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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, SEPTEMBER22.1977
NUMBER FOUR
N.Y. Music Comes To A.C.
Lyric Arts Trio To Perform
N. Y. City Ballet Film
The New York Lyric Arts Trio,
sponsored by the Concert and
Lecture Committee of Atlantic
Christian College, will perform
next Thursday, September 29, at
8 P.M. in Hardy Alumni Hall.
Their program will consist of
Three Nocturnes by Ernst
Bloch, Beethoven’s Trio Op. I,
Number 3, and Shostakovich’s
Trio in E Minor.
The New York Lyric Arts Trio
has performed extensively
throu^out the metropolitan
New York area at colleges,
libraries, and museums. The
group has been heard on
American and foreign radio and
television, including the P.B.S.
show “Woman Alive!” On June
11, 1976, the Trio made its New
York City debut at Carnegie
Hall, receiving excellent
reviews and being cited for its
dramatic style and ability to
generate excitement.
All three members of the New
York Lyric Arts Trio are
graduates of Music and Art High
School and the Juilliard School
of Music. Each studied with
some of the most renowned
chamber music teachers, in
cluding Artur Balsam, Joseph
Fuchs, Hans Letz, Louis Per-
singer, Raphael Hillyer, Luigi
Silva, and members of the
Juilliard String Quartet.
Mary Freeman Blankstein,
violin, is Head of the
Instrumental Department at the
Chapin School in New York City
and a faculty member of the
Manhattan &hool of Music,
Preparatory Division. Gena
Raps, piano, is on the faculty of
the Mannes College of Music,
Preparatory Department.
Marion Feldman, cello, is an
assistant professor at Brooklyn
College, teaches at the Lenox
School in New York City, and is
on the faculty of the Preparatory
Division of the Manhattan
School of Music.
1976 saw the first season of the
Lyric Art Trio’s Downeast
Chamber Music Series in Maine,
which continued in the summer
of 1977.
The Trio has gained attention
for their performance of con
temporary works, such as the
Shostakovich Trio, which they
will perform at Atlantic
Christian College. Their per
formances have been called
“taut, energetic, and cogently
conceived.”
There will be no admission
charge for the concert.
Post-Grad.
Money
Inquiries about the Danforth
Graduate Fellowships, to be
awarded by the Danforth
Foundation of St. Louis,
Missouri in April 1978, are in
vited, according to the local
campus representative. Dr. W.
Raleigh Parker Jr., chairman of
Psy. Dept.-A.C.C.
The F'ellowships are open to
all qualified persons who have
serious interest in careers of
teaching in colleges and
universities, and who plan to
study for a Ph.D. in any field of
study common to the un
dergraduate liberal arts
curriculum in the United States.
Approximately 60-65
Fellowships will be awarded to
college seniors who are
nominated by campus Liaison
Officers. Another 35-40 awards
will be made to post
baccalaureate persons who
apply directly to the Foundation.
Applicants for the bac
calaureate awards must be
college seniors and may not
have undertaken graduate level
programs of study beyond their
college-level work. They must be
nominated by Liaison Officers of
their undergraduate institutions
by November 15, 1977. The
Danforth Foundation does not
accept direct applications for
the baccalaureate fellowships.
The Foundation is currently
making a special effort to bring
qualified persons from the racial
and ethnic minorities into the
profession of teaching. Ap
proximately 25 per cent of the
awards are expected to go to
Blacks, Mexican-Americans,
Native Americans and Puerto
Ricans.
The Danforth Graduate
Fellowship is a one-year award
but is normally renewable until
completion of the advanced
degree or for a maximum of four
years of graduate study.
Fellowship stipends are based
on individual need, but they will
not exceed $2,500 for single
Fellows, and for married
Fellows with no children.
Fellows who are married, or are
“head of household”, with one
child, can receive up to $3,500.
There are dependency
allowances for additional
children. The Fellowship also
covers required tuition and fees.
The Danforth Foundation,
established by the late Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Danforth in
1927, is a national educational
philanthropic organization,
dedicated to enhancing the
humane dimensions of life.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twelve of the world’s most
brilliant dancing stars will
appear in Raleigh when the New
York Ballet film of A Mid
summer Night’s Dream is shown
at Stewart Theatre on the North
Carolina State University
campus. The first full-length
ballet to be produced as a motion
picture, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream will present the 100-
member company in
Shakespeare’s romantic
comedy. It was choreographed
by Goerge Balanchine to the
music of Felix Mendelssohn.
