Page Four
THE TWIG
April 18, 1947
Music Discovers
Colleg
e Leaders
By Benny Goodman
Freshman Frolics
By KATHLEEN FAULCONER
BENNY GOODMAN
stiown licre witli lit« fameJ clarinet,
hat )uft cut hit lirtt recorJt under
a new exclutive contract with
Capitol Recordt, Inc.
SOCIETY, CLASSES
(Continued from page one)
shal; Jeanne Dickens, junior
marshals; and Mickey Grady,
sophomore marshal.
Senior class officers for next
year are; Mary Beth Thomas,
president; Susan Fleming, vice
president; Ruth Hall, secretary;
and Elizabeth Hardison, treas
urer. Junior class officers are;
Ella Mae Shirley, presMent;
Maxine Bissette, vice president;
Eunice Andrews, secretary; and
Marianna Worth, treasurer.
Sophomore class officers are;
Elizabeth Jones, president,
Emily Poole, vice president;
Betsy Morgan, secretary; and
Alice Tuttle, treasurer. Sopho
more student government repre
sentatives will be Frances Mead
ows and Gazelle Moore.
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Leadership in musical progress
and advancement of musician-
ship will come from America’s
new crop of university men and
women.
I’ve come to realize the im
portance of this fact during my
six-month stay in California.
During these months I have had
occasion to work with and to
observe many of the new col
lege bred musicians, and I have
learned the true extent of the
campus influence on modern
American music.
It is the endorsement of cam
pus people across the country
that seals the fate of new music.
Back in the twenties and the
wild college days, we led into
an era of rather fantastic musi
cal arrangements.
The more serious nature of
today’s university students is
reflected in t o d a y’s music.
Musicians who fail to recognize
this do not last long at the top,
if they ever get there.
Don’t misunderstand me. I
had no college education myself,
for that matter. But I feel
strongly that we are getting an
increasingly better type of mu
sician from the college group.
There was a time when the
music expression of America
came primarily from the violent
emotions of large groups of
underprivileged people.
But America has come far;
Today we have more people
attending universities than ever
before. These influences are
already being felt in the music
of America, and more and more
we must look to the university
educated to help us give ade
quate interpretation to that
music.
That is why I feel sure that
a large part of my next band
will be made up of university-
educated musicians. They are
the ones who must give us
leadership.
Many college musicians have
already played a part in this
musical growth. Some good ex
amples are Woody Herman,
Marquette University; Les
Brown, Duke University; Jim
mie Lunceford, Fisk University;
Paul Weston, Dartmouth College
and Columbia University, and
Fred Waring, Pennsylvania
State College. The University
of North Carolina produced Hal
Kemp, John Scott Trotter, Jan
Garber, Skinnay Ennis and Kay
Kyser.
In addition to the musicians
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The Class of ’50 is still stirred
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days ’cause — Otley Hockaday
brought back Lionel’s class ring.
. . . Betty Jo Tysinger got her
fill of eatin’ and sleepin’. . . .
Sara Pope saw lotsa Eddie. . . .
Tula Cavalaris, Red Butler,
Bunny Harris, and Joyce Ken
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collectors. . . . Addie Elliott saw
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guest of Lib Jones). . . . Lois
Kauffman decided “Neut” is still
her favorite guy. . . . Doris Con
cha caught Fred’s cold. . . . Bert
Wilson got a big, big, beautiful,
brown bonnet. . . . Juanita Wall
went niteclubbin’ to Winston-
Salem’s Paddock. . . . Mary Rosy
spent a lot of time at “the lake.”
. . . Toni Patelos saw her dream
man “again.” . . . Betsy Ann
Morgan learned how to operate
a movie projector. . . . Betty
Zulalian got “grounded” in
Washington. . . . Marilyn Whit
taker received a colossal Easter
egg from “Brookie.” . . . Sue
Hamilton’s train hit a car. . . .
“Cindy” Renner made up with
Henry. . . . Emily Pool turned
chapeau designer. . . . Ruth Ann
Pierce got a tint of Florida sun.
. . . Mina Mayton worked^—
honest! . . . Elva Gresham col
lected two corsages. . . . Ann
Josey airplaned to West Point.
. . . June Harmon looked in on
Norfolk. . . . Naomi Bennett
underwent a hairdo change. . . .
