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University Daily Kansan Monday, February 14, 1955
Kansan photo by Harry Elliott
Organist Shows Beauty Of 'Queen of Music'
Only a few students were among a small audience which attended a concert by organist George Markey in the Museum of Art yesterday.
But nevertheless, the applause was strong after the one-hour organ concert in which the artist revived classic organ music from Bach, Haydn, and Brahms and charmed his listeners under the inspiration of the intimate and quiet museum atmosphere with the beauty and greatness of the organ as queen of all instruments.
The times are past when the organ was the best-known of instruments, and when some of the most precious compositions specially written for the organ were liked and heard by wide circles.
Today it needs merely a corner in a small museum to place some interested people, and organ-playing has become just like old religious paintings exhibited in museums, an art which is only appreciated and understood by a small group even if it is performed by an artist with nation-wide reputation.
Is it a sign of the end for an instrument which today is more than 2,000 years old? Legend traces the organ to the "syrinx" or panpipe of the god Pan or to Jubal, who was the "father of all such as handle the harp and the organ."
But the first factual evidence of the hydraulis, an organ-like instrument built by engineer Ktesibies in Alexandria, Greece, around 250 B.C. has been mentioned in Heran's "Pneumatica" 150 years later. This organ needed several men to work at the wind supply.
Since the 13th century organbuilding and playing developed rapidly and some of the most famous organs, such as the one in the cathedral of Amiens with 2,500 pipes, were constructed.
Romantic expressiveness and the ideal of the 19th century orchestra showed the organ to be a true picture of a well organized orchestra capable of producing the finest whisper as well as the full sounding effect of an orchestra.
The 20th century tried to change the organ to fit it into modern rhythms, and new types of organs were developed. But the old queen became neglected and found its place in corners of museums.
The more thanks to the School of Fine Arts for remembering her sometimes and reviving her bright glamour of sound.
Heiko Engelkes
Letters
In today's (Friday) Kansan, Mr. Shank wrote a stirring editorial on the use of butter in state institutions.
To the Editor:
I wish to ask Mr. Shank this question: Do you eat to live, or eat to enjoy? Most people in state institutions work, (be it educational or otherwise), or are handcapped in some way. Should we deprive them of this enjoyment?
Alvin Schmid
Fifth year architecture P.S. You may also give the fountain back to the Chi Omegas. George Gobel would say, "It's a 'doity boid' which lands in a bath tub."
Eventually you will find out that my home is in America's dairyland, therefore I had better add this: Sen. McCarthy did not ask me to write this, nor am I the son of a dairy farmer. I just happen to enjoy that tasty little morsel called butter.
Dick Bibler
FREEZIN' REASON
I suggest Mr. Shank make a comparison of oleo and butter by placing each on a slice of toast. If that is no sufficient proof, order a lobster dinner served first with oleo and then butter. If this hasn't changed your mind, I would suggest you have your taste buds checked, or else begin a vitamin pill diet. By the way, that would be one way to lower a house bill!
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
"I see Freda finally got a date with her basketball player."
You'll be living in a winter blunderland if you fail to condition your car for winter conditions. You must see danger to avoid it, so be sure those defrosters and windshield wipers are working. Don't forget the heater, tire chains and headlights, either. You can't blitz a blizzard, so check up now to check winter accidents.
All the cars and trucks exported from New York harbor each year, placed end to end, would stretch from Manhattan to Indianapolis, says the National Geographic Society.
Harness-broken moose are being tried as farm animals in the Siberian Arctic.
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Daily Hansan
University of Kansas Student Newspaper News Room, KU 251 Ad Room, KU 376 Member of the Inland Daily Press association. Associated Collagete Press association. Represented by the National Advertising Association. Mail subscription rates: $3 a semester or $4.50 a year (add $1 a semester if in Lawrence). Published at Lawrence university, every afternoon, Saturdays and Sundays, University holidays and examination periods. Entered as second class matter. Sept. 17, 1910, at Lawrence, Kan.
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France's Christian Pineau- Can He Form a Government?
Socialist Christian Pineau, making his second attempt to form a French government, writes plays in his spare time and has just turned out a book of children's stories.
Born in the town of Chaumont in
the Haute-Marne department east
of Paris Oct. 14, 1904. .won law
degree. .began a banking career.
But as a young man Mr. Pineau began participating in the labor movement. . became secretary of the Economic council of the CGT . . found the economic journal "Banque et Bourse" which lasted from 1937 until the war. .
After the fall of France he helped organize a resistance movement .edited an underground newspaper. Gen. Charles de Gaulle put him in charge of political and military missions. arrested by the Germans after a trip to London in 1942. managed to escape two months later. again arrested in 1943 and imprisoned in the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp.
In 1945 Gen. de Gaulle made Mr. Pineau minister of food . elected a deputy from the Sarthe department after the fourth republic was established . served as chairman of the National assembly finance committee. .
Became minister of economic and financial affairs under Robert Sehuman in September, 1948. . Later minister of public works under Henri Queille. .
In January, 1952, he tried to form a government to replace that of Rene Pleven. .gave up quickly .. Radical Socialist Edgar Faure formed it. .
Mr. Pineau is deeply interested in foreign affairs... is a leader of the Franco-American friendship group in Parliament. recently made a trip to Indochina with a parliamentary commission.
Canada's herds of caribou and being cut down by wolves, hunters, disease and scarcity forage faster than nature can replace the losses, says the National Geographic Society. To increase the stock, the Canadian government has imported reindeer from Siberia by way of Alaska and brought herdsmen from Lapland to teach nomadic Eskimos the art of the deer's domestic care.
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Niney-two per cent of the commercial forest land in Vermont is privately owned. There are 40,000 holdings of less than 5,000 acres; only 17 ownerships exceed 5,000 acres.
"You boys know that I enjoy a good joke along with the next fellow, but the Medical building says that they want their cadaver back."