The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1951, Page 6

PAGE SIX Alaska Music Trail Report Given by Schapiro as Concert Associa- received Juneau-Dot tion committee members with applause the report Saturday of treasurer Will Reedy that tickets sold to date—season and single he last Tues- concert $4, port was made at a lunch- the Iris room of h honored Mr. Schapiro before in e for Petersburg, tchikan and Prince Schapiro and Donald Gramm will- complete the circuit of the first concert of the Alaska Trail’s new season the luncheon meeting, presided over by Mrs. John McCormick, pre- sident of the concert association, Mr. Schapiro explained the workings of the Alaska Music Trail circuit, started two years ago and now cov- ering ten Alaska towns and Prince Rupert ach town contributes ac- to its ability to pay,” Schap- iro explained, “the larger towns be- cor the benefactors of the smaller towns—and in a measure, cordin: ning the smaller towns, contributing also by r cing the total cost to the larger towns.” Jookings must be made a year in advance, Mr. Schapiro said, and last season, because he had no guar- antee that the Alaska Music Trail would continue another season, “I had to sign contracts myself so, I ‘stuck my neck out’ and don’t know what would have happened had 1 had contracts for six artists and no place for them to appear. The artists Schapiro books for the Alaska Music Trail are top art- ists. Maybe not the ‘Olympians,’ which some of the concert groups ask for, but they are the best. Even if one could find one of the ‘Olym- pians’ with time for a three and a half week trip to Alaska between the Metropolitan and concert en- gagements for which they are book- ed agers cept to pay would not allow them to ac- “How do I manage to get the mu- ! sicians who have come to Alaska a year in advance, their man- | the small fees you are able| for the Alaska Music Trail? It is a trick,” Schapiro explained. “I take advantage of my friendship the musicians. I tell them about romantic beautiful Alaska and won- derful people they will meet here, and appeal to their charity, tell them how much it will mean to Al- askans to have the Music Trail| | bring them concerts. .then they come, and are delighted with Al- aska, and tell their friends among muscians—. You see, it is getting easier as time goes on.” Opera iz Miniature | | The next concert will be vocal | duo, Tomiko Kanazawa and Cesare | Curi. “Kanazawa is the world’s| eatest Madame Butterfly,” he said, “and Curzi is one of the finest ten- ors of the country. Their program which will be in costume is terrific. There will be a scene from La Tra- viata and another from Madame Butterfly; while they are changing costumes, piano solos by Richard Cummings, their very exceptional accompanist. Then some light opera.” Bronislav Gimpel will be the artist for the spring concert, and he is one of the six great violinists of the| world, Mr. Schapiro said. “He will| be the soloist with the London | Philharmonic under Sir Thomas | Beecham’s direction in December. He has a friend who had been to | Alaska, he was interested in my | little trick, and he is a friend orl mine, so, we have him on o\u‘ program for this season. Program possibilities for next| year were discussed and Schapiro said he would let the Alaska Music Trail members know within the| next few weel regarding possible artists for the circuit. Management is handled in Seattle by Mrs. Cornelia Turner. “All the way, we are getting something for nothing,” Schapiro said. “Mrs. Turner manages the Al- aska Music Trail for less than usual fees, the artists come to Alaska for their expenses and what little we can pay them,” and Schapiro then explained that he came this time as accompanist, with no fee and only his expenses paid. “I asked you not to judge this project until after two years. We have started our second year—and I think it is no longer an experi- ment. It is a tremendous success— due to the enthusiasm and coopera- tion of the concert association here |and the others in Alaska. And your | | Wildcat Strike \0f Longshoremen 'AtN. Y. Spreads 22 ~The | long- Staten tie up York by NEW YORK, Oct. —(B mushrooming strike of rebel shoremen spread today to Island and threatened to the entire port of New nightfall Police headquarters reported dock work almost at a standstill in Ma hattan, Brooklyn and Staten land. A al work stoppage also was reported on the New Jersey of waterfront, but the full impact the strike there was not immediately clear Idle longshoremen, wildcatting since Monday against the orders of their union leadership, gathered in large groups ymetimes as many as several hundred—at pier en- tran; The strikers are protesting the terms of a new wage contract rati- fied recently 65,000 ILA to Virginia They