KU Singers to Perform With Philharmonic
By Thomas Turner
At 8 a.m. 150 KU singers boarded busses bound for Kansas City to practice for their performance of Verdi's "Requiem" at 8:15 p.m. today at the Music Hall in Kansas City, Mo.
Probably for the first time in history, the University of Kansas chorus and concert choir will sing with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Hans Schwieger.
The combined voices and orchestra will perform the "Requiem" at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at the Kansas Union, the School of Fine Arts office and Bell's Music Store. There will be no student ID exchanges. Only general admission tickets are left.
GUEST SOLOISTS will be Herva Nelli, soprano; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Moscona, basso; and Albert da Costa, tenor.
Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music and director of the combined KU choruses, said today that coordination of the production has been excellent due to "extremely good cooperation from Kansas City."
Mr. Schwieger has attended four KU rehearsals, Prof. Krehbiel explained.
"LAST SUNDAY, the entire Philharmonic (more than 80 members), and their equipment,
moved to the Music and Dramatic Arts building to rehearse with our kids for four hours—four hours. This has never been heard of before," Prof. Krehbiel continued.
Prof. Kreibibel's library tells the story of the "Requiem":
Giuseppe Verdi first conceived the idea for the requiem in 1868, following the death of Italian composer, Gioacchino Rossini.
A REQUIEM, either spoken or in music, is a group of poems or writings, composed to honor the dead.
According to Verdi's scheme, each of 13 Italian composers was to submit one score.
zoni, Verdi took his contribution to the original Rossini requiem, entitled "Libera mi" and built a new requiem around it. This is the score used today.
WHEN THE "Requiem" was first performed, public reaction was slight with the exception of a few German musicians. It was already well-known that Verdi was not an ardent Catholic. In fact, he had been clearly identified as a religious "liberal" by Catholic officials. Catholic clergymen urged that Verdi's art was not fit for religious service because of its theatrical nature.
Then, in 1873, at the death of Italian poet Alessandro Man-
rancio.
The "Requiem" was later acclaimed a word of "genius" by composer, Johannes Brahms.
Write-in Slate Announced by 6 For ASC Seats
By Susanne Shaw
Six students announced today their candidacy for ASC representatives on a non-partisan write-in slate. The write-in campaign will be for the general elections on April 5 and 6.
Vox is the only party on the ballot for the elections.
The students are not affiliated with any political party. They are strictly non-partisan candidates who are opposed to the one-party political system.
THE CANDIDATES and the districts they are running from are:
- Sorority Living District—Dorothy Hartbauer, Overland, Mo., sophomore.
- Women's Dormitories — Judy Culver. Caney junior.
- Men's Dormitories - George Hahm, Scotch Plains, N. J., freshman.
- Graduate School — John V Black. Pratt graduate student.
● Fraternity Living District—Robert Roulier, Colby senior.
● Unmarried-Unorganized — Fred Morrison, Colby senior.
In regard to the purpose of the write-in candidates Morrison told the Daily Kansan:
"I believe that there is a place for an opposition as watch-dog in student government. I do not believe that one-party rule would be beneficial in any way for the students. I think that the students will agree with this."
"Several have expressed to me their desire for another candidate. I am running because of their wishes."
MISS HARTBAUER also told the Kansan:
"It is our opinion that the disadvantages of a one-party system should not be felt on this campus. Under the present system there has been a notable lack of accomplishment due to the one-party system."
The following is a general outline which the candidates will support.
A Constitutional amendment that will provide at least one voting member from each living district. (Now there must be at least 75 votes cast in the district before the representative from that district
Thev favor:
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Aldous Huxley, internationally known British author and lecturer, will speak at the fifth Humanities Lecture at 8 p.m. next Tuesday in the University Theatre.
Aldous Huxley to Be Humanities Lecturer
Mr. Huxley is the author of the satirical novel "Brave New World." He will speak on "Visionary Experience."
