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MUSIC ART April 30. 1961 I'M MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE A. i jK i in mp. muni WW, -tV 'Wjf iwu mmw mm i ss f' ft. s-m.

si7v2fc nrv i rffS'F I fi JfL tilf il It 1 I WALT KUH.VS PORTRAIT OF A CLOWN distinctly American style CONCERT CALENDAR I s'l 88 a itmrtmrl 1 i Britten Opera to Be Featured at Vancouver Fourth International Arts festival in Vancouver, Canada, will feature the first North American performance of Benjamin Britten's opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Irmgard Seefried, Vienna Opera soprano, will desert her "home" festival at Salzburg, Aus- music the first time to CHAT take part in the Vancouver fete, and the New York City Ballet will make its Canadian debut there A 25-year-old bass-baritone from Faribault, Richard Cross, has signed a management contract with the Judson, O'Neill and Judd division of Columbia Artists. Cross sang in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera, "Maria Golovin" at the Brussels world's fair. He sang at the Spoleto, Italy, festival, with the New York City Opera, and was heard on NBC-TV as Pimen in "Boris Godou-nov." He has just finished two years in the army Frederic Hilary, director of music at Central Lutheran church, has been appointed director of the Augsburg college choir during the absence of the choir's regular director, Leland Sateren, who is on leave after accepting an educational grant Sharing the spotlight with Pablo Casals, director of the Casals Music festival in $an Juan, Puerto Rico, will be contralto Marian Anderson, pianists Rudolf Serkin and Claudio Arrau and violinists Isaac Stern and Alexander Schneider. The festival is June 9 through June 28. Three major symphony orchestras in Texas will play a round robin in the next two seasons, making guest appearances in each other's towns.

The enterprise will be joined by the San Antonio orchestra under Victor Alessandro, the Houston orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli, and the Dallas orchestra, currently seeking a new conductor. Show Will Feature Arts of Denmark "The Arts of Denmark: Viking to Modern," one of the largest exhibitions of ancient and modern art and home furnishings ever assembled abroad for the United States, will open to the public in Walker Art center next Sunday. It will continue through June 18. Hundreds of objects, coving 10,000 years of craftsmanship, trace the development of Danish art from prehistoric amber carvings to modern furniture created for the show. The exhibition, which has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago was assembled by the Danish Society of Arts and Crafts and Industrial Design.

TINY FIGURES of a bear and bird carved in glowing amber between 8000 and 5000 B.C. are among the oldest known examples of art from the world's oldest kingdom. Stone age spears, harpoons and utilitarian objects foreshadow the design and practical elegance of 20th century furniture, glass, silver, ceramics, jewelry and textiles. Contemporary furniture and crafts make up almost half the exhibition, ADMISSION to this special exhibition is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for elementary and high school students. Guided official school tours, arranged in advance, will be admitted without charge.

For general information call FE 6-0301. The center will be closed to the public Saturday in preparation Tor the members' preview of the exhibition that evening. Classes will be held as usual and students may enter through the rear door. MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY POWELL KRUEGEP. MINNEAPOLIS ARTIST BIRNEY QUICK REWORKS PICTURE OF INDIAN FOLK SINGER Painter irorku in old carriage house nfudio near 21st St.

and Pillsbury Av. Birney Quick Pictures Tell Stories Bocf Strokes Used for Bold Ideas Art Institute Buys Painting by Walt Kuhn An oil painting by a distinguished American artist. Walt Kuhn, has been acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The painting, a portrait of a clown called "Sandy." was purchased recently with funds from the John R. Van Derlip fund.

It will go on exhibition Tuesday on the main floor of the museum and will be on view through May 14. Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) was a colorful, fiercely independent personality who painted in a style that is considered distinctly "American" and at the same time highly original. BORN in Brooklyn, N.Y., of Bavarian immigrant parents, he had never considered a career as an artist until, after traveling west in 1899 at the age of 22, he became a cartoonist for San Francisco, newspapers. In 1901 he decided to study in Paris and Munich. Kuhn returned to New York in 1905 and from then on for a 40-year period his creative work was done between such bread-and-butter jobs as professional bicycle racer, freelance cartoonist for Life, Puck and other publications, costume designer and director of vaudeville and circus acts.

Art Fraternity Will Conduct Studio Tour University of Minnesota chapters of Delta Phi Delta, national honorary art fraternity, will hold their sixth annual studio tour Sunday. Twin Cities artists will exhibit arts and crafts in their studios. Artists participating will include Elizabeth Anderson, designer and weaver; Peter Lupori and Evelyn Raymond, sculptors; Barbara Brewer Peet and Frances Cranmer Green-man, portrait painters; Eugene Larkin, printmaker and painter; Olexa Bulativ-sky, Clarence Lake, Steve Rettegi, Dawn Sperouleas and Birney Quick, painters, and Christian Schmidt, jewelry designers. A printed tour guide will be provided with tickets, which are $1. Proceeds will be used for art scholarships.

