THEAtlanta MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ATLANTA MEMORIALArts ARTS CENTER MAY 1977
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ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Summer Season 'Seventy-Seven Includes Mostly Music and Pops The 1976-77 series of subscription concerts will come to a dramatic close on May 19, 20, and 21, at 8:30 p.m. in Symphony Hall when Robert Shaw conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the ASO Chorus and soloists in Verdi’s Requiem Mass. The soloists will be Betty Jones, -r soprano; Elizabeth Mannion, mezzo- soprano; Gordon Greer, tenor; John Cheek, bass-baritone. Yet, the close of the 1976-77 subscription concert season only marks the beginning of the ever-popular and pleasurable summer series of concerts. There are two different series offered during the summer—Mostly Music at Symphony Hall, and the Pops concerts in Chastain Park. * For seven weeks concert-goers will enjoy the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with guest artists such as Sarah Caldwell, conductor; Jacques D’Amboise, ballet * star; Garrick Ohlsson, pianist; Sergio "Since 1908, we've been making Mendes and Brasil ’77; Peter Nero, pianist; the women of Atlanta our busi and others. ness? View our collections of active, classic and pacesetting sportswear separates to coordi nate for your lifestyle. Visit any of our five stores.
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PLEASE SEE YOUR TELEPHONE DIRECTORY FOR MORE Jacques D'Amboise Leonard Pennario SPECIAL SERVICES INCLUDING Jacques D’Amboise, who was one of last summer’s most spectacular performers will SEARS CARPET CLEANING return to present an all new “Ballet call 351-4082 Encounter” on June 29 and 30. And while SEARS DRAIN & SEWER SERVICE featuring dance performers the Symphony will bring the most unusual dance call 892-6565 ■* company, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte SEARS DRIVING SCHOOL Carlo, on July 6 and 7. As a travesty dance call 352-3400 company they are not only amusing, they are an adventure into ballet satire. Variety FLOWERS BY SEARS magazine praised them as “The hottest call 325-0337 (Atlanta) dance company in America,” and the or 422-0656 (Marietta) Washington Post headlined them as “The Troupe that Dances to a Different SEARS MEAT & FROZEN FOOD Drummer.” call 325-5359 July 13 and 14 will bring Ms. Clamma SEARS RENT-A-CAR Dale, the star of the acclaimed successful call 261-6700 (Buckhead) # national production of Porgy and Bess, to or 659-5010 (Downtown) Symphony Hall. The Mostly Music series will close on SEARS TERMITE & PEST CONTROL July 20 and 21 with pianist, Leonard call 351-4082 * Pennario, who after his performance with the orchestra this past spring brought Atlanta’s audiences to their feet, cheering and applauding for an “Encore.” r All Mostly Music concerts are held in Symphony Hall and they begin at 8:30 p.m. One, but not a lone The solitaire diamond stands alone, symbolizing the oneness of a love that will last a lifetime long for two people who will never be alone again. We have a very complete collection in many shapes, many sizes. Come in and look. Together. Something Beautiful for Everyone.SM Bailey Banks & Biddle World Renowned Jewelers Since 1832 181 Peachtree Street, N.E. • Atlanta Greenbriar Center • South DeKalb Mall Perimeter Mall • Northlake Mall Lenox Square Also Macon Mall • Macon ffli______And Pops Imagine having a picnic in Chastain Park with such well-known musicians as Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’77, Ferrante and Teicher, Peter Nero, and Henry Mancini appearing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to provide all your favorite music. Well, you needn't imagine, because that is exactly what the Atlanta Symphony’s Chastain “Pops” is all about. For seven Fridays throughout the months of June and July the Symphony will offer informal evening concerts in Chastain Park with a line-up of guest artists to please both the youngest and oldest music listeners.
Sergio Mendes Peter Nero and Brasil '77 to come to our collections The guest artists who are scheduled to perform for the Pops concerts to date are of fashion for the the following: June 10—Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’77; June 17—Sarah Vaughan, an entire family, the home, outstanding performer who has been gifts and antiques too. praised by her peers as “The finest singer in the world”; June 24—Peter Nero Do stay for luncheon pianist; July 1—Henry Mancini, composer, conductor, and musician of or tea at our Bird Cage world-wide fame; July 8—to be announced; July 15—Michel Legrand, restaurant, open every one of the world’s great composer conductors, who has been responsible shopping day. Lord & Taylor, for the scores of “Ice Station Zebra,” “Wuthering Heights,” “How To Save a Phipps Plaza, Peachtree Marriage,” “The Umbrellas of Road between Wieuca Cherbourg,” etc. Other famous songs which he composed include “What Are and Lenox Roads. 266-0600 You Doing the Rest of Your Life?,” “Brian’s Song,” theme from Lady Sings the Monday through Blues, “Pieces of Dreams,” and two songs for which he won Oscars: “The Windmills Saturday 10:00 a.m. to of Your Mind” and “The Summer of’42” (“The Summer Knows”); July 22— 6:00 p.m., Monday and Ferrante and Teicher, pianists. Thursday evenings until (continued) nn 9:00 p.m.______Finally. High rise apartment living in Buckhead. At a price not everyone can afford. In today's world, you know you get what you pay for. At La Foret in Buckhead, you get a lot. Look inside. Over-sized rooms with elegant standard appointments. Baths in marble and plated gold. Kitchens in natural wood, with compactor, microwave oven and ceramic cooktop range. Downstairs a graceful lobby and a garden level with rooms equipped for exercise, cards, billiards, suanas and parties. Look outside. A sculptured swimming pool. Lighted tennis court. And 5‘/j acres of private woodlands, nature paths and flower gardens. It’s all tucked neatly into one of the finest residential neighborhoods in Atlanta. With a prestigious Buckhead address, total privacy and security. Our apartments rent for $450 to $1,350 a month. And once you’ve seen them, we think you'll agree the price is right. THE ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY DAVID BISHOP, Producing Director
FRED CHAPPELL, Artistic Director
presents Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
with
DENNIS HOWARD JAMES NOBLE CAROL MORLEY JILL O’HARA
Directed by CHARLES KERR
Sets Designed by Lights Designed by PHILIPP JUNG MICHAEL STAUFFER Costumes Designed by Technical Director BARBARA HAUSE ERIK MAGNUSON Production Stage Manager Production Manager ALLEN WRIGHT BAXTER JOY
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Martha...... Carol Morley George...... James Noble Nick ...... Dennis Howard Honey...... Jill O’Hara
Act I Fun and Games
Act II Walpurgisnacht
Act III The Exorcism
There will he two ten minute intermissions.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES DENNIS HOWARD comes to the Alliance Theatre Company after recently returning from Los Angeles where he starred in a special TV comedy project for NBC aimed at becoming a new fall series. He was last seen on stage in New York in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of A.R. Gurney Jr.’s Children in a role he had previously performed at the Virginia Museum Theatre in Richmond. Mr. Howard’s first New York Appearance was in the original Circle in the Square production of The Hot L Baltimore. Regionally he has also been a member of Arena State in Washington, D.C. where he created the title role in the American Premiere of Georg Buchner’s Leonce and Lena under guest director Liviu Ciulei of the Balandra Theatre of Bucharest, Rumania. Among Mr. Howard’s stock credits are Little Murders, Boys in the Band, The Lion in Winter, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and The Knack. He has toured with the National Theatre Company of New York and has appeared in over fifty television commercials.
