JANUARY 15, 1964 PROMPTER <', Beautiful Galina Samtsova, new star of National Ballet of Canada (Page 7) Joan Sutherland Concert Next Month . Announcement Boston Symphony Orchestra Program iUSHNELL MEMORIAL "Samson and Delilah" Program 66 Capitol Avenue iartford, Connecticut 06103 Film on Israel Booked Announcement BUSHNELL center of Conneclio.il living since 1847 PROMPTER GrFOX'CQ Hartford 15, Connecticut JANUARY 15, 1964. Page Entertainment Guide. ... 3 Programs Boston Symphony Orchestra . 9 "Samson and Delilah" ... 13 Articles and Features Amazing Joan Sutherland Coming 6 National Ballet of Canada . 7 Story of "Samson and Delilah" . 12 Israel New Film Subject . .14 Curtain Talk 15 MAGNAVOX ASTROSONIC STEREO . Published on the 1st and 15th of each month by EXCITING TO SEE AND HEAR the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation. Subscription $1 a year for 24 issues. 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JANUARY M W T F S 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY 3 4 5 10 II 12 Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles, company of Spanish dancers, singers, musicians direct from Madrid, at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, January 16. This a Civic Music Association program originally set for November 25 but postponed be- cause of the death of President Kennedy. For CMA members only, with no sale of seats. Karen Wolfe Shaw, pianist, in a Colonial Room recital at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, January 16, sponsored by the Musical Club of Hartford. Members may bring guests. John Jay's Ski Film, his newest offering, "Catch A Skiing Star", to be presented at 8:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday, January 17-18, under the sponsorship of the Hartford Ski Club. Jay will per- sonally narrate this feature-length, full- color motion picture, which brilliantly depicts skiing in many widespread areas. Tickets at the box office : reserved seats, $2.50; general admission, $1.50. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf conducting, 8:15 p.m. Mon- day, January 20, third concert in the Bushnell Symphony Series. Dr. Leins- dorf's program will include one of Richard Strauss' most delightful orches- tral works, the Suite from "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", composed as incidental music to Moliere's masterpiece, and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, seldom performed in Hartford. A limited num- ber of seats are available at $4.90, $5.40, $5.95. January 15 "Samson and Delilah", mighty opera by Saint-Saens, to be presented at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, January 23, by the Connecticut Opera Association, Frank Pandolfi, executive director. Principals Shoreham-Oaks will include the celebrated new Metro- politan star James McCracken, Sandra Warfield, Chester Ludgin, Nicola Mos- Before and after the performance cona. The opera ballet troupe will be COMPLETE DINNERS SERVED seen. Tickets are now on sale at: Orch. $8.00, $7.00, $6.00; 1st Bal., $8.00, FROM NOON UNTIL MIDNIGHT $7.00, $6.00, $5.00; 2nd Bal., $4.00, $3.00, $2.50. in Hartford's "To Kill A Mocking Bird," motion pic- most beautiful dining rooms ture starring Gregory Peck, at 8 p.m. Friday, January 24, with selected short subjects. Tickets for this outstanding Entertainment nightly in the film program, part of the Favorite Mo- tion Picture Series, will be 75ff, available COCKTAIL LOUNGE at the box office. from 5-7 & 9-12 P. M. Popular Music Concerts featuring sing- ers with particular appeal to young people, at 2:30 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Overlooking the beautiful Bushnell Park January 25, sponsored by James Zoppi. All seats will be $2.50. Tickets will be on 440 ASYLUM STREET sale in the box office. Jimmy Dorsey Band, Johnnie Ray, in a Dining Room Closed Sundays FREE PARKING single concert at 8 p.m. Sunday, Janu- ary 26, sponsored by the Lions Club of Hartford. Tickets are available through Lions Club members or at the box office at $2.50. Both the band and the guest singer have