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* 1 - unday Bvening This week-end at Ravinia brings a third performance of "Peter Ibbet- son" on 1Friday night, with the saine cast as before, andi with Wilfred Pel- letier conducting.. "Laý Jui ve" has its first perfermance o f the season on Thursday night, August .13,. with'Elisabeth Rethberg, Giovanni .Mýartinelli, 'Leon' Rothier, Florence 'Macbeth, George, Cehanov-, sky, Ginseppe Cavadore,, and Paolo Ananian. Ruth' Page, willI dance, 'and louis Hasselmans wiIl conduct. "Il Trovatore,"ý will be heard on Satùrday nigbt, August 15,' for the second, time this- season. Elisabeth Rethberg ant Giovanni Martinelli wiII carry the leadinig roles,.anid the rest of the cast wiIl be -composeti of Julia Claussen, Mario Basiola,. Louis D'Anigelo,. Philine Falco, and Lodo- Vico Oliviero. Gennaro Papi wiIl con- duet. Polish .coipo-sition swiII' beplayeti bthe Chicago Symphony orchestra on Sunday afternoon, August 16, at 3,o'clock. E~ric leLamarter will con- duct. The soloist wil be 'Ina Bours- kaya, Marek Winidbeim, Mary Bron-. iarczyk, Wanda Paul., and Michel, W~~ilkomirski; "La Traviata". wÎll be, sung by Quéena Manio and Mario Chamlee. on Sunday night, August 16. Mario Ba- siola, Philine Falco, Marek Wind- heimi, Louis D'Angelo, Paolo Anan- ian andi George Cebianovsky are also ini the cast. Ruth Page will' dance, andi Gennaro Papi will coniduct. The entire programi for ntxt week appears in another section of this issue.t Carleton Smith Lectures to Students on Friday Canleton Smith is taking a large group' of summen students to Ravinia Park on Friday 'nigbt. of this week ta see Deems Traylbr's opera, "Peter Ibbetson." Before tbe.,openiing of the opera he will lecture 'on it, explain- ing bis views concérninâ it. ' I Mr. Smith will talk over radio sta- tion WIBO on Saturday nigbt at 7:30 o'clock on Verdi's opera, "La -Czer- .e wilI During the si home, 1037 A on bis repe ina Borrkaya, onzzo soprano of. the Ravinia Opra conlpany, is one Of the' bitsist menbers, for she'. oIPIears almost nightly. She shngs and acis a variety* of roles, her latesi i-oie bcing that of JIrs. Glyn in Deens. Taylor's opera, '.Peter Ibbetsn," wicz s.he singiMi Ënglish. Chamlee Example of What Operatie Tenor May Expect Mario Chamlee, leading tenor of the Ravinia Ope.ra company, accom- plishes the phenomenal feat of sing- ing four operas within six days in. the middle of a season which has been particularly taxing. Mr. Chamlee opened on a Monday niglit with ",Martha," and, two days later sang ýthe exacting role of. Chev-' alier des'Grieux in Massenet's "Man-' onl" witb Lucrezia' Bori. This rote :alIs for supreme artistry, the utmost refinement in voice and acting. AsI the Chevalier, Mr. Chamlee is said té be surpassed bv no one. On 1'ri-i winterV. JMn. Swigart expects to continue bis studies. with Mr. Czerwonky at the Bush Consenvatory in Chicago, and. to spenti some of his, time teachinig. Miss-EStelle Swigart, who wa .s with, ber brother. in B~erlin, studying, 'cello, is to stay abroatd anothewarSe was joiniet by Miss Pauline Mani- chester, Glencoe, piaist, wbo will spenti a year in Berlin studyng with Arthur Schnabel. Milan Lusk Wins Glowi*ng> Praise for -His -Concert Milan Lusk, Wilmette violinist, b'as received glowing press comments for bis-concert in Boulder, Colorado, ne- cently. He dnew aý large audience thiere, which gave- him an ovation. The Boulder News-Herald said of bim, "Milan 'Lusk brougbt an absorb- ing hour of music to an enthusiastic audience here last nigbt, and