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June 4, 1969 N.C. Essay Page 3 HOl^/LAND/ BECK JOIN VOICE DEPARTMENT (oon*'t fvom page 1) excellent production, true intona tion and tine ununciation. This vo cal equipment was put at the service of real musicianship and unusually intelligent interpretation." Virgil Thomson said in a review in the Herald Tribune? **She has everything. Such beauty^ of voice and person, such grace of body and thought, such thorough and straight forward artistry are not often the fortune of one woman.” Miss Howland was bom and brought up in Berlin, Bermany. Her father, Nathaniel Jacob Howland, is a descendant of John Howland of the Plymouth Bay Colony. He married Baroness Clara von Westernhagen, and for 25 years represented American business interests in Europe. Miss Howland received all of her vocal training in this country, beginning at Juilliard, where she studied with Madame Schoen-Rene. Beck, who has been living in New York, is a North Carolinian, a native of Wadesboro. In addition to the New York City Opera, he has sung with the Miami Opera, Boston Opera Group, Goldovsky Opera Company, Houston, San Antonia and Tulsa ope ras, Philadelphia Lyric and Phila delphia Grand operas, Pittsburg, Hartford and Central City operas. He has more than 90 roles in his repetoire. Beck has gained a reputation as a "singer-actor, comgining an out standing rich vocal quality with superb acting and artistic skill." About his performance in "La Traviata" with the New York City Opera Company, one reviewer said: "....Violetta was better, but neither she nor Alfred could compare to the father, played by William Beck. He carried himself with the profession al ease that makes audience com fortable." The Chicago Tribune said of his performance in "Hansel and Gretel: "Another 'find' is William Beck who plays Peter, the father. His voice is grand, with smoothness and power at all levels of loudness. His stage presence commands empathy whenever he appears." He recently recorded "Julius Caesar" for RCA Victor as a member of the New York City Opera's produc tion. He directed and sang the title role in a television production of "Don Pasquale" for educational tele vision and the Armed Forces tele vision in Europe. Beck has an A.B. degree from Duke University and an M.A. in opera theater from the Manhattan School of Music. He attended Juilliard School of Music for two years and did grad uate work at Tulane University. He is the winner of a Ford Foundation grant for opera singers, sponsored by the New Orleans OPera Company. (oon't middle of next oolwm) TROTMAN TO SPEAK AT (con 'r moM drama and 16 in music. High school seniors include 16 in dance, eight in drama, six in design, and produc tion and 35 in msuic. Four of these students have been here for four years. Forty of the 65 high ..school seniors will return next year as college freshmen.- Wiiliam Trotman will give the commencement address. He was asso ciate director of the drama depart ment when the school opened in the fall of 1965, with William Ball of New York as advisory director in drama. He will be introduced by Robert Ward, President of the School fo the Arts. Introductory and closing re marks will be made by Lawrence 0. Carlson, academic dean. Dr. James H. Semans of Durham, president of the board of trustees, will present college diplomas. Mrs. Foster Fitz- Simons and Mrs. Gerd Young, assis tant academic deans, will present high school diplomas. Two musical selections will be presented by a brass quintet of students from the School of the ARts. Trotman left the School of the Arts in 1966 to go to Honolulu, Ha waii, where he is co-owner and resi dent designer of Alquist Tremaine Theatrical Company. He has been in professional theater for 15 years as an actor, designer and manager- director. Last fall he joined Theater At lanta, a professional repertory com pany in Atlanta, Ga. and was a mem ber of the cast of "Red, White and (oon't helow) Beck got his start in opera with the National Opera Company in Raleigh (N.C.)., then known as the Grass Roots Opera Company. He has spent several seasons as director for the company and has also direct ed the opera workshop in Central City (Colo.). He and his family will move to Winston-Salem in December. Maddox," which was taken to Broadway in December. He has acted with the Edward Padula Productions in New York, Sas katchewan Festival Theater in Canada Alley Theater in Houston, Texas; Penisula Playhouse and Erie Play house in Erie, Pa.; Barn Theater in Augusta, Mich.; Pasadena Playhouse, Carolina Playmakers and the Anchor age Alaska, where he was radio and television director for the U.S. Army. In May of this year he was guest artist with the Carolina Play makers at Chapel Hill for their pro duction of an original script on Thomas Wolfe. Trotman played the Wolfe role. He also received this year the Playmaker's Alumnal Award for outstanding achievement in the field of drama. GRADUATION FRIDAY -pAGE I) In radio, television and films he has acted in the American Adven ture Series for NBC, Gordon Kay Pro ductions in Hollywood» Calif.; Na tional Educational Television and I>avld Susskind^s ”Esso Repertory Theater.*^ He has been resident designer for seven professional theater cora- painles including the Honolulu Civic Light Opera Company and the Honolulu Opera Association. Trotman was founder and direc tor of the InstitilE of Outdoor Dra ma at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill and was actor and narrator for four seasons for the outdoor drama, "Unto These Hills at Cherokee. He was director of drama for two summers at the Governor's School in Winston-Salem. He is a native of Winston-Salem and attended Davidson College. He has A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studied acting at the American Theater Wing and Stella Adler's School in New York. The 17 college seniors who were freshmen when the School of the Arts opened four years ago are: Dan Ashe of Winston-Salem (French horn) , Alan Bowman of Lenoir (tuba), Kenneth Crawley of Raleigh (organ), Ella Cutts of Angler (voice), Alice El more of Elkin (dance), Georgyn Geetlein of Westfield, N.J. (voice); James Greenwood of Charlotte (drama) Robert Guthrie and Marcus Hansen of Winston-Salem (guitar), Daniel Jones of Wytheville, Va. (trumpet); Jona than Julian of Winston-Salem (clari net) , Eugene Lowery of Wingate (dance), Mark Morganstern of Sche nectady, N. Y. (double-bass); Eliza beth Peeler of Shelby (voice), Mattie Menfee Rhodes of Winston-Salem (flute), Bernard Thacker of Winston- Salem (voice), John Wright of Win ston-Salem (oboe). The four high school graduates who have been here for four years are: Jeanne Jennings of High Point (harpsichord) , Janis Perrone of Westbury, Ling Island, N.Y. (piano), Marcia Steel of Raleigh (violin) and Timothy Ward of Winston-Salem (bas soon) . Other college graduates are: In dance - Emily Adams, Ellen Baxter, Mary Gwyn Cage, Henry Moody, Leland Schwantes. In drama - Susanne Deas,Michele Marsh, and Lida Sims. In music - Martha Lindsey and Michael McCraw. Other high school graduates are In dance - Martha Amper, Bonni- fer Beaufort, Pamela Cohen, Nina David, Svea Eklof, Krishna Evans, Carmen Hajash, Alexander Keyser, Ilze Klavins, Cindee Kuiper, Melinda Lawrence, Cynthia Livingston, Eric McCullough, Susan McKee, Rebecca Mc Lain, and Susan Solomon.
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