Show STUDENT LIFE LOGAN UTAH MARCH PAGE THREE 3 1938 “CARMEN” OPENS NEXT MONDAY 200 Students Participate matt tO'da fa- Gr March 7 And 8 mait Ve ‘e ‘tion PRESENTATION MARKS SIXTH OF SERIES DIRECTED BY WALTER WELTI f&iiuio rhis "ts t Professor Welti Directs Brilliant Opera Cast In Bizet's Grand Opera UP K three maga r Georges Bizet’s grand opera “Carmen” will be the music department of the college Monday and presented Tuesday March 7 and 8 in the Logan Capitol theater with almost 200 students participating according: to Professor Walter Welti in charge of vocal music activities who will conduct the class ccadiii r bud all by i Plicates but ' performance fft I "Carmen” will he the sixth varsity opera to he presented under Professor Welti’s direction since 1932 when Verdi’s M h withji ct u ?cr "Faust" was presented in 1933 der the direction of Professor W Christiansen director of s JOO L eithescrap- Kaga II gOft submi them o re he th as then ly life ms i a rea etime jazine plat ible this cture " Orchestra Director zAm W tea - N in- strumental music while Professor Welti was on sabbatical leave in New Yorlt City and other eastern centers Professor Welti has assured students that they will find "Carmen" to be more interesting than any operatic presentation previously performed by the college due to the zest and skill woven into both the vocal and orchestral scores "Wherever it is played” he said "regardless of the language in which it is sung it is one of the attractions” greatest The cast of eleven principals is composed entirely of students of the college Professor Welti said of them "Never before have we had a more competent group of leads Each one is especially well adapted to his respective part" The title role of the opera will be sung by Miss Blanche Cardon of Logan 1937 graduate from the school of commerce who sang the role of the high priestess in P n CJ&STtfHSefl “Aida" and who has appeared as a soloist in two sunset festival of Mendelssohn's performances sacred oratorio “Elijah” As a soprano in the Bel Canto ladies’ ehorug Miss Cardon has become conspicuous in local music circles Center Walter Welti director clockwise: Fredone Shumway Morris Cannegeiter Oralie Bailey Claudius Doty She is a former student of the Blanch Cardon Lee Humphries Olive Nielson Jerold Shepherd Donald Chatterton school where she Logan high participated in operatic productions and other musical activities “Micaela” music for Bizet’s Orchestral Miss Olive Nielsen of Logan “Carmen” will bo played by 35 of the musicians selected from the mem who was named t Klugh opera prize for her per- bership of the college symphony BY ROBERTA l’LATT they are simply spoiling for someformance in the title role of orchestra and trained by ProfesThirty-thre- e years ago this thing sensational and the vaude“Aida” last year will sing the sor N W Christiansen director of her He is enraged at the presence February a musical director rais- ville fills the prescription BY DAN JONES Miss instrumental music at the USAC soprano role of Micaela The story of the opera “Car- of Don Jose and orders him to ed his baton and gave the signal “But seriously when an opera Nielsen returned to the college The function of the instrumental Don Jose refuses and a for the curtain-raisinof Utah of the quality of The Little last fall after attending operatic division of the music department men” is taken from a novel by leave ensues to death the only State Agricultural College’s first Tycoon’ is produced by student the San characterizes the spirit of co- the same name written by the battle presentations during to be halted by the arrival of opera "The Little Tycoon” talent we are softly smitten with Francisco opera company’s season operation that has always exist- French author Prosper Merimee The words were written by H the gypsy band Carmen had The college in 1905 was in its conviction that the vaudeville according to the provisions of the ed with that phase of music at the Meilhac L Halevy and the wanted Don Jose to join the infancy and opera on the campus should be cut for the night If the and Ac divisionvocal and the college Klugh prize before his imprisonment was an innovation which accord- opera is too commonplace stay Morris W Cannegieter of Mur- eompaniment essential to produc music was adapted by Georges gypsies he has no other alter- ing to editorials from Student Life at home if the music isn’t loud now and from the Bizet The been changes only has the vocalists tion sup g bariby ray will sing the widely-sunnative for he has attacked his was in competition with vaudeville enough and there are no colored introduction the are novel masses and in original Sunset festival tone aria “The Toreador’s Song” plied the fad of the day But Utah State comedians and no pistol shots oratorios operatic productions and of a new character Micaela for superior officer