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Toth/Huff mastertoPerformFaculty Series Features Sonata RecitaAndor Toth, concert violinistand coordinator of the string faculty at the University, and Drusilia Huffmaster, guest faculty artist from Southwestern University, will appear in a sonata recital Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. in Recital Hall as a presentation of the Department of Music Faculty Concert Series.Toth, described by the Los Angeles Times as “ ... a brilliant violin soloist,” is a member of the Alma Trio, a chamber ensemble that has won both national and international acclaimin tours of the United States, Europe, the Soviet Union, Japan, Australia, and Canada.AS A MEMBER of the Alma Trio, the violinist performed inthree concerts in California earlier this season.A native of New York City,Toth's performing career began shortly after his graduation from the Juilliard Graduate School ofMusic, where as a fellowship student he became the youngest con-certmaster of a professional orchestra in America.At 17, he was the solo violinistand concertmaster of the worldfamous Ballet Russe. In 1915, he became a member of the NBCSymphony under Toscanini and in 1946 performed in the Gordon String Quartet.THE FOLLOWING year, Toth served as concertmaster and soloist for the Ballet Theatre Orchestra and in 1948 joined theUniversity SoloistWill Sing ThursdaySoprano Elizabeth Jones, a student in the Department of Music at the University, will be presented in a junior recital Thursday at 4 p.m. in Recital Hall.The soloist, who was a 1965 winner in the National Association of Teachers of Singers (NATS) competition, has performed in the University Opera Workshop productions of ’The Magic Flute” and “Rigoletto.”She is a voice major and her present study is with Martha Deatherage. Miss Jones will be assisted by Theodor Lichtmann,piano, and will open the program with two arias by Vivaldi, Amato Ben” and Sebben Sente” tobe followed by five lieder from Frauenliebe und Leben” bySchumann, three French songs by Ravel, and concludes with threesongs by contemporary composer Paul Nordoff.The recital is a Department of Music presentation of the Student Recital Series and is without charge.UNIVERSITY TRANSIT CO.Hourly Bus Service To andFrom CampusGet Your SemeMff Pmnn Now Contact: STTI!ENT TH.WhL INC,2228 iitiartahm#Amati String Quartet as first violinist.where he was appointed head ofToth served as associate conductor of the Houston Symphony from 1949 until 1955, when he bo-the string department in 1962 inHER RECITAL appearances abroad have included engage-addition to serving as conductor of the University of Coloradoments in London, Amsterdam,came a professor of music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and first violinist of the Oberlin String Quartet, a prize winning group at the Queen Elisabeth World Competition in Belgium inSymphony Orchestra and musicaldirector of the opera company.The Hague, Copenhagen. Hamburg. Munich, Zurich, and Milan.Miss Huffmaster artist in residence and head of the Department of Piano in the Southwest-A pianist recognized for anextradordinary concentration of1/ tSince that time, the violinist has appeared as soloist with leading symphony orchestras including those of Cleveland, Dallas, and Houston and as concert room University School of Fine Arts has appeared here previously as assisting guest artist. Anative Texas artist. Miss Huff-master made her debut at thegifts,” Miss Huffmaster has been praised for a rarely heard meticulous workmanship and beauty of interpretation.age of 13 with the Houston Symphony.The Tuesday evening sonata recital program will open with Sonata in c minor. Op. 30, No. 2” and will conclude with thecitalist has won critical praise in the United States and abroad.She has appeared as soloist under such conductors as Sir Mal-Bela Bartok work, “Sonata No.1.”THE ARTIST .JOINED the music faculty this fall, coming here from the University of Colorado.colm Sargent, Sir John Barbirolli, Arthur Fieldler, Albert Stoessel, Efrum Kurtz. Ezra Rachlin, and Edgar Schenkmann.As a presentation of the Department of Music Faculty Concert .Series the concert will bewithout charge.Musician Previn Will ConductSan Antonio Symphony HereAndre Previn, musician ofquadruple capacity—pianist, conductor, composer, and orchestra-tor — will appear as guest conductor and soloist with the Sankovich, Tchaikovsky, and Rach-maninof.Antonio Symphony in Municipal Auditorium in a Cultural Entertainment Committee sponsoredThe Thursday program willopen with Mendelssohn’s “Ruy Bias Overture, Op. 95.” in 1839,tno composer was requested to write a romance and an over-most representative has been described as “singing of courage,of love, of heroism, and of nobledreams and vistas of the future.»tconcert Thursday at 8 p.m.- Though still in his mid-thirties, Previn has been a professional musician for 20 years, having begun his study of the piano at the Berlin Conservatory at the ageture for a performance of Victor Hugo’s play of “Ruy Bias.” Although not originally inspired to compose the overture for Hugo’s melodramatic tragedy, the com-This week’s San Antonio Symphony concert is without charge to holders of the CEC season ticket and blanket tax holders whodraw tickets in advance at theFine Arts Box Office in Hoggof six and continuing study at the Paris Conservatoire.IN 1939, when the Previn family moved to Hollywood, the young artist began composing for the film industry and has sinceposer did supply an exciting prelude filled with “the bustlings ofvillainy and the triumphs of the virtuous.”Auditorium which is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Single admission tickets at $2.50 for adults and $1 for students mav bePrevin performs as soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto in cpurchased at the Auditorium after 7:1:5 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m., and there will be no reservedseats.written 30 original scores for movies and approximately 20 orchestrations of other composers’ music. Thirteen of his worksminor, K. 491.” In his 23 piano concertos, Mozart had an opportunity of displaying his superlative pianism in melodies with im-Bus transportation at 25 cents round-trip for students at the University will be provided, andschedules will be announced inhave been nominated for AcademyAwards. The four scores for whichhe has won awards- “Gigi,” Porgy and Bess.” Irma la Douce,” and “My Fair Lady”— have been among the most memorable of their type.mense range and flexibility. In the Concerto in c minor,” Mozart includes the aspect of seriousmusical drama of the highest order.the Texan the day of the per formance.Although Previn early in his [The concert concludes with the Shostakovitch Symphony No. 5, Op. 47.” His Fifth Symphony which is considered his finest andPIG STAND No. 142801 GUADALUPEcareer concentrated on composing and performing popular music-including jazz, he now enjoys equal regard as concert soloist and conductor of classical music.He conducts more than 60 concerts a season in theseason in States and Europe, often appearing in the dual role of soloist andconductor.In the realm of recording artist, Previn as piano soloist and conductor, both in the popular and classical idiom, ranks as aNumber 1 best seller. In recentdemand have been his jazz version of My Fair Lady,” Like Young,” and Touch of Elegance.” Conducting the London Symphony, Previn has released recordings of w-orks by Shosta-f r.GR 2-4064ft.TONIGHTON\THE YOUNGER SETFeaturingITIM LIVELYand the PROFITSWITH GUEST BANDTHE CAVALIERSAnd a SpecialInterview with theRob* from the Action ‘ Show by Host AJan DamronMThat * 6:00 p.m. on 42GOOD MORNINGGOOD AFTERNOONGOOD EVENINGGOOD FOOD ANYTIMEStand»i m » —I
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