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Graduation Plans Students, Faculty Announced
For State Curriculum Workshops
Weekend Honoring Seniors
The results of a questionnaire sent to high school and college seniors
concerning graduation plans produced mixed results. A student
committee and the Deans made a joint recommendation: that we have
both a commencement and a weekend of performances honoring
graduating seniors.
Scheduled for the weekend of May 26 are an orchestra concert
Friday night, a performance of “The Taming of the Shrew” Saturday
ni^t, and a showing of documentary filnw of the school and the
school’s prison tour.
Tentative events include: a performance of the musical
“Celebration”, a buffet in Reynolda Gardens, a reception at Ward’s
home for the seniors and their parents, a senior Drama recital, an
open air rock concert Friday afternoon, a display by the Visual Arts
and Technical Production Schools in the Commons Building. If
students can offer any suggestions, they should see Mr. Hyatt.
A Commencement for High School seniors only will be held Satur
day, June 10. A banquet honoring the graduates will be given the night
before with the traditional NCSA graduation ceremony the morning
after. College seniors will receive their diplomas by mail.
Robin Kaplan
Extension Plans
Revealed
Shakespeare’s “Shrew”
Set For May Production
This luring the North Carolina
School of the Arts Drama
Department will present its
second major production of a
Shakespearian play in two years.
The comedy “Taming of the
Shrew” is directed by Robert
Murray. Written in 1594, it is the
story of Petrucio (John Woodson)
who comes to Padua and is in
trigued by stories of Kath^na
(Joyce Reehling) who is so
“curst a shrew” that no man will
touch her. She becomes a
problem for her father. Mean
while, three suitors, Lucentio
(Shawn Nelson) Hortensio
(Glenn O’Malley)and Gremio
(Charles Frohn) all wish to
marry her younger sister, Bianca
(Nancy Mette). The girls father,
Baptista (Fred Serino) will not
agree until Kate is properly wed
and gone. The insuing rivalries
and attempts to break Kate’s
spirit produces a lively, bawdy
comedy.
Although Charles Frohn is a
member of the academic faculty,
he had participated in produc
tions before. In the Opera
Workshop last fall, he played the
Old Prisoner in a scene from “La
Perichole.” John Woodson, a
third year acting student, has
done such shows here as “Tales
from the Toybox” and the Barpr
Boys production of “A Mid
summer Night’s Dream” two
years ago. Also he was Mountain
McLintock in the prison tour last
winter, “Requiem for a
Heavyweight.” A graduate
student, Joyce Reehling has done
parts in “Midsummer,” “A Sign
in Sidney Brustein’s Window”
and “The Just Assassins” among
many many others. '
The entire cast has been weU
thought out and planned and
includes students from all levels
of the acting school. The rest of
the cast are the Lord, Steve
Henderson; Sly, Craig Eubanks;
The Hostess, Denise Myers; the
Page, Steve Carsons; Tranio,
Tom Hulse; Biondello, Woody
Woodall; Gnmiio, Frank Wolfe;
Curtis, Monique LeBouef; the
Pedant, Jon Coggeshall; the
Widow, Cathy Masterson; the
Tailor, Monty MacIntyre; the
Habadasher, Robin O’Hara; the
Servants, Frank Muller, Keith
Watson, Jonathan BusUe and
John McEvers.
The play, like “Midsummer”
will be done at the Summit School
near Reynolda House where
there is a large, thrust stage. Bob
Graff, in desiring the set, is
making use of platfonns and
stairways. The lighting will be
designed by John Vernon and the
costumes by Agnes Lattak.
Production dates are not yet
set, but the show will be
sometime in tiie second or third
week of May. David Downing is
stage managing and David
Marshall is the assistant
Director. jqn THOMPSON
Classroom education ~ its
habits, necessity, and education
in general - is getting an
examination these days. Schools
In conjunction with the State
Department of Public In
struction, the School of the Arts
will operate a sununer program
called an Introduction to the Arts.
The program is designed to
provide younger students
(seventh through tenth grades) in
^stant sections of the state with
an introduction to serious work in
the arts. The program will be
patterned after what we do at
NCSA but on a scale appropriate
for young students with little or
no experience.
Ea(± student will choose one
major area in drama, dance,
music, or visual arts, but there
will be interdisciplinary ex
perience through lectures,
demonstrations, and films that
all will see and through
workshops and all-school
projects. The program will
operate within one building as a
sdiool so that there can be a
mixture of intense work in one
area and the experience of
working on other art forms as
well.
Three three-week institutes
located in the cities of Fayet
teville, Elizabeth City, and
Washington, North Carolina, will
operate in a series, the same
program being replicated by
essentially the same staff three
times.
A large scale extension
program, with the same goals as
the Intr(^uction to the Arts ef
forts, is awaiting funding ap-
(x-oval in Washin^on D.C. This
program will be piloted in Kin
ston, North Carolina, and will be
integrated into the school
curriculum; students will receive
credit towards graduation for the
arts courses. Again, the program
will be geared to the needs of the
students but will function in a
style similar to NCSA.
