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Page 4 THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN September 23, 1959 REGISTRATION Music To My Come With Me To Jerusalem Jordan Ears Tommy Cornelius If you want to hear Brahms played with strength and mag nificence and be held spellbound until its conclusion, there is no finer recording of his Fourth sym phony than that played by the Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch. (After my many years of buying cla;ssical record ings, it is my personal opinion that the Boston and the Chicago sym phonies are the best in the coun try.) Brahms' last symphony is one oi Saber Dahir Sabir, father and cousin at the town where they lived near Jern- salem. How would you like to make a trip to the Holy City? Besides be- many cases where a great symphony ing Holy to the Christian, Moslem The many forms that greet the new student. OWLLAND ~ Tommy Cornelius so-called supper club circuit-like the Blue angle and Village Van guard in New York, television’s •'Playhouse 90”, and back to San i’ranciso for packed houses at the “Hungry i’'. “Tom Dooley”, The Kingston Trio, from the “Hungry i”, The Kingston Trio at Large, this is the L P success story of The Kingston Trio. Music has always been an accepted part of the lives of Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Sliane who make up the Trio. Dave and Bob were born and brought up in Hawaii. Through out their teens, Bob and Dave sang and played on the beach at Waikiki, taking time out to attend Punahow School, skin dive and ride surfboards. Nick was born in Coronado, Calfornia, just outside San Diego. All three boys are athletic and among them hold letters and trophies in track, ten nis, football, baseball, and swim ming. Dave Guard, a tall, slim made hardly any impression upon Its first audience. His I'irst sym phony had been found baffling, and his Third had had tepid applause. Such established favorites as Tchaikovsky’s "Pathetique” o r 1'rank’s Symphony in D Minor were little noticed at their first performance and were lightly dis missed by certain critics. in spite of their success i'om Dooley and Tiajuana Jail, the Trio continues to build a library of tunes it feels is directed to adults rather than teenagers. An article in down beat of June 11th by Richard Hadlock—Guard, tne six-foot-three-inch former Stan ford University graduate student who usually speaks for the group, put it this way; ■'Kids simply aren’t ready to really listen to music. Tom Dooley was one of those odd things, but in general the younger ones want something more physical, that Brahms, being a Romantic, sur with passed all his contemporaries with you to spend certain depth of Our best audiences are in the South and in colleges,” said Reyn olds, who looks like a sophomore nimself. youth, is a judo expert. Dave, the acknowledged leader doesn t require much thought, of the group, was an honor student at Stanford University. Nick and Bob were a few miles away at Menlo College. A common inter est in the native rhythms of all countries of the world led to the formation of the Trio. Little did tliey dream that their background harmonizing in student hangout^ around Stanford would lead to the success they enjoy today. How did the boys come to call themselves The Kingston Trio? They and their manager picked thei name because they felt it suggested Calypso music, so popular when they were starting out. Garbed in natty, striped “ivy league” shirts open at the collar, charcoal gray slacks, white socks, and gleaming shoes. The Kingston Trio presents a striking appearance on stage. They are virtuoso with guitars or banjos, and their bongos and conga drums are within reach. They have no formal written arrangements of the songs they sing, but cach is letter perfect. Frank Weber, a San Franciso published in 1957 recognized the group’s tremendous audience- pleasing talent, signed them to a personal management contract and began grooming the Trio for (a pro fessional debut. With a year of vocal coaching and rehearsal hours; the three performers began in the '■Regarding colleges.” Guard said “we sang to 4,500 students at Michigan and the wildest crowd-- 4,000 of them--at Notre Dame. They nearly screamed and yelled the walls down.” Tunes are selected for records dates after much screening of songs from almost as many sources, A finished number is admitted to the Trio’s repertoire only after many hours on the orginal arrangement of the song. The Trio spends a great deal of time in picking a tune for a record date or adding a certain song to their repertoire: forty tunes represent two years’ work, but they are familiar with hundreds more folk songs of many lands. SYMPHONY CONCERT TICKETS AVAILABLE TO C. C. STUDENTS AT REDUCED PRICES Five-dollar seats for in dividual performances of the Char lotte Symphony are available to Charlotte College stud^ents for one dollar. Tickets may be bought at the Charlotte Symphony office at 404'/2 South Tryon Street. certain reserve, a beauty in writing his last sym phony. His Fourth is more like his Second in form than his First or Third symphony—the S«cond being in D Major, the Fourth in E Min or. His Fourth, along with his Second, shows the ripeness of the art of Brahms in its command over vast resources of technique and musical culture--something that is profoundly moving. His last and Fourth symphony shows much masterfulness and strength, as well as much tenderness and a sense of the mortality of