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University. Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
wednesday, Oct. 9, 1985
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
claude Frank, pianist in residence, teaches a master class in Swarathout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall. He conducted 11 classes yesterday and Monday.
Virtuoso's skills benefit students
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Intricately scaled passages of a Ginastera sonata filled an empty recital hall Monday morning as Donna Baidwin, Lawrence graduate student, furtively practiced once more for her master-class lesson with pianist Claude Frank.
Frank, KU's pianist-in-residence for the second year, was on campus Monday and yesterday to conduct 11 master classes in Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall. He offered advice on music education experience, which began with his debut with the New York Philharmonic symphony orchestra in 1959.
"But it's worth it. He offers new insights that should help me prepare for my master's recital."
"Five minutes before the performance there is lots of stress involved," Baldwin said, "and when I done I'm all drenched with sweat and feel like I've run a race and need Gatorade or something.
Richard Reber, professor of music, said the experience of taking master classes was beneficial for students because it reinforced what they
already had been taught and because new ideas were presented that neither teacher nor student had thought of.
"It's all-around a very unique experience," Reber said. "Students are on the spot for two reasons. One, because they're having a recital, and two, because they want to play well for the master."
"He (Frank) is well aware of the kinds of problems a person would encounter with a piece and knows how to help them conquer those difficulties and put the final touches on a piece."
Frank has performed as a soloist with nearly every great orchestra in America and Europe and frequently is heard in Carnegie Hall in New York as well as in the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Frank said he looked for more than a technically correct performance because he took for granted that the students could read music and memorize notes.
"I look to see if they have a rapport with the music, respect for the musicians," he said. "It's important that they grasp the message
of the composer, and, of course, the personality of the player simply has to be there."
Frank said he did not look at the age of the performer when he conducted a class because the "demands of the music were the same whether a player was 7 years old or 70 years old."
Frank said he prepared for the classes by reviewing lists of previous students and the pieces they have played. If a piece is unfamiliar, he said, he becomes familiar with it. He also said he tried to "be in good shape pianistically" so that he could demonstrate musical passages.
Richard Angelietti, professor of music, said the piano faculty selected students for the master classes from the best performances in the previous semester's exams.
"They have to get geared up for a lesson like this because they're playing for very discriminative ears," he said. "It's a performance as well as a lesson."
Frank said: "They get the benefit of a performance without the stigma of a performance. They're kind of safe because if they play well, then it's a performance.
KU wants nuclear fuel moved
By a Kansan reporter
KU officials want to get rid of all the radioactive materials from the campus research nuclear reactor, the associate vice chancellor for research studies said yesterday in a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The NRC sent an order to KU officials on Sept. 29, telling them to send one of the reactor's two extra fuel elements to the commission.
In his return letter, Robert C. Bearse, the vice chancellor, told the NRC that the University wanted all radioactive materials at the reactor
Bearse said he would "be delighted to help the commission get rid of the material," but the commission didn't give him details about how to send the materials to a storage area — or about where they should be sent.
taken off campus. Bearse asked the commission how to send the materials.
"I don't know whether to put a stamp on it or send it by armed guard," he said.
KU wants to send all of the radioactive material at one time because officials want to go through the paperwork just once. Bears said.
for over a year, and the radiation biophysics program, which used the reactor, was discontinued earlier this year.
The reactor has not been operating
"I guess they want to start by getting the extra parts from colleges and then reduce holdings from highly enriched materials to low enriched materials," he said.
The NRC is trying to reduce the amount of highly enriched radioacic material on campuses across the United States. Bearse said.
The reactor takes 15 fuel elements for operation, and KU has two extra elements, Bearse said.
MANHATTAN — Manhattan Christian College, one of only 35 four-year Bible colleges in the nation, faces foreclosure of its property because of a payoff on a $1.15 million loan, a school official said yesterday.
United Press International
200 students attend school Manhattan college may lose land
— for the state and for the whole world because we send missionaries all over the world."
The school, beset with financial problems caused in part by declining enrollments and a poor farm economy, recently sold 1 $ \frac{1}{2} $ acres of its campus to a commercial buyer in hopes of raising enough money to cover arraage on the loan.
Smale said MCC, a non-denominated Bible college with about 200 students, expanded its property holdings several years ago because of an expected growth that never materialized. The school now offers 15 classes with capital purchases, he said.
"It blew us away," said David Smal, director of public relations.
However, school officials learned last week that the Christian Church Extension Foundation in Denver, has filed foreclosure proceedings against the school to recover the entire $1.15 million.
"We had no idea they were going to do this."
Columbia Savings of Manhattan, a co-leader with the Denver foundation, presented a letter to the college to urge it to accept Sept. 6 of all amounts in default.
Manhattan city officials Monday gave final approval to MCC's request for a zoning change on the property, located adjacent to Kansas State University, so it could be sold to commercial developers.
The proceeds from the sale of the land — equal to about one-fourth of the school's property — were to be used to pay $150,000 in arrearage and to free the school from some of the pressure exerted by the foundation, which makes loans secured by real estate to churches and related Christian organizations.
Smale said foreclosure of the school's land would force MCC to shut its doors.
Smale said the school has not decided yet how it will respond to the foundation's foreclosure move.
"We won't go down without a fight," he said. "We're not considering giving up. We feel that (the school) is a very necessary ministry
"In order for us to stay in business, we need to do something," he said. MCC, founded in 1927, has a joint degree agreement with Kansas State that allows students to pursue double majors at the two schools.
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