1965 Noted Bay Area Composer-Critic Teahouse' Set Raps N.Y. 'Snobbery/ Esoteric Music

For Circle Star By PAUL HERTEIENDY John Patrick's Pulitzer Prize- hie r.rey; Ginger B'ane. The Tribun* Mutk Crftk winning comedy, "The Teahouse Shindig '65 Band and the Shm- No, that wasn't an earthquake. It was Ernst of the August Moon." with dig '65 Dancers will be present- Bacon returning to Berkeley. Eddie Bracken starring as Sa- ed Feb. 22 at 8 p.m., Phyllis The professional restraint in his demeanor kini. the philosophical interpret- Diller and ihe Good Time Sing- is strictly illusory and his mild manner mis- er, uiii open Tuesday t\etiu\t er:> mil do their gig March 8, leading. Bacon's outspoken bent on topics mus- at the Circle Star Theater in and the popular Ritfhtews ical is threatening to stir up cutting controversy San Carlos iJn>tlHT«. hau1 ttt-cn st-t for dinuiitt musicians notoriously reluctant to put their necks on the chopping block of public I'nder trie direction of \uki M«'tih 15 print. Smmoda iwh<> will al»o portrav Later telebnt> shows will m- Bacon is a ripe, harmonically "conventional" a character role', the cast will dude Mitzi Gaynor (March 30- composer in the pipe-and-slippers sty)p of Harris leature Cnarte* Alvin Bell as April 4i; Liberace (April 6-111; or Copland. His compositions have folksy titles CoL Purdy; Gene Blakely as The Kingston Trio i April 20-25); resplendent with Amercana like those of Charles Capt Fisby; Tsu Kobtyashi as Jimmy Durante (April 27-May Ives, suggesting a Robert Frost turned to music. lh« Jov*ly Lotus Blossom, and 2>; Tony Bennett and Count He won a Pulitzer Award in 1932 for his first Tiger Joe Marsh, Tom Winston. Basie and his orchestra (May symphony, became a founder and director of Barry Ford. Lloyd Kino, Tatsuo 4-91. Victor Borge (June 2»- the Carmel Bach Festival in 1935 and has since Hasegawa, Mara Kim. Willie Mv 4'- and Harry Belafonte JllK M1 been active as a conductor, music educator, com- Kee and numerous others. ' ' Another celebrity at- poser, author and pianist. Between his regular „ . _ , .. traction, for the week of Mav Followinr g Teahouse, n. will be announced later ' conducting stints were guest appearances with which will Play fur two weeks. The summer series of musi- the San Francisco, Detroit, Southern, and Den- to- Aug sl*'-CflnJ?1.Sundber8 and Ellz' 3-15 Later bookings are Howard titled "Tree on the Plains," chamber music, abeth St. Claire. Kee| in -camelot" (Aug. 17-29), tone poems and. about 200 songs. The voluble graduate before going on to music. The switch Several special one-nighters and Kay Starr in "Call Me Bay Area Music Calendar critic of the music scene is also about to pub- wiped out what could have been a first-rate have also been set by producers Madam" (Aug 31 to Sept. 12). TODAY THURSDAY lish his fourth book, "The Pathology of Music." title for an autobiography, "Bacon and X." As a Sammy Lewis and Danny Dare. Lewis and Dare have also TWO HARPSICHORD CONCERT Alice SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY m t*o Ehlers, Malcolm Hamilton, J S Bach, youth concerts, with Verne Sflhn, cor Bacon's biggest broadsides are against New mathematician, though, he is among the first for Monday evenings. "Shindig booked two weeks of opera J C Bsch, W F Bach Coup*r n, ductor-cwnrnentator. Jumof solijls «r» York on one hand and certain "modern" music to play do\vn the mathematical element in '65." toolinine Garv I,ewis and ("Carmen" arv} '•] a Traviata"* HwtZ Hall, UC, Berkeley. 8 50 violinist Thomas Halpm, b»»i player c»> luiK,. ., iic atk}a- , - . the Playboys; the Velvets; Don- lor late May. and two weeks of . . CHORUS, Leonard Of Paur, percussioniit WiMiom Weichert" f dir Br»hmj, Cohn. Hindemith, Thome* Civic Auditorium Four d stinct pro- "I resent the fact that New York City runs na Loren; Judd Hamilton. Do- ballet for eariv June «np, Crpttoo A'riran Nff]") »nd rf qrami 9 45 <,„£) 11 10 » rr> Thu "Music is basically intuitive, spontaneous; ligiou^ songi Maionic Auditorium, S F and Friday. 