Monday, March 15. 1965
University Daily Kansan
Page 5
Music, Art Camp to Open 28th Session
By Robert Stevens
The pitter-patter of 2,700 feet will accompany the University Campaile this summer as the twenty-eighth session of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp gets underway.
This year over 1,350 junior and senior high students representing most of the 50 states and a few foreign countries will be attending, according to Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and camp director.
Eight divisions will be offered this summer. They are: senior high music, are, science and math, theatre, speech, junior high music, ballet and journalism.
The engineering division which has been held in summers past will not be continued this year, Prof. Wiley said. "We hope to pick it up again next year, but we are unable to hold it this summer."
The largest share of the campers will arrive on the campus Sunday, June 20, and stay six weeks. The junior high music division is only two weeks long and will not begin until July 4.
The first camp was started in 1935 with 17 members. They met for six weeks and the camp cost $66
"We started from nothing and have built it into a quarter of a million dollar business annually," Wiley said. Today the cost for six weeks is $325 and the two weeks junior high camp costs $80.
"In the second summer we started an orchestra. We held concerts in Hoch in the afternoon, Wiley continued. "We first branched out by trying art in 1950. We tried it for one summer and it did not go. I smarted under this considerably and proposed to the art people to join hands with me and have a division director to promote their end of it," Prof. Wiley went on.
"Their success soon proved this was a good move." The name of the camp was changed to the present Midwestern Music and Art Camp in 1955.
"The camp director said, "Then we branched to other fields. It has been worked out under the same format of the art division. We have expanded into the many divisions which make us unique."
Theatre came next. Ballet was added in 1953 followed by science and math, and speech. Engineering was added next and the last division begun was journalism, which is in its third year.
Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, has been
associate director of the camp since 1938. While Prof. Wiley conducts the concert bands, Prof. Carney conducts the concert orchestra.
The camp superviser is C. Herbert Duncan, band director at Normandy High School, St. Louis. George Neaderiser and Richard Brummett are assistant directors.
Cmdr. Charles Brendler, eminent conductor (retired) of the United States Navy Band, will be in the camp for the entire six weeks. He will be in charge of the symphonic band and serve as guest conductor with the concert band and symphony orchestra. He will also conduct sectional rehearsals of the various wind sections.
Clayton H. Krehbiel, professor of choral music and music education, will conduct the choirs.
The senior high music camp will offer training in two bands, two choirs, and a full symphony orchestra. In addition to these major musical organizations the camp offers private study, music theory, and work with small ensembles.
The choirs will present a concert each Sunday afternoon in Murphy Hall. The bands will give a concert each Sunday evening on special stands built between Hoch Auditorium and Haworth Hall.
Kenneth Bloomquist, assistant director of the KU band, will also serve as part-time director of the symphonic band.
Wilmer Linkugel, associate professor of speech and drama and director of the speech division, expects about 30 campers in his division. Classes will be held in communication theory, argumentation and debate theory, and interpretation theory to help acquaint the students with the various aspects of oral communication.
Since the first year, the camp has brought in special guest conductors for each of the concerts.
The 220 campers which are expected in the art division will be able to study in the areas of crafts, painting, design, and drawing. Camp director is Marjorie Whitney, professor of design. Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design, will be associate director.
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The campers in the speech division will be involved in a debate tournament and will have a chance to do some work in the radio and television laboratory.
Daily classes for intermediate and advanced students will include: classic ballet, graduated toe work, partnering (adagio-Pas de Deux), character dancing, terminology and choreography, history of ballet and ballet French.
Larry Long, choreographer and balletmaster with Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet during the past four seasons, will serve as assistant director.
Daily classes in classical ballet as well as in folk dancing of many nations will be set up for beginning students who have never had any work in ballet. Terminology and history of ballet also will be taught.
Around 40 students will take part in this year's theatre division, according to Jed Davis, associated professor of speech and drama. The campers will produce "Lilium" by Ferenc Molnar which is the basis for the musical "Carousel".
This year's art camp will have courses such as: oil painting, sculpture, weaving, cartooning, print
workshop, natural drawing, jewelry, and art survey.
Besides working on the main theatre production the campers will be attending classes in acting, makeup, and rehearsal and performance. Others may enroll in a technical theatre course which offers scene design, construction, lighting, and sound.
Mrs. Marguerite M. Reed, choreographer, ballet mistress and first dancer of the Tulsa Opera Ballet company since 1949, will be the director of the ballet division.
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Areas of study will be chemistry, sociology, physics, mathematics, micro-biology, physiology, radiation biophysics, and zoology.
This will be the tenth anniversary for the science and mathematics division. During the first week the 100 campers will have a period of orientation in eight fields. For the last five weeks each participant will enroll in two intensive courses in the field of his selection.
Dr. Delbert Shankel, associate professor of microbiology is the camp director.
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Approximately 350 students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades will participate in the fifth year of the junior high music division. They will organize a band, an orchestra, and a chorus.
Guest conductors will include Cmdr. Brendler (retired); Richard Brummett, director of instrumental music, Winfield, Kan., Junior High School, band; Loren Crawford, director of string orchestra, Pasco, Wash., Public Schools, orchestra; and James Hardy, director of choral music. Robinson Junior High School, Wichita, chorus.
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