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., \ " I Thursday, February 9, 1961 Page NlDe THE JEWISH POST Thursday, February 9, 1961 THE JEWISH !P,OST t, Page Eight ,',' '''1 wi th virtually anything in the mod you're in a particular hurry. ThIs 1 Beersheba, Arab gunfire interrupted once happened to lIIe in Winnipeg the' widest popularity wherever no substitute for quality. A talent given new life by her consummate I ern symphonic repertoire. . :1. Mr. !Bernstein's playing of the and I got to my television inter Yiddish-speaking Jews resided. such as Sara U'dow's endures-in all rendition. Even when the lyric was ,,I I !Beethoven !No. 1 ,("I ,thought it was An Interview with . view" on Spotlight (CBWT) one I The group of P"'lm songs on this of its freshness and, beauty-despite not particularly good - it did not minute before the show began. I my Swan Songll") The concert, ANNA RUSSELL recording, Peretz Hershbein's Yamen the fads, the gimmicks, the twists matter, we had the voice to listen to. Tangents Satirist Anna Russell, who ap didn't know' the intervieWer (it BARNEY ,·GLAZER'S of vogue in popular entertainment. + with President Chairn Weizrnann may have been Bob Wnson), and Royshen; David Edelshtat's Shnel The concert stage would have ) in attendance, continued. . , • pears at the Playhouse theatre be apparently hadn't the faintest Loyfen di Reder, describing the A Rodgers and Hammerstein med been enriched by her presence; as Aaron Copland, Paul Hindernith, Saturday nOght in a ICelebrity Series idea ,who I was, but was too polite, miserable conditions in the sweat ley, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, it is, the city, of Winnipeg has I and the Ernest Bloch of the \Jewish event, utilizes her unusual gifts to to say so. I think he imagined I shops and calling upon the worker Hava Negillah, Old Man River, were gained. ; was some sort of cooking expert. HOLLYWOOD cycle seem to be the influences most make a realistic contribution to the ~struggle for a better'life; Avrom I art of song and program-building. The program naturally ended up 1 prominent in Bernstein's music, to In hopeless' confusion, which may Reisen's Milchome and Die Vant, Rosh Pina Youth Present Concert I Her colorful projection plus an tn gether with a good'deal of ja~ a la have been amusing to the audience, scholarship to -USY Camp. fallible sense of timing, accent and Hollywood, Calif. - Stuar\ Whit- into the army, she replied: "Okeh, is representative of several periods Judging by the numerous' phone idea of what the orchestra would Gershwin. It would be possible to though I doubt if It sold a single 'kin '--la in the life of the !American Yiddish The committee includes Sonia calls and enquiries which Tangents really sound like in a proper audi label his works (West Side Store, good taste, combine wl~, instru ticket." . man b ears a s trI g resem" nee fine, Joey, but be sure to come home to his great grandfather, according early".... My deepest sympathy art song. They combine the work 'Peltz, Sheila Levene, Ruthie Lev has received following our sta te torium - say, the Winnipeg Civic which opens its 39-week European men tal deftness and a vOIce that Is Deviating imperceptibly from the to Stu's dad. The ancestor was to Roberta Linn on the passing of of poets who wrote in the classic ene and Marsha Lipkin. ment last week that Leonard Bern Auditorium??? There it was 'be tour Feb. 14 at the Habimah Thea utilitarian but nUilnced at her singing norm, no less than many Thur\ington Whitman, a minister her ur;tcle, Joseph S. ;Dubin, veteran Yiddish vein, and composers atural stein and the New York Philhar fore us - the orchestra, we had tre in Tel Aviv, Wonderful Town, slightest wish" to add up to con who are ~tirely serious, in their 1,. .. ' 1 'th d to the Jewish tradition and horne "I monic Orcllestra will include Win