THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1943
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Chiapusso Presents Successful Recital
A Jan Chiapusso piano recital is like a Socratic discourse. A large segment of piano literature is surveyed, depths are plumed, and hidden meanings strike the listener with glad surprise. Mr. Chiapusso always sets himself a hard task; he spurs all shaddy or meretricious interludes. In the years he has been in Lawrence he has built up a serious-minded, blue-stocking clientele which follows his concerts devotedly. Last evening a typical Chiapusso audience heard some soul-satisfying disquisitions from Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy.
The first offering was Mh. Chiausso's own transcription of the famous Brahms Waltzes, op. 39. Mr. Chiapusso made the arrangement from the original 4-hand version while he was a student in Paris. It is richer in texture and more pianistic than Brahms' own 2-hand arrangement; Mr. Chiapusso should publish it. He played with the right Viennese feeling; his rhythm was compelling but not oppressive, and his octave passages had the strength and resilience of structural steel.
Audience Is Spellbound
Next came Beethoven's Sonata Op. 111, the last of the immortal "32". Mr. Chiapusso made it an Aeschylean drama of defiance, suffering, resignation and final spiritual exaltation. His reading was of epic proportions. The audience sat as in a solemn religious assembly. Among many technical felicities one might note particularly Mr. Chiapusso's remarkable handling of the gruelling trills near the close of the Arietta movement.
Three cannily selected Chopin pieces comprised the third group: Impromptu, Op. 38, Valse Op. 64, Polonaise Op. 44. There was no drawing room aura in Mr. Chiapusso's Chopin; it was hearteningly virile. Tempo rubato was used to charge the music with electricity and not to spray it with syrup. Dulcimer In Finale.
Four choice specimens from Debussy closed the program: "Bells Through the Leaves," "Goldfish," "Evening in Granada," "The Isle of Joy." "Bells Through the Leaves" had back-bone as well as glamor. "Evening in Granada" introduced the one voluptuous note of the program. A pagan revel was "The Isle of Joy." The Debussy group demonstrated that Mr. Chiapuso is as much a master of Impressionism as of Classicism and Romanticism.
Home Economists Dietitians Will Meet
A meeting of the Kansas Home Economics Association and the Kansas State Dietetics Association will be held Saturday in Topeka, Miss Olga M. Hoesly, professor of Home Economics and president of the Kansas Home Economics Association, announced yesterday.
There will be a joint luncheon of the two organizations at which Miss Frances MacKinnon, regional director of the Nutrition Service, the American Red Cross, and President of the American Dietetic Association will speak.
One might not have expected riotous applause from the serious thinkers in Mr. Chiapusso's audience but they were almost as enthusiastic as a group of young jitterbugs. That is sufficient evidence of the command Mr. Chiapusso exercises over his hearers.—G.C.S.
Fine Arts Students Give Weekly Recital In Fraser Theater
Students of the School of Fine Arts presented piano, voice, and ensemble numbers at their weekly recital in Fraser theater this afternoon.
A piano "Sonata in D Major" (Haydn) was played by Max Hughes. To close the recital an ensemble composed of Peggy Kay, violin; Martha Lee Baxter, cello; and Marian Miller, piano played "Trio, Op. 1, No. 3" (Beethoven).
Blanch Pierson began the program by playing three piano solos, "Air de Ballet" (John Thompson), "Contre-Dance No. 3" (Beethoven-Seiss), and Fifth Noeturne" (Leybach). Elaine Talley then sang "Lullaby" (Cyril Scott), and Margaret Titus played a piano solo "La Plus Que Lente" (Debussy).
BUDGET BILL---in France until the war ended. After his graduation from the University in 1920 he went into the newspaper business, working on the Topeka Daily Capitol, but soon went back to army flying.
(continued from page one) bers might pack their bags and catch early evening trains.
Final tabulations on the work of the session will find no new laws of state-wide importance enacted except the measure to place labor unions under strict state supervision.
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The final check-up will show that the total appropriations have exceeded those of 2 years a little under $2,000,000 despite the fact the war has stopped all war building programs not given priorities.
A part of the increase will go to boost salaries of state employees. The house yesterday passed the amended labor bill by a vote of 84 to 30. The measure went to the senate which early this morning agreed to concur in the house amendment by 28 to 7.
The bill is now in the hands of Governor Andrew Schoeppel. He has given no indication whether he will sign or veto the measure.
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Sailors Attend Music Program
Sailors took part Tuesday night in the weekly musical program for men enrolled in the naval training school by participating in the community singing led by Karl Kuersteiner, professor of violin and orchestra and director of the programs.
Numbers included in Tuesday night's program were "Down In the Old Cherry Orchard," and "Spinach and Garlic," by the Jayhawk octet, a vocal ensemble; violin solos, "Ave Marie," and "From the Canebreak," by Barbara Huls; vocal solos, "Honor-Honor" and "A City Called Heaven," two Negro spirituals, by Nadyne Brewer; a vocal trio composed of Marjorie Thies, Mary Frances Sullivan, and Margaret Hall, singing "The Little Red Schoolhouse" and "A Medley of American Cowboy Dances" by the Oread High School dance group. Miss Ruth Hoover is the director and Miss Joie Stapleton, accompaniest.
Members of the Jayhawk octet are Jack Dodds, Glenn Lessenden, Mathias Heuertz, John Hayne, Allan Martinek, Howard Sutherland, Clark Hargiss, Joe Stockard, Joe Nelson, and Jack Hines. Max Hughes and Hope Crittenden were accompanists for the program.
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Gen. Whitehead Receives Honored Service Cross
Winner of the distinguished service cross for his part in the destruction of the 22-ship convoy in the Bismarck sea is Brig. Gen, Ennis C. Whitehead, who graduated from the University in 1920 and is now chief operations officer and one of the three men in charge of the Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific.
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commander, and Brig. Gen.
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ustralia for the Bismarck sea victory.
Most of the credit for this great
American victory must go to the
three top men directing the forces,
the announcement from headquarters said.
Whitehead, now 47 years old, has grown up with America's air force. When the United States entered World War I he was attending the University and entered the service at officer's training school at Fort Riley and later volunteered as an aviation cadet. He was a test pilot
He flew one of the army ships in the Pulitzer races in 1925 and 1927. When the air force was expanded he was commissioned a brigadier general of Luke field, near Phoenix, Ariz.
Mrs. Whitehead is now living in Kansas City, Mo., with their son, Ennis C., Jr. Their daughter Margaret, also a graduate of the University, is a dietetic student at Walter Reed hospital in Washington.
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