Mondav. October 29,1973
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University Daily Kansai
Campanile Is Gerken's Concert Hall
Rv JIM McNICKLE
By JIM MUNICKIE
Kansan Staff Reporter
When Albert Gerken gives a recital, everybody on campus listens, because his instrument is the 53-bell carillon in the Memorial Campanile.
Kamuan Staff Photo by DAVE REGIER
Rain or shine, excepting only threatening or violent weather, Gerken, University carlouneur and associate professor of music theory, climbs the staircase 120-foot high at the cabin cone his clavier over a Wednesday at 8 p.m. and every Sunday at 3 p.m.
The clavier sounds the carillon's bells.
It consists of 53 round, tapered 6 inch oak levers and 27 foot pedals, all connected by wires to the clappers.
Albert Gerken
Gerken manipulates the pedals with his feet, and the levers by hitting them with his hands.
THE MUSIC GERKEN plays ranges from a variation on "Chopsticks," which he played after the homecoming game, to music by Gerken. Gerken uses preferential classical music.
"The constant, repetitive beat of most popular music is nearly impossible to arrange for the carillon," he says, "but I do play some of it."
Music written with few parts or thin texture adapts well, Gerken says.
The carillon originated in Holland, Belgium and adjacent areas of Europe where they were used to entertain, accolade performances or music played was essentially folk tunes.
ALTHOUGH THERE is only a small one shelter in the drafty tower, winter weather makes it difficult to see.
doesn't keep covering the sky.
"There is something very exciting about listening to the carillon on a snowy evening or a rainy afternoon," he says.
carillon at KU, but Gerken, who studied at the University of Michigan with noted carillonrepeater, Percival Price, instructs several students each year. Gerkin*
students come from all areas of study, not strictly music.
"All I require is that they be able to read music relatively well," he says.
There isn't an established major for the
Black Studies . . .
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decisions, he says.
African Studies at KU, unlike programs at many other schools, tries to maintain its relevance to black students by combining the experiences of African Western heritages, with African Studies,
une study of African history and culture,
Gordon says.
"One unique thing about our program," he says, "is that we developed it from a pan-Africanist perspective. That is, we are interested in creating an awareness in the undergraduate of African civilization and its impact on the rest of the world, including
Local Resident's Concern Surprises Susan Stamberg
By BETH RETONDE Kansan Staff Reporter
The concerned attitude of the people in Lawrence surprises Susan Stamberg, anchorman for National Public Radio's (NPR) daily news program, "All Things Considered." The drama came to Lawrence to help KANU-FM recrieve its remodeled studio.
"The thing that strikes me so much is that people I talk to feel they can make a difference." Stamberg said in an interview that I don't feel that in Washington."
"Everybody here is signing petitions or going to public meetings or circulating letters, caring and thinking about what's on in the country."
Stamberg also said he expected to see waving wheat while in Lawrence.
Stamberg interviewed local residents on current news and past events on "All Things Considered." It was the first time the 90-minute news program, which is broadcast by about 150 public radio stations, digitized outside NPR's Washington, D.C. studios.
"Where are all the amber waves of
prain?" she asked the audience at the
stage.
NPR has attracted attention to public radio because it carried thoughtful reporting from Washington, Stamberg said. NPR has also helped public radio because it has more funds than private radio available and can announce and to cover news events, she said.
Stamberg said public radio was better able to cover hearings in Washington than commercial stations because it didn't have to worry about using too much time for noncommercial programming. Public radio brings news events into the average home, she said, and make people more aware of what is going on.
INNOVATIONS to meet changing needs are essential, Gordon says. There are plans for comparative-approach courses that would include other area study programs, such as the Center for Latin American Studies, he says.
Europe, black America, the Afro-Caribbean and Latin America."
"One topic might be, for instance,
America," Gordon says.
"These programs were developed during the 1960s as pacification programs for the black agitators. Now these programs are faced with accounting for themselves. The directors have no evidence to show off their success." he says.