Shows are on Sunday, October 2
at 3,7 and9 p.m. and on Monday,
October 3 at 7 and 9 p.m. This is
the first show in tiie Stewart
Theatre Dance Series. Season
ticket holders may attend any
one performance. Individual
tickets will be available at the
door at $2.50 for the general
public and $1.50 for children, all
students, and those 65 or older.
Suzanne Farrell and Edward
Villella dance the parts of the
fairy king and queen. Arthur
Mitchell dances the role of Puck,
the practical joker who causes
the merry mix-ups in
Shakespeare’s romantic
comedy. Jacques D’Amboise
and Allegra Kent dance the
spectacular performance in the
palace of the Duke of Athens.
This is the famous scene for
which Felix Mendelssohn, who
wrote the music for the ballet,
provided the world with his
universal favorite, “The Wed-
Successfiil Dance Culminates In
Crowning Of Mr. Top-Hat
Lester Southern
P. E. Dept.
Outlines Needs
ding March.”
Patricia McBride, Roland
Vasquez, Mimi Paul and
Nicholas Magallanes dance the
roles of the young lovers whose
romances are confused by the
impish Puck.
Gloria Govrin dances the role
of Hippolyta, Francisco Moncion
is Theseus, Duke of Athens and
Richard Rapp is the mummer
known as Bottom. The fairies
that dance in the magic forest
are the students of the American
School of the Ballet.
A prime cultural event for the
whole family this film will be
shown in Stewart Theatre on the
second floor of North Carolina
State University’s Student
Center. For information 24 hours
a day, please call 737-3105.
Trying to accommodate the
needs of an expanding student
body, which is participating in
physical activities more than
ever before, has placed a strain
on AC’s athletic facilities, ac
cording to Dr. John Sanford,
Chairman of the Health and P.E.
Department, and Dave Adkins,
Athletic Director.
Both men noted, in an in
terview, that the problem lies in
the lack of adequate facilities,
such as gyms, tennis courts, and
various outdoor playing fields, to
meet the growing demand for
them by students. Both men
went on, in the interview, to
discuss various aspects of the
problem and some of its possible
solutions.
When asked about over
crowded tennis courts, Sanford
pointed out that AC has only
eight tennis courts, and that
these eight courts must be
shared by the men’s and
women’s varsity tennis teams,
tennis classes, and other
students, who wish to play for
fun.
Varsity teams and tennis
classes have priority in the use
of the courts, which means that
other students have to compete
for the limited number of courts
and the limited amount of time
which is available. With the
popularity of tennis continuing
to increase among students, the
problem “will only grow worse,”
Sanford said.
Sanford also pointed out that
the use of the gyms is com
parable to the tennis court
situation. Students, who wish to
go to one of the gyms to shoot
basketball, to jog, to play
badminton, or to participate in
any other unstructured activity,
must compete for time and
space between PE classes,
men’s and women’s varsity
teams, and intramural sports.
Wilson Gym handles most of
the varsity sports and in
tramural activities, which
leaves the Old Gym to ac
commodate other student
athletic activities. The Old Gym
is hardly adequate to provide the
quality of activity that each
student deserves, Sanford noted.
The low ceiling and bad lighting
are only two of the gym's
detractions.
Sanford attributed the lack of
adequate playing fields to the
fact that the college does not own
the necessary land upon which a
track field, a soccer field, and
baseball field could be located.
Sanford explained that these
teams presently hold practice
sessions and games on fields
that must either be shared with
other groups or which must be
rented. Such fields are often a
great distance from the college
and cause transportation
problems, Sanford noted.
Athletic Director, Adkins,
mentioned that the lack of
adequate facilities was hurting
the intercollegiate program at
AC. Adkins noted that last year,
AC’s overall win-loss record was
the best ever, but at the same
time, the school was falling
behind its competitors in the
Carolinas Conference in terms of
athletic facilities.
Adkins warned that although
the “men and women, in the
athletic program, are doing a
tremendous job, they will not be
able to compete on an equal
basis in the future, if they don’t
have the facilities that the other
schools in theConferencehave.”
Both Sanford and Adkins
recognized three priorities in
improving the general athletic
program at AC: a new auxiliary
gym, which would replace the
Old Gym; an indoor, Olympic-
size swimming pool; and, ob
taining enough land to make it
possible to have a track field, a
soccer field, and a baseball field,
located near the college.
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