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KANSAN
Wednesday, September 15, 1976
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 87 No.17
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Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Professor of piano Sequeira Costa says he wants his students to
World-renowned concert pianist is teaching to make pianos 'sing'
play as if their pianes were singing. Costa is a world famous concert pianist who was a visitor professor last spring.
By BILL CALVERT
Staff Writer
A word-renowned pianist, Sequira Costa, has returned to the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts.
Costa, a concert pianist who has performed in five continues,
returns to be a professor of piano after his tenure as a
professor, last year.
He came to KU last January to teach master piano after he received an invitation from Richard Angeloetti, professor of piano. Costa originally had planned to leave KU after the spring semester to attend a hastman School of Music in Rochester, which added to sky.
"KU was faster than Eastman." Costa said yesterday. "They invited me first."
Costa is teaching classes to master piano students again this year. He said that his decision to stay here was influenced by the state's education policies.
"IAM VERY happy over here because I am everyone and all my superiors are musicians," he said. "I everyone respects my
Freedom is another aspect of KU that Costa appreciates. He is free to go on concert tours in other countries and to teach at the same time, a liberty he hasn't known at other places he has taught.
“Whenever I have a tour, I go on a tour,” Costa said. “Of course, I always make it up to my students. I make up hours when I return or before I go, so that the students won’t suffer.”
Mr. Zahara will be in the School of Fine Arts as well as his students during his stay.
"INTEND happily and truly to give all I know to the students here and to build up an enormous prestige for this University," he said. "I know a lot of famous musicians in the world, and I'm sure there will help develop the atmosphere of this University."
Costa said he believed that gifted students should be given every opportunity by the University to advance their careers.
"The only thing I think about RU students is that the more colleges have to offer, the less granting they are and by being sent world famous centers of music and grants and by being sent world famous centers of music and grants."
attending international competitions. This really helps them to continue their careers and their purpose in life."
HE WIEN WAS nine years old, Costa left his native Angola to study with piano master Vina Da Motta in Lisbon, Portugal. His parents started his piano studies the previous year when they saw his potential as he played songs by ear on harmonica
Coats's teacher brought him into an illustrious musical family, all of whom he been a pupil of Franz Liszt, the composer and been a pupil of Laude of Lausanne, and been a pupil of Laude of Lausanne.
Costa's observations of other masters and schools of music, and Da Motta's teaching helped shape Costa's philosophy at the piano. He scorns the notion of the piano as merely a percussion instrument because the pounds out chords. Instead, he tries to mimic the piano 'sing'.
"I WANT TO take the percussion instrument—the piano—and make a singing instrument out of it. All the notes are harms, so they are percussion-like, but I want to teach my students a way of playing that compares with a symphony orchestra—to find colors, such as wind instruments, strings, and all the different voices, and to bring this out on the piano."
Costa said his favorite instrument, besides the piano, was the violin. The singing quality of the violin, he said, is partly responsible for his philosophy of the piano, based on creating a singing sound. His philosophy can be applied to the music of all composers, he said. Among his favorites are Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Mozart, and French impressionists such as Ravel or Debussy.
"IT WAS A special education because it had many students and professors. I played the 24 études of Chopin in one evening, which is a rare thing to be done. I did it for the professors and students."
Costa will play again at KU on Oct. 31 with the KU Orchestra.
He will be playing Concerto No. 1 by Chopin.
Although he has played only one recital at KU, Costa said he found the audience delightful.
He also is looking forward to playing a concert in Kansas City, possibly with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra.
"It is one of my greatest wishes," he said.
Docking tops Carter team
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
TOPEKA-Former Kansas Gov. Robert Docking, chairman of the Kansas Carter-Mondale campaign, joined leading Kansas Democrats at a news conference in Topeka yesterday to announce the state structure of the Democratic parly campaign.
Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider said docking, who was named as Carter's state chairman
Bennett here Saturday
Dennett here Saturday
Gov. Robert Bennett and Rep. Larry
Wim, R-Kan., will be the guests at a fundraising recension Saturday.
The Douglas County Republican Central Committee is sponsoring the reception from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Ramada Inn, 6th and Iowa streets.
The reception is a part of "Governor's"
tour by Bennett of Kennewick towns
and city.
yesterday, would be a well-known figure who could relate the Carter-Mondale story to this kind of question.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENEI
Robert Docking
There will be a $50 a couple admission charge
Robert Vincent, Carter's Kansas campaign coordinator and representative to the national Carter campaign organization, introduced himself as the person in charge
"We have a chairman who is well known in Kansas, and the people of Kansas are independent and open minded," Schneider said. "They trust and support the former governor, and once the people get to know them, they'll trust, believe and support him, too."
of the "nuts and bolts" of the Kansas campaign.
He said he thought Kansas voters would become firm believers in the Carter-Mondale ticket when they became more aware of the party's objectives.
Docking, governor of Kansas from 1967 to 1947, said he had known Carter since 1970 when Carter was elected governor of Georgia and had maintained a friendship
with him ever since. He said he and Carter shared similar philosloons of government,
"If I had to accept one or two words to describe my philosophy, it would be 'fiscal responsibility,'" Docking said. "I believe public office is a public trust, and elected officials should provide a government that is austere but adequate. I believe Jimmy Carter shares this philosophy of fiscally responsible government."
Docking said his decision to serve as the Carter chairman in Kansas wasn't made lightly because he knew and respected Sen. Robert Dole's political abilities. Dole is the vice presidential nominee on the Republican ticket.
"The critical choice in the 1976 presidential election isn't between Dole and Monalean anymore than the critical choice in either party's runoff, but was between Arnew and Shriver," he said.
"The choice is between Ford and Carter. Kansans are a proud and independent people who listen to the debates on the issues, who evaluate the character of a man, then make up their own minds how they will vote."
Docking said he thought Kansas farmers would vote Democratic, in opposition to the wheat embargo and the government's efforts to sign a pledge to ruminate crop surpluses this year.
"I don't think these facts will be easily forgotten when farmers pay bills," he said. "We hope to remind them that what wonderful creatures there are that embargel and fence-toe plating."
Vincent said earlier this week he was
pleased that Kansas farmers thought the
village needed more water.
See DOCKING page six
KUMC offers surgery post to Mayo doctor
Cancellor Archie Dykes said yesterday that the position had been offered to a Mayo Clinic physician but that the physician's reply was not expected until this weekend.
The KU Medical Center has offered the position of chief of the cardiothoracic surgery section to a Minnesota physician, having an eight-month search to fill the post.
The search for a section chief, who serves both as administrator and surgeon, has become increasingly complex.
The Mayo Clinic surgeon, Dykes said, is the Med Center first choice for the position of chief.
He said the position called for a senior surgeon who had worked in an established hospital.
Med Center administrators last week they had hoped to have a replacement by Nov. 1. to avert interruption of surgery on his spine, the Muskegon's sole contracting surgeon.
The surgeon, Malcolm Arnold, resigned effective Oct. 31 to return to his native Australia. He has been at the Med Center six months.
Watermelon bombs student
A KU student reportedly was hit by a watermast last night while he was driving on the highway.
Coe said that one of Mitchell's eyes was swollen, and that he was taken to Watkins
The victim's roommate, Nathan Coe, Wichita senior, said Greg Mitchell, Lawrence junior, was struck by a waterfall dropped from a floor in Nakshim Half.
Michell drove home after being hit by the watermelon, Coe said.
"He said he'd been hit by a watermelon and I said, 'A watermelon?' and I looked up and he had watermelon all over him," Coe said.
"It almost knocked him out." Coe said.
The watermelon went through the sunflower
"Mitchel's car, a BMW, Cee said, and
carbon is hot."
