Vol. 3. No. 31
North Carolina School of the Arts
May 5, 1969
NEW BALLETS PREMIERED
Three new ballets, choreogragh-
ed by faculty members at the North
Carolina School of the Arts, will be
presented during Spring Dance Con
certs at the School May 8, 9, and 10.
There will be a performance at
8:15 p.m. each day and a matinee at
2 p.m. Saturday, May 10, all in the
drama theater at the School of the
Arts.
Each program will bfe different.
All dances were choreographed by fac-
culty members except a ballet by
Richard Gibson and an excerpt by Jean
Perrot.
The new ballets are "Freeway" by
Job Sanders, "Fragments" by Pauline
Koner and "The Courtship of Miles
Standish" by Duncan Noble.
"Freeway" and "Fragments" will
be premiere performances. "The
Courtship of Miles Standish" was com
missioned by the Children's Theater
Board for performances for school
children here^ but this will be the
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Farrow
To Perform
Norman Farrow, baritone and
teacher of voice, will give a facul
ty recital at 8:15 p.m. Friday, May
9, in the main auditorium at the
North Carolina School of the Arts.
He will be accompanied by Margo Gar
rett of Raleigh, a college sophomore
who is majoring in piano accompany
ing.
Farrow has made over 100 ap
pearances as soilst in New York's
major concert halls. He has been
soloist with the Bach Aria Group
since it was organized in 1947. He
has sung with most of the country's
symphony orchestras and in all of
the principal music festivals.
His 18-concert-tour with the
Bach Aria Group this season brought
him to Chapel Hill in December, and
his other engagements in the state
included one with the Winston-Salem
Sjmphony in October. Last month, he
was heard as soloist in a perfor
mance of Menotti's "Death of the
Bishop of Brindisi" at Chapel Hill.
His program Friday will in
clude:
Motet: "Cantabo Domino" b y
Allessandro Grandi and 'Revenger,
Timotheus Cries' from the ode,
"Alexander's Feast" by George Fre
derick Handel;
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Third Siena Session
Announces Additions
In making plans for the third
summer session in Siena, Italy, the
North Carolina School of the Arts
announces two new additions to its
program.
This summer between 20 and 25
advanced students will be chosen to
participate directly in the curric
ulum of the Accademia Musicale Chi-
giana at Siena. This college is re
nowned for its enrollment of excep
tionally talented students from all
over the world. This special group
of Amercian "students, to be chosen
by the School of the Arts, will
study in the master classes of Chi-
giana's faculty of world-famous mu
sicians .
The other addition will be the
inclusion of guitar classes at the
School of the Arts Siena Session.
Jesus Silva, teacher of classical
guitar at the School of the Arts,
will teach the students.
Arrangements are being made for
the guitar students to make a brief
visit to Spain to meet Andres Sego
via at his home in Granada. Segovia
the most famous classical guitarist
of the century, gave master classes
at the School of the Arts in Winson
Salem in the Spring of 1966.
Georgio Ciompi, violinist and
It: \ ■■
artist in residence at Duke Univer
sity, will be director of the Siena
session for the third year. On his
faculty from the School of the Arts
will be Silva, Rose Bampton, teacher
of voice; Irving Klein, cello; Ro
bert Listokin, clarinet, and Phillip
Ruder, violin.
Conductor of the School of the
Arts.orchestra in Siena will be Gae
tano Delogu, one of the most rapidly
rising young Italian conductors. He'
received the Dimitri Mitropuoulos a-
ward from the New York Philharmonic
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