grown up ,with on records, radio Fancy Free, his bne-act opera summate artistry; Miss Russell, not ideas of projection, Anna' baffles w h 0'fell lTI ove WI an was composer and arranger for Walt BBYA Schedule \ I nipeg on their 1900 mile tOll! on and Tv. In quality and volume of Troube in Tahiti) as facile and too gingerly, spoofs the sacrosanct critics and laymen ',by her subtle, married to Anne Pell, daughter of a Disney. He was the brother of in the modem art of compo tion. .:;j May H, it would seem that enthusi sound, the ~8-man orchestra (the effective, if he had not given uS Lied ["Du bist wie eine Spinkel"], but not too gentle lampooning. In rabbi, and one of the most beauti- "the late lyricist, AI Dubin. A leading singer with Purim Carnival it: asm is already beginning to mount. only woman player was a harpist) the high eloquence and ,beauty, con the vanishing moods of the French brief, she~atters cherished idioms luI women in London at the time. Sorry to mi inform ·th a York City Opera, basso Lis er dis- •.. Paul Anka (non-Jewish) has a r gu b t sM'tzi G yo1,l ~INOT closes a voice of fine sonority that The Menorah chapter of B'na! 1- ,We are awaiting further word was overwhelming enough and iD. tained in the final Lament from the Schoo}, and explores with sat!l-lc of song and makes us like it. Satur . k edff .. POI' ess u I aynor IS , ,. drni III . d th . B'rith Young Adults will hold a from Mr. Bernstein's secretary, sheer virt)losity was profoundly Jeremiah. Symphony and the fiercely gi'be, folk tune, ultra-modem eom day should prove no exception. top asset m Jac M 0, his planist- Jewish. lIer husband, Jack Beam, is. 18.a ra y swte 'to e mUSlC ,:I'~ ~ 'J Purim Carnival February 26 from. ", Helen Coates, and from Columbia impressive; the !Bartok, Concerto position, Wagnerian compositions, conductor who comes from Dor- Keep your yes 0 young and which he, has chosen to record. , I intense Facsimile Ballet. CULTURAL CALENDAR e 2 until 8 p.m. at the Hebrew Sick , I Festivals, Inc., an adjunct of Colum for Orchestra was indeed that - a Bernstein's, admiration for the and the many song forms which she chester, Mass. Jack is 6' 3" tall h d om M rk D n th f Thanks to his stylist insight and to I ' Feb. 9-11 - The Children's Thea . 1 ans e a 'amon, e,ormer h'" h b' hi Benefit hall. Highlights of the car bia Artists Management, and will concerto for orchestra as a solo attitudizing of Shostakovitch and takes over, ruthlessly, and makes and smg e, gals! : AI an .H 'arrlS. .' His moth er, Lill'Lan t e sensItIvIty e'.' rmgs to s per- 'I , tre presents the Royal Winnipeg Jack Kruschen, who was so mar- Gilb t . ' b f th 0 ah formance, each lied emerges as a nival will be entertainment, games publish details regarding ticket instrument, with Mr. Bernstein con Prokofiev is apparent from the gen her own ["Prosciuttino" (Russell- , 'er,lsam~mero e r . Ballet in "An Adventure In Dance" velous as the doctor in "The Apart- Ch t f th Pi d gem. cannot refram from com- and prizes, bingo and auction sale. sales, program and tour highlights ducting as though he had just dis erally seff-nnposed eloquence of Verdi) sung in simultaneous Italian n . ap er 0 e oneer'w omen an. r . based on the classic "Hansel ,and as soon as they" are available. . . . covered the music. his symphony. Besides Hebrew alld !English] . . . "ment, will play in "Lover, Come strictly on her own she sold $15 000 menting upon the beauty which he Dance and coronation will follow Gretel" starring Sonia Tavener, Back" with !Rock Hudson, Doris Day f lIB d Y' b 'bl evokes at the end of Golus March, A great orchesfra and a dynamic 'For the record, Bernstein con liturgy, his immediate ancestor in "Just tell your family and friends , 0 srae'ons. ouveproay ... from 8:30 to midnight with the , Dick Rutherford, Ted Patterson and and Tony Randall. My Winnipeg M k ,n