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THEY'RE HEADED FOR A DAY AT THE FAIRIra Schantz takas tha HCJC Choir through its pacesCRITIQUEBig DayAn Early One)Choir Plans Fair TripModernaires. popular vocal group;will also he an early daytheyMolly Bee, youthful singer; BobIt will be a big day Tuesday for , Breckenridge, Haley Haynes, Hu-1 tor County Coliseum wil be themember* of the HCJC Choir. It bert Murphy.The choir members will take inthe Fair Tuesday afternoon andevening, and will start back toBig Spring alter the concert Wed- * Burke Twins, acrobatic duo; nesday. Many of the students plan to see “The Music Man” Tuesdayevening.* * *lea\e by bus at 6 30 a m. for theState Fair in Dallas, where thechoir will be special guests in the Higher Education program andexhibits.The choir will be presented at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Garden Center.The program, which began Oct.4, is drawing upon the cultural resources of Texas colleges and universities. Each hour from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on most days, and until 7 p m. on Sundays, is devoted to the program, whieh will last until Sunday, Oct. 19.Several different stages are involved, including the Higher Education Center, Magnolia Stage. Garden Center and the Hall of State Plaza Represented are college theatres, madrigal singers, jazz groups, solo instrumentalists, opera, public discussions, choruses and chorales, chamber music groups, quartets, ensembles, bands, symphony orchestras, marching units, dancers and vocalists.The HCJC Choir program willinclude We Come I nto Our Father’s God.” by Bach; “Slumber, My Dove. an Alsatian carol; Come, Christians, Join to Sing;My Bonnie Lass; “The Syncopated Clock. by Anderson; “The Colorado Trail; and You'll Never Walk Alone Members of the choir are: Sopranos — Mary Asbill, Mary Rreckenridge. Janice Dixon, Patty Francis, Margaret Ann Nichols, Patsy Potter.Contraltos — Peggy Francis, Avanel Greenwood. Evelyn Hardin. Glendene Phillty, Ritchie Lawrence. Karen Thomas, June Vaughn. Danya Ward Tenors — Frank Hardesty Jr .Ronnie Phillips. Basses — BobtalentedBobby Winters, comedy juggler;and Landre Sc Verna, dance team.Otherwise, the local entertainment scene is static:The Civic Theatre has tentatively scheduled a play for Theatre Week, in which the College Players and the high school drama dept, will also participate. It will remain tentatively until the Playhouse is made fit for an audi-All will be backed by Charlie Spi-vak and his Orchestra.The Frontier Follies will bethe Boomtownence .• 1Rev. O’Brien reports the Christmas music program is shaping up. It is in the stage right now of planning, organizing and trying to straighten out data . . .The Civic Theatre’s fund drive is also in the planning stage, awaiting a couple of paydays following the United Fund effort. People are being contacted to act as collectors. Meanwhile, the building committee is consulting experts to decide exactly how the money is to be spent on the Playhouse ...A certain radio station is making a deal with an important source of local income for a couple of hours of good music on Sunday afternoons. The expressed purpose of this program is to “help do away with the animal noises that now' permeate the radio band. All of which is laudable, seeing that the people who write the cards and letters and are otherwise \ociferous about what they hear on the radio are not generally the ones who do the buying from the sponsors — except perhaps the makers of bubble gum and saddle shoes . . .presented on grounds. Phil Maraquin, musical and comedy star, will emcee Singer Joan Dixon, a Dixieland combo and a five-girl chorus line will appear in the shows scheduled for 3, 5, 7 and 9 pm. daily.Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, dances will le held throughout the city. Teddy Phillips and his Orchestra at the American legion: Clair Perrault and his Orchestra in the Lincoln Hotel Ballroom; and Poncho Baird and his Western Band ‘for square dancers) in the Ector County Auditorium. The dances will be held from 9-1nightly.Kicking off the 1958 Permian Basin Oil Show will be the stag Wildcat Dinner, scheduled in the Ector County Coliseum, Wednesday at 7 p.m.B Frank Heintzleman, former territorial governor of Alaska, will be the principal speaker. PaulHochuli, Houston columnist, will act as master of ceremoniesThe “Oil Patch Gridiron Show, composed of local talent and featuring the Odessa Jazz Workshop Orchestra, will be presented during the banquet.1 he Odessa Oil Show begins Thursday and lasts through Sunday. Entertainment, as you can see, will be plentiful and enjoyableAt the Oil Show:At 4 and 8 p.m. daily in the EcSee you there’BOB SMITH
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 12, 1958
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