Vol. 4, No. 1
North Carolina School of the Arts
PRGSIDGriT UUflRD
RETURnS
Robert Ward, NCSA President,
returned last Monday from a two week
trip to Florence, Rome, and London
where he was working toward what the
school hopes will be the final
arrangements for the fourth summer
session in Siena, in cooperation with
the Accademia Musicale Chigiana; a
return of the N.C. Dance Theatre group
to Central Italy; and the establish
ment of the new summer Drama Program
just outside of London. Final details
on all of the programs should be
ready for announcement by the middle
of February.
To t^rgh
Valerie Bettis, a noted American
dancer and choreographer, is visiting
the School of the Arts and teaching
and rehearsing many modern dancers.
Born in Houston, Texas, Miss Bettis
was originally a member of the Hanya
Holm company (1937 to 1939) but in
1944 she organized her own group.
Among her notable concert works
are the solo "The Desperate Hour"
and "As I Lay Dying." She has also
choreographer two works for ballet
companies: "Virginia Sampler" for
the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, and
"A Streetcar Named Desrie".
Miss Bettis has experimented
with combinations of speech with
dance and has been noted as a "chor
eographer of considerable original
ity with a strong feeling for thea
trical effectiveness."
Feb. 9, 1970
FACULTY RECITAL.fr
Marc Gottlieb, violinist and
Clifton Matthews, pianist, will pre
sent a faculty recital at 8:15 p.m.,
Friday, February 13, in the main
auditorium at the North Carolina
School of the Arts. The concert is
open to the public without charge.
Their program will include First
Sonata for Violin and Piano by Robert
Ward, president of the School of the
Arts. The sonata was composed for
Herbert Sorkin, violinist, and Brooks
Smith, pianist. It was first per
formed by them at Carnegie Hall in
1952. Friday's concert will be the
first time the work has been per
formed in Winston-Salem.
DANC
NOTES
Rael Lamb, who recently pre
sented Atlantis at Wake Forest,
has been accepted at Juilliard as
student choreographer. A modern
dance student at NCSA, Rael will
present his works in concert in
New York.
Alvin Alley's American Dance
Theater has accepted Leland Schwantes
as a company member. Leland was a
modern dance student at NCSA and held
the teaching fellowship last semester.
Another former student, Gene
Lowry, is the company's lighting
designer.
Alley's Company will perform
Feb. 13th at U.N.C. - G.
Also on the program will be
Sonata in A major (Op. lOO) by
Johannes Brahms, Four Pieces (Op. 7)
by Anton Webern and Sonata in C
minor (Op. ZO) No.- 2 by Ludwig van
Beethoven.
Gottlieb, who teaches violin at
the School of the Arts, is first vio
linist and one of the founders of the
Claremont String Quartet, which has
been in residence at the School since
it opened in the fall of 1965. He
is music director of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art in Washington and has
participated in Casals and Marlboro
Music Festivals. As a member of the
Claremont Quartet, Gottlieb has played
concerts in nearly all parts of the
world.
Matthews has been on the School
of the Arts faculty since 1968. Both
he and Gottlieb have masters' degrees
from the Juilliard School. At
Juilliard, Matthews studied with
Irwin Freundlich, who 4:eaches at the
School of the Arts as well as at
Juilliard. He studied in Munich, Ger
many under a Fulbright grant and
has performed in England, Scotland,
Scandanavia, Holland, Germany,
Austria and Switzerland as well as
throughout the United States. Be
fore coming to Winston-Salem, Matthews
was on the faculty at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
ORGAN RECITAL TONIGHT.
8:15 P.M. _ SaIem Co I Iege
Catherine Crozier - Hanes Auditorium
This year, NCSA is attempting to
produce an annual for its student body
and school community. The staff of
the yearbook feel that they have ne
glected to inform the students about
the yearbook and would like to take
this opportunity to do so.
We decided to go ahead and try
to put out an annual because the
students indicated by poll that they
were interested enough to have one.
Now, we are in the process of sell
ing and have had 140 students make
the three dollar deposit. The pub
lisher wants around one thousand
dollars in March before he will con
sider printing. Obviously, it is up
to the students.
The students should take an
interest in what they asked for, which
is an annual, and what we are striv-
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