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Stan Kenton Here to Hold Jazz Session Student Office Inside W eather Partly Cloudy and warm, Mrs. Murphy substitute MICHIGAN High in the high 80's housemother. Page 3 STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS Tuesday, August 6, 1963 Price 10{ East Lansing, Michigan Vol. 55, No. 14 Grid Game Policing Poses Problem Stan Kenton Police . Cutback Here To Hold Forces Jazz Session 'Definite Problem By ERIC M. FILSON State News Staff Writer Getting Cars Stan Kenton is on campus this week. Kenton’s band and 20 top instructors and names in jazz are here, too. They are teaching On, Off Campus’ about 130 young people jazz. The annual Stan Kenton Clinic got underway Sunday in Shaw Hall. Jazz enthusiasts from all over the nation are participating Traffic for MSU and Univer­ in the school. sity of Michigan football games Kenton arrived on campus Monday with his band, and they will move through East Lansing presented a concert for the clinic participants Monday night. Ken­ and Ann A rbor this fall without ton and his band will be here all week. They were at the University the aid of the Michigan State Po­ of Connecticut last week. They stopped on their way to campus to lic e . play in Detroit Sunday. A cutback in the State Police Clinic participants have a ____ work week and the opening of busy daily schedule. Each stu­ new sections of expressway are dent averages about two hours of the reasons State Police officers band rehearsal, one hour of sec­ ava ila ble Final Facultya/ will not be fo r the tional rehearsal, two hours of games, according to Capt. James theory and arranging, and two K. MacDonald, commander of the hours in the evening of general C ongress COLORING BETWEEN THE LINES-Pert, little Sheri Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred first district at East Lansing. educational programs. MacDonald said his district According to Dr. Morris E. W. Smith is shown on her parents lap in the Case Hall apartment. Mr. Smith is the resident will not have the manpower this Hall, former associateprofessor T on ight adviser for the men and his daughter has become the princess of the dorm. For a picture fall to supply the 20-26 officers of music here and director of the story and account of Sheri’s life in a men s hall, see Page 2. it normally contributes to aid in camp, ’’The purpose of the clinic A final concert featuring dis­ directing the 15,000-20,000 cars is to create an interest in modern tinguished members of the Con­ which jam the area on football HANI FAKHOURI American music and to train gress of Strings faculty will be w eekends. young people about big band jazz. held tonight at 8:15 p.m. in the T h e first district normally "if there is not some sort ot Dallas Symphony Leader Kellogg Center Auditorium. supplies the campus with 2 -6 training, jazz, which is the only The first number will feature policemen and the City of East Higher Education true American art form, may be Hyman Goodman, concertmaster Lansing with 20-24. taken over by some other nation. of the Toronto Symphony O*- "Prior to this year, we have Jazz is tremendously popular in chestra, violin; Rafael Druian, Here For Final Concert been able to recruit men from other countries.” concertmaster of the Cleveland outside the first district for foot­ Has Reputation Hall said that the clinic is Symphony, violin;LouisKrasner, ball weekends,” MacDonald said. was invited to guest conduct the trying to teach what the staff professor of music at Syracuse Moving on to higher musical ment, has■ _ _ beenI ... —. Inin thetho United By SUE JACOBY Concertgebouw Orchestra of Am­ "However the cut in the work feels is the correct interpreta­ University, viola; and Robert achievements, Johanos attended States for about ten years. State News Staff Writer sterdam. He will appear there week from 56 to 48 hours means By JA C K IE KORONA tion of jazz. "The staff meets Jamieson, solo cellist with the the Eastman School of Music on His stay at Michigan State be­ during the 1963-64 winter season. each trooper has two days off State News Staff Writer each day and discusses why they Minneapolis Symphony. They will a scholarship. He received his gan one year ago, and will con­ Donald Johanos, the 34-year- The young conductor has also instead of one. are here. They adjust the sched­ play "String Quartet No. 7,” bachelor’s degree in violin and "In addition, more police are clude in September, old musical director of the Dal­ appeared in Europe with theNeth- Graduate study in France, Eng­ ule of rehearsals and the general bv Milhaud. his master’s in music theory. needed sin ce the new e x p re ss­ ” 1 studied first at Upland Col­ las Symphony Orchestra,arrived erlands Radio Orchestra as the land or any foreign country is a program during the week to fit The second number will be a Johanos has an extensive in­ ways have been opened.’ lege in California. At this school, on campus Sunday to begin re­ winner of an international con­ mark of prestige for any Amer­ what they feel are the reasons for "Duo Concertant for Violin and ternational background in the Richard O. Bernitt; director of which is connected with UCLA, ductor’s competition. ican student. being here. We feel our prin­ Piano,” by Stravinsky. Fran k hearsing the Congress of Strings world of music. I began my undergraduate work. While he was resident conduc­ public safety at MSU, said the But what of the thousand for­ cipal purpose i s to show young Houser, concertmaster of the San for its final concert of the sum­ In 1955 he was presented with State Police decision "wouldpose When I visited Detroit one year tor of the Dallas Symphony, Jo­ eign students who come to this people why they should be and are Fransisco Symphony Orchestra, m e r. a Rockefeller grant from the la te r , 1 didn't intend to stay, but hanos performed guest con­ a definite problem in getting cars country to study? studying jazz. will play the vio'in and Dr. Paul Johanos is the youngest con­ American Symphony Orchestra friends persuaded me to attend ducting engagements with major on and off the campus.” Last spring more than 430 "One of the things taught and Oberg, chairman ofthemusic de­ ductor to work with the 100- League for advanced study in Wayne State.” orchestras in Pittsburgh and New The MSU police force will try graduate students from countries stressed at the clinic is music partment a t the University of member group. Sponsored by the Europe. He studied under prom ­ After receiving a bachelor’s Orleans. He appeared at sum­ to take care of the added burden all over the world were on the theory. Most high schools don’t Minnesota, will play the piano. American Federation of Music­ inent F.uropean conductors for and a master’s there , Fakhouri mer music festival s in Law­ by adding 25 new student traffic Michigan State campus. And the teach any theory. We find much Oberg is dean of the Congress of ians, the Congress of Strings is 18 months in Salzburg, Rome, came to Michigan State, again rence, Ken., and Brevard, N.C. officers to it s usual fall total total is expected to climb grad­ resistence to theory instruction S trin g s. a music education program which "Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam and at the suggestion of friends and Johanos will also conduct the of 100. ually in the future, according to by drummers at the start. By T he third num ber, " L a O racion enables students selected at lo- M ilan. his "peer group.” Rochester Philharmonic Orches­ The University will use the stu­ Donald Jay Gemmel, education the end of the week they are del torero,” by Purina, will fea­ cal auditions to work with some Johanos worked in Philadel­ "1 like the atmosphere here. tras during the 1963-64 season. dent traffic officers to direct exchange coordinator. asking for more. ture Houser, Goodman, William of the most prominent musical phia with Eugene Ormandy, mu­ cars around Spartan Stadium into There’s plenty of opportunity for The final concert of the Con­ Why these students come to "At every clinic we take a sur­ L in c e r, solo v iolist with the New figures in the country for eight sical director of the Philadel­ interaction between the grad­ gress of Strings will be presented permanent and auxiliary parking this country and to Michigan State vey among the students asking York Philharmonic Orchestra, w eeks. phia Philharmonic Orchestra. uate student s and between the August 15 at 8:15 p.m. in Fair­ lo ts. in particular may be explained them what they liked and what and Theo Salzman, solo cellist Johanos began studying the vio­ Ormandy was on campus ear­ The Campus Police can do students and the faculty. That s child Theatre. Like all Congress by the reasons of one such stu­ should be improved,” Hall said. with the Pittsburgh Symphony. lin, piano and trombone in Cedar lier this summer to conduct the nothing to help the traffic situ­ the way it should be. of Strings concerts, the Johanos dent, Hani Fakhouri, doctoral "We find that more theory is The program will conclude w.th Rapids, la., of which he is a Congress of Strings. "Through the student feed­ performance is open to the pub­ ation in the City of East Lan­ candidate from Jordan.
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