Ut .
THE CURTIS STRING QUARTET concluded
its summer concert program last. night in
Schwab. Playing, from left, are Jascha:B - i&tsky,
Mehli Mehta, Max Aronoff and Orlando Cole.
Aronoff Predicts Vast Growth
Of Summer Music Program
Development of a "real music
festival, the same as Tanglevvood
has," is foreseeh for the Univer
sity by Max - Aronoff, director of
the New School of Music in Phila
delphia' and a member of the
Curtis . String Quartet.
Aronoff said Tuesday he could
visualize ,vast.growth in the sum
mer music program here. The Uni
versity,; he said, has "marvelous
facilities" for a summer festival
featuring opera, orchegtra and
chamber music. • .
THE CURTIS' String Quartet
ends five weeks in residence at
the University tomorrow. Aronoff,
violist, Jascha Brodsky and Mehli
Mehta, ' violinists, and Orlando
Cole, ;cellist, have taught and
given concerts on campus under
the sponsorship of the Artists'
Series, the School of the Arts and
the summer Band, Orchestra and
Chorus School.
•The i'BOC," as the Band, Or
chestra ;and Chorus School is pop
ularly known, provides five weeks
of instruction for promising stu
dents of high school age.
•
I This concentrated study for the
high school orchestra members
has alerted many to 'what they,
have to learn and has created a
great curiousity- •about chamber,
music 'among them, Aronoff said.i
- t A FEW YEARS ago, he said, the'
United States got scared about;
Russian advances in scientific
fields and emphasized studying. ,
physics and mathematics. '
"We need the same tightening'
In music," he added, because tbere ,
has been "a lot of fooling around"
by students and not enough serious
work. '
This feeling• led Aronoff to
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In addition to presenting chamber music re
citals, the four men have taught high school
musicians enrolled here for summer orchestra
training
found the New School of Music:School strives to fill the need for
in 1942. He was concerned then first class music preparatory
that so few music students were schools and was established to aid.
being trained especially to playlstudents ,anxious to learn.
in symphony orchestras.- The New! 'lf they waht help,.we want to
School was established to empha-lhelp them." '
size - orchestra instruction.. ANOTHER FACTOR in the
Aronoff is still Concerned over shortage of competent musicians,
the "dearth 'of string players.",•Aronoff said, is thee - growing de-
Thirty' years ago; he said, there!mand made hy-modern music. A
were only about 20 orchestras:decade ago, he added, "a program
today there are 1,150. He attributes , might consist of an overture, solo
the increase to school music pro -concerto and standard symphonic
'grams, the "hi-fi bug" and FM work. Today's player must be able
.
radio
,concerts. to perform not only the traditional
IsToW every city wants its own works but must possess a playing
orchestra," he added- knowledge of a rapidly expanding
A "TREMENDOUS growth" in. literature."
All members of the huartet
theiknumber of orchestras is cominglare members of the faculty at both
as .well, Aronoff said, as the court - ;the Curtis Institute and the New
try becomes more music consciouslSchool. Aronoff, Brodsky and Cole
in-its ... cultural explosion." People i
have played together for 35 years.
hdve largely completed the stagelThe
group has conducted many
where they wanted to buy things, institutes similar to the one here
he said. Now they want to do l this summer and hat toured the
things —to hear music and - to see United States and Europe several
plays;. he added. (times.
The, resulting boom has often
left orchestras at a loss for quail-) There are only Iwo kinds of
fled personnel, he- said. The Newlparking nowadays—illegal and no.
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Saving Stamp Boom
Marked by Changes
The "lick 'cm and stick 'em"iconsumer, they are nevertheless
business of trading stamps ts'important savings. Neigh said:
booming and still growing as'
mousEivIVES and others
recent surveys show that women are indifferent to saving trading
are flocking to the stores,which :
tamps, this can amount to tre
give the trading 'stamps they "'__'" , lmendou& profits for the stamp
currently saving.
;company because the stamps and
-WITH DOZENS of brands of:indirectly, the preininite; have al
trading stamps now being given ready been paid for by the store
by thousands of stores across the'which gives thorn, fir said.
country, the "saturation" of the ---------
field will lead to changes in the , A I
trend of the trade, Harold Neigh, Alumnus Named
extension specialist in consumer ,
econom", said recently. ;Supervisor at Inn
Some of the proposals for help-
Luther R. Wallwidge, a Unlver
mg the situation of the mounting,;
number of brands of trading sItY alunuitis, was, recently ap
stamps now in use include setting pointed food su s pervis c
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or of:the
Holiday Inn in , tate o ege.
up local "stamp swap shops;
Neigh said. ' Walbridge, 31, received hit
Customers could take in , ..i,e 'bachelor of science in hotel ad
trading stamps which they have, ministration In 1958 and com
.eteu . work
receive p i d but are not saving and master ' s degree in business ad
trade them for others they wanta minOration, majoring in market,
Another new idea in the field ing, at Syracuse University:
is the current offer now being Walbridge's most recent pro-
Twide by some companies to givefessional position 'was as manager
free movie tickets, admissions toi o f the inplant food service facil
sports events, vacations or otherity of Brock- and Co., Inc., of
entertainment for filled stamP Philadelphia.' .
books instead of the standard From its inception. the Holiday
merchandise offered by most; Inn has been •owned, orotund.
stamp companies, Neigh said. designed, constrticted anti now
While trading stamps are usualimanaged by University graduates,
Iv worth only about 2 per cent , according to Alex Gregory, secre
of the total dollars spent by the , tary-treasurer.
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