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KU students are projected on stage with recitals
Swarthout is filled with students crunching recital cards, teachers scratching their heads, parents squirming in their chairs and passers-by who got caught in the crowd and were pushed into the auditorium.
SOMEHOW THESE recitals, the products of months of work, go relatively unnoticed at KU. Except for music students, required to attend five special recitals and 24 electives, few people take advantage of the surprising amount of free entertainment.
The set of "Theatre U.S.A." was gone—at least temporarily. In place of the kitchen table stood a piano, and the cast was replaced by a singer and accompanist.
But back to the piano and singer.
Sitting in the audience, one hears comments such as, "Hey, I've played that one. It's hard!"
Looking around, one sees James Ralston, KU Choral Director, awaiting his next appointment, and a student in a KU band sweatshirt. Quite a contrast in dress, yet they both have one thing in common—music.
IN NEARLY CONSTANT use. Swarthout is the site for hundreds of programs ranging from drama to musicals, from high school plays to recitals, from try-outs to almost anything.
Before long the stage of Swarthout Recital Hall would be in use again, this time for music instead of dialogue.
Daily Kansan Thursday, November 3, 1966
RALSTON SAYS the long series of recitals has two major purposes.
First, they are a means of providing opportunities for performing experience to as many students as possible. They build confidence and help prepare the
LBJ comes home to busy schedule
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—With his grueling Asian odyssey behind him, President Johnson turned today to plans for another trip aimed at building a consensus for his policies—this time among his own countrymen.
He was expected to spend today and most of tomorrow at his White House desk, signing the scores of bills passed in the closing hours of the 89th Congress, before setting out on his final political swing of the 1966 campaign this weekend.
He pronounced himself "more confident and hopeful than when I left," but he pledged that there would be a stepped-up effort to keep the "fires" of Red aggression from spreading in Southeast Asia.
The general elections next Tuesday obviously were on the President's mind upon his return home. A light rain was falling when his plane arrived, the first bad weather of his long trip.
Johnson sounded what probably will be the theme of his campaign trip when he told an airport crowd on his arrival here last night. "Where there is deep division in a land, there is danger. But where there is unity, there is strength."
IN APPEALING for unity at home, the President noted that free Asia was "counting on our dedication to freedom. Not our doubts. They are betting their lives on our determination."
"That shows what happens to us in America in an election year," he said with a wry smile.
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Secondly, the recitals are a learning experience for the musicians in the audience. "Any musician is more strongly based, the more music he knows," Ralston said.
to these recitals. Maybe their reward is not concrete educational material, but any music enthusiast would come out with a great appreciation for the talent on stage.
In fact, recitals even offer something for the person who hates music. At least he's comfortable. Swarthout chairs are cushioned, and many are available most Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:30 p.m. during the student recitals.
undergraduate for his senior recital, program entirely his own.
Non-music majors in the audience also gain from the exposure
THE LISTENERS? They learn from watching, hearing and enjoying.
Members of the administration, coaching staffs and Alumni and Endowment Associations' offices, will be special guests tonight at the annual Jayhawk Fall Festival in Kansas City.
Ernest C. Friesen Jr., Asst. United States Atty. Gen. for administration and a KU graduate, and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will speak at the dinner meeting, sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Alumni Association. The KU Pep Band and pom-pon girls will provide the entertainment.
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