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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Monday, February 19, 1968
Symphony tympanist gives unexpected solo
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
The capacity audience that attended Sunday night's concert by the Philadelphia Chamber Symphony in the University Theatre got two shows for its money.
The first was a two-encore performance by the 36 members of the Symphony under the direction of Anshel Brusilow, conductor.
Foreign students make 2.25 GPA
Approximately 10 per cent of the foreign undergraduate students at KU have established outstanding academic records. Nineteen students from 13 countries had grades averaging 2.25 for the fall semester.
These undergraduates have earned grades that meet or approximate the honor roll standards of the various schools in the University.
Included in the list are Gemuh Akuchu, Bamenda, West Cameroon, senior; Laura Chan, Caracas, Venezuela, freshman; Sun Nin Chen, Jesselton, Malaysia, freshman; Shirley Sau-lan-choy, Kowloon, Hong Kong, freshman; Cesar A. Delgado, Caracas, Venezuela, senior.
Bunsen Fan, Taipei, Taiwan, sophomore; Hon Shu Fung, Kowloon, Hong Kong, freshman; Leonicio Gazzaneo, Caracas, Venezuela, junior; Rafael J. Gutierrez, Bogota, Colombia, sophomore; Stephen Sai Kit Ho, Kowloon, Hong Kong, freshman.
Everold N. Hosein, California,
Trinidad, junior; Kambiz Khadavi,
Tehran, Iran, junior; Jung
Nam Kim, Korea sophomore;
Pieter M. Kroonenberg, Goes,
the Netherlands, freshman; Veronika
Meinow, Ansbach, Germany, senior.
Wilson Mih, La Paz, Bolivia; senior; Jonathan Ophir, Israel sophomore; Chi Hung Poon, Kowloon, Hong Kong, senior; and Chong Long Yu, Taipei, Taiwan, junior.
About two-thirds of KU's more than 600 foreign students are at the graduate level, are unclassified or in the Intensive English Center.
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The second was an unexpected "solo" by Jack Moore, the group's tympanist.
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"They're irreplaceable," he said. "They're not available in the West. I suppose they are worth over $3,000."
Before the performance, while the other musicians wandered on and off the stage or casually plucked at their instruments, Moore was going through a ritual of his own.
From the balcony, where he was most easily observed at his position at the rear of the stage. Moore was seen to circle around his three drums, his body bent at a right angle at the waist and his bearded face seemingly touching the stretched calfskin. His hands rested on the rim of the instrument while he turned knobs his thumbs tapped out dull "plunks." If the "plunk" sounded right he straightened up and tried again, this time putting a little distance between his ears and the drum.
"This must be a pretty dedicated group," someone said. "They're taking half an hour just to tune the drums."
Once the concert had begun, Moore not only continued to twist knobs and sniff the playing surface but also to toss a folded piece of chamois cloth from one drum to another.
"It's the atmosphere . . . or maybe the drums got some rough treatment during shipping." Moore explained back stage. "Anyway, my big drum is completely out. By that I mean there is shortness and flatness all over the calfskin, and this has to be corrected with the tightening knobs on the rim.
"The chamois cloth keeps the vibrations down on the drum. If I didn't use the cloth, the vibrations of one drum would distort another. Even when a drum isn't being played there are plenty of vibrations," he said.
To most people, the subtleties of sound of the big drums would go
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