CAROL MORLEY most recently played “April” in The Hot L Baltimore at Springfield, Mass.’s Theatre West. She has been seen in Atlanta in Alan Aybourne’s Table Manners with Eileen Heckart. She has also performed in George Washington Slept Here with James Coco, Jerome Kern’s Cat and The Fiddle and Some People, Some Other People. At Princeton’s McCarter Theatre she performed in Section-Nine under the direction of Michael Kahn. Among her New York credits are Gypsy starring Angela Lansbury, Prisoner of Second Avenue directed by Mike Nichols, Adaptation/Next directed by Elaine May, and Terrence McNally’s Bad Habits. t diamond /tandwnp '"??■ A’ tl \-_®^'-’^ ’' coldoc/io-nx in t/ie waidd.
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JILL O’HARA created the original female role of “Sheila” in Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre production of Hair. For her performance in the original Broadway production of Promises Promises she won a Tony nomination and a Theatre World Award. She also played opposite Joel Grey in the original Broadway production of George M. Miss O’Hara made her film debut as the female lead in Pigeons directed by John Dexter. She played the female lead in Ibsen’s The Master Builder at the Roundabout Theatre in New York and co starred in the National Company’s musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona. She played “Felicia” in Finishing Touches with Barbara Bel Geddes and Robert Lansing. In regional theatre Miss O’Hara’s credits include 77ie Hot L Baltimore at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Importance of Being Earnest at the Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes, New York. In stock she co-starred with Sid Caesar in The Last of the Red Hot Lovers and played “Tiffany” in Mary, Mary with Betsey Palmer. On television she has made two guest appearances as a singer on the David Frost Show and has been seen in The Guiding Light.
CHARLES KERR, guest director, has most recently been artist-in-residence at Hollins College, Virginia, and Stephens College, Missouri, where he directed Ladyhouse Blues and Tobacco Road. Mr. Kerr has worked for the past six years at Actors Theatre of Louisville where he directed Vanities, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, the Marowitz adaptation of Measure for Measure, and The Hot L Baltimore. In addition, he staged The Seahorse, Play Strindberg, The Boys in the Band, and Adaptation/Next among others. Also while in Louisville he composed the scores for three children’s theatre musicals and staged Puccini’s Il Tabarro for the Kentucky Opera Association. Over the past few seasons he has directed Little Murders at Purdue University, Gershwin’s Girl Crazy for the Penn State Festival Theatre, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the Indiana Repertory Theatre. This summer Mr. Kerr will be assuming the position of Artistic Director for the Cortland Repertory Theatre in upstate New York.
PHILIPP JUNG has designed for LaMama and the Circle Rep in New York, as well as many off-off Broadway productions. Regionally, he has designed the sets and costumes for Pantagleize at the Yale Dramat, Oh Dad, Poor Dad for the Princeton Intime and Three Victorian Farces at Benedictine College. Trained in England, he has also designed for the Bristol Old Vic, Leeds Playhouse and the Midlands Arts Theatre. Mr. Jung was the recipient of a British Arts Council Design Bursary in 1974 and has received a National Undergraduate Costume Design Award.
BARBARA H AUSE is designing the show for the Alliance Theatre Company. This season she has worked on all the Alliance productions. She has done costume work for the Atlanta Children’s Theatre, The World of Sid and Marty Krofft, and was wardrobe Mistress for the Universal Studios movie, Smoky and the Bandit. While at the University of Georgia she designed the costumes for The Rimers of Eldrich and Lee Harvey Oswald.
ERIK MAGNUSON, technical director, is in his fifth season with ATC. In addition, he is a full-time partner in a technical services firm whose industrial clients have included the Georgia World Congress Center, the Peachtree Plaza Hotel, CBS Records, Canada Dry and others. He has recently completed a show for the White Motor Lines. His film work includes the TV series From Sea to Shining Sea and public service commercials for the Georgia Department of Corrections. Mr. Magnuson holds a B. A. degree in classics from New York University.
