Vol. 4, No. 13
North Carolina School of the Arts
January 19, 1970
Students To Perform Friday
Twenty members of the wind
chamber music class at the North
Carolina School of the Arts will
present a concert of music for
wind instruments at 8:15 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 23, in the main
auditorium at the School of the
Arts. The concert will be con
ducted by Mark Popkin, bassoonist
of the Clarion Wind Quintet, and
it is open to the public without
charge.
The wind chamber music class
is taught by members of the Clarion
Quartet. In addition to Popkin,
they are Stephen Adelstein, oboe;
Fredrick Bergstone, French horn;
Philip Dunigan, flute, and Robert
Listokin, clarinet.
The program for Friday's
concert will include: Little
Symphony for Winds^ by Charles
Gounod; Serenade for IS Wins
Instruments, by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart and Octet by Igor Stravinsky.
The students who will perform
are: Christine Nield of Miami, Fla.
and Renee Siebert of Richmond, Va.,
flutes; Randy Ellis of Benson and
Larry Glickman of Albany, N.Y.,
oboes; Gabriel Arpaia of Miami,
Robert Havey of Atlanta, Ga.,
Murray Kaufman of Martinsville, Va.,
Kenneth Miller of Staunton, Va. and
Linda Ruggero of Raleigh, clarinets;
Eric Maul of Philadelphia, Pa. ,
Christmas
Special Praised
This past Christmas, the North
Carolina School of the Arts pre
sented its first color television
special, written, produced, and
directed by our students. The show
was called: Christmas Is, and .was
dedicated to the memory of Robert
Davis, age 8, a little boy known
around the school, who was killed
in an accident several months ago.
Christmas Is was 30 minutes
in length, actually 22 minutes,
yet, more people across this state
saw it when it was televised than
have attended all of our productions
at NCSA since the beginning of
school. 93,000 people saw it over
WRAL, Channel 5, in Raleigh, N.C.
on Christmas Day, at 8:30 p.m.
The television station was
swamped with calls from its viewers
(Cant, on page 4)
David Tillman of Buffalo, N.Y. and-
Timothy Ward of Winston-Salem,
bassoons; Vincent Barbee of Raleigh,
Richard Chappell of Pickens, S.C.,
Jerry Folsom of Anaheim, Calif, and
Sue Wallace of Burlington, Iowa,
French horns; Edward Gallagher of
Bowie, Md. and Joseph Parrish of
Miami, trombones; James Butt of
Charlotte and Edward Gardner of Eden,
trumpets.
WARD IN ITALY
Robert Ward, NCSA president, left
last Thursday for Italy where he will
spend several weeks negotiating for
summer sessions for both the dance and
music departments. Mr. Ward will spend
most of his time in Siena and will then
go to London where plans are being
made for the drama department session.
Mr. Ward plans to return the the school
on February 2 and hopes to have some
definate news about the summer sessions
at that time^
Peter Svenson
ART SHOW
Peter G. Svenson of Takoma Park,
Maryland, and Frank Ekloff of Durham,
North Carolina, present the current
art show" in the lobby of Main Build
ing.
Svenson is presently a MFA can
didate at UNC-G and recently was a-
warded second prize in the Guilford
County Juried Exhibit.
Foundation
Head Named
Roger Griffin Hall of New York
City has accepted the post of Presi
dent of the North Carolina School of
the Arts Foundation, Inc., it was
announced today by Dr. James Semans,
Chairman ex officio of the Foundation
and R.B. Crawford, who has served
the Foundation as its President for
the past five years.
At the same time, Robert Ward,
President of the North Carolina
School of the Arts announced that
Hall has been appointed Executive
Director of the school. In this
capacity he will be involved in the
management of the school's touring
activities, its major public per
formances, foreign programs and
public relations.
Currently manager of Red
Seal Artists and Repertory for RCA
Records in New York, Hall will
leave RCA at the end of February in
order to take up his new duties in
Winston-Salem.
"Robert Ward has flattered me",
said Hall, "by inviting me to play
a leading role in the future of the
School. Since I have been so
stimulated by the scope of the
school's long range planning, I look
forward to the challenge. Moreover,
I share his conviction that the
School can become the focal point of ^
distinguished performing arts activity
throughout the Southeast.
(Cont. on page 4)