Peggy Lewis took in some base
ball games. . . . Kathryn Floyd
saw “the most beau-u-tiful place
in Georgia”—Sea Island, Bruns
wick. . . . Sue Page was guest
of honor at a surprise breakfast
party. . . . Carolyn Covington
copped a pic of her man. . . .
Virginia Lee Snyder says she
made the “usual round of hot
spots.” . . . Emily Stacy and Dot
Childress shopped. . . . Mary Lee
Rankin went to the races—the
Richmond Hunt Club ones, that
is. . . . Margaret Hall saw Mount
Vernon, the Washington Zoo,
the Speedway, the airport—and
all on Easter Sunday.
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themselves, the reactions from
American campus groups are
powerful influences. We who
play the music may play as we
feel, but your reactions to our
music give us the guide to our
success at interpretation. If we
miss, we hear about it. If our
musicianship is good, your criti
cal reports tell us.
Similarly, the future of Ameri
can music depends upon the
freedom of college and univer
sity people to express themselves
ABOUT music, even though they
are not musicians. We must
have their true reactions in
order to give them the music
that is truly expressive of the
modern American spirit.
April 17 Leopold Stokowski |
conducted the New York Phil
harmonic - Symphony Orchestra
in a Civic Music performance in i
the Memorial Auditorium. He|
is a famous figure of the Ameri-1
can musical scene, and his re-!
cordings, perennial best-sellers,
range from his admired Bach
transcriptions through sym
phonic masterpieces to syntheses
of Wagnerian music-drama and
works of contemporary com
posers.
As a child he played both
violin and piano and his daily
musical diet was Bach, Mozart,
Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and
Debussy. Stokowski’s formal
musical education came first at
the Royal College of Music in
London, then in Paris and Mun
ich. At the age of eighteen he
came to the United States.
In addition to conducting
throughout Europe and Latin
America, he has directed five
orchestras in the United States—
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the All
American Youth Orchestra, the
NBC Symphony, and the New
York City Symphony. In 1945
he became permanent Music
Director of California’s Holly
wood Bowl.
Stokowski has made musical
history in the films as in orches
tral and recording fields. He has
appeared in three motion pic
tures; “The Great Broadcast of
1937,” “One Hundred Men and
a Girl,” and “Fantasia,” in which
he conducted music of Bach,
Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beeth
oven, Moussorgsky, Schubert,
and Dukas.
The New York Philharmonic-
Symphony Orchestra which
represents a merger in 1928 of
the New York Philharmonic and
the New York Symphony
Orchestras, is the oldest orches
tra in the United States and the
third oldest in the world. It
gave its first concert December
7, 1842. Sixty-three members
were in the organization when
it was founded—today there are
102 regular playing members.
Through the radio the fame
and influence of the Philhar
monic is world-wide. It is esti
mated that almost 12,000,000
persons listen regularly. The
Sunday afternoon concerts of
the Symphony have been broad
cast regularly by the Columbia
Broadcasting System since Oc
tober, 1930.
Little Theater Gets
Honorable Mention
In the Drama Festival held
Saturday, April 12, at Chapel
Hill, Meredith Little Theater re
ceived honorable mention for its
presentation of “Riders of the
Sea,” a tragedy by J. M. Synge.
The festival was participated in
by high schools and colleges
throughout the state, and was
sponsored by the Carolina Dra
matics Association.
SOPRANO SINGS
SENIOR RECITAL
Peggy Parker, soprano, was
presented in her graduating re
cital in the College Auditorium
on Wednesday evening, April
16, at 8; 00 o’clock. She was ac
companied at the piano by
Christine Kornegay.
Peggy is a student of Miss
Beatrice Donley, head of the
college voice department. She
has been very active in the
various musical organizations of
the school and city organizations.
The program was as follows:
Aria—A Serpina Penserete, from
“La Serva Padrona” Pergolesi
Rispetti Wolf-Ferrari
Un verde practlcello, Op. 11, No. 1
Quando ti vldia. Op. 12, No. 1
Tu lo sal Torelli
II
Aria—Leise, leise, from “Der
Freischutz’’ Weber
III
Sin Traum Grieg
Aus Meinen Grossen Schmerzen Franz
Aria—Connais tu le pays, from
“Mlgnor" Thomas
Ouvre ton coeus Bizet
IV
The Crying of Water Campbell-Tlpton
Linden Lea WUliams
The Lament of Ian the Proud . Griffes
White Horses of the Sea Warren
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