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Sunday Concerts Receive Praise from KU Camper
Tuesday, July 13, 1965 Summer Session Kansan
The third weekly concerts presented by the Music Division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp were held Sunday, July 11.
The afternoon concert, which was in the University Theatre, began with three pieces by the Concert Choir. The first was called "O Magnum Mysterium" by Vittoria. It was sung well although this reviewer found the soprano section a bit shaky. The Concert Choir ended its concert with "A Psalm of Praise" by Mabel Daniels, in which they were assisted by three trumpets, tympani, and percussion. It was an exciting piece and the instruments seemed to arouse the choir.
By Jonathan Block
THE NEXT GROUP to sing was the Ensemble Choir, which was made up of members of the other two choirs. They sang "Psalm CXVI" by Roberto Carmano quite well for a small group. It is hoped that either the same small ensemble or a similar one will be on a program in the future.
The choir portion of the program was ended in the traditional way by the Chamber Choir, which did four pieces. They started with "Misericordias Domini" by Durante. While the Latin pronunciation was better than the Concert Choir's, I found the male parts somewhat weak. The best part of the Chamber Choir's portion of the program was "The Last Words of David." The words were easily understandable and the parts were sung accurately and spirited.
After the "12-minute intermission" the Orchestra started its part of the concert with the theme song. The cellos sounded very good this week. The tone was very clear and the whole section was strong.
THE NEXT PIECE was "Symphony No. 1," by Sibellius. In this, the violins repeatedly answered solos by the principal clarinetist, Steven Hartman, who has been excellent in all three concerts. The next two pieces were directed by one of this week's guest conductors, Michael
Zearott, who was interesting just to watch. With his footbeat one could foretell the impending action. Everything by the orchestra was done rather well except for Schumann's "Symphony No. 4," which just seemed too difficult for the orchestra to learn in one week.
AFTER THE USUAL break for dinner, the concerts resumed in the Outdoor Theatre. The Symphonic Band was first and I'm afraid that it was a disappointment. It was not as good as last week. One reason was that they played very mechanically. Their notes were, for the most part, correct, but that's all. They just played notes.
The most disappointing of all was the "Ballet Parisienne," by Offenbach, where at the end of the number I felt let down. The Symphonic Band just didn't build enough. There was just no climax. In one part of the program even the famous KU Brass Choir tried to help by playing, hidden by the bushes and trees near Hoch Auditorium, but even they couldn't stay with the Symphonic Band and the result was a mess made up of a clear sounding brass choir and a not so clear sounding Symphonic Band.
BUT ALAS. I'm afraid that I'll have to join the Concert Band fan club. I found them best again this week. Special congratulations are due to Kenneth Heath, who played several clear, concise, trumpet solos and Earle Drumler, Russell junior, who did a fine job sitting in for the first oboist, who was taken ill and could not perform.
The Concert Band's performance was spirited, inspired, and exciting. The clarinets did an excellent job of playing together, especially in "Divertimento for Band, Opus 42," by Persicetti. It almost sounded like a single clarinet throughout the whole composition. Another section which has been doing consistently good work is the brass section, both upper and lower. They are definitely one of the strongest links of the band.
The University of Kansas Theatre will open its presentation of Tennessee Williams' "The Night of the Iguana" tonight. It will run through Friday.
'Night of the Iguana Begins Run Tonight
"Pop" art is definitely not popular in the art camp, or at least it isn't present in the art exhibits.
"Pop" art has not played a major role in this year's art camp. The oil paintings and water colors which are now on display in the second art camp exhibit show that the camp artists definitely prefer realism or moderation in one of the more popular forms of art.
Exhibit Shows 'Pop Art' Fails To Send Youths
Bv Mike Shearer
The KU artists annually invite all Kansas high school art students to the campus for the KU art survey. The annual conference is held every spring and usually draws quite a large number of high school artists.
At that time the college art is displayed and the dominant style has been "pop" art. Last spring among the many oil paintings displayed not one even approached realism. This sharp contrast between high school and college art is unexplainable.
Many of the campers will be going to art colleges all over the nation. Some will be coming here to KU to study. Will the college trends toward the abstract change their styles or will their styles change the college trends?
The art displays are in the exhibition gallery of Murphy Hall and are open to the public. The second display of the summer, which is now on view, was described by one art camper as "twice as good as the first."
The exhibit displays color designs, oil paintings, water colors, fashion sketches, figure sketches, nature drawings, cartoons, pastels, and other select decorations.
Evidence on Minutemen Leader Given to Jury
KANSAS CITY, Mo. --(UPI)—Evidence in the case of Robert Bolivar DePugh, leader of the militant right-wing organization known as the Minutemen, was presented yesterday to a Jackson County Grand Jury.
DePugh is charged in a state warrant with kidnapping two young women who said he tried to induce them to join his organization as seducers of Communists.
JACKSON COUNTY Prosecutor Lawrence Geepford declined to outline his case against DePugh—but witnesses presumably will include the two complainants, Miss Linda Judd, 16, and Miss Patricia Beal, 21.
Mrs. Cyndra Ellen Cindy Melville, 20, and Jack Cannon, of Independence, Mo., both free on bond as material witnesses, also were expected to testify.
Mrs Melville has been described by DePugh as his confidential secretary for the past several years. Cannon operates a printing shop, where he and his wife also maintain living quarters and which Gepford said served as headquarters for certain Minuteman operations.
OFFICERS WHO went to the shop during a search for DePugh confiscated an assortment of weapons. DePugh later surrendered voluntarily.
A private detective, George W. Robinson, said Mrs. Melville's mother, Mrs. Freida Sanders of Kansas City, attempted to employ him two years ago to investigate DePugh and the Minutemen organization.
He said she told him she believed the Minutemen had captured the daughter or at least were restraining her from contacting her mother.
ROBINSON SAID that at the time he regarded Mrs. Sanders' story as so fantastic that he declined to take the case. He said Mrs. Sanders told him she also had consulted with
members of the police department and with the FBI but felt they were "giving her no help."
"Of course I don't know what was in their minds but possibly they also thought the story too fanciful to credit," Robinson said.
Medicare Hope Voiced by LBJ
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Johnson administration hopes to have the medicare bill signed into law by July 31, with the nation's elderly beginning to reap the dividends in September.
Senate passage of the legislation by a 68-21 vote last Friday assured a major congressional victory for the President and enactment this session of the measure, a far-reaching plan to provide medical care for 19 million Americans 65 and over and to raise all Social Security benefits.
The House passed a similar bill April 8. It now goes to a House-Senate conference committee, which will work out a compromise version, starting Wednesday. The administration was confident the differences would be ironed out.
The biggest difference stems from the fact that the House bill would cost $6 billion to provide the expanded Social Security benefits and the medical health care features of the program, while the Senate measure would cost $7.5 billion.
Senate spokesmen privately conceded that many of the extra features written into the Senate bill will be eliminated and the final measure will be closer to the House version.
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