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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 28, 1962
Summer Is Season for European Festival
Vamos a la fiesta! Ole!
Europe is always in season but summer especially offers festivals and pageants for the traveler. Almost every country will offer some entertainment the traveling KU student will not want to miss.
Students can send for tickets ahead of their trips abroad, often getting better tickets than those offered to that country's own people. But he would be a busy person indeed who could attend even the highlights of European entertainment.
Great Britain offers a myriad of events from its small countries. In Ireland, the International Choral Festival will open May 18 in Cork.
LANGOLLEN, WALES, will be the scene of the yearly Eistedfodd, July 10-15, and Scotland's International Festival at Edinburgh will run from Aug. 19 to Sept. 8.
In Coventry, England, a threeweek festival featuring the Covent Garden Opera, Royal Ballet, Sadler's Wells Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic will open May 25.
The Shakespeare Season of Plays will be presented at Stratford-on-Avon from April 10-Nov. 24. And the Glyndebourne Festival in Sussex will provide chamber opera in a pastoral setting May 23-Aug. 19. Seandirling also May 23-Aug. 19.
Scandinavia also will provide
n o t-to-be-missed entertainment for the traveler. Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland combine talents in a four-nation "Festival of Festivals" in May and June.
THE ROYAL DANISH BALLET and Music Festival will be held May 15-31 in Copenhagen. And American visitors will certainly want to be in Denmark July 4. Denmark is paying a tribute to the U.S. with its golden anniversary celebration of American Independence Day at Rebold National Park in Jutland and at nearby Aalborg.
The International Grieg Festival featuring the music of the famous composer played on his own piano will run from May 27 to June 7 at Bergen, Norway.
SWEDEN WILL HOLD its Stockholm Festival May 30-June 13. And the Sibelius Festival in Helsinki, Finland, will present pianist Van Cliburn June 1-8.
famous Theater-an-der-Wien will be reopened.
Austria also has the Bregenz Festival with its "Play on the Lake," July 20-Aug. 20; and the Salzburg Festival, July 26-Aug. 31, whose program includes 28 operas and nine major concerts.
In each of these Scandinavian cities, national opera companies and orchestras will be heard, and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Zino Francescatti will appear in Bergen, Stockholm and Helsinki.
GERMANY'S FESTIVAL SUMMER opens for the KU traveler with the Mozart Festival June 16-30 at Wuerzburg. This can be followed with the 12th International
France's notable tourist events
IN ITALY, the May Music Festival will draw music lovers to Florence from April 28 to June 15. The "Maggio Musicale" will put all of Florence's fine theaters to use.
The oldest open-air opera in Italy will开 its 40th season July 15 in Verona. Performances in the Roman Arena theater with its perfect acoustics will run until mid-August.
THE ACROPOLIS in Athens,
Greece, will be the setting for the
are "Son et Lumière" spectacles in the farnished chateau of the Loire Valley. The histories of such castles as Chambord and Chenonceaux are recreated in these "sound and light" programs.
STRASBOURG'S FESTIVAL. June 13, will present first performances of contemporary music. At Aix-en-Provence the 14th International Music Festival, July 9-31, will present Mozart operas.
In Switzerland the entire month of June will be given over to the Zurich June Festival, featuring an open-air medieval mystery play in
addition to operas, symphony concerts and exhibitions.
HOLLAND'S 15TH FESTIVAL of Music and Drama will be held June 15-July 15 in Amsterdam, the Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht. The World Music Contest, sponsored by Prince Bernhard and featuring amateur bands from over the world, will be held July 20-Aug. 15 in Kerkrade.
Lucerne's International Music Festival, Aug. 15-Sept. 8, will present eight symphony orchestras, and feature as soloists Van Cliburn, Francescatti and organist Karl Richter.
Film Festival June 22-July 3, in Berlin.
Germany then offers the Wagner Festival on July 25 until Aug. 27 in Bayreuth and ends her summer with the Munich Opera Festival, Aug. 12-Sept. 9.
Austria is offering such "best sellers" as the Festival of Vienna, May 26-June 24, during which the
Tiny Luxembourg will share entertaining honors with the rest of Europe. The Open Air Theater Festival will be held from the end of July to mid-August in Wiltz.
Belgium also offers the Fourth International Jazz Festival Aug.
