' Haaker Gives Recital

Haaker Gives Recital

7 Wednetday Evening • The second concert in the series ■ . ’ of three will - feature the lovely, v:• young soprano, Katharine Hansel, * and Glenn Darwin, distinguished American bariton. The concert will be held at 4:30 p.m. at Avon ■Mills. Miss Hansel, born in Louisville, Kentucky, is well known to the f~' musical public, having appeared "f as a member of the Mozart Trio, ■: t soloist withtheNational Sym, phony, and other concerts of , wide acclaim. Both Miss Hansel and Mr. Dar, Win will sing a group of solo numbers and will close the pro1 gram with duets that everyons • ■ enjoys. ^ ; - .■> The first of tbe series was ac. claimed a "damp success’ on 8bb« day, August 12, when 54 musicians of the Virginia and National Symphonies gave the opening of Blue Ridge Music Festival’s sumv mer series. Despite tain at the beginning, U-i the main portion of the concert. : a was rain-free, and the audience was most enthusiastic. William Haaker gave a piano concert last evening at Avon pnily His delighted audience demanded, and got, three encores. ---The criticism of parking facilities, following the first concert, has been met, and it is understood that other parking accommodations will he arranged for this Sunday. .. V A Student concert will be featured next Wednesday night, August 22, When the choral group will wiU present a program. . M/Sgt. Glenn Darwin, distinguished American baritone, belongs to the relatively small group ef singers equally at home on the opera stage, in the concert hall, in the radio studio, or the Broadway stage. Hia is a striking com, bination of voice and musicianf ship—of personality and acting ability. -vA native of Kansas City, Missouri, - his musical career zSfigdK. ; r from that of a boy soprano 4n “Hansel and Gretel” to the baritone lq*d in Damrosch’s “The Man Without a Country” with the Metropolitan Opera Company, a role h- * he learned upon two days notice —from “The Magic Flute” in » which he-appeared as a student at the Juilliard School of Music, to - Tschaikowsky’s “Pique Dame” which he sang with the New Opera Company. His recordings as a boy soprano . made by the Victor Recording( Company, are being used today as ——— a model in various music schools. The exact time at which he started singing cannot be easily determin. «d, but it was at quite an early ' . age. In fact, he caused his mother considerable dismay on a number , - of occasions, when, at the age of three he would burst into song on a crowded bus. After repeatedly being the cynosure of all attention by her fellow passengers, she finally pleaded in desperation, “Son, why do you do this to me?” To -■C which her three year old replied ... “I can’t help it, Mama. It just comes out .of . ml.————