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Robert Casadesus an Wife Will Appear With Symphony Maria CallasT Mother Pens Ninth Berlin Festival Is Best Yet and Most Interesting of Year Orchestra Will Play Work, by Gerhard von Westerman, its veteran director, offered an extremely varied program and a high level of quality. In keeping with established policy, modern music, theater and art were given a central position in the scheme of things. The second stage production anywhere of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses and Aaron" was the most important contribution by the Municipal Opera to the festival. It was an excellent performance, in some By EVERETT HELM Berlin. The continuing crisis over the political status of Berlin failed to dampen the spirits either of the residents (who have gone through other' crises before) or the visitors to the ninth annual Berlin festival, which took place in a cheerful atmosphere of "business as usual." It proved, in fact, to be the most interesting festival of the year and the best Berlin festival to date.

Dr. MUSIC Nov. 15. 1959 MINNEAPOLIS ways better and in others less successful than the historic Zurich production of 1957. The staging was infinitely better in Berlin, even though the dance around the golden calf was anything but satisfactory.

Conductor Hermann Scherchen's conception of this magnificent and enormously difficult score is more operatic than Ros-baud's, more dramatic and less "monumental" than that in Zurich. Hans Schmidt Isserstedt led the North German Radio Symphony in world premieres of two contrasting compositions, both commissioned by the radio station. Andre Jolivet's Second symphony, an "expressionist" work, maintains an almost insupportably high tension. Gian Francesco Malipiero's "Prelude and Death of Macbeth," on the other hand, is a work of re 7- I I A A iv k- A yv A llV imIIsm.w Landscape at Santorin, by MT Yannis Mitarakis, is one of 44 avant-garde paintings by eight contemporary Greek artists on view at the University gallery through Dec. 21.

The show was first exhibited in Athens, under auspices of the United States information agency (USIA and is now touring the United States under USIA sponsorship. CONCERT CALENDAR Friday will be Casadesus night in Northrop auditorium when Robert Casadesus will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his first American concert by appearing as guest artist with the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra. With him -will be his wife, Gaby Casadesus, concert pianist in her own right, and together they will play the Mozart concerto for two pianos in flat (K. 365), with Antal Dorati conducting. Casadesus will appear in two other capacities, as soloist in Ravel's piano concerto for the left hand, and as composer when Dorati conducts the Casadesus suite for orchestra No.

2 in flat major. Now one of the most eminent French pianists, Casadesus made his debut with the New York Philharmonic orchestra early in the 1934-35 season. Tos-canini was in the audience and immediately signed him up. Descended from a musical family, Casadesus is continuing the family tradition, as is his son, Jean, also a concert pianist. New St.

Mark's Organist Plays Recital Today Gerald Bales, new organist and choirmaster at Cathedral Church of St. Mark, will play his first Minneapolis organ recital at 4:30 p.m. today in the cathedral. He will be assisted by his wife, Beth Bales, contralto. Before coming to Minneapolis, Bales was widely known in Canada as organist in several churches and for his many appearances over the Canadian Broadcasting company as organ recitalist and soloist with CBC orchestras.

In 1957, he was chosen by the Canadian College of Organists to represent Canada in a recital in London's Westminister cathedral. Competitive Crafts Show Opens Today The competitive fiber, clay and metal exhibition of the St. Paul Gallery and School of Art will open today. The show, a recurring event, is designed to further the practice and development of various crafts and to acquaint the public with the availability and desirability of handmade objects. Five hundred craftsmen submitted 2,500 entries, from which the jurors selected nearly 200 for this show.

Jurors were: Anni Albers for weaving, Edwin Scheier for ceramics, John Paul Miller for metal work, and general jurors Charles Nagel of the St. Louis City Art museum and Hilda Reiss. formerly of Walker Art center. The exhibition will continue through Dec. 23.

Quartet on Tour The Console Piano quartet is currently on a tour of South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa. The quartet is composed of Minneapolis concert pianists Elsie Wolf Campbell. Helen Grotte Keidel. James S. Allen and Theodore Bergman.

ROBERT AND GABY CASADESUS French pianists are Symphony guests New Showing Blends Fancy and Mysticism Birney Quick is slightly "tetched," as all good artists are. and his new show of drawings at Kilbride-Bradley gallery reveals an increasing mysticism and fancy, an oblique view of nature and man, set forth in line work that often has a baroque vi-fiDT vacity. nil1 Quick, who teaches painting at Minne- jl apolis School of Art and helps run the Grand Marais Art colony, has never gone ivt I It If nonobjective, but he does go several jumps beyond things-as-they-look, without break ing contact. Here we are reminded that what we see suggests and contains what we don't see but is involved in our seeing. Some of these pictures make that clear in the vibrations set up by varied and playful patterns of thick and thin lines.

