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ft Quick Shows Touch of 'Mystical Realisf By JOHN K. SHERMAN Birney Quick's current show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, spreading as it does through several upstairs galleries, is big enough to reveal the wide scope St. John's Chorus Record Is Refreshing By DAN SULLIVAN Minneapolis Tribune Staff Wrltef Some idea but only some of why the 1962 European tour of the St. John's Uni- versity Mcu. Men's Cho- NtYY rus was such RECORDS a success is 'Gallic Touch' Is Conspicuous By Its Absence By DAN SULLIVAN Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer The Chicago Symphony's new conductor, Jean Mar-tinon, was expected to add a Gallic touch to the 73-year-old ensemble.

But his opening concert was strictly from Old Vienna: Haydn, Beethoven and Richard Strauss What's it like being married to a Metropolitan Opera soprano? Bertil Nik- lasso who MUSIC Bir" git Nilsson CHAT in 1948, says ana aoounaing versatility or art. Here's an artist who refuses to confine himself to a single approach or style or medium; he sees and conceives in many directions, from simple scenes to epical allegories. I don't know whether the term has ART in REVIEW 1 2 At lf ft rill oris "Red Rock Store" among water colors by St. Paul artist-Mi IV-D VJUliery architect Francis R. Meisch on display through Oct 31 at the Kilbride-Bradley Gallery, 68 S.

10th St. Now an architect with Cerny Associates Meisch has taught at North Dakota State University and has exhibited at Springfield, Art Museum as well as locally. any standing among the term-makers, but Quick strikes me as a mystical realist, giving us the world and his characters in recognizable form yet moving them a step beyond naturalism to accord with his vision. Some of his larger pieces have a joyful and affirmative turbulence, seething with ideas both symbolic and plastic. Sometimes these ideas jostle to make his canvas a subject of examination rather than quick revelation; again they conform to a unified theme and all-over impact.

Two immense triptychs allegories on "The Hunter and Hunted" and "The Judgment of Time" reveal dramatically his speculative bent on the mysteries of nature and time. Quick's art is largely subjective but not in the sense of an ego unleashing its secrets by paint alone; there is a hook-up with the seen world in drawing and color, and this, rather than unidentifiable moods, triggers his action. Even the portraits, presumably good likenesses, take off in a kind of rapturous extension of the sitter's personality. On view through Nov. 17.

MUSIC ART Oct. 20, 1963 UM MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE 7 Pop Art, Junk Metal to Appear at Walker then he has exhibited at the Venice, Italy, Biennale; the Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bi-enal; the Pittsburgh, International; the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Huntington, Mass. Indiana, born In that state's Newcastle in 1928, has exhibited widely in New York City over the past three years and recently received a commission to do a mural relief for the New York State Circarama at the 1964 World's Fair. The exhibit closes Nov.

24. It later will travel to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Mass. It was organized by Jan van der Marck, Walker Art Center curator. An exhibit of works by the country's best-known "junk metal" sculptor and a leading "pop" painter will open Tuesday at the Walker Art Center. Richard Stankiewicz's 15 new sculptures, making use of pipe fittings, levers, springs, vises, etc, show him "an innovator who still guides the, trend he created," the museum says.

Robert Indiana's 15 pop paintings create "intentional ambiguities and multiple meanings that are carried by a great economy of form and electrified by an optimum usage of color." Stankiewicz, 41, had his first one-man show at the Hansa Gallery in New York, N.Y., in 1953. Since HENRYK SZERYNG First Symphony soloist Szeryng Returns as Symphony Soloist Friday Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist, will be the first soloist of the new Minneapolis Symphony season, playing the Beethoven violin concerto Friday night in Northrop Auditorium. Szeryng first appeared here in the spring of 1962 when he scored a triumph in the Brahms violin concerto, winning such enthusiastic applause as to elicit one of the few Friday night encores in recent memory, the Bach fugue in minor. Since that time Szeryng has been featured soloist with many of the nation's leading orchestras, playing under the batons of Bruno Walter, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Pierre Monteux and Otto "Klemperer, among others. ALSO ON Friday night's program is the Minneapo-lispremiere of "Ode to the Milky Way," written by Tin Pan Alley composer Vernon Duke who is widely 'known in popular music circles for such hits as "Autumn in New York," "I Can't Get Started With You" and "April in Paris." The.