"It almost knocked him out." Coe said.
Coe said he wasn't sure how much damage the bullet had made.
An investigation is being conducted by Lawrence and KU Police.
Senate OKs fall elections
A question concerning the Senate's right to hold fall elections was raised at last week's Senate meeting. The Senate Code, which governs the University, Faculty and Student senates, authorizes spring elections but doesn't mention fall balloting.
The Student Senate Elections Committee ruled last night that it was within its rights to hold fall elections and that elections will be as scheduled Oct. 6 and 7.
After the code was examined, it was found that representatives to the Senate may be elected on a date that has been approved by the senate. The senate will vote from which the senators will be elected.
The five members present from the 14-member committee voted unanimously to report tomorrow to StudEx that elections for Nunemaker College were in compliance
Also, three vacant seats will be filled, according to provisions in the Senate Code, by the current senators from those schools. Of these, four are affiliated with schools of Engineering, Fine Arts and Law.
Six freshman-sophomore seats from Nuneman College and freshman officers from the University of Texas at Austin.
Senators from the Schools of Engineering, Fine Arts and Law will select replacements for the vacancies from their schools, by Elections Committee guidelines.
Candidates may file for election from Sept. 3 to Mar. 11 in the Senate office in the City of Orange.
with the code's provisions for student elections.
Buffalo popular on menu at the KU Affairs Mixer
By CHRIS COTTRELL
Staff Writer
The dinner, designed to welcome new members of the faculty and staff to the university of Kansas, featured a menu of boneless chicken, which did not take long for the buffalo to discover.
The Chamber of Commerce sponsored its annual KU Affairs Mixer for faculty and staff members last night, and those attending were treated to barbecued buffalo.
If you're tired of eating the same old foods, the Lawrence Clinic offers Commercial Cooking to help you problem.
Chancellor Archie Dykes was one of those who didn't make it through the line in time to see him.
Dykes told the gathering of about 600 people that he was happy to have the chance to be involved in members of the faculty to the University. He was close to 100 new faculty members at KU
"I was one of the last "come through," Dykes said, "but judging from the response of the people. I wouldn't question that it was excellent."
BOTH DYKEES and Mayor Fred Pence emphasized the importance of a friendly
relationship between the University and the city.
"We have many things to be thankful for," Dykes said, "one of the most important being the excellent relationship that we have with Lawrence and the University of Kansas."
"It was very good. I enjoyed it very much," Stan Rolfz, professor of civil engineering said. "I thought it was a very unusual meal for this kind of thing."
JOE FLANNERY of the Chamber of Commerce was even more enthusiastic.
Last night, among the things to be thankful for, was the buffalo that was served.
David Dary, associate professor of journalism and an author of books on buffaloes, said buffalo meat wasn't as scarce as one might think.
"Buffalo meat at a barbeque like this is very common because you have so many persons raising buffalo for commercial purposes." Dary said. "The demand for
buffalo has been increasing since World War II.
"ITS GENERALLY a fad. It's slightly higher than in cost in beet. You be surprised at how many people are eating it, and how many people are commending it to people with heart trouble."
"With the barbeque sauce on it, you couldn't tell the difference," Sally Hensley, teaching assistant in physical education at Cedar Creek High School, tasted better than I thought it would.
DON TRIBBLE, in charge of data systems at the Office of Admissions and Records, said that he had eaten buffalo before and that he liked it. He added that the buffalo was one of the reasons he came to the miler.
Many people at the mixer said the buffalo meat tasted similar to beef.
"That's what really got me out here," Trible said.
State Sen. Arden Booth said he was impressed with both the buffalo meat and the affair as a whole because everyone was having a good time.
"It looked to me like everybody was home on the range." Booth said.
Meat for the horde
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Another chunk of beef is brought to a serving at the annual Commerce. Bill Burke, Beiloit junior, carries some beef to the KI Affairs, Mixer, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of serving area. Buffalo meat also was served.