MICHAEL STAUFFER returns to Atlanta as production designer for his fourth season with the Alliance. He has designed sets, costumes or lighting for seventeen productions at the Alliance including The Crucible, The Miracle Worker, and The Tempest. Mr. Stauffer has served as design co-ordinator for the Guthrie Theatre, production designer for the Barter Theatre, Washington Theatre Club, Cortland Repertory Theatre, and guest designer for the Folger Theatre Group, PAF Playhouse, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Stauffer has designed for a number of summer stock and dinner theatres, lectured on design in colleges and consulted on theatre space. He is a graduate of Carnegie- Mellon University.
FRED CHAPPELL was named ATC’s artistic director last season. For three years prior to his appointment he was resident director of the theatre and during this period directed such productions as Tobacco Road, Jacques Brel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Boyfriend, The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, The Tempest, and The Miracle Worker. He was also the original director of Alliance’s Studio Company and has appeared as an actor in numerous ATC productions. Outside of Atlanta, he served for three years as artistic director of the Cortland Repertory Theatre in Cortland, New York, and has guest directed at numerous theatres throughout the country. Last fall he directed Don Tucker’s Same Painted Pony at PAF Playhouse.
DAVID BISHOP, a native of Macon, is completing his seventh season with ATC as producing director. He came to Atlanta from Michigan, where he for three years served as managing director for the Meadow Brook Theatre. He studied at the University of South Carolina, Columbia University and the American Theatre Wing and has also studied acting with Lee Strassberg. A featured actor on television, he has performed in some seventy-five live and filmed network productions. On Broadway Mr. Bishop has acquired credits as both an actor and stage manager in such plays as The Desperate Hours, The Ponder Heart, The Happiest Millionaire, and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. He has been associated with numerous off-Broadway productions, was production stage manager for the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, and the New York Shakespeare Festival and served as production supervisor for Mike Todd’s America Be Seated as well as for the Ypsilanti Greek Theatre.
ALLIANCE THEATRE ANGELS — 1977 ANGEL CAMPAIGN (as of May 5, 1977)
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Administrative Staff Administrative Director Victoria Mooney Director of Public Relations / Advertising ...... Sandra Johnson Secretaries ...... Jill Bradley, Pam Crosier Box Office Manager .... Chip Murray House Manager ...... Steve Cucich Photographer ...... Charles Rafshoon Artist Ken Ragan
Production Staff Production Manager ...... Baxter Joy Production Stage Manager...... Allen Wright Stage Manager...... Trey Altemose Assistant Stage Manager...... Dickson Lane Production Designer...... Michael Stauffer Associate Designer...... Philipp Jung Costumer...... Barbara Hause Wardrobe Mistress .. Lorraine Crane Dresser...... Patricia McMahon Technical Director ...... Erik Magnuson Properties...... Jeroy Hannah, Michael Stauffer Master Electrician...... Cassandra Henning Master Carpenter...... Stanley Konczynski Scenic Carpenters...... Randolph Thrower, Lynn Van Horne Scenic Technicians...... Edwin Dixon, Liz Lee, Jeffrey Glave, Lisa Miller 1975 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico In tonight’s martini the part of gin and vodka will be played by white rum.
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Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8:30 p.m„ May 19, 20, 21, 1977 ROBERT SHAW Conducting ASSISTING ARTISTS: -BETSY-JONESrSoptwto C./IA0L P>/}Y/>£\) ELIZABETH MANNION, Mezzo-soprano GORDON GREER, Tenor JOHN CHEEK, Bass-baritone ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS PROGRAM VERDI Requiem Mass, In Memory of Manzoni (1874) I. Requiem et Kyrie (Quartet and Chorus) II. Dies Irae Dies irae (Chorus) Tuba mirum (Chorus) Mors stupebit (Bass Solo) Liber scriptus (Mezzo-soprano Solo) Quid sum miser (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, and Tenor) Rex tremendae (Quartet and Chorus) Recordare (Soprano and Mezzo-soprano) Ingemisco (Tenor Solo) Confutatis (Bass Solo) Lacrymosa (Quartet and Chorus) III. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe (Quartet) IV. Sanctus (Double Chorus) V. Agnus Dei (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, and Chorus) VI. Lux aeterna (Mezzo-soprano, Tenor and Bass) VII. Libera me (Soprano and Chorus)
This concert will be broadcast on a delayed basis by Atlanta Public Radio, WABE-FM, 90.1, Tuesday evening at 8:30 p.m.
