The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 72

THE COURIERJOURtfAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1938 MUSIC 9 MUSIC IJV KEXTVCKIANA By William Mooit There's Music for Everyone In Flourishing Semipro Organizations SECTION 4 and liturgical selections all th way to medleys from tht latest Broadway musicals. The primary purpose of the club, according to secretary Marie Hcckel, is "to give greater honor and glory to God through the talents of its members." The club participates in the annual Corpus Christi Procession of the Archdiocese of Louisville. The feast of St. Cecilia, patroness of Catholic musicians, is always celebrated with an especially prepared High Mass sung by members of the band and choral club, The members also foster music as a hobby and an outlet for musical talent. Irj 1954 the Choral Club won nation-wide contest sponsored by the lata Gene Lockhart of Hollywood.

It has made special recordings for the National Sacred Heart Program and the Hour of the Cruel, ficd. Under its present director, Joseph Horde, the Holy Name Band and Choral Club is making plans for its annual winter appearance at Memorial Auditorium. This appearance, along with a summer program at Iroquois Amphitheatre, attracts thou sands of the club's admirer! each year. I i 1 fir A -V rki'lt-t 1 'W ilfr- AV-X jYiij k-'ltXi I 1 1 Church, Fourth and St. Catherine Streets.

Th Lanhrilla A Cnppclln Choir, tchick is now celebrating ill 211 annirenary, irni founded by Edtcard 11, Clark. Clark started the group in 1937 as the Melody Club. The group was associated for a time with the Louisville Chorus, directed by the late Frederic A. Cowles. and adopted its present name in 1943.

Although the A Cappella Choir is best known for its performances of small choral works, it also has performed large masterpieces by Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Handel. Prominent on its calender for the 1958-59 season is a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The scheduled for December 5 and 6 at the Woman's Club Auditorium. Singers and those desiring to help in staging "The Mikado" have been invited by Clark to be at the Woman's Club, 1320 S. Fourth, Tuesday night at 7 for interviews. The unique combination of band and mixed chorus is heard WHILE FOUR major concert organizations (see story below) irovid the backbone of concert ife in Louisville, each year hundreds of talented amateurs and semiprofessionals band together In groups small and large, as if to prove that music is one of the most rewarding and entertaining of hobbies.

The oldest scmiprofesslonal orchestra in Louisville is the Louisville Civic Orchestra, founded in 1916 by Morris Simon a a means of building a symphony with home-grown talent and with the Idea of stimulating community interest in orchestral music. Simon has supported the orchestra through the years with unparalleled zest. When instruments were needed, he frequently bought them. He campaigned for members, arranged concerts and kept the orchestra's name constantly before the public. Until 1932, its concerts were free to the public.

During the 1030's, the orchestra became the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, and played to sold-oul houses in Memorial Auditorium. When Robert Whitney organized what is now the Louisville Orchestra, many of Civic's players formed the nucleus of the new group. Since then, Simon has kept the Civic Orchestra flourishing as an outlet for the Sack to School Morris Simon Walter Pali I in Edward H. Clark The Rev. Joseph Emrich Founded Civic Orchestra Conducts Choral Union Founded A Cnppclln Choir Started Holy IS rime group miKi vniio cruAAi Will I VWI 4JWIIWWh BAND OR ORCHESTRA" patron and associate membership campaign for the upcoming season.

Associate membership is $2 for a year; patron membership is $5 (or more). The University Choral Union, founded in the fall of 1956 with Walter 0. DahVn as conductor, has announced four concerts for the upcoming season. This "Choral Masterworks" series mill Season tickets for the four concerts, at $3. are available.

Write Box 65 at the University of Louisville for information. Auditions Open Auditions, open to all qualified singers regardless of creed, race or color, will be held on September 9 and 16 at 7 p.m. at the Fourth Avenue Methodist talent of Louisville's youthful instrumentalists, although play-crs ranging in age from 12 to 60 make up its present roster. The Civic Orchestra is sponsored by the Jewish Community Center, which provides housing as well as the nominal salary of conductor Joseph Horvath. It is a nondenominational organization.

The group is now conducting represent baroque, classic, romantic and contemporary composers. Some will be performed for the first time in Louisville. The Choral Union claims it will perform Handel's St. John Passion for the first time in America. Top-ranking soloists from this area and members of the Louisville Orchestra will participate in the programs.

at the programs of the Holy Name Band and Choral Club, founded by the Rev. Joseph C. Emrich 20 years ago. Its concerts feature music from Bach Ticket Drives Set as Major Concert Groups List Dales Before Purchasing an Instrument Give Your Child A Trial with our RENTAL PURCHASE PLAN ALL RENT PAID APPLIES TO PURCHASE For A Complete Line of New and Used Band and Orchestra Instruments SEE ''it jfi if If mmwftet'tmm fill i call Mitt Fanny Br an dell tit TfCinbrnnk or write her at J6fj Lynn Way. Moritz Bomhard, director of the Kentucky Opera Association, writes from Europe, where he has been traveling and conducting this summer, that he is jubilant that Columbia Auditorium is finally being overhauled and redecorated.

