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Thursday, February 5, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Virtuoso shares Listz's legacy with KU students
By KAREN LEONARD
University of Kansas piano majors have been given a unique opportunity to reap the wisdom of a musical heritage that began with classical composer Franz Liszt.
Internationally renowned concert pianist Sequeira Costa, whose own master had been a pupil of Lissit, is teaching master classes in music as part of his job as visiting professor.
While Costa's profession has been mainly that of concert pianist, he has had two years of teaching experience at the Lisbon Conservatory in his native Porgul.
Albrough he plans to teach at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and in London after he finishes his doctorate. He will stay under staying at KU if he received an invitation.
"UP TO NOW I've really been enjoying my position here at KU." Costa said. "Lawrence is a change, but I've had enough of big cities. Italy is a mess. France is a disaster. And now I'm in a discipline and friendship and quiet. Lawrence is what I'm looking for."
Costa arrived here Jan. 26 after finishing his duties at the Seventh Viana da Moça.
International plane competition in Lisbon.
which is bred every two years.
Because of the violent political upheaval in Portugal, Costa said, organizing this year's competition had cost "years of his life."
"Even in the orchestra, nobody wanted to play," he said. "That's one reason I'm in the states. Everything in Portugal is in Europe, I want to work and the economy is a mess."
'ALLI WANT is to work. I know it sounds strange, but I don't feel I love a thing to my country. France and Paris gave me the prize which opened my career.
The prize to which Costa was referring was the Grand Prize De Paris, which he won at the age of 22 at the Marguerite-Tibau Tibau International piano competition.
After receiving the prize, Costa toured China and several countries in Europe, Africa, South America and North America. And he has more travel planned.
During a three-week period in March, Costa has concert performances scheduled with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Zagreb (Yugoslavia), Philharmonic and recitals in
Paris, Rome and Lisbon. He will also go to Prague during that period to record the events of 1915.
COSTA SAID he started studying piano at the age of six. He was born in 1928 in Angola. But at the age of five, his parents sent him to Lisbon to begin studying music. His parents had become aware of Costa's gift for music, he said, before he was five, when he learned to play the accordion and played from memory any song he heard.
Costa's first master, Viana da Motta, a pupil of List, was 70 when he instructed the students.
"I was apparently quite gifted, and there was no one in Africa who could help me at that," she said.
His childhood was a lonely one, he commented.
"I never knew what it was to have a friend or to go the movies." Costa said.
But, he added, this was during World War II, when times were difficult for everyone.
IN HIS YOUTH, Costa said, he had thought of careers other than that of being a pianist, and he had to go to school in the public school. But he had to give up that because he was spending seven to
Now, he said, he spends only four or five hours a day practicating and spends the rest of his time elsewhere.
eight hours a day practicing the piano, leaving too little time for studies.
Costa said music had been a great help to him throughout his life and he could find no disadvantages to his career. As a concert performer, he is interested in people and travel, he said, and he has also gained a lot from his close relationship with music. He said he thought that he understood people and their experiences, as a result of his understanding of music.
COSTA SAID that since he had been a lonely child, he had been a bit aggressive with people, but that his music had made him gentler.
This fact, to Costa, is the real value of music, and art in general. He said music made people more tolerant and more understanding.
"The best pianists are the kindest," Costa said.
If a pianist isn't good and doesn't make it, he will try to prevent talented young musicians from succeeding, he said. The great pianists will always do everything they can to help the young ones because they know how difficult it is to succeed. Cuesta said.
Guest geologist calls ocean floor best source for more U.S. oil
U. S. production of oil has dropped during the last decade because exploration efforts have focused on land projects rather than oceanic research, Hollis Hedberg, Merrill W. Hass Visiting Distinguished Professor of Geology, said yesterday.
"The easiest oil, which comes from the land, has almost all been tapped," he said. "The best sources for future oil for the Gulf of Mexico are the Sea and the Atlantic Continental shelf."
Hedberg is a University of Kansas alumnus (1925) and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He is also an officer of Gulf Oil Corp., the official resident of Gulf Oil Corp, from 1897 to 1894.
This semester, Hedberg is teaching a
masters' major, called
"Narrative Classification"
of linguistics.
He said exploratory ocean drilling had been blocked by the government's refusal to lease any sections of the Atlantic continental shelf to oil companies.
Environmentalists have said that accidents in ocean drilling could cause great oil slicks and pollution, Hedeby said, but environmental experts said 100 wells in the Atlantic without trouble.
Feminist,sexist to debate on women's roles
Admission will be 50 cents, and tickets are available at the SUA office.
DecCrow is conducting a campaign to inform people around the country about NOW, according to Tony Calao, a representative of the American Program Bureau, the Boston lecture agency that provided the speakers.
Karen DeCrow, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), will debate George Glider, author of "Sexual Right in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union."
DeCrow is an author, lecturer and teacher. Her most recent book is "Sexist Justice." She is a lawyer and a 1972 graduate of Syracuse University.
Calao said yesterday that Gilder was concentrating on his third book. The premise of his first book is that a woman's place is in the home. Men are sexually inferior and must be attracted into the home by women to keep the men from running away. Gilder is part of the institutions of individualism and democracy," the book saves.
Brad Bradley, chairman of SUA Forums,
said Glide formers were being debated
in a high-level medical trial.
Calao said Glider and DeCrow hadn't debated while they had been with his company, but they had debated each other independently.
"They know each other," he said,
"They're not enemies."
There will be a reception at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Union for Glder and another reception at 7 p.m. in the Music Room for DeCrow.
Before oceanic drilling can develop, international boundary disputes must be worked out, Heedberg said. The United Nations has been working on a boundary law to define property rights on the oceanic floor he said.
Oil shale and secondary oil, two potentially great fuel sources, have largely been ignored in the search for more reserves, Hedberg said. Shale and secondary oil are found below surface reserves, in loose rock. Large quantities of water and heat can separate and carry on oil from the rock, an expensive operation, Hedberg said.
Even if much more new oil is found, the world will likely run out of all its reserves by the end of this decade.
At most, 1,000 billion barrels of oil can be said, "and with annual output at 20 billion barrels in 2015"
More emphasis must be placed on developing optional sources of energy, he said. Suspicions that large oil companies have delayed research on nuclear and solar energy in their own interests aren't true, Hedberg said.
Many of the large oil companies began
massive and development of these fuels
many years ago.
"The companies looked far enough ahead years ago, that the use of other inventions was inevitable."
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"They were used as whipping posts by the people," Hedberg said. "Instead of examining their own demands on oil, the public put the burden of the oil shortage on the major companies."
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Hedberg recently edited a book, "The International Stratigraphic Guide," which offers a global technical language for use by geologists in stratification and classification of stratified rock.
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Costa said he thought Mozart was the most universally appealing of the classical
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Although classical music is increasing in popularity through the influence of radio, records and television, Costa said, it still isn't widely appreciated.
"CHILDREN CAN play Mozart very well, and so can very old people. His music is very spontaneous, very simple. A very old person, with so much achievement, can play so fresh, like a child, with the profound knowledge of a human being."
"It takes a lot of understanding to follow the composer's intentions," he said. "It takes a lot of understanding of the philosophy to love our type of music."
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COSTA SAID he found his KU students to be about the same as students anywhere. Some are bad, some are mediciore and others are gifted, he said.
Costa added that he was generally pleased with his students, because they were willing to work hard. They understand what he and what he wants from them, he said.
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