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Parramore Addresses SAR Awards Assembly CAROLYN kIZER, (above) and Waverly Land, two of ttie friends M Ankews who will participate in the St. Andrews Review benefit readings. Cannon Thomas C. Parramore, N .C. State Professor of History and author of numerous articles on North Carolina and American history, Tuesday night ad dressed the “St. Andrews Review” Awards AssemUy at St. Andrews Cdlege in Laurin- burg, reflecting on the current state of Southern literature. “I propose that there is presently no southern regional lito'ature because our writers are no longer in touch with the temper d genuine southem- neas,” said Parramore, ad ding, “You must knpw the South thoroughly and Well and empathetically before you can write about it compelli^ly.” The historiai, v^ose speech will be featured 'in Ittie 19- coming issue of the “St. An drews Review,” bemoaned the popular stereotype of southerners as “demagogue politicians, bull-iiecked sher iffs and (^ow debutantes,” stressing that these roles are “ONLY a part” of the Southern heritage. “I do not think we can write well about the South unless we love it deeply,” Parramore said. Despite his view of the current state of southern literature, the N.C. State professor. dosed his address (HI an optimistic note, saying, “I trust ttiat we may yet discover truer images, more authentic modes of represen tation. But we’ll first require such an education as its not available to us simidy within the confines of English Ut. w Modem Civ.” Also featured at the Tuesday assembly were SAR Managing Editor Dr. Malcolm Doubles, who served as master of ceremonies; Associate Editw Sam Ragan, vrtio presented a Iwief history of the magazine; and Editor Ronald H. Bayes, wlio an nounced this year’s award winners. Receiving $25 poetry prizes for work published in the “St. Andrews Review” were Jcm- Stephen Fink, of Hollywood, California; J^rey Leighton, of Roanoke, Virginia; David Ralph, of Charlotte; Judtih Johnson Sherwin, of New York City; Blair Turner, of Southern Pines; Peter Trias, of Chapel Hill; Marvin Weaver, of Fay^eville; and John Williamson, dt Towson, Maryland. This year’s $100 Yukio Mishima Award for short fic- tioi went to Jim Scutti, of New Orleans, fa- his story titled “Remembering Her Sweet ness.” “The St. Andrews Review” is a twice-yearly magazine of the arts, scholarship and politics vi^ich began puUication in 1970. Since that time it has gained in ternational recognition for providing an ongoing forum for such diverse writers and thinkers as Buckminster Fuller, Ezra Pound, Sen. Sam Ervin, Yukio Mishima, C. P. Cavafy I and a host of lesser- known poets, scholars and short fiction writers from Nor th Carolina and elsewhere. Marion Cannon, recent visiting poet and author of “Another Liftht”, last weeki: [n-esented a dieck for $250 to “The St. Andrews Review,” St. Andrews’ internationally- known quarterly publication. Mrs. Cannon’s presentation was timed to precede (Hily by a few weeks the initiatioi of a nationwide campaign to raise additional funds for con tinuation and expansion at the SAR. The chedc was presen ted by the 70-year-old poet to St. Andrews president Alvin PCTkinson at the end of Mrs. Cannon’s recent week in residence at St. Andrews, during whidi time she char med the college community with several readings of her WOTk, along with more in formal activities, such as howling at the mom after one of her readings. Starts SAR The fund-raising campaign for “'nje St. Andrews Review” is due to start rolling within the next few weeks, says Review chief Ron Bayes, and will be hi^^ted by a series of benefit readings in N v York, Washington, Charlotte, Chapel Ifill and Laurinburg on the east coast as well as a west coast reading in Bellingham, Washingtffli. Featured poets at these events will be Carolyn Kizer, author of “Mdnight Was My Cry” and former Director of the literary Program for the National Endowment for the Arts; Judith Johns«i Sherwin, winner the Yale Younger Poets’ Prize for her book “Uranium,” and current chairman of the National Academy of Poets; E>£q)hne Athas, Chapel Hill noveli^ Campaign whose “Entering Ephesus” placed on the “Time" magazine Top Ten Novels list in 1973; andE. Waverly Land, St. Andrews alumnus and ai^hor of “Painful Entry, who is currently WM-king with the Peace Corps in Middle East. “The St. Andrews Review" began publication in 1970, and over the past five years has published works by such diverse individuals as R. Buckminster Fuller, C. P. Cavafy, Sai. Sam Ervin, Yukio Mishima, Ezra Pound, Sen. Hu^ Scott and James Laughlin. Violinist from Romania Performs Here Tonight violinist from Romania, wUl perform Jean Sibelius’ concerto for violin and Orchestra tonight with the North Carolina Symphony. A young but internationally known. violinist from Rwnania wUl be featured guest soloist tomorrow night when the North Carolina Sym- irfiony Orchestra performs in Laurinburg. He is Eugen Sarbu, winner of the 1974 Kathleen and Joseph M. Bryan Awards for Young Artists given by the North Carolina orchestra. He will be heard in the Sibelius Concerto for Violin and Or chestra. Under the baton of Maestro John Gosling, artistic director and conductor, the orchestra will perform at 8:15 in the Scotland high school, auditorium. Other works wi the program for this mem bership concert are the Brahms “Academic Festival Overture” and the Beethoven “Symphony No. 7.” This wiU be membership concert. Sarbu won the International Paganini Competition in Genoa, the Alberto Curci Foundation Award in Naples, the Young Artist Competition of the Denver Symphony Or chestra and the 26th annual Young Artist Competition of the Norffi^roUna Symiiiony Orchestra. In 1973 he was win ner of the Leventritt In ternational Competition. . Bom in RcHnania in Sep tember, 1950, Sarbu early displayed a musical gift and was soon considered an infant prodigy, making his first solo appearance at ttie age of six. When he was eight he won First Prize of the National Festival of Music in Bucharest, a feat he repeated when he was 10, 12 and 14 years of age. In the following years he received every musical award of the country including two prizes in the Fifth International Georges Enesco Competition (1970). At the Closing Gala of this Cffln- petition, held in the [wesence of the Prime Minister of Romania, Sarbu (5>ened the festivities with his per formance of Enesco’s Third Sonata. This performance was televised throughout Europe. Sarbu has studied with the finest pedagogues of the violin in both East and West Europe including a pupil of the grwt Eugene Ysaye ; in 1970, ^the recommendation of Ymudi Menuhin, he received a scholarsip from the Curtis In stitute in Philadelphia to study with the legendary Professor Ivan Galamian. In 1972 he was invited to study with the world-famous violinist Nathan Milstein.
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