There may be some recruit
ment possibilities in the
programs which we will be un
dertaking, and more clearly
are experimenting with novel
approaches. A decade ago NCSA
was such a school. Now, looking
at itself, this not yet adolescent
there are opportunities for im
proved community relations and
public relations.
Robin Kaplan
3 To Perform
With Piedmont
The Piedmont Chamber Or
chestra is on tour as of April fifth.
With the orchestra are three of
NCSA’s student in
strumentalists:
-Joseph Genualdi, first
violinist of the NCSA orchestra
and winner for the second con
secutive year of the concerto
competition;
-Phillip Wachowski, first
violist here, from Florence, South
Carolina; and
-Vincent “Jimmy le Chimp”
Barbee who plays first horn here.
Jimmy is a Raleigh boy.
Their honorary appointments
to PCO end with the tour of 13
southeastern cities on April 21st
when the students will return to
classes.
Mr. Genualdi plans to continue
his schooling next year and
hopefully he will return here,
though he has many options. Phil
graduates this spring. His plans
for next year depend on the
Selective Service System.
Barbee, a college sophomore,
does not know what next month
will bring.
Also touring with Piedmont are
ex-NCSA students Catherine
Tait, violin, and Mark Ward,
cello, as well as Vartan
Manoogian, violin instructor,
Emile Simonel, violist and
manager of the NCSA Orchestra,
and Jerry Homer, viola in
structor. Marion Davies, cello
instructor, soloist in addition to
first cellist, is also on the roster.
Also, on tour is the Clarion
Woodwind Quintet, all of whose
members are instructors here.
institution can see some
staleness. Beginning with a
summer workshop composed of
NCSA students and teachers,
plans are underway for change.
The North Carolina State
Department of Higher Education
is sponsoring a curriculum
reform program at Western
Carolina University in CuUowhee
beginning this summer and
lasting for three years. Forty-five
North Carolinian schools will be
involved, fifteen each year.
Specialists from all over the
country will work with
representatives from each school
towards the improvement of
educational structures. NCSA,
along with UNC at Chapel Hill
and Asheville, Salem College,
Davidson, Shaw University and
Elon will be among the first
fifteen schools this summer.
In Step 1, five faculty and one
student will go to CuUowhee for
three weeks ^ instruction in new
courses and methods and work on
specific NCSA problems, such as
designing a new course in
aesthetics for all art students,
coordinating academics and arts,
and furthering audio-visual
[vograms. With Step 2, the group
at CuUowhee returns, joins with
seven more faculty and five more
students to further discuss fin
dings and to write proposals. The
proposals wiU be act^ upon in
time for the next academic year.
Students and faculty involved
to date are:
Students
Janet Hamerly, dance
Donald CranfUl, music
Donald Martin, prod, and des.
David Martin, music
Susan Sununers, des. and prod.
Faculty
Dr. Baskin, Academic Dean
Mr. Bordeaux, Science
Mr. King, EngUsh
Mrs. Land, Math, Science
Mr. Shaffer, Music
Mr. Shropshire, Math
Mr. C. Johnson, Student Ac
tivities
Mrs. P. Johnston, EngUsh
Mrs. Shorter, English
Mrs. Van Hoven, Science
Mr. Richard MiUer, who wiU be
teaching phUosophy next year.
Sebastian deGrayia
Summer In Sienna Set Again For Musicians
“During the summer of 1967 the
intitial Sununer Session in Siena
of the N.C.S.A. was held. The idea
was conceived by the late Dr.
Vittorio Giannini, the first
President of the School of the
Arts.
The benefits to the students
were great in every respect. Not
only did they have an un
forgettable first contact with the
friendly Italians of Siena, but
they also came to know weU other
talented young musicians from
every part of America. The
splendid impression they made,
both as musicians and as young
Americans, has resulted ^ the
establishment of the program as
a regular program of the School
of the Arts.
The 1972 session, the sixth,
promises in every respect to be
the finest yet as an opportunity
for young musicians to par
ticipate in an exciting musical
program and at the same time
vastly increase their un
derstanding of the culture of
Italy.”
Robert Ward.
The 1972 Sienna Summer
Session wiU include orchestra,
chamber music, voice and guitar
as weU as master classes in
violin, ceUo, flute, trumpet and
clarinet to be held at the
magnificent Accademia
Chigiana. The chamber music
program and the orchestra
program wiU alternate in order to
give ample opportunity for study
in both activities.
The programs Include
preparation for performances in
Siena, Florence, Spoleto, Rome,
and in the famous hUl towns near
Siena and Spoleto. In addition to
the time spent in Siena, the
program wiU include two weeks
in Spoleto and a final orchestral
concert in Rome.
The faculty wiU include such
notables as Tito Gobbi, world
famous baritone, who wiU con
duct opera master-classes, Janos
Starker, ceUo master-classes and
chamber music, Robert Nagel,
trumpet. Franco GuUi, violin,
and many more. Nicholas
Harsanyi wUl conduct the or
chestra.
The aU-inclusive fee for the
session is $800.00. A limited
number of grants will be
avaUable to students on the basis
of merit and demonstrated
financial need. For more in
formation, the student should go
to the music office.
Clifford Young