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ank rbS op riacriomsr Combines Horses and Art l.liihlC and ART iV 4 1 1 I ii li HH ill -( I 1 I I If If? Symphony's 1st Summer Concert Set for Tuesday The first of six concerts by the Minneapolis Symphony Summer Session Orchestra conducted by Frederick Fennell will be presented at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Northrop Auditorium. Guest soloist in a program titled "An Evening at the Opera" will be Robert Goodloe, baritone winner of the 1964 Metropolitan Opera Auditions. New York-born Goodloe interrupted a budding journalism career to take voice lessons, and last year began to sing in opera productions at Simpson College, I i a 1 Iowa, where he was director of publications. This year he won both the Iowa and regional Met Opera auditions and on March 22 became the first national winner in 10 years from the Upper Midwest.

Tuesday's concert, open to the public without charge, also will feature the local premiere of Minnesota composer Gene Gutche's "Raquel." On the program will be operatic arias and songs from Broadway music als, a group of Wagner excerpts and pieces by Rimsky-Kor-sakov, Purcell and ERIC STOKES, TOM NEE AND THE 'HERE' ORCHESTRA Strange things are happening Music, Ice Cream Will Be Mixed NEW CONCERT SERIES IS COOKED UP By JOHN K. SHERMAN Cameron Booth's "horse show," opening today at the Bottega Gallery, represents a return to an old love and a conviction that you can put a recognizable horse into a picture and still make it a good painting in terms of contemporary art. The dean of Minnesota artists for 20 years a top-rank abstract painter woke up one morning about four years ago to realize that two of his major interests in life were painting and horses. Why not try to combine them? "Some of my colleagues told me I couldn't mix the two," he said. "But why not? It's been done before.

Look at Gericault." BOOTH points out that his latest works aren't "horse pictures" in the conventional sense. "Barnyard landscapes might describe them better," he said. "The horse is there, but with it the mood of the scene, the different times of day or night, the seasons, summer and winter." The artist, who hasn't turned his back on abstract painting, believes that his long concern with abstraction has aided him greatly in the new paintings, which benefit by the lessons learned in non-representational work. "IT'S A DIFFERENT kind of expression," he explained. "In the abstracts I begin with one area of color and tone, add more, take away, and let the thing grow as an improvisation.

In the new paintings I begin with a conception usually worked out in a small crayon design, which serves as a springboard. "I don't copy the sketch there's no point in that but I use it as a start and then develop the idea it suggests on a larger scale." BOOTH the mood By DAN SULLIVAN Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Cross an ice-cream social with a happening and you have a vague idea of what Tom Nee and Eric Stokes are cooking up at the First Unitarian Society this week. Nee, who teaches music at Macalester College, and Stokes, an instructor at the University of Minnesota, are sponsoring a concert series called, tersely enough, "Here." And Now" is the unspoken part of the title, for the three concerts will include plenty of modern music. The first is built around Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," an atonal, surrealist song-cycle written in 1912 but never performed before in the Twin Cities. Mrs.

Schoenberg, it seems, has kept an iron grip on performance rights since they reverted to her from her late husband's publishers some years ago. It took Leonard Stein, a friend of Nee's and a former pupil of Schoenberg's, to persuade her to allow the Twin Cities premiere. "Pierrot Lunaire" will be sung Wednesday night by Shirley Kartarik. But CAMERON The horse plus Booth's love of horses goes back to a boyhood in Glidden, Iowa, when he owned his first horse at the age of 12 an Indian pony, a frisky mustang out of a herd. "I WORKED on farms, and my father always had a driving horse.