4-5 in Complain-la-Tour.
IN BELGUM a special summer attraction will be one of the most celebrated religious festivals in Northern Europe. The "Sanguis Christi," the play of the holy blood, presented every five years, will be given from July 30 to Aug. 19 in Bruges. The annual "Procession of the Holy Blood" is May 7.
BUT NORTHERN EUROPE has no monopoly on the festival season.
Granada, Spain, will host the 11th Music and Dance Festival, June 25-July 4. The St. Fermin Festival on July 7 will be the scene of the thrilling "running of the bulls" through the streets of Pamplona.
Pastels, Gold Accent Show
Floral pastels and gold accessories sparked the annual fashion show last night in a setting of pink and white decorations. The fashion show was sponsored by the University Women's and Newcomer's clubs.
Turkey will have its National Folk Dance Festival at Istanbul the last week in July. And the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary will be celebrated Aug. 15 at Ephesus, near Izmir.
Mrs. Betty Broat, narrator, described the array of fashions which were modeled by faculty wives, college women, teens and children.
A grand finale to the show was a wedding party featuring Lois Ann Ragsdale, Kansas City senior, as the bride and her attendants in bridesmaids' gowns.
"The American influence" display of fashions featured red, white and blue costumes for travel, dress and casual wear.
College co-eds showed what the vacationer will be wearing this summer as she is "heading for water." Casual dress and sportswear were accented by gold accessories and shoes, the emphasis on gold seeming to indicate that this color will be an important part of the summer's wardrobe.
Navy and white dresses and a cashmere traveling coat highlighted the "travel right" group. Gold accessories accented a white knit dress.
AKL Selects Spring Officers
Children paraded their Easter outfits of navy dusters, polished cotton dresses and white orlon coats.
Elaborate dresses of silk, linen and cotton demonstrated the "jet age" where, as far as prices were concerned, the sky was the limit. Simple frocks and cotton knits were modeled to illustrate outfits available for reasonable prices.
Alpha Kappa Lambda announces the following officers for the spring semester: Brian Rowland, Ellis senior, president; Dave Huffman, Hays junior, vice president; Rick Duwe, Lucas sophomore, recording secretary; Don Ringstrom, Mission sophomore, corresponding secretary; Jim Young, Kansas City senior, treasurer; Roger Tisch, Grandview, Mo., senior, house manager; and Charles Cruthird, Caldwell junior, rush chairman.
Yugoslavia's 13th Festival of Drama, Music and Folklore will be presented July 10-Aug. 10 in Subrovnik.
"sound and light" spectacles from May through September with nightly performances in Greek, French and English.
AND A FESTIVAL of light music and songs will open in Athens early in July.
The Festival of Ancient Greek Theater will be presented June 17 to July 8 in the acoustically perfect open air theater at Epicarus.
Watkins Hall
Women's Houses Announce Officers
Sigma Kappa
The newly-elected officers of Sigma Kappa are Cam Sawyze, Shawnee Mission junior, president; Carol Walker, Peabody sophomore, and Gale Quinsey, Corvallis, Ore., junior, vice presidents; Julia Jarvis, Winfield sophomore, assistant pledge trainer; Sandra Colvin, Kansas City junior, recording secretary; Jean Scott, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, corresponding secretary; and Diane Renne, China Lake, Calif., junior, treasurer.
Watkins Hall announces the election of the following officers: president, Marian Jun, Webster Groves, Mo., sophomore; vice president, Ruth Lindquist, Wilsey sophomore; secretary, Susan Shotliff, Kansas City, Mo., junior; treasurer, Linda Hamilton, Kansas City, Mo., junior; house manager, Judy Rickettts, Ness City junior; freshman counselor, Joyce Leasure, LaCygne freshman; social chairman, Patty Barnes, Osage City freshman.
Newly-elected officers of Alpha Omicron Pi are Martha Obert, Red Cloud, Neb., junior; president; Sonja Halvermont, St. Joseph, Mo., junior; vice president; Lynn Niswonger, Overland Park junior, treasurer; Janet Burnett, Lawrence junior, recording secretary; Marcia Kyle, Colby junior, corresponding secretary; Dana Sullivan, Ulysses sophomore, rush chairman; and Patsy Deam, Shawnee Mission sophomore, social chairman.
Alpha Omicron Pi
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