in his role as Escamtllio the torethe The third act opens with the has progressed a long way from don’t patronize it but for deof accenting ador A graduate of Murray high even vocal concerts of college the purpose contraband "The Little Tycoon” to the grand cency’s sake don’t let character of Carmen and the gypsies smuggling your unischool Mr Cannegieter portrayed musicians by students of instru Don Jose goods across the border of Spain opera “Carmen” which will be form be seen that night at a rival Carmen murder of by music mental the part of Amonasro the Ethof whose which takes place outside of the Micaela is following with news Christiansen Professor presented March 7 and 8 under perfotmanee” iopian king in “Aida” and was “The Little Tycoon” was a two has taken him to the peers arena at the moment of Escamil-lo’- s the very serious illness of Don the direction of Professor Walter study comin mention honorable given instead of on a lonely Jose's mother Escamillo is fol- Welti This development is in act Japanese-Americaof music instruction of the east triumph opera It the Klugh prize petition for and seems that newspapers and public and Germany has a profound road two days later as in the lowing closely behind her because keeping with the steady “Morales” he whom love Carmen for of his for opera and its es- novel healthy growth of the college in criticism in general were very The other baritone role that of appreciation The first act opens on a square had met in the scene at the inn other fields Opera has developed favorable to the production sential features It was in 1933 Morales captain of the dragoons that he directed both the vocal in the little village of Secille of Lilias Pastia Don Jose is on with the matureity of the instiIt is on the records that “the will be sung by Jerold Sheperd of and instrumental phases in the Spain The center of the scene lookout and shoots at Escamillo tution chorus was a pretty trim looking Salina Mr Shepherd a sophomore institution's In the February 1905 issues of one and they succeeded in making presentation of Gou is the guardhouse with a group almost hitting Micaela whom he student in the music department nod’s "Faust” one of the most of soldiers lounging about Micaela cannot see She is prostrate with the Student Life editorials ap- themselves a tuneful ensemble was student body president and beloved of on and boyhood sweetheart of Don Jose fear but Escamillo presses grand operas peared urging the students to at- The orchestra was good very class valedictorian at Salina high Lawrence of Logan jun a corporal appears and asks for meets Don Jose When Don Jose tend the first opera one of these good indeed” In fact the Logan was iorLynn school he from which at the college will act as Don Jose that she may deliver a learns who he is mortal combat editorials read: Journal said it was above reproach graduated in 1936 concert master in the perform- message to him from his mother ensues The fight is halted by the The Student Life made an ac"Logan is really becoming meThe only bass role Zuniga ance Two seniors Miss Twila who resides in a nearby village arrival of Carmen who orders tropolitan She sports a vaude- count of the preformance by saybe will of the Miss has she captain guards Meldrum of Tremonton and She decides to come back later Don Jose to leave because ville We don’t wish to criticise ing: y Hinck-lof sung by Lee Humphries Elma Corry studying instrumenand in the meantime a riot occurs grown tired of him and is inter- this vaudeville Its manager is one ‘There is great joy in the hearts who sang the part of the king tal music will contribute to the in the near-b- y cigarette factory ested in the toreador After the of our advertisers and we have a of forty individuals who have of Egypt in “Aida” he leaves personnel of the orchestra when a girl is stabbed in a quarrel arrival of Micaela for the last kindly feeling in our hearts for worked night and For four years a member of the will be the fourth consecu-itv- e with Carmen a gypsy girl Don threatening her and promising persons who do this His vaude- six weeks Such day work as they in which noted tabernacle the choir of Salt see will when him operatic production Jose whose guard has relieved that she ville is really a good place ’to go put in ought to have brought Lake City with which organization Miss Meldrum has participated at the original guard is- ordered to gypsy band comes to Seville to on occasions and we don’t kick success and it did “The Little he has appeared as soloist Claud- the college take her to jail but he has fallen attend the bull fight announced at its manager's raking in the Tycoon” may be written in bold ius Doty of Midvale will sing the Miss Marian Biers instructor of in love with her and allows her earlier by Escamillo type on the list of surplus dimes of our preps They black-fac- e