Wednesday, March 18, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Composer to Speak On Japanese Music
A noted composer and conductor and father of a KU faculty member arrived this week for a two-week lecture series on campus.
Prof. Klaus Pringsheim will speak al director of the Musashino Academy of Music in Tokyo, Japan, is appearing here as part of a lecture tour in the United States and Canada. His youngest son, Klaus Pringsheim Jr., is instructor of political science here.
The senior Pringsheim will speak to a convocation of music students on "An Introduction to Japanese Music" at 2:30 p.m. March 24 in Swarthout Hourc Hall. The lecture, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts, is open to the public.
ANOTHER public lecture, as yet unscheduled, will be sponsored by the German department. Prof.
The KU Young Democrats Club will elect officers tonight.
Y-D's to Elect New Officers
Carl M. Logan, Holliday senior and president of the Young Democrats, said the election will be held in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union at 7:30 p.m. At 8 p.m. the doors will be locked and ballots will be cast.
Logan said the candidates for the five elective offices in the club are:
For president, Mike J. Rodgers,
Hutchinson junior, and George
Gronenman, Kansas City sophomore.
For vice-president, Marsha Babicki, Topea sophome, and Donald D. Duff. Topea sophome.
For secretary, Martha S. Allen,
Shawney Mission senior, and
Jacquelyn S. Thayer, Ellsworth
freshman.
For treasurer, Robert Jennings Smith. West Plains, Mo. sophomore, and N. L. Rapagnani, Mission sophomore.
Pringsheim will also talk on his Nobel prize-winning brother-in-law, the late Thomas Mann.
Other lectures will be to classes, and will be on topics ranging from Japanese and Thai music to functional harmony and music history.
For college council representative, Bradford Sumner, Leawood junior, and Angus L. Wright, Salina freshman.
Prof. Pringsheim has been decorated repeatedly by the German and Japanese governments for his contributions to musical life.
He has conducted most of the great orchestras of Europe, including a concert in 1952, his 50th year as a director, with the Berlin Philharmonic. A pupil of Gustav Mahler, he conducted the first complete cycle of Mahler's works with the Berlin Philharmonic in the interwar years.
AS A MUSICOLOGIST he has completed a 1,200-page work on the origins and development of occidental harmony, counterpoint and modern compositional techniques. His compositions include songs with orchestra, an opera, a Japanese symphony and incidental music for dramatic works.
In his earlier years he conducted the Vienna State Opera, Grand Theater of Geneva, the opera in Prague, and municipal theaters in Breslau and Bremen, was musical director of opera theaters in Berlin.
In 1931 he became musical director of the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo. Later he served for two years as musical advisor to the royal government of Thailand.
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