1ZZ2 PROMPTER Erich Leinsdorf, new music director and conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Page 13). Verdi's Mighty Opera "Otello" Program Program BUSHNELL MEMORIAL "British Columbia," Color Film, Cleveland P. Grant . 1 6 6 Capitol Avenue • Program HARTFORD 14 Boston Symphony Orchestra CONNECTICUT Europe's Great Orchestras Visit U. S. A Article center of Connecticut living since 18 47 BUSHNELL PROMPTER G:FOX*CO. Morffo/d 15, Connecticut NOVEMBER IS, 1962 Page Entertainment Guide. 3 Programs 7 "British Columbia", Cleveland Grant 11 Eoston Symphony Orchestra . 13 Articles and Features Story of "Otello" .... 6 Two Great European Orchestras 9 Eig Hand for Queen's Men 9 Sammy Davis, Jr. Revue . 9 Curtain Talk IS Ferrante and Teicher Coming . 15 Published on the 1st and 15th of each month by the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation. Subscription $1 a year for 24 issues. 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NOVEMBER s M T W T F S 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DECEMBER | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, two of America's most talented folk singers, in a single concert at 8:30 p.m. Friday, November 16, sponsored by Manuel A. Greenhillof Boston. In addition to their singing, Miss Baez is a gifted guitarist and Mr. Seeger plays the recorder, 12 -string guitar and long neck banjo. Tickets for this unique program are: $1.55, $2.10, $2.65, $3.20, $3.75. Parade of Barbershop Quartets, 17th annual gala performance at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, November 17, sponsored by Hartford Chapter, SPEBSQSA. Pro- ceeds will benefit the Hartford Little League. Ticket prices are: orchestra or first balcony, $3.50, $3.00, $2.50; second balcony, $2.00, $1.50. "Otello", Verdi's mighty opera, at 8:15 p.m. Monday, November 19, opening offering this season by the Connecticut Opera Association, Frank Pandolfi, executive director. Mario Del Monaco, rated by many critics as the greatest liv- ing dramatic tenor, will take the title role. Tickets are now available at: $7.50, $6.50, $5.50, $4.50, $3.75, $2.50. "British Columbia," a new feature- length movie in color, narrated by Cleveland P. Grant, 8:15 p.m. Novem- 24 Trumbull Street ber 23 and 24, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, November 25. Second event in the HARTFORD 525-2139 November 15 popular Bushnell Lecture Course. Grant office at: orchestra, $4.75, $4.00; first balcony, $3.25; second SERGIO FRANCHI is a naturalist as well as photographer $4.75, $4.00, and travelogue expert, and will include balcony, $3.25, $2.50. Italy's Brilliant Tenor many outdoor sequences depicting British Columbia, "the California of now ON Canada," as well as intimate pictures of life in the cities. Tickets, on a reserved RCA VICTOR seat basis, will be on sale at: 75ff, $1.00 and $1.25. Father Flanagan's Boys Town Choir, in a single local concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, November 25, sponsored by Mercyknoll. This celebrated ensemble of nearly 35 boys from the Nebraska institution established many years ago by Father Flanagan, has won wide fame for its singing not only of religious works but of a great variety of popular secular numbers. Tickets are now available in the Bushnell box office at: patrons $5.00; general admission, $2.50. Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its new musical director, Erich BENNETT Leinsdorf, at 8:15 p.m. Monday, No- TONY vember 26. For this third concert in Hear Him at Your the current Bushnell Symphony Series Mozart's RCA VICTOR DEALER Dr. Leinsdorf has selected: Ferrante and Teicher, the duo-piano Symphony; Brahms' Quartet "Jupiter" team that has become a recording sensa- in minor for Piano and Orchestra as G tion, in a single Bushnell concert at transcribed for orchestra by Schonberg. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, December 2, spon- limited number of tickets are available A sored by the Al Jarvis Orchestra. The at: $2.25, $2.75, $3.50, $4.00, $4.75 and pianists' program, "The Many Moods JULIUS HARTT $5.25. of Ferrante and Teicher," is two hours of varied music seasoned with a rare SCHOOL OF MUSIC "Borscht Capades," 14th anniversary sense of concert humor, and including edition of this musical-variety revue, to some of the duo's recorded hits. Re- non-collegiate division be presented on the Bushnell stage at served seat tickets at the box office at: University of Hartford 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 28, orchestra or first balcony, $3.75, $3.25, by Hal Zeiger. Tickets now at the box $2.75; second balcony, $1.75. Louis Pellettieri, director office at: orchestra or 1st balcony, $5.00, $4.00, $3.00; 2nd balcony, $2.50. Family Adventures in Music Scots Greys, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, a mighty contingent of "A Majority of One," comedy movie presented by 100 men coming at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, starring Rosalind Russell and Alex Children's Museum of Hartford December 4. Including the massed Guinness, at 8 p.m. Friday, November and Julius Hartt School of Music band, drummers, pipers and highland 30, the second offering in this season's dancers of two of Scotland's most Sunday, December 16, 4. p. m. Favorite Motion Picture Series. With famous regiments, this ensemble has al- Renaissance and Medieval Music selected short subjects. Tickets at the ready proved to be a major attraction box office at 7 5 (if. Sunday, February 3, 4 p. m. during its current tour. Its stirring Baroque and Rococo Music music, marching and dancing can be Tony Bennett, currently one of this coun- enjoyed in Bushnell Memorial comfort, Sunday, April 4 m. 28, p. try's most popular vocalists, with the as have been earlier programs by the music for children Ralph Sharon Trio, in a single program Scots Guard, Black Watch and other at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, December 1, regimental units. Tickets in the box Children's Museum Auditorium sponsored by Troubadour Productions. office at: orchestra or first balcony, A community service without charge. Bennett will repeat in the Bushnell a $4.00, $3.50, $3.00; second balcony, For information, phone 236-5411. Carnegie Hall performance which won $2.50, $2.00, $1.50. In ordering by mail raves from audience and critics alike. make checks payable to Bushnell Me- Tickets are now available at the box morial, send to Hartford 14, Conn. Bushnell Prompter Travelers Choral Club in an annual pre- "Color, A Magic Force," a lecture at Christmas concert at 8:15 p.m. Wednes- 8 p.m. November 20 in West Middle Al Jarvis Orchestra day, December 5. Public invited with- School by Josef Albers, painter and Presents out charge. teacher at Yale. Sponsored by Hartford AN ALL NEW Art School and Wadsworth Atheneum. Choral Club of Hartford, directed by Tickets at the door. MUSICAL FUN SHOW Jack Byron Grove, in a concert at 8:15 p.m. Friday, December 7. Admission Sunday Free Art Film Series, present- The Many Moods of by membership or associate member- ing the color film "Picasso" at 3 p.m. ship cards. November 25, in the Wadsworth Atheneum's Avery Auditorium. FERRANTE Young People's Program by the Hart- ford Symphony. Fritz Mahler conduct- "The Hostage," first event in "Three ing, two one-hour concerts at 1 and 3 Evenings in Theatre" series, December & TEICHER p.m. Saturday, December 8. Four 3, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. in new Jewish Com- AMERICA'S POPULAR pairs of Saturday afternoon concerts munity Center Auditorium, 335 Bloom- will be given during the season; series field Avenue, West Hartford. For infor- PIANO DUO ARTISTS tickets are available through the mation call the Center. schools. ELSEWHERE-MUSIC SUN. DEC. 2 Warren Miller Ski Film, "Around the Bushnell Stage at 7:30 World on Skis," personally presented by Hartt College Free Concerts at the Col- at 8:15 p.m.