Friday April 24,1964
University Daily Kansan
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Countless Letters, Phone Calls Precede-
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said in an attempt to find the "big name" band. Then late last April or May Woody Herman was playing at a country club in Topeka. Bush said that he and other students went to meet Herman, listen to him and talk about their planned Jazz festival.
Last summer the students signed Woody Herman to play tomorrow night.
PRIZES BEGAN TO come in, Bush said, in response to the letters and phone calls that had been made earlier. Last spring, 1963 University People-to-People, Inc., offered an award of $235 per person to help defray costs of a tour of Europe as a prize. The offer came to represent the top prize of the festival—a trip to Europe and an opportunity to play in European jazz festivals.
An additional prize offered to the winning group of the jazz festival was announced by Bush yesterday. Two weeks before the group goes
Concert Series Starts Sunday
The sixth annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music opens Sunday evening and will continue through Tuesday with a series of free public concerts featuring unpublished music.
Prof. Vladimir Ussachevsky of Columbia University and a principal participant in the Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center, will be guest composer.
Guy Fraser Harrison, conductor of the Oklahoma City Symphony, will direct the symposium orchestra as Robert Baustian, professor of orchestra, is on leave.
Prof. Ussachevsky's "Creation-Prologue," a composition for four choruses with electronic accompaniment, will highlight a concert by the KU Chamber Choir Monday evening. The select vocal unit's program of new music will be at 8 p.m. in the University Theater. Prof. Clayton H. Krehbiel is the conductor.
The symposium opens at 8 Sunday evening in the Swarthout Recital Hall with a concert of new chamber music by KU faculty members and the Chorale.
to Europe they will play at New York's World Fair.
The group will play for two weeks. Bush estimated that each player will earn approximately $500 for their performances.
Other prizes will be offered the musicians including instruments and an engagement at Jazz Homecoming Sunday in Kansas City.
In order to attract and select participants for the jazz festival, Bush said, letters and pamphlets
were sent to 500 colleges and universities. The twelve bands selected were chosen from tape recordings. Bush said.
"I THINK, THAT in an overall comparison of jazz festivals, we outstrip them all," Bush remarked.
The campus radio station, KUOK, will broadcast the festival. Radio stations which will use KUOK's facilities by "plugging in."
KLWN in Lawrence and KANU in Lawrence.
Radio stations which will use KUOK's facilities by "plugging in." Bush said, are KTOP in Topeka.
The twelve bands competing are: Denver University' Stage Band; Big Band in Cougarland, Houston; Quincy College Contemporary Jazz Ensemble; Mitch Farber Sextet; Jazzwinds Sextet of Washington University; Kansas City Jazz Quintet; George Southgate Quintet; The Green Trio; Bill Farmer Stage Band; Cerritos College Stage Band, and North Texas State University Lab Band.
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Morgan Professor to Lecture
Alan Boyden, Rose Morgan visiting professor of zoology at KU will deliver a University lecture on "Men and Ideals" at 8 p.m. tonight in Dyche Auditorium.
Prof. Boyden is a former professor, research associate and director of the Rutgers Serological Museum which he founded in 1948. He retired from the staff in 1962.
Much of his research effort has been directed toward a more critical approach to the systematic classification of the animal and plant world. His method, which he describes as the "present nature" method, challenges assumptions held since Darwin.
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