and Virginia Taylor and tenor Bill Martin contribute their bit, while the bass is intoned by David Murray.The women of the ensemble arc featured in a delicate setting of the Sara Teasdale poem, “Barter,” while the entire chorus rings out the spiritual “When The Saint? Come Marching In,M runs through an unnurscry-Uta “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and softly murmurs “The Cradle Song,” beloved Brahms lullaby.Another art form will be represented when, during the intermission, Bruce Tomlin of the Backus Studio and a tenor jn the Seminar will exhibit some of his paintings, executed here and in Jamaica, in the lobby of the Shamrock.* * *BIRTHS ARE \ANNOUNCEDBirths in Memorial Hospital are:A daughter, weighing six pounds and five ounces, born May 30th to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Cooper of 203 Angle* Road.A son, weighing eight pounds, tiorn May 31st to Mr. and Mrs.; William J. Farrell of 214 Southern Avenue.A son, weighing eight pounds and one ounce, born May 31st to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones of 2508 North Indian River Drive.* * *RUTH CHAPTER OE5 MEETING TONIGHTCary Zehmer,Regular meeting Ruth chapter No. 7, Order of Eastern Star will Lflyra Hewitt j he held at 8 p.m., tonight, in the Jean Harvey’s Masonic temple.
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Mon, Jun 01, 1959
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