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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 29,1965
Touring Musicians End Four-Day Trip
Hard work—but fun too, that was the comment of members of the KU Symphony Orchestra and the Concert Band when they returned from their four-day tour of nine Kansas City high schools.
The tour members left last Monday in four buses. A huge moving van carried all the luggage. Accompanying the 140 band members and the 75 orchestra members were Russell Wiley, professor of band, Kenneth Bloomquist, director of the marching band, and Robert Baustian, professor of orchestra.
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BECKY ROGERS, Garden City sophomore and one of the violinists in the orchestra, said, "The whole tour was very tiring, because of the schedule. We often slept on the buses. Still, we had a good time and I thought we got better each time we played."
MISS SWAIN also told of the informal basketball game the boys of the band played at one of the high schools. "We were not getting very much exercise," she said, "So when we saw a great big gymnasium with basketball equipment and a trampoline, we made good use of it all." It ended up with the boys of the band playing a game against the Parkhill High students. Results of the match are unknown. Estimates of the score vary.
Among the music played by the orchestra and the band were works by Tschaikowsky, Respighi, Schumann, Wagner, and Rimski-Korsakov. One of the most popular pieces proved to be the last movement of Tschaikowsky's Fourth Symphony, as played by the band, Sylvia Swain, Lees Summit, Mo., senior, said.
The traveling on the tour was not without mishap. On the second day, the tour members left Lees Summit to go to Parkhill High School. The roads were so sleety, however, that it was decided to let the orchestra members, who were playing first, go into the first two buses. The
buses left, but the traffic in the right lane was so slow that the buses could only proceed at a snail's pace. The result was that the two other buses with the band members passed them in the other lane and arrived at Parkhill long before the orchestra buses.
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