"Ode" was completed in 1946 and was performed that year in New York, N.Y., with Leonard Bernstein conducting. The program will open with Schumann's "Manfred" overture and close with Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps," written in 1913 and performed on the 50th anniversary of its explosive premiere. (The Symphony's "Xd-ventures in Music" series starts with the Brecht-Weill "threepenny Opera" Monday night in the Tyrone Guthrie Theater (see the Feature Section.) Band Rehearsal Open The University of Michigan Marching Band will hold rehearsal in O'Shaughnessy Stadium at the College of St. Thomas from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday before the Michigan-University of Minnesota football game at Memorial Stadium.

The public Is invited. JOHN K. SHERMAN St. Paul Opera Announces Stars for 'Lohengrin' Stars in the two leading roles in Wagner's "Lohengrin," second production this season of the St. Paul Civic Opera, were announced Saturday by Glenn Jordan, director.

David Aiken, tenor of the NBC Opera Theater, New York City Center Opera Company and Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company, will sing the title role. Donna Pegors, Hopkins, recently returned from 10 years of study and performing in Europe, has been cast as Elsa. The opera, in an English version, will be presented Thursday and Saturday evenings, Nov. 7 and 9, in the St. Paul Auditorium Theater.

Leo Kopp will conduct. Probably best known for his many appearances as King Melchior in Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Aiken made his professional debut in New York in the same composer's opera, "The Consul." Miss Pegors has sung the role of Elsa 16 times in this country, and has starred in Austria in "II Trovatore," "La Forza del Destino" and "Madame Butterfly." Concert Calendar The Concert Calendar is now being included in an Ente rtainment Calendar which will be found on Page Five of the Feature Section. Familiarity From Thrill contained on a recording issued this' week by the Gregorian Institute of America (GC4). Director Gerhard Track's 29 Collegeville, students show an effective but refreshingly un-ethereal blend, nice attention to attack and dy-; namics and properly varied spirit in seven folk two motets, three madrigals and five contemporary works taped during the tour. Standout tracks Include a swinging, hand-clap-" ping spiritual, "Set Down, Servant (I Can't Set Down)" with two excellent, unidentified bass and tenor soloists; di Lasso's "Echo Song," effective enough to make you wish the record were in stereo, and TiMel's solemn, moving "De Profundis." The recorded sound, however is only fair (sev-; eral apparent lapses in intonation may be more the fault of the tape machine than the boys.) And what wasthe point in interrupting the first side for one full, dull minute of applause? All in all, the group probably came over-more effectively in person.

Pianist Clara Haskil's performance of Chopin's PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 in MINOR on Philips 900-034 is beautifully recorded and beautifully, but objectively, played. No over-sentimentality or excessive rubatos for MAr dame Haskil. The poignance is con-, tained in the notes themselves and the fact that this was to be the pianist's last recording (she died several weeks after making it.) The orchestra is the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, conducted by Igor Markevitch, and the over-side Is Falla's NOCHES EN LOS JAR-DINES DE ESPANA. One of the biggest selling classical LPs to date is Tchaikovsky's PIANO CONCERTO NO.

1 played by an American pianist (Van Cliburn) and a Russian conductor (Kiril KoJVI drashin) on RCA Victor. This week we have a Russian pianist (Vladimir Ashkenazy) and an Ameri- can conductor (Lorin Maa-zel) tackling the same work on London CS-6360J Ashkenazy plays faster than Cliburn in the bravura' passages yet lacks the excitement and cumulative tension the American pian-' 1st brings to them. The Russian handles the lyr-. ical moments well, but here Cliburn's added polish -again wins him the palm, Civic Orchestra Picks Assistant Stephen Chenette has been appointed assistant conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, it was announced last week. Chenette, first trumpet for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, is on the faculty of the College of St.