The use of cameras or recording devices during concerts is strictly prohibited. PROGRAM NOTES
Messa da Requiem both through his art and as a practical Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) politician and patriot. As early as 1842, Verdi completed his Requiem Mass in while still in his twenties, he supplied what 1873. The first performance took place was to become the real national anthem of under his own direction at St. Mark’s the new movement in a chorus of his opera Church in Milan on May 22, 1874, the first Nabucco. In 1860 Verdi stood for the anniversary of the death of Alessandro Italian Parliament. He was elected and Manzoni, in whose memory the work was remained a member until 1865. composed. Alessandro Manzoni was another great The score calls for three flutes and figure in the Risorgimento. He was gener piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, four ally honored in Italy as its greatest living bassoons, four horns, four trumpets (with man of letters and his important novel, / four additional trumpets off-stage), three Promessi Sposi, was considered to be trombones and bass tuba, timpani, bass perhaps the greatest romantic novel of its drum, chorus with four soloists, and strings. time. Manzoni and Rossini in fact were the In a long creative life dedicated to the only two Italians whose fame had spread musical theatre, Giuseppe Verdi composed beyond Italy and brought them high only one large independent choral work, reputations among the great musicians and this Requiem Mass, which belongs to his writers of nineteenth century Europe. maturity. He was fifty-five when he wrote Rossini died in 1868. Verdi was his first music for it, and in his sixty-first immediately aware of Italy’s great loss. year when he completed it. “Rossini’s reputation,” he wrote, “was one The origins of the Requiem may be of the glories of Italy. When the other one traced far back into Verdi’s life. As a young like unto it exists no longer, what will man he learned the bitterness of death with remain to us?” He felt the loss intensely, not the loss of his wife and two small children only as a personal thing, but for the whole in a short period at the beginning of his state of musical culture in Italy. It seemed career. This profound experience to him very important that some way remained a reality for him throughout his should be found for Italian musicians to life, and it was the deaths of two men he honor the memory of their great admired intensely that finally brought the compatriot. He suggested to the Italian Requiem into being. publishing firm of Ricordi that a group of These two were Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composers should collaborate on a who died in 1868, and Alessandro Requiem to be sung on the first Manzoni, whose death followed in 1873. anniversary of Rossini’s death at Bologna, While Verdi knew the two well, he was not the city principally associated with his on intimate terms with either. The two, in musical career. A commission was set up to fact, belonged to an earlier generation and oversee the preparation of the work, and a were twenty-odd years older than he was. general plan of its sections and the keys in What was important for him was that he which they were to be composed was made. respected Rossini as the greatest living Thirteen composers received assignments Italian composer and Manzoni as the and Verdi was to compose the Libera Me greatest literary figure of Italy. Verdi (C Minor). himself had had an active part in that political and cultural rebirth known as the All the composers, save one, completed Italian Risorgimento, which had taken their scores and delivered them to Ricordi. place in nineteenth century Italy and Various factors very disturbing to Verdi culminated in the emergence of Italy as a made it impossible for the performance to unified nation. Italian culture had grown take place at Bologna on the required date, during the lifetimes of these men to a and filially the whole project was given up. stature that it had not attained since the It is doubtful if Verdi ever would Renaissance. have taken up his score again if it Verdi contributed to the Risorgimento had not been for the shock of the NOTES (continued) death of Manzoni, which occurred on May anniversary commemoration of Manzoni’s 22, 1873, at Milan. He was overcome with death. He took the greatest of pains to grief—so much so that he was unable to insure the best possible performance of his bring himself to attend the official funeral work. The acoustics of the churches at services in which the country mourned its Milan were carefully studied. Every effort great writer with almost regal pomp. A few was made to insure that the four desired days after the funeral, however, he made a soloists, Stolz, Waldmann, Capponi, and secret journey to Milan and visited the Maini, should be available. A picked grave alone. He quickly took the resolve to orchestra of 100 and a chorus of 120 were complete the Requiem as a memorial to carefully rehearsed. Verdi himself Manzoni. This time he wanted to be sure conducted. that nothing would happen to prevent its The first performance was at St. Mark’s performance under proper circumstances. Church in Milan. People had come from He wrote at once to the mayor of Milan all over Europe and it was impossible to offering to compose a Requiem Mass to be find places for all those who wished to gain performed on the anniversary of admission. Even such important visitors as Manzoni’s death. He wrote: “It is a the music critics from Paris had to be heartfelt impulse, or rather necessity, packed into the organ loft. It became which prompts me to do honor as best I necessary to schedule three more can to that Great One whom I so much performances at La Scala, the first of admired as a writer and venerated as a which was conducted by Verdi and the man.” other two by Franco Faccio. Francis Toye Verdi’s offer was gladly accepted and in his splendid Life of Verdi has given a plans were set on foot at once for a patriotic graphic description of the first of the three and artistic commemoration of Manzoni’s extra performances in the opera house. death. The composer returned to his “Here the audience, unfettered by country estate of Sant’ Agata and set to ecclesiastical surroundings, were able to work at once on his new project. The work give full vent to that enthusiasm which has was composed there and at Paris, which he always been the life-blood of musical visited later in the year, carrying with him performances in Italy. On the left side of an Italian translation of the traditional the stage was the orchestra; on the right, Latin text by Angelo Fava and Carlo the chorus. The entrance of the soloists, Borri. He had studied Latin as a boy at Stolz in a dress of blue silk trimmed with Busseto, but he apparently needed the white velvet, Waldmann in unrelieved translation to help him with the exact pink, was received with acclamations that translation of the highly poetical text he redoubled when Verdi himself appeared. was setting. But Verdi, severe as ever, taking his place It is a curious and remarkable fact that at the desk in the middle of the stage . . . Verdi, with his customarily clear and immediately gave the signal to begin and orderly mind, had taken pains to visualize the applause ceased as if by magic. the opening Requiem Aeternam and the “During the performance the Dies Irae of a complete mass before enthusiasm grew until the Offertorium was composing his Libera Me for the Messa a actually encored; so was the Sanctus. But Rossini. In this way he was able to “quote” the climax was reached in the Agnus Dei, these two movements in the Libera Me as when the applause changed to roars which, fully integrated episodes. Undertaking his though stifled, even broke out during the Manzoni Requiem, he found only the actual performance, so irresistible was the Libera Me completed, but the Requiem inspiration of the music. Needless to say, Aeternam and the Dies Irae fully this, too, was encored; and afterward, conceived and ready with some amid the wild plaudits of the assembly, a elaboration to take their places in the first silver crown on an elegant cushion was two movements. presented to Verdi.” The composition of the music was by no This was only the beginning. The Mass means his only labor in preparation for the was produced again and again throughout NOTES (continued)
Italy and became so popular that the law raised again and again as to its essentially had to be invoked to prevent unauthorized religious character. Indeed, it has been performances. In Ferrara an effort had criticized as being “too secular.” As a been made to perform the work with a matter of fact, Verdi has done in this work military band instead of an orchestra and what every great composer must do—he at Bologna four pianos had been has set a great text to the music that he felt substituted. Verdi himself went to Paris, appropriate for it. This is what Bach did in London, and Vienna for the first his Mass and Passions, what Mozart and performances in those cities. Its success Beethoven did in setting the missal text. continued to be remarkable everywhere. In Here in the text of the Requiem lies the Paris eight performances had to be given greatest of all dramas, the conflicts instead of the four originally announced, between life and death, between sin and and after the third Verdi was made a forgiveness, between damnation and Commander of the Legion of Honor. For salvation. With his long experience and the performance at the Albert Hall in mastery in penetrating to the precise London there was a chorus of no less than meaning of words, Verdi was able to 1200 voices. characterize each fragment of this While the work has had as great a remarkable text and express the mighty success in northern countries as first implications. He could not have been more greeted it in Italy, the question has been sincere.
