THE N. C. ESSAY
VOLUNE V, NO. XII
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARfj"
FEBRUARY 15, 1971
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Photo By Bill Ray
Segovia To Visit
Maestro Andres Segovia,
universally considered the
world’s supreme guitarist, will
make an informal visit to the
School from February 22 to 24,
1971. Maestro Segovia was able to
arrange for the brief stay bet
ween concert appearances in
Sarasota, Fla., and Toronto, Ont.,
during the course of his current
U.S. tour.
The Spanish virtuoso’s visit is
primarily a gesture of friendship
to the School and a further means
of supporting the efforts of
student guitarists. During his
stay, he will listen to, and advise,
the most advanced students of
Jesus Silva, a Segovia protege
and instructor, in classical
guitar.
Segovia, who is 77, became
fascinated by the guitar at age
ten, at a time when the guitar was
not regarded as a serious in
strument. As his own proficiency
increased, he developed a
fourfold mission for his own life.
First, the maestro wanted to
separate the guitar from its
consideration as an instrument of
folklore-type entertainment.
Second, he set about to endow it
with repertoire of high quality,
which he accomplished both by
transcribing music written for
other instruments and by en
couraging composers to write
new works for liie guitar. Third,
through his world-wide tours, he
hoped to make the beauty of Oie
guitar known to the concert-going
public throughout the world.
His final ambition has been
realized at the School of the Arts,
as well as in about a dozen other
countries: to influence con
servatories, academies and
universities to include instruction
in guitar in their curriculum on
the same basis as any other
serious instrument.
Maestro Segovia last visited
the School in the Spring of 1966,
when he offered master classes
and instruction over a two-week
period.
NOTICE: Any high-school
student interested in
joining a debate team
contact Mr. Gary Burke in
Room No. 303 - C in the
Main Building. The team
will participate in debates
with other high schools in
the Winston-Salem area.
The first scheduled topic
will be “Resolve That The
Federal Government
Should Establish A
Volunteer Army.”
Banquet Of The Arts
by Kevin Dreyer
J.B. Returns
“John Brown’s Body” is
coming home after a successful
tour in public high schools around
North Carolina. The school
community and Winston-Salem
residents can view the epic series
of poems by Stephen Vincent
Benet in the Drama Theater on
February 16-18 and 20-21 at 8:15
p.m.
Under the direction of Robert
Donley, the 2% hour work will tell
the stories of two heroes, one
northern and one southern, and
the ladies they love. Even more,
it tells the story of the United
States at the most agonizing
moment of her history. The
chorus, under the direction of Bill
Dreyer, will add to the effects of
the special lighting and
costumes.
New Faculty
The Times They
Are A-Qiangin’
by Becky Slifkin
On Saturday, Feb. 6, an informal meeting was held between the
SCA, deans. President, administration and Faculty Council. The
discussion centered around the lack of involvement on the part of
students and faculty in policy-making decisions. The candid
discussion has produced quick results— somewhat limited, but,
nonetheless, progress. x- i. u
The most immediate result came at the full faculty meetmg held on
Wednesday, Feb. 10, where it was moved and passed that a limited
number of student representatives be allowed to attend the meeting^
This will provide a means for students to voice their opinions and
concerns to the full faculty. Hopefully, there will also ^ regular
communication to the rest of the student body through the Essay.
There is also the possibility of both student and faculty represent^ion
at Administrative and Deans committee meetings (it is m these
conmiittees that most major decisions are made.).
Top Scheduling
Several other matters of concern to the student body were brought
up at the faculty meeting. The academic faculty presented a three-fold
resolution; a. that no tours be held in the months of January and
February (reasons being that it is the end of one semester and the
beginning of the next- very important times academically— and the
bad weather.) b. that vacations be respected and no tours held (as
students are in obvious need of rest.) and c. that no tours be held near
or during the final exam period. (As Mrs. Fitz-Simons pointed out,
students here learn more when preparing for an exam than any other
time in ttie semester.)
