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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1961
OPERA STAR—Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano, opened KU's 59th Concert Course Season with arias from Handel's and Donizetti's operas. Miss Sutherland will make her Metropolitan Opera debut this fall in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor."
Opera Star Praises Midwest For Enthusiasm for Good Music
Audiences in the Midwest have the same enthusiasm for good music as those in the musical capitals of the world, Joan Sutherland, Australian opera star, says.
"There is great enthusiasm for music here. Those who think otherwise have rather a narrow view."
Miss Sutherland, who sang in KU's initial Concert Course offering last night, said in an interview that any sort of differentiation in popular-classical or classical programs for certain types of audiences is folly.
"We did Alcina, a classical opera of Handel, in Dallas last year and they adored it," she said.
In an Oklahoma City recital last March a similar response was received, she continued.
MISS SUTHERLAND praised KU's University Theatre.
"You have a wonderful theater here," she said, "it is as good if not better than some of the best theaters in Europe."
Several of Miss Sutherland's operatic triumphs are works especially revived for her talent, notably Alcina. One of her greatest thrills is the world-wide acclaim the revivals have received she said.
"I like creating something that's been abandoned for a long time," she said.
Miss Sutherland said she preferred to sing opera rather than recitals.
"This is proof that classical music is not staid nor unpopular," she said.
tion until 18 she was able to learn a great deal from her mother, who sang professionally.
Although Miss Sutherland did not begin her formal music educa-
She studied piano at eight but was disinterested
"I WOULDN'T practice so my mother decided to forget the lessons," she said.
Miss Sutterland studied music under Clive Carey at the London Opera School. Most of her study, however, was with her husband. Richard Bonyge.
Miss Sutherland began her professional music career at $19\frac{1}{2}$ with a Wagnerian recital. Since then she has become one of opera's great stars with successes at Covent Garden, London, and La Scala, Milan, Italy.
Miss Sutherland will make her Metropolitan Opera debut in November, singing Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor." At Christmas
she will go to San Carlo in Naples, Italy.
Miss Sutherland's recital structure reflects varied taste. She always includes arias by Handel and some English old songs, of which she is particularly fond.
Miss Sutherland does not care to sing operatic arias in recital programs.
"I DON'T LIKE to take them out of context," she said, "and I don't do as well with them without an orchestra."
Victorian and post-Victorian songs are one of her delights and these likes are demonstrated in her programs.
"I program what I like to sing," she says.
Her chief ambition in opera is to sing Bellini's "Norma." In addition to that she feels dedication to her art and derives great enjoyment from it.
N.J. Girl in Soviet Union
"What is your name? Mine is Lyena."
ALTHOUGH SHE IS officially a ninth grader, she probably will start learning Russian in a second-grade class where she can converse with Russian beginners.
She was delighted when Huldah understood and replied. A teacher assigned Lyena to help Huldah while she is learning Russian.
MOSCOW — (UPI) — Huldal Clark, the 14-year-old New Jersey Negro who accepted a Soviet scholarship offered by Premier Nikita Khrushchev, is a student today in a Moscow boarding school featuring statues of V. I. Lenin and slogans glorifying communism.
Vishnevsky said the American girl would receive special instruction in Russian until she understands the language well enough to attend regular classes.
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Vishnevsky said Huldah will not need the dollars she brought with her from America.
The girls, all second-year students of English, were timid at first about trying to speak the unfamiliar language, but at length one of them found the courage to ask:
She is one of less than a dozen foreign students attending a 22-year-old "Shkola-Internat" boarding school along with more than 200 Russians. Her roommate is a girl from Laos who speaks little English.
THE NEGRO teenager from Newark had her first Russian breakfast of tea, bread and cheese yesterday and then toured the four-story red brick school building and its dormitories.
After a brief interview with School Director Boris Vishnevsky, she was introduced to a dozen Russian girls her age wearing the traditional school uniform of brown dress, black apron, white blouse and red neckerchief.
here the school provides everything — uniforms, clothes, even free tickets to the cinema and theater," he said.
The school is a sturdy, well-tended building on a tree-lined residential street about 10 minutes from downtown Moscow. A gymnasium wing is under construction.
The other foreign students come mostly from Laos or North Viet Nam. There is one Cuban boy, but he is expected to leave shortly.