MESSIAH TO BE PRESENTED TUESDAY
The 33rd annual performance of Handel's great oratorio, The Messiah, will be p r e s e n t e d Tuesday, December 12, at 8 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, according to Dr. Robert W. Cavanaugh. Chairman of the Hope College Music Department. Four distinguished soloists from Chicago will be backed by a 200-voice chorus comprised of the college's Chapel and Chancel Choirs, accompanied by members of the orchestra, Roger Rietberg, organist, and Anthony Kooiker, pianist. Dr. Cavanaugh, who will conduct the traditional performance, has announced the following soloists: Joyce Morrison, soprano; Patricia Sage, contralto; Lawrence Lane, tenor; and Richard Schreiber, baritone. Miss Morrison, who is currently on the voice faculty at Wheaton College, received her B.A. from Augustana and her
M.M. from the American Conservatory of Music. She has appeared as soloist with numerous oratorio societies and choruses, including the Handel Oratorio Society of Rock Island, European Oratorio Society of Morgan Park, Hammond Presbyterian Chorus, Chicago Heights Civic Symphony, the Tri-City Symphony Orchestra of Davenport, Iowa, and others. Miss Sage, contralto, as a soloist member of the famed Rockefeller Chapel Choir, University of Chicago, has performed all the major Bach scores, as well as many other oratorios. She has sung with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and has appeared on television both as a piano soloist and as a singer. Miss S'age will be touring Europe in the spring of 1962. Recently returned from Italy where he studied and performed, Lawrence Lane will sing the te-
nor solos for the Hope College Messiah performance. Mr. Lane has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Bethany Messiah Festival in Lindsborg, Kansas. He was also soloist for Carlisle Floyd's "Wuthering Heights" in its Midwest premiere in Chicago.
Not new to Holland audiences is Richard Schreiber, baritone, who was soloist for the 1957 and 58 Hope College Messiah performances. He has sung roles in The Elijah, Judas Maccabaeus, the Verdi, Requiem, Brahm's Requiem and others. Schreiber has also soloed with the American Opera Company, the Chicago City Opera Company, the Milwaukee Opera Association and others. Tickets for the performance are available at the Student Council office.
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P & M's 'Medea' Scores Opening Night Success
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At the first meeting of the cast chosen to appear in Palette and Masque's current production of Euripides' Me^ea, Director David Karsten was overhead to have said: "Now that we have decided to produce this play, we had better understand one thing, Medea will be great or it will be nothing." He was so right. Medea opened Thursday night in the Music Building Auditorium. And it was great. Donna Davis, junior speech major from Catskill, New York, displayed an artistry which can only result from hours of dedicated preparation, as she fashioned the brilliant lines of the Robinson Jeffers adaptation of the original Greek drama into an inspired re-creation of the title role of Medea. B. J. Berghorst, Zeeland junior. showed sensitivity and fine control in his moving portrayal of Jason, Medea's unfaithful husband and the hero of the mythological tale of the Golden Fleece. Nancy Rees, as Medea's nurse, complemented the two principals beautifully. Miss Rees, a junior from Brooklyn, handled some difficult transitional passages feelingly and with clarity as the immortal Greek tragedy unfolded. Euripides' play takes up the story of Medea and Jason after their return to Greece, following the adventure of the Golden Fleece at Colchis. Mythology readers will recall that Medea betrayed her father and murdered her brother in order to aid Jason in his celebrated quest. Pelias, who sent Jason on his expedition, was also killed through the ruthlessness of Medea, who became Jason's wife, and the couple fled the court of Pelias to live in Corinth, where two sons are born to them. In Corinth, Jason renounces Medea to marry Creusa, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Jason thus is established
by Bob Jaehnig as the heir apparent to Creon's throne. According to the ways of her Barbarian people, Medea plots revenge on Jason, through the death of his new bride and the sons he had by Medea. Creon was convincingly portrayed Thursday night by Carl Benes. Ken Baron, a newcomer to the P & M stage, adequately filled the role of Aegeus, King of Athens, who pledged his protection to Medea when she has had her revenge. Karl Jicha, as the tutor to the sons of Medea and Jason, was a warmly engaging Greek scholar; Charles Vander Broek and Mark Vander Meer were hi? youthful charges, and have ar* early start toward becoming polished thespians. Jeffers has ' eliminated the Chorus of - Euripides' origina1 play, and inserted instead the roles of three Women of Corinth. This trio of women, Edith Prince, Virginia Mortensen and Leanne Ridderhoff, never speak in unison, and application to the gods is reduced to the bare minimum for a Greek drama. The stage movements of the Three Women were generally well executed, but reading and interpretation of some of their passage was not up to the standards of the rest of the show. There were weak spots in some of the technical aspects of the production. The impressionistic stage setting, which approaches a theater-in-the-round, was effective, but lighting posed problems for the usually ultraefficient P & M technical crews. An all-too-obvious and ill-advised lighting change at the cli-« max of the play threatened the effectiveness of the passage. But the original assessment still stands. Medea is a monumental project for any college theater group, and a milestone for Hope's Little Theater. It all happens again tonight and Saturday night, and it is doubtful that a dollar ever bought a finer evening's entertainment at Hope College.
