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THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, April 6, 1960 1 1 The greatest event of its kind in the world, the Edinburgh International Festival this year will present during the three weeks from August 21 to September 10, the largest and most varied programme of concerts, opera, plays, ballets, and recitals, to be seen anywhere. There will be a total of 2101 programmes. Pach evening there will be a choice of six or seven different events. Orchestras and Companies appearing at the Festival will include the leading British performers, as well as groups from France, Germany, India, Spain, Switzerland, and Russie. In Edinburgh, during the three weeks of the *" THE WALLACE" by Sydney Goodsir Smith Festival you can see and hear as many famous (August 212--September 10), a stirring historical drama which will have its world premiere at the Festival. artists as gould only be seen in six months of THE OLD VIC COMPANY in a Chekhov Play tn celebration of the Chekhov Centenary (August 12--27). world travel. Fdinburgh presents to all a LA COMPAGNIE ROGER PLANCHON in Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Dumas (August 19--September 3). peoples the best that the whole world has te (\ = . " THE DREAM OF PETER MANN " by Bernard Kops (September g--10). GLASGOW CITIZENS' THEATRE offer in the arts. = fn * Romulus: the Great" by Priedrich Durrenmatt (August 12---13). THE EDINBURGH GATEWAY THEATRE At COMPANY in " Mary Queen of Scots ' by B. Bjornson (August 19--September 16). HAL HOLBROOK in * Mark Twain tonight." TOURING CENTRE While visiting the Festival you ean make short excursions or longer tours to the romantie Trossachs and Lech Lomond, to the historic Border Abbeys, the Buens Country, and even the incomparable Scottish Highlands, where mountain and glen are aglow with the purple of the heather. STE AR RAAllAelttlt ll t OPERA and BALLET GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL OPERA will present I Puritani (Bellini) ; Falstaff (Verdi) ; and a triple bill consisting of i Il Segreto Di Susanne (Woll-Fervari) ; Arleoshine (Busoni) ; La Voix Humaine (Poulenc). La Voix Humaine will have its British Premiere at the Festival, YHE ROYAL BALLET. Programme 1 (August 12, 13, 24) : Danses Concertantes ; Baiser de la Fee ; Petrushka. Programme 2 (August 29, 14, 33) 1 Bellabile ; La Peri or Pas de Deux from " Raymonda " § The Prince of the Pagodas (Act III). SUSANA Y JOSE, MADRID. Carmen, and a programme of Spanish ~ Dances. LITTLE BALLET TROUPE, BOMBAY. Panchatantra ; ; 4 purgh ! ity Ramayana and Indian Classical and Folk Dances. BALLET "in i® progte™™* . ¥ 7 . EUROPEEN OF NERVI. Programme 1 (September g, 6, 4 reser and y) 1 Scheherazade ; Choreartium ; Le Beau pu Royo! pallet = ad Danube. Programme 1 (September 8, 9, 10) ; see. Po y CONCERTS ( \ 2 ; ers 09 a, Commedia Umane (from Boccaceio's Decameron). LENINGRAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA = : Hib ART EXHIBITION (September 6, 7, 9, 10). PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA (August 13, 38, 34, 29). Bp. Ly At SACHER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, ZURICH (August 19 and je). ROYAL LIVERPOOML 2 4 PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (September 3 and 3). SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCMESTRA ACCOMMODATION (August 28, 31, September 4, 10). ; " There is no difficulty about finding accommoda- E tion. The Edin Pestivel Society, 11 RECITALS pe Cambridge ag Edinburgh, 1, will There will be special recitals to mark the ter-jubilee of the birth of Chopin md Schuman, i a gladly arrange this for you, Al you Chamber music groups will include Koackert Quartet ; Ars Musicae Fneewwble | Beausr Arts Tele | } have t0. do is to write to them. Juilliard Quartet. World famous artists will include Victoria de Los Angeles, Gioconds de Yieg, . Myra Hess, Claudio Aeveu, Paul Badura-Skoda, Rastropoviteh, lssec Seem. fr -------- tii nando MILITARY TATTOO " One of the most popular of all Festival events is the full-scale Military Tattoo, presented by searchlight each evening (except Sundays and Thursdays), on the esplanade of historic Edinburgh Castle. The Tattoo includes among its mejor iwems, displays of Highland dancing and massed pipe bands and military bands, and there are soma 7,000 seats for sach performance. LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT Bevand the Fringe, a raview ( August 21-19). Lee Freres Jacques ( August 29 to September 3). Beatrice | illie (September pte). Rept pallet German Expressionist Paintings. -- Aa ---------- EDINBURGH + CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND The visitor will find Edinburgh, one of the loveliest cities of Western Europe, to be the star of its own Festival. For centuries the home of Scottish Kings and Queens, it possesses in Princes Street one of she loveliest thoroughfares in the world, dominated by the ancient Casthe, high on its mighty rook. LB where there will be a fully licensed first clase {3 4 restaurant and snack bar. Dancing tm the Club dining room Here is a oity which embodies Scottish history and has tinks with the great Scottish writers like oS nightly (except Sundays). Lounge, reading rooms and waiting ; nade, wt, iting g ; . FESTIVAL CLUB iy he Poly 0 Ny, LER Visitors may join the Festival Club, backgpnted b, Pa she social rendezvous of the Festival, R. LI. Stevenson, Sir Walter Sco, and Robert Burns. There are excellent tours of . Va % Yooms, reception and writing rooms and other club Edinburgh, each day, specially planned to show the historia and scenia attractions of the nity, pr' : facilities. 'Reasonable membership' charges. For a brochure giving full details of all programmes and containing forms for ordering tickets and accommodation ask your travel agent, or write to, The British Yravel Association, ge Adelaide Street West, Toronto ; 661 Howe Street, Vancouver, NEXT YEAR'S FESTIVAL The Fifteenth Edinburgh International Festival