Monday, Oct. 15, 1962 University Daily Kansar
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Concert Will Feature Original Compositions
ENTRANTS are students, professors, housewives and professional musicians. All entrants are considered on the same level. The only requirements are that the music selected is by a well-trained composer, suitable for the occasion and not widely recognized.
Plans are now underway for one of the outstanding cultural events of the University of Kansas concert program.
Virgil Thomson, former New Yor Herald Tribune music critic and Pulitzer prize winner, will be guest composer at the Fine Arts Department's fifth annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music May 5-7.
John Pozdro, associate professor of music theory and chairman of the symposium committee, said they would probably review about 200 scores of music from all parts of the United States and select approximately 20 for performance.
THE SYMPOSIUM, a concert of unpublished works, is open to any composer in the United States. Entrants may submit as many as four works in the fields of symphony orchestra, concert choir, chorus- orchestra, chamber ensemble, the cerrillon and solo compositions.
Besides Thomson, the Fine Arts Quartet, a string group from Chicago, will be on the program. Several members of the Kansas City Philharmonic will play in the University symposium orchestra.
Honor Group To Convene
Physicists will meet at the University of Kansas Oct. 21 to 24 for the national convention of Sigma Pi Sigma, physics honor society.
Stanley Ballard, University of Florida physics department chairman and national president of the society will speak on "Infra-red Physics and its Application" at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 23, in the Kansas Union.
L. Worth Seagondollar, KU professor of physics and national vice-president of the society, said organizational problems will be the main business item. The delegates will also tour KU research facilities in physics, including the nuclear reactor.
"Sometimes we include a highlyrecognized work that hasn't been performed in this area," Pozdro said.
Other members of the committee are Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ and theory; Robert Baus汀ian, associate professor of orchestra; Raymond Cerf, professor of string instruments; Thomas Gorton, Dean of the School of Fine Arts; and Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education.
PROF. POZDRO SAID the purpose of the symposium is to encourage the American composer. Until KU initiated its symposium program in 1959 through the support of the endowment association and the Music Performance Trust Funds of the Recording Industries in New York, there was no comparable program in the Midwest.
The KU symposium has earned praise for its professional standards. After attending the University's 1960 symposium, Paul Hummel, Washington music critic, remarked that the symposium was "something many schools should attempt to duplicate though few will be able to reach its high level."
Prof. Pozdro was optimistic about the symposium's growing reputation.
Last year approximately 20 composers came to the campus to hear their works performed in the symposium. The guest composer moderated an open forum and panel discussion.
"It's becoming a tradition at KU," he said. "And what more likely place is there for it to be than right in the middle of the United States."
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Foreign Students Plan Trip
International Club members voted Friday night to pay the transportation expenses of two students who would organize and accompany club members on a trip to Mexico during the Christmas vacation.
Approximately 100 students made the trip last year. The club chartered two buses. Transportation and hotel expenses were about $125, according to Bruce Murray, graduate student from Johannesburg, South Africa, and club vice-president.
Turning to other business, the club revised their constitution to provide for the election of an auditor and the appointment of a publicity chairman.
Members voted honorary membership to Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Coan and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Burzle.
Coan is international student adviser and Burzle is director of the University's foreign student orientation program.
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