Friday, July 1, 1966 Summer Session Kansan
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Concerts go inside to escape that Kansas heat
The 1,188 seat University Theatre was chosen as the summer concert site primarily for the comfort of the audience, Russell Wiley, KU band director and director of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, said.
The concerts are free and will be held every Sunday until July 31. Guest conductors for the season will include Robert Holliday, music director, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Russell Stanger, assistant conductor, Minneapolis Symphony, July 3; Weston Noble, chairman
INSIDE, THE audience is protected from the rain, wind and heat. He said he expected attendance to be somewhat less but those that come will be comfortable. The University Theatre is air-conditioned.
Wiley explained that sound projection can be controlled in the theatre, whereas outdoors one is at the mercy of the weather. If the wind blows, the sound is blown with it; if the weather is hot and humid, sound penetration is difficult.
of Department of music, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, July 10.
The orchestra and band con-
It is not a seminar; it is a chance for youngsters to exploit their talents far beyond the opportunity offered them in high school, he explained.
TWENTY-NINE YEARS AGO Russell Wiley founded the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. It began as a band camp then art was added. Today the camp offers eight divisions: music, art, journalism, ballet, speech, German language, science, and mathematics. He said it was called a "camp" because "that's what it is—summer activity for young people."
Harry John Brown, conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony, July 17; Elyakum Shapira, assistant conductor, Baltimore Symphony, July 24; and Victor Allessandro, conductor of the San Antonio Symphony, and Paul Salamunovich, director of choral music, Loyola University and Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles, July 31.
Michener is Africa-bound
Kenya. He will collect specimens for the Entomological Museum, which is one of the world's largest, and study the behavior of the primitively social bees of Africa.
Kansas is losing its only member of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most exclusive and prestigious organization in that field—but only for 13 months.
More than 15 years ago Dr. Michener began an intensive study of the Halictine or sweat bees, working first in Kansas and nearby states. This study since has taken him to Brazil on an earlier Guggenheim Fellowship, to Australia on a Fulbright Fellowship, and to Mexico, Panama, New Guinea, and the Fiji Islands. Last summer he was in England and Italy in furtherance of this research.
Charles D. Michener, Watkins professor of entomology at KU, left yesterday for a year of field studies in Africa. For his leave from KU he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and additional research support will come from the National Science Foundation.
are enrolled in the first six-week session.
Michener will spend most of the year in Cameroun, Nigeria, and
certs are not the only means whereby talents are displayed. Those in ballet will perform on July 29 and 30 in the University Theatre at 8 p.m. Works of art will be exhibited every Sunday in the promenade of the Theatre, and students in Journalism will compile the camp yearbook, "Tempo."
Three hundred and fifty junior high students are expected for the second session from July 3 to July 16.
Prerequisites for admission include acceleration in the division in which they enroll and serious intent. Tuition is $360 and scholarships are available. Many of the students take private music lessons while attending camp. Senior high school students (817 girls and 570 boys) from 47 states
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