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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1911
NUMBER 8
Practice Teachers In Schools
LYCEUM GUEST STAR FROM INDIA PICTURED WITH HIS SAROD
Ashish Khan, brilliant young Indian musician, who appeared in Whitley Auditorium on Tuesday night of this
week in the latest of the Elon College Lyceum attractions, is pictured above with his sarod, which is an in
strument quite well known in India, but one which is unique in American musical programs. Young Khan at
tracted much praise for the excellence of his program in Whitley on Tuesday night.
Indian Musician Is Heard With Praise
In Elon Lyceum Program Given Tuesday
Choir To
Give
‘Messiah’ On
December 8th
Heard with great plea
sure by music lovers of
the campus and the sur-
The Elon College Choir
IS a busy group during
these November days as
the student singers pre
pare for their thirty-sixth
annual presentation of
Handel’s “The Messiah”
in Whitley Auditorium on
we afternoon of Sunday,
L>ecember 8th.
The great Handel ora-
which has been
trilling audiences in both
urope and America for
Wore than 200 years, will
e directed this year by
Richard Apperson,
Who joined the Elon Col-
ege music faculty in Sep-
ember of this year, with
rof. Fletcher Moore,as
e accompanist at the
organ.
The Elon College-Com-
Unity Orchestra has
appearing with the
presenting
- Yule season oratorio
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rounding area was the
concert given in Whitley
Auditorium on Tuesday
night of this week byAs-
hish Khan, talented mu
sician from faraway In
dia, who appeared in an
other of the series of
Elon Lyceum programs.
It was one of the most
unusual musical attrac
tions to be heard from
Whitley stage, for its fea
tured masterful perform
ance on three of India s
unusual instruments,
the sarod, the tabla and
the tamboura.
The guest artist is die
youngest Indian musician
ever to tour the United
States. He was born in
Maihar, India, m
and is descended from
one of India’s great mus
ical families. He has
played earlier in many
countries, but this is his
first tour in America.
Young Khan is the
grandson of the famous
Allaudin Khan, who has
often been referred to as
“the father of Indian in
strumental music.” He
began musical study with
his grandfather at the age
The sarod, which is
his favorite instrument,
is originally from Af
ghanistan and was devel
oped during the reign of
the Mogul ruler, but it
of six and has also studied
with his father, sarodist
All Abkar Khan, and with
his uncle, sitarist Ravi
Chankar,
He played his first pub
lic concert in 1953 when
he played duets with his
grandfather for the All-
India radio network. He
has also played many
times with his father in
the East-West Music En
counter in Japan and has
appeared in 1967 in the
Hollywood Bowl in the
“Festival From India
and during the past Sep
tember when he made a
solo appearance with the
India festival program in
New York’s Philharmon
ic Hall.
was popularized in India
by young Khan’s father and
grandfather. The sarod’s
body is of teakwood, its
belly covered with skin
and the finger board of
metal. It has 25 metal
strings and is played with
a plectrum from a cocoa-
nut shell.
In his concert at Elon
on Tuesday night, Ashish
Khan had two accompan
ists, one playing the tabla
and the other the tam
boura, two other popular
Indian musical instru
ments. The tabla is a
two - piece drum, one
piece tuned to tonic and
the other to the subdom
inant, with tones varied
by palm pressure. The
tabla is a long-necked
gourd instrument, non
fretted but with five
strings which give a sort
of hypnotic background to
all Indian music.
Elon Seniors
Are Working
As Teachers
Twenty-seven Elon
College seniors are now
engaged in practice
teaching in schools of this
area, some in Burlington
and Alamance County and
others in neighboring
county and city schools
systems.
The group went out into
the classrooms on Octo
ber 31st and have now
finished almost half of
their assignments, with
the teaching chores due
to be finished on Decem
ber 19th, according to Dr.
Arnold C. Strauch,chair
man of the Elon College
education department.
The practice teachers,
as listed by Dr. Straugh,
includes seven in the field
of elementary education
and twenty in various sub
ject fields at the second
ary school level.
Those teaching at Wal
ter Williams High in Bur
lington are Becky Beale,
of Danville, Va., in
French; Bill Oman, of
Lexington, and Karen
Carden, of High Point,
both in physical education.
Teaching at Broadview
Junior High in Burling
ton are Jane Blalock, of
Burlington, in French;
and Fran Thorton, of
Williamsport, Pa., and
Robert Ellis, of Marion,
S.C., both in physical ed
ucation.
Those teaching at Tur-
rentine Junior High in
Burlington are Marilyn
Farley, of Roanoke, Va.,
in social studies; and
Tommy Davis, of Eden,
and Don Scott, of Gra
ham, both in mathemat
ics.
Teaching at Southern
Alamance High School are
Nancy Boone, of Winston-
Salem, in French; Les
Campbell, of Burlington,
in physical education;and
Margaret Willett, of
Pittsboro, in business ed
ucation,
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CHAIRMAN
DR, ARNOLD STRAUCH
Heads Program