Trimester Plan Considered
After some discussion, Mr. Lindgren pointed out that the Dean’s
conunittee was considering the possibility of a trimester school year.
As this would affect part A, the resolution was tabled for further
discussion.
Mr. Hawley gave a report on the condition of the budget for next
year: unforunately, not so good. Most of the requests for new or im
proved programs were not recommended (including the new library.)
Mr. Ward will go back to Raleigh on the 18th to try and convince the
legislature of the importance of the new building. One bright spot-
along with the money allotted for certain safety improvements, it has
been recommended that the summer program budget be raised from
$25,000 to $100,000.
Donald Hotton, of New York,
and Paul Meier, of England, have
been appointed to the faculty of
the School of Drama for the
second semester. This move,
together with a drop in
enrollment, will serve to ease
several of the problems of pupil-
teacher ratio in the department.
Hotton is teaching beginning
acting and Meir is an instructor
in speech.
A veteran of stage, screen and
TV, Hotton has appeared on
Broadway in Mother Courage,
Malcolm and Lute Song. He
toured in The Andersonville Trial
and as Harry Berlin in Luv, a
part he repeated here at the
school last week.
Hotton who has appeared in
over 200 plays, was a speech
major at the University of
Wisconsin and studied acting
with Herbert Berghof and Mira
Rostova. He has served as
director for the Inter-American
Players and directed The
Recluse at the Cafe La Mama in
New York
Rose Bruford Alumns
A graduate of the University of
Kent, Canturbury, Paul Meier
also holds a diploma in Speech
and Drama from the Rose
Bruford College of Speech and
Drama in Sidcup, Kent. (In
addition to being the alma mater
of Lesley Hunt, Rose Bruford
College hosted the 1970 sununer
drama program.)
Meier also gained a first class
IP A (International Phonetics
Association) degree. He comes to
the school from the unlikely town
of Paducah, Ky., where he was
head of a high school speech and
drama department.
In addition to a variety of ac
ting and directorial assignments
in England, Meier is a
playwright. He is the 1970 wuiner
of the Best New Play Com
petition, Kent, England. He also
wrote and directed What’s Going
on Here? in 1969.
BELA LUGOSI LIVES!
SPECIAL SHOW
THE PHANTOM SHIP
Come see the master of horror
in his 1937 magnum opus
3 pm & 7 pm, Wednesday, 17
February
Seminar B-Conunons Bldg.
The calendar of performances
for second semester is a varied
program, featuring distinguished
guests. The first of these are
David Evans and Gemze
deLappe who will return for a
repeat performance with the
NCSA dancers of Agnes deMille’s
“A Rose for Miss Emily,”
sponsored by Civic Ballet, on
Feb. 19 at Reynolds Auditorium.
Also on the program will be
“Poeme,” “Cherry Tree
Legend,” Pergolesi’s “Con-
sertino” and “La Malinche,”
starring Pauline Koner.
Dance will also be featured as
part of the Copland Festival, to
be held on campus from March 11
to 13. Aaron Copland, con
temporary composer, will be in
attendence for a series of
programs. Opening the festival is
a program of chamber and choral
music to be performed by the
Claremont String Quartet and a
choral group. March 12, there
will be an orchestra concert with
Mr. Copland as guest conductor.
The following day, March 13,
there will be a presentation of
four ballets which are new to the
School of the Arts: “Dance
Panels,” choreographed by Nelle
Fisher; “Cassandra,” by PauUne
Koner: “Quiet City,” by Duncan
Noble and “Crazy Quilt” by
Richard Enpiund.
Jazz Workshop
The week before, renowned
composer and conductor Andre
Previn will be on campus as
guest artist and lecturer for a
week-long workshop in jazz
music. (We are not yet sure
whether Mia and the twins will be
here.) On Saturday of that week,
March 6, there will be a special
performance of the most ad
vanced students from the
workshop.
