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American Opera Needs
Public Support-Weisgall
Amencan o|K-ta will continue to be provincial and of
little importance unless the American public realizes that
mu.ue is valuable and important culturally and politically,
Di. Hugo WeKgall, composer, conductor, and visiting pro
i«',snr i,i music, said last night in his talk on “Opera In
America.”
‘ American opera has been described as an imported
In'..in \ v, Inch seivi't and has _ " ~ ~ j
si-ived j-, .1 .Uilu-. symbol fur tb'-jp* ■ • j I
V. e.illle hum gi'OlMf,” Weisgall I g-e D|fm 1 |c fl I*l TC '
said Computing opei.i in Amen-! ftnVIUVJI l\lUBli9
( i tu tli.it m England when* there- ■ » i
is iii'O a lad' of important native! (Continued from page one) I
,md it is also a status svm-Charles Tiautman, a member!
!„,l Weis",ill said that another ° f 'he group. said “We hoped that)
common factor and peihaps the.«hat integration takes place in
explanation of these fads is thatjbtate College would be under-!
neither countiy’s opeia subM-j' a k (>n by the town itsc-lf, as a di-j
d./(•. 1 bv tlw government. Weis- red result of our bringing the is
gdll sui'gc.'ted that subsidation is| sue in '° the open. j
peihaps the cure for Amencan| . Trauiman also said that there
' ,|) s ! is a University regulation pre-
The Ford Foundation recent- : venting members of the faculty
ly subsidized three American | a P d administration from parli- ,
seasons at the New York City - ctpaling m town issues. The ap-
Cenler and 22 American works I P arent hesitancy of the faculty
were produced, Weisgall said, i 10 participate m this moral is
“Of these 22 produclions per- j sue , or th ®. administration to
haps six could be considered ! make an official statement on if
favorably.” he said. I may be a result of this regula-
One u-ason for this is that 1 I T on * 1 .. t , , lnif . . . . .
American operas still have themes, Hi and 1949 similar pick
of a by-gone era when the United ctl "e° a segregated baiber shop
S.ates was a pioneering nation, ! n College was conducted
W. said. largely by the faculty, he added
This perhaps is the fault of
the audience which really does
n't want an opera sel in mod
ern times, he said. Weisgall cited
as an example the opera "The
Mighty Casey," by William
Schuman which deals with one
of America's favorite sports—
baseball—and yel has never
been produced.
“The maior operatic movement
in Amei ica today is some GOO op
eialic workihops scattered across
the nation in univeisities. schools
and towns But though they have
met legulailv tor 30 years to pre
paie composers for this field only
one composer, Carlisle Floyd, a
product of a workshop, has
achieved intion.il status,” Weis
gall said.
Chapman Authors Article
Di Hugh 11. Chapman Jr. as-'
socutle profe-,-.or of Romance
languages, is the authoi of an’
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