I spent a year with my mother and brother on a claim 60 miles west of Pierre, S.D., and I did a lot of riding in those wide open spaces with a family of boys living near by." Booth owns no horse now, but an air-conditioned car in which he and his school-teacher wife recent Manupelli of the Ann Arbor Film Festival; dips back to the 15th century for four chansons by Gilles Binchois (Yale Marshall will sing them) and ends up-to-date with Luigi Nono's "Liebeslied," sung by Donald Aird's Solo Chor. Also on the program are Paul Hindemith's "In Praise of Music" (the audience gets to sing part of it) and some music for winds by Stokes. THE LAST concert, Saturday night, is the farthest-out of all. The performers are from the San Francisco Tape Center and Nee really doesn't know how to describe what they do except to say that "they improvise with music and light." Some titles on their program may give you an idea of what they'll be up to: "Desert "Blue Suede" and "Twenty-five for Light and Four Players." The ice-cream social part of the concerts comes at intermission when performers will be dishing up the stuff to the audience. The flavor is vanilla "strawberry costs too much," Nee said.

This may be the only bland part of the concerts. Each starts at 8:30 p.m. Call TA 5-3716. ART CALENDAR "sung" isn't really the word. The word is "sprech stimme" spoken melody and it requires the performer to declaim, rather than to vocalize, the 21 songs that make up the cycle.

THEY ARE gloomy, neurotic nightmarish pieces one of them is about a man trying to rub a "stain" of moonlight off his shoulder and Nee has asked students at the Minneapolis School of Art to illustrate them in black-and-white paintings. The paintings will form a maze through which members of the audience will have to thread themselves to reach their seats. This is in keeping with one of the aims of the "Here" series "to demonstrate," as Nee put it, "the coexistence of the visual with the aural in art." "Pierrot Lunaire," will close an evening of contrast. It begins with three corny 19th century piano pieces, by Louis Gotts-chalk played by James Johnson and "illustrated" by dancers from the Dancers Forum. IN BETWEEN come "straight" performances of Schubert's "Song of the Spirits Over the Waters" by the University of Minnesota Male Chorus and a 17th century passacaglia for solo violin by Heinrich Biber, played by Henry Kramer of the Minneapolis Symphony.

"Why should a concert be all-baroque or all-contemporary?" says Nee, who purposely selected the programs to shake up the purists. "I thought it would be fun for once to alternate different styles." Thursday's concert begins with five short experimental films by George ly took a trip to Louisville to see the Kentucky Derby and to Lexington to visit the horse farms. "I saw some real nice horses at the horse barns and farms," he said, "but not at the Derby. The racetrack was so crowded all I saw was the backs of people's heads and a few flashes of horses' tails." The Booth one-man show at Bottega Gallery will open with a reception for the artist at 2 to 4 p.m. today.

Continuing through July 2, it contains 20 recent paintings, large and small, and about 100 small framed sketches in color crayon. Gallery Bauer JUNE 30, 8:30 P.M. MooKSLSoo Air 101 Northrop Conditioned rwH) Schllcln. Paul Lis SylpkiJtl- Spitlrt it It Ken. ScktlurmztJt BOOTH'S 'PINTO AND DUN' One of his horse paintings at Bottega Painting Revises Human Figure State Music Teachers to Meet at 'U' The 63rd annual conven tion of the Minnesota Music Teachers Association will be held today and Monday at the University of Minnesota.

Concerts, demonstrations and discussions have been planned, starting with a lecture-organ recital by Heinrich Fleischer, open to the public, at 4 p.m. today in Grace Lutheran Church. The featured event at 7:30 p.m. today in Northrop Auditorium will be the State Honor Student concert, a 10-piano program and vocal, organ and piano solos by 220 students representing 210 teachers. Discussions of new music theory tests, technical aspects of performance and group teaching techniques Monday will be by Russell G.

Harris, Donald Betts and Justine O'Connor, and John Seale of Macalester College will speak on "The Counterpoint of Men and Machines" at a noon luncheon. The convention's concluding concert at 8 p.m. Monday in Coffman Union will be performed by Betts at the piano, and Sisters Mary Helene Juettner, soprano; Ellen piano, and Macrina Man-derfeld, flute. School Notes Two Music Education Workshops, approaches to creativity in elementary schools, and performance techniques in vocal and instrumental music in secondary schools, led by Paul Creston, Donald Erb, Arnold Caswell, Paul Fetler, Frank Bencriscutto, Johannes Dahle, Margaret Galloway and Robert L. Borg, Tuesday through Friday, University of Minnesota.