Other music programs this
spring are An Evening of Opera,
composed of two short operas:
“The Old Maid and the Thief,” by
Gian-Carlo Menotti and “Sunday
Excursion,” by Alec Wilder, on
Feb. 26 and 27. The NCSA Or
chestra will perform on April 16
with Emerson Buckley as guest
conductor. Following that, on
April 30, will be a choral concert,
conducted by David Partington.
Czeck Festival
Igor Buketoff, former con
ductor of the New York
Philharmonic Young People’s
Concerts at Carnegie Hall, will be
conducting the Piedmont
Chamber Orchestra and
supervising arrangements for a
survey of the music of
Czeckoslovakiawith emphasis on
Czeck music as performed by the
Moravians in the days of Old
Salem and works of con
temporary Czeck composers to
be held from May 5 to 9, in the
Salem Fine Arts Center.
Music combined with drama
result in the Off-Broadway
musical play, “The Last Sweet
Days of Issac,” which will be
presented here April 17 and 18,
under the direction of William
Dreyer.
Drama Productions
Other up-coming drama
productions include three
workshops and an off-Jigain, oh-
again Spring production, to l)e
directed by Mr. X. The first of the
three drama workshops will be
presented Tuesday March 2
through Friday, March 5. The
program includes “Endgame,”
by Samuel Beckett and “iJind-
scape,” by Harold Pmter. It will
be directed by Barry Boys.
Two weeks later on March 15
through March 18, Robert
Murray will direct “The Nights
and Days of BeeBee Fen-
stermaker,” by William Snyder.
Murray descriljes this as just a
drama. “It’s about a southern
girl who goes to the city to
become a writer.”
The third workshop will be
directed again by Barry Boys and
will feature a play by Chekhov.
When contacted, Boys said that it
is still “a large query, probably
‘Uncle Vanya’.”
As you see, President Ward’s
“Banquet of the Arts” promises
to be a veritable delicatessen in
its own right this spring.
String Symphony Performed
The String Symphony of NCSA,
under the direction of Vartan
Manoogian, presented a concert
of works by Mozart, Haydn and
Dvorak on Friday, February 12
at 8:15 in the Main Auditorium.
The program opened with
“Divertimento K. 136 in D
Major” by Mozart. Described by
Manoogian as “mainly happy,
occasional music,” the piece was
composed by Mozart early in 1772
in Salzburg at the age of 16.
The second selection, from
Haydn’s “The I^st Seven Words
of Jesus Christ,” was written in
1785. Haydn received a com
mission from a Canon of the
Cathedral at Cadiz, Spain to
compose instrumental music to
accompany the seven last words
of Christ. It was customary in the
cathedral to celebrate Good
Friday with an oratory. The
Bishop pronounced the first of
the last words, then prostrated
himself before the alter while
music was played and so on
through the seven last words.
The thirty-one piece student
orchestra will play the music foi
the first, second, fifth and
seventh words and the ear
thquake music that follows.
“Seranade in E Major,” by
Dvorak, concludes the program.
Composed in twelve days during
the early period of his marriage
before the death of his first
children, the work reflects the
feeling of a fond mother and is
characterized by the good humor
and high spirits.
Manoogian, a graduate of the
National Conservatory in Paris
and holder of an M.S. degree
from the Julliard School of
Music, joined the faculty at the
school when he became the
second violinist for the
Claremont String Quartet. He has
conducted the String Symphony
since October, 1970.
In addition to the concert, the
String Symphony will be featured
on a half-hour television special
on WSJS Channel 12, hosted by
Winnie Pannell. The show will
combine rehearsal, recording
and actual performance to
demonstrate to the public ♦f’*'
kind of work entailed
preparing for performance.
“I think it will be an interest
experience,” said Manoogian,^
for us as well as for the public.’
The show will be aired on
February 22.