The home journal. [volume], May 17, 1952, Image 2

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Doris Galiber Singing
In “Porgy and Bess”
Will Appear In Metropolitan Opera House,
Tour U.S., Europe
Doris Galiber, of St ~
Thomas, a mezzo soprano, I
has been chosen to sing in
the musical, ‘‘Porgy andl
Bess,” and will appear in
the famed New York
Metropolitan Opera House.
Out of 700 singers from
all over the United S ates,
who took the audition,,
forty were chosen. Four,
including Miss Galiber,
are in their twenties. One
is the winner of a Marian
Andersen Fellow ship,
another hasa Rosenthal,
Fellowship, and a third
hasa John Hay Whitney
Award. The others are in
theilsn thirtifs’] and forties,
eCS AR e g LSk el
and nave had experience,
of long standing.
Miss Galiber began rehear
sals last week. Theshow opens
on June 9 in Dallas, Texas for
two weeks,then two weeks in|
Los Angeles, California, and
two more weeks in Washing |
ton, D.C. It will be at the‘
Metropolitan Opera house for
one wnonth, and will mark the
first time thut a Negro show
will be staged in the ‘‘Met.”
After the engagement in
New York will come a tour of
Europe. The goup will open
the ‘'Berlin Festival of Music”’
in Berlin, then will move on to
Rome, points in Denmark,
The Hague, Paris and England
and other European spots. ;
In selecting the singers for
the show, talent to sing, per
sonality, background (college)
were considered.
A graduate of the Charlotte
Amalie High School and
Howard University, wher: she
majored in Music, Miss Gali
ber has been climbing rapidly.
She was outstanding at
Howard, where her voice
teacher, Miss Grant, took
special interest in her. After
Miss Galiber's graduation
from Howard, Mise Grant
turned her over to Madame
Marinka Gurewich a Russian,
who specializes in training
singers for the stage. Last
I e
Iyear, Madame Gurewich ‘pre
sented Doris at the New York
College of Music where severe
critice were gathered and she
passed the test.ina big way.
Miss Gabiber has sung in
many cities on the mainland,
while touring with the
Howard University Choir as
soloist He~ most brilliant pro
: _ :
I Clocking The Town
‘%
Supporters are urging]
ex-Councilman Louis!
Hodge, who los to Wey
mouth Rhymer in 1950 to
run again for the legisla
ture in November. Broth-l
er Hodge,a carpenter,who |
ils now working at the;
hospital project, declined
to run in the speciai elec
ltion, declatring he was too
itoo busy. '
Speaking about new
cand:dates in Nuvember,
Gunny Maduro, proprietor
of Maduro’s Lumber Yard,
admits he will be gunning
{for a Council seat in the
next election... There are
also reports tnat admir
{ers of WSTA"'s Bill Greer
are urging him to throwl
this hat into the ring. |
‘ Radio Station WIVL, St.
Croix began broadcasting op
erations this week. Since the
B atty-Thompson case, no in
{eident has disturbed Crucians
‘more than the failure of the
| station to get permission to go
!on air two weeks ago on the
‘occasion of the dedication of
|the Charles Harwood Hospital.
llf the vociferous protests
| which wereraised at that time
~mean anything, t h e station
|should receive the support it
{will need from the community
’to stay alive. .
! There was a beautiful wed
ding at Mafolie recently, and
The Home Journal
gram, however, was in Ber
muda
Daughter of Mrs., Adele
Galiber, Muszic Supervisor
here, Doris is twenty-seven
years, but looks like seven
teen because of her sunny
disposition. Her favorites are
French, Italian and German
‘lsongs. Many pleasdnt things
| have been said about her sirg
-ling ability, but the one she
likes Jest is “'she has a golden
bird singing in her throat.’”’
’After years of hard work,
she is modest and thinks she’s
]lucky to have been chosen
for “Porgy and Bess.”’
tscores of friends and acquain
tances of the couple were on
hand. Among the guests were
two candidates in the special
{election who got as much at
tention as the newly-weds. One
|of them momentarily stole the
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