SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
47th Year, No. 7
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, June 30, 1959
Sunday Concert Programs Reported
Orchestra-Chorus—Sunday Afternoon, July 5, 1959 Leo Kucinski, Guest Conductor
3:30 p.m. University Theatre Chorus
A Ceremony of Carols ... Benjamin Britten Margaret Ling, Harpist; Mr. Krehbiel, Conducting
Intermission
Orchestra
Oberon, Overture ... Weber
Romeo and Juliet, Overture ... Tschaikowsky
Mr. Wiley, Conducting
Toccata and Fugue in C ... Bach-Weiner
Entre Acte from "Khovantchina" ... Mussorgsky-Stowkowsky
Intermezzo from "Goyescas" ... Granados
Rhapsodic Dance from "Bamboula" ... Coleridge-Taylor
Mr. Kucinski, Conducting
Band-Chorus—Leo Kucinski, Guest Conductor
8 p.m. Outdoor Theatre
8 p.m. Outdoor Theatre
Band
Theme Song
The Star Spangled Banner...Key
American Salute Gould
based on "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
March of the Free Peoples Darcy
The Irish Suite Anderson
"The Girl I Left Behind Me"
Mr. Wiley, Conducting
Fingals Cave, Overture ... Mendelsohn
Mr. Carnev, Conducting
Chorus
The Testament of Freedom ... Randall Thompson
Mr. Krehbiel, Conducting
Euryanthe, Overture ... Weber
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla ... Wagner
from "The Rheingold"
11007 The Rhinggold
March Slav ... Tschaikovsky
Mr. Kucinski, Conducting
Theme Song
Mr. Wiley, Conducting
'Monkey Saddle' Falls But It's All a Mystery
There seems to be some confusion as to exactly "wha hoppen" to the "monkey saddle," the wooden structure west of Marvin Hall. The structure was found Sunday collapsed in the center with the sections lying on the
ground underneath the upright frame.
"I was here until Saturday noon
George M. Beal, professor of architecture and director of the Architectural Service, said the department was still in the process of investigation.
Rossini, Hanson Works Highlight KU Concert
This work was introduced to the camp's audience last week when one section was performed, and Mr. Krehbiel announced plans to complete the work on the last concert of the summer.
The second of six concerts given Sunday by the Midwestern Music and Art Camp chorus, orchestra, and band opened with the chorus under the direction of Clayton Krehbiel singing four sections of Randall Thompson's "The Peaceable Kingdom."
The piece was suggested to Mr. Thompson, a contemporary American composer, by a painting, entitled "The Peaceable Kingdom," by Edward Hicks, which illustrates Isaiah 11: 6- and is, as Krehbiel described it, "a dramatic work, whether forte or pianissimo."
The orchestra opened its section of the program with one of the two outstanding selections of the afternoon, "Italian in Algiers, Overture" by Rossini. The full, rich tone of the string sections was shown in "La Folia" by Corelli-Sopkin and especially in the first movement of Howard Hanson's "Symphony No. 2."
difficult piece which was lacking somewhat in rhythm continuity.
Guest conductor of the week for both band and orchestra was Henry Sopkin, director of the Atlantic, Ga., symphony orchestra. He is known, however, not only as a conductor, but also as an editor of music especially for college and high school symphonies, and as a clinician in orchestral techniques.
Perhaps the weakest number of the afternoon was "Dance Rhythms," a
Although we were told that Sopkin had had no previous experience with bands, the performance of the band was by no means indicative of the fact. The presentation of "Overture to Rienzi," by Wagner-Grabel, while it contained some of the most glaring mistakes of the evening, also brought about by exceptional contrast in dynamics and color some of the most stirring moments of the concert.
Individuals to be commended for their work in Bizet's "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2." under the direction of Russell Wiley, are Bobby Brooks, Sioux City, Iowa (cornet), John Fuerst, Cicero, Ill. (baritone), and Anne Kepler of Tulsa (flute).
The overall performance of the band, though marred in spots by intonation difficulties in the high reeds, was generally enjoyable as were those of the camp orchestra and chorus. —S.R.
and everything was all right, so it could have happened Saturday afternoon.
"We have had some vandalism prior to this time. Somebody sliding on top of the structure broke loose a metal strip glued to a panel." Prof. Beal said.
He said the "monkey saddle" was an experimental structure and not an ordinary construction.
"It is a research project. We have been experimenting with glues—150 samples. If the destruction was not the work of vandals, it was not the failure of the plywood," Prof. Beal said.
Donald L. Dean, associate professor of civil engineering, said the joints in the construction were bad.
"We were planning to repair it not using adhesive. We are going to put it back up with a new adhesive.
"It was not a structural failure. It took 80 miles per hour winds before," Prof. Dean said.
He said the destruction probably was a result of wind and rain, and that the joints had been "deteriorated by vandals" before.
A hyperbolic parabolid, a structure similar to the "monkey saddle," was constructed as a part of the Engineering Exposition a year ago. It later was dismantled and used by an architectural student as the frame of a home. The "monkey saddle" was built for this year's Engineering Exposition.
Commedia Carnival Ticket Sales Start
Students may obtain tickets to the Commedia Carnival productions, which start July 9, at the University Theatre box office in the Music and Dramatic Arts Building starting tomorrow.
Gordon Beck, instructor of speech and assistant to the University Theatre, said yesterday that students may exchange their ID cards for season coupon tickets.
SUMMER SCHOOL IS HALF OVER—The cool undergraduate library is the scene of intense study these days as students prepare for mid-semester exams.
Students tackle the study problem from different angles: Mary Ann Mize, Salina senior, kicks her shoes off and hits the books. Sister Maurine Sullivan, O.S.B.
from Donnally College, Kansas City, Kan., conscientiously bends over her books and Walter H. Steffan, Nashville senior, shows the latest in study posture,