th t rtu d descrlbmg the plight of the Jews of conductor made August 15-16 musi ducts with baton, sometimes from his use of declamatory style is Cop you're goIDg on a concert tour and seen ar l,uamon as e 0 re crowning of one of 21 girls repre \ ' they'll suddenly go ecstatic on you the entire RWB at the Manitoba ,readers may remember Jack's dad, young hero in "Fall of the House Eastern Europe, persecuted and I : cal red-letter days in Vancouver memory, with a personality and a land, in whose music an unconsci.ous and blurt out, 'How l'Ironderfu1! Theatre Centre at 10:30 a.m., 2:00 senting the B'nai B'rith Girls' chap last summer. A damp and steam- colorful flamboyance verging'on the and admittedly elusive Jewish Morris Kruschen, who worked for of Usher," co-starring: Vincent driven from one land to another. Aren't you lucky.' Sure am - but p.m. and 7:3~ p.m. daily. ters. Proceeds will be used for wel histrionic; in fact, let's face it, it element may possibly have con it's not roses all the way, believe Dingwall's as a watchmaker. . . . Price. He goes to Rome in May to SANDRA KAY fare purposes in Israel, Canada and verges on the choreographic! But tributed to the formation of a type me. When you first come to New Sunday, Feb. 12 - 3:00 p.m. Readers of my Dayton and Colum- play Napoleon's son in "The King She' Was Greaf.' . . . cO-,chairman ,is his degree of rapturous miming of declamation in which Quaker and York the big managements won't Rolande Garnier, Winnipeg mezzo bus, Ohio, column may remember of Rome." Mark is dating Jack The cantata "Seven Golden But the United States. Tickets are look at you at all - even if you I (demonstrated as recently as the New 'England hymnody, and even soprano, featured soloist with the "Francine Warschaw, daughter of Benny;s daughter, Joan. Nothing tons" and the amusing play "How available from members. have taJent - bcea'l\Se they've Harriet Borkan. iMarried to Joe , Omnibus production of the Lincoln the "blues", are somehow fused. never heard of yoU; and they have Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, vic serious. They Knocked the Devil Out of Centre on TV last December) would There seems little reason to doubt more taJent than they can use - tor Feldbrill, conductor, at a Family Bleeden, pU!blicist for' "Bonanza," 'Love that gossip column in the \ ' Uncle Ezra" will be presented by Francine is expecting her first ,baby seem to have been unnecessary to that if Mr. Bernstein ever decides with reputations. So you may as Pop, Concert at the Civic Audi Atlantic City Jewish Record titled: USY and USY'J at their 6th annual THE MOST EXCITING well count on starting from the , guide his orchestra through the to cut down on concertizing and torium. iii April. "Honorable Menschen". . . . Ina Scholarship Concert to be held Sun SINGING GROUP bottom as I did. I remember a To that anonymous writer from built-in dynamics of Rossini or the devote his major er;tergies to com booking where I had to perform Feb. 13-16 7:30 p.m. - The Balin is taking ice skating lessons day, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. at the Rosh WoonSocket, Rhode Island: Here emotions of the Franck Symphony, position, he would very well give 'every 20 minutes on a revolving Caravan Players Theatre - in - the"' from Olympic champ Dick Button Pina synagogue. .:j is the information about Mitchell the results were magnificent. . . . us music ,that will hold ,its own bar; the next engagement Was a Round production of GIG. at Harry for her skating scenes in "The "How They Knocked the Devil Orani... I stag night for the Lumbermen's Gertz and Irving Gertz, brothers, Born' in Lawrence, Mass, in 1918, Smith's Club iMorocco. A self Young Doctors." Out ,of Uncle Ezra," to ,be pre I cqp.vention in Chicago, and finally and natives of 'PrlWidence, R.I., your Leonard Bernstein graduated from SALUTE