Thomas and the University of Minnesota. He has studied conducting with Leonard Bernstein and Jean Morek and last year conducted the band and wind ensembles at the St. Paul Philharmonic Music Camp. ART, GRAFT ana MODEL I Supplies No matter what you need or ore looking for, you're almost sure is find it is ear stores the variety is unequalled. 3 DAVID AIKEN He'll sing Lohengrin Flor Quartet to Play 2 Modern Works Two contemporary works Alexander Tcher-epnin's Quartet, opus 36, and Vittorio Rieti's Quartet in major will highlight the Flor Quartet's second concert of the season at 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday in the Murray Hall Lounge at the College of St. Thomas. Also on the program are Albeniz's "Cordova" and Liszt's Paraphrase on Themes from "Rigoletto." Organist to Perform Gerald Bales, organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark, will be presented in organ recital following evensong at 4:30 p.m. today at the cathedral.

The program will include works by John Stanley, Bach, Clerambault and Herbert Howells. Leads Us to Yawn one of his jobs is telling her the truth about how she sang, "because no one else will tell her what is bad." George Loinaz, husband of mezzo Irene Dalis, says he is "more interested in Mrs. Loinaz than Irene Dalis. If I were completely absorbed in her career, our personal relationship would suffer." Frank Bencriscutto, director of bands at the University of Minnesota; "It is difficult enough for mature embouchures to withstand the punishment of some marching routines, but a 1 for ninth and tenth graders." Bencriscutto advises high school bands to restrict themselves to "straightforward marching," in the October issue of "Gopher Music Notes" The Ford Foundation has announced grants totaling $1,727,625 to 13 United States civic opera companies to lengthen their seasons and expand their repertories Ballerina Melissa Hayd-den's new autobiography, "Off stage and On" (Doubled ay) alternates chapters from the dancer's real life and her make-believe life in ballets like "Nutcracker," "Afternoon of a Faun," etc. Mantovani Concert Set for Northrop The Celebrity Series will open to a sold-out Northrop Auditorium Wednesday night, when Mantovani and his concert orchestra will occupy the stage on its sixth visit No tickets for the concert have been available for three weeks.

Mantovani's popularity is based "to a large extent on his recordings, which have reached the 10 million mark in distribution to all parts of the world. His first album was released in this country in 1951, a year that marked the beginning of his international reputation. Against his pare nts' wishes, Montovani as a boy decided to be a musician and by the time he was 18 he was giving violin recitals and conducting a salon orchestra. His later experiments in orchestral sound led to his present ensemble of 45 pieces of which 32 are in the violin section. Two Artists' Works Exhibited Thirty-two paintings and drawings by Morris Graves, noted American artist, and recent paintings and drawings by William Saltz-man, director of the Rochester Art Center, will be on view at the St.

Paul Art Center through Nov. 3. Born in 1910, Graves has lived in Ireland in recent years. He will be in St. Paul beginning Thursday to serve as a juror in the center's second biennial "Drawings USA" exhibition.

The jury will also include Una Johnson, prints and drawings curator at the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Museum, and William Wolfen-den, executive director of the Archives of American Art. Benefit Concert Today Phi Beta, a national professional fraternity of music and drama, will present a scholarship benefit concert at 8:30 p.m. today at the First Unitarian Society, 900 Mt. Curve Av. Performers will be organist Edward D.

Berryman, soprano Sarita Roche and Daryl Peterson, oboist Proceeds will go towards scholarships at the MacPhail School of Music. Casadesus Will Give Recital in St. Paul Observing its 81st anniversary this season, the Schubert Club will open its public concert series with a recital by the French pianist, Robert Casadesus, Oct. 29 In the St. Paul Auditorium Theater.

