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We lie down in darkness, DO IT! Observer and have our light in The ashes July Oakland 1, 1966 University, Rochester, Michigan Vol. VII, No 37 Here Come More Music• Men! "ia/ a;iris . Lectures by Haas Youths Study. Under Stars Enhance Festival Students from three contin- receive coaching in piano trio World-reknowned lecture- ents began to arrive at Oakland performance from Detroit Sym- recitalist Karl Haas will preview University on June 25 for an ex- phony musicians. Action Circle, your campus watchdog, baffles bureaucracy, puts the music to be presented at citing summer of study with some The various aspects of this a chicken in every pot, and fulfills the American Dream. Efficiency the Meadow Brook Festival at of the concert world's brightest program, including lectures on is our byword; high are our standards; we are the Special Forces of Oakland University this summer stars at the Meadow Brook School the history and literature of the the little man on campus. Write Action Circle at Observer Office, in a program of eight sessions. of Music. piano trio, will be open, for a Bomb Shelter, Basement of OC, or call between 8:30 and 8:35 or The "Music Alive" series will During the next eight weeks, fee, to other interested auditors. contact by appointment. begin June 29 and will be held they will work with such front- During the main six-week on successive Wednesday even- rank performing artists as vio- session of the Meadow Brook Because of the unexcelled beauty of your campus, this may ings at 7:30 p.m. at the new linist Issac Stern, pianist Eugene School, beginning July 11, Robert seem like quibbling, but mindless praise can be found anywhere Matilda R. Wilson Hall on the Istomin, cellist Leonard Rose, Shaw, director of the Choral and whereas sensitive criticism should be treasured. Keeping this University campus. choral conductor Robert Shaw, %Vocal Institute, will develop two in mind, is there any way that Action Circle can move the Sci- In addition to focusing on the and first-chair musicians of the groups. The Youth Chorus will ence Building? the altar of the great scientific minds at 0 U particular programs to be pre- Detroit Symphony Orchestra. consist of singers who have not should certainly be placed so carefully that its perfection sented each week at the Meadow Students representing the yet entered college, and the equals thatof its architectural forefather, Stonehenge, but alas! Brook Festival, Mr. Haas will United States, Canada, South Meadow Brook Chorus will be emphasize the political, social, America, Europe and the Virgin composed of college and it is one inch too far to the right to focus properly on the meteor- adult Islands, will attend each of the ological phenomena it is meant to record. 0 miahtv Action Cir- economic and cultural climate singers and choral conductors. the specific Festival concerts featuring the Both will cle, could this situation be remedied? J. G. Calloway which influenced prepare programs for compositions. To enhance this Detroit Symphony and outstanding presentation with the Detroit Because this is such a monumental problem, Action Circle sought adventure in comparative cul- soloists. Also open to them are Symphony at the Meadow Brook the best minds on campus to issue a solution. According to the tural history, he will illustrate a series of recitals and chamber Festival. Admissions Office, which should know what it's talking about, the the sessions with recordings and concerts by the School's dis- Added to this summer's vocal best minds belong to the incoming freshmen, as is the case every his own "live" piano selections. tinguished faculty. curriculum is an Opera Work- year. (0 how long can this intellectual ascent go on Director of Fine Arts for On Monday, June 27, the ten shop, directed by Dr. David Di We snatched the plans for the first panty raid out of the fresh- WJR Radio in Detroit, Karl Haas member New York Pro Musica Chiera of the Oakland University men's hands, and to satisfy their bubbling intellects, we presented is an internationally acclaimed will open the School's second faculty. Participants will appear them with this task. We don't know how they did it -- evidently they authority on cultural affairs and summer session with a two- in performances of several oper- have backs equal to their minds -- for during the night of June 29'th an accomplished musician who week Institute for Medieval, Ren- atic scenes on August 9 and a the Science Building was moved one inch to the left. The ordinary studied under pianist Artur aissance, and Early Baroque Mu- complete opera on August 15. observer may not notice the change, but you, Mr. Calloway, will Schnabel in New York. He has sic. In the Orchestral Institute, appreciate the new heights of architectural sensitivity our campus spent a great deal of time abroad Singers, instrumentalists, Albert Tipton, solo flutist with has attained. 