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57th Year, No. 113
Vox Outlines New Platform
Vox Populi, the only campus political party, has added a disciplinary plank to their platform for the spring elections.
Tuesday, March 29, 1960
Jack Roberts, Kansas City, Kan. sophomore and campaign manager for Vox, said:
"The disciplinary situation has been kept 'hush-hush' for too long."
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
"We will make every effort to bring to light the rights of students in disciplinary situations. There is a need to overcome the 'fear system' that now exists."
Roberts said that the purpose of the new plank is to bring the disciplinary situation to the surface for all students to view. He said that Vox wants to add the plank so that students will know what their rights are and what they can do in connection with disciplinary problems.
The new plank reads:
Showers Predicted
No Floods Seen
Flood threats in northeast Kansas and southwest Nebraska diminished today as forecasters predicted only light showers in these areas.
The Kaw and Wakarusa rivers, running near bankful, are expected to run two or three feet above their banks because of runoff from western and northern streams.
BUT FORECASTERS say there is little chance that floods will strike heavily populated areas.
At Lawrence, the Kaw is running at 19.1 feet. It is expected to crest at 19.3 feet. Flood conditions are presently reported at Eudora.
In areas already hard-hit by surging flood waters, National Guardsmen, Civil Defense volunteers and Red Cross workers teamed up with local police to battle the floods.
At Frankfort, the Black Vermillion River burst its banks and inundated business and residential districts. Observers reported that the entire southeast quarter of Nebraska is a huge swamp.
THUNDER STORMS accompanied by high winds ripped across the plains states today. Gusts of 50 m.p.h. were reported in Kansas and Nebraska.
The first tornado of the year in Oklahoma struck ground last night six miles north of Shattuck in the western part of the state. The Oklahoma highway patrol said the twister overturned farm machinery and uprooted several trees but injured no one.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN stationed at flood-strecken Marysville and Frankfort in northeastern Kansas were released today as swollen rivers and streams receded. The guardmen's release ended a 36-hour watch of the Big Blue River.
United Press International said that the "villain" in the flood picture is the heavy late snowfall which came after mid-winter. In some parts of Kansas and Nebraska, the snow had piled up to the deepest layer in half a century or more.
U.S. Agrees to Red-American Troop Reduction
GENEVA—(UPI) The United States offered Russia an agreement today to slash American and Russian troop strength to 2,100,000 men each, provided the Soviets accept controls against cheating.
But Russia's Valerian Zorin demanded agreement first on "general and complete disarmament."
"Let's not the ourselves up here with paper measures," Zorin said.
THE U.S. OFFER was made by Frederick M. Eaton at the end of another three-hour session of the 10-nation disarmament conference, almost in exasperation after Zorin continuously sidestepped all Western attempts to get him to discuss guarantees against cheating.
Eaton reminded Zorin that the United States already had offered to freeze U.S. and Russian armed forces at 2,500,000 each then reduce them to 2,100,000 men.
"We are prepared to accept these measures immediately," Eaton declared, "so long as they are accompanied by the verification machinery we consider essential."
But the session broke up without any further reply from Zorin.
MEANWHILE, at Camp David, Md., Vice President Richard M. Nixon joined in talks between President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on efforts to devise a nuclear test ban without handcuffing the next man in the White House.
The President and the Prime Minister were described authentically as having agreed in principle on Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's call for a moratorium on small underground nuclear tests but in a much more limited form.
THEY STILL HAD to work out some way of limiting the ban to the extent of President Eisenhower's term which ends Jan. 20 with the inauguration of a new President.
Nixon, the only candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination to date, was asked to Camp David in his capacity as vice president and the President's frequent consultant on international matters.
White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said he had heard no discussion whatever of having President Eisenhower consult with Democratic presidential candidates on the projected moratorium.
Shall We Dance? ... dum dum dum
Classic Ballet is static . . .
You can't be abstract . . .
(For story about Janet McFarland see page 4.)
... or dance Ballet Jazz.