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Show Branch College Music Students, Director Score Opera Success The Branch Agricultural college music department scored a huge success in the presentation of the annual opera last week end, two complete casts appearing in the four performances, with the directors direct-ors and spectators unable to place the work of one ahead of the other. oth-er. The opera 'La Boheme", a most difficult work for any opera cast, was presented and the student cast turned In masterful performances. Frequently school operas boast one or two excellent leads with the balance of the cast not equalling the performance and keeping the presentation on an amateur level. However, the entire cast of the B A C group carried their parts admirably, and placed the performance perform-ance on almost professional standards. stand-ards. The performances were another an-other proof of the unusual directing direct-ing ability of Wm, H. Manning, head of the vocal music department. Wallace Adams, the only member of the cast who sang in all performances perform-ances did unusually well in the leading role and was crowded for honors by Coy Manning and Colleen Bowcutt, who divided the leading feminine role. Others who took leading lead-ing roles and gave excellent performances per-formances were Eldred Foster, Dahl Oleave, Joan Jones, Cleone Wllcken, Janice Prothero, Dee Wllcken, Em-ron Em-ron Jensen, David Bishop and John Davis. Donald Nelson, only faculty member mem-ber in the cast, did his usually fine job. Contributing greatly to the success suc-cess of the opera was the fine accompaniment ac-companiment by the college orchestra orches-tra under the direction of Roy L. Halverson. |