at the close of the concert. admnirers of tbis master ail but declined to permit bimi to leave the stage. "His playing moveti and stirred bis 'l audience, andi carrie&hhis hearers to t niew.heights. He playeti with warm, tbrobbing tone andi stirring nhythm, and ýWiti great appreciation of' tbe t master 'selectiorn wbich conipriseti bis 'I pnogratni. His offering was the climax t, of 'tbe.artisi series. Scores of patrons' wene jubilant today ini their praise forI the management which was able to book this noted artist. Today a numi- ber xrsed 'the hope that be will ! be able to neturn next year." 1 h Mr. Lusk is at present: teaching F privatel'y in-bis home 'studio in Wil- 0 mette, and he bas announicet that be will take on new applicants for violin iinsttuctîon. Arrangements are now Lcing madie for bis fall terra, wbicb begins next month. CI By Rutmeda L Pretuol' Now that "Peter Ibbetson" has plunge I kavinia patrons into the maelstrom of opera iEnglish, it iu. hopeti that the language wiIl become' popula 'r enough to make them tdçmand for next season a. few moùre oPeras. in our native language. "Fia Diavolo," so full. of bumor and. mischief, wbicb in Italian may. not go.over the footlights, would*be an :excellen.t vebicle 'for translation. A very good English text has -been wnitten *for it,'and the opera would resumne its rigbt >ful place in populari- ty if it coulti be understooti by ail. It is'given in translation anyway, bav- ing been written originally in Ger- man. ."Martba, » whicb is .,suffering a waning popularity, would ýrevive in- terest in its.stili lovely and appeal- ing m'nelodie.s if the. Fnglisb. version of ît were'used at Ravinia. EnglieL for "The IBrode" SI anothen opera iii the-light#r vehfi, "The ,Bartered Bride," whicb is bheard ini German at ,Ravin ia,, would not Jose any of its charm if it were, trniaeiinto iEnglish, providin .g the. transiator caugbt the *mood of Sme-. tana's melodies and found Englisli ýwords' as appropriate as the Gernxa2.. AIl comic operas need to be tho- oughly understood in order to be fui- Iv appneciated, for mucb depends on the whimsical twist of Nvords, tire rep- artee and the bumor. Englisb .might have seerned a lit- tle banal in the first act of "Peter bbetson," but any 'experiment is apt to meet wi'th resistance at first. The text for Mr. Taylor's opera is not as intenesting as it ôught to be, for it, Jacks- the poetny 'of.,Word pictune wrhich it ougbt to have in orden to blend. harnoniously witb the lyric- im ,of the story. - Stili, in spite of havinig the language coloretiý by Fréeich anid talian accents, it went aver the footlights distinctly and..*met with a loyal, if somnewhat wary, ne- sponse.: A few doses.eof Englisb in "Peter Ibbetson"-tbe opera is to lie eard several times before the season -loses-anti patrons would become Lrprisingly acclimateti to it.~ of Music in Chicago. Mn. Waller j~is naday with 'Marouf," andti ening Ivni~ niifst~ta in charge of the department of op- on SuWiday asthe swashbuckling AI- Ipersonal magnetisin, and bus ena at 'the sehool. Hie bas been the mavivo ini "The Barber of Seville." Imarelously floating anti liii coach- for a number of now famous, Duning the season, Mn. Cbamlee stvely controlledi anti supe stars. 'singu iM, twenty-two Performances. i pressive.ý - -ui witb voA. i iUusafl« :ting. :pensons camne frnm many Italian con- towns to vitness the presentatjon. own ce is WRITES FIRST OPERA sen- 'OÔtto, Klemperer, conductor >of a ex- Berlin! orchestra, is said to have writ- ten bhis first opera, "The Goal."l