VOL. 7 NO. 2
N.C. SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
FEBRUARY 5, 1974
PHONE: 784-0085
New
Architect’s Scale Model of Workplace
Sokoloff Presents
Plans for Workplace
Kssay Photo By Brandt Clark
By LORI GOTTEMOELLER
Kssay Stafr Reporter
By the spring of 1976, The North
Carolina School of the Arts should have a
new building that will solve the stressing
problems of space and inadequate
facilities. Although the motion to ap-
(H'opriate the needed funds is still before
the N.C. Legislature, plans are going
forward for the Workplace to begin
construction in September or October of
this year.
Two Phases
The Essay spoke with administrative
Four To Quit School
Fitz-Simons,
Young Retire
By ROBIN DREYER
Kssay Staff Reporter
Mrs. Marion Fitz-Simons and Mrs.
Gerd Young, assistant academic deans
for the college and high school divisions,
will retire in June. Both Mrs. Fitz-
Simons and Mrs. Young have been here
at the school since it opened in 1965 and
have been important in the development
of the academic curriculum.
Mrs. Fitz-Simons, who is taking
early retirement, has taught English and
Theater Literature at the school. In
addition to her administrative and
teaching work, Mrs. Fitz-Simmons has
directed at the Raleigh Federal Theater
and the Bumville Playhouse, and acted
at the Yacht Club Theater, Nantucket,
Mass., the Asheville Suimner theater,
Madame Borgny Hammer’s Ibsen
Company, the E.C.U. Summer Theater,
The Lost Colony,Unto These Hills, and,
most recently, the North Carolina
Summer Festival.
Mrs. Young, who teaches English as
well as working in administration, has.
See RETIRE, Pg. 2 Col. 2
Hotton, Jaeger
Resign
By OTIS DAYE
Kssay Staff Reporter
Two drama faculty members, Donald
Hotton and William Jaeger, have
resigned their positions effective at the
end of the school yar.
Ronald Pollock, dean of drama, said,
“Both faculty members are resigning
their positions and I feel badly that things
haven’t worked out, but I wish them the
very best in the future.”
See HOTTON, Pg. 2, Col. I
director Martin Sokoloff to find out what
the Workplace will be like. Work on the
new structure will be divided into two
(^ases, the first phase being the linking
construction between the existing
classroom and theatre building, followed
by the renovation of these buildings.
The architectural firm of Jennings,
Newman, Van Etten, and Winfree of
Winston-Salem has already drawn the
plans for both phases, but the first Phase
alone is presently being considered by
the legislature.
Changes in the existing classroom
building will be minimal. The music
department will remain on the first floor
but the music offices will be moved to the
new building, along with the dance
department offices and the library. This
will allow expansion of the business of
fices, and perhaps a new dance studio.
The classroom building will be
separated from the new construction by a
pedestrian street. This street will provide
circulation linking the levels and and two
major entrances to the complex. It will
also feature trees, benches and plantings
to constitute a meeting place, keeping,
according to Mr. Sokoloff, “the at-
See PLANS, Pg. 8, Col. 4
10 Names
Remain
On List
By DON MARTIN
Kssay Staff Keporler
The chairman of the search committee
for the new chancellor said the group has
narrowed its list to 10 names and will
make its final recommendation of two
names sometime in March. President
William Friday and the University of
North Carolina Board of Governors wiU
make the final decision in April, he said.
Wallace Carroll, committee chairman
said the list has been pared down from
“well over 100 names” since the 11-
member committee started deliberations
in November.
Betty Masten, secretary to the current
chancellor, said Grant Beglarian, dean of
the school of preforming arts at the
University of Southern California, Allen
Dwight Sapp, head of the school of
Music at the State University of New
York, Buffalo, and Robert Suderberg, of
the school of music at the University of
Washington at Seattle, are coming to the
sdiool in the next two weeks for either
consultation or consideration for the
post.
They will meet with the search com
mittee, faculty and students at separate
meetings during two-day visits, Mrs.
Masten said.
“Youth- Oriented Outlook”
Committee members interviewed by
this reporter generally agreed that they
wanted someone with a youth-oriented
outlook, an intangible quality that can
only be judged by the candidate’s past
performance or from a personal in
terview.
As for the candidate’s actual age, said
Carroll, “we probably wouldn’t hire
anybody over 60, but if the right name
came up, maybe.”
Carroll said the conunittee contacted
I^nard Bernstein, Nancy Hanks, Roger
Stevens, Joe Papp and other prestigious
See CHANCELLOR, Page 2, Col. 4
Master
Classes:
The Selling
of the School?
‘What You See
• • •
Item
Page
Applause
3
Attractions
4,5
Editorials
6
Fiction
6
Four To Quit
1
Master Classes
1
New Chancellor
1
Opinions
7
Pearce Laundry
3
Plagarism
3
Plans for Workplace
1
Sokolo{f Interview
2
Sweet Diversion
8
“IS WHAT YOU GET”
Janos Starker in 1971 Master Class
By
LORI GOTTEMOELLER
Kssay Staff Reporter
Some music school faculty
members believe that master
classes and their instructors
serve as little more than
recruiting devices for the school
and that they are of little long
term value to the average
student.
At the same time students and
instructors whose students have
had master classes said that the
classes were valuable learning
experiences which bear fruit in
increased knowledge and
recommitment to the in
struments.
Divergent Views
The divergent views were
expressed in more than a dozen
interviews with students, faculty
and administration conducted
over the last three weeks.
In the past, master classes
conducted by visiting artists at
NCSA have been for piano and
string instruments. This year
Janos Starker, cello, has come
and last year Franco Gulli,
violin, came in addition to
Starker.
Wind, brass and percussion
students, however, are not given
master classes by visiting artists.
Dean Nicholas Harsanyi of the
School of Music told us that the
guest- artist programs for strings
were largely for recruiting
purposes. “We never had a
shortage of wind players,” he
said, “and the number of violin
players has increased from
seventeen to twenty-nine since
the guest artist program began.”
Harsanyi: “Not Short-changed”
When asked if he thought the
other instruments had been
shortchanged in the effort to
attract string players, Harsanyi
said he did not think so.
“In the last two years the two
greatest brass artists in the world
have taught here,” Harsanyi
See SELLING, Pg. 8, Col. 1