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'Music Hath Charms ?'
Especially In Brevard
By CHRISTINE M BAERMANN
Stall' Writer
These mountains are still new to
me. But only nine months of liv
ing with and in them has made1
me a mountain fan. i am also a
music fan. And last week-end I
had the chance to .ndulge both. I
drove from Wayncsville over M'.
I'isgah through 4520-foot W'agoit
Road Gap for the opening weCk
t nd of the Brevard .Music Festival
The festival is heid for 3 weeks
in the mountain setting of Tran
sylvania Music Camp, just outside
the little town of Brevard, 40 miles
from Waynesville. Although the
festival climaxes a summer of
music learning for about 100 teen
agers, the concerts are presented |
by professionals?symphony play
ers, chorus and famous soloists
who come to the Smokies espec
ially for these events. The whole 1
is under the near-miracle conduct
ing of James Christian Pfohl.
A summer storm followed us
across the mountains and became a
vet itable cloud burst as we passed
dramatic Looking Glass Rock and
Falls on the far descent. Wind
ing up Pisgah there was, as always,
that thrill of seeing flowers which
has'e long since faded down here
in our 3.500-foot "lowlands."
Once we startled a fawn bv the
roadside. He stood spellbound and
frightened?just long enough for
us to see the whiteness around his
tail, his delicate spots and grace.
The rain didn't spoil the grandeur
of high vistas. They looked even
more primeval in their sombre
greens, mists and dark, dark woods.
Artists in Person
That evening 1 had the surprise
privilege of having dinner with the
very celebrities 1 had come to hear.
This came about through the grac
ious invitation of Mrs. Frieda
Knopf, of Waynesville, summer
time hostess to artists at the camp
and festival. ,
Jorge Bolet, the pianist, a tall,
athletic, rather Spanish-looking
type, was quite a contrast to Jos
eph Fuchs, violinist, who had a
short, stocky build with a face that
reminded one of Charles Boyer.!
i There was a loud whisper at a
nearby table. "Why, they don't look
a bit like musicians!"> Also with
us were two very charming and
very young duo-pianists, known
professionally as N'eal and Nelson,
but who are Mr. and Mrs. Nenl in
their rather un-private life. They
live like gypsies in a van which
carries their two pianos, their per-!
sonal effects and themeslves. have j
"barnstormed" small and large
towns wtih more than 100 concerts
in the past year, and are working ;
toward their first appearance at 1
Town Hall in New York.
Hair-Dryers For Fiano
The dinner conversation of
course, turned to music with many
great names spoken with famil
iarity, with criss-cross arguments
about the philosophy behind music,
and a great deal of talk about that
most common of subjects ? the
weather. For as with a farmer, a
musician, it seems, is greatly con
cerned over the weather. Bolet was
somewhat nervous about his even
ing performance because of the
dampness remaining after the'
storm. It kills sound-carrying
quality like a blanket of cot
ton to keco any instrument in
tune, especially in the open shed
wjiere concerts are held. Students
had. he said, kept three hair-dryers i
going for most of .the afternoon
full blast at the felt pads and
strings of his piano in order to dry
them out. Later at the concert, we
noticed that the orchestra had to
u-tune their instruments between
almost every movement.
The program iliat evening in
cluded the Overture to "The School
for Scandal" by modern composer
Samuel Barber, then Mendelssohn's
"Scotch" Symphony No. 3, played
superbly by the 90-piece orchestra,
and fin311v the Third Rachmaninoff
Concerto with Bolet at the piano.
This was fireworks indeed, and a
display of virtuosify ^o make one
gasp. Certainly no lack of excite- '
ment as evidenced by the cheering 1
audience who called Bolet and
Conductor Pfohl back for some 8
curtain calls. My own feelings
were that I would like to have
heard Bolet's talents applied to
music of a less spectacular, roman
tic type. I wanted to see what he
could do with a Beethoven or a
Chopin. But my longing for "mu
sician's music" was fulfilled the
next afternoon.
Fuchs Plays Mozart
Sunday offered a program wl)ich
I consider a high spot of many
years Of symphony going. Follow-,
ir.g the Beethoven "Egmont" Over
ture. Fuchs' playing of the Mozart
V iolin Concerto No. 4 was a master
piece of balance and team-work
between soloist and orchestra. The j
Concerto was played with restraint
and true craftsmanship as well as
musicianship. The audience was
visibly but quietly moved.
