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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, June 29, 1965
Sunday Concerts Launch Season in Good Style
By Jonathan Block
By Jonathan Block The 1965 Midwestern Music and Art Camp concert season was launched Sunday, and it was generally a success.
In "Three Epitaphs" solos were sung by Mary M. Allen and Randy Porter, both of whom did fine jobs. The Concert Choir's part of the program ended with a cheerful rendition of Gail Kubik's "Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?"
The musical program was divided into two different concerts with the Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, and orchestral concerts taking place in the afternoon and the Symphonic Band and Concert Band concert taking place in the evening, at the University Theatre.
ESPECIALLY IMPRESSIVE were the voices which made up the Concert Choir and the way the choir reacted to Mr. Ralston's every whim.
The afternoon began with the Concert Choir singing five numbers, starting with a cheerful round called "Nun Fanget An" by Hasler and including "Three Epitaphs" by Rodolito Halfer.
The Chamber Choir came on next in great splendor with what seemed
Opening of Camp Smoothest Ever
By Mike Holder
For the first time since the Midwestern Music and Art Camp started, its opening was very swift and practically flawless, Russell L. Wiley, director, reports. More than 1,000 summer campers were enrolled in less than two hours.
"This opening was the smoothest since I've been here and it was by no means an accident," he said. "Months of planning resulted in the elimination of all former bottlenecks and the end of long waits by camp students."
Also new this year was the end of the Monday night camp meetings. Not until 1948 was the camp even big enough to have full camp meetings. Now it is not believed necessary by the camp directors to hold these get-togethers since the students do live and eat together and many times there is not enough business to take the students' time.
Wiley recalled the 12-year-old Negro boy who enrolled in this camp last year as one of his most unusual, touching, and rewarding experiences. Traveling all the way from North Carolina, this student was told he was too young to attend the camp. Finally, after reconsideration and a little prodding, the Art Division accepted him, and he turned out to be one of the most talented attending the camp.
Wiley also told some humorous incidents. During a "Pop-Goes-TheWeasel" number a gun was used for sound effects. A little dog's ears were so hurt by the sound that he jumped from a lady's lap and ran behind the bandstand. The crowd broke up and the director was so amused that he stopped the number.
"So many unusual and interesting things have happened to me at this camp it would take at least a week to tell about all of them." Wiley said. "The spirit and kindness shown by the students were probably the most impressive examples of today's youth ever shown at the camp."
Another incident occurred in an encore about a boy and his dog, in which one musician would whistle and another talented youth would bark like a dog. A large German Shepherd became interested and marched right down to the bandstand to steal the show. ___
Two KCMo Scholars Get Science Awards
Joyce Reckart and Daniel Wayne Johnson of Kansas City, Mo., have received Greater Kansas City Science Fair Scholarships for 1965-66.
The scholarships, based on recognition of students' participation at the Kansas City Science Fair, are renewable for four years as long as the recipients maintain a "B" grade average. Miss Reckart, a junior, is receiving her second renewal for the scholarship. This is the first award for Johnson, who will enter as a freshman this fall.
to be great voices. One problem: it was sometimes difficult to understand the words. The Chamber Choir showed good crescendo and decrescendo qualities. As the summer progresses the Chamber Choir is likely to become one of the finest high school choirs in the country.
To this reviewer the orchestra was only fair. It started out with its members just playing notes and being very plain and dull. In short, for their first two numbers the orchestra seemed very uninspired.
But then Guest Conductor Leo Kucinis came onto the platform. He woke up the orchestra with an exciting rendition of the Fourth Movement of "Symphony No. 4 in G Major" by Dvorak.
THE ENTHUSIASM remained for the rest of the performance as the woodwinds shone through "The Incredible Flutist Ballet Suite" by Piston and the whole orchestra did a commendable job on "The Beautiful Galathea, Overture" by Von Suppe. Kucinski deserves the heartiest congratulations.
After the recess for dinner the last two parts of the music division, the Symphonic Band and the Concert Band, performed in the University Theatre since there was a possibility of a storm and the outdoor theatre couldn't be used.
The best way of summing up the Symphonic Band is its final piece, "The Fairest of the Fair" by John Philip Sousa. This march was loud and "drum and bugle" sounding.
THE BEST WAS SAVED for last, the Concert Band, which was impressive and exciting. It gave a spirited performance, starting with "The Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" from "The Rheingold" by Richard Wagner. It later proved that it could play many different kinds of music by a sharp, snappy interpretation of the march "Citation" by Claude Smith. After "Citation" Prof. Wiley said a few words and the Concert Band closed the concert with "Irish Tune from County Derry" by Grainger.
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