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Pianist Claudette Sorel Has Recital in Swarthout
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Bv Tom Winston
Claudette Sorel, guest lecturer in piano, presented a display of romantic fireworks for more than 300 people at her faculty recital last night in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Her program ranged from Chopin at the earliest to Rachmaninoff at the latest. She showed in her playing what New York critics have been enthusiastic about: a big sound, the flair for dazzle, and heart.
She opened with Chopin's B Flat Minor Sonata, Op. 35, a four movement work otherwise known as the "Funeral March" Sonata.
MISS SOREL caught the Swarthout audience's attention from the beginning when she walked onto the stage in a plush red velvet gown trimmed with mink at the hem and at each arm at the bodice.
FAVORITE works of the evening were four Rachmaninoff preludes, the B Minor (No. 10) and the A Minor (No. 8) from Opus 32 and the E-Flat Major (No. 6) and the D Minor (No. 3) from Opus 23. Miss Sorel
THE SECOND HALF of the program was devoted to "Sonata Tragica in G Minor, Op. 45," a rarely heard work by the American Edward Mac-Dowell.
did both her most delicate and some of her most brilliant playing of the evening here.
Miss Sorel showed clearly that she could make a piano roar, but only seldom did she show us she could make it whisper or purr.
Miss Sorel offered the "Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone, Op. 9, No. 2" by Scriabin (1872-1915), a piece which sounds as if it could have been written by Chopin. The Russian, born 23 years after Chopin's death, much admired Chopin's style. Miss Sorel played it well.
The "Caprice in A Minor" by Paganin the Liszt piano transcription closed the first half of the program. This is the famous melody upon which Brahms based his "Variations of a Theme by Paganini" and Rachmaninoff his "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini."
Unusual Topics Highlight Potpourri Speech Contest
A South American man with childbirth pains, a KU trio's own recording, and 100 different cold viruses were the winning subjects at last night's Speech potpourri in Fraser.
Paul Adelgren, Mission freshman; John Seevers, Wichita sophomore, and Rosemary Schenck, Dayton, Ohio, senior, were the top three contestants. Their respective topics were "The Psychological Aspects of Pain," "Making Your Own Recording," and "Man and Virus."
In his speech on pain, Adelgren told an audience of about 300 that pain is modified and enlarged by culture, past experience and expectations.
Seevers told about the efforts
that go into making a record. Promotion, he said, is the most difficult task. He spoke from "personal experience," as he and two other KU students made the official Kansas Centennial folk song album.
Mrs. Schenck explained the nature of viruses and said that immunity is difficult considering there are 100 different cold viruses, 3 different measles viruses, and 4 different flu viruses. In order to confer immunity, she said, each vaccination would have to include every kind of virus.
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