The wavering vertical in "Thin Wave on Pebbles," the aerial commotion of "Flying Feeding Gulls," the "Town in Thin Light" have an extra dimension and secret poetry of their own. One is reminded of Blake and Redon, two mystics, and of Chagall in his "Rock in the Sun." Some free-style watercolors are included, as well as a dark and Gothically picturesque "Old Hotel Lobby," so theatrical that one can imagine Quick making a good stage set designer if he wanted to be. On view through November. J. K.

S. ART 13 SUNDAY TRIBUNE Contemporary Music, 8:30 p.m.. First Unitarian society. Admission, $1. The program: Sono'e ASbon Berg Vanohont yVent-n Sui'e Former Sona'a Guticr Stcdy Brown Guy Fallot, cellist, accompanied by Myriam Pascal, for Bloomington Concert association, 8:15 new Bloomington senior high school auditorium.

NEXT SUNDAY Minneapolis Symphony Twilight-Pop concert, Antal Dorati, conductor, concertmaster Rafael Druian soloist, George Grim and Arnold Walker, guest narrators, 4:30 p.m., Northrop auditorium. St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church and Reformation Lutheran church combined choirs, Glenn R. Warner conducting, Helen Billing organist, Rossini's "Stabat Mater," 7:45 p.m. St.

Paul's church. EVERY a Biography Insight, understanding and complete honesty are claimed for a new intimate biography of Maria Callas. However, one may expect a little discretion because the book, to be published by Fleet next spring, will be written by Miss Callas' mother. The trials and tribulations as well as the joys MUSIC behind launch ing an operatic CHAT career can be expected to be revealed, nevertheless Now studying and freelancing in New York, Bradley G. Morison, former member of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune staff, is consultant on the handsome new Metropolitan Opera program book which is produced by the Saturday Review'.

Leopold Sipe, new conductor for the St. Paul Civic Philharmonic society, was selected from among 70 applicants from he United States, Canada and Europe. He comes here from the College of Puget Sound-Tacoma Symphony and his local debut will be at a chamber orchestra concert in St. Paul's Central high school Wednesday Laura Jane Musser of Little Falls, patroness of arts and especially music, has started awarding scholarships to promising piano pupils, her first two being Nannette Nyman and Muriel Pierson. The two progressed so rapidly with pianist Eva Knardahl that after 10 months they had a debtft recital at Unitarian society under Gilombardo school auspices Two 60th anniversaries in Philadelphia this week: The Philadelphia orchestra's on Monday and conductor Eugene Ormandy's on Wednesday.

Collector to Talk at Walker Center New York art collector Hudson D. Walker will talk in Walker Art center at 3 p.m. today and Eugene Larkin will give a print-making demonstration. These events will be in connection with the center's exhibition "American Prints Today" which is opened to the public today. The show, sponsored by the Print council, contains 62 etchings, engravings, woodcuts and lithographs by 55 American artists.

It will be seen in 16 museums across the country. Pianist to Play 20th Century Music Saturday Dwight Pcltzer will play a program of 20th century piano music at First Unitarian society at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. He is presented by the Society for Contemporary Music. Peltzer, born in Brainerd, studied at MacPhail School of Music.

He won a West German scholarship at Bonn and has played with the Berlin and Munich Symphony orchestras. He was a 1957 soloist at the Aspen, festival. A work by Earle Brown will be played, with the pases of his piece called "Study" arranged in various sequences. Gene Gut-sche. i a 1 is composer, also will be represented.

rus are weakly caucht. The virtues of the recording, however, have a strong tendency to outshine the shortcomings. Douclas M.mrc's amusing THE PAGEANT OF P. T. BARNUM is recorded by the Eastman-Rochester orchestra conducted by Howard Hanson (Mercury MG-50206).

M.iore is the composer of the operas "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "The of Baby Doe." Reverse de carries another version rf Walter Piston's ballet suite THE INCREDIBLE FLUTIST, vividly recreated. Btst-kn-wn organ work of Johar.n Sebastian Bach, the TOCCATA AND fUGUE IN MINOR, is contained on Decc a -Archive ARC-3124. It is played by on the organ of St. Lauren- Everett Helm A new work by a Minneapolis-born composer will be played by the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, conducted by Thomas Nee, at a concert in Vocational high school auditorium at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

The premiere will be that of a Sinfonia da Camera, written by Everett Helm. The Sinfonia was commissioned for the orchestra by the Center Arts council of Walker Art center. The concert will be open to the public. Helm was graduated from Carleton college and took advanced degrees at Harvard and studied abroad. Since World War II his residence has been in Germany and his compositions have been performed throughout western Europe and by American orchestras including the Minneapolis Symphony.

