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Wednesdav October 15,1975
University Dally Kansan
Pianist lets music impart message
Bv MARY ANN HUDDLESTON
Staff Writer
Music teachers must allow music to impart its own message to students, according to Malcolm Frager, internationally renowned conductor and distinguished residence in the School of Fine Arts.
"The music itself is the teacher." Frager said in an interview Monday.
Frager is conducting a series of four master classes this semester as the first of three graduate courses possible by a gift from J. Hammond McNail, adjunct professor of business at the University of Kansas. McNish gave the final course to his former piano teacher in Sidney, Neb.
Frager gave a concert and conducted his first master class here Sept. 22.
This is his first job as an artist-in-
residence, Frager said. The University
provides a training and invitation by allowing him to come whenever his schedule would permit, he said.
"I wouldn't be possible for me to accept a
could manage to be here four times."
Frager plays 100 concerts a year in Europe and the United States.
Frager said he enjoyed teaching master
classes because the students were sincere.
They aren't argumentative or defensive, he.
they're not persuasive.
"I'm learning a great deal, as I hope they are,
"he said.
Frager started playing the piano at the age of four and gave his first concert at six. Although he didn't cite one person or one influence as his inspiration, he said he had always had good teachers and good technical training.
At the age of 14 Fragar went to New York from his home in St. Louis to study with the noted German pianist, Carl Friedberg. He continued to study privately with Friedberg during college because he didn't want to change teachers, he said.
However, he graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1967 with a major in languages. Frager said he spoke five languages fluently, including Russian.
Being able to communicate in the language of the countries he performs in Africa is a major factor.
Frager said he knew from the age of four that he would eventually play the piano proficiently.
"It's an important thing in life to love your work," he said, "If you attitude is
right you can derive a great sense of fulfillment from your work. It depends on
In 1959 Frager won the Edgar M. Leventritt Competition in New York. The next year he won the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition.
No other musician has even won both awards, which are among the world's major artists.
Frager said he began playing concerts extensively after winning those awards. Concerts are more satisfying to him than recording, he said, because he enjoys the contrasts he has made on concert tours. However, he does some recording as well.
Frager said he considered the Queen Elisabeth award the most significant of any he had won because it enabled him to start performing in Europe. Because he commended his artists from over 20 European countries, the contest opened a new door for him, he said.
No single concert is more memorable for Friger than others, he said, because each one is special.
Frager said that the great piano composers were like friends to him in his knowledge of their work. As with friends, he had always been humbled and sometimes some better than others, he said.
"Every performance is unique," he said.
"I can't sing out any one performance as
the epitome of my artistic achievement."
Every artist should develop an individual, distinctive style, according to Frazer.
"A really great artist is able to feel and to understand the motivation of the composer and has the technical facility to communicate force to the audience," he said.
That force is then distilled through the artist's life experience, he said. The artist must learn to discover and to share with the composer's innermost feelings, he said.
One of Frager's hobbies is playing piano music on authentic antique pianos.
“It's a revelation to hear the same sounds the composers heard,” he said. “The pianos of them are as uncle the pianokeeper for the Wright brothers’ plan is unlike a modern plane.”
THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Presents "AFFIRMATIVE ACTION"A Panel Presentation and Discussion
with
BONNIE PATTON, Director of Office of Affirmative Action CLARENCE DILLINGHAM, Ass't Director of Office of
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POLLY PETTIT, Mediation Facilitator for Office of Affirmative Action
Thursday, October 16, 1975, 7:00 p.m.
Council Room, Kansas Union
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More city bike paths suggested
Commissioner Mirak Blee has a personal reason for waiting more bicycle paths.
"I was the oldest one hit by a bicycle in
Tampa at night's Lawrence City
meeting.
Mibee suggested the city prepare a summary of statistics about bicycle and car usage in the commission could consider the possibility of putting more bicycle paths in the city.
The only constructed bicycle path in Lawrence is on the south side of 23rd Street. City Manager Buford Watson said the path was popular. The path was built late this summer when the city made the center lane on 23rd Street a left-turn lane.
Mibeeck that he won't propose any plans to the commission. He would consider the idea
"This is not a crusade." Mibeck said. "The paths should be investigated more than they have been, with the hopes they can be approved."
Mibek said both state and federal money had been made available for the construction.
Group debates faculty tenure
Boulder, Colo. and Bartlesville, Oka. have been successful with bicycle paths, he
aids in his work.
He said Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, should do a study of the bicycle industry to determine匹尔塞ville to see whether similar projects could be implemented in Lawrence.
Faculty promotion was discussed last night during an informal meeting of members of the Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee.
No secret operating procedures are used to make faculty advancements economic.
Calgaard said that when an instructor earned tenure he received continuous employment with the University unless he was proved guilty of incompetence.
According to Ron Calgaard, chairman of the committee, evaluation for instructors is based on research, service and teaching. An instructor may be on the KU faculty for seven years until he receives tenure or his contract is terminated.
Senate study...
From page one
Rabinovitz said elimination of that requirement offered both voters and candidates a freedom of choice that should have been instituted long ago.
Buckley said Steve McMurray, cochairman of the Rights and Responsibilities Committee, had suggested elimination of a vice-presidential coalition requirement.
enrolments hasn't worked, he said. Rabinovitz said that it required 150 votes to be elected senator from Nuneman Center. He added that he would be elected from the School of Education.
Some members said they were worried about the possibility of a president and a vice president being elected from different coalitions.
On Campus
Events...
TODAY: Robert Hagan and Robert Rives of the Kansas Gas and Electric Co. will speak to the FACULTY FORUM about the Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant Project at noon in the United Ministries Center. There will be a moment of WORDS AND SILENCE at 12:30 in Danfort Chapel. "WOOD-A MODERN STRUCTURAL MATERIAL," a seminar of illustrated lectures on the structural properties of wood, will be presented to students in engineering and architecture at 1:30 in Woodruff Auditorium. "Counterfactuals," a lecture on COLLOQUIAL LINGUISTICWS will be presented by Professor Donald Marquis at 3:30 in 210 Blake.
TONIGHT *A CAREER EXPLORATION WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN* will be at 7:30 in Annex A of the Continuing Education Building. The KU-Y ADVOCATE SERIES "Abortion: Political Issue or Personal Concern?" will be at 7:30 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. MIRRORLY SAMU, professor annetan samson and guest speaker Marion Foley. The Motion "Uniqueness of Socialist Legality?" at 8 in the Council Room of the Union. The BLACK ARTS ALLIANCE will meet at 8 in the Javakhawk Room of the Union.
TOMORROW: The aptitude test for entrance into the AIR FORCE ROTC program will be administered at 8 a.m. Schedule information can be obtained in 108 Military Science Building. Or call 864-4676 before 4 p.m. any day prior to October 16.
Announcements...
Men and women's VOLLEYBALL ENTRIES are being accepted through Thursday. Information is available in 280 Robinson. Applications for the OWL SOCIETY, junior men's honorary society, are available this week in the Dean of Men's Office. 280 Strong, for juniors JOURNESTER CLEARING HOUSE needs at the Association United Federation of Emergency Services. Anyone interested in volunteer work can call 864-3880, or come by the office, 114-B of the Union.
A story in Monday's Kansas incorrectly reported that Edward Shaw, chairman of the radiation biophysics department, was a member of the Federal Civil Defense Agency in 1957. The nuclear weapons referred to in the story were 10 to 15, not 10,000 to 15,000 megaton weapons.
Correction...
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8:00 p.m.
Allen Field House
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