The original Latin text follows, together with an English translation: I. REQUIEM AND KYRIE Quartet and Chorus Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, Et lux perpetua luceat eis. And let everlasting light shine upon them Te decet hymnus Deus in Sion, Thou, O God, art praised in Zion, Et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem: And unto Thee shall the vow be performed Exaudi orationem meam: Hear my prayer: *n JerusaIem: Ad te omnis caro veniet. Unto Thee shall all flesh come. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, Et lux perpetua luceat eis. And let everlasting light shine upon them.
Kyrie Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us. II. DIES IRAE Dies Irae Chorus
Dies irae, dies ilia, Day of wrath! O day of mourning! Solvet saeclum in favilla, See fulfilled the prophets’ warning, Teste David cum Sibylla. Heaven and earth in ashes burning! Quantus tremor est futurus, O what fear man’s bosom rendeth, Quando Judex est venturus When from heaven the Judge descendeth, Cuncta stride discussurus! On Whose sentence all dependeth! Tuba Mirum Chorus
Tuba mirum spargens sonum, Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth; Per sepulchra regionum, Through earth’s sepulchers it ringeth; Coget omnes ante thronum. All before the throne it bringeth. NOTES (continued)
Bass Solo Mors stupebit et natura. Death is struck, and nature quaking, Cum resurget creatura, All creation is awaking, Judicanti responsura. To its Judge an answer making.
Liber Scriptus Mezzo-soprano and Chorus Liber scriptus proferetur, Lo! the book, exactly worded, In quo totum continetur Wherein all hath been recorded: Unde mundus judicetur. Thence shall judgment be awarded. Judex ergo cum sedebit; When the Judge His seat attaineth, Quidquid latet, apparebit; And each hidden deed arraigneth, Nil inultum remanebit. Nothing unavenged remaineth.
Dies Irae Chorus Dies irae, dies ilia, Day of wrath! O day of mourning! Solvet saeclum in favilla, See fulfilled the prophets’ warning, Teste David cum Sibylla. Heaven and earth in ashes burning.
Quid Sum Miser Soprano. Mezzo-soprano and Tenor Quid sum, miser tunc dicturus? What shall I, frail man, be pleading? Quern patronum rogaturus. Who for me be interceding. Cum vix justus sit securus? When the just are mercy needing?
Rex Tremendae Quartet and Chorus Rex tremendae majestatis! King of Majesty tremendous. Qui salvandos salvas gratis Who dost free salvation send us. Salva me, fons pietatis! Fount of pity, then befriend us!
Recordare Soprano and Mezzo-soprano Recordare, Jesu pie. Think, good Jesus, my salvation Quod sum causa tuae viae Cost Thy wondrous Incarnation; Ne me perdas ilia die. Leave me not to reprobation! Quaerens me, sedisti lassus, Far and weary, Thou hast sought me, Redemisti crucem passus; On the cross of suffering bought me. Tantus labor non sit cassus. Shall such grace be vainly brought me? Juste Judex ultionis, Righteous Judge! for sin’s pollution Donum fac remissionis Grant Thy gift of absolution. Ante diem rationis. Ere the day of retribution. Ingemisco Tenor Solo Ingemisco tamquam reus, Guilty, now I pour my moaning, Culpa rubet vultus meus; All my shame with anguish owning; Supplicanti parce. Deus. Spare, O God, Thy suppliant groaning! Qui Mariam absolvisti, Thou the sinful woman savedst; Et latronem exaudisti, Thou the dying thief forgavest; Mihi quoque spem dedisti, And to me a hope vouchsafest. Preces meae non sunt dignae, Worthless are my prayers and sighing, Sed tu bonus fac benigne, Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, Ne perenni cremer igne. Rescue me from fires undying! NOTES (continued)
Inter oves locum praesta, With Thy favoured sheep O place me: Et ab hoedis me sequestra; Nor among the goats abase me; Statuens, in parte dextra. But to Thy right hand upraise me.
Confutatis Bass Solo Confutatis maledictis, While the wicked are confounded, Flammis acribus addictis, Doomed to flames of woe unbounded. Voca me cum benedictis. Call me with Thy saints surrounded. Oro supplex et acclinis, Low I kneel, with heart submission, Cor contritum quasi cinis, See, like ashes, my contrition; Gere curam mei finis. Help me in my last condition.
Dies Irae Chorus
Dies irae, dies ilia, Day of wrath! O day of mourning! Solvet saeclum in favilla. See fulfilled the prophets’ warning! Teste David cum Sibylla. Heaven and earth in ashes burning! Lacrimosa Quartet and Chorus Lacrimosa dies ilia! Ah! that day of tears and mourning! Qua resurget ex favilla From the dust of earth returning Judicandus homo reus. Man for judgment must prepare him; Huie ergo parce, Deus: Spare, O God in mercy spare him! Pie Jesu, Domine, Lord, all pitying, Jesus blest Dona eis requiem. Amen Grant them Thine eternal rest. Amen.
