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THE SALEMITE
Friday, October 16, 197q
Ticket Clearing House-
A Worthwhile Service
With enough student support, the ticket clearing house set up by
Student Service Council could provide a useful service on campus.
Many students have invested in season tickets to the various series
sponsored by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem. However, there
are often times when they are not able to attend the events. If
they are free to go, they may face a transportation problem.
The idea of reporting available tickets to one person who will
act as a clearing house is a good one. With this system, students
can have an efficient way to sell, lend, borrow, or buy single ad
mission tickets.
Perhaps this service could be expanded to help with the trans
portation problem. Students taking cars to concerts, films, or other
events could report available space, and students needing rides
could also call in. This type of transportation problem on campus
is one that can be improved with more effective communication.
Student Service Council should be commended for providing
these useful services, and students should be encouraged to take
advantage of them.
Salem College has been invited
to send a delegation to the East
Carolina University Fifth Annual
N. C. Model Security Council.
The dates for the conference will
be Dec. 4th and Sth. The fol
lowing topics will be discussed.
The Indo-China conflict
The Mid-East situation
Apartheid in Africa
If anyone is interested in at
tending please contact Mary
Leight, 103 Bitting.
Dear Editor,
In reference to Dale Smith’s let
ter of October 9, it is noted that
Mr. Smith’s illogical thought pat
tern found throughout his letter
made it difficult to determine
whether he was referring to the
apathy of Salem students concern
ing on-campus or off-campus regu
lations and activities. Quite obvi
ously he has not been informed of
the rule changes, as exampled by
his comment on S.D.H. More im
portantly, a major curriculum
change has been made in the past
year.
Obviously, it is our duty to ignite
the spark of change, not only on
Salem’s campus but throughout the
nation. Contrary to Mr. Smith’s
statement, there are Salem students
who have the time, ability and
energy to promote worthwhile
change, hence the change in our
academic and social regulations.
Hopefully, Dale Smith will have
a few more years at Davidson to
De Larrocha, Nero Highlight
Musical Week In Twin City
By Carol Watson
Alicia de Larrocha, young Spanish
pianist, gave a delectable perform
ance at ’Wait Chapel Tuesday even
ing. The program was an unusual
combination of compositions, the
first half consisting of Les Roseaux
by Couperin le Grand, J. S. Bach’s
French Suite in E Major, No. 6,
Poulenc’s Suite Francaise, d’apres
Claude Gervaise, and Caprice from
Opus 33 by Mendelssohn. The
Sonata in E Minor, by Grieg, Sur-
inach’s Five Dances from the ballet
Acrobats of God, and three pieces
from Albeniz’ Iberia made up the
second half. Two encores followed
—a sonata by Scarlatti and a piece
by Granados, a Spanish composer
under whom Larrocha studied.
Larrocha’s technique is superb.
But so is the technique of many a
concert pianist. The thing which
made this performance outstanding
is that the ear so many times ex
claimed, “What beautiful music!’’
rather than, “What superb manipu
lation of the music!’’ Isn’t this al
ways the mark of a true perform
ance—that one is moved by the
work itself rather than by the exe
cution of it ? Both the dynamic
discretion and the attention given
to rhythmic balance, so often neg
lected by whiz-fingered virtuosos,
demonstrated that the greatest free
dom can be experienced when one
accepts and works within pre-
Pierrettes To Show
Various Talents
The Pierrette Players will pre
sent "A Round of Three" in the
Drama .Workshop next Thurs
day, Friday, and Saturday,
October; 22, 23, and 24 at 8:15
p.m.
The Bald Soprano by Eugene
Ionesco
Mrs. Smith—Nancy Schrum
Mr. Smith—Sam Currin
Mary—Catherine Cooper
Mrs. Martin—Dail Mahood
Mr. Martin—Sam Neill
Firechief—Mark Feldman
Director—Mary Davis
Play by Samuel Beckett
' Woman One—Sarah Dorrier
Woman Two—Peggy Bullard
Man—Pat Garber
Director: Chris Verrastro
Not Enough Rope by Elaine May
Edith—Maryann Patterson
Mrs. Pierce—Mary Pickens
Claude—Jim Brawley, III
Director: Carrie Hughes
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-Sara Engram
-Linyer Ward
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scribed limits. Today it is rare to
hear a professional keyboard per
formance which has a sensitivity
equal to its polish.
By Meredith Hardy
The Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association opened the 1970-71 sea
son by presenting Peter Nero in
concert. The performance in Rey
nolds Memorial Auditorium was
presented to a capacity crowd Wed
nesday evening, October 14.
Accompanied by David Troncos-
co, string bass, and Cecil Riacca,
percussion, Nero played a variety
of popular, jazz, and classical
arrangements. The trio achieved a
very unique effect by organizing a
program of contrasting moods and
tempos. Among the fifteen songs
played were “Spinning Wheel,” a
Gerschwin “Theme and Variation,”
“Raindrops,” and “Mrs. Robinson.”
Come Eat - Hear
To highlight International Month
in North Carolina, the Winston-
Salem Branch of the American As
sociation of University Women, the
Greater Winston-Salem Chamber
of Commerce and the WSJS sta
tions will observe Winston-Salem’s
first “International Week” by pre
senting a series of luncheon lec
tures by three well-known speakers
during the week of October 18-24.
The lectures are open to the public.
Monday, October 19, Mr. Sam
Levering, noted Internationalist,
will speak on “World Law”;
Tuesday, October 20, Dr. Donald
Schoonmaker, Professor of Poli
tical Science at Wake Forest
University, will speak on “The
Middle East Situation”;
Wednesday, October 21, Mr.
