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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1958
TUNING UP—These three bass viol players from El Dorado were among 250 students from eastern Kansas high schools who attended the first annual KU String Festival Monday in Hoch Auditorium. From left, Marilyn Wynn, Sandra Hartgrove and Martha Cordell.
Paretsky To Tell About Research
Dr. David Paretsky, chairman of the department of bacteriology, has been invited to report on research done before the Commission on Rickettsial Diseases of the Armed Forces Epidemological Board March 24 at the Walter Reed Institute of Research in Washington D.C.
Dr. Paretsky will tell how he and co-workers made the scientific break-through of rickettsiae parasites outside the living cell.
The rickettsiae are minute organisms which cause typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rickettsial pox and Q-fever.
Jay Janes Committee To Revise Constitution
A committee to revise the local constitution has been appointed by the Jay James, upperclass girls' pep club. Mollie Stamper, Hutchinson senior, is chairman. Other members are Gayle Kenoyer, Hugoton senior, Fat Sorter, Kansas City sophomore and Dorothy Wohlgemuth. Cummings junior and Martha Lawton, Bushong senior.
An inch of topsoil takes three to 10 centuries to build, but it can wash away in a single storm, the National Geographic Society says. Vegetation breaks the force of rains, prevents splash erosion, and retards runoff.
A statement of new policy on the American educational system has been prepared for the Kansas North Central Assn. of Colleges and Secondary Schools by Dean Kenneth Anderson of the School of Education.
New School Policy Drawn
The statement, read recently to members of the Kansas State Teachers Assn., asserted that it is time to demand that each student be provided with the opportunity to develop all of the potentialities within him.
"In the long run," Dean Anderson said, "our answer and our hope must be an intensified effort to create in this country a vigorous, excellent, well-rounded educational system at all levels."
The statement was read by Herb Bishop, principal of Manhattan High School.
Jones Guest Of News Groups
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, editor of the Tulsa Tribune, was the guest of Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi, professional journalistic fraternities, at a dinner Monday night in the Kansas Room of the Union.
Mr. Jones gave the annual William Allen White memorial address Monday afternoon in Fraser Theater.
A question-and answer session on problems of newspaper ethics, led by Mr. Jones, followed the dinner.
Department Head's Works Published
L. R. Lind, chairman of the department of Latin and Greek, has recently published 91 biographies of American authors in the Bompiani Literary Dictionary, an illustrated reference work printed in Milan, Italy.
Mr. Lind's critical edition of the Latin text of Alexander of Villa Dei. Ecclesiale, a poem of the year 1200 A.D., will be issued shortly by the University of Kansas Press.
Dorati Views Symphony Music
"One must have a culture, refined of mind and heart, to know and love the classics," Antal Dorati, conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, told a Daily Kansan reporter in a backstage interview after Monday night's performance in Hoch.
Mr. Dorati spoke quickly as he packed his trunk, preparing to leave for Topeka where the orchestra will perform today.
"That's Hungarian," he explained. "I was born in Hungary, studied music, piano and cello at the Academy of Music in Budapest and came to the United States for the first time in 1933."
"It is a common misunderstanding that one must have a knowledge of music to appreciate and enjoy classical music," he continued. "What is necessary is that young and old alike should bring to the concert hall an open mind and should be ready to enjoy many kinds of music. Music, most of all, is a source of pleasure and enjoyment."
The dressing room door opened. A young man leaned in and called a greeting in a foreign language. Mr. Dorati answered him.
The Minneapolis Symphony, just beginning a tour of the United States, met Mr. Dorati in Kansas City Monday, where he arrived on a flight from Europe.
Having recently conducted as guest conductor in several symphony orchestras in the Netherlands, Mr. Dorati said there was a marked difference between American and European audiences.
"It is not that Americans understand or appreciate classical music less. It is just that the American tradition is so much younger and more open. In Europe the people are more conservative in their selection of music."
the orchestra upon completing a tour of the Middle East found an entirely new and different type audience there. Mr. Dorati said.
"The people had seldom, if ever, heard anything like a symphony orchestra before. It had a colossal
impact upon them," he said enthusiastically.
He picked up his dress shirt from a chair. It was wet with perspiration.
"I select the music for the program for a particular audience—an imagined audience—and then I try to make them like it."
Mr. Dorati explained that he often conducts an entire concert from memory as he did in the KU concert.
How long does it take to memorize a concert?
"Twenty to fifty years," he laughed.
Mr. Dorati has been with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for nine years.
He hung a coat on a hanger and shut the trunk.
"A fine musician," he said in conclusion, "like a good engineer, needs not special qualities, only talent. God-given, and knowledge, self-achieved."
Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bride lived in the Old Manse in Concord in 1842. Emerson grew up in the same house.
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