Contralto Thilde Beuing to Sing Today Thilde Beuing, contralto, will give a recital at 8:30 p.m. today in Jeanne d'Arc auditorium of College of St. Catherine. St. Paul.

She is a new member of the St. Catherine music faculty. Born in Wiesbaden, West Germany, she came to this country seven years ago, became an American citizen and brought her three children to this country. A son, Dietmar Beuing, is now in the United States air force in Europe. 2 Artists to Speak at Walker Center The Collectors Club of Minnesota will hear two Midwest artists discuss painting techniques at a meeting at 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday in Walker Art center. Speakers will be Urban Couch, an abstract impressionist who has had a one-man show in Walker center and who teaches at the Minneapolis School of Art, and John Wilde, associate professor of art at the University of Wisconsin. NEEDS )-a n'tia, yowr dtt'tr er I. strained nobility, which avoids all effects for their own sake and is correspondingly the more effective. The festival's biggest success was scored by Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." which proved conclusively that ballet is neither moribund nor incapable of modernization.

Technically, this group is flawless, and Robbins' choreography combines poetry and wit. The New York Philharmonic played a single concert under Leonard Bernstein; both players and conductor looked tired from their strenuous European tour. Their performance, however, was anything but tired. Ravel's "La Valse" was given a frenetic per-'formance, and the scherzo from Prokofieff's Fifth symphony, played as an encore in response to the prolonged applause, was brilliancy itself. Brahms Horn Trio Will Be on YWCA Program The Brahms horn trio in flat will be heard at the Thursday Musical recital in the YWCA at 10:30 a.m.

Thursday. Performers will be Ethel Anderson, piano; Ella Emery, violin, and Elaine Davis, French horn. Mary Ann Kimball will sing, accompanied by Frances Top-ham Schaefer, and Barbara Blon, pianist, will play. FAMILY crr'itr fr it-rlct t9 cr St. ftt, c'l flit 3-31 I New Art Shows Fiber.

Clay and Metals, crafts exhibition, opening todav, through Dec. 23, St. Paul Gallery and School of Art. American Print Todav, etchings, engraving, woodcuts and lithographs by 55 American artists, opening today, Walker Art center. Contemporary Creek Painting, through Dec.

21. tniversity of Minnesota gallery. Group show, Minnesota Artists association, through Dec. 5. "Cedric's fine Foods, Edina.

Violela Hurst. 15 paintings, through Nov. 30, Curtis hotel lobby. Colleen Helgeson Nelson, bird illustrations in water color and inK wash, until late Decrmber, tniversity Museum of Natural History. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, first lecture of series on permanent collection of institute, by Sim Hunter, acting director, 3 p.m.

today. Philip Thompson, new Augsburg college art instructor, recent pdinungs. 4 to 5 m. Wednesday, Augsburg college faculty lounge. CONTIM'ING: Birney Quick.

drawings. kilbnde-Braiilry gallery. Arnold Kramer, paintings, I'niversity of Minnesota St. Paul campus student center. Lsteban Vicente, paintings, I'niversity of Minnesota gallery.

Sculpture In Our Time, Walker Art center. TODAY Gerald Bales, new organist and choirmaster at Cathedral Church of St. Mark, in first Minneapolis organ recital, assisted by Beth Bales, contralto, 4 30 p.m. at the cathedral. Thilde Beuing, contralto, 8:30 Jeanne d'Arc auditorium.

College of St. Catherine, St. Paul. Admission, $1.50. Program of songs of Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Schumann, Duparc, Massenet an-1 Wolf.

New York Philharmonic broadcast, Thomas Schippers conducting, Leontyne Price, soprano, guest artist, 7:30 p.m., WCCO radio. MONDAY Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, Thomas Nee, conductor, pianist Bernhard Weiser and woodwind players, assisting artists, 8:30 p.m., Macalester college gymnasium, St. Paul. Free. TUESDAY Frances Lehnerts, mezzo-soprano.

Heart hospital benefit sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi, 8:30 p.m. Women's City club, St. Paul. Admission, $1.50. WTDNF-SDAY St.

Paul Chamber orchestra, Leopold Sipe, conductor, 8:30 St. Paul Central high school auditorium. Admission, $2. students $1. 1 he program: Orrrron.nl JS'C Puree" 5 PtssH B-i'lc -'indpnou-q Ctv''O tJo.