Last two works were modern,'
and ones which T knew were ex- j
tremely difficult for an inexper
ienced orchestra ? Delius, "On
Hearing the First Cuckoo in
Spring." a delicate, impressionist i
work: and Stravinsky's "Firebird
Suite" with its complicated or
chestration and syncopations. In
spite of the fact that Pfohl had
only 4 days to rehearse his or
chestra, unpracticed as a team even
though made of musicians from
many symphonies, he conducted
both works with the greatest con
trol, getting sharp contrasts and
never once allowing either "to fall
apart" as can so easily happen,
even with the greatest of 'orehes
tras. There was a unity and an
understanding behind these diffi
cult pieces which made their hear
ing a true exp<*rience.
The trip home during the sun
set hours was broken by a side
jaunt out three miles of bumpy dirt
road, to the right just as you reach
Wagon Road Gap. Again breath
taking views were capped by the
most breath-taking of all from the
porch of Pisgah Inn, literally lost
on this mile-high mountain top.
Here we had a buffet supper be
fore a roaring wood fire before the
last 20 cool miles down t|ie moun
tain and through pastoral Pigeon
Valley.
One last work on practical mat
ters. There are few motor courts
in Brevard, but many homes are
open to visitors. The Brevard
Chamber of Commerce and the
Festival's Public Relations Depart
ment may be able to help you find j
good housing, and I don't think I
have ever met such friendly peo
ple as 1 saw on the streets and in
the shops. There are at least two
good restaurants, Gaither's and
Galloway's, and probably others.
Music Xext Two Week-Ends
My week-end was just a begin
ning. I'm hoping to go back for
some of the coming concerts. Fri
day and Sunday, August 14 and 16,
offers the duo-piano team, Lub
oshutz and Nemenoff. playing
Mozart. That program includes
works by Respighi. Harl McDonald
and Tchiakovsky. Robert Harrison,
violinist, and Gordon Epperson,
cellist, will play a Brahms Double
Concerto with the orchestra Satur
day night. #August 15. Also to be
heard are the Brahms "Academic
Overture," an Enesco "Roumanian
Rhapsody" and Suite from "Der
Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss.
Richard Dyer-Bennet. tenor with
Spanish guitar accompaniment, will
give a solo program of folksongs
arid ballads T'.isday night, August
18.
The week-end of August 21, 22
and 23 features vocal and choral
works with Eileen Farrell and
Beverly Wolff as soloists and the
presentation of several 17th and
early 18th century works climaxed
by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Yes. l ean recommend the 18
year-old Brevard Music Festival.
It is one of Western North Caro
lina's prize possessions.
A LONG WAY LP describes the 300-foot monolith of Chimney
Hock. An elevator shaft risees through the living rock of the moun
tain to an observation lounge at the base of the chimney, and a
ramp invites the visitor to climb to its top.
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Junaluska Queen
To Be Crowned
In Gala Program
The coronation of a new "Queen
of Lake Junaiuska," an annual
highlight of the Methodist Assem
bly's summer program for more
than 20 years, will be held at 8
p.m. Saturday in the main audi
torium.
The queen-elect is Miss Joyce
Carter. Lake Junaluska resident
and a rising junior at the Uni
' versity of North Carolina. She and
the members of her court. 20 young
couples, will be presented 10 ihe
retiring queen. Miss Betty Anne
I Robinson of Hickory, who will pre
'side over the opening exercises.
Following a colorful pageant with
a Robin Hood theme. Miss Carter
will be crowned as the 19153 queen
and seated on the gaily-decorated
throne. Serving her as "Maid of
Honor" will be Miss Lucy Nee ley, i
Columbia, S. C., who was runner
up in the recent election.
Also in the court will be the
two other candidates, Miss Mary
Moore, Columbus. Ga., and Miss
Louise Leach of Lake Junaluska.
Arthur "Smiley" O'Neill, recrea
tion director at the lake, and his
stalf arc in charge of arrangements
for the coronation. Tne stage of
the lakeside auditorium will be
decorated in keeping with the
Robin Hood motif.
" A reception for members of the
court and cast will be given after
| the cpronation by Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Carter, parents of the new
quceti; at their home on Lakeshore
Drive.
