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Opera Singer Named New Voice Chairman
Kenneth Smith, a bass-baritone with more than 500 recitals to his credit here and abroad, will become professor of voice and chairman of that department in the school of fine arts effective September 1.
Joseph R. Wilkins, now completing his 30th year as chairman, has reached the administrative retirement age but will continue to teach.
Smith, a 44-year-old native of Leeds, England, has made New York his headquarters the past two decades in which he has appeared with every major U.S. symphony orchestra and many of the secondary ones.
"We are proud that a man of Kenneth Smith's ability as an artist and his extensive performing background can be brought to our faculty," said Dean Thomas Gorton of the school of fine arts.
Smith has sung with the Metropolitan Opera Company, the New England Opera, The Washington Opera, Philadelphia Lyric Opera, Central City (Colo.) Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, New York City Opera, and the NBC-TV Opera Company.
Singing the role of Brigham Young, Smith was critically acclaimed as having "stolen the show" in the NBC-TV production of Leonard Kastle's "Deseret," a few years ago.
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Smith's recordings include "Jeanne d'Arce au Bucher," "Le Rossignol," "Down in the Valley," The Verdi Requiem, A Treasury of Operetta and the Bach B minor Mass.
At the Metropolitan he has been a principal as Hans Sachs in "Meistersinger," in "Boris Godounoff," "Aida," "The Magic Flute," "Manon," and "Don Carlos."
Applications for positions on next year's "Rock Chalk Revue" staff must be submitted to the KU-Y office, in the Kansas Union, by 5 p.m. today.
He has had musical comedy experience in stock companies and on Broadway and has been featured in corporation-produced shows for General Electric, Xerox, Coca Cola and Chevrolet.
POSITIONS EEING FILLED include house manager, the advisory staff for music, dancing, sets and costumes, between acts manager, assistant business manager, controller, program editor, sales manager and public relations.
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THE BETWEEN ACTS MANAGER will supervise and coordinate all the in-between-activities.
The house manager will be responsible for obtaining and supervising the use of Hoch auditorium.
The assistant business manager will aid the business manager and co-ordinate the various staffs in the business department.
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THE CONTROLLER will receive and pay all bills, keep the books and receive all vouchers for the expenditures.
The program editor will design the program and prepare it for publication.
The Sales manager's job will include ticket sales for the three night performances and the block ticket drawings.
The Public Relations chairman will handle news for on-campus and area publications.
Poet Entertains With Song, Verse In Semester's Last Poetry Hour
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Adding songs to his readings yesterday, Robert Duncan presented the final SUA Poetry Hour for this semester.
Duncan, in addition to publishing 11 volumes of poetry in the last 25 years, has published a volume of poems, "Roots and Branches." He has also had work published in several periodicals.
"I can't read music," he told the audience. "I love classical music, although my music isn't classy. it's not jazzy, either."
He began his readings by explaining that in the early 50's, he and some of his associates were "over-huling" ideas of the poem, trying to build up a new sense of the poetry.
Singing lines of two songs in his play, "Faust and Margarite," Duncan kept the audience of some 300 people laughing as he described the life of the two main characters.
"In order to arrive at a freedom of my own, I had to break down this, for the modernism demanded originality," Duncan said. "I decided I could never be anything that isn't me." he added.
WHEN HE WAS 17 and 18, he was a follower of Ezra Pound, and became "very influenced" by Gertrude Stein, among others. He became "an orthodox modernist."
For some time, he followed the style of Patterson, and took Ben Jonson's advice that a follower should strive to imitate his master exactly, then he can develop his own talents.
"For a year, I wrote like Gertrude Stein," he said, "I wrote every day, and obliterated every possible trace of originality." He became, in his own words, an "abstract Gertrude Stein."
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HE LAUGHINGLY told the audience that his style became a heresy among the people who scorned any literature that looked like anyone else's. "I was happy, and didn't worry about expressing myself," he continued. The poem, "Re-Writing Byron," was created during this period.
"My ideal reader is not myself, nor any other particular person," he said, "my ideal reader is a comfortable, sixtyft old fat lady sitting around—a woman who listens. There is no part of life or darkest part of my soul that she hasn't heard before."
"I became more and more convinced and enchanted that the pen was meaningful," he said, speaking of his work following the publishing of his book, "Opening of the Field." He also developed a tendency to think in Freudian
HE DISCUSSED the form of poems, saying that "if you have a regular margin, you know that you have a conventional poem." He also discovered that lines form correlations with each other: inter lines have a relationship, as do outer lines.
terms, "nothing are slips, or breaks in language, but all are meaningful," he said.
In "The Fire," his final poem, and one which will be included in the combined April-May issue of "Poetry Magazine," Duncan created a magic air as he began the poem with a series of short, simple words, such as "leaf, shadow, cool, downstream . . ."
From these words, he built the poem to complex ideas, to the contrast of fire, hatred, and nations vying against each other.
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Vice-President Asks Professor to Meeting
Edwin O. Stene, professor of political science, has been invited by Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey to participate in a conference of city managers and cabinet officials May 20-21. The purpose of the conference is "to discuss technical aspects of administering federal programs of urban significance."
Prof. Stene is one of six professors chosen by the International City Managers Association to attend the conference. Prof. Stene is well versed not only in U.S. public administration but is also an authority on comparative administration.
In 1954-55 and 1957-58, he served as visiting professor and director of research in the Institute of Public Administration at the University of Philippines in Manila. During the summer of 1962 he was a consultant on organization and management for the Indonesian government at Jakarta. On sabbatical leave in 1963-64, he studied local government in the Scandinavian countries.
Leading Physics Majors Honored
Robert A. Beyerlein, Phillipsburg senior, was named the outstanding physics major last night at the annual honors banquet of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society.
Dennis L. Wagner, Webster City, Iowa, senior, and Beyerlein were given cash awards for having the highest gpa's in junior-senior physics courses. Wagner's gpa for 28 hours was 2.47, and Beverlein's for 23 hours was 2.87.
Larry Alan Alexander, North Kansas City, and Donald A. Nelson, Mohall, North Dakota, were recognized as outstanding teaching assistants in the sophomore physics labs.
Robert George Spahn, Dubuque, Iowa, graduate student, was given an award for his outstanding work as stockroom keeper.
Leslie Meyer, Kirkwood, Mo., senior, was elected president; Lawrence Dorsett, York Haven, Penn., senior, vice-president; Gary Hanson, Phillipsburg junior, secretary; and Richard Leamon, Shawnee Mission junior, treasurer of Sigma Pi Sigma for the coming year.
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