0 that the aesthetic resolution of Hill House and Dorm in connection with his duties conductors, and scholars will the Detroit Symphony, again will Phyve could be so simple! under the Ford Foundation and study and perform pre-classical conduct the Meadow Brook Or- had just returned from Europe music with members of the group, chestra. Superior young in- How can I get an autographed picture of one of my favorite where he conducted a special founded by the late Noah Green- strumentalists, selected by audi- singing groups, OU's own Urban Roots? Fan program for UNESCO. He has berg and currently under the tion, will match the makeup of recently been appointed Special direction of Lalloue Davenport. the Detroit Symphony, chair for Action Circle has gone you one better. Instead of an autographed Consultant to the Meadow Brook Before the end of the seminar, chair. They will study pri- picture of the Urban Roots, you get an autographed Urban Root! Festival at Oakland University sounds of such unusual instru- vately with the Symphony's lead- Because of the pre-record boom financial recession, they are now and is Chairman of the new ments as the krummhorn, the ing musicians, and prepare at living in the Pontiac laundromat. You may pickup yours anytime be- State Council for the Arts. rauschpfeife, the viola da gamba, least five concerts which will fore noon. You will know him when you holler, "Soap!" The one For a brochure describing and the portative organ will float be open to the public. who cringes is an Urban Root. the series or for further in- familiarly from the new Wilson Most students will elect ad- formation on costs and registra- Hall Auditorium and from the ditional courses related to their I have lost my virginity. Is there anything Action Circle can tion, please contact the Confer- open windows of practice rooms. major field, rounding out a pro- do for me? .Mary ence Department at Oakland Un- Launching a unique experi- gram that will award up to eight iversity, Rochester, Michigan. It ment, Isaac Stern, Eugene Is- hours of credit. is possible to attend individual tomin, and Leonard Rose will,for Dr. Walter S. Collins, dean Naturally, our first thought was to go to the Dean of Admissions sessions if attendance at all eight the first time, conduct a Piano of the Meadow Brook School, who suggested that we try the lost and found. We started at Charlie sessions is not possible. Trio Institute. They will be in reflects the enthusiasm of his Brown's who was out for lunch. Apparently the next step was to go residence July 18 through August faculty when he speaks of the to the maintenance room in NFH (anybody know where it is?), then 7, each working with six highly School and its unique study pro- the steno pool in NFH, the lost and found board in SFH, the notices Competes Miss OU talented master students between gram as foremost in the ranks board in SFH, the steno pool in the Science Building, the circulation Oakland's reigning beauty, the ages of 15 and 30, some of of music education. "This sum- desk at the library, and then Hollie Lepley's office in the Sports Miss Kathy Longeway has just whom already have achieved mer," he says, "our Meadow Building, a quick trip to each head resident's office, whizzed up and finished a busy week at Muskegon noted success in their respective Brook Orchestra will be the best down five stories of Wilson Hall, dashed by the Activities Center competing with 50 other con- fields. student orchestra in the United Desk, and then panted up the stairs to Charlies Brown's desk, which testants for the coveted Miss Twenty-five qualified perfor- States." was closed for the day. Action Circle noticed a circle. As for your Michigan crown which becomes mers and teachers of each in- Sixten Ehrling, conductor of problem, are you sure you lost it? With this many lost and founds, the ticket to the Miss America strument will audit the sessions the Detroit Symphony, is direc- how can anything which hasn't been found really have been lost? contest later this year. During between master teachers and tor of music for the Meadow Pageant Week, as the festivities master students. They will also Brook School. • at Muskegon are called, the lovely contestants competed in the three be among this select ten, we will traditional classes, swim suits, see her perform a dramatic Tuition Increases evening gowns, and talent. The reading of a selection from The rising cost of living has last category counts double in the Shaw's SAINT JOAN; the same captured the college student final score.