Convocation of the Arts 1966

THE Congregation of the Arts, the combined summer programs in theatre, music, and art at the College's Hopkins Center, enters its fourth season with an offering of performers and performances in keeping with the outstanding reputation earned in its early years. In addition to the regular Summer Term classes in dramatics, music, and art scheduled each day and the extracurricular workshop opportunities in crafts, the Congregation of Arts offers the following major occasions and events:

Theatre

Prof. James Clancy, Director of the Hopkins Center Theatre, will present two comedies and a Shakespearean tragedy in repertory. Once again a cast of professional actors, a number of whom have shown their skills on the Hopkins Center stage in past seasons, has been assembled.

Clancy himself will direct Julius Caesar , Shakespeare's probing into power and politics and the relationship of private morality to public actions, and also Georges Feydeau's uninhibited romp, Take Care of Amelia, a perfect example of the French master's "complicated plots, bawdy misunderstandings, and who's under-the-bed farce" skill. Stephen Coy, Assistant Professor of Drama, will direct the third repertory offering, Carlo Goldoni's 18th Century colorful comedy of errors, The Servant of Two Masters.

Music

Three outstanding composers-in-residence, Peter Mennin, Witold Lutoslawski, and Boris Blacher, each on campus for two weeks, and shorter visits by composers Easley Blackwood, Walter Piston, and William Sydeman highlight a full program in music. The 80-piece Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra with Prof. Mario di Bonaventura conducting will present eight Sunday evening symphony concerts, featuring at each concert the music of the composer then on campus. There will also be eight chamber concerts featuring the talents of the Dartmouth String Quartet, the Dartmouth Woodwind Quartet, and the Associated Music Artists.

Films

The fourth summer season of the Dartmouth Film Society will honor the work of French film director Rene Clair with showings of eighteen of his best films, some genuinely great but not very well known in America.

BORIS BLACHER, Director of Berlin's famed Hochschule für Musik and one of Germany's most brilliant creative minds, is making an exclusive visit to Hopkins Center on his first trip to the U.S. in eleven years. He is the composer of a catalog of more than 65 works.

WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI, Poland's foremost living composer, is one of the most original and important voices in the world of music. He first achieved prominence in 1947 with his First Symphony and became internationally known with his Concerto for Orchestra in 1954 and Musique Funebre in 1958. He is working on a commission for the Congregation of the Arts.

PETER MENNIN, an American whose symphonies are performed throughout the world, is the former Director of the Peabody Conservatory and is now President of the Juilliard School of Music and of the Naumburg Foundation. His work has won many awards.

EDGAR DANIELS proved his versatility and skill in three difficult roles last year. Trained in London and seasoned by many years of varied professional roles, he was one of the suspects in this year's Broadway production of Hostile Witness.

WYMAN PENDLETON, another returnee from last season, recently appeared on Broadway in Edward Albee's Malcolm. In Dartmouth's repertory in 1965 he was superb as the wily hypocrite of the title in Moliere's Tartuffe.

Louis TURENNE, yet another of the '65 stars to return, played the demanding title role in Richard ll. On Broadway this season he received good notices for his part in the Jason Robards-Anne Bancroft production of The Devils.

Many of RENE CLAIR'S 30 films made in a career spanning some 43 years are acknowledged to be classics. The Dartmouth program this summer is believed to be the first full-scale series on the French director ever presented in America.