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By Lawrence Morgan
Sunday, the Midwestern Music and Art Camp gave its last three concerts of the summer. Each concert was well performed, and of surprising substance. Many parents came to the events, giving the orchestra, chorus, and band overflow audiences.
Highlight of the day was the afternoon orchestral performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (Le Sacre du Printemps). Written in 1913, the work teams with complicated rhythms and tense instrumental combinations. Often seasoned orchestras do not play it well, but the camp group did a magnificent job.
GUEST CONDUCTOR Victor Alessandro adopted a snappy tempo, but the orchestra easily kept together. All intonation was precise, and all instrumental entrances exact. The strings' rhythmic thrusts were very effective. Brasses and percussion gave exciting, staccato-like performances. Only the clarinets had difficulty with some flute-clarinet-oobe combinations. The general effect was startling, and the orchestra deserved the standing ovation which followed its performance. Such imaginative and bold choice of program material deserves praise.
Evidently the orchestra's musicians had the "Rite" in mind during the first part of their performance, for the "Scheherazade" suite and excerpt from a Wagner opera did not come off as well. "Scheherazade," despite many well-executed woodwind solos, lacked a sense of continuity, and the general effect was one of raggedness. All that can be said for the Wagner was that it was loud, and fast.
The chorus concert was excellent. There were no problems of dynamics or articulation. John Pozdro's "All Pleasant Things" was especially effective.
IT IS A SHAME that bands must always play excerpts and transcriptions, at least on the high school
level. More band music of distinction should be written and played. The evening band concert was not on par with other concerts by the same group, but it was very good.
For some reason, the band did not seem to play with as much vitality and interest as it has on past occasions. Perhaps the nature of the music must be taken into account. A transcription of the "1812 Overture" is not as effective as is the work in its original form.
Rossini's "Overture to William Tell" came off very well. All of the marches, and the excerpt from Respighi's "Pines of Rome" were spiritedly played. The brasses, especially, seemed outstanding. Their confident attacks and clear tone helped the band considerably.
The day ended a summer of hard effort for K.U.'s young guests, and the spirit of their efforts showed itself in their work. It will be difficult for next year's groups to match the accomplishments of the 1962 camp.
Titus to Lecture At NU Conference
Dr. James E. Titus, assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas, will lecture on communication in organizations at a management development program Aug. 6-17 at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
He will speak Aug. 8 on "Patterns of Communication in Organizations" and "Organizational Communications—the Supervisor's Responsibility."
The two-week program sponsored by the Nebraska department of labor is similar to the Employment Security Managers' Institute which Dr. Titus will direct at the University of Kansas Aug. 12-24.
Patronize Your Kansan Advertisers
12 States to Have New TV Courses
An instructional television program sampler service will soon be made available to public schools and colleges in the Great Plains area. Preview films representing 115 separate telecourses will be available from the office of the Great Plains Instructional Television Library in Lincoln, Nebraska. Each sampler kit will include a typical lesson from the recorded series and whatever guides and printed materials accompany the full course.
The sampler kit will be used by schoolmen as an aid in choosing and securing materials for their instructional television programming on stations or closed circuit systems.
Gale R. Adkins, director of radiotelevision research at KU and Kansas consultant to the Library, said the first of these kits should be available during early September. "This is a new approach to the problem of demonstrating to school administrators the available recorded instructional television materials."
The project has been made possible by the U.S. Office of Education. Twelve states are served by the Great Plains Library: Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
MOLINE, Ill. — (UPI) — Singer Pearl Bailey recently gave her secret for rearing her two children — "a big switch, a small allowance and a lot of love."
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CHICKEN BUFFET $1.00 All You Can Eat Drink and dessert extra
The Little Banquet
4:45-7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
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Make your back-to-school selections!
Sell Your Used Books Thursday and Friday, Aug. 2-3
8:30-4:30
We still need many titles for Fall Semester, 1962. An off-campus buyer will be on hand to make you an offer on those titles that we cannot use.
Kansas Union Book Store