man. The Fourth symphony consists of four move ments. F'irst: Allegro na non trappo Second; Adante Moderato Scherzo and Final Any one who saw the movie “The Horse’s Mouth”, starring Alec Guinness, which played at the Visulite during the summer, might be interested in the music which so characterized the personality of the painter. The music was written by Prokofieff and is the Lientenant Ki je Suite. The music was written in 1933 for the Russian film of the same name. Prokofieff created a suite which accompanies the ficti- tions hero from birth to death. The voice part of Kije is played by Tenor saxophone. Kije takes a wife, earning a session of wedding music in Prokofieff’s best mock- ceretmonial manner. His birth, romance, death, and wedding are melodically reviewed, but not without ironic overtones. A good recording of the suite is on Victor by the Chicago svmphony ■with Fritz Reiner as conductor. and Jew, Jerusalem is one of thq most historic places on the globe, and one of the most interesting places to get an idea about the development of human life during the last five thousand years. If you are interested in the religious, historical or geogr;^hical aspects oi human life, Jerusalem would be a most interesting place to see. The best way, of course, is to go there, if your purse and time a couple of thousand dollars and a couple of months. However, if you are like most of us, unable to provide the money and the time, I invite you to come with me for a description of Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land in their various aspects on the pages of the Charlotte Col- legain in a series of articles that may be inspired by your interest, suggestions and questions. Ques tions will be always welcomed, not only about the Holy Land, but also about any other part or espect of the Middle East. with me and let us take a surrey pulled by an .Arabian horse, and let us spend the afternoon sight seeing in a city that combines old with the very modern. In the even ing, a walk along river Barara in the heart of Dameseus is both re freshing and interesting. If we start our trip early the ncx^ morning from Damascus to Jordan, we shall get to Jerusalem by the evening of the same day. Our trip from Damascus to the border to Jordan will be mostly in the rural plains of Huran, then we will emerge into the edge of the barren desert that extends into the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. There is little to see on this desert part of the road extending about fifty miles, except maybe a military air port or a few nomads with their camcl herds. Hisorial ruins at Bethel where Sabir was born. Sabia and thrc© friends — 1942. Vvhen we get to inhabited land again, we shall see little but half cultivated terrain in which poor agriculture depends upon scanty winter rain. However, a few fertile spots where a stream may happen to run, break the monotony of the scenery, until we get to Amman, the Capital of Jordan. It is a city about the size of Char lotte but lacks Charlotte’s modern conveniences and beauty. Amman is built on the ruins of the old Roman Philadelphia, and has grown to its present extent only because it is rhe political center of Jordan and a covenient trade center. After re- Some Arab Nomads going down the road on the edge of the Jord anian desert. In this article, let us assume that the visitor has already crossed the grand Atlantic Ocean, the interest ing and beautiful countries of Europe and the magnificent Med iterranean Sea, and has arrived at the peaceful looking port of Beirut, a short rest and some Lebanon, either by boat or plane, {^eshment, let us proceed through From there on a visitor in a hurry may take an hour’s jump by plane to Jerusalem’s air-port, but why hurry when our object is to see as many places and as much of them as we can? Our best bet will be to mountains that gradually change scenery from trees to desert barren. We come to the River Jordan, then the town of Jericho, the lowest elevated town in the world (about 1300 feet below sea-level.) With take a car from Beirut through elevation, the weath- R COMPIMENTS OF GREAT SOUTHERN DIVISON OF RYDER SYSTEM JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA :; Pills; yimj: iiatiyour;:;; best the beautiful mountains of Lebanon. Just about ten miles further, and we go through these moun tains that rise high into the sky and are covered with all kinds of trees, and designed with beautiful villages and summer resorts, and engraved with silvery streams, we emerge into an almost uninhabited bush country in a plateau that leads us to the oldest city in the world, Damasus, Syria, just about seventy miles from Beirut. Do you like to try foreign dishes? Damascus has the best Arabic food you can find almost anywhere. If you like beautiful gardens of all kinds of fruits and vegetables, come er changes too, from cool mountain breeze to hot tropical hot weather. Since Jerusalem is our destina tion, let us proceed to the Holy City built on beautiful hills that contrast magnificently with the barren desert hills out of Jericho. Just before entering Jerusalem, we come to a spot overlooking the city from the East where Christ entered the city at Easter-time, prior to His crucifixion. In the next issue of the Collegian, I invite you to join me toiiring Jerusalem, and welcome any in quiries that I can answer regarding the Holy City, Bethlehem, or any other part in that area.
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