III. OFFERTORIUM Quartet
Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera O Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, deliver animas omnium fidelium defunctorium de the souls of all the faithful departed from the poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu. Libera eas de pains of hell and from the lowest pit. Deliver ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant them from the mouth of the lion, that hell may in obscurum; sed signifer sanctus Michael, not swallow them up, that they fall not into repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam; darkness; but let Saint Michael the Archangel lead them to the sacred realms of light; Quam olim Abrahae promisisti, et semini eius. As Thou didst promise to Abraham and his seed for ever. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus; tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum We offer to Thee, O Lord, sacrifices of praise; hodie memoriam facimus; fac eas, Domine, de do Thou accept them for those souls whom we morte transire ad vitam; this day commemorate; make them, O Lord, to pass from death to life; Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorium de poenis inferni, faceas de morte As Thou didst promise to Abraham and his transire ad vitam. seed for ever. Deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of hell; make them, O Lord, to pass from death to life. IV. SANCTUS AND BENEDICTUS Double Chorus Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Holy. Holy, Holy. Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Lord God of Sabaoth, Plenis sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. NOTES (continued)
Hosanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Hosanna in excelsis. Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
V. AGNUS DEI Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, and Chorus Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the requiem. world, grant them rest. Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi: dona eis O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the requiem sempiternam. world, grant them eternal rest. VI. LUX AETERNA
Mezzo-soprano, Tenor and Bass Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, Let eternal light shine upon them, O Lord,
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ATLANTA CHILDREN'S THEATRE Atlanta Art Community Saddened by Loss of Fondues ACT's Director Charles L. Doughty, director of the Atlanta's finest JAZZ Atlanta Children’s Theatre since its UNDERGROUND ATLANTA inception in 1968 and an internationally RESERVATIONS 577-1800 respected master of children’s theatre, suffered a fatal heart attack, Wednesday, ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS ROBERT SHAW, Conductor MARILYN WALTHALL, Accompanist
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Successful Atlanta Premiere HIGH MUSEUM OF ART Noah and the Great Auk. the original play written by A.C.T. company manager Art World Speaker Bix Doughty, enjoyed a successful Atlanta Series Lecture by premiere and currently is on tour around Lawrence Halprin, May 9 Georgia. Lawrence Halprin, the dynamic and The subject of endangered species, widely influential landscape architect, presented in a dramatic production geared environmental designer, town planner, for a young audience, sparked interest in and author, will be the next guest in the several environmentalist and conser Members Guild Art World Speaker Series. vation groups. The Chief of Public Halprin’s fame rests upon an astonishing Affairs for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife range of achievements. He has repeatedly Service taped the show to be sent to helped strike fresh, convincing, and Washington, D.C. for possible use as an interesting bargains between groups of educational tool. people and their shared environments. He Three high school apprentices are has done pioneer work in ecological among the crew members who help get approaches to regional and town planning Noah and the Great Auk on the road. (Sea Ranch, California), in recycling old Duncan Moran of Paideia School, Carlton Horton, North Fulton High School, and Donald Griffin of Washington High School are working with the Atlanta Children’s Theatre as part of the Atlanta od’ Public School’s Exploration Quarter. Atlanta The three are on leave from their schools but earn a quarter’s elective credits while learning theatre first hand. While the show was in the Alliance Theatre the apprentices learned how to run the light board, the how-to’s of set design and construction, and how to set up and strike the set. During the road tour to Griffin, Jackson, Cobb County Civic Center, Newman, and Cartersville the apprentices face long hours, after reporting at 6 a.m. for travel to a town to set up the show. They learn the importance of constructing a set which can break down into small units for travel, how to re-block scenes to fit smaller stage areas in school auditoriums or cafeterias and wardrobe maintenance. Following the tour the apprentices will receive more formal instruction in classes taught by the A.C.T. professional staff. The schedule includes stage voice, stage conventions, set costume and lighting design, make-up and mime. Students in grades 10 through 12 are eligible for this apprentice program. For information on application procedure, call 892-7607. SINCE 1948 nn______buildings and urban spaces (Ghirardelli Dine Square, San Francisco), in redesigning Nearby downtown for pedestrians (Nicollet Mall, before the Minneapolis), in humanizing city cores show (the beautiful fountain and plaza projects at in Portland, Oregon), and in urban park design (Manhattan Square Park in / CROSSROADS Rochester, New York). His most recently **21 restaurant and lounge completed project is the Seattle Freeway 1556 peachtree st. Park. Halprin is presently at work on the open every day — 875-6375 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, commissioned by Congress. In addition, he has written a number of seminal books, including Cities, RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Tours and Cruises ... Environment, New York, New York, and by Air and Steamship Freeways. The lecture, free and open to the public, will begin at 8 p.m. in the Alliance Theatre. Seating may be limited. The lecture will be followed by a Members-only reception. ATLANTA TRAVEL AGENCY Ferdinand Warren P Early Works Exhibit I 235 Peachtree St., N.E. — Suite 1817 At High Museum May 28 