been rated among America's topnotch entertainers for many years. All proceeds of the concert will help the Lions activities among blind and other- wise unfortunate children. National Ballet of Canada, rated high among the foremost dance companies in the New World, in a single performance at 8:30 p.m. Monday, February 3. For its program the big company from Toronto has selected: "Serenade", danced to Tchaikowsky music; "House of Atreus", a ballet new to Hartford with choreography by Grant Strate and music by Harry Somers; "Allegresse" to music by Mendelssohn. Tickets are now on sale in the box office or by mail at: orchestra or first bal. $4.00, $3.50, $3.00; second bal. $2.50, $2.00, $1.50. Send stamped envelope and make checks payable to Bushnell Memorial; Hart- ford, Conn. 06103. Travelers Men's Club presenting Attor- ney James Donovan, the man who ar- ranged with Castro for release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, evening of Tues- day, February 4. Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell con- ducting, at 8:15 p. m. Wednesday, February 5, in the fourth Bushnell Bushnell Prompter Symphony Series concert. Ivan Roger Wagner Chorale, widely regarded Moravec, outstanding pianist from as America's finest singing group, in a Prague, will be guest soloist. Dr. Szell concert at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb- has selected for his program: Roman ruary 11, exclusively for Civic Music Carnival Overture by Berlioz; Sym- Association members. Headed by its phony in C major, K200 by Mozart; noted founder-director, Roger Wagner, "SDhmer Variations on a Theme of Hindemith the Chorale has 24 men and women. U PIANOS by Walton; Piano Concerto No. 4 by On a number of occasions it has toured Beethoven. limited number of tickets abroad under the State Department's A ARE SELECTED AS PRIZES are available at $2.85, $3.10, $3.90, Cultural Exchange program. There will for $4.90, $5.40 and $5.95. be no sale of tickets. "The Price is Right" Show "The Man From The Diners Club", hit ELSEWHERE-MUSIC N.B.C. TV movie starring Danny Kaye, at 8 p.m. Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts at Friday, February 7, along with se- 2 p.m. Saturdays via WTIC FM and lected short subjects. Third event in this AM: January 18, "II Trovatore;" 25, season's Favorite Motion Picture Series "The Magic Flute;" February 1 at to benefit the Children's Museum. 1:35 "Lohengrin." p.m., . because Sohmer tone, craftsman- Tickets at 75c at the door. New York Philharmonic Orchestra, ship and styling represent superior "Listening to Music," third set of Hart- concerts broadcast Sundays, 3 to 5 p.m. quality. ford Symphony concerts for young via WCCC-FM. people, Saturday, February 8, at 1 Hartt College Recitals, free, at the Come into our showrooms p.m. and 3 p.m. These one-hour con- University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield — see and hear for yourself these certs to be conducted by Fritz Mahler Avenue: January 15, 8:30 p.m., Philip magnificent Sohmer pianos. will feature as guest artist the outstand- Ruder, violin; 17, 8 p.m., Junior Recital; ing Danish accordionist, Mogens Ele- 24. 8 p.m., Junior Recital; 28, 8:30 p.m., gaard. Tickets will be sold at the box Joseph Laderoute, tenor. i # since 1894 office on the day of the concerts at $1.00 Hartford Symphony Televised Con- 242 Asylum Street • HARTFORD for children and $1.50 for adults. cert at 7 p.m. January 19 through 525-1415 and "Israel, Rebirth Of A Nation," superb WTIC TV, Ch. 3, and WTIC FM conducting. color film at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb- AM, Fritz Mahler ruary 8, with personal narration by Fine Arts Foundation Concerts at Ed Lark, an outstanding photographer- 8:30 p.m. Sundays, Fellowship Hall of lecturer. Lark's feature length film cov- South Church. January 19, opera ers Tel-Aviv, Jaffa, Rahovot, Shifta, "Alice and the Queen;" (to be repeated Beersheba, the Dead Sea and its potash January 20, 21) tickets at the door; works, King Solomon's Mines, Eilat, January 26, Shuku Iwasaki, piano, HARTT Budinszky, violin, free.