Workshop for Band Directors and Music Teachers, led by Daryl Gibson, and Pedagogy of Woodwinds and Woodwind Seminar, led by Ruben Haugen, Monday through Friday, MacPhail College of Mu-suc. Ranier, International Art Association's summer art workshop on Rainy Lake, classes June 15 to Aug. 21, taught by Gene Ritchie Monahan, director; Guttorn Otto, and Earl Potvin. Tours and Lectures Barbara Shissler, guest lecturer, on "A Review of the Photography Exhibition," 3 p.m. today; Carroll T.

Hartwell, assistant curator of photography, on "The Aesthetics of Photography," 8 p.m. Tuesday, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Both free. 64 Little Gallery Season, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Associated American Artists, prints (last day Tuesday) University Gallery.

Guillermo Silva, Colombian artist, new engravings and mixed media, The Red Carpet, 925 Nicollet Av. Marjorie Pinkham, recent paintings, Bottega Gallery. Commencement Exhibition, student work, Minneapolis School of Art. Open to public. Esther Elliott Dovre, scenes of Minnesota and Sweden; Bettye Olson, water colors, American Swedish Institute.

Permanent Collection Exhibition, St. Paul Art Center, 476 Summit Av. Figurative Paintings, by Harmony Hammond, Mary Ellen Ponsford, Robert G. Johnson, Samuel Wang and Jack Norman, Capp-Towers Gallery. Theodora Brown, oil paintings, Rainbow Cafe.

Geneva Molenaar, 30 paintings, Student Center, St. Paul campus, University of Minnesota. Student Recitals Mrs. M. Tabuteau, pupils in two-piano program, 7 p.m.

Tuesday; Emily Beau-dette, pupils in two-piano program, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; Suzanne Car-gill, pupils in two -piano program, 7 p.m. Friday; Mrs. Paul Skarman, pupils in two-piano program, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Schmitt Music Center.

Elmer Aamodt, piano and organ pupils, and Hazel Aamodt, drama pupils, 7 p.m. Monday, MacPhail Auditorium. WxU ADT2 DRAFTS) 033 MODELS, Whether for yourself or for a gift, you'll find mor of everything for arts, erafti and models at Gager's. Of course, our trained staff will help you in making selections. Stop in soon.

HANDICRAFT KM4 NICOLUT AVI. OUTHDALI CBMTBPt ROOKDALSf CINTIK New Shows Cameron Booth, recent paintings of horses, opening 2 to 4 p.m. today with the artist present, continuing through July 2, Bottega Gallery, 818 Hennepin Av. West Lake Gallery, new gallery opening Tuesday, works by Jo Lutz Rollins, Lorraine Cote, Mary Kil-leen, Renee Nadeau, Janice Loring and Bettye Olson, preview 7 to 10 p.m. Monday, 1612 W.

Lake St. Robert Goodnough, paintings and drawings, opening 1:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday and continuing through Oct. 4, University Gallery, Northrop Auditorium. Mac LeSueur, paintings and drawings, Monday through July 15, Suzanne Kohn Gallery, 1690 Grand St.

Paul. Syd Fossum, recent oils, water colors and seri-graphs, through July 18, Student Union, Macalester College, St. Paul. Fifth Annual Rose Fete, sponsored by Minnesota Arts Forum, 1 to 5 p.m. next Sunday, Minneapolis Institute of Arts grounds.

Free. Minnesota Artists, painting and sculpture, and prints by European artists, summer show, Kilbride-Bradley Gallery. Brian Alexander, oil paintings, Monday through Saturday, Windsor Gallery, 5019 France Av. S. Edina.

