Knighted Conductor To Lead Orchestra
Sir John Baribroli, conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, will direct a mass ensemble of more than 140 high school musicians from seven states in the KU Regional String Orchestra concert on Feb. 12.
The string department of the School of Fine Arts and the Kansas chapter of the American String Teachers Association are sponsoring the event. Raymond Stuhl, professor of cello and current president of the Kansas chapter, is the organizer of the program.
Barbirolli will work with the Regional String Orchestra from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 2 p.m. The musicians, each of whom has taken private lessons at least three years, will come to Lawrence the previous evening from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Iowa, and Nebraska.
PRIVATE TEACHERS, school music directors, and several conductors of youth symphony orchestras will be present.
Sir John turned down invitations to conduct elsewhere to work with the high school musicians at KU and said, "In 20 years we will not have orchestras of today's high standards unless all of us do what we can to encourage young people to learn to play string instruments."
Ranked among the world's greatest conductors, he was the personal choice of the late Arturo Toscanini to succeed the latter
as musical director of the New York Philharmonic in 1936.
He left in 1943 to make a wartime return to his native England where he began rebuilding the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester and was its permanent conductor until going to Houston in 1961. He has built that orchestra so that on its first big tour of the east a year ago it was acclaimed as one of the nation's best.
THE REGIONAL orchestra and its day with Sir John was organized to encourage serious study of string instruments. String players are in short supply both in professional and amateur orchestras.
"The conservatories and other schools of music have not been producing enough capable string players to replace qualitatively the performers lost to the nation's great symphony orchestras by death and retirement," he said.
Professor Stuhl described Barbirolli as "ideal for this assignment. He is articulate, friendly and is a great teacher.
"THE PRIVILEGE of playing under Sir John's direction will not only be a thrill for each participant, but it should be a great educational experience."
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SIR JOHN BARBIROLI
. . . Houston Symphony
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