Baritone to Open Series On October 3 The Ogden Community Concert Weber College association program for the season will open with a bang on Saturday, October 3, when Robert Weede, leading American baritone of the Metropolitan Opera association, will be presented in a concert at the Ogden high school auditorium. The event will start at eight thirty p. m. Carl Fuerstner will assist at the piano, Mr. Weede was brought up on a farm near Baltimore. During his teens he sang in the annual high school plays, later in movie theatres. About this time he met the voice teacher, George Castelle; who immediately offered to coach him and who entered hi"m in the contest sponsored each year in Baltimore by the DeFeo company, Weede, who had only heard two operas in his whole life before, won. His debut was as Algio in CavaJleria Rusticana. From 1927 Weedees steady progress was marked by a series of prize awards. That year he won the contest of the National Federation of Music Clubs and soon after went to Rochester to work at the Eastman School of Music under Adelin Fermin. In 1929 he won the Caruso Memorial Foundation award. With the 2,000 prize and an Italian vocabulary of half a dozen words, he arrived in Milan to continue his musical education with Tetrazzinis teacher, Oscar Anselmi. Returning to this country Weede was engaged by Roxy for Radio City Music hall where he sang, as leading baritone, for six years. Under contract to the Metropoliton Opera company since 1937, Weede did not have a real chance until Feb. 27, 1941, when he sang the title role in Rigoletto. The excitement which followed was well expressed by the critic who wrote; Weede knocked an unsuspecting audience off its feet and brought out seldom heard cheering...Made the most successful debut of an American singer at the Met since Lawrence Tibbett floored an audience in Falstaff 17 years ago. Weede has also been heard with the Scala Opera company in Philadelphia, the St. Louis Grand Opera, the opera companies of Rio de Janeiro, Montreal, and San Francisco (the fall of 1942 is his third season with that organization); at the Worcester Festival and with the New York Philharmonic Symphony, NBC Symphony and other leading orchestras. Since January, 1942, he has been heard on the weekly program Great Moments in Music over the Columbia network. Weede has also sung at the Stage Door Canteen and numerous army camps.