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Students Become Critics At Concert
Everybody considers herself an
amateur critic. Campus plays, up
town movies, the latest issue of
Time—all of these become objects
and subjects for criticism and dis
cussion. Music is harder to pin
down. It is heard and not seen.
A listerer hears a concert and that’s
it. She cannot go back and check
to see what they missed the first
time, or what the second impres
sion might be.
A phase of Miss Samson’s music
Beyond
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masterpiece of superb acting and
good taste. Wish we could see
more of the same.
Important facts: Did you know
that you were seeing 112,538 dif
ferent characters in War and Peace,
and that it cost between 7 and 9
million dollars to produce ? 68,894
people were photographed in the
six million dolar Around the World
in Eighty Days and the rest of
mankind starred in The Ten Com
mandments which cost a million
dollars per commandment. Well,
you never know when they might
ask you that on a quiz show.
I guess you’ve read about the
rumors of a royal rift between
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of
Edinburgh. Optimistically speaks
ing, the stories were proved un
true when the Queen flew down to
I’ortugal last week to welcome the
Duke upon his return from a four
month tour of the Commonwealth.
It was quite dramatic as Philip
strode up the plane’s carpeted stair
way when it arrived at the Montijo
Military Airport in Lisbon and’
quickly emerged with atiny smear
of lipstick on his handsome tanned
face. Elizabeth, they said, was
nothing but smiles. “Of course
they kissed,” said a Portuguese of
ficial, “Why on earth shouldn’t
they?” So who’s objecting? . . .
Two movies that prove you don’t
necessarily have to be earnest and
horrid to be realistic are Holly
wood’s Full of Life starring Judy
Holliday and Italy’s Gold of Naples.
They say Judy’s never been fun
nier and as for Gold of Naples, it,
puts our sentational-type actors to
shame by showing the results of
long and careful study in acting
produced by the actors of many
foreign films . . . The funniest
thing in Hi Fi recordings is the
LP disk entitled Magoo in Hi Fi
and the flip side. Mother Magoo
Suite. If you’ve ever seen this
little man in a UPA cartoon, you’li
know what I mean . . . Speaking
of Books, is the title of an article
in the New York Times Book Re
view section and is rather thought-
provoking. It is written by an
angry young man by the name of
Colin Wilson, the author of one
of the most controversial inquiries
into the philosophical predicament
of mid-twentieth century man to
date—The Outsider.
Mr. Wilson quotes
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appreciation course is practice in
the difficult task of criticizing
musical programs. Last Monday
night’s Collegium Musicum concert
in Memorial Hall was beseiged by
amateur critics. The following
comments were selected from their
reactions.
(Chorale Preludes for Organ with
Trumpet)
. . . sounded like the typical Mo
ravian hymn. This is probably be
cause I always associate a hymn
played by brass instruments with
Records
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No Other One"
Tab Hunter: “Young Love", “Red
Sails in the Sunset”
Perry Como: “Moonlight Love”,
“Chincherinchee”
Fats Domino: “Blue Monday”,
“What’s the Reason I’m Not Pleas
ing You”, “Blueberry Hill”, “Honey
Chile”
Tommy Dorsey: “There Are Such
Things”, “Daybreak”
from Shaw s Man and Superman
which goes like this: “the artist’s
work to show us ourselves as we
really are. Our minds are nothing
but this knowledge of ourselves;
and he who adds a jot to such
knowledge creates new mind as
surely as any woman creates new
men.” This, says Wilson, sum
marizes the whole purpose of art—
and especially of writing.
He goes on to say, “This con
ception of art—of all human cul
tural activity—as an extension of
consciousness, is the existentialist
concept; it treats the human mind
as an unexplored area, and the pur
pose of philosophy and art as its
exploration—one might almost say
its creation.”
The American novel has tended
to become a carefully documented
examination of the lives of ordi
nary people; its symbol is the
microscope. You learn about peo
ple, but you don’t know any more
about yourself.
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Continuing his discussion of
microscopic and telescopic (birds-
eye view) writing of the past
thirty years, he says that “the most
terrible sign of corruption and
stupidity of our age is the complete
loss of the conception of self-
analysis as an element in the mak
ing of a culture.” If this attitude
continues in the future, our litera
ture is doomed.
“There will, of course, be the
usual microscopic social documen-j
tation, with its debts to Dos Pas-r
SOS, Faulkner, Tennessee Williams
and Arthur Miller. But it will
not be literature.”
the Moravians ... I felt several
times the music was not in the
traditional church dignity but I did
not feel the music was inappropri
ate for church use . . . Mr. Mueller
did an excellent job. The choral
ensemble were very weak and
added little.