want a incre nd by a majority of the members from Maine cents-an-hour pay revision of sev- a eral other contract clauses. The new contract gave them a 10-cent hourly boost, $2.10. bringing average wage to | wonderful country to which famous musicians W ome—just to see Alaska,” tt ther” of the Al- aska Music Trail said. Studying For Ph. D. With Mrs. Schapiro, charming wife of the famous pianist, who like her husband that she has “fall- en in love with Alaska.” Schapiro and Donald Gramm complete their Alaska tour during the coming week. Mrs. Schapiro then sails from New York for Paris where she is study- ing under a Fullbright fellowship for her doctor’s degree in education under Columbia University. A cell- ist, her field is rehabilitation of the newly blinded adult through music. During two years in the army dur- ing the war, she worked with blinded soldiers and their rehabilitation through music. Aim of Schapiro is to increase the ! 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Phone 877 | In Tour of Front | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA Girl Is Cuf in Two In Freak Accident CASA GRANDE, Ariz, Oct. 22 »—The projecting edge of a knife- like bulldozer blade slashed across a truck carrying 19 Papago Indians, | killing nine and injuring four, The 3,600-pound blade was being hauled on the back of a flatbed trailer. The accident occurred Sat- y night on a bridge 16 mile south of here. One victim, a 16-year-old girl, was in two at the waist. Itm) W. Joquin, 20-year-old apago Indian, gave (hls description »f the accident: There was a big crash, a lot of aping i1 then a lot of screams.” Brifish Royalty in Victoria, then For 3 Days Rest VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 22—(®— Another round of official inspec- tions, followed by three days of welcome rest, were on the sched- ule today for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The royal couple, nearing the halfway mark of their cross-Canada junket, arrived here from Van- couver yesterday aboard the Can- adian destroyer Crusader. Toda round of activities in- cluded a reception at the city hall, a meeting with members of the Provincial Legislature and their wives and with chiefs of various Indian bands, a tour of the Es- quimault dockyard and a Visit to the Royal Roads Armed Ser- vices Academy. 3 At 6 pm., the Royal party heads for Eagle Crest Lodge, 125 miles north of here, for three days of undisturbed rest. Staid Victoria abandoned its tra- ditional reserve yesterday to wel- come the Princess and the Prince. Guns boomed salutes as the des- troyer sailed into the harbor. A crowd of 15,000 jammed the water- front to cheer the royal party as it debarked. The destroyer’s officers said the Prince, a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy, spent several hours inspecting the Crusader dur- in the voyage here from Vancouver. Chief of Staff 0f indochina SAIGON, Indochina, Oct. —Gen. J. Lawton Collins, U.S. Axmyl Chief of Staff, arrived today for a! three-day tour of Indochina fight-| ing fronts and conferences with| French and Vietnamese officials on progress of the war against lhe\ Communist led Vietminh. His trip to this strategic south-‘ east Asian country is accepted here as another indication of steadily| broadening American support and| concern for the French- Vietnamese | war effort against Ho Chi Minh’s Soviet-recognized regime. 29 slavia boosted today but lowered the price of cig- | and lard as part of | wholesale readjustment of its fin- |~ |and trolley ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY Passenger Service SOUTHBOUND I 3.8. BARANOF S.S. DENALI | Sun. Oct. 28 Sun. Nov. 4 Ketchikan Petersburg Seattle Wrangell Ketehikan Seattle NORTHBOUND S.S. BARANOF S.8. DENALX Tues. Oct. 23 Mon. 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Donaldson, direc- tor of the university's applied fish- eries laboratory, who staged the ex- periment to study the migratory habits of the fish, said its success gives scientists new tools to work with in solving the problem of maintaing salmon runs in the face of continued dam construction. The returning salmon actually were reared in another concrete vat in a fisheries building on the| campus. As fingerlings in the spring of 1950, they were placed for a few days in the outdoor vat on the uni-| versity golf course. Then they were dumped into Portage Bay and went out through Lake Union and Ballard locks to the sea. At that time there was no water| passage from the vat to nearby| Portage Bay. They had to be dump- ed by hand into the bay. Dr. Donaldson expressed belief that odors associated with the con- crete pool as well as memory of the surroundings Wi factors in return of the fish. encies. 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