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Stephen M. Bernardi '52, assistant dean and secretary of the Law School and staffer for the policy subcommittee, said he is not sure whether the subcommittee, which has already reviewed affirmative action and the Strauch report for the Overseers, will get involved in a community relations discussion at its May 11 meeting...
...seats and, like the European auditoriums that served as its model, it is an ultimate and easeful place to hear opera. Its backstage plant is the best in Canada-almost as big as the Metropolitan Opera's. Best of all, there is Conductor Mario Bernardi, who since 1971 has presided over one of the first-rank summer opera festivals on the continent. He began the current season with a new production of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio...
Conductor Bernardi has a discreet, controlled way with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...When the producers asked permission to film here," Bernardi explained, "they raised the possibility that the University might be paid. But we told them. 'We don't want to profit from this venture of yours. We don't want to be seen as the sponsors of it.' Hence our present attitude [of noninvolvement] is quite consistent with the position we took when first offered compensation or screen credits...
...Bernardi is not the only one unwilling to get involved. One first year law student said, "My first reaction was to go to the Crimson Travel Bureau and to get the heck out of here...