Further information may be obtained by calling TA 3-7302. College Choral Concert Planned The Intercollegiate Male Chorale will give its second annual concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Northrop auditorium. The free concert will bring together 200 male voices. Joining in the concert will be the men's glee clubs of Augsburg college, directed by John Thut; Bethel college, directed by Sheldon Fardig; St.

John's university, directed by Gerhard Track; College of St. Thomas, directed by Father Schuler, and the University of Minnesota, directed by Norman Abelson. Abelson, assistant professor of music education at the University of Minnesota, will conduct the massed singers and the University of Minnesota concert band in the finale. Arts Festival to Open in Duluth DULUTH, Minn. Special) Ralston Crawford, noted American artist, will appear at the opening of a retrospective exhibition of his paintings and lithographs at 8 p.m.

today in the Tweed gallery of University of Minnesota, Duluth. the exhibition will be the opening event of the UMD fine arts festival. The campus theater group will present Sophocles' "Electra" in Main auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Arts Week Opens Creative Arts week at Augsburg college will open Monday with an art exhibit sponsored by the Augsburg Fines Arts commission.

John K. Sherman, art, drama and music critic of the Minneapolis Star and Sunday Tribune, will talk at 2 p.m. Tuesday on current Broadway plays. window at the rain dripping out of grey clouds and then completed his sketch with a wash of water colors. "Let's give him a blue sky overhead.

Poor little bird. "I've done a lot of studies of birds. I don't know why. I was brought up on the belief they were flying reptiles." by-product," he said, pinning a sheet of pale brown paper to a drawing board. "The real product is the moment, the moment of creation.

The product then becomes a sign. You can return to it and relive that moment. "And the product is a sign for the public, too, if they want to see it and to see that moment of creation." HIS HANDS moved rapidly. At one moment he worked charcoal into the outline of a bird with his right hand, at another brushed and smeared it into shadows with his left, scoring details in ink, simplifying the design and adding muted color with chalk. With a touch, a line of pencil, Quick fashioned a sketch of a chickadee lying dead in a clump of short grass and stubble.

"Drawing is the first and last love of many artists," he said. "But it's not a tool for the inept." He looked out of the ior high pupils, assisted by Ricky Mayes, voice pupil of I.oren Lund. Wednesday, 10 a nr. convocation program by Men's Symphonia fraternity. Wednesday, 8 30 p.m., voice pupils of Margaret Barnard.

Thursday, 8 p.m., voice pupils of Maret Pank. Friday. 8 p.m., piano pupils of Theodore Bergman. New Art Shows The Arts of Denmark: Viking to Modern, opening next Sunday, through June 18, Walker Art center. Walt Kuhn.

oil portrait of a clown, "Sandy," new acquisition, on view Tuesday through May 14, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Gusiavus Adolphus college faculty and student paintings, drawings and sculpture, through May 7, American Swedish insti-stuie. Duluth, Ralston Crawford, retrospective exhibition of paintings and lithographs, opening 8 p.m. today, through May 12. Tweed gallery, University of Minnesota Uuluth.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, three Minneapolis artists, Harvey Hurley. Melvin Geary and Stuart Jahnson, opening Wednesday, through April, Grant gallery. Minneapolis School of Art faculty show, including works by Urban Couch, Aribert Mun-zer, Donald Nice, William Nolan, Eugene Larkin and others, opening Tuesday, through June 4, the Little Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Fred F. Anderson, recent paintings, Alley 29 Art Shop, St.

Paul. CONTINUING: Egort Schiele paintings, water colors and drawings; Fantin-Latour lithographs, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Edward Corbett paintings and drawings; Faces and Figures, show for children. Walker Art center. Gertrude Fuhrman paintings, Windsor gallery.

Edwin Zoller, paintings, water colors and drawings, Weyerhaeuser librarv, Macalester college. William bietrichson, paintings, Kilbride-Bradley gallery. Opera Tickets Gone for Five of Met Shows Tickets for five of the six operas the Metropolitan Opera company will give in Northrop auditorium May 17 to 21 are sold out. In the first week of mail order ticket sale, beginning April 10, "Aidanand "Martha" were sold out. Since then all the tickets for "Turandot," "La Boheme" and "La Traviata" have been taken.

James S. Lombard and Boris Sokoloff, local managers for the Metropolitan's appearance here, said tickets for "Rigoletto," Thursday night, May 18, are still available on the main floor at $10, $9 and $7. Minneapolis -born baritone Cornell MacNeil will sing the title role. The cast includes Laurel Hurley as Gilda and Jan Peerce.as the duke. The Opera ticket office is in 106 Northrop auditorium at the University of Minnesota.