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Cloud State College orchestra. Harvey WauRh, conductor, assisted by Madrical Singers and brass ensemble. 815 m. Stewart hall auditorium. Free.

THURSDAY Thursday Musical artist-mem-br-r rental. 10:30 a.m., Benton hall, YWCA. Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, Thomas Nee. conductor, pianist Bernhard Weiser, guest art. st.

8:30 m. Vocational h'Eh school auditorium, free. The program: Abri.tcfon from th Sfog'io" Cvevm Mnrrrt It. CoHf'1 "1 Toy D'Tbv rt-: Cl-I. (cv J-K-i-n, hn.

f(cv Df-v hen; B-n Srpaf Na. 2 FRIDAY Minneapolis Symphony orchestra. Antal Dorati conductor, pianists Gaby and Robert Casadesus, cuest artists, 8 30 pm, Northrop auditorium. The program: l.t T5 f-r to o3l (' Si C'rTffO Kg 7 1" Cat SATURDAY Dwight Pelter. pianist.

2fih century music, for Society for skerk. Alkmaar. the Netherlands. The organ has a fine sound and the acoustical surroundings are just about perfect for record. ng purposes.

Als-) on the d.sk are the PRLLUDE AND I'L'GL'E IN" MAJOR and two of the trio sonatas. ater vrstr svrrt nti-i- r1-'' A SYMPHONY NO S4 RCRISt liiiviin FVtu'Eh Svrrponv v't William -rol A rf r'vi rn'r14 ror-ovtRs, I i ('-ryry im i Lit a-d THT. OF fftGOttTTD MWi ff Karr co. o- cf ti- w-rhort tojth tor I i an VUHltt PHUMA WE REPUBLIC of Aus tria has issued a 2.40 schilling stamp to commemorate the 1959 world tour of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. Designer of the stamp is H.

Ranzoni. French Cellist to Give Concert Guy Fallot, young French cellist, accompanied by Myriam Pascal, will give a concert for the Bloomington Concert association at 8:15 pm. Saturday in the new Blooming-ton senior high school auditorium. A re sky's VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY TCHAIKOVSKY, equally well done. Christmas is coming (a warning you'll hear a lot from now on) and so is the Samuel Goldwyn motion picture production of PORGY AND ELSS by George Gershwin.

Oddly enouch it will be arriving in Minneapolis Christmas day, but here already is the Columbia record.rg (OL-5410) of the sound track from the Mm. with the except. on that Cab Calloway rather than Sammy Dass. th role of Sprtn' Life. The cast includes Dorothv Dandndite and Fearl Ba.ley.

and the voice of Rohert McFemn is beard as Porgy. There are vtal.ty and narrative urgency in the sound cf Mm, vLch according FINE VcR5ON Ur ILhAiKUVSKT icKtrVAut cc Dorati and Hungarians Make Brilliant Team1 UJ.a Any pleasant customs will do, from Sunday pancakes to an elaborate ceremony at Thanksgiving dinner. But whatever they are, these "rituals" are important to you as a family, and you'll learn why from a psychological te3m (along with some suggested rituals your family can start) Sunday, in This Week Magazine with to this glimpse does well indeed by music and story. Aho available in stereo. The tenor from Minneapolis, David Lloyd, is one of the soloists in Handel's MESSIAH as recorded by Handel and Haydn Societv of Boston (Kapp KL3-8000K Lloyd is in good voice and heard to advantage.

With are Adele Addison, soprano; Lorna Sydney, contralto, and Donald Grarnm. has. Thompson Stone conducts the Zimblrr Smfonietta in support. As in nost Messiah" recordings this oip is r.ot quite complete, although probably only professional or score-watchers will recctnize the gaps. The record, ng is uneven.

The contralto is too far from the mike in one ana and many entrances of separate sections cf the cho By NORMAN HOUK Souvenir of the recent visit by the rhilharmon'a Hungarica, symphony orchestra of refugees from the 193S Hungarian revolt, is Tchai-kovskv'i SERENADE IN MAJOR, plaed by the strings cf the orchestra with Antal Dorati cenduct-in? (Mercury MG-50200). The M.nneapoli conductnr artistic rector of the Hursgar.an group and this retorting wa made in Vienna. has been home base for the orchestra is reci rd rz w-th and depth, a fine erson of t' Tcha.kov-sky work. Interweaving cf the parts and the balance of are beautifully achieved and there is a well adjusted amount of ser.t.-er.t. Reverse s.de is r-1 It-' I iflinneapolis sunbap tribune CCER NOW Sa yeyr writt ws.

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