Pulitzer holder to lecture here
A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Robert Ward, will be the guest composer and lecturer at the ninth annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music May 13 in Murphy Hall.
Ward, an executive vice-president and managing editor of Galaxy Music Corporation. and Highgate Press, will soon become president of the North Carolina School of Fine Arts at Winston-Salem.
HE WILL OPEN the symposium with a lecture on "Business and Art" at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Works of 17 American composers will be played beginning at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout with a student and faculty performance of five new chamber music works.
George Lawner will conduct the faculty symphony orchestra at 8 p.m. in the University Theater, in a program which will include Ward's "Divertimento."
NEW COMPOSITIONS will be featured in a carillon recital by Albert Gerken at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and the KU Chamber Choir will sing at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
Orchestral scores played will be submitted to Hans Schweiger, conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic.
The free symposium is supported by the KU Endowment Association and a grant from the Recording Industries Trust Funds funds obtained through the American Federation of Musicians, Local 512 (Lawrence).
Morgan wins $150 stereo from KUOK drawing
Winner of a $150 AM-FM multiplex stereo set last night was Steve Morgan, Shawnee Mission sophomore.
Sponsor of the drawing, KUOK radio, presented the award to Morgan at their After Nine Show at the Campus Hideaway. The person whose name was drawn had to be present to win the award.
KUOK purchased the radio with funds obtained from working at concessions stands during the Kansas Relays.
FRANKIE'S FIRST
HOLLYWOOD—(UPI) Frank Sanatra was named as the first presenter in the 39th annual Academy Awards presentation show.
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Daily Kansan Friday, April 28, 1967
The University Theatre
in cooperation with
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts
presents
by
April 28 and 30
Wolfgang A. Mozart
8:20 p.m.
University Theatre
Tickets available at the Box Office
317 Murphy Hall