WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Philharmonic Presents Excellent Concert In Hoch
By JOHN CONARD
It was not a matter of what is good and what is bad when the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra presented its concert of seven numbers and three encores before an audience of 3,000 in Hoch auditorium last night. It was a matter of varying degrees of excellence.
The first number, an overture to "Hebrides" (Mendelssohn) would have been beautiful and exciting even to a deaf mute. Karl Krueger's directing, as rhythmic and graceful as a modern dance, was inspiring in itself.
The spectacle of the perfectly coordinated physical movements of the orchestra members was also almost musical in itself.
Headdress a Rare Number
And the music? The overture to
"Hebrides" was one of those rare pieces in which we could connect the program's written interpretations and our own impressions of the number. Truly it did, as the program informed us, suggest the "murmur of the sea as it washes upon rocks forming the opening to a great cave."
It is sufficient to say that the orchestra did justice to Tschaikowsky's "Fifth Symphony." One doesn't have to be a music critic to appreciate this mood-exuding composition. It begins in a heavy, despondent tone, then moves into the beautiful, slow but appealing second movement. Soft chords and the famous horn melody lull the listener into a sort of dozing ecstasy, only to have him curiously disturbed in the third movement by
a pungent, uneasy valse. The sturdy march of the finale brings the piece to a brilliant climax. Craft Plays As Krueger Conducts
With Lois Craft playing the harp solo of "Introduction and Allegro for Harp and Orchestra" (Ravel), the deaf mute again would have a moment of keen enjoyment. Miss Craft plays the harp, as Kreuger conducts, with utmost poise and grace, but in our opinion the music was not up to the standard set by the orchestra earlier in the evening.
"Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39"
(Eligar), a series of military marches,
was exceedingly well done. The lady in front of us turned around
to see who was stomping his feet,
and we're not even in the army.
"Danse Macabre" Well Done
The orchestra's interpretation of
Federal Geologist Is Transferred To Washington, D.C.
H. A. Waite, federal geologist, has been temporarily transferred to Washington, D. C., for work in that
office. Waite left yesterday and will return to the University division of the Groundwater survey in about two and a half months.
From time to time the groundwater branch of the National Geological Survey calls its representatives to the national office to
acquaint them with routine work of the organization.
Waite at the present is working on geologic and groundwater conditions in Scott and Ford counties. Field work for the Scott county report was completed last fall.
Editing Yesterday's Ottawa Herald
Students in the University department of journalism tested their ability to put out a different daily paper yesterday when nine of them went to Ottawa to take over the Ottawa Herald for a day.
Those who made the trip were Bob Trump, college junior; Art O'Donnell, college senior; Eleanor VanNice, college senior; Don Fierce, college senior; Stan Stauf-
er, college junior; Eldon Corkill. college senior; Heidi Viets, college sophomore; George Sitterley, college senior, and Lillian Fisher, college senior.
These students did all of the editing and reporting on yesterday's Herald. Siegfried Mickelson, assistant professor of journalism, accompanied the group.
In the above pictures, George Sitterley is shown interviewing
This was the first of several field trips to be taken by journalism majors during the spring semester. Next Monday a group will take over the Topeka Daily Capital. Trips to Kansas City, Kan., and Leavenworth also are planned.
R. E. Gowans, principal of the Ottawa high school, and Lillian Fisher is pictured in an interview with Postmaster T. J. Cummings, jr.
"Danse Macabre" the symphonic poem by Saint-Saens was of the highest quality, but the selection doesn't approach the best of the Saint-Saens work.
Especially popular with the audience was Tschaikowsky's "Andante Cantabile to the Quartet, Op. 11," known to so many because of the catchy phrase from the so-called "Volga Boatmen's Song." Call Kruger Rock
After the last number, the audience applauded, Kreuger bowed. The audience continued applauding. He bowed again, then left the stage. The applause never waned, and after a reasonable lapse of time Kreuger returned on the stage.
The audience liked him, and they liked his orchestra. It was only after the Philharmonic had played three encores, including "Tales of the Vienna Woods," that the director and the orchestra could call it a night and return to Kansas City.
Kansas Rates Second In Number of Pilots
Proof that the University's pilot training program is producing lies in the fact that the University of Kansas holds second place in the number of pilots trained by the nation's colleges and universities in C.A.A., according to figures printed in a pamphlet, "Mass Production of Pi- $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
lots," issued by the department of Commerce.
rolled in the secondary course.
Earl D. Hay, in charge of C.A.A. at the University, received the pamphlet which states that 295 students will have received training by the end of the semester. Two hundred thirty of this number received primary training while 65 were en-
First place is held by the University of California at Berkeley, where 410 students will have taken one of the C.A.A. courses by June. The records show that the University of Kansas has one flight school as compared to seven for the University of California.
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