TO ' a ,\l\loncert for the Harvard Club supporting group, the Players, un sented' by USYJ, is directed by J. home town, who came to Hollywood 'Zabar Harvard in 1939. Then, upon the JEWISH' MUSIC MONTH in Boston. dar the direction of Will S. Dickson, ' Dorfman. The cast includes Shera and made good. Mitchell ,heads the advice of the recently deceased "In some tours you will be met travelled more than 1800 miles to Waldman, Arronna Leventhal, Sam ,-" featuring at 'the train by your manager oldest taJent agency in the world. ,Dimitri Mitropoulos that he ,Master various .outlying Manitoba towns 'Sheps, 'Bernard Katz, Michael Sheps, studT (usually looking very mucli'like a He handles some of ,the most famous 011 The last yellr and are noted for their Chuck Wolfman, Mark Posner, Geula Gill l. conducting (it was Mitropoulos who , Music Studios Balkan diplomat)' who will put .' actors, composers, directors and , proposed Bernstein as his successor you through a marathon of radio prize performances in the Dominion David (Rusen, Sherman Snukal, Ken (Records with Theodore Bikel) ~ ! producers. Mr. Gertz is a widower, Becord as Musical director of the Phil. Orch. We carry a Large Stock TV interviews, PI:Css conferences, Drama Festival. Gigi, with Gus Smith, Esther Ruth Levene, Judy of Classical, Popular ,and has twins, \John and Nancy, now 10, Out of the Ghetto: Songs of the and and luncheons. • remember one Kristjanson directing, stars Irima Lander, Maureen Nepon and Lorne ' i in 1957), he went to the Curtis Jazz Albums, as well as town in Western Canada where and raves about his sister, Eve (Mrs. Jews in America, sung by Leon Cantorial. Cohen ("Diary, of Anne 1Frank" , Raber. LEONARD BERNSTEIN I,Institute, Penn., wil;h Fritz Reiner the hotel reservation bad not been Maxwell) Baram" whom he des Lishner, bass, with Lazar Weiner, Michael Kagen as his conducting' teacher. He was conJInned, the manager could not "Anastasia"), and Cec Montgomery In the cantata the choir is direct Phone JUstice 2-4324 cribes as ",beautiful, a talented musi Pianist; Vanguard VRS-9068. SARA UDOW and ing shirt-sleeved audience jammed ,the first ,Musical advisor and con be located, nor the auditorium. (CBWT). Wlinnipeg's first In-the ed by 'Lynn Solomon; the dance In fact, the only way we knew we cian, linguist, and the mother of Is there an American-Jewish folk During the past two weeks the the !Exhibition Forum to welcome,' ductor of the Israel Philharmonic 1060 MAIN STREET Round production was the Players' group ,by Mrs. A. Guttman, and the ! > were expected at all was from song in Yiddish - Folksong is , . three most brilliant children." She Towers introduced a change from musical accompaniment is by Marcia: Dov Seltzer , Leonard Bemstein and the New Orchestra after the war, and when reading an announcement of the production of ''WaltZ of ' the Torea-' lives in Woonsocket. often defined as a popular product ~~~~:~~~~~~~~~ the usual night club routine. And Micay. This year's co-chairmen are : York Philharmonie and the black the lPO made its first American I~ concert on a poster fastened to a dors presented last October. llrving Gertz is a musical com coru;isting of text and tune, usually lamp post. what a changel Sandra Kay and Eloise Bronstein. ,i \' tie and mink set packed the sophis- , tour in 1951, he and the late Serge of anonymous origin. However" this Greetings, iMusic Lovers Then, there ~ the affairs that go poser of tremendous' stature-' in The feature ,attraction was Sara The cast includes Brian Abrams j ticated Queen Elizabeth Theatre the I Koussevitsky (replaced by iuer on after the concert. Some of them Hollywood. The last two films he does not apply ,to the Yiddish songs THE aJEST MUSICIANS ARE Udow, one of Winnipeg's most tal Brenda Ash, MarilYn Baker, CelU; following night.
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