There is not really too much I
can say about this type of music
because I do not enjoy it very
much, and I really don’t know
enough about it to really appre
ciate its worth. I am sure it is
very hard for two trumpets and an
organ to sound as good together
as they did, and it must have taken
a great deal of practice, but I did
not enjoy it very much ... I do
not like trumpets with organ music
... I do not like organ music.
(Solo Cantata for Soprano, Violin
and Continuo)
I heard a dreadful squeak from
the string section ... I found it
difficult to hear the harpsicord, but
this did not particularly upset me
. . This was better than the
Chorale Preludes” but I still did
not appreciate it as much as I
hould . . . One could definitely
feel the change of mood of the
music in this piece ... I did not
care for the harpsichord—it is too
"whiney” and “bingy”. It sounded
sort of like a banjo in high register.
This was rather boring to me,
although I appreciated the quality
of Lynne Hamrick’s voice ... I
enjoyed the cantata very much. I
thought it interesting and different.
General comment ran like this:
I did not enjoy this as much as
the symphony. I simply didn’t
understand it . . . The diversity of
the program held my interest . . .
I left after the first half because
I was not enjoying the music.
Maybe I made a mistake and
should have given the last half a
chance.
Beverly Wolter, arts critic for
the 'Winston-Salem Journal re
viewed the concert thus;
“Collegium Musicum Salem
sounds so long-hair. It isn’t really,
if the reaction of the some 450
persons who attended last night’s
joint Collegium-Salem College fac
ulty recital presentation is a proper
gauge. Their response was one of
spontaneous pleasure and enjoy
ment. There was no forced appre-
Students Bored In Assembly;
Susie Writes Of 'Real' Teaching
ciation.”
To the Editor concerning the
Faculty-Panel Assembly Programs:
We wish Dr. Africa and those
who worked with him to know that
we appreciate their efforts in plan
ning this series. We sincerely be
lieve that their purpose was good.
Whether it was in our response or
in the presentation of the material,
we feel that the end result fell
short of the original intent. Per
haps this was due to the atmos
phere of formality that prevailed
throughout the series.
.Although the same question was
asked to each department repre
sentative, none was absorbed
enough in his field to answer the
question without referring to a pre
viously-prepared “statement.”
We think that the grouping of
the major departments was excel
lent and liked the attempts made
in relating one area of study to
another. However, these relation
ships were show'n only among the
subjects discussed" in a single hour
—each program seemed isolated,
separate from the one preceding it.
Since the programs were not
confined to freshmen, but included
upperclassmen and those who are
already well into their major fields
of study, it appears that the pro
grams were not inclusive enough,
or enlightening enough, to merit
the tjme spent both by the faculty
and the students—for the freshmen,
a repetition of seminar; for the
upperclassmen, a rehashed cata
logue.
Sincerely,
Mary Archer Blount
and Cookie Kolmer
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(Editor’s note: The following
paragraphs are excerpts from a let
ter written by Susan Glaser Fisher,
class of 1956, to Miss White of the
education department.)
“I just can’t tell you all how
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You are quite right—in a super
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paper work. I fought it but did it
and I don’t mind it like I used to.
“I have five schools—grades kin
dergarten through sixth grade and
I wouldn’t venture to say which
I prefer. The little ones are still
dear to my heart and refreshing
but it is extremely relaxing to go
into the upper grades too.
“They left me completely on my
own, which was quite a shock at
first. I was given my fiive schools
and told to go to it without so
much as a music currculum to fol
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month I w:is
knocking my head against a wall
trying to stay ahead of all those
teachers but now I have fallen into
apattern and have somewhat of a
repertoire so it is much easier.
“I am in charge of over IQO
teachers. At Thanksgiving I
on 10 assemblies. At Christmas I
put on ten more.
“You should see the theory we
are expected to cover. We Do Re
Mi them to death starting in the
fir.st grade.
“You will probably not consider
me very unethical but I wear
sneakers to teach in. (Not plain
ones—blue ones.) I teach fourteen
classes a day and never have a
second to sit down. Also, I am
on such a split second schedule
that I have to have running shoes.
“My friend and I made up two
new songs. “Susie the Gnu” is
probably a little sophisticated but
I am going to try it anjrway. I am
going to have a Gnu contest. Since
the song describes a Gnu I am
going to give a bunch of lollypops
to the best picture of Gnu. I
guess I’ll run this in about the
second grade due to the minor key.
“You should see our apartment.
It is two rooms' plus kitchen and
bath but very small rooms. We
have our piano and we are so
packed in that I can lean out of
bed and play a C-major chord. For
awhile a little mouse named Willie
lived in it but vje caught him. I
told some of my first graders and
they branded me as a heel. They
took Willie’s side . . .”