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Calendar Revisions
Lengthen Holidays
The NCSA Trimester Calendar for this year has been revised. The
first change that will affect students is the length of the Christmas
hoUday. As before, the vacation will start after the intensive arts
period (Dec. 2-15), but will last until January 7. This date has been
changed from January 3, giving students a few extra days for
vacation. However, from Jan. 3 until the time students return, the
entu;e faculty and administration will engage issues related to the
ciOTiculum reform commission and the Institutional Self-Study.
Classes will resume on January 8.
Another change is the addition of a day to collect tuition and fees
before each new trimester. On these days, Jan. 7 and March 25 the
cashiers office will be open from 1-5:00 p.m. so that students will pay
fees the day before classes start.
This year, no student will be admitted to class until aU fees are paid
and any fees paid after the final fees collection day wUl include a fine
for late payment.
Little Murders”
G)mmitted In Dome
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Jules Feiffer’s biting satire on
violence in urban America,
“Little Murders” opened the new
Dome Theatre at the North
Carolina School of the Arts
November 8 -11 and will continue
its run November 15- 18 at 8:15
P.M.
Directed by Dr. William
Jaeger, “Little Murders” is
presented by the School of Drama
in association with the School of
Design and Production. The
simplified studio set was
designed by John Kavelin of the
design faculty with costume
designs by Karen Templeton, a
costume design major from
Baltimore, Md., and lighting by
Max DeVolder of the Design^ and
Production faculty.
“Little Murders” revolves
around an emasculated father,
his slightly dippy wife, his
aggressive, mannish daughter
and his effiminate son. The
daughter Patsy introduces into
the family circle, her boyfriend,
an apathetic photographer who
specializes in pictures of ex
crement and daydreams while he
gets beaten up.
Feiffer’s play, which is at times
funny, at times macabre and
always bizzare, presents a quasi
normal family scene and sets
against it a hard-breathing
telephone pest, unsolved crimes,
bribe taking police, incessant
muggings and a black comedy
shock ending.
The cast is headed by John
Coggeshall of Uncasville, Conn.,
as the father; Nancy Gable,
Joliet, ni., as the mother; Denise
Calais, Collinsville, HI., as the
daughter; Glyn O’Malley,
Central Falls, R.L, as the son
and Arthur Ernsberger,
Charlotte, N.C., as the boyfriend.
Others in the cast are Frederic
Serino, West Pittston, Pa.,
Stephen Geiger, Millington, N.J.
and Jack Tucker, Abilene, Texas.
According to Denise Calais, one
of the leads, the show is going
well. Denise feels that this is a
very unusual show for her
because all the actors are
working together, both in
rehearsals and out.
When asked how the play
relates to life, Denise said, “It
makes one more aware of social
problems and how important
and immediate they can be.”
Due to the controversial sub
ject matter of the play, Denise
anticipates that there may be
some negative reactions by the
audience. She only hopes that
“when people see it, they let it
affect them and perhaps they will
then become more aware of what
the world needs and perhaps will
try to do something about it.”
Mark Cedel
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NCSA Schedules i Theatre Plans Revealed
Schuman Festival
William Schuman, American
composer, will be the guest of the
North Carolina School of the Arts
during a two^ay festival of his
compositions. The two programs
will be held at Salem Fine Arts
Center at 8:15 on Friday,
November 17, and Saturday,
November 18, and are open to the
public at no charge.
The first program with an
emphasis on &:human’s chamber
music, will include “Voyage,”
played by Eugene Gaub, a piano
major from Silver Spring, Md.;
“Quartettino” for clarinets
played by Murray Kaufman and
Forest Campbell of Winston-
Salem, Annette Kickel, Green
ville, S.C., and WilUam Prince,
Los Angeles, Calif.; and String
Quartet No. 3 performed by
fellowship players Helen Hagnes,
violin, Marcia Buccianeri, violin,
Philip Wachowski, viola, and
Mark Ward, cello. Also on the
{x-ogram are two works for
chorus, “Carols of Death” and
“Mail Order Madrigals” and a
film of Martha Graham dancing
“Night Journey” to a Schuman
score.
Featured on the second
program is the Pulitzer prize-
winning work for chorus and
orchestra. “A Free Song,” with
David Partington conducting the
NCSA Chorus and Orchestra.