No telephone orders are accepted. Pianist, Quartet to Give Concert Margaret Barthel. Minneapolis pianist, and the Arts String quartet will be presented by the New Friends of Chamber Music in the final concert of their season on Monday evening, May 8, in the First Unitarian Society auditorium. The program will illustrate the evolution of the use of the piano with strings in chamber music, beginning with Mozart and Haydn and continuing with examples from Beethoven. Faure and Brahms.

It will conclude with the piano quintet of KfrostakovUck TODAY Spring Antiphony, Aupsbutc Collrce band, Mayo Savoki. director, and Aupsburg College choir, Frederic Hilary, director; 3:30 p.m., Si Melby hall on campus. Admission $1.50, students 85 cents, student loan fund benefit. Program of Persicbetti, Sousa, Shostakovich, Brahms, Schuetz and others. Rochester, chamber music, Marvin McCoy, trench horn; Jack Boman, trumpet; James Miller, trombone; Sidney Suddendorf, baritone; Ted Cer-vania, violin; Beverly Wales, cello, and Carlo a 1 i piano; 8 p.m., Rochester Art center.

Program of Fink, Pou-lenc, Hugo Wolf, and Schubert. Daniel W. Chorzempa, 16, in organ recital, 4 p.m., St. John Lutheran church. Program of Bach, Liszt and Franck.

Jackson, Jackson High School choir, with Westmar College choir of Le Mars, Iowa, Wallace Engelbrekt, conductor; guest soloist, Larry Day, baritone, of Westmar; Earl Barr, organist; 8 p.m., Jackson high school auditorium. The program: Brahms' German Requiem. l.a Crosse, St. John's University Men's chorus, Viterbo college women's chorus and orchestra, Gerhard Track, conducting; 8 p.m., Aquinas theater. Admission $1.25, students 75 cents.

The program: Bruckner's Mass in E-minor. Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd choir, James Peterson, director; F. Melius Christiansen Memorial concert, 4 p.m., in the church. Free. Program, wholly of works arranged or composed by Christiansen: Arlvfnf lost the I lullobvts on Chrttln Pnu'i(ul Yultil today thr Ringing Ln! SncrH Urvi limb nf O-V.

lnvt in Gn( lnsii Mnsnnna Beautiful Trinity f-nthfti Most H-)iy P'aije tn the lord Ooy full nf Grace Dnipro Chorus of Minneapolis and St. Paul branches of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; guest artist, John Dennis, violinist; Taras Shev-chenko memorial concert, 7:30 p.m., Benton hall, YWCA. MONDAY At Home With Music, University of Minnesota music department hour, presents senior John R. Schultz, of Rochester, pianist; 9:30 p.m., KTCA-TV. Program: sonata by Prokofieff.

Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, Thomas Nee, conductor; David Zinman, assistant conductor; 8 p.m., Bethel college, St. Paul. Free. TUESDAY Mu Ph! Epsilon Richfield alumnae chapter, scholarship benefit program, 8:15 p.m., residence of Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin Norberg. Hopkins. Guest artists Mrs. Marian Horak. Virginia Shaw, Ruth Heinen and Marjone Christensen.

WEDNESDAY Intercollegiate Male Chorale and University of Minnesota Concert band, Norman Abelson conducting; individual and massed numbers by male glee clubs of Augsburg college. Bethel college, St. John's university, College of St. Thomas and University of Minnesota; 8 p.m. Northrop auditorium.

Free. Program including Randall Thompson's "Testament of Freedom." Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, Thomas Nee, conductor; David Zinman, assistant conductor; guest artist, Vera Thut. pianist: 8:30 p.m.. Si Melby hall, Augsburg college. Free.

THURSDAY Waconia High School Concert band, Charle F. Komarek, director; with swing band, ensembles and solos; dancing and baton specialties; 7:30 p.m., Waconia high school auditorium. Admission 50 cents. FRIDAY Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, Thomas Nee. conductor; David Zinman, assistant conductor; 8:30 Vocational high school auditorium.

Free. The program: li fona Dev no Ovpr'u e. V-H' OnV to In Tnn-beoj Cop''" Pr.i ON Student Recitals Schmitt Music Center auditorium: Today, 1:30 duo-piano programs by pupils of Mrs. Donald Borgenheimer. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., duo-piano program by pupils of Mrs.

Lola Green. Saturday. 7:30 p.m., piano and violin pupils of Mrs. J. S.

