Exciting Summer Arts

An expanded Dartmouth Congregation of the Arts is expected in its sixth year to attract a record attendance at Hopkins Center from June 30 through August 31.

A new artist-in-residence program developed by Prof. Matthew Wysocki, Director of Center Studios, will include Varujan Boghosian, sculptor, as resident, and Richard Anuskiewicz, Jason Seley, Gilbert Franklin, and Hannes Beckmann as visiting artists.

Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, Easley Blackwood, and Niels Viggo Bentzon of Denmark will be composers-in-residence. Visiting composers will be Andrew Imbrie, Ernest Krenek, and Walter Piston, and during each composer's period in Hanover a profile of his works will be included among the 25 premieres scheduled. The Philadelphia String Quartet will be in residence for the entire summer, with its members also serving on the music faculty. Barry Tuckwell, first hornist with the London Symphony Orchestra and one of the world's virtuosos with the French horn, is featured soloist in six concerts. Mario DiBonaventura, director of Music at Hopkins Center and conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, will present 20 symphony and chamber concerts.

The drama program for the Congregation is under the direction of Rod Alexander, Director of Theater, who will be aided by six directors-in-residence. During the ten-week theater season, four plays will be mounted by the repertory company in the Center Theater; a series of four one-act plays by the apprentice company in the Studio Theater; and children's plays in the outdoor Garden Theater. The four plays to be given are Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Brecht's Mother Courage, The Fantasticks (a musical) by Jones and Schmidt, and Antigone in both the Sophocles and Anouilh versions. A series of films directed by Jean Renoir and numerous art exhibits round out the arts program.