FRIDAY. MAY 17. 1957
Art Measures
Man's Nature
By DR. AL!
Director
When the Premier of Ci
York Times magazine sectic
‘‘The art of poetry is univei
to us about the seasons, the
time of nature.” When one
being shown in vthe L’Her
that the Russians, too, are
high form of pictorial mea
expressive and feelings ap
When during World W<
enriched western culture
played by the leading orche
mutual that here, indeed, ■
ency of the power of music
of. history are turned to st
tural form we may think,
eternal truth captured in a
tion. In architecture truly
as he strives, all over, to (
These evidences of ma
ever, lull us info seniimeni
mind and heart. To trust 1
is to court disillusion, fo
creators.
In every man's constitt
and fear, greed and jealoi
heart side by side with 1
Knowing this, no sentimen
pectations will dim the vs
the arts, though their mar
tlons may reveal also mar
The arts are truly the tot
pression of man. Therefore, a
great critic like George Bernard
Shaw points out that every great
work of art has something of ugli
ness in it. The scope then of art
is the measure of man himself
and it can bring forth his tears
as well as his laughter. It can be
appreciated in tragedy as well as
in comedy. Its tone may be dark
as well as light; its sounds dis
sonant as well as consonant.
A realization of the encompass
ing quality of the arts makes al
lowance for the hateful, the fear
ful, the predatory and the en
vious in man’s nature, and these
are seen as no less a part of the
makeup of man than are the qual
ities for which he may be praised.
An international—a world-wide
appreciation of man’s highest
aspirations as expressed in the Dr. Albert Christ-Janer
most lasting form must freely admit the total nature of man. These
qualities will then be seen to reveal,. altogether, the source of the
world’s grief and joy. When this idea is fully grasped, the story of
Faustus and of Hamlet take on a universal significance; Chekhov
and Dostoevski join in expressing the common sorrow; the brooding
sculpture of Buddha- speaks in silent eloquence to the west; the
mournful cantor sounds his plaint for all to hear; Bartok unifies
east and west in harmonics which are other-wordly to both; the
soaring Gothic cathedral at Chartres can elevate the Moor and the
earth-bound but far-flung influence of Frank Lloyd Wright can
convince the Japanese.
In all these ait forms the measureless depth of man is to be
seen by the eye accustomed to the familiar and the strange; in
calculable range can be heard by Ihe ear attuned to old and new.
Thus, the message of art is world encompassing, no matter what
the medium, and even though it expresses a form of distant cul
ture.
When the expectation of the observer and the listener is deep
and broad,'the everlasting message of all the arts can and does
overwhelm the petty, the limited, ascending to the heights, there to
profess man’s eternal goal. This is true internationalism—not just a!
matter of making a sentimental gesture to momentary enemies, not
only a foolish expectation of friendliness where there is no friend
ship, but, rather, a magnificent overwhelming reach across ages
and across boundaries. This concept of art is one achieved after
history’s lesson is learned:
The world-engulfing conflict, looming monstrously before us,
may in another' century be as insignificant as last Monday's issue
of the New York Mirror, while the art form containing today's
meaning will lower over the ages—a permanent monument to
man's main strength.
Transceneding man’s grievous sin, the arts—man’s best work
—exhibit his wondrous perfection, to be universally comprehended.
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ird. of a Series
ina, Mao Tse-tung, appears in the New
n as a poet, our reasonable response is,
sal. Here is our deadly enemy speaking
budding, the flowering, and the seeding
reads about the French Impressionists
nitage Museum, the feeling is natural
one with us in the appreciation of a
ling, sharing our language of thoughts
ireciative of the beautiful.
r 11, the great German composers who
lor. the past two hundred years were
stras of allied countries, the feeling was
vas another evidence of the transcend
over the source of evil. When the pages
idy the lasting monuments of architec
“Here is idea made manifest; here is
form suitable to its formulating civiliza
there is evidence of man’s togetherness
redit himself and his fellow men.”
i’s unity and harmony must not, how
al notions about abiding peace in man's
he arts as some kind of magic panacea
r the arts are only the part of their
tion exist the constant emotions of hate
sy. They live in the human mind and
ive and trust, grace and magnanimity,
al ex
lue of
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
2-Day News
To Convene
The annual 2-day Pennsylvania
Press Conference will open at
9 a.m. today at the Nittany Lion
Inn.
The speakers at the conference
will include government repre
sentatives, newspaper men and
women and educators.
Helm, Dent to Sj>eak
W. Stuart Helm, speaker of the
State House of Representatives,
and John H. Dent, minority leader
of the State Senate, will be among
the panelists in the afternoon
session. They will discuss “Prob
lems of Harrisburg Dateline
News.”
The panel will be moderated
by Joseph P. Ujobai, editor of the
Phoenixville Republican and a
member of the House of Repre
sentatives. Other panelists are
Burton W. Siglin, correspondent
for United Press; Duke Kamin
ski, correspondent for the Phila
delphia Bulletin: and Charles W.
Ettinger, correspondent for the
Allentown Call-Chronicle.
Walker to Give Welcome
President Eric A. Walker will
welcome the group at a luncheon
at the Nittany Lion Inn. An
other welcome will be extended
by J. E. Holtzinger, president of
the Pennsylvania News paper
Publishers’ Association and pub
lisher of the Altoona Mirror.
Dr. James W. Markham, of the
School of Journalism, will pre
sent the Distinguished Service
Award at a dinner tonight at the
Nittany Lion Inn.
The conference is sponsored by
the Pennsylvania Society of
j Newspaper Editors. Pennsylvania
[Newspaper Publishers’ Associa
tion and the School of Journal
iisrn.
iSfafe Bank Executive
To Give Policy Talk
Belden L. Daniels, secretary of
the Pennsylvania Bankers As
sociation of Harrisburg, will speak
at 2 p.m. Tuesdav in 121 Sparks.
His subject will be the public
relations problems and policies
of the Pennsylvania Bankers As
sociation.
The meeting is open to the
public.
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Symphony Orchestra
To Present Concert
The Symphony Orchestra, directed by Theodore K. Kar
han, associate professor of music, will present its annual
Spring Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium.
The concert, which is one of the series presented by the
Departments of Music and Music Education, is the final pro
gram of the current Festival of the Arts. The program is
open to the public.
Soloists for the concert will be
Max Pfaff, graduate student in
music education from East Brady;
and Mary Jane West, sophomore
in music education from Bethle
hem.
Pfaff, West to Sing
Pfaff will be soloist for Mo
zart’s Concerto No. 21 in C Ma
jor, K. 467 and Miss West will
sing Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
The concert will open with the
“Four Centuries Suite” by Eric
Coates. The last movement of this
composition has been described
as “a naive attempt to mold the
1918 jazz rhythms into a sym
phonic form.”
The program will continue with
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Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K.
467 for piano and orchestra by
W. A. Mozart and Bachianas
Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-
Lobos written for soprano and
orchestra of violoncelli.
Chaplain to Narrate
After the intermission the or
chestra will play “Apogee,” a lu
nar landscape by Noah Klauss.
Klauss has been the assistant
conductor of the Harrisburg Sym
phony Orchestra for 10 .years.
Dr. Luther H. Harshbarger,
University chaplain, will narrate
“Peter and the Wolf,” a sym
phonic tale for children.
Karhan will conclude his eighth
orchestra concert with “Rapsodie
Norvegiene” by Eduard Lalo.
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