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Summer Concert Course To Present Jacques Abram
The KU Summer Concert Course will present Jacques Abram, American virtuoso pianist, at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday in Hoch Auditorium. This will be Mr. Abram's first appearance in Lawrence.
Tickets are available at the KU Fine Arts Office. KU summer session students and Midwestern Music and Art Campers will be admitted free with their I.D. cards. $ \textcircled{*} $
Mr. Abram's six European tours have taken him to a succession of spectacular triumphs in the leading cities of more than 10 countries, where he has appeared as soloist with over 20 major symphony orchestras of the Old World and has been repeatedly recalled for recitals.
Made Debut In New York
Made Debut in New York
A native of Lukin, Texas, Mr. Abram first came to public attention in 1938 as winner of both the National Federation of Music Clubs contest and the Schubert Memorial Award. He made his professional debut that year as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its home city and in New York.
Highlights of Mr. Abram's stays abroad have been two tours of Germany under official U.S. State Department auspices; serving as official representative of his country in the International War Memorial observances in Holland; opening the famed Cheltenham Festival of Contemporary British Music with the European premiere of Arthur Benjamin's Piano Concerto; starring in an "All-Benjamin Britten Program" of the famous Promenade Concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall; a performance of the Second Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic in London which won him an unprecedented five minute standing ovation; an extraordinary re-engagement by the Danish State Radio Orchestra, and most recently a successful visit to Iceland at the request of the Department of State.
In the ensuing years he has filled numberless cross-country U.S. concert tours and has been soloist with virtually every major American symphony orchestra. He has also concertized widely throughout Canada and Central and South America.
In 1948, composer Benjamin Britten chose Mr. Abram to introduce his First Piano Concerto to American audiences, and both artist and vehicle scored such a success that Abram was called upon to perform the Britten work with thirteen major orchestras throughout the country during a single year.
Gives A First Performance
Gives A First Performance During the 1952-53 season he gave the first American performances of the Arthur Benjamin "Concerto Quasi una Fantasia" with a number of leading orchestras. Abram's introductions of new works is not limited to bringing European compositions to Americans, however. In 1952 he presented to Dutch audiences for the first time the George Gershwin Concerto in F on a special "All-American Program" of the Haarlem Philharmonic under the patronage of the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.
KUWorkshop Starts Today
Specialists in the fields of Family Relations and Child Development will meet today and Saturday in a combined workshop.
Sponsored by the Family Relations and Child Development section of the American Home Economics Assn. in cooperation with the KU department of home economics, the workshop will explore techniques and methods used in research in the two fields.
Workshop members will examine the possibility of increased cooperation between the fields and the possible integration of research.
The workshop staff members are:
Dr. Katherine Roy, Montana State College, Bozeman; Mrs. Grace Heider and Dr. Robert Foster, Menninger's Clinic, Topeka; Mrs. Luella Foster, assistant professor of home economics at KU; Dr. Blaine Porter, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; Dr. Reuben Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Dr. Mildred Thurot Wate, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg; Dr. Lemo Rockwood, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., and Dr. Bernice Borgman, Michigan State College, East Lansing.
Fellowship To Hear Sokal
The Ecumenical Fellowship will meet Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at Westminster House, 1221 Oread. The speaker will be Robert R. Sokal, assistant professor of entomology and counselor for the Hillel group. He will talk on "Jewish High Holy Days."
A frequent guest artist on leading network radio programs, Mr. Abram has also recorded outstanding classical and contemporary piano masterworks under Musiccraft, Allegro, and EMS labels. Release in this country of his latest recording, the "Benjamin Britten Concerto" with the Philharmonic Orchestra of London for His Master's Voice, is expected soon.
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The third annual Executive Development Program, sponsored by the KU School of Business, will have a luncheon today at 12:15 in the English Room in the Student Union.
Executives Will Hear Talk Bv Linton
Summer Session Kansan
Bruce Linton, Associate Professor of Speech and Journalism, will give a talk on "Cowboys, Quizzes, and Commercials."
The program, which will continue through July 12, includes study groups, classes, seminars, lectures, and field trips.
A native of Valley Center, Karmie Galle, has joined the staff of the State Geological Survey at KU.
Geological Staff Enlarged
Galle, a chemist, began working in the Geological Survey's Division of Industrial Minerals and Geochemistry on June 10.
A graduate of Bethel College, Newton, where he majored in industrial arts and minored in chemistry. Galle plans to complete courses for a degree in chemistry at KU. He is a student-affiliate of the American Chemical Society.
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Steelworkers Conference Will Stress Labor Education
Members of the United Steelworkers of America will gather at KU July 7 for a 6-day Educational Conference.
The conference, which is designed to provide an opportunity for steelworker officers and members to increase their knowledge of the labor movement and to acquire skills and techniques useful in their work, will offer courses for both first year and advanced enrollees.
Members of the western part of District 34 of the union will attend the conference. District 34 includes Kansas City; Joplin, Mo.; Omaha, Nebr., and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Emery G. Bacon, the union's director of education, will open the meeting.
During the week, first year students will study "Speech and Communication," "Union History and Background," and "Your Union Contract."
Topics studied by advanced students (students who have attended previous conferences) will include "You and the Public," "Steward School," and "Community Relations." A post-graduate seminar has been planned for all those attending the conference for the fifth time.
Monday through Thursday the evenings will be devoted to special activities. These include a film entitled "The Right to Work" a farm-labor meeting, a picnic, and KU night. A. F. Kojetinsky, director of District 34, will speak at the Friday commencement.
Included in the conference staff are: E. C. Buehler, professor of speech; John McColllum, University of Chicago; Iden Reese, Kansas City Junior College; Irwin Klass, The Federation News, and William Lavelle and Paul Fasser, International Office Staff representatives, United Steelworkers of America.
Bible Group To Meet Todav
The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship Bible Study and Informal will meet at 7:30 p.m. every Friday during the summer. The meetings will be held at 829 Mississippi St.