Casadesus current tour began with his participation in the Chicago Festival of French Art with a performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He will also appear this season with the orchestras of Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Ohio; San Antonio, Columbus, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. The second event of the Schubert Club season will be a concert by the Russian cellist, i 1 a Rostropovich, Nov. 4. Art Exhibit Judges Named Judges for the Motorola Regional Nonprofessional Art Exhibit at Powers Department Store in November will be Huldah Dahl, curator at the St.

Paul Art Center; Dr. Sidney Simon, director of the University of Minnesota Art Gallery, and Jerry Rudquist, assistant professor of art at Macalester College. The jury will select three paintings to be included in a national exhibit sponsored by Motorola, in June. One of last year's national winners was by Ralph J. Ray of Minneapolis.

The store will present merchandise prizes for the three local winners and an additional award to the artist whose painting is voted most popular by those attending the exhibit. Information and 'entry blanks are available from Lois Randall at Powers. Auditions Eighth Annual Young Artists Competition, sponsored bv the Women's Association of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, announces Nov. 1 as registration deadline for young (not over 26) instrumentalists and pianists in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. Apply at WAMSO office, 201 E.

24th St Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions will be held Feb. 21, 1964, in Northrop Auditorium, Co-directors this season will be Mrs. Roy Hollander and James S. Lombard, with Hermann Herz as chairman of judges. Information at 109 Northrop Auditorium.

School Notes Sixth Annual Piano Workshop, conducted by Marjorie Winslow Briggs, sponsored by the Minneapolis Music Teacher Forum, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Schmitt Music Center. Fee (lunch included) $10. Reservations at WA 6-9351 and 922-5522.

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Paul TICKETS ON SALE DOWNTOWN TICKET OFPICE DAYTON'S mm PrtMiM hf Dm Ctnituifln SSI it STANKIEWICZ SHOWS 'ORGANIZATION OF SPACE' At Walker Art Center opening Tuesday New Art Shows Choralaires to Sing With miss reproduction and distribution proceeding at an accelerated pace, we face the problem of the Masterpiece as Cliche. How many times can you listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony without finding it a tedious restatement of an old story? How many times can you look at a reproduction of Van Grtjrh's "Sunflow- Richard Stankiewicz, Junk metal sculpture, and Robert Indiana, "pop" paintings, opening Tuesday through Nov. 24, members' preview 7:30 to 10 p.m. Monday, with the artists present to discuss their work at 8:30 p.m., Walker Art Center. Edna I mm, paintings in various mediums, opening 1 to 5 p.m.

Monday and continuing through Oct. 28, Kohn-Lind-strom Gallery, 1690 Grand St. Paul. James H. Brutger, paintings, opening today through Oct 31.

Murray Hall lounge, Collega of St. Thomas, St. Paul. Chuck Thayer, prints, drawings, collages, paintings, opening Monday through Nov. 4, Bottega Gallery.

St. Cloud, faculty show, Mr. and Mrs. George Mallet, Laurie Halberg and William Ellingson, through Nov. 1, Headley Hall Gallery, St.

Cloud State College. St. Peter, Minn, Gustavus Adolphus alumni art show, paintings, water colors, sculpture, through Saturday, Student Union lounge. Moorhead, Jerry Rud-quist, paintings, drawings, lithographs, through Nov. 1, Mas-Lean Hall, Moorhead State College.

CONTINUING: Recent Painting USA: The Figure, 72 oils; Oriental Ceramics, from 5th cen- tury B. C. to 19th century A.D., WALKER ART CENTER Birney Quick, paintings; Art In Vienna, prints on a Viennese theme; Eight Contemporary Artists From Rome, Italy, (last dav today) MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS Francis Meisch, paintings. KILBRIDE BRADLEY GALLERY E. Killmer, oils, and John Maakestad, STUDENT CENTER, University of Minnesota, St.