H. E. Richmiller, President of the
International Division of the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company, will
speak on “North Carolina and
World Trade.”
The talks will be given at Chau
cer’s Restaurant, 407 North Spruce
(above Woolworth’s Downtown),
beginning at 12:30 p.m.
A buffet lunch at a cost of $1.25
per person will be served beginning
at 11:00 a.m.
come to realize that tradition is a
necessary basis for responsible
change. Traditions or roots are
nothing to be ashamed of, especi
ally in the confused, chaotic, root
less world we are living in today.
Granted tradition must be viewed
in the right perspective: however,
to throw it all away would destroy
all foundations for responsible, rele
vant change.
The idea of a bureaucracy at
Salem is a fallacy. -Red-tape ob
viously exists at Salem, as it exists
in an institution of any size. If we
did have a bureaucracy, we could
not have made previous changes or
have any hope for change we are
working on at the present time.
Salemites, just as women all over
the nation, would like to be con
sidered more than “sex-objects,
prime young prudes to be tomor
row’s old maids, and sweet little
empty-headed broadshowever,
this image is hard to dispel when
there are so many twentieth cen
tury males living under those Vic
torian conceptions of women. (And
Davidson has its share).
Perhaps the most interesting as
pect of Dale Smith’s letter was his
idealistic generalization that there
is more apathy on the Salem cam
pus than on Davidson’s. You don’t
have it all together, Mr. Smith.
Marilu Pittman
Linyer Ward
Dear Salemite Editor;
I’ve been neglecting you and must
make amends.
Our Assembly speaker today
(Monday, Oct. 12) gave us the old
common folksy flattering cliche
(do you think he’s running for some
office?) of how each of us is en
titled by “Nature’s God and the
Laws of Nature” to interpret a
work of art—picture, poem, piece
of music—just as he pleases.
Then he turns right around and
takes that privilege away from us,
telling us that the painting on his
right should be officially and pub
licly interpreted as a vehement pro
test against the pollution problem:
“fowl” atmosphere! (He said the
pun was “obvious”; but I described
the painting to four of my faculty
colleagues who weren’t there, and
none saw the point until I pointed
it out to them. Which shows that
the students are all brighter than
us faculty members, since they all
apparently caught the point of the
pun before Mr. Potter pointed
out to them.)
Now don’t you believe a word of
his “fowd” and mistaken interpreta
tion I He is obviously putting us
gullible laymen on, foisting upon us
innocent free individuals his own
private, autistic, dreamed-up inter
pretation of the painting.
Yours for the sacred right of
us “individuals” and “whole"
persons (we’ve got our
rights I) to make any word,
picture, poem, doctrine mean
any damn thing we want it to
mean; and for the sacred
right, also, to coin our own
private quarters to put in pub
lic vending machines!
Just li’l ole me!
Mike H. D. Thoreau Lewis
P.S. Ain’t this a “romantic” letter!
Dear Editor,
In reference to the article “Bone
Weary Musicians “Seek Place to
Rest” Pierrettes would like to clear
up a few matters. The room the
music students referred to, which
had been “dismantled and confis
cated for use as a sewing room dur
ing dramatic productions” was
never for the music students. When
the Fine Arts Building was built in
1965, that room was for the Pier
rette Players. Our washer and
dryer were not to be purchased for
a year, so we loaned the room to
the music students for a lounge,
since we did not need the space.
We wanted it on record that the
Pierrette Players were not at fault
We do hope the wishes of the music
students are fulfilled, but in the
future we hope The Salemite will
keep the facts straight.
Sincerely,
Mary Davis
President of the
Pierrette Players
(Ed. note: The writer of the article
was aware of the fact that the
room has always belonged to Pier
rettes. She wished to emphasize
the benefits previously enjoyed by
music students.)
Anthology Includes
Mangum Masterpieces
By Margaret Brinkley
Five hundred seventy American
professional artists were recently
chosen for presentation in ArtitU/
U. S. A., 1970-1971, “The Buyers
Guide to Contemporary Art.” Of
the five hundred seventy, five were
from North Carolina. One of these
five is William Mangum, professor
of art at Salem.
Artists/U. S. A. is intended “to
review the established artists and
to discover newly emerging talents
in every section of the nation.”
Among the artists noted in the
book were the famed Andrew
Wyeth, Willem de Kooning, and
Jacques Lipchitd.
Mr. Mangum’s presentation in the
listing named him as an Associate
professor of Art and Art History
We wish to extend our sym
pathy to the Registrar, Miss
Margaret Simpson, whose
mother died Friday, October 9.
here. It also noted exhibitions of
his works at the Virginia Museum
of Fine Art, the Museum of Art,
Springfield, Mass.; North Carolina
Museum of Art; Isaac Delgado
Museum and particularly the Gal
lery of Contemporary Art in Win-
ston-Salem. His work includes the
Carl Sandburg Memorial in Flat-
rock, and the “Lamp of Learning
Monument in Greensboro. Tb^
sculpture cited in Artists/U. S. A-
is entitled “Portrait” and is priced
at $300.
When asked about receiving tln|
high honor, Mr. Mangum said,
got quite a kick out of it!” Salem
gets “quite a kick” out of having
such a widely recognized artist m
her midst!
HAPPENINGS
Mary Ellen Bosh, pinned to
Bru Izard, Sewanee.
Pat Mathews, lavaliered to
John Seignious, University o
Alabama.