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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 27, 1958
Wolf Vanquished For 800 Children
The Wolf got what was coming to him at 3:40 Friday afternoon in the University Theatre of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. The victor: Peter. The witnesses: 800 Lawrence grade school children.
The youngsters were guests of KU for a special concert of the KU Symphony Orchestra, Robert Baustian conducting.
First on the program was Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals," with Sara Jane Benne, Lawrence senior, and James Avery, Burlington senior, as piano soloists. This was met with polite attention and enthusiastic applause.
Then Mr. Bausian announced Prokofeff's "Peter and the Wolf." The children obviously knew what the piece was all about, for there were ripples of laughter and excitement.
"Peter" is the piece in which various instruments in the orchestra assume the roles of characters in a story which is narrated at intervals during the music. Al Rossi, Chicago, Ill., graduate student, was the narrator Friday.
Most popular characters in the Friday performance were, according
to crowd reactions, the duck (played by an oboe), the cat (played by a clarinet), and Peter (the strings).
This is not to say that the bird (a flute), the grandfather (bassoon), and the hunters (drums) were by any means unpopular.
The wolf (the horns) was never booed, but the children knew from the first that he was a no-good-nik.
Judith Bailey, sixth grader at Mc-Allaster school, said it was all funny, but she likes TV better. Her favorite character was the grandfather.
Jimmy Benham, fifth grader at Pinckney school, liked the cat because the clarinet player who took the part is also his clarinet teacher. He agreed the piece was funny.
Sherry Dirks, fifth grader at Pinckney, liked Peter and thought the performance better than any TV program.
But those who seemed to enjoy it most were the few dozen adults in the audience, who were smiling and tapping their feet while the music was being played.
New Woodwind Work Premiered on Campus
A KU audience recently heard an advance performance of a specially commissioned work for woodwind octets in Swarthout Recital Hall of the Music and Dramatic Arts Building. Title of the work is "Octet, opus 159, number 1."
The piece was composed by Alan Hovhaness of New York and was commissioned by the KU Endowment Assn. Its world premiere will be in February at the Music Teachers National Assn, convention in Kansas City. It will not be published until after its Kansas City performance.
The work was written for two
Quartet Plays With Zest
Chamber music, for all its reputation as music for esthetics, is probably the most "sensational" genre in the concert literature. The reason for the sensationalism is fairly obvious.
The composer working with such limited forces must frequently be tempted to press those forces to their limits to say what he has to say. As a result, a good chamber ensemble must be capable of enormous flexibility. In these terms, the BeauxArts Quartet set itself a difficult task Friday evening at Swarthout Recital Hall. The program was both varied and taxing, and the group showed itself to be a sensitive, vibrant and thoroughly polished outfit.
The group gave an extremely lucid performance of Haydn's Quartet Opus 55 No.2, keeping the work's melodic lines clear and its architecture sharply defined.
It was followed by a firm and confident reading of Lester Thimble's First Quartet, a muscular and uncompromisingly dissonant work in the general manner of the international style. This listener was unable, in a single hearing, to determine the outlines of the piece, and as a result felt that it lacked the kind of internal logic which makes such works satisfying.
Debussy's Quartet provided a good example of the rule that one should never trust stereotyped notions concerning a composer.
My feeling was that a quartet which could muster the sensuous tone needed in the Andantino of this work, the vigor called for in the Trimble, and the elegance required in the Haydn is quite a quartet.
—Stuart G. Levine
oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons and two French horns.
Austin Ledwith, assistant professor of wind and percussion instruments, conducted the performance.
The group playing was composed of the following KU students: John Walker, Miami, Okla, sophomore, and Judith, Crist, Brewster freshman, oboes; Gary Foster, Lawrence senior, and Lyle Merriman, Lawrence junior, clarinets; Jean Converse, Great Bend senior, and Helen Bruch, Cameron, Mo, junior, bassoons; Johnny Woody, Springfield, Mo, junior and Constance George, Merriam sophomore, French horns.
The composer, Hovhaness, studied at the New England Conservatory and at Tanglewood. He was with Sibelius in Finland for two years
SUCH COMPANIONSHIP—Sharon Edgar, Mission junior, left, Ed Cooper, Hinsdale, Ill., junior, and Ann Underwood, Emporia senior, all feel
pretty good after KU's victory Saturday. To go along with the smiles they are wearing new uniforms.
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Episcopal Morning Prayer, 6:45 and
having breakfast following,
Canterbury House.
TOMORROW
Business School company interviews:
Mr. T. M. Keyes, Ernst and Ernst, accounting;
Mr. Richard G. Punches, College Life Insurance Co., sales.
Silk screening lessons offered by the
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Christmas cards and gifts
The Kansas Society of Archaeological Institute of America, 7:30 p.m. Prof. Jotham Johnson of New York University will deliver an illustrated lecture on the archaeology of Warefront Press in English Room of Kansas Union. All students and faculty are invited.
Baptist Student Union, Danforth College, Danforth, Ruddlestown will conduct Bible study.
WEDNESDAY
Faculty forum, noon. Prof. Oldfather will discuss right to work in the English Room of the Kansas Union. Phone (817) 329-6040 or office (KU 327) by Tuesday afternoon.
*Museum of Art record concert, noon*
and 10 am. Symphony No. 94
at 10am at the Royal Opera House.
United Presbyterian Center, bible study, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., 1221 Oread. Understanding the Old Testament. Dr. Alan J. Pickering, leader.
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