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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 9, 1959
Noted Pianist Set For Mid-week Date
The pianist who is considered one of the foremost of his generation as well as the greatest his nation has ever produced will perform Wednesday at 8:20 p.m. in the University Theatre of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building.
Rudolf Firkusny, a Czech-American, will appear on the KU Concert Course. Students may present ID cards at the Fine Arts Office or the Union Center for reserved seats
Admission tickets for non-students are $2.56, $2.05 and $1.54 and may be purchased at the Fine Arts Office, the Union Ticket Center and Bell Music Co.
Mr. Kirkusyn, who became an American citizen six years ago and now makes his permanent home in New York, was only six years old
Unitarian Leader To Speak Here
A national leader in liberal religious education will discuss "A Mature Religion for Modern Man" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union.
Rev. Dr, Ernest W, Kuebler
The speaker, the Rev. Dr. Ernest W. Kuebler, is director of the Division of Education and administrator of the Council of Liberal Churches
His lecture will be open to the public without charge and is sponsored by the Lawrence Unitarian Association.
Dr. Kuebler also will meet with the Unitarian Young People's group at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Kansas Union Oread room, and will be guest of honor at a dinner at 5:30 p.m. given by the Fellowship's religious education committee in the English room of the Union.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Kuebler attended Kansas City Junior College, Northwestern College, and Boston University, where he received his bachelor's degree in Religious Education and a master's degree in Character Education and Psychology. He studied for two years at the Yale University Divinity and Graduate schools.
'Elijah' to Be Sung In Monday Concert
Mendelssohn's dramatic oratorio,
"Elijah" will be performed at 8 p.m. Monday by the University
Chorus in its annual winter concert in Hoch Auditorium. There is no admission charge.
A chorus of 200 voices will be directed by Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music.
The four soloists for the performance will be Martha O'Dell, Carrollton, Mo., senior, soprano; Beverly R. Benso, Lawrence senior; contralto; Bruce Gardner, Lawrence junior; tenor; and Jack Davison, Lawrence senior, baritone.
Jane Carr, Junction City junior will be piano accompanist.
when his mother enrolled him at the State Conservatory in Erunn Czechoslovakia.
He was ten when he first appeared as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Four years later made his first appearance in Vienna.
After a concert in Brussels, Queen Mother Elizabeth of Belgium invited him to Lacken Castle and presented him with a watch inscribed with her monogram. He has also performed for the British royal family.
Mr. Firkusy came to America for the first time in 1938. He was in his homeland in 1939, when Hitler's troops marched into Prague. With a single suitcase and some music, he fled the capital and eventually made his way into Switzerland and then France.
He settled in Paris temporarily and gave the last concert held for the Society for Contemporary Music before the fall of that city. He moved on to Portugal and gave concerts there while awaiting transportation to America.
In 1941 he returned to America and his first appearance was at the Ravinia Festival, With Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, Mr. Firkusny reintroduced to this country Dvorak's Piano Concerto in G minor. It was the first performance of the work here in 65 years and the first of a brilliant series of unfamiliar Czech compositions which Mr. Firkusny brought to American audiences.
For ten years, Mr. Firkusny has been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic Symphony. He devotes six months a year to concerts here, three months to Europe, two months to South America, and one month to a holiday.
He has been called a "global pianist" for his shunting back and forth by plane.
180 to Be Tested In Western Civ
About 180 students will take the four-hour Western Civ examination tomorrow at 1 p.m. in 303 Bailey, 203 Bailey and in 9 Strong.
James Schellenberg, Western Civilization instructor, said today the examination will be 50 per cent essay. 25 per cent short answer and 25 per cent multiple choice.
The multiple choice part of the examination will be machinegraded. At least six instructors will grade each of the other examinations, he added.
It is designed to give equal chances to students enrolled in this year's reading program and to students who completed a different set of readings last semester, he said.
All of New England and the state of New Jersey could fit inside the borders of Nebraska.
The results of the tests will be available in about two weeks, Mr Schellenberg said.
'Carmen' Cast Rehearse Now
CILLI WANG, Viennese pantomimist, will perform at 8:20 tonight in the University Theatre of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. Miss Wang's appearance is an added attraction in the KU Concert Course. Admission tickets are $2.05, $1.54 and $1.03.
The cast is set and rehearsals have begun for the University Theatre production of "Carmen," the opera by George Bizet which will be presented March 9-11.
The production will be staged by Jack Brooking, assistant professor of speech and drama.
The classic story of the fickle Spanish gypsy girl, who was eventually stabbed by her lover Don Jose, will be sung in English.
Included in the cast and the character they will portray are Beverly R. Benso, Lawrence senior, Carmen; Celia Welch, Herington junior, Michiela; Robert Lynch, Beloit senior, Escamillo; Martha O'Dell, Carrollton, Mo., senior, Frasquita; Joyce Mickaly, Baldwin sophomore, Mercedes; Dick Wright, Junction City special student, Don Jose; David Dodds, Lawrence graduate student, El Remendato; Bruce Gardner, Lawrence junior, Dancairo; Steve Murhpry, Merriam freshman, Morales; Jack Davison, Lawrence senior, Zuniga.
"A Mature Religion For Modern Man"
The city of Annapolis was chartered by the Royal Governor of Maryland 250 years ago, in 1708.
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A Billings Lecture by
Dr. Ernest W. Kuebler,
National Leader in
Religious Education
by photograph
Open to the public without charge in the interest of furthering the cause of liberal religion.
Sponsored by the Lawrence Unitarian Fellowship and the Billings Fund of the American Unitarian Association.
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Can't Live on Civil Service, Workers Say
Some KU maintenance men believe they should receive a pay raise soon to compensate for their recent payroll cutback to the civil service scale.
"A man simply can't make a living on the civil service scale," Elmer E. Cox, a janitor, said today in summing up the attitudes of the many workmen.
"Gov. Docking froze wages here last July. I think the reason he didn't do anything then was because he wanted to wait until after the election." Mr. Cox said.
The proposed pay cut went into effect Jan. 1, after recommendations by Governor George Docking. Some janitors have received wage cuts of fifty cents an hour. As Mr. Cox described the situation:
"They even cut the bottom janitor.
"A man can't live on a dollar an hour today. The cost of living has doubled in the last ten years, but pay raises have not kept pace," he said.
A night watchman, who would not give his name, said he received
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a cut but declined to say how much. "But him," he said, pointing to a janitor walking down the hall, "he got cut almost fifty cents. He's now getting less than a dollar an hour and working ten hours a day at that. He couldn't survive without overtime."
The night watchman said he knew of no maintenance men who have quit work. Most of them are waiting to see what the legislature will do. He also predicted that the legislature would do something about the cut.
"They just about have to," he said.
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