Patti Flynn, oil paintings, through June, Old Log Theater, Excelsior. Rochester Charles E. Gagnon, bronze figures, and Ray George, prints, Wednesday through July 16, slide-lecture on bronze casting by Gagnon, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Rochester Art Center. Sioux Falls, S.D., Robert Walton, one-man show, through June 30, Civic Fine Arts Center.

Continuing Lewis Brown, stage costume design (through next Sunday); Richard Randell, sculpture, Walker Art Center. American Folk Art, from Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Collection; The Aesthetics of Photography, 150 photographs; Chagall; The Fables of La Fontaine, etchings; Selections from 1963- GUILLERMO SILVA New Works Experiences JUNE 13-27 the Red Carpet Gallery 925 Nicollet Schmiif's Congratulates Mennonite Brethren Church ON INSTALLATION OF ITS NEW ALLEN ORGAN By JOHN K. SHERMAN The figure human figure, that is has returned to painting in a revised version. One suspects it will never be the same. Its aspect is that of surviving the storm of abstract expressionism while still bearing the marks of its buffetings.

Completeness and slickness, whether nude or clothed, appear to be a banality of the past. This is an impression confirmed by the varied and excellent show now on view at the Capp-Towers Gallery figurative paintings by six young artists who are attaining individual styles. The mood and viewpoint here range from existentialist to satirical. ART in REVIEW Goodnough Works to Be Shown at 4U' Robert Goodnough, noted American artist, will be represented by 28 paintings and drawings done in the last six years in a one-man show opening with a public preview 1:30 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the University Gallery in Northrop Auditorium.

Goodnough, a former pupil of Hans Hofman and Amedee Ozenfant, has taught at New York and Cornell Universities, written for Art News and exhibited widely since 1950. His strongest characteristic is energy and his work strikes a balance between spontaneity and calculation, or in his own words, "I like to work freely, to slash with the brush and let loose, but I also like to work carefully and with discipline." The show will be on view through Oct. 4. 'Midsummer Mozart' Musicale Is Planned "Midsummer Mozart," a lawn musicale consisting of two Mozart divertimentos played by a sextet of Twin Cities instrumentalists, will be given at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard S. Wilcox at Marine on St. Croix at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Reservations at $2 may be made by addressing requests to P.O.

Box 261, Marine on St. Croix. I was much taken by the strong, mocking brush of Robert G. Johnson, who evokes a full impression by sketchlike stabs and vigorous strokes, and full of jocular and eye-filling surprises. He stops before he is quite through, realizing in the nick of time he has made it.

The gamut is from a fiddling Nero to spook bride and groom, from basketball goalie to cellist. Mary Ellen Ponsford, with her bold use of planes and spaces, makes her figures obey design imperatives rather than literal truth, and h3r way is her own a highly original talent. Harmony Hammond, the other woman artist represented, evokes large, enigmatic females in muted colors, her conceptions something of a cross between Toulouse-Lautrec and the latterday brushy-drippy style. Here too is little concern for anatomical accuracy. SAMUEL WANG has an approach that is tart, spontaneous, poetic, based in good drawing and seeking vivid contrasts of light and shadow as in "Fisherman" and "Sunshine A.M." Jack Norman on first viewing is more flashy and less sophisticated, using garish colors but achieving an atmospheric "Seventh Day" with Adam and overhead sun impressionistically limned.

Lastly, Leslie Anderson's single entry, "Girl in Yellow Dress," is an engaging blend of character and caricature, a slap-dash synthesis denoting posture and personality. JOHN K. SHERMAN is book and arts critic for the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune and the Minneapolis Star. Mennonite Brethren Church Mr. Marvin H.

Schmidt, pastor has recently installed a new ALLEN organ. With its outstanding purity of tone, this Allen will add warmth the worship service at Mennonite Brethren Church in New Hope. SCHMITT MUSIC CO. Horn ofth Sttinwiy Pitna 88 SO. TENTH ST.

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