Plans have been completed for the seventh annual Hope College Vienna Summer School, according to Dr. Paul Fried, director, who is currently on leave of absence in Austria. The program will begin in New York on June 9 and will end there on September 1. As in the past years the group will travel to Europe on a student ship, the MS Aurelia, and will return by plane. Students will again be free to make their own trans-Atlantic travel arrangements if they wish to stay in Europe after September 1. The first three weeks in Europe, June 17 to July 6, will be devoted to a carefully organized study tour, designed to introduce students to the cultural traditions and contemporary problems of Western Europe. During this time the group will travel through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
In addition to visits to standard tourist activities, the study tour will include briefings on European defense at NATO headquarters in Paris and on European economic integration at the Common Market in Brussels; lectures in the Dutch Parliament in the Hague and at the German Bundestag in Bonn; visits to two European industrial plants; meetings with German students at the University of Freiburg; and a reception at the Swiss Institute of International Studies in Zurich. The actual summer session will be held in Vienna from J u ly 9 to August 17. Classes, as in the past, will be held at the Institute of European Studies, University of Vienna. Students will live in homes, and in the evening will eat at restaurants of their own choice. Two longer excursions from Vienna are scheduled during this six-week period. The first is a
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Appearing in the lead roles of Medea are B. J. Berghorst, and Donna Davis. The two young supporting actors are Mark Vander Meer and Charles Vander Boek.
three-day trip to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to give students a first-hand look behind the Iron Curtain. The other, during the first weekend in August, will take students to Salzburg and the Austrian lake country, where they may attend one or more operas and concerts during the Salzburg Music Festival. Following the academic program in Vienna, students will have two weeks for independent travel. The group will reassemble in Brussels on August 30 for a pre-departure evaluation session. Hope students may request permission to spend their first semester at the Institute of European Studies under the new European Semester Plan. The cost of the full program, including ship passage, study tour, six weeks in Vienna, excursion to Prague, and return flight, is $1,055. Charge for transportation, room and board, as well as various excursions on the optional Salzburg week end is $45. The current cost of the additional semester in Europe is $750. Scholarships Awarded President Lubbers announced that four scholarships in the amount of five hundred dollars each will be awarded to outstanding Hope College Sophomores or Juniors who wish to study in Vienna next summer. To qualify for one of these scholarships students must have spent at least one year at Hope College and must plan to return to the college following their summer in Vienna. They should have an academic grade average of 3.2 or above and they must be recommended by three members of the faculty, including the chairman of their department and the dean of men or women. Financial need will not be a primary consideration but may be considered in deciding between two otherwise similar applications. Students wishing to apply for one of these scholarships should complete the regular application form for the Vienna Summer School and submit it to the office of the President, together with a personal letter outlining their academic and professional plans, reasons for wishing to participate in the program, courses they expect to take in Vienna, economic circumstances of their family and other pertinent data. The deadline for submission of application is February 1, 1962.