Paul E. Platou Gallaher, 26 oils, SONS OF NORWAY CULTURAL CENTER Morris Graves, paintings and drawings; William Saltzman, paintings and drawings, ST. PAUL ART CENTER Grace Hartigan, paint- lngs 1957-63, UNIVERSITY GALLERY Twelve Swedish Painters, contemporary art from Sweden, AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE. The Choralaires, i -rected by Robert Mantzke, will present a program of sacred music at 4 p.m. today in St.

John's Lutheran Church. The music will range from di Lasso and Sweelinck to Benjamin Britten. There will be no admission charge but a free will offering will be taken. Talk to Feature Sao Paulo Show "Report From Sao Paulo" is the title of a slide-talk to be by Martin L. Friedman, Walker Art Center director, at 8:30 p.m.

Thursday at the center. The talk is open to the public without charge and reservations may be made by calling FE 3-3215. Friedman will discuss the international art scene as he saw it while serving as U.S. commissioner at the Seventh Bienal at Sao Paulo, Brazil, which opened last month and continues through 1963. Fifty-two countries are represented in the Bienal by exhibitions of painting, sculpture and design.

This country's show was organized by the center and features works by painter Adolph Gottlieb and 10 sculptors. Gottlieb was awarded the Grande Premio to become the first artist from tha Americas to win tha Bienal'i highest award. I studied and restudied, but there comes a time of diminishing returns. The Mona Lisa and the Venus di Milo have become platitudes not because they are great but because they have been seen too often. Virtually the only emotion felt in looking at them, or at reproductions of them, is recognition, which isn't enough when too often repeated.

Repetition is the villain here. Recognition can take on the thrill of rediscovery if what you recognize you didn't recognize week before last, or month before last. This points to the necessity of rationing yourself on frequency of return visits. IT ALSO illustrates our tendency not to look too often at the cherished pictures on our walls, for fear of wearing them out. As time goes on, you "feel" them there without direct visual experience, and finally the day arrives when it is good sense to retire them for a year or so to "freshen" their visibility when you hang them up again.

Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark" would become a cliche too, if we read it once a week which most of us don't Here's a case where it is all too easy to ration ourselves. Literary masterpieces don't confront us at every turn, and it is easier to pick up the nearest magazine than reach for Shelley on that top shelf. It has to be admitted, however, that what we find trite on repeated contact has something to do with the careless eye and ear fed by too much undemanding seeing and hearing. It occurs to me that if I find the Mona Lisa a bore, have I really stared at it hard lately instead of looking and yawning? Do I shrug off the Fifth Symphony because I think I know it? It's a chastening thought, but others (Skrowaczewski, for instance) know it better, and presumably enjoy it more. The next question is: Why do I cross up my own arguments? still thrill SHERMAN to its apotheosis of How often can you see "Hamlet" and not go to sleep as the familiar scenes unfold themselves? But drama is not the problem that music and art are.

A play allows more latitude in presentation, because more sound and sight elements enter the picture. Tyrone Guthrie can give us a "new" Hamlet that is rousing and provocative without distorting essentials in theme and characterization. BUT COULD Stanislaw Skrowaczewski give us a "new" Beethoven Fifth in quite the same sense? What would be the analogy in the Fifth symphony of modern costuming, and pistols plus swords? There'd be none that wouldn't classify as outrageous liberties. The notes and expression marks are on the score, and the conductor's task is to bring them alive only, on their own terms. Which doesn't mean that one performance wouldn't be pedestrian and another stimulating.

Art is even more fixed, for all time. At least music is silent, dead even, until the performer translates the printed notes I HANDICRAFT I wm NieoexatT aw. I outhdalm ctaurrast I EsjtotMCDAUi osumm into sound. But painting and sculpture make statements that remain unchanged and unchangeable. rA great painting or sculpture can be.