Locketz. MacPhail College of Music auditorium: Today. 3 p.m., piano pupils of Cleo'Hiner. Today, 8 15 pm. Phi Beta fraternity Music Rack Players, direected by Selma Lenhart Toy.

in one-act plays. April 16 tickets accepted. Monday. 8 p.m., piano pupils of Vera Narregang. Tuesday, 7 p.m..

prescnool piano pupils of Edna Lund, 8 p.m., junior high pupils, and 9 p.m. sen Library Music Aid to Give Opera Talks Richard Zgodava, pianist and professional assistant in the music department of the Minneapolis public library, will give two "operalogues" in Heritage hall of the library. Using recordings and piano excerpts, Zgodava will lecture on "Rigoletto" at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. At 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 10, he will discuss "Turandot." Both events are free. By RONALD ROSS Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer Birney McNabb Quick stood before a portrait of Helmer Aakvik, jabbing a thumb down and across the square, rugged contours of the old fisherman's face. "This is a man," the 48-year-old Minneapolis artist said. "You remember the story. Back in November 1958 he was 62 then he cheated death for 26 hours in a futile search for a friend lost at sea.

"A WILD, winter storm on Lake Superior. A tiny boat, 25-foot waves. "A great subject for a portrait. I worked fast and finished it in an hour." Quick made a last vigorous stroke with an invisible brush and stepped back. "Aakvik was a subject that suggested this kind of handling.

Thick, strong brush strokes. Strong color," he said. "I'm terribly interested in people. My pictures even tell stories," he added with a wry smile. "And that makes me something of an old-fashioned fellow." HE WALKED across the stone floor of his carriage-house studio near 21st St.

and Pillsbury paused in front of a framed canvas and picked up a long, slender-handled brush. "A brush really is an extension of the artist's personality," he said. "It's like Adolph Menjou's cane, a queen's sceptre. "Some artists are real BIRNEY QUICK 'The moment of creation' A 1 virtuosos with a brush. Frans Hals, for instance.

Others, like Cezanne, labored over each area of the canvas." He dipped the brush into a worm of bright yellow paint squeezed out onto the top of a low table and began working on the painting. "I never use just the point of a brush. You use the brush differently for different qualities. Sometimes I tickle, or brush or shove. Now take this candle.

I want more light." His brush "tickled" the rough surface of dried pigment, leaving touches and splashes of golden brilliance on the textured canvas. "I FINISHED this some time ago," he said, "but I'm not happy with it and I'm going to rework it. "It's an old Indian I used to see up in northern Minnesota. He was a folk singer; sang in bars. Here he is.

Nobody's paying any attention to him. There's more kindness in the stuffed animals around the walls than in the crowd." He put the brush down and picked up a palette knife. A quick twist of his wrist turned a smear of bright green paint onto the underside of the narrow triangular blade. "With this, you can lay on paint, cut out paint, fill pores in the canvas," he said, laying a ridge of paint along the curve of the Indian's elbow. He stepped back, turned one way and then the other.

YOU DO a lot of crazy things when you paint," he said. "You back off, jump forward, sideways. I even know a painter who turns around and looks at his paintings between his legs." Quick walked over to a drawing table in front of a window and eased himself up onto a stool. Arranged in front of him were bottles of ink, sticks of charcoal, chalk, pencils, brushes, a palette of water colors. "You want something in mixed medium? Well, let's try this little chickadee," and he pointed to the tiny dead bird on the window sill.

"The painting, drawing, sculpture, really is only a Dietrichson Paintings Use Red as Mainstay It is only coincidence, but perhaps a significant one, that red is so prominent in the paintings now on view in the final one-man show of the Kilbride-Bradley gallery on its present basis. Artist William Dietrichson uses red as background, red as highlight and red as point of em- phasis in his otherwise varied show. AKI The operators of the 10th St. gallery, however, say they cannot continue to III apply red ink on the ledgers and will have to abandon one-man shows after Dietrich- RtVltW sons P'ctres cotTe down in mid-May. Byron Bradley said the only alterna- tive would be to charge a fee for showings, as European galleries often do.

But he feels it is better for the artists to exhibit in the public galleries here. EFFECTIVE and interesting use of red accents is a kind of Dietrichson trademark. Except for that unifying influence, he covers the field with portraits, still fifes, landscapes and abstractions. Dietrichson's use of a single color to tie together the elements of a picture is illustrated in a small portrait entitled "Head." A red garment covering the shoulder, the same red on the lips of the subject and a sliver of red highlighting the nose are most effective. Two of the reddest paintings are semi-abstract farm-scapes.

TO THIS reviewer the bright red of the barns and sheds suggests a real flowing stream of color in "Farm Nest II," which is a horizontal composition. In the companion piece, however, the sense of movement seemed lost in its vertical arrangement. A small abstract called "Musical Instrument" makes most effective use of intense red spots accenting the ners of the instrument, which could be a calliope. -AC. SCHOOL NOTES MacPhail College of Music: William MacPhail, president, announces Edith Norberg, director of Mount Olivet Lutheran church choirs, will conduct a five-day workshop at MacPhail beginning June 26 on methods of organizing and developing church and public school vocal music for juniors and seniors..

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