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Cleveland.Ohio The " new" R eview (Spring, 1966 ) is ROCHESTER terrific! The change in format is splen did , pictures are supe rb, and choice of material couldn't be more timel y or REVIEW int eresting. I know thi s is th e first time I have read the Re view fro m cover to co ver. Thank yo u. LOUISE B. M CC ARDL E, '44E Stravin sk y Week 3 at the Eastman School On eida . N . Y. Ou r R eview doesn't give us much information on our alumni who just become ordinary citizens. Our Necrology list devotes so little sp ace to at lea st telling us a statement National about th em. We do n't even list the sec reta ries of th e va rious Educational T elevision c lasses to se nd some information to if we de sire to do so . In 6 my man y travels around the country and life abroad, I find at the Eastman School someone fro m Roch ester h as been there while I' ve been - FRANK L EDLIE M OORE the re and never knew of each ot her. Perh ap s we co uld tak e a look at the alumni new s in the Cornell Alumn i Magazine. Seems like o ne happy family. T he " im personalit y" of Rochester is forever being qu oted. A Tra gic View Can't we make it a litt le more personal? 9 of Science MARY O TT AVI A NO L AR AIA, '30 - D R. W IL LlAI\\ L OT SPEICH Arlington. Va. Yo ur Spring issu e is particularly delightful. Photographs CA M PUS D IALOGUE: of students and fac ulty in class or on campus make me feel as if I'm just passing by, head revolving, enjoying all I can 12 A ccent on Athletics hear and see. And there's no doubt our Rhodes Scholar at Oxford is a ve ry special fellow. Appreciatively, ELIZABETH ALFRI E ND M cLA U GHLIN, '30 Classnotes Brussels. Belgium As an alum na and a journalist, let me te ll you how much I enjoy th e fo rmat and co nte nt of R ochester R eview. The improvements you have made are worthwhile and worthy of the co nstantly improving U niversity.... Little Charlie SARAH MILES WATTS , '56 15 - D AN R AT TI N ER, '6 1 The White Man ROCHES TER REVIEW, VOLUME XXVIII , NUMBER 4, Summer, 1966. Editor-Judith Can't Help E. Brown ; Art Director-Robert S. Topor ; Produ ction Manager -Barb ara B. Ames; 18 Classnotes Editor-Patricia Coppini ; Publi cat ions Committee of th e Alumni Federa the Black Gh etto tion : Diane Morrell Jenkins,'58 (Chai rman); Dr. Norman J. Ashenburg, '38, '40GM, - M ARK B ATTL E, '48 '51M (ex officio ); David A. Berger, '35E, '39GE; Allen M. Brew er,'40; Ronald C. Heidenreich, '48 U; Robert W. Maher , '37; Helen S. Rockwell , '37 ; Helen H. Tayl or, '32 N; Robert J. Scri mgeo ur, '52 (ex officio). Published by the University of Rochest er four t im es a year in Fall , Winter, Spring, Summer , and mailed with out charg e to all alumni. Edi to ria l office : 107 Administration Bld g., Rocheste r, 22 Uni versity N ews N. Y. 14627 . Second class postage paid at Rochester, N. Y. ILLUSTRATION CREDITS: Photographs-Linn Duncan, Don Eddy, Jim Laragy, Lou Ouzer , The Saturday Evening Post. Cartoon s-Dan Ratt iner, '61. These were the week s that were . .. §1r~AVllN§KY WEEK At the Eastman School wo VE RY S PECIAL weeks in Tthe life of the Eastm an School are recorded on the next seve ral pages. On e was Stravinsk y Week , during which the 83-year-old compose r and his assista nt, Rob ert Craft, heard perf ormances of Stravinsky's musi c by E ast man stude nt ensembles ... met with stude nts and faculty mem bers . .. participated in a sym posi um on composition tech niques ... and conducted an all-Strav insky co ncert at the Eastman Th eatre. Th e visit was arra nged by Walter Hendl, the School' s dir ector, both to hon or the man un iversally hailed as the world' s grea test living composer , and to give Eastman stude nts the opportunity to meet and speak with him. In another unu sual week-that was the School became the set ting for a TV documentar y on "The Mu sic Student," produced by National Educational Televi sion. Tha t this week pr oved equally exciting for the film's producer , Frank Moore, is indi cated in his article on Pages 6 to 8. * ** During his wee k at Eas tma n, Maestro Stravinsky was gener- 3 ous in his praise of the School's student performers. But his high est tribute came later, when, in an interview reported by TIME Magazine, he commented that "only a few weeks ago, I heard the Eastman School orchestra play to perfection, on a minimum of rehearsal, some of my most difficult later music, which at least one renowned professional orchestra could not manage after a week of rehearsals and a dozen performances." 