Two Are Definite "Now, at last," he writes, "the K.O.A. will be able to produce operas I have wanted to do for a long time, but couldn't under the old setup." Two operas he definitely will stage this year are "Rigoletto" in November, and "Hansel and Gretel" in December. He would like to do "Carmen" in February. "But that depends on whether I can find a Season ticket information for K.O.A.'s operas will be announced later. Four attractions now comprise the 1958-59 series offered by the Louisville Community Concert Association.

Enthusiastic public response during the membership campaign could result in a fifth concert. Other Doles In addition to Nora Kovach and Istvan Rabovsky and their Ballet Ensemble, opening the season on October 14, Community has scheduled the following artists: November 7 Rise Stevens, glamorous singer of the Metropolitan, a great American mezzo-soprano acclaimed as star of opera, concert, television, movies and recordings. January 24 The Roger Wagner Chorale, one of the best mixed choruses singing in American today. February 16 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Paul Paray, conductor. Since his appointment as its permanent conductor in 1951, Paray has devel may renew beginning tnntnrrme.

Campaign chairman it Mrt. Harold Cardan. ftleniberthip duet are $10 and tludcutt and children, $5. Campaign headquartert arm at the Sheraton Hotel, Fourth and Walnut, JL'niper 7-9285. The only new face to appear on the Chamber Music Society series this season will be Janos Starker, the fabled cellist who also will appear with the Louisville Orchestra.

The society took advantage of his orchestra appearances to snag him for its series at The Playhouse. The society's concerts this year will all be at 3:30 p.m. on Sundays. The dates: November 16 Vienna Octet; December 7 Janos Starker; January 18 Budapest Quartet (with the Louisville String Quartet joining in a performance of Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings); March 8 Quartetto Italiano. For teuton ticket Information, i lingers, the group also features an enticing array of instrumentalists: Julius Baker, flute; Robert Bloom, oboe; Bernard Greenhouse, cello; Paul Ulanow-sky, piano; and Maurice Wilk, violin.

The program will draw its music from Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passions, and from several of the cantatas. Others on Program Leon Raper, first trumpetist with the orchestra, will play Haydn's Trumpet Concerto on February 4 and 5. Soprano Irene Jordan will appear on March 4 and 5, and the season will close on April 1 and 2 with Leon Fleisher being featured in Brahms's Piano Concerto No.

2 in minor. Werner Egk and Leon Kirch-ner, two of the composers announced last spring for commissioned works this season, have asked that their premieres be held up a year. As it stands now, we shall hear new works by Paul Ben-Haim, Klauss Egge, Benjamin Lees, Nikolai Lopat-nikoff and Bohuslav Martinu. The sixth will be announced later. Spawn ticketi far the Orchettrn mbtcriptian te-rip art now on tale at the office! of the Louiwllle Philharmonic Soripty, 830 S.

Fourth, JL'niper 7-8681, ALTHOUGH the 19511-59 concert season won't swing into high gear for at least another month, all four of Louisville's major concert series have their schedules in order and are ready to launch into their fall ticket campaigns. The Louisville Orchestra again will play a subscription series of six pairs of concerts under the direction of Robert Whitney. Besides the traditional world premiere at all concerts, soloists will be featured on every program. Luvisi To Flny The orchestra will open its season at Columbia Auditorium on October 29 and 30. Lee Luvisi, remarkably gifted home-town pianist who made a tremendous splash at his Carnegie Hall debut last season, will appear in" a performance of Chopin's minor Concerto.

Soloist for the next pair of concerts on December 3 and 4 will be Janos who, according to Time magazine has been recognized as one of the world's greatest cellists since he reached the age of 14. He has risen to meteoric prominence during the past few years. On January 14 and 15, the tage at Columbia Auditorium will be crowded with the most impressive array of talent ever to appear at a Louisville Or- 312 W. BROADWAY FREE PARKING JU 7-1289 JU 7-1280 Janos Starkor Soloist for two groups chestra concert. Coming for these concerts is the Bach Aria Group, with Eileen Farrell and Jan Peerce, two of the greatest singers of our age, as soprano and tenor soloists.

Carol Smith, who appeared here once for Community Concerts, is the alto, and Norman Farrow is the bass. In addition to these top-flight oped the Detroit Symphony into one of the finest of American orchestras. 77m Lnuiirilt Community Concert Aiitociation it a nonprofit organisation randuclcd by nonpaid eitizent of Lauitville. Tha attociatian taunchct ifi drire for new membcrt on Sep-tembpr 22, but pretent membcrt Shackleton's Kentucky Largest and Finest Music Store YOUR Music Teachers Are Plentiful for Aspiring Pupils ARE All INVITED 0RVILLE FOSTER tice on their own, don't force She feels some children can be pushed, others not, and deciding is a teacher's big problem. Teachers of both adults and children are united on one trend; start beginners playing tunes first and technical exercises later.

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