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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, May 1, 1963
Paul Winter Sextet To Perform May 11
The Paul Winter Sextet, first student jazz group to be selected for a State Department tour, will appear here May 11 at the University Theatre.
Theatre.
Tickets will go on sale for $1.25
May 6 at the information booth and
in the Kansas Union.
Soon after winning the 1962 Intercollegiate Jazz Festival at Georgetown University, the Sextet was selected by the State Department for a 23-country tour of Latin America.
WHEN THE GROUP returned to the United States, they received an invitation to entertain at the fifth of Mrs. Kennedy's White House series of Musical Programs for Young People by Young People. Their portion of the concert was 45 minutes of Bossa Nova rhythms.
Mrs. Kennedy said afterward,
"Simply wonderful. There has never been anything like it here before."
"She floored us." Winter recalled,
"when she told us she already had
our record and had been playing
it for two weeks."
PAUL WINTER organized the group during his junior year at Northwestern University. His active interest in music began when he was six years old with the clarinet and the piano.
During college he had been active in bands and small groups and performed in university shows.
During Winter's senior year, the group entered the Intercollegiate Jazz Festival at Washington's Georgetown University. The sextet was named the nation's finest college jazz band.
After winning the college competition, the sextet played at a series of jazz festivals, sharing the stage with such groups as Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Dizzy Gillespie.
The Soviets Own North Pole
MOSCOW —(UPi)— A Soviet floating scientific station known as "North Pole 12" has gone into operation in the polar region, according to the official Soviet news agency, Tass.
Tass said the first call signals and the first scientific information have been radioed from the station.
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THE GROUP features one trumpet, two saxophones, piano, bass, and drums.
During their Latin American tour they played 160 concerts to crowds gathered in universities, town squares, open-air theaters and even a bull ring.
Winter said, "Jazz is the most effective and versatile cultural medium the United States has. It reaches everyone regardless of educational or social background. The rhythm of jazz is truly international. It gets across even when the music isn't understood."
In addition to formal concerts, the sextet made special efforts to reach Latin students. They held 42 seminars and roundtable discussions in colleges and universities on subjects ranging from jazz and music to life in the U.S.
SOME OF THE JAZZ concerts were marred by heckles from leftist agitators.
In Ecuador the leftist groups started agitating before the sextet began to play. The answer was a sizzling drum solo opening up the tense performance.
"The excitement and intensity of jazz itself captured the people's attention and sympathy," Winter said. "There was not one more peep from those hecklers."
Members of the group, which include graduates in English, speech, and organic chemistry, had planned for non-musical careers.
"When we saw on the tour what would be done with jazz," said Winter, "we all decided to stay with music as a profession."
She Won a Doomed Victory
SOUTHAMPTON, England—(UPI)
— John and Edna Entwistle argued over who should make the customs declaration after they returned from a cruise.
She. wae
Yesterday they paid $210 for attempting to evade the duty on a new camera and tape recorder Mrs. Entwhistle failed to declare.
She won.
Not Afraid, Just Cautious
LONG BEACH, Calif. — (UPI) — The only description 12-year-old Timmy Sierlsda was able to give yesterday of the burglar that invaded his home was that "he had big feet and wore gray slacks."
That's all Timmy saw as he no under the bed while the burglar stole a television set and an electric razor. He stayed there four hours until his parents returned.
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