The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1976 Page: 6 of 8
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first American composer to be
recognized and to perform in-
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*• Kay Deming Standifer,
soprano, was presented in a
concert at Odessa Cellege in
Odessa on Monday, November
29.
The program included works
of Mozart, Schubert, Brahms,
Barber, MacDwell, and an
aria from "Pagliacci" by Leon-
cavallo.
New Art Fashions”
(Pas de Deux),
Tarantella", and
Southwestern University was
represented at the 52nd annual
meeting of the National As-
sociation of Schools of Music,
held November 21-23 at the
Peachtree Blaza in Atlanta, by
Dr. Ted Lucas, Dean of the
School of Fine Arts, and Dr.
Ellsworth Peterson, chairman
of the music department.
at the door each evening at 7:00
p.m.
The script is a collaboration
of Laney Yarber, Robin
Gaynes, Victor Weaver and
Bob Yarber. The one-hour per-
formance combines sculpture,
music, painting, dance-orient-
ed movement and especially-
designed "new art fashions."
Currently in the U.S., many
performing and visual artists
are combining their talents to
design works in cooperation
with museums and galleries.
Much of the material is public
knowledge, partly as a result of
the current nature of the topic.
Original dialogues are inserted
where there is no direct
reference to story line.
The acts are titled as follows:
Act 1, The Game Show, the sub-
ject at the end of his emigration
— the landscape; Act II, The
Airplane Room, the duality of
the inner-self and external
world; and Act 111, The Fashion
Show, the glance of another.
mission.
George Skibine, famed
choreographer and director,
formerly with the Ballet Russe
and the Paris Opera, is the ar-
tistic director for the Dallas
Ballet.
"A Shape of Light", from the
story by William Goyen,
premiered Mar. 26, 1976, and in-
cludes Prelude, Pizzicato,
adagietto, and Fugue.
"Firebird", with music by
Stravinsky, tells the story of
Prince Ivan, who finds an
United States in 1944.
In just 30 years, "The Nut-
cracker" — with its universal
dreams of gracious fairy
princesses, fearless princes,
dancing sweets and the
shimmering childhood fan-
tasies that still haunt the cor-
ners of secret reverie — has
become a traditional Christmas
ritual for children and grow-
nups throughout the United
States.
The,Dallas Ballet, one of two
professional ballet companies
in the Southwest, will provide
on December 9 a festive and
joyous way to celebrate the
holiday season.
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interpreted in the classical
idiom.
Born in the opulence of
Czarist Russia, the first "Nut-
cracker" ballet was the
brainchild of composer Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky and of
choreographer Marius Petipa.
The "Nutcracker" premiered
at the Maryinsky Theatre in St.
Petersburg, Russia, on Dec. 17,
1892, to an audience which in-
cluded the Czar, Alexander II,
and members of his-court. And
although the "Nutcracker
excerpts from "Nutcracker".
This is the third program of
the 1976-77 Artist Series spon-
sored by Southwestern Univer-
sity. Admission for the general
public is by single ticket
purchased at the door prior to
the performance. University
personnel will present
Austin's Laguna Gloria Art "Patty Hearst Meets Patty
Museum will present a three- Duke" was performed in May
act, .visual arts performance 1976 at the Delahunty Gallery
.called "Patty Hearst Meets and First Saturday Art Gallery,
Patty Duke" on Friday, both in Dallas. The perfor-
December 10 and‘ Saturday, mances were part of the Dallas
December 11 at 8 p.m. The per- New Arts Festival.
formances will be held at The This work involves an
Studio, located at 307 West 16th assimilation of the visual and
St., between Guadalupe and performing arts. - It presents
Lavaca. Admission is $1.50 per philosophical data in visual
person. Tickets will go on sale form as movement statements.
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Suite" has become one of the
world's most popular concert
works, not even Tchaikovsky,
who died three years later, en-
visioned the impact that both
his music and the ballet have
hadn the imagination of the
Western world.
Almost 50 years passed
before "The Nutcracker"
reached Western Europe,
premiered by the famed'
Sadler's Wells Ballet in London
in 1934. An abbreviated version
finally reached the United
States in 1940, courtesy of the
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo,
and the first complete-"Nut-
cracker" was presented in the
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by Michial Meyer
Thursday, December 2: Mu Psi
Chi, 8:00 p.m., FAC.
Friday, December 3: Friday
Musicale, 3:00 p.m., Recital
Hall. (required event, music
majors)
Sunday, December 5: Handel's
"Messiah," 4:00 p.m.,
Alma Thomas Theatre,
(required event, music
majors)
Tuesday, December 7: Delta
Omicron meeting, 6:15
p.m., Room 107, FAC
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