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 — Alex Hitz, Jr. An artist who has been active in Georgia for nearly three decades, Ferdinand Warren lived in New York for more than twenty years. With solid training and a particularly sensitive response to urban landscape, Warren produced a series of powerful and expressive paintings of the New York scene related to the sympathetic observations by the artists of the Ash Can School and their followers. The exhibition includes a number of the first examples from Warren’s New York years during a time when the artist won numerous honors and sold a number of works to collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition will be on view through June 26 in the New Gallery, third floor. Visual Arts Symposium—May 12 A symposium dealing with the state of the visual arts today will be held in the Hill Auditorium on May 12, beginning at 8 p.m. The event, a question and answer session with a panel of five, is being presented under the auspices of the Arts Festival of Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, and Contemporary Art Southeast magazine. Panel members will include the three judges for the Arts Festival ’77 in Piedmont Park; Thomas Armstrong, III, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Betty Pierson Parsons, Director of the Betty Parsons Art Gallery in New York City; and Paul Smith, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York City. Gudmund Vigtel, Director of The High Museum of Art, and David Heath of the Heath Gallery in Atlanta will also be on the panel. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Art Experiences for Children Offered at the Museum and Award-winning CITY exhibition at museum. Piedmont Park Beginning June 13 THE CITY exhibi ALLIANCE THEATRE tion will be open from 12:00 noon to Big Spring Discount 4:45 p.m. seven days a week. The High on Season Tickets Museum will also offer art awareness For 1977-78 Season— activities for preschool and elementary Subscribe by May 31 age children this summer at PLAYSCAPES And Save 33'/3°/o in Piedmont Park. For information call the Department of Children’s Education, You have only a short time left to take 892-3600, Ext. 228. advantage of our Spring discount on
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A $1,700 000 building program in progress to be completed in the school year 1977 $1,000,000 Fine Arts Center — Middle School New Library Addition — 7 New Tennis Courts New Administration Building For information on all schools and programs write or call: Admissions Director, (404) 761-8881 P. O. Box 87190-K COLLEGE PARK, GEORGIA 30337 Woodward Academy Administers a Non-Discriminatory Admissions Policy For Boys and Girls Boarders and Day Students season tickets for the brand new 1977-78 theatre based on the actual files of the season. McCarthy Hearings; The Good Doctor, Here are some of the bonuses for those Neil Simon/Anton Chekov—the perfect who subscribe before May 31: match. A celebration of the highs and lows A Tremendous Savings and the Best of that most joyful experience—life. Seats in the House. You save up to 26.40 Remember by subscribing now, you get on a pair of season tickets by subscribing two plays free, priority seating, and six NOW. You get two plays free, or 331 /3% unforgettable evenings at the Alliance off the regular price. Plus, by subscribing Theatre. Prices go up substantially after early, you have priority on the best seats. May 31—So subscribe TODAY. A Christmas Play For the Whole Family. Our 1977-78 season will begin in ATLANTA COLLEGE OF ART November, and our second play will be Tara Auction Charles Dickens’ beloved story of the To Benefit College holiday spirit, A Christmas Carol. Season ticket holders will receive first chance to The fifth annual Tara Auction will be order additional single tickets for their telecast live from the Georgia World families and friends before tickets go on Congress Center on Thursday, May 26 and sale to the public. Friday, May 27. WATL/TV Channel 36 A New Play. Each season we produce will pre-empt all regular programming one new play which we think has the from 4:00 until 10:00 to cover this exciting promise of becoming one of the event which benefits the Atlanta College of outstanding plays of our time. Alliance Art, a founding member of the Atlanta Theatre audiences have been among the Arts Alliance. In a cooperative effort, first in the country to see The Hot L WXIA/TV Channel 11 will simultaneous Baltimore. The Last Meeting of the ly telecast the auction at selected times Knights of The White Magnolia, and this during both evenings. year, the greatest success in our history, Tara Auction offers television viewers Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy twelve hours of spirited bidding on Dean. Jimmy Dean. We are already hundreds of donated gifts, from luxury reading scripts for next season. You may items to dinners for two, with items for see the production of a major playwright of every interest and budget. It’s an the future here on the Alliance stage. opportunity to bid on things you need, or Four More Outstanding Productions. have always wanted, and also support the Among plays now being considered for Atlanta College of Art, a fully accredited production in 1977-78 are Streamers, four-year institution making a continuing David Rabe’s scorchingly honest and sensitive probe of young Americans in uniform; Private Lives, Noel Coward’s sophisticated comedy about two people unable to live together yet equally unable to live apart; For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Ntozake Shange’s touchingly raw examination of the sorrow, the joys, and the determination of contemporary black women; Look Homeward, Angel, Ketti Frings’ hauntingly beautiful treatment of Thomas Wolfe’s novel about the artist growing up in North Carolina; Julius From left to right: Mrs. John C. Rieser, president Caesar, by William Shakespeare; Indians, of the Associates of the college, Mrs. Daniel Arthur Kopit’s powerful play about the Parker, chairman of the 1977 Tara Auction, Mr. brutal taming of our native land; Are You Michael P. Rich, Acquisitions chairman and Mrs. Now Or Have You Ever Been? Eric Hugh M. Dorsey, Jr., president of the Board of Bentley’s accurately documented piece of Sponsors of the Atlanta College of Art. Award winning Restaurant since 1962
