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\ Happy Birthday, Chopin! Chelsea Stith, Contributing Writer Last week, Meredith Col lege celebrated the bicentennial of Frederic Chopin’s birth with a weeklong musical festival. This ambitious project featured more than thirty musicians and scholars: elementary to high school students, Meredith College students and fac ulty, and world-renowned artists Ann Schein and Walter Hautzig. The opening concert by Meredith music faculty provided a marvelous start to the festival. A piano duo, a sonata for piano and cello, and one work for solo piano provided a varied program. The evening concluded with an unex pected surprise: the premier of an arrangement of Happy Birthday in the style of Chopin. Dr. Kent Lyman maintained that the com poser himself made a posthumous visit to his mailbox to drop off the manuscript. Chopin, however, did not choose to appear at his own birthday party, leaving more cake for the guests. The competition for pre college students was a smashing success, attracting gifted young pianists from all over North Caro lina and Virginia. The prizes were offered in honor of James L. Cly- burn, who retired from Meredith’s music faculty in 2000. First prize went to Mendel Nguyen, second to Fifi Zhang, and third to Xavier Graves. Ann Schein and Walter Hautzig performed two brilliant Meredith College music majors with waiter Hautzig; from left to right, Sarah Eichvalds, Chelsea Stith, Alden Pridgen, Sarah Moore, and Mary Royall Hight, photo courtesy of Sarah Moore programs on tWo consecutive nights. Schein’s attuned sensitiv ity, golden tone, and complete lack of self-conscious showman ship lent her interpretations of the works of this modest composer the same self-effacing gloiy of the music itself. Hautzig, renowned for his interpretations of Chopin, present ed a performance that exceeded expectations. His extensive pro gram included ballades, preludes, polonaises, and more. His mas terly style was evident from the first piece: breathtaking subito pianos, lilting melismatic sections, and a beautiful singing tone proved to be hallmarks of Hautzig’s style. On the 26th, Richard Reid presented another all-Chopin pro gram; Saturday, Meredith College students Sarah Moore, Maegan Coble, Megan Crosson, Mary Royall Hight, Elisabeth Bjork, Katie Yuri Kim, Erica Rogers, and Chelsea Stith collaborated to bring the festi val to a wonderful finish. Upcoming Events gathered by Kristen Gallagher • Communication Club Meeting, Thursday, March 4 at 3:30pm in the Comm Stud}' Lounge Sinfonietta Concert: March 4th, 8-9 p.m. in Jones • Psychology Club March 5th- Pig Pickin’ Fundraiser- 3:00pm Histoiy and Politics Club meeting: Monday, March 8th Meredith Advocates for Young Children meeting March 9: Conscious Discipline (Guest Speaker - Kim Hughes, Project Enlightenment) NCMA Lectures in Jones: March 10, Linda Dougherty will offer us a look at the Museum’s newest acquisitions. These lectures will be at io:oo AM in Jones Auditorium. They are free and open to the public. Students can receive convoca tion credit! MEA meeting March 12th, 10am, 204 Harris |4 • Undergrad Research Abstracts for n ‘ eSA Day due to Francie Cuffney email any campus events to herald@meredith.edu for inclusion here Campus Announcements The Meredith Herald is looking for copy- editors! Interested in adding this uni(iue job to your resume? Email us at herald@ mefedith.edu Corrections The c'lmliniialion of last week’s front page artiele ("Dr. Hartford's Retiremenr) on this page was ineorreetly altrihutetl. It was written iw Caitlin Griftin not Erin Etheridge. 'fhe Herald has had .some nuinhering issues lately! We are currently on volume 26 issue 15. We’re not sure how the last few issues got humi)ed hack to volume a.'}. Our apologies! Blast from the Past: Campus Life in 1922 gathered and submitted by Martha Fonville, Meredith Archivist This announcement was pub lished in The Twig (which has since been renamed The Meredith Herald) on October 20th, 1922. Read on to discover how different life was for Meredith women 88 years ago. “Just as all classmen enjoy taking their new privileges, so the Seniors have enjoyed those new ones which they couldn’t have as Juniors. The chief source of amusement for them has been the picture show parties. The handbook allows Seniors to go to ball games and picture shows at night in groups of three, unchaperoned, if this is taken for a date night and not used more than once a week. Almost every night there will be a bunch of Seniors leaving for a movie. The Superba and Almo [movie theatres in downtown Raleigh in the 1920s] are showing good pictures this fall and the girls are enjoying them.”
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