tenor part of Don Jose in which music at the college will partici- to escape The fourth act opens on the will shoot them anyway and they successes of our students It has he will be featured in the famed pate to augment the cello section After At the beginning of the second day of days the bullfight might go to worse places Besides won its place it deserved it” tenor aria “The Flower Song” of the orchestra act Carmen has served her thirty-da- y the usual preliminaries the digniorchesthe of Several members Mr Doty a freshman at the colsentence and Don Jose has taries arrive and everyone goes diffilege has appeared in presentations tra will deal with serious been released after serving through the gate into the arena just of Leoncavallo's “Pagliacci" and culties in performing their parts a sentence The scene Carmen who is apart from the in the civic opera “Katinka” in according to Professor Christian is in the inn of Lilias Pastia a crowd is about to enter when she sen French horn players are reSalt Lake performances friend of Carmen and the gypsies is halted by the appearance of To El Duncairo and El Itemendado quired to transpose their music as Soldiers dancing girls toreadors Don Jose who has come for a of the members and it BEST they play shouts SCHOOL two closest the Amid from showdown Don Chatterton of Preston Idaher and and Carmen ho and Arden Peterson of Moroni trombone section find it necessary friends Frasquita and Marcedes the arena they quarrel bitterly music from the will sing the tenor roles of El to transpose their are there enjoying a hilarious Don Jose is desperate and Carmen to the bass clef Great difDancairo and El Remendado tenor At closing time everyone is angry and defiant As sounds evening is encountered by the is over- of Escamilio's trumph are heard but Carmen-whsmugglers respectively Mr 'Chat- ficulty who will carry the solo bur- leaves flutes terton has been active in dramatic at the arrival of Don Jose Carmen makes a dash for the gate joyed of part the greater captain pursued by Don Jose who stabs and music productions at Franklin den through The bassoon While he is there Zuniga the orchestration 41 1111 an admirer of her as she is about to enter The and the high school the Brigham Young of guards and oboe parts generally recognizuniversity and at the USAC Mr ed as the most difficult instru- Carmen returns to be alone with excited crowd finds him holding her dead body to his heart and Peterson a basketball star on the ments in orchestration will be USAC and Snow college campCath- bitterly sorrowing oboe and Johnson Wendell Carrigan Wayne uses has been active in vocal and played by Aaron Amacher erine Wright Wendell Carrigan respectively instrumental music activities at Professor Christiansen announc- Jeane Amacher and Jeanne Hyl-basboth institutions Both are seniors orJohnson of the flutes ton members Wayne ed that the at the college this year soon Junior Rampton and Clyde chestra will be as follows Olfriends Tarbett trumpets J- Allen Stimp-so- n Portraying the roles of Lynn Lawrence Ollie Jean of the gypsy girl Carmen Miss sen and Kenneth Hoopes tromMeldrum Evelyn Twila Oralie Bailey of Logan will ap- Sylvester USAC STUDENT STORE FOR ALL Pau line Michaelsen bones Maurice Marler and Lee Formerly Larson Floral pear as Frasquita a soprano and Josephine Brown Reed Dunn Lois Copen French horns and Bev KINDS OF COLLEGE SUPPLIES! Miss Fredone Shumway of Logan Stanton Hope Simmons Lucille erly Hodgson tympani PHONE 227-Professor Walter Welti director will essay the soprano role of Cropley Virginia Ririe and Lois of “Carmen” said that the same Mercedes Reiter Goods - - - Lower Prices Miss Bailey who has Steele violins sucFLOWERS IN TIIE Erva Andrus viola Mariane degree of enthusiasm for the Participated in the production of is Dow-diof the cessful production opera Give Us a Chance to Prove it! " Beers Elma Corry LeRay almost every opera since members of the orMODERN MANNER as a violinist in the orchesKathryn Geddes and Marjor- shown among Opposite Post Office Grant Holman chestra as is demonstrated by the tra is a senior student in the ie Ririe cellos basses chorus and David Thompson music department box-offi- tcture iistar un-- 4 mag dents -- on A: a re- ed Orchestra Cooperates In Opera Is e Reviewer Summarizes trLarmen har rds i unde at tl r it aid c sill it H a ss an Cat From “LiitleTycoon” to “Carmen” g it I y- n trap' one otbf' while liveh inalh b 1 lied s “Car-men- aking l gc nber-c- t of ce io ouch meet illow Re allege P” nded was ores1 only evicr are del juris there met rvioe sooth ion Bou rn® fro® i tart nlc1 w h inlc two-mon- Piano Accompanist LUDEAN ROGERS ACCOMPANIST FOR CARMEN Miss LuDean Rogers instructor n of piano at the college and concert pianist will play the accompaniment for the musie of department’s performance Bitzet’s "Carmen” Monday and Tuesday