3pm the music of the entire country. The commercial not mathematical. Mathematics gives you some AUSTIN KELLER, VIOLINIST, with Wil PRODUCTIONS CARL EAGLE, ORGANIST Bach, Lu Ham Corbett JonM, pianist B»etho«*n's side — management of artists, the unions, the capacity to understand and a facility for exact beck, Mendelssohn DunUsble, Cleram "Krfutzjr ' Sonata, Bach "Chaconne, bault, Buxtehude, Willan Montclair Bartok s Sonata No J, Stravinsky's press, the publishers, the recording companies — thinking. Presbyterian Cl-jrch, 5701 Tricrnhil! Flegy, ' Wiemawim s Polonane in D Drive 4pm Fre* Auditorium of S F Cons*rvatory, 1201 all dominate the scene from their New York "I do find that musicians are so frightfully DONALD PIPPIN PRESENTS Medievy Ortfja i 30 p m JACKIE f Renaisssnep Bsrooue music Sylw* offices. The newspapers and weeklies in New ignorant outside of what they do, and they Davis, Marione ledr, Marvin Klefe, instrumentahitj Old Spaghetti Factory, FRIDAY York, for instance, are looked on as the last word make far too much noise when they discover \l 471 Green, S F. 8 30 pm FRANK SHAWL-VICTOR ANDERSON 1 REPERTORY OPERA WORKSHOP In Dance company m d«but. Modern dance in criticism, but their critics are no better than something theoretical. Who else would make I "The Scarf," bated on Ihe *norl storv repertoire with music^by contemporary those elsewhere in the country " "The Witch." Also "The Anniversary," ft^L'''^"' ^'""P^C' 4. CwMand Tetrmitai such a fuss over the twelve-tone ^eale"* It served MOtnBLElfF a one-act comedy. Theater for the High, Broadway and premiere). Lew Chru TUESDAY tensci, choreographer; also "Beauty OAME'J r a professor at Converse College and as director but very interesting as a person." SHIRLEY ELLIS OAKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, and the Rf>«t ' Opera House, S F I 30 Gerhard Samuel, cond Moiart s Sym- P m A'so Sunday at 2 30 of the New Spartanburg (S.C.) Music Festival. As Bacon put it, on an earlier occasion, "In phony No 33 In B Flat, Frederick DAVID BAR-ILLAN, Israeli pisnut Ra "The South is one of the most fertile areas for SUNDAY, FEB. 28, 8:15 P.M. Myrows "Symphonic Variation*" (pre- mean. Bwthoven, Ben Hairn. Schumann. this day when the schizophrenic world threatens mlfrel, Dvorak Violin Concerto In A Chopir. Liszt Masonic Auditonum, S F Minor, Isaac Stern, soloist Oakland 6 30 pm artists in the future. It has one great advantage suicide, when we shoot to the moon and stars, Ticket! S4 SO - S3 75 - $2.75 Auditorium Theater. 8 30 p m Also Wednesday at I 30 TRIO ITALIANO DE MEXICO in Havdn over the North: it is less sophisticated and is shall we take time out to count the notes of a SHERMAN CLAY BOX OFFICE A CAPPELLA CHOIR of S F. State Col- Beethoven, F Margola, Reger. Main 2101 BROADWAY PHONE HI 4-8575 lege Vivaldi Handel Brahms, others Auditonum S F State College 1600 H:1 ready to accept works on their own merits. The tone row to make sure all twelve are there?" Downtgwn Ctntit Bit Office. 5.F.. 129 MasiR St. Phtne PR 5 2021 Jorin Carl Tegnell, dir. Mam Audi- loway, 3 p.m. Also Sunday at 3 p m torium, 1600 Holloway. S F. 1 30 p m potential is definitely there." The interpid critic will be putting his musical PITMAPD PIIPVI5 OBG4NIST Pillar" ot the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, He admitted, however, that the performer credentials on the line in an all-Bacon concert WEDNESDAY S F 3 F m. F-ee. Also Sunday at : OAKLAND AUD. THEATRE Today is ArcangHo Corelh's 312th birth- still has too little work outside of New York. at Berkeley's First Unitarian Church this Friday day annlveriary. NEXT SUNDAY "Look at singers. There are only two truly night, sponsored bv the enthusiastic local chap- Ted Hopkins, accompanist. Classical and seasonal operas in tne united Mates, ana ootn Church, 37th and Telegraph. 4 p.m. ter of Sigma Alpha Iota. Mezzo-soprano Qlga LEPLIN PREMIERE. Emanuel Lepllh'l are in New York. There's nothing really for "Music for Festive Services," with Chronis and Bonnie Hampton are among the Ars Nova Singers, John Carl Tegnell, singers to do around here but sing in church professional musicians performing Bacon. All dir, Cantor Herbert Epstein Peninsula Temple Beth El, 1700 Alameda de las choirs. That's why so many good ones head over in all it promises to be a stimulating opportunity Pulgas, San Mateo 8pm DONALD PIPPIN PRESENTS programs to Germany to sing opera." to hear a composer as American as apple pie and of Baroque music Old Spaghetti Fac tory, 478 Green, S.F. 8:30 p m. Bacon was a mathematics major as an under- as out-spoken as George Bernard Shaw. 9 RODGERS « HAMMERSTEIN'S Tcaeher s Patience Pays Off