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THURSDAY, FRIDAY. 8 SATURDAY MAY 12,, 13, & 14 ___ MAY Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 8:30, SH. Robert Shaw, conducting; James Tocco, pianist. Strauss: Metamorphosen; Strauss: Burleske for Piano and 1977 Orchestra; Hindemith: The Four Temperaments; Illi Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Weber Themes. THURSDAY, FRIDAY, & SATURDAY MEMORIAL ARTS CENTER MAY 19, 20, & 21______Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, ASO Chorus, 8:30, SH. Robert Shaw, conducting; Betty Jones, soprano; Elizabeth Mannion, mezzo-soprano; ACA: Atlanta College HMA: High Museum of Gordon Greer, tenor; John Cheek, bass-baritone. of Art Art Verdi: Requiem Mass. ACT: Atlanta Children's MR: Member’s Room Theatre PR: Paneled Room AT: Alliance Theatre RH: Rehearsal Hall ATC: Alliance Theatre SH: Symphony Hall Company ST: Studio Theatre ASO: Atlanta Symphony WHA Walter Hill Orchestra Auditorium Exhibitions GAL: Galleria For ticket information, call the box office at 892-2414. For other information, call 892-3600. High Museum hours: 10:00 to 5:00 Mon. through Sat., 12:00 to 5:00 Sun., closed evenings. Art Shop hours: open during regular High Museum hours. THE CITY and Jr. Art Shop hours: 3:00 to 4:45 Mon. through Fri. 12:00 to 4:45 Sat. and Sun. Donation: 250 Children, 50 Special Lectures THURSDAY & FRIDAY MAY 26 & 27 Tara Auction to Benefit College, WATL/TV, MONDAY, MAY 9 Channel 36 will telecast Auction live 4:00 p.m - Art World Speaker Series Lecture. 8:00 p.m., AT. 10:00 p.m. WXIA/TV, Channel 11 will simulcast Lawrecce Halprin, guest speaker, Free. selected periods during both evenings. Join the bidding by phone! Theatre Films THURSDAY, FRIDAY, & SATURDAY MAY 5, 6, & 7 SUNDAY, MAY1 Henry IV, Part I, 8:00, AT. Alliance Theatre Films on Alexander Calder, 3:00, HMA, WHA production. A King, a prince, and a buffoon-while Free. Mary Falstaff carouses with Mistress Quickly, ______THURSDAY, VAY~5~ galant young Prince Hal saves England from the usurper’s sword. Shame, 7:00 & 9:00, WHA. HMA Bergman Film Series. $1 Museum Members with cards, $1.50 Students with ID's, $2 General. ~frFday7may~6 ~ The Passion of Anna, 7:00 & 9:00, WHA. HMA Bergman Film Series. $1 Museum Members with cards, $1.50 Students with ID’s, $2, General. ______SATURDAY, MAY 7______Cries and Whispers, 7:00 & 9:00, WHA. HMA Bergman Film Series. $1 Museum Members with cards, $1.50 Students with ID’s, $2 General. 3 TUESDAY. MAY 10 Jim Herbert Presentation, 8:00, WHA. Jim Herbert will show and discuss his work. Free. SUNDAY, MAY15 Nureyev's Don Quixote. 3:00 p.m., SH. BHI Herring’s World Films & Dance Atlanta. Atlanta Arts Monthly magazine of the IlliAtlanta Memorial Arts Center 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta Georgia 30309 MAY, 1977 VOL. XII ISSUE 9 THE ATLANTA ARTS ALLIANCE Charles R. Yates President James K. Grlffeth Controller William Shippen Facilities Manager ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Frank Ratka General Manager Richard W. Thompson Assistant Manager THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART THURSDAY, FRIDAY, & SATURDAY Gudmund Vlgtel MAY 12, 13, & 14______Director Ms. Paula Hancock Henry IV, Part I, 8:00, AT.______Curator of Education THURSDAY, FRIDAY, & SATURDAY THE ATLANTA COLLEGE OF ART MAY 19, 20, & 21___ __ William Voos President Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, 8:00, AT. Alliance Anthony Greco Theatre production. As the drinks flow faster, Academic Dean George, Martha, Nick and Honey lose their Mrs. Guthrie Foster inhibitions, exposing the secret sadness beneath Dean of Students their outrageous, edgy banter.______THE ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY David Bishop ______SUNDAY, MAY 22______Producing Director Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, 2:30, AT Fred Chappell Artistic Director Three by Tennessee, 8:30 ST. Theatre Projects Atlanta, Inc. production. Three one-act plays by THE ATLANTA CHILDREN S THEATRE Charles L. Doughty Tennessee Williams, Funny, sad and bittersweet. Director Vintage Williams with characters as only he can draw them. Ted Martin, director. PARKING FACILITIES: Center Parking garage with covered parking directly adjacent to Center, entrances on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, Peachtree and Lombardy Way; also commercial parking FRIDAY, & SATURDAY across from Peachtree entrance to Center, and north of MAY 24, 25, 26, 27, & 28 First Presbyterian Church. Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? 8:00. AT. BOX OFFICE: (404) 892-2414. Hours: Mon. through Fri. Three by Tennessee, 8:30, ST.______10-6 pm (or until curtain); Sat. noon-4:00 (or until curtain); Sun. noon-3:00. The Memorial ______SUNDAY, MAY 29______Arts Center Box Office handles tickets for the Atlanta Symphony, Atlanta Children’s Theatre, Alliance Theatre Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, 2:30, AT ___ Company, Dance Atlanta, Theatre Atlanta Off Peachtree; TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, Vagabond Marionettes; Travelogue Film Series; also on FRIDAY, & SATURDAY night of performance, all tickets for any event scheduled in the Arts Center. MAY 30, JUNE 1, 2, 3, & 4 TOURS: For information on regular weekday tours or Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, 8:00, AT. group tour arrangements, call (404) 892-3600. THURSDAY, JUNE 2 RESTROOMS: Located off the Galleria Balcony across thru SUNDAY, JUNE 19 from both Symphony Hall and the Alliance Theatre. Also located adjacent to the balcony lobbies inside Symphony Vanities, Tues.-Thurs. 8:30, Fri. & Sat. 7:00 & Hall. 10:00, Sun 8:30, ST. Vanities has been leaving audienes in stitches and tears in New York, Los OUR COVER The cover reflects the offerings of the Angeles and Chicago. Alliance Theatre Atlanta Symphony summer season, which will consist of production. the MOSTLY MUSIC series in Symphony Hall and the POPS concerts in Chastain Park—a summer of singers, dancers, concert pianists, conductors, and popular artists. ATLANTA ARTS Magazine is published for the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, by The Conger Printing Co., Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. All rights to Atlanta Arts are reserved by Children the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center. Reproduction from the magazine in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Editorial Office, 1619 Chattahoochee Ave., N.W., Atlanta 30318. Phone (404) 352-1910. THE CITY Exhibition—for Children and Adults— in the High Museum of Art. Open to the public L. W. CONGER, JR. 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