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...Patterson and Lincoln E. Kirstein '30, two of America's outstanding leaders in the field of repertory theatre, will deliver this year's Theodore Spenser lectures on drama. Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, announced yesterday...
Generally, there is only one Spenser speaker, but with the opportunity to have both these prominent artists speak, it was decided to have two. Patterson will talk in Fogg Auditorium on March 17, and Kirstein will speak on March 29 in New Lecture Hall...
...After Kirstein's talk, the floor will be open to questions, and MacLeish hopes that important ideas on a future theatre at Harvard may be brought out then...
...schism has long troubled the 12-year-old company. Was it to be a "little Met" and give second-class performances of the big company's repertory, or was it to seek out scores that the Metropolitan Opera would not produce and do them well? Manhattan Maecenas Lincoln Kirstein held the second view and, as managing director of the entire New York City Center (opera, ballet, theater), tried to make it work. Through a $200,000 Rockefeller grant, he helped commission such modern operas as Aaron Copland's The Tender Land and the daring stage designs...
...artistic fence was the Center's board of directors, spearheaded by Morton Baum, New York lawyer and man-about-the-arts. Three years ago the board sacked adventurous Conductor Laszlo Halasz, installed Joseph Rosenstock, who is more tradition-directed. Last year the board fired key opera staffers without Kirstein's knowledge. Last week's last-straw news: the board had ignored Kirstein's plan to have Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti supervise the opera division and renewed Conductor Rosenstock's contract against Kirstein's wishes. Director Kirstein resigned in protest. Said he: "The board operates...