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Cecile Cooper newspaper clippings, 1966-1987

1967-01-17 ""Simon Estes In Benefit Concert"" 1964-07-13 ""Music Events""

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Page 12 -- The Clinton Herald Tuesday, January 17, 1967 Simon Estes In Benefit Concert Simon Estes, noted bass-baritone, third place winner in the men's division of the first Tchaikovsky vocal competition in Moscow and winner in the coveted Munich International music competition, will be presented in a concert Feb. 28 at Centennial hall, Augustana college, Rock Island, Ill. The young artist, who has been seen by many Clintonians on the Tonight show, is being brought to the Quad-Cities by the Bethel AME church in Davenport in their efforts to raise funds for a new center for recreation and education at Ripley and 11th Sts., Davenport. Born in Centerville and graduated from the University of Iowa, Simon Estes attended the Juilliard School of Music where he was a scholarship student. From there he went, in 1965, to fulfill major operatic and concert commitments with the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. This season he will sing with the Hamburg Opera, including the creation of two roles, Uncle Albert and Carter James, in Guntha Schuller's new opera, "The Visitation." Information concerning tickets may be obtained by calling Mrs. Dorothy Steverson at 326-5884 Davenport. Adult tickets are $3 in advance and $3.50 at the door. Student tickets are $1.50 Music Events 7-13-64 [[Photo captions]] SIMON ESTES DOROTHY KREBILL Opera Grants The Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, J. W. Fisher, chairman, is helping finance two productions of the Chicago Lyric Opera next season. One is the entire production of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" in the new Iowa State University Center Theater at Ames on Dec. 7. The other Fisher grant is for the Lyric Opera's 11-week season production by Peter Hall of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," to be directed by Tito Gobbi. The Gramma Fisher Foundation has benefited many fine arts projects, including the annual auditions for the Metropolitan Opera of New York, of which Fisher is a board member. Members of the Chicago opera next fall are baritone Simon Estes of Centerville and Des Moines, who will sing in Verdi's "Macbeth," and mezzo-soprano Dorothy Krebill of Donnellson and Davenport, who will sing in "Butterfly" and in the double bill of "El Amor Brujo" and "Cavalleria Rusticana." Estes also will be a guest soloist with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra next season.
 
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