HUMANITIES SERIES
Is Music Today Noise?
"Is present-day music really music—or mostly noise?" This question concerning 20th century music will be the topic of the next KU Humanities Series lecture Tuesday.
The speaker, G. Wallace Woodworth, Harvard music history scholar, is also an organist, a famous choral conductor and a specialist in music on radio and television. He will use recordings to illustrate his lecture.
DR. WOCODWORTH will speak at 8 p.m. in the Lawrence High
School auditorium because no suitable KU hall is available.
The Harvard scholar will spend three days on campus, participating in chorus rehearsals, consulting with faculty members and students, and speaking to classes in music history, sociology, and radio-television.
Tuesday noon, a group of choir directors of churches in the Lawrence area will meet with him at a "Dutch luncheon" in the Kansas Union cafeteria and Sunflower Room; he will speak about church
music. Mrs. Judy Woodward, KU-Y, arranged the luncheon and invites church choir members to participate.
AFTER THE LECTUPE Tuesday evening, the Faculty Club will give an informal reception to allow lecture-goers to meet Woodworth.
Draft May Cause Housing Revision
The affect of the draft on recently announced plans of the KU Housing Department has met considerable speculation, according to J. J. Wilson, housing director.
"Actually though, we have done no revising with the current plans at this point," Wilson said. We will probably reconsider our plans again in April or May and base our judgments upon the current developments at that time."
McCollum Hall, with a capacity of 1.100 students, will house men and women summer school students this year. The move from Ellsworth Hall, used last summer, will mean additional room for the anticipated summer enrollment.
Plans call for the women to live in the west wing of the dorm. A wall will divide the floor lounges and the elevators for use by the students.
Summer residents will be billed under four plans. Plan A is for 15 meals per week and double occupancy at $180. Plan B is for 20 meals weekly and double occupancy and costs $200. Single occupants may choose between a $230 plan for 15 meals a week or $250 for 20 meals a week.
Miller and Watkins Halls on Lilac Lane will be available for women, and Stephenson and Pearson Halls on Alumni Place for men during the summer on a housing basis only. No meals will be served. The fee is $30 monthly.
It was also announced that Ellsworth Hall, which will be occupied by men next year, will have its student government organized within McCollum Hall this spring. This group of hall officers will reorganize with a planned mixture of freshmen and upper class men in Ellsworth.
Officials currently estimate 15,500 students will enroll at KU in September of 1966. To meet this enrollment Oliver Hall, at 19th and Naismith Streets, will be opened for freshman women. Bids for $2.7 million on the bonds of the dorm now under construction will be let March 13.
Also planned to be opened in the fall of 1966 is Naismith Hall, the private dormitory across from Oliver Hall. This will be a co-educational residence hall.
Woodworth was director of the First International Choral Festival at Lincoln and Kennedy Centers in New York, working with 15 choruses from abroad and five from the United States. He has conducted mass singing (more than 800 voices) in Philharmonic Hall, Washington Cathedral, the World's Fair, and the United Nations.
He is well-known for his interpretations of musical classics on radio and television. He has conducted the Harvard Glee Club for 25 years, the Radcliffe Choral Society for 33 years, and was Harvard University organist and choirmaster for 18 years.
THE MUSICAL EDUCATION of amateurs has been one of his chief interests, and his introductory course on the history of music at Harvard is famous... enrolling more than 300 students. He gives special courses in symphony, concerto, choral music, chamber music, and in such masters as Bartok, Bach, and Stravinsky.
In 1964 he published a book, "The World of Music," and he has contributed articles to learned journals.
He was born in Boston in 1902. He received the A.B. and A.M. degrees at Harvard and was awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Miami and Hartford Universities and by the New England Conservatory of Music. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1926 and now holds the James Edward Ditson chair as professor of music. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a trustee of Fisk University and of the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Thursday, February 17, 1966
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