Under the baton of Nicholas
Harsanyi, the orchestra will play
“Credendum” and “New
England Triptych.” The com
poser will make a brief talk
during the evening.
A graduate of Columbia
University, William Schuman
was formerly President of the
Lincoln Center for the Per
forming Arts (1962- 69) and The
Juilliard School (1945- 62). A
member of the Advisory Board of
the School of the Arts, Schuman
is at present Chairman of the
Board of Videocord Corporation
of America.
The holder of 19 honorary
degrees, Schuman has been
awarded 17 major prizes and
dtatiorw including, in addition to
the Pulitzer Prize, the New York
Critics Circle Award for Sym-
I*ony No. 3 and IJie New York
Music Critics Award for
“Judith.”
His other affiliations have
included the music panel of the
National Endowment for the
Arte, the advisory panel of the
United States Cultural Presen
tations Programs, a director of
National Educational Television
and a music advisor of the United
States Information Agency.
Among his many other com
positions are the American
Festival Overture, Concerto for
Piano and Orchestra, Symphony
for Strings, an opera entitled
“The Mighty Casey” and
numerous works for the dance,
including “Judith” and “Un
dertow.”
The campus this year has been
alive with new construction
activity. The pace of this activity
will be increasing in the days to
come despite some in
convenience to everyone.
Hopefully, living in the midst of a
construction site will prove to be
exciting.
The Sieatre, nearly naked and
useless at present as a theatre, is
awaiting construction crews for a
facelifting. Improvements and
renovations should leave the
building entirely different from
ite present state. Some of these
changes are unique and NCSA
desperately needs an adequate
theatre facility.
The seating arrangement will
curve in front of the proscenium
and continue that design as it
rises upward. The first section of
seate will be level with the stage
floor. Behind, it will rise in a step
fashion, ending with a small
balcony. The architect’s have
proposed a system which will
Scientist Exhibits Art
William S. Greene, Instructor
in mathematics and science at
the North Carolina School of the
Arts, is one of ten artiste
exhibiting in the Southeastern
Realist Invitational Exhibition at
the Gallery of Contemporary Art
this month. The exhibit, which
will run from November 3 to 30, is
an annual event and includes 8 to
10 works by each of the artiste
invited to participate.
One of the few persons in the
country to receive grante in both
science and the arte, Greene has
just completed a year’s residency
at Penland School of Crafte on a
grant from the National En
dowment for the Arte. He has also
received a grant from the
National Science Foundation, the
Olin Matoeson Award as an
outstanding educator and a
Stauffer Grant for world travel
and research.
A graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Greene has studied at the
University of New Zealand and at
Cambridge University in
England. Greene, who was on
leave of absence from the Arte
School during his residency at
Penland, has been at the School
since ite inception in 1965. In 1970-
71, he served as chairman of the
School’s Faculty Council.
New Recognition
On November 3, 1972, the North
Carolina School of the Arte was
accepted into membership in the
North Carolina Association of
Colleges and Universities. This is
another kind of recognition of
accreditation status on the state
level.
allow the lower section of seating
to be moved away so that an
orchestra could take that place if
necessary.
On the stage floor, designs have
included a trap area for
mysterious disappearances,
among other uses. To the delight
of technicians there will be a
catwalk system for the hanging
and focusing of lighting in-
strumente.
A new control booth will also be
included, located up behind the
balcony.
There will be an outer lobby by
the present entrance and an
inner lobby next to the theatre.
Four studios on two levels will
help to ease some of the needed
work space for rehearsals and
classrooms. The building will
also be centrally air conditioned-
a relief to anyone who’s ever
worked there in those hot, humid
Carplma days. Further, an ac-
coustical consultant is workingon
the project to insure that all
sounds are pleasant and
tolerable.
Some areas will remain the
same, such as the costume shop
for example. Deans and teachers
from the various departmente
are involved in the planning in
regard to their needs.
Until the work on the theatre
and the auditorium is completed,
the dome and other local houses
will handle productions. For a
while it’s going to get noisy with
the sounds of tearing down and
putting up . In the meanwhile,
performers and technicians will
get to know the dome-it’s the
only friend they’ll have.
Bob Gambrill