Miss Rogers has performed perennially as accompanist for opera and oratorio presentations and on tours of the college glee clubs For 14 months Miss Rogers studied music under the direction of some of Europe's leading teachers in Paris and Berlin On her return to America she entered the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music having qualified for a scholarship There she studied under the late U)dBfmJZ?Qq£R$ Madame Liszniewska internationS E ally recognized pianist and teach- studied under Professor er She also acted as assistant Clark in Logan She was graduatinstructor of piano under this ed from the US A C in 1930 with teacher a B S degree She also has a At Cincinnati Miss Rogers was bachelor of music degree from the presented as a guest soloist with Cincinnati conservatory the Cincinnati Symphony orchestMiss Rogers is a member of concerto Sigma Alpha Iota national honorra playing in G minor by memory She ap- ary musical fraternity of which peared in a number of other east- she became a member while studyern concerts both as soloist and ing in Cincinnati She is also She has also ac- affiliated with Chi Omega naaccompanist companied Edgar Schofield New tional social sorority York vocalist and teacher Hollis Arthur Bailey and Robert CrawDann Sidor Belarsky and John ford two New York soloists who H Patrick sang the leading roles in the 1935 She recently studied under Fred- presentation of “Elijah” and John eric Dixon New York concert H Patrick who presented a conpianist who was residing tempor- ceit heie in December have laudarily in Ogden while convalescing ed Miss Rogers’ work saying that from an illness “she demonstrated true genius as she an accompanist” Before her work abroad Saint-Saen- Chorus Of 00 Sing Bizet’s Oral Music 1 Choral music for the college's presentation of Bizet’s “Carmen will be sung by a chorus of 100 voices selected from the membership of the men s and ladies’ choruses at the school The vocalists composing the chorus represent localities from all sections of Utah and southern Idaho There are also representatives from some communities of the east and from Canada Professor Welti announced that the following will sing in the chorus: BerTenors —Lloyd Bickmore nard Brown Bryan Booth Dwyth Daines Rosslyn Eppic Arthur Jorgenson Clair Johnson Glen Lewis neo Linford Robert Gooding and Ivan Wilmore Logan Thomas Andrus Ucon Idaho LeRoy Archibald Dayton Idaho Daniel Brian Tremonotn Clifton Doxon GoodDan Tones Malad ing Idaho Idaho Vinton Merrill Preston Idaho Keith Oakes Hyrum Howard Ririe Lewiston Vaughan Wassom Garland Waldon Purcell Provo Robert Shipley Preston Idaho and Leland Wright Ogden Basses Merlin Archibald Dilworth Jenson Samuel Monson Wesley Mit-to- n Gorgas Paulsen Raymond Smith Erwin Stoddard and George Swenson Logan Ferrel Bybee Smithfield Richard Bullock Preston Idaho Roy Bean Brigham City Lloyd Christensen and Dean Christensen Ephraim Neil Frischkneeht Manti Bert Hog-ga- n Ogden Lloyd Knaphus Richfield Delbert Palmer Alberta Canada Newell Olsen Rigby Idaho Glen Quigley Moab Norman Wahlstrom Laketown Charles Welker and Robert Ogden Young Woods Cross Sopranos— Helen Allred Grace Anderson Lucille Bitten Barbara Christensen Naomi Everton Ther-ess- a Hill Eva Jorgensen Arlene King Irene Linford Eva Pulley Virginia Sant Merlin Stott Mavia Tracy MarJean Tyson and MarDonette jorie Weaver Logan Clegg Grace Idaho Evelyn Irving Midvale Vella and Verda Idaho Georgeson Weston Jorgensen Hyrum Ruby Leigh Cedar City Margaret Murdock Beaver Jean Smith Stratford Connecticut Lola Taylor Ogden and Mildred Weston Lake-towRo-sel- la n- smooTiij'wnR lines ' 'th r the Logan Music Co noG&ik DOW 7 ''7 V new tire safety &3 around at this amazing low cost Avoid skids and smash-up- s when streets fft South Main St Phone Your Musical Needs Everything for WILKINSON’S “Rigo-letto- r a — Get wet and slippery Cc— fca and order your new Urea today just zy CHARGE IT ON THE BUDGLT HAN "Yi i there’s no red tape nofLlay tion of your 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MUSIC IN THE WEST! Fred’s Flowers Altos Allen Grace Bateman Maurine CotUe Ina Doty Relda Gerdner Ann Grantage Phoebe Linford Marian Maugh-a- n Yvonne Merrill Mary Kay Naisbitt Nadine Naisbitt Genevieve Porter Mary Pett Nettie Marie Petersen Wyora Scoville and Ruth Smith Logan Vanda Bennet Parowan Louette Clegg Grace Idaho Myrtle Dunn Hyrum Mary Harris Soda Springs Idaho Lois Hendricks Lewiston Grace Hendricks Providence Ruth Laison Ruth Ogden Maughan Smithfield Hope and June Manwaring Roosevelt Maxine Nelson Ferron Ada Rex Randolph and Isabel Wade Ogden Professor Welti said that the membership of the chorus was carefully selected and that the group has shown unusual enthusiasm over the opera They are particularly eager to see it produced skillfully on the stage he commented CONGRATULATIONS - Altos— Lois t j |