4 RO M HI SF IRST press conference-at which he f told reporters,"You ask me questions and I'll criticize the questions"-to the moment when, after receiving an honorary degree from the University, he impishly doffed his academic cap to the audience before turning to conduct his final number , Ma estro Stravinsky astounded and delighted all who en countered him. Enlivened by his wit, enormous per sonal charm, and amazing vitality, Stravinsky Week became a joyous celebration, rath er than a solemn obeisance. 5 ~-- ---------------~ Th ese were the week s that were . NATTIONAl JEDUCATTIONAl TJElJEVTISTION and the Music Student I ~ ,'-------------------~/ THENational Educational T elevision docu A mid a welter of wires and undern eath the ho t lights of th e T V cameras, A ssociate Pro fessor mentary for which the Eastman School pro- Da vid Van Hoesen conducts a bassoon lesson . vided both setting and personnel is designed to show the "ordinary" round of activities in the education of a music student. N everth eless, no wee k in which a television producer and crew follow faculty and students from studio to prac- tice room to concert stage can be term ed an 01'- dinary wee k . In the article that follows, Producer Frank Moore reports on his reactions to today's music students as he glim psed them at Eastman. The accompanying photographs show M oore and his crew at work- and some of the people and the NET Produ cer Frank M oore (faci ng camerama n) fo llowed th e film ing from start to finish, th en wrote his im pressions acti vities they captured on film. of today's music student especially for th e Review. The half-hour show is scheduled for initial re- lease this summer. 6 WAS ONCE a music stude nt. I don't know how I sur II vived. I fo ught the esta blishme nt, arg ued with th e cur ricu lum, devoted my best th ou ghts to vag ue ideal s rather than practice.I did not th ink of my study as prep aration for a practical and ass ured way of living. But on the other ha nd, I yea rne d for a contact with th at othe r reality in which sub lime beau ty and harsh truth are one. T he students at Eastma n School ex hibit very few symp toms of un certainty. In the two months I have ju st spent here, wha t has impressed me most has been th e way they assume their future ca reers to be not only pr actical but as much a part of the real world as if they were sc ientists or enginee rs. I think th at differen ce is part of a deep ch an ge in our na tiona l culture , on e which, had we been wiser twenty yea rs ago, we could have used as a basis for our careers. T he re is no qu estion about it; th ere is live music eve ryw here in the nati on now, and a n orches tra l player ca n exis t ( tho ugh he may also have to teach ) in almost M ezzo-sopran o Joyce Castle, who is study ing any city . for her ma ster's degree, was one of the "stars" T here rem ain s the qu estion of th e other , less practical, of the T V film . ded ication. My ass ignme nt was to produce a half-hour film, "T he Mu sic Student," for the series " USA: MUSIC" on Nationa l Educational Television.C urt Da vis, who is directo r of C ultura l Affairs for NET, and is musically oriented, kn ew me as a professional musician with ex pe ri ence in film, so th at th e ass ignme nt contained an implied question: whether the pr esent-d ay stude nt knows what he is in for , and whether his tr aining is different th an it used to be. Mr. Davis had visited E astman not lon g be fore our co nve rsa tion, and thought it might be a good setting for the pr ogram if onl y because its recent change in direc to rs might provide us with a crystallization of the cha nge in mu sical culture with rem arks and illustrations from Eastman's histor y.