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VOIUME 49
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY. MARCH 7, 1969
NUMBER 18
UssachevskyComing Monday
yKivbriv yis an expert ii^ electronic music Electronic MusiciciTi
In Lyceum Frogram
1
VLADIMIR USSACHtVSKY, GUEST ARTIST
Elon Students Tutor Children
In Several Schools Of
group of Elon Col-
■ege students, working
under fte direction of Dr,
Williams, head of the
college’s academic coun
selling and guidance pro-
Srirn, has been very ac-
nve in recent weeks in a
community action and
^ervice program, which
Has .
‘ developed into
aw' giving
aid to
a pro-
academic
L , groups of school
!;''fWren in neighboring
Schools.
Jhe project began with
(I group of six stu-
met with Dr.
'iiiams and with Noel
ftllen,
!>tude
and
president of the
aent Government As-
^nd since that
p. emerged as an
tlii^Setic group of about
students.
Krm!n founding the
basi planned to be
thp independent of
although the SGA
ident called the first
meeting and SGA facili
ties have been used W
promote the plan. The i-
dea was for the group to
grow by **word of mouth
rather than by formal
membership drives.
The entire plan was to
be structured as little as
possible, allowing great
flexibility and with the
p to start at once
doing” and not “just
ng.” Dr. Williams
introduced the first op
portunity for service in
the proposed tutoring
program for public school
children who might need
help.
The next week those
interested met with Mr.
Hutton, of the Alamance
County Community Action
Program at Glen Raven
Elementary School to
the work as study
leaders” and tu-
" There was to be
group of chil-
group
by
talking.
start
hall
tors,
a small
Vladimir Ussachevsky,
known worldwide as a lec
turer, composer and re
citalist in the field of
electronic music, will ap
pear in a demonstration
concert and lecture in
Elon’s Whitley Auditor
ium at 8 o’clock next
Monday night.
His appearance on the
Elon campus comes as
the newest program in the
Elon College Lyceum
series for this year, and
the public is cordially in
vited to hear him without
charge.
Ussachevsky was the
first American composer
to experiment with the
medium which was later
called tape music and
which was recognized as
an indigenous American
development, parallelling
the musique concrete and
the electronic music of
Europe.
He began his experi
ments on the tape record
er in 1951, and he pre
sented his first public
demonstration of these
experiments in 1952.Then
In 1953 he began an ex
tensive collaboration with
Otto Luening, a fellow
musician at Columbia Un
iversity, and the two men
produced major orches
tral works with a solo
rape recorder, along with
suites for theatre produc
tions and ballet.
Ussachevsky’s indivi
dual work for the elec
tronic musical medium
includes “Studies in
Sound,” “A Piece For
Tape Recorder,” “Sonic
Contours,” a score for
the film entitled “No Ex
it” that was made from
the Sartre book, inciden
tal music for films and
also several choruses
with electronic accom
paniment.
A Guggenheim Fellow
ship in 1957 allowed him
to work in Europe in both
tape and electronic me
dium in the major studios
of Gravesano in Switzer
land and in Milan, Ba-
deb-Baden and Paris.
Ussachevsky went to
Russia in 1961 and gave
informal illustrated lec
tures in Russian on elec
tronic music produced at
the Columbia-Princeton
Electronic Music Center,
appearing before mem
bers of the Union of So
viet Composers in var
ious Russian cities.
During that same per
iod he also visited elec
tronic music studios in
Poland, Holland and Ger
many, and in both 1953
and 1961 he served as
an American delegate to
international conferences
on electronic music in
Paris.
The Lyceum guest was
born in China in 1911 as
a member of a musical
Russian family, and he
had his first musical stu
dies there, but in his teens
he attended Pomono Col
lege in California and re
ceived his first training
in composition. In his
senior year at Pomono,
a full evening of his com
positions was presented.
He later attended the
Eastman School of Mu
sic, where he earnedboth
his M.A. and Ph.D. de
grees and had major per
formances of his music.
He served in the U. S.
Army during World War
II, when his knowledge
of both Russian and Chin
ese languages proved val
uable. After the war he
joined the faculty at Co
lumbia University and re
sumed his musical ca
reer.
(Continued on page 4)
dren involved, but that
small number turned out
to be larger than expect
ed, and the work evolv
ed’ into an exciting chal
lenge.
The first seven were
unanimous in their en
thusiasm, and they spread
the word, so that the next
week there were twelve,
then fifteen and seven
teen and more than twen
ty on successive weeks.
Now the interested stu
dents meet each Monday
and Tuesday about 4:45
o’clock in the Rotunda of
Alamance for the ride to
Glen Raven School.
At the school the stu
dents plunge into one of
the fastest and busiest
hours of their day from 5
until 6 o’clock helping
pupils from the first
grade to the ninth grade
with various studies.The
student helpers soon find
(Continued on page
THEY STARTED SERVICE PROJECT
The ESCAP program of community service to
school children of the area had its beginning in a small
meeting called by Noel Allen, president of the SGA,
and with Dr. Ben Williams, of the college guidance
staff, serving as advisor and proposing the rapidly
growing tutoring service. The project now involves
nearly thirty Elon students two afternoons weekly.