September 3, 1968 The N.C♦ Essay Page 2
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Buketoff to Conduct
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his appointment to the faculty of juilliard.
For 10 years he taught courses in harmony
and counterpoint , headed the choral depart
ment and directed the chorus for the
scliOol’E operatic productions . From 1941
to 47 he taught at the Chautauqua School of
Music and was director of the Chautauqua
Opera Association.
In 1942 he received the first Alice M.
Ditson Award for outstanding yonng American
conductors and was forrnally ir.troduced to
New York concert goers at a Tovm Hall con^
cert. He then joined the faculty of Colum
bia University where he remained until 1947,
when he resigned to become music director
of .'triglnal Broadway production of the
fv-'O Menotti operas, "The Medium" and "The
Telephone,” The company appeared in Boston,
Philadelphia , Chicago, Detroit, Cinclnnatij
London and Paris. While he was in Paris, he
wa" appointed conductor of the Fort Wayne
Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the fall of 1948 he was invited to
conduct one of the New York Philharmonic
Young People's Concerts in Carnegie Hall
sharing the series with Leopold Stokowski
and Dmitri Mitropolous . He was re-engaged
for five concerts the following season and
in 1950 was appointed music director for the
entire series.
In 1951 he resigned from the New York
Philharmonic to devote more time ro his ex
panding activities in Fort Wayne , and to
assume the post, of head of the Orch'^stral
Department at Jordan College of Music in
Indi-mapolis,
After a Europfjaa tour in 1956- 57 under
a second grant fmm the Ditson Fund ,
Buketoff conceived the idea for World
Music B^tnk, a project for the international
exchange of contemporary music , The Focke-
feller Foundation awarded the Bank two
grants, and it was put into operation in
1954 under Buketoff's leadership.
In the spring of 1964 Buketoff spent
three monts in Reykjavik as guest conductor
of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and in the
fall of the same year was named Its music
director. He commuted monthly between Rey
kjavik and Fort Wayne. While in Iceland, he
recorded the third Symphony of Robert Ward,
now president of the N. C. School of the
Arts.
Buketoff's first concert in New York
Lincoln Center 's Philharmonic Hall took
place in 1964 when he conducted the American
Symphony Orchestra in a concert Featuring
Ruggiero Ricci, the violinist . Ricci , in
addition to concertizing, teaches master cl
asses at the School of the Arts.
Buketoff r^^sgned from the Fort Wayne
Philharmonic in 1966 to concentrate on the
expanaon of the World Music Bank and to
devote more time to conducting commitments
in Europe , He also beome chairman of the
Contemporary Composers Project of the Insti
tute of International Education . The ins
titute promotes contemporary music in in
ternational concerts and recordings.
While conduction the Indianapolis Sym
phony in a week - long symposium of contemp=
orary music in 1967, Buketoff was again hon
ored by the Ditson Fund as the conductor of
American contemporary music.
Within the past few months Buketoff has
completed four long -playing records for the
international RCA Victor Red Seal Catalog,
conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
on three discs and the New Phllharmonia on
i;he fourfct . Both orchestra are based in
London. In the winteir •->' 19>''0 Buketoff con-
^^ucted the Royal I'i ; ;‘on f c at the two
opening concerts of t Mw'en Fest:iv«l of
Contemporary Music xa London, Later this
summer he will lead the orchestra in a Lon
don Festival Hall Concert and at the summer
Festivals in Cheltenham and Harrogate,
During the 1968-69 season Buketoff will
conduct the St. Paul Civic Opera Association
In the past he has appeared as guest conduc
tor with the Chicago, Houston, Denver,Kansas
City, Indianapolis and San Diego symphoni
es in this country, and has conducted the Or
questra Sinfonica Brasileira of Rio ds la-
neiro, the Dan,tsh State Rodin Orchestra, and
the Oslo Philharmonic,
BURTOM, HVATT ASSl^ME POSITIONS
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Chapel rill I, He hafc a b.ochaJor of divinity
degree from Yale Divinity Sf:hooi arid a mail-
ter of theology degref^ from Duke Dj^vinit^
School. He has completed his ptrelimmary
studies for a doctor of philosophy degree in
political science at Duke University and Is
now working on a dessertation on U,S. gover
nment support of the arts.
