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Modern Music Meet Set
Rv Harry Krause
Highlighting the seventh annual KU Symposium on Contemporary American Music will be the appearance of Ross Lee Finney, composer-in-residence at the University of Michigan, and the Fine Arts string quartet.
The symposium features performances of unpublished manuscripts by 25 composers from various regions of the nation, most of whom will be on campus for the three-day event which begins Sunday evening at 8:00 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Professor John Pozdro, professor of music theory and chairman of the symposium, said that well over 200 manuscripts were received and that these were narrowed down to 27.
"NO RESTRICTIONS were placed on geographical region, professional status, or age. The symposium is a vehicle which any resident of the United States may use." Prof. Pozdro said.
He added, "A piece is chosen in relation to how the composer and audience will benefit from a performance."
The works to be performed range from string quartets, piano sonatas, madrigals, woodwind
quintet, and a capella choir to carillon recitals and symphonies.
THE MAJOR LECTURE of the festival will be delivered by Ross Lee Finney. He will discuss how he composed two of his works, the "Third Symphony" and "Di- vertissement."
Prof. Finney, 59, studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in Vienna with Alban Berg.
He has taught at Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Amherst, and is now a professor of composition and composer-inresidence at the University of Michigan.
Finney's works have been widely performed in the United States, Europe, and South America. His "Fourth String Quartet" was performed at the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Memorial Concert in Cambridge, Mass., by the Kroll String Quartet and also in Munich, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, and Sao Paulo.
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HIS ORCHESTRAL works have been performed by the Minneapolis Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Brussels Exposition in 1958 Prof. Finney's "Fantasy in Two Movements for Solo Violin." Finney's "Second Symphony" was commissioned by the Serge Koussevitsky Foundation and was premierer by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Eugene Ormandy. It has since been performed by the Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Oslo orchestras, and recorded by the Louisville Symphony.
Professor Finney will join with Sandor Kallai, music editor of the Kansas City Star, for a panel discussion Monday at 10:30 a.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. Mr. Kallai was a member of the journalism symposium panel held earlier this week at KU.
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin commissioned for performance at the
KU has again been chosen as a learning ground for Costa Rican visitors to the United States.
Sharing the featured artist spotlight with Finney will be the Fine Arts String Quartet, whose members have been appointed artists-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin.
Costa Rican Visit Nears End
Nine student political leaders from the University of Costa Rica are the KU guests. They leave tomorrow after six days on campus and in the area sampling politics and other phases of educational and social life.
LEONARD SORKIN and Abram Loft are the violinists of the group, while Gerald Stanick plays viola, and George Sopkin is the 'cellist. The group uses instruments made by Guarnerius del Gesu, Giovanni P. Maggini, Matteo Goffriller, and Tomaso Balestrieri, all acknowledged masters of fine instrument-making.
Monday, Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C. senior and past president of the student body, explained procedures and programs of student government and elections.
Ann Peterson, Shawnee Mission junior and newly-elected president of Associate Women Students, spoke in Spanish to the visitors about the women's governing organization and activities.
The third phase of the conference concerned non-governmental activities which involve a large number of students. Bob Enberg, McPherson senior and past president of Student Union Activities, discussed the wide range of programs offered by SUA.
Pharmacy School Rewards Students
Seniors in the school of pharmacy will be rewarded for their scholastic efforts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Eldridge Hotel. Duane Wenzel, dean of the School of Pharmacy, will present the awards.
The Bristol award is given to the senior with the highest scholastic average in the school. The student who receives this award will be given an encyclopedia or a dictionary.
A MORTAR AND PESTLE TROPHY will be given to the winner of the Rexall award. This will go to the senior with the greatest scholastic improvement in the pharmacy school.
For the senior with the highest scholastic average in prescription compounding, the Merck award will be presented.
A similar trophy will be given to the winner of the Johnson and Johnson award for the senior with the highest grades in business courses.
Danny Lattin, Smith Center fifth-year pharmacy student and president of Rho Chi, an honorary pharmaceutical society, will present the Rho Chi award. The award of $25, goes to the highest ranking junior in the school.
Robert Wiley, assistant professor of pharmacy, will present a gold key to the outstanding senior in the American Pharmaceutical Association (A.Ph.A.). The student was chosen by the students and faculty in this organization.
Yesterday the Costan Ricans were treated to a tour of the state legislature and the Kansas Supreme Court, led by Ben Morris, Quinter second-year law student and representative to the state legislature. They also had a brief appointment with Governor Avery, and later met with the Lawrence city commission and mayor Ernest Pulliam.
Edward Smissman, professor of pharmacy, will present the National Science Foundation Fellows who are high ranking students in the school. They will do research in the pharmacy school during the summer with the $800 they will receive from this award.
Throughout their visit they have met with KU faculty members specializing in Latin American areas. Hugh Schwartz, acting assistant professor of economics; Robert Tomasek, associate professor of political science; Robert Casad, professor of law, and Robert Nunley, associate professor of geography, have conducted conferences with he Costa Rican students.
The quartet came into being in 1946 as an attraction of a weekly program over the American Broadcasting Company network. The program ran for eight consecutive years.
Making its European debut in 1958, the quartet toured 27 cities in seven countries.
The group rates along with the Juliard and Budapest quartets as masters of the chamber music medium. And, they have a special interest in performing contemporary pieces.
FIVE SUBSEQUENT TOURS have taken the quartet to Scandinavia, Holland, Germany, France, and Israel.
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The quartet will open the symposium Sunday evening with performances of Samuel Adler's "Fourth String Quartet," and Ross Lee Finney's "Seventh String Quartet."
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Model U.N. Planned
Although the 1965 Model UN has just ended its session, plans are already underway for the 1966 Model UN, according to Hank Hibbard, Eureka junior.
The steering committee of the 1960 Model UN met yesterday afternoon to discuss problems of this year's session and to plan for the 1966 session of the KU-Y sponsored event. "Next week we will meet to set up times for applications and interviews for the 1966 Model UN," Hilbard said. He said next year other schools will be invited to participate in UN activities.
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