:•• HYATT A«usic THEATRE!;! By RENEE RENOUF A * * BUFtLINGAME • 1959. We rejoined her for th« HERB ROGERS PROUDLY PRESENTS From one class a week in concerts she gave both years. ROBERT WISE She mentioned to people we A FESTIVAL OF STARS & PLAYS d 1958 to 10 classes in 1965 may sound modest, but to Victor were teaching and this helped Anderson, co-director of the us. 1 also taught children'* SAVE % Modern Dance Center of Ber- classes at the Oakland Jewish keley, it represents a founda- Community Center, something On Season Subscription* tion for a serious modern I still am doing." dance school. Such patience Why had they waited so long promises to be vindicated to start their company? ARLENEDAHL when the Center gives its Feb. "We wanted to be in a posi- IN 19 concert at Oakland Tech- tion where we were estab- nical High School. lished as a school, giving a BLITHE SPIRIT The quiet-spoken dancer re- firm technical training, rather than building our reputation ' Ft .'-.BUAPt :3 MAPCn 7 viewed his own dance history after his Wednesday night San solely through performing. W« Francisco class. also wanted a stylistically uni- .JOAN FONTAINE . ^ ' i was oorn in bail Lake fied grmin Thk rtivmn't hap- City, grew up in Oakland and pen overnight. ' iw f given a thorough musical "Until recently modern background. I was planning to dancers didn't expect to earn i MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND , become a concert pianist when a living from performing. an American Ballet Theater VICTOR ANDERSON They worked at other jobs, performance swept me up in teaching dance, studying at its magic. American Modern Dance night and performances were "Despite urgmgs of family, movement," far less frequent than in bal- teachers and friends, I wanted Wasn't the switch in style let companies. This situation, to study dance immediately somewhat difficult? however, seems to be changing. TODD-AO* and felt that the piano would "My musical background "We are trying to do our COLOR TAKE HER SHE'S have to wait. Fresh out of high helped me and the expressive share to make the change a BY Dl LUXI school, I studied ballet with possibilities outweighed what reality. Before our Feb. 19 the San Francisco Ballet some consider problems of concert, we gave two perform- School, Tatiana Svetlanova, adjustment. Ballet is an excel- ances at Modesto Junior Col- and Dorothy Pring in Berke- lent foundation but some danc- lege on Feb. 11. We also gave LOUIS NYE ley. I also took classes in Los rrs starting out in ballet find a concert in Fremont in Octo- Angeles with Maria Raldina their way into modern dance. ber and performances in Sac- the late Theodore Kosloff, Many dancers now feel it ramento last June. We feel j COME BLOW YOUR HORN once principal dancers with necessary to know both, re- this is an auspicious Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. gardless of the style they ulti- beginning." "In 19501 went to New York, mately choose. found a cheap place to live and "My first modern dance at first supported myself with teacher was Gertrude Shurr Travelog Set ROBERT NORTON a scries of night jobs, leaving and I followed her training my days free for study. with study with May O'Don- For S. F* Showing Aubrey HitcMns, one of Pav- ncll I was invited to join "Sweden, Denmark, Nor- PICNIC lova's last partners, was my May's company in 1954. May way," new award-winning color principal teacher for two also launched my teacher ca- travelog direct from recent 4Kill IT: M/ years. I consider him one of reer I first taught at her Scandinavian festivals, will be AmotH f>n*nr SAUL I.HAPUS I ftmW t,, ROBERT WISE [TICKET PRICES — Single & Season of 5 Plays the finest teachers in New slndio and also at the Gram- shown at Veterans Auditorium, I Lr^^r I York. I later studied with morc\ School of Music and San Francisco, at 8:30 p.m. RICHARD RODGERS I OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN III ERNEST LEHMAN Tw,, W*4, TUr*. SINGLE 14.95 J3.95 $2.95 $1.95 Igor S c h w e z o f f and Vera Dance. Friday, narrated in person by K» UIIK i HKAJI .",', ddlu (. sia and Central Asm" on March was becoming more and more "May O'Donnell was quite 13, and Tony Kubicki's "Po- PREMERE WED, EYE., MARCH 17 1077 MAJUCIT, IF., CAL. • raoNi UN 1-M7* absorbed by the work and indi- helpful to us. She taught at land" (Warsaw, Cracow, Po»- viduals involved with the U.C. the summers of 1958 and nan, Zakopane) on March 11.