Viking 1965

Questa e' L'Itali,abrought Old World charm and warm colors to Portland State during an otherwise bleak February. Coming at the conclusion of the sensation- ally successful Michelangelo lecture pro- gram, the sequence of musical performances, discussions, fllms, and a play in Portland State's first Italian festival was prelude to the Dante lecture series. The Italian festival got underway with a panel discussion on Michelangelo by the University of Oregon's Chandler B. Beall, and the Rev. Michael Ricciardelli, Frederick Littmann, Leonard Kimbrell, and tr'rederick Harrison, all of Portland State. Another panel discussion, "fmpressions of Present Day Italy," held later in the week- long festival, was moderated by E. Dean Anderson, assistant to the PSC president. What really made the festival go were two non-academic programs-nrusic and an Italian comedy. Sixteenth century madrigals by the Lincoln high school choir opened an evening of Ital- ian music which featured Gloria Cutsforth, soprano, singing beautiful and stirring op- eratic arias. Ray Kaddy, baritone, also turned to Italian opera, singing selections from pagli,acci,, Lu Trautata, and Rigoletto. t'our flery Italians, all in love with the same woman, left audiences gasping with laughter in three performances of Carlo Goldoni's Illirandoh,na. Income from the Italian festival went to scholarships for students at the Oregon State System of Higher Education's Itaiian Studies Center in Pavia, ftaly.