Friday, April 27, 1973
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University Daily Kansan
Copland to Attend Opera Sunday
By MARIEL BIMM
Kansan Staff Writer
Aaron Cronpland will be at the University of Kansas, Sunday through Tuesday, as the guest compose at KU's 15th Annual Symposium of Contemporary American
Copland will arrive in Lawrence Saturday evening for the opening of his opera "The Tender Land" at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre. The opera will also be performed at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and at 8 p.m. May 4 and 5.
Copland's appearance at the symposium will be the highlight of the event. In previous years several prominent American composers have appeared.
Stan Shumway, associate professor of music theory said that of these composers the work of Emmett Kelly is one of his favorites.
"I think there will be a significantly larger turnout for the symposium this year," Shumway said. "Copland should have a lot of appeal."
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As guest composer, Copland will attend the seminars and concerts offered during
the symposium. He will also lecture on
the symposium at 10 a.m. Tuesday in
Surbant Recital Hall
"Aaron Copland is without question North America's leading composer," Carleton Sprague Smith wrote in "Music Today." "As a teacher, public lecturer, author, musician, and composer, has had the greatest influence of any composer now active in the United States."
The 73-year-old Copland, a native New Yorker, studied in France from 1921 through 1924. In 1925 he became the first composer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Copland's work was first heard in the United States by the League of Composers when he was 24. Over the years, Copland has been involved in a huge array of contemporary music. He was the first director of the American Festival of Contemporary Music. He has made good-will tours of Latin America as a pianist, lecturer and conductor of American music. He has lectured on contemporary music throughout the United States and is the author of four books on contemporary music in America.
Copland has received numerous honors, including the Gold Medal for music, which is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1964, he was awarded Freedom, the highest civil honor given by the President for service in peacekeeping.
Copland's reputation is international. His works have been performed in Mexico, Cuba, South America, England and in Europe. He has composed commissioned works for the Columbia Broadcasting System, Halleuse de Monte Carlo, the French National Opera, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Elisabeth Sarnau Craodine Foundation.
He has also composed for ballet. His ballet score "Appalachian Spring" won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Music Critics Circle Award in 1945.
He has composed scores for many American films, including those for "Our Town," "The Red Pony" and "Of Mice and Mouse," for which the *Heiless* won an Oscar in 1949.
The first of the five major concerts performed during the symposium will be "A Recital of Music by Aaron Coplain," at 8 p.m. sunday in Swartbutt Real Hall. The program will include "Piano Sonata," "Fantasy" by Emily Dickinson" and "Piano Variations."
The symposium will include a number of other musical performances.
At 8 p.m. Monday the Chamber Choir will present a concert which, Shumway said, is one of the best in the symposium. Most of the music has never been performed before. In addition to Coplain's "In the Beginning," five works by composers from across the country will be performed.
Two of these works were composed by faculty members—"Three Choruses" by Leslie Adams, actress assistant professor of music at Princeton University; "And Then a Loll!" by Edward Matilla.
'Volunteers in Court' Aid Young Offenders
Approximately 200 Kansas scientists converge on the University of Kansas today for the 105th annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science.
The scientists will also discuss teaching methods and ways of interesting young learners.
Papers will be presented on a variety of research topics in the areas of general biology, environmental biology, chemistry, geography, physics and engineering.
Robert Lichtwant, professor of botany, will host the meeting.
William Hambleton, director of the Kansas Geological Survey, will speak at the concluding banquet on "The Energy Crisis."
Service Scholarship Awarded by SUA
Frederick Silber, University of Kansas law student, was awarded the University- Community Service scholarship Thursday by the SUA Board.
Silber has been the director of Headquarters, Inc. since 1970. He has also served on the advisory board of Volunteer Clearing House and the executive committee of the Mayor's Committee on Drug Abuse.
associate professor of music theorv.
One of the main activities of the volunteer is to encourage the child to participate in activities that they both enjoy as roller skates, picnicing or visiting a farm, she said.
Pam Parker, Lawrence graduate student and director of Volunteers in Court, said that children involved in court cases needed professional help in guidance and guidance besides a probate officer.
The children in the program are between the ages of 12 and 16, Parker said, and have been convicted of one or two previous offenses. To participate a child is tested psychologically to decide if a close relationship with an adult would benefit him and his parents must grant permission before the volunteer counseling can begin.
The National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) started the program, Parker said. The program was run by the program at a regional PTA conference about juvenile volunteer programs last September in Chicago. Program planning volunteers finished training by February.
Twenty-two volunteers and 11 children who are involved in juvenile offenses are working together in a new program called the Douglas County Volunteers in Court.
State Scientists Attend Meeting
Current volunteers range in age from students to a 40-year-old couple and are expected to spend at least three hours a week with a child. The volunteers must go through an application screening and training lessons and must remain in the area for six months after training. Volunteers can not currently be in trouble with the law.
The volunteer training comprises five sessions. The first session is orientation. The second is an explanation of the juvenile court system and laws. The third and fourth are discussions of the psychological needs of the child, his family and the volunteer, the fifth is an introduction to community resources available to help the child.
Come feel the hills and valleys of your feet.
The University Orchestra concert, at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the University Theatre, will feature the "Billy the Kid Sutte" by Ciopland and four other works, including Symphonic music, a premier work by Richard Hoag, associate professor of music theory.
Parker used applications were now being accepted for the training session scheduled
KU' student compositions will be performed during a recital at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall. Seven works contributed in the School of Music will be featured
Shumway said Matilla's work was written for electronic tape, chorus and dancers and would make use of the music from new electronic equipment for the first time.
The Symphonic Band Concert at 8 p.m.
wednesday in the University Theatre will
be held on Thursday, June 12.
"Emblembs" and four works by other composers will be performed. One of these, "Second Prelude," was composed by James Barnes, Arkansas city senior. Barnes is the only student to have his work performed in a concert other than the student recital.
He said anyone could submit a composition for consideration. The only stipulations are that the work must be written and it must have been written within the last five years.
All events of the symposium, including the lecture by Copland, are open to the public.
Shumway said Barnes' work had been selected from among many works submitted, and that although all the other works performed in concert were by faculty from universities around the country, such status was not a prerequisite to acceptance.
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