Music meet will be here
More than 1,200 state music educators, high school and university students are expected to attend the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) convention here Friday and Saturday.
The convention will open at 9 a.m. Friday in Swarthout Recital Hall with a keynote address by Louis Wersen, president of the Music Educators National Conference. Clinics, workshops and general business meetings will follow.
A "KU Night" concert, featuring the KU Chamber Choir, band and orchestra, is planned for 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium. The concert is free to the public.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH the convention, the KMEA is sponsoring a 250-member high school choir, a 200-member band and a 100-member orchestra which will rehearse while the convention is in session. Made up of selected high school students from throughout the state, the groups will present a joint concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets for the Saturday concert are available at the Hoch Auditorium box office.
Conductor of the high school choir will be Paul Salamunovich of Los Angeles. Robert Baustian, former KU orchestra conductor now at Oberlin University, Oberlin, Ohio, will conduct the orchestra. Gene Braught of Oklahoma University will conduct the band.
"It's one of the most challenging programs I've ever done with the band," said Russell Wiley, conductor of the KU Concert Band.
The program is the band's Winter Concert which will be given Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the University Theatre.
THE PROGRAM WILL open with excerpts from the "Manzoni Requiem" by Guisseppe Verdi followed by Ernest Williams" "Symphony in C Minor."
"I would say," Wiley continued, "it's a program that few college bands would ever attempt in one afternoon."
"I went through the Library of Congress to get the printed music," Wiley said of the 24-minute, four-movement symphony. "They got it for me through a place in New York importing music from Russia. As far as I know it hasn't been played in the United States."
FOLLOWING THE intermission there will be Franz Liszt's "Les Preludes."
Following that will be Miaskowsky's "Symphony Number 19," a symphony rarely performed in the United States.
Band will perform Sunday
Closing the program will be Zoltan Kodaly's suite from "Hary Janos."
"I've been in the band business about 35 years and I think this is
Debaters talk, travel, win
KU debaters, besides being highly vocal, are probably the "travelingest" group on campus.
They've tanned themselves twice in California and spent weekends in Texas, Iowa, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Illinois (not to mention five tournaments in Kansas).
What's more, before this season's over they will have debated in Kentucky, Minnesota, and Louisiana.
THEY RETURNED Sunday from McPherson College with wins in both the junior and sensor divisions.
Competing against 40 teams from four states, KU debaters Paul Falzer, Topeka sophomore, and Jim McNish, Topeka junior, took first in the senior division with a perfect 5-0 tournament record.
Also undefeated were junior division winners Phil Higdon, McPherson freshman, and Bob McCulloh, Overland Park freshman.
The team is now preparing to defend its sweepstakes championship title at the University of Nebraska Invitational Tournament to be held Feb. 23 at Lincoln, Neb.
KU MUST WIN in debate, oratory, extemporaneous speaking, and interpretive reading competition to win the award again.
The team, the largest in three years with 48 members, will debate the question ("Resolved: The United States should substantially reduce its foreign policy commitments.")
"We use this nationwide topic all year," Don Parson, debate coach said, "but it's so broad that
various teams interpret it differently."
The negative teams "have to be very versatile" in order to successfully counter arguments.
The debaters will defend their league title March 17-18 at Baton Rouge, La., at the Missouri Valley Conference Forensic Activities.
The league is made up of teams from the Big Eight schools, plus the University of Texas, Wichita State University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Omaha.
"You build a great performing band exactly like you build a great performing football team. You build it with talent."
THE PROGRAM WILL run about an hour and a half. There is no admission charge.
the greatest group of young people I've ever assembled," Wiley said.
In the future there will be a number of concerts and recitals.
Wednesday, Feb. 22, KU's Little Symphony will perform in Swarthout Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, Weiner Solisten will perform for the Chamber Music Series in Swartout Recital Hall at 8 p.m.
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