He has been associated with Duke Uni
versity for the past 10 years,where he serv
ed as associate director of religious activ
ities, Baptist chaplain and assistant to the
international student advisO-C^*
He organized and directed for five ye
ars (1962-67) a summer service project in
volving Duke students on the east coast of
Nicaragua. They worked especially with Mor
avian and Episcopal medical missions to help
establish clinics.
Hyatt spent a summer in Mexico and one
in Norway on service projects sponsored by
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WARDS JOIN DOR/M OTW
Mr. and Mrs, Dale arft the new
dormitory parents in the Mens' dorm for the
1968-69 school year,
Homing to us from Greensboro where he
xs 3 srnior history major at Guilford Col
lege., Dale Ward is originally from Kensing
ton, Maryland, His wife, Royalyne, is from
Florida where she studied for three years at
the Ringling School of the Arts in Sarasota,
Completely immersed in her artistic endea
vors, (she is a painter) she was unable to
say from exactly which part of Florida she
comes.
Aside from his history studies, Mr.
Ward has served in the Marines, played semi- /
professional football and served as a guinea
pig for the Navy. He plays Banjo and guitar
and his favorite sport is rowing.
They both like the full range of music
"with the exception of Country Western" and
they are both looking forward to the year at
the School of the Arts.
Says Royalyne, "We just love being a-
round the dance, the drama, and the music I "
They want to participate as much as possible
in the school functions, attending concerts
and productions whenever possible and
perhaps taking a few classes. Dale has
even done some acting.
Their aim as dojcjii pi-irents this year is
not to "walk sfouuc -ii.Lh a big stick,” b-ji
to serve in an advisory capacity, listening
to students- problems, and just plain shoot
ing- the-bul I c They would like to becofiic as
much 3 part of the school as possible and
get to know the students during their stay.
Additional members of the Ward famfly
are a German Shepherd, a Siamese cat, and a
terrier named Dante,
JOHNSON TO HEAD CHORAL DEPARTMENT
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the Oratorio So v of New York and accomp
anist to l-’ddin; concert artists.
Hp. i ‘ ^ivea B«.S, and M,S, degrees from
cbe Juilliard School of Music in New York.
?or the Central City Opera Festival he
eoac*uete:.s Massenet's "Manon," "The Ballad
of i.aby Ooe," by Douglas fioore and John Lat-
ofjcnej Rossini's "T.”,e Italian Girl in Al-
j..i^rs,'' Bluet’s "Carmen," Verdi's "A Mask
ed ball," Donizetti's "Don Pasquale."
In addition to choral and symphony or
chestra concerts at Peabody Conservatory, he
conducted Honegger's "Joan of Arc at the
Stake," Benjamin Britten’s "The Turn of the
Screw," Moznrt'f. "The Ab-Suction from the
Seraglio.Berlu/ = s safired trilogy ''L'Enf-
•iuct' Du i'hri^>t," MoZ/irt's "The Impresacio"
ind "rf> Masque of Angels,'' by Domnleo >'r-
ger'to and -John 01 f -
‘ AkTici.!'.Jn Comniitree.
in Durham, He orgci>'ii->rd a living -,\')d
Ir.i.-otng pro ject, in the xnner f ity.. Th i s
;.ue >e\ c, nov in its third year. gi»'es Duke
students an exposiice to pjEobl^'ras faced by
people living in poverty^ Tea students act
ually IIV? i.r ar! economically depressed area
for a y«.7r, where they work with neighbors
and in the activities of a community centet
sponsored by Duke University,
Hyatt received the Andrew Bershak In
ter- t raternity scholarship at Carolina and
two Crimp'js ministry graats from the Danforih
Foundation,
The Hyatts moved here this summer and
are living at Clemmons« They Have three
children, Katherine, 10; Victoria , 7; and
Russell, 2,
When you are in the right, you can afford to
keep your temper --
When you are in the wrong, you can't afford
to loose it.