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iieci Recoiled
For 3 Encores
By NANCY EGAN
Program changes may have
caused 4 bit of audience confusion,
but those attending Thursday
night's Artists Series were im
pressed enough by violinist Rug :
•giero Ricci to call him back for
three encores.'
Tartini's “Devil Sonata” was
substituted for one by Porpora,
and Hindemith's Sonata Opus 31,
no. 2 was added before the inter
mission. The violinist also added
Prokofiev's Sonata in F minor re
placing the same composer's D
major sonata. ‘
ENCOURAGED by the near
capacity crowd in Schwab, Ricci
and his accompanist Leon Pom
mers returned to the stage after
their presentation of Ravel's
"Tzigane” to play encores by
Paganini, Kreisler and Bartok.
Ricci, who averages 100 con
certs annually, said after the pro
gram that he enjoys playing for
college audiences. Younger audi
ences are “usually better,” he
commented, and don’t need to
have a program especially adapted
for them. Rather, he added, the
music he plays for college groups
is "the same as for New York.”
When Ricci and his accompanist
Brand To Give
Oscar Brand, folksinger and
composer, will present a concert
on Jan, 27 in Schwab.
Perhaps bcsL known for his
albums “Bawdy Songs and Back
room Ballads,” Brand has 7 turned
out 4G song albums and 5 song
books. He has also appeared in
films, television shows, concerts
ahd ■ has written tifnes and a
Broadway musical.
Termed by Joseph Wershba of
The Ndw York Post as “one of
the generative sources of the
folksong renaissance in this coun
try,” Brand recently published
“The Ballad Mongers,” a history
of the rise of the modern folk
movement.
"Brand has performed with"othei
lolksingcrs such' as Pete Seeger
For the most part, ‘what you
are stands over you and shouts
so loud I cannot hear what you
say to the contrary.
-—by Emerson
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—who have played together for
many'years were asked if they
preferred to play in any particular
period, Pommers replied that his
choice was “Under a full moon.”
Both agreed seriously .however,
that they don't find themselves
drawing more concert selections
from one musical period than an
other.
A former child-prodigy, who
was called "the greatest musical
genius since Mozart” at the time
of his concert debut, Ricci him
self is not in favor of promoting
such prodigies. He noted that
modern parents do not appear
to be as willing’to exploit talented
children as they once'were, even
though the present younger gen
eration in not lacking in talent.
ANOTHER DETERRENT to the
raising of child prodigies, in Ricci’s
opinion, is that modern concert
audiences seem to be more inter
ested in the music played than in
who plays it.
Known for his interest and in
terpretation of music for the solo
violin, Ricci played only one solo
Thursday night. He said he has
actually played few solo concerts
(in such places as New York and
Paris), preferring to use an ac
compianist on tour.
Concert Jan. 27
Josh While and Theodore Bikel;
and has had his own weekly' ra
dio program for 17 years on New
York station WYNC.
The concert will be sponsored
by the Folklore Society. Tickets
are $1.25 for members, $1.75 for
non-members, ■ and are now on
sale at the desk and ground-floor
bf the Hetzel Union Building,
the Music Mart, Record Room and
Nittany News.
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Lutherans
To Attend
Conference
Students from approximately
250 colleges and universities will
attend the annual conference of
America -Feb. 8-10 in Buck Hiil
Falls, Gwendlyn Hilburn, chair
man, said recently.
The -theme-of this- year’s con
ference will be “The Word, the
World and the Sacrament." The
weekend-long program will in
clude speakers, discussions, organ
izational meetings and recreation.
Speakers will be the Rev. Dr. Roy
Enquist, associate, executive sec
retary of education for the Na
tional Lutheran Council, division
of colleges and universities, and
the Rev. Dr. -Theodore Ta'ppert,
professor of theology at the Lu
theran Theological Seminary in
Philadelphia.
The Rev. Edwin Bennett, asso--
ciate secretary-of the Commission
on Education of the National
Council of Protestant Episcopal
Churches, will- present Anglican
views in the discussions. The Rev.
John Vannorsdall, chaplain at
Gettysburg College, will be chap
lain for the conference. *
- Religious services will be held
Friday night, Saturday morning
ahd Sunday night. A special ’com
munion service, featuring'* -five
ministers, will 5 be held Sunday
morning. • .c-'. r
THE COST for the weekend at
Buck Hill Falls, where-the stan
dard rate is s7s' a day, is $26.50.
Transportation will be provided
from, the campus to The Inn.
Thirty students from the Uni
versity are expected to attend.
Any student interested in attend
ing the conference may make ar
rangements by calling the Lu
theran Student Center. ’
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In Lecture
Stephen Spender,' poet and
critic, will .read selections from
his poetry ’ and discuss “The
Younger English Playwrights and
Poets" at 8:30 p.m. Friday in
Schwab. •
Tickets: for the lecture, which
is being sponsored by the Artists
and Lecture Series, will be dis
tributed starting -at -1:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the Hetze.l Union desk.
Non-student tickets will be on
sale for $1.50 each at the HUB
desk, starting at 9 a.m: Wednes
day.
SPENDER, educated at the
University College School in Lon
don and at the University College
in Oxford, England, will present
an account of the movement in
the English Theatre of such play
wrights as Osborne, Wesker, Ar
den and others. Such young poets
as Philip Larkin,- Kingsley Amis
and John Wain will also be dis
cussed.
While students, at "Oxford,
Spender - and W.' H. Auden be
came friends. The. names of
Spender and Auden, along with
that of Cecil Day Lewis became
linked in the,, public’s mind after
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commended in their respective re
ports, received many suggestions
for'improvement.
One - suggestion, that the nu
clear engineering-, curriculum of
fer a doctoral program, has al
ready been established, McGeary
said,
As a result, bf its evaluation,'
the landscape .architecture de-'
partment has received full”ac
creditation through 1967 by the
American Society' of • Landscape
Architects. ...
The language departments were
noted for their potential of be
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they all published volumes of
verse within a few years.
An anti-fascist during the 30’s,
Spender fought on-the side of the
Spanish Republic in .the .Civil
War. He also ~ traveled v to.' such
countries as Germany and Aus
tria. ■
■A member of the London Na
tional Fire Service during the
Second World; War, - Spender'
went to Germany, after the war
as a., civilian military officer.
While in Germany, he was also
counselor in the section of letters
in UNESCO (United Nations Edu
cational Service and Cultural
Organization). " , .
Spender taught at Sarah Law
rence College in 1947 and since
that time has been a visiting -pro
fessor at both the' University of
Cincinnati and the University, of
California.
A COMMANDER of the British
Empire since 1962, Spender re
ceived an honorary doctor of let
ters degree from the University
of Montpelier. Vt. 1
Members of night’s
audience are invited to_ attend a
reception, and coffee hour at the
HUB lounge after the lecture. .
mue—
coming a distinguished center for
language study, McGeary-said. He
explained the report cited dedi
cated service of instructors faced
with heavy teaching loads.
Contrasting with the favorable
reports, one _ department was
termed “archaicT by the evalu
ators while another was criticized
for poor teaching of course ma
terial offered, in other- depart
ments, he noted. ' '
. ‘ln general,”. McGeary said,
“too .many departments' are weak
and a number of. them are reason
ably- good. Any number of them,
however, could be better. That is
what we are working bn.”
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