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...examination of the PT program, the group will try to reconcile its objectives with the University's tradition of "few regulations," according to Abraham Lowenthal '61, committee member. In this approach, however, the committee may encounter stiff opposition from Nathaniel Parker, Director of the PT program, who said yesterday that he is still unhappy about the last liberalization of the program...
George Avakian, head of Artists and Recordings for Warner Brothers Records (to which the group is under contract), confirmed these reports and stated that "on two, possibly three, television shows the Gateways were told 'we'd love to have you, but you make it tough on the sponsor and on the market down South...
Fried cited a recent occasion when he was approached by a vice-president of a major network who asked him if the group would appear on one of the network's shows. A few days later, he claimed, another official told him that the singers' appearance would be an impossibility because of anticipated "trouble" from stations in the South...
Despite Boston's lack of adequate facilities for the presentation of grand opera, a recently-formed group of professional opera performers has inaugurated its second season with a production of Puccini's Tosca. Sarah Caldwell's troupe, which uses the slightly militaristic name of "Operation Opera," has moved from the small and incommodious Fine Arts Theatre to the large but equally incommodious Loew's State movie house, now the property of the Catholic Church and newly dubbed the Donnely Memorial...
...repertory of the Opera Group has so far been conservative. Of the pieces produced, only the Gay work could be called a novelty but its lukewarm popular reception intimates that such experimentation will be curtailed. This is unfortunate because smaller operatic groups ought to be daring where the large-scale expensive enterprises that the Metropolitan must attempt prove impossible. The second work this season will be Offenbach's well-tried operetta Voyage to the Moon, which was prepared by Miss Caldwell for the Boston Arts Festival in the summer of 1956. One can only hope that the spring offering...