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have seven people excused from
classes for one day. Our publicity
department didn't handle the first
article on the show, and so on,
(Cont. on page 5)
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January 19, 1970
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(Cont. from ipage I)
who wanted to know more about the
Arts school, and the students they
s aw.
The program was video-taped, in
color, at WSJS television studio,
here, in Winston-Salem, and was
supervised by Dave Ranson. The
show was written and produced by
David Wood.
So pleased with the results,
WSJS sent the following letter:
"...Have submitted the program as
an entry for a possible award in
this year's.National Association
of Television Program Executives'
Annual Review of Local Programs."
One representative of the
station's publicity department said
he thought it was "the best local
production we've ever done." Now,
letters have come from as far away
as Durham, New Hampshire asking to
see the tape, - and any others, for
possible showing at those stations.
Christmas Is was seen over
stations in Winston-Salem, Raleigh,
n€uu founofiTion
■ (Cont. from page I) ■
Dr. -Semans,, who is also Chair
man of the Board of Trustees of the
North Carolina School of the Arts,
announced the resignation of Crawford
as President of the Foundation.
Crawford has- headed the Foundation
since it was established in 1964 to
raise funds to provide financial
assistance for the, school.
During his term of office, four
dormitories and extensive renovation
of the former Gray High School facil
ities have been completed. The
Student Center, which is presently
under construction, will be completed
in the spring. Under Crawford's
guidance the Foundation has success
fully met the requirements of the
five-year Ford Foundation matching
grant of a million and a half dollars
through the first four years. Craw
ford will continue as a director of
the Foundation Board.
Since he joined RCA Records in
1963, Roger Hall has been the director
of all RCA's classical recordings. An
executive of influence in the inter
national arts community. Hall has
been responsible for the recording
careers of such artists and ensembles
as Artur Rubinstein, the Boston
Symphony, Arthur Fiedler and the
Boston Pops, Van Cliburn, Jascha
Heifetz, Leontyne Price, Julian
Bream, and Robert Shaw.
During his tenure, he brought
to the Red Seal label many important
artists including Eugene Ormandy and
the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seiji
Ozawa, Andre Previn, the Guarneri
Quartet, Montserrat Caballe, Sherrill
Milnes and Luciana Berio. He has
further emphasized RCA's position as
a total record company with numerous
recordings of contemporary works and
such highly acclaimed productions as
the New York City Opera's Julius
Caesar by Handel.
The N. C. Essay
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and Charlotte. Several people,
returning to school, say that they
saw it over a local, station in New
York City over the holidays. CBS,
in New York, previewed the tape, and
as a resulty they are sending their
crew down from 60 Minutes to do a
story on the school.
WSJS is setting up a date when
all of our students can go to the
local station for a private and
special showing of the tape.
David Wood has been asked to do
five more specials, and is, hoping
to do them. Already he is planning
to tape Duncan Noble's ballet Mother
Goose in the spring of the year, a
one man show on Abe Lincoln, and
another children's play, 60 minutes
long, called: UM DILLI.
When asked about future plans,
David said: "There's nothing I'd
like more than to do these shows.
However, there will have to be some
changes somewhere if we do. First
of all I had to fight like hell to
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He was instrumental in arranging
a contract with Sir Laurence Olivier's
National Theater of Great Britain for
full-length recordings of that com
pany'^ produations of OthellOi
-Muoh Ado About Nothingy and‘Love, for
Love.
Prior to joining RCA, hall devoted
much of his career to the field of
symphony orchestra management. From
1959 to 1963, he was manager of the
Philadelphia Orchestra Association and
business administrator of The Academy
of Music of Philadelphia. Earlier in
his career he had been assistant
manager of the Orchestral
Association , (The Chicago Symphony) and
Orchestra Hall.in Chicago. His
initial posts as manager were with the
Fort Wayne (Ind.) and Erie (Pa.)
Philharmonic Orchestras.
Hall's first entry into the
recording industry occurred in 1956
when he joined Electric and Musical
Industries, Ltd. (Angel Records) as
sales and promotion manager for the
central United States. He was later
transferred to New York, where he
became national sales manager for Angel
and all classical recordings issued
by Capitol Records.
He began his career in the music
profession in 1947 as the director of
publicity and advertising for a
division of Columbia Artists Manage
ment in New York.
Hall is married to the former
Miss Katherine Scarborough Knight.
They have three children: Roger Bar
clay, age six; Alexander Scarborough,
four, and Mary Stockton, just six
months old. The family will move to
Winston-Salem in time for Hall to
commence his duties on March 1 at the
School of the Arts.
Crawford, who assumed the presi
dency of the Foundation in 1964 in
The Drama School's production
of Liliomj which went to Chape-l Hill
for the American College Theater
Festival semi-finals, was not chosen
to go to Washington. The two shows
which were chosen were Georgia Southern
College's production of J.B. and a
new play written by Arnold Powell and
performed by Birmingham College.
Bob Murray, Litiom's director,
was pleased with his cast's Jan. 9th
performance and suggested that part
of the choice of shows may have been
partly based on the fact that this
school and Hampton Institute (the
other contestant in the semi-finals
which was not invited) both had gone
to Washington last year.
The cast was natutally dis
appointed,but the silver lining to
this cloud may prove to be as
valuable, if not more so, than the
trip to Washington, D.C. Because
such a trip would cut into the
rehearsal and performance time of the
spring production of Shakespeare's
Midsimner Night's Dream^ had Liliom
been chosen, and had the cast decided
to go, the rehearsal schedule of
Shakespeare's play would have had
to been moved up to March. This
would have made it impossible for
Barry Boys to direct Midsvmner.
Night's Dream due to a schedule
conflict. Since the Drama School
is almost unanimously in favor of
Mir. Boys directing Dreaniy the cast
of Liliom feels a little
reconciled at the disappointing
decision of the contest's judges.
a temporary, volunteer capacity, said
in his letter of resignation:
"The work of the Foundation should
now be turned over to a younger man.
I am very much dedicated to the school
and the experiences here have been
very rewarding. I feel that the school
is filling a vital need for students
with professional artist-c aspirations
in North Carolina and the Southeast."
Dr. Semans said:
"With unparalleled dedication R.B.
has given his time, interest and talent
to the School of the Arts for five
years without salary. It would be
impossible to measure his tremendous
contribution, and, there is no adequate
way that we can thank him for his
contribution. I am deeply grateful
that he is staying on as a director
of the Foundation, and he has
assured me that we can count on him
as an advisor and that he will continue
to have a keen interest in the opera
tion of the school."