Vol. 4 No. 5
North Carolina School of the Arts
November 3, 1969
WARD TO CONDUCT CHORUS
Job Sanders 3 who
is presenting
two of his ballets
along with works
by Pauline Koner
ard Dunaan Noble.
(See review on
page s)
Accreditation
Convocation
On Wednesday, November 5th,
there will be a special convocation
led by Dr. Gordon W. Sweer, Execu
tive Secretary of the Commission on
Colleges of the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools. This
Commission is the Regional Accredit
ing Association that has to do with
the accrediting of most of the
colleges in the eastern region of
the United States.
Dr. Sweet is to address the
student body on accreditation: what
it means, and the role the students
and faculty will play in achieving
it. There will be a question and
answer period during the convoca
tion. In addition, he will meet
with the Executive Committee that
morning as well as with the Faculty
Council.
E.T.S. Announcing
Examinations
Educational Testing Service
announced recently that undergraduates
and others preparing to go to graduate
school may take the Graduate Record
Examinations on any of five remaining
test dates during the current academic
year.
A $3.00 late registration fee and
registration deadlines apply to these
dates. Choice of test dates should
be determined by the requirements of
graduate schools or fellowships to
which one is applying. Scores are
usually reported to graduate schools
five weeks after a test date.
Robert Wardj president of the "
North Carolina School of the Arts,
will take on a new role for Winston-
Salem audiences Thursday, Nov. 6,
when he conducts the 70-voice
School of the Arts vhorus for the
last half of a concert to be pre
sented in the main auditorium at
the School. The concert wi-11 begin
at 8:15 p.m. and is open to the
public without charge.
The role of conductor is a fam
iliar one to Ward since he has guest
conducted leading orchestras and
choruses in this country and in
Europe. He taught conducting at
Juilliard School of Music in New
York for 10 years and was conductor
of the Doctors Orchestral Society in
New York for six years.
Ward said, "I am really very
happy to be actively involved with
the performing part of the school,
TAX LAW KILLS
SYMPHONY ORCHS
H.R. 13270 is the Congressional
name of the tax reform legislation
that is now up for consideration in
the United States Senate. Disturbed
philanthropists, college presidents,
heads of medical schools and museum
directors are buzzing around H.R.
13270 like bees whose peaceful hive
has suddenly been hit by a baseball
bat. Their buzz has become a
nationwide high-frequency hum in the
last few weeks, and at issue are the
provisions concerning charitable
gifts and a proposed tax on foundation
income.
The House bill, as sent to the
Senate, proposes a tax of 7 1/2 per
cent on foundation income. There
are additional clauses that, it is
claimed, would sharply curtail in
dividual contributions to charitable
or educational organizations. Two
weeks ago, representatives of tax-
free foundations, medical men,
scientists, clergymen and educators
descended upon the Senate Finance
Committee to object. Their atti
tude is summed up by the remarks
made to this writer the other day by
one of the trustees of a major
American orchestra. He was hot under
the collar.
This tax reform bill, he said,
is so complicated that few in the
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and of course I enjoy working with
the students." He agreed to con
duct the chorus since Norman John
son, who was choral conductor last
year, will be here only as musical
director for opera presentations.
He is now full-time conductor of
the Denver Lyric Opera at Denver,
Colo.
Philippe Buhler, who organized
and has conducted the Camerata
Singers at the School of the Arts
since he became a member of the faculty
the first year the school opened in
1965, will conduct this group and
the full chorus during the first part
of the program.
Gary Buchanan of Sanford, a
trumpet major and college senior,
will conduct a brass ensemble of 17
players. He came to the school as
a high school senior in 1965. The
ensemble will include six trumpets,
five horns, four trombones, a tuba
and tympani.
The Camerata Singers and brass
ensemble will perform Ezziltate Deo,
a motet by Alessandro Scarlatti;
followed by the Camerata singing two
French songs (t/e I 'airne bien^ by
Roland de Lassus and Quand je bois du
vin olairet by Pierre Attaingnant).
The full chorus will then sing five
English madrigals (/l7ow
(Cont. on page 4)
Less Grief for Grass
Possession of marijuana may be
reduced to the status of a misdemea
nor by a new law proposed vesterday
by the Nixon Administration.
Instead of classifying both poss
ession and sale as felonies, the new
law would drastically reduce the
punishment for posession, while main
taining "intent to sell" as a felony
and providing for severer penalties.
In addition, marijuana would be
redefined as an "hallucenogenic." It
is now considered a "hard drug,"
along with such others as heroin and
cocaine.
The new law was brought before the
Senate Subcommittee on Jevenile De
linquency by John E. Ingersell, direc
tor of the Justice Department's Bureau
of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. _
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(Cont. on page 5)