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Bible Study Vital
To Christianity,
Dr. Bullock Says
More Bible reading and home
! study were cited as Christian edu
cation goals by Dr. Henry M. Bul
lock, Nashville, Tenn.. in his ad
dress Wednesday night at the Lake
Junaluska Methodist Assembly.
''Let us work to bring it about
that every member of every Meth
odist Sunday School studies his
lesson at home, using his own Bible
I from the junior age upward," Dr.
Bullock said. He is editor of Meth
odist church school publications
and executive secretary of the
Board of Education's editorial divi
sion.
"Too few of our children consider
that it is expected and desired
that they shall .study their Sunday
School lessons, and tea'chers too
often do not emphasise lesson prep
aration and. parents do not try to
assist or even remind their children
to do it," he continued.
"Our adults have widely come to i
regard Sunday School As a lecture
by the only oerson in the class who j
has studied the lesson, or as an op
portunity to exchange platitudes or
ignorances about some scriptural
passage," Dr. Bullock declared.
He said, "We must reverse these
trends or else entirely redesign our
whole concept of the church's edu-}
cational work ... we do not wish j
to take away from the home one of j
the last stimulants and opportuni
ties for vital home religion."
Dr. Bullock also called for the
"weeding out" of non-Methodist
literature. "Under the guise of tol
erance and freedom too many of j
our churches use the products of j
commercial and independent pub-.
lishers which channel into Metho
dist Sunday School concepts of
God and Christianity at wide vari
ation with the teachings of Jesus
as the Methodist Church under- i
stands them, and thus corrupt the
| loyalty of our people by creating
unfounded suspicions about their
own church."
He concluded: "Let Methodists j
he Methodist's, learning Christian j
doctrine and ethics, experimental
religion.'and Christian social action
and citizenship from our own liter
ature."
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BISIIOP JOHN BRANSCOMB
I)K. JAMES T. CLELAND
Bishop John Branscomb. Jacksonville-. i'la., anil Dr. James T.
Cleland, Duke University, will lie the pulpit principals at Sunday
services in the main auditorium of tile l.ake Junaluska Methodist
Assembly.
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Cherokee Drama Impresses
New York Critic - Author As
'Realization Of Dream'
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By JOHN PARRIS
CHEROKEE. Aug. 12?The man j
they call "Mr Theatre" said today |
that "Unto These Hills," the saga-1
play of the Cherokee Indians, im
pressed him "as an ideal realiza-,
tion of a long-cherished dream of j
national American drama."
John Gassner, eminent New
York critic and author of the na- '
lion's top textbooks on drama and ;
the theatre, made this statement as 11
he ended a tour here of America's ,
Outdoor dramas, including "The
Lost Colony" at Manteo. "Horn In
The West" at Boone, "Thunder
land" at Asheville, and '"The Com
mon Glory, at Williamsburg; Va.
"As a visitor from New York's
professional theatre," he said. "I
leave the Mountainside Theatre at
Cherokee with a refreshed spirit
and a sense of gratification which
strengthens a lifetime's conviction
that the theatre is an institution
that should be cherished and pro
moted by the people of America. *
their leading citizens, and the gov
ernments of their states.
"Unto These Hills impresses me
as an ideal realization of a long
cherished dream of national Ameri
can drama," he said. "The play is
the epic of a people. But more
than that, it is a drama of human
relations that admirably expresses
the unity of the human race. It is
an understanding and compassion
ate work.
"The production, imaginatively |
staged against a natural setting of
great beauty, stimulated and stirred
me immensely. Needless to say.
since a unified production is. the
work of the director, special com
pliments go to Mr. Harry Davis.
"The performance." he con
tinued. "is particularly gratifying
because the actors themselves are
moved by the matter of the play
and are caught up by the atmos
phere or spirit of the event.
"Theatre, 'Unto These Hills'
proves quite conclusively, is not an
esoteric experience to be sipped
like absinthe in a dive, but a way
of expressing a life shared and
treasured by all."
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Set For Saturday
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tional Park naturalist will conduct
another in this summer's series of
field trips from Heintooga Over
look Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and
again at 1 p.m. The trips last ap
proximately one and one - half
hours.
Walks are open to the public,
and there is no charge. Low-heel
ed shoes are recommended for wo
men. hut heavy hiking equipment
is unnecessary.
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The best the. ancient Romans
could do was to hreed hens which
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