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...Academy of Music, the young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company hit the stride of its third season with a performance in English of the best-known Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage...
Less than an hour ago I walked out on a Willkie meeting in the Sylvan Forum at Holmdel, N. J., with a feeling of both shock and disappointment...
...peaceful wooded hills of northern New Jersey, at Kenvil, lie the 400 acres of one of Hercules Powder Co.'s seven explosive plants. In this sub-sylvan spot, men, treading softly, cook a recipe of destruction...
Masterminds of the New Friends are Cellist Alan Shulman, who does the arrangements and has written two original pieces for the group (High Voltage, Mood in Question), and his brother Sylvan, a violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...
...Opera Company was born, two years ago. Its father was Charles David Hocker, a onetime bank clerk who, at 19, got ex cited about the Philadelphia Orchestra's Youth Concerts, became their manager a year later. For musical director of his opera, Hocker got a onetime piano prodigy, Sylvan Levin, who had been assistant conductor to the great, emotionally profiled Stokowski. Hocker & Levin resolved to keep their opera youthful, avoid stars like the plague, angels like leprosy. They cherished an idea which the Metropolitan has persuaded many people to believe a terrible heresy: that opera can be sung...