Another problem affecting black studies programs across the country is dwindling support from school administrations, according to Gordon.
"I think it's the best radio that's happening in this country," she said. "Right now."
"This accountability," says Gordon, "is forced on the universities in their push to tighten their budgets, due to declining tax support and declining enrollment."
"I think it will depend on to what extent we continue to innovate our program," he says.
"There is no reason whatsoever to believe the African Studies program at KU is not here to stay," he says. "It is an infragnetated department with a Board of Regents with its own degree program. It continues to provide services that cannot be secured by any other department at KU and cannot be obtained through the high schools or other institutions."
TICKETS for the Miracles concert sponsored by the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will go on sale today at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. The concert will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 10 in Hiroh Auditorium. All registration $45, and there will be open seating.
Gordon says he expects continued support from the KU administration.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS INTERVIEWS Monday—Arthur Andersen & Co.; Commerce Bancshares; Tuesday—Coopers & Llybrand; Arthur Andersen & Co. Wednesday—Computer Sciences Corporation, Falls Church, Va.; Manufacturers Life Insurance Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; Thurmont Financial Company Falls Church, Va.; Equitable Life of New York, Topeka; Farmland Industries, Kansas City, Mo.; Regional Administrator of National Banks.
THE KU WOMEN'S Intercollegiate Basketball team has in trying at 4:30 p.m. today, tomorrow and Wednesday in Robinson gymnasium. Women should come concerning the program or call head coach Marion Washington at 864-3445.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING INTERVIEWS: Tuesday-Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Chicago; III; Schlumberger Well Services, Wichita and Houston, Tex.; Wednesday-Industrial Steel Corporation, Ohio; steel Corporation, Kansas City, Mo. Houston, Tex., Midtown, Ohio, Ashland, Ky., Ambrym, Pa., Butter, Pa. and Baltimore, Md., Thursday-The Trane Co., La Crosses, Ws. Friday-The Trane Co., La Cambridge, NCR-Accounting Computer Div., Wichita; Animo公司 Co. Denver, Colo.
BECAUSE THE CARILLON is not offered as a major, his students rarely taken over by the team.
Last spring two of Gerken's students gave
recalled recitals that he was in the lesse
paris.
uureen says, "I was very fortunate to two who were proficient enough to play."
Gerken became involved with carillons while he was a graduate student studying organ at the University of Michigan, where a degree in carillon is offered.
His involvement came purely out of interest with churches, he says. Church organists are frequently asked to play carillons.
GERKEN OFFERS TOURS of the campainte to any person or small group by appointment, and 5 to 10 people usually observe his recitals.
Before each recital, Gerken must adjust the cables so he can control the volume. In practice, the cables are fed
A firm from England manufactured the carillon and has examined it only twice since it was installed in 1951. As a result, Gerken has had much of the responsibility for maintaining and repairing the instrument.
The bells were made at the John Taylor Foundry in Loughborough, England, and were installed one year after the campanile was constructed. Each bell is inscribed with the name of its donor or a KU World War II victim.
THE CARILLOL WAS built as part of a memorial to 260 former KU students who were killed during World War II and 8,000 former students who served. Contributions amounting to $5 million, the inquest and Memorial Drive, next to which the cammanle was built.
The bells range from seven tones to 12
tones. The ten-tone bell is larger,
taller and taller. The twelve-bell is
larger, taller and taller.
Chemistry students and faculty members from various colleges and universities are also interested.
A 20-minute movie, "The Atom and Archaeology" by Thomas Cairns of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and W. F. Libby, winner of a Nobel Prize for developing the carbon-14 method of dating objects, was shown in the Union.
About 850 chemists, 300 more than expected, attended the second day of the 5th Midwest American Chemical Society Regional Meeting Friday in the Kansas
Scientific equipment on display from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Union ballroom.
Chemists Meet, Discuss Field
The chemists attended three symposiums on chemical approaches to the study of the brain and of enzyme action and new topics for the chemical curriculum.
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