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Local Artist
Praises Opera
Coming Here
Scott Coleman, brilliant
young Jackson artist, has
seen the Augusta Opera
Company’s “The Italian Girl
in Algiers” which is coming
to Jackson on Saturday,
March 12th and has these
words of praise for the stars
and supporting cast:
“I would like to share with
you one of the most exciting
evenings of entertainment I
have been privileged to
witness in a long time. The
event was the opening
performance of the Augusta
Opera Company’s “The
Italian Girl in Algiers”,
which took place in Madison,
Ga. this past Saturday
evening.
“Italian Girl” is a comic
opera by Gioacchino Rossini
which surrounds a most
delightfully funny and com
plicated situation about the
Bey of Algeria who is trying
to rid himself of a wife he has
grown tired of in favor of a
new Italian wife.
This develops into a series
of predicaments for the Bey
that kept the audience in
constant laughter while en
joying a level of music and
staging uncommonly high by
anyone’s standards.
Although the opera is still
fresh in my mind, I can
hardly wait until March 12th,
when The Jackson Theatre
Guild brings “The Italian
Girl in Algiers” to our
community. I will then be
able to see and hear the
opera performed with the
Atlanta Chamber Orchestra
rather than the two piano
accompaniment I witnessed
in Madison.
The Orchestra, consisting
of 22 musicians, can only
enhance what is already a
super performance by the
cast and chorus of 13
artists...and all this for only
three dollars!
Needless to say, I plan to
be there early with ticket in
hand.”
Nation Having
Worst Winter
b Its History
The National Weather
Service has finally confirmed
what most of us have
suspected for some time now,
that the 1976-77 winter in the
eastern half of the United
States has been the coldest in
the nation’s recorded history.
After studying weather
records that go back as fas as
the 1800’s, diaries, insurance
records and other data, the
Weather Service said that the
record low temperatures,
and sustained cold, of this
winter have never been
equalled.
The winter of 1857 was the
closest competitor tempera
ture-wise, but even that year
could not top the average
temperature for the month of
January which was 25.1
degrees in the East, even
chillier than the 25.3 record
ed in 1857.
The mid-west suffered also
in even colder weather, with
a January average of 11.3
degrees, even worse than the
12.9 degree average regis
tered in 1857.
Industrial production drop
ped in January by the biggest
margin in two years as plants
throughout the eastern two
thirds of the United States
were forced to close due to
natural gas shortages.
Adding to the nation’s
weather woes is the predic
tion by the National Weather
Service that below normal
temperatures will continue in
the East through February
and probably March.
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