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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The Parthenon University Archives Summer 7-7-1960 The Parthenon, July 7, 1960 Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Marshall University, "The Parthenon, July 7, 1960" (1960). The Parthenon. 1687. https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/1687 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Parthenon by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. MARSHALLarthenon COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER H\JNTINGTON, W. VA. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1960 NO. 1 . ~ - rary Murals? ~: Opera Star Is hat Are They? r· B:, MARGARET COMM '.! Feature Editor ii," ~;,f w obsei:vant ·are you? ·~.r-· Slated Tonight ~e you ever really looked the library murals? Have you ever . wondered who Metropolitan Opera Baritone ted them; when they were Jllinted and what they represent? Appears Here -At 8:15 Tonight One student remarked, ''I al- ~ stop and. look at the paint By SUSAN ATKINSON Ilia above the stairway landing. Editor-in-Chief rve been coming here for the Theodor Uppman ,noted baritone with ,the Metropolitan Opera Jaat four summers and the fig Association, will appear on the second program of tlie Summer ures in the mural seem like old Concert Series at 8:15 tonight in Old Main Auditorium. There is friends." no admission charge for. the program. • ' Jim Pettry, Huntington senior, Uppman was born in California ______________ ~d, "I have not studied this and began his singing in the Palo mural closely, but I believe it is Alto High S c h o o I A Cappella suppo5e9 to represent all phases Choir. He won a scholarship to Miss Cometti ~ of college activity. I always note Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of the figure of the basketball play Music and then returned to study Writes Article er." music and drama at Stanford The mural was painted by Dr. University and at the University Dr. ' Elizabeth Cometti, Profes Carpenter, art department. Dr. of Southern California. sor of history, is the author of an Carpenter did the mural in 1956- He served during World War ~rticle appearing in the current 57, as part of a doctoral thesis. It II and then returned to Califor- issue of The Mississippi Valley took II- period of thirteen months nia where he was selected for the Historical Revjew. The title of the and was painted on the dry wall. role of Pelleas in a concert ver- article is "Swiss Immigration to Dr. Carpenter--said the title of the sion of Debussy's opera, opposite West Virginia." painting is "Some Aspects of the Maggie Teyte, with the San Fran- Dr. Commetti used manuscript Gr o w th and Development of cisco Symphony d i r e c t e d by materials from the Bundesarchiv, Bern, Switzerland, and fro'm the Teacher1 Education in West Vir- i£ Pierre Monteux. A year later ginia." f Uppman and Miss Teyte appear- Department of Archives and His- Aileen Davis, Williamson sen- A Singer O Rare Sort ed in a complete p~rformance of ior, said, "Dr. Carpenter's mural • "Pelleas et Melisande" at the has always fascinated me and I THEODOR UPPMAN, A HANDSOME, vital and hichly rifted New York City Opera. try to see how many different younr American baritone will be here tonirht for the second of In he won the Atwater the summer school concert series. Uppman repeatedly appears as 1947 vocations I can find represented Kent Auditions, w h i ch carried soloist with major symphony orchestras and is much in demand. in it." with it a $2,000 cash prize, and the The mural above the upstairs Gainsborough Foundation Award. circulation desk was painted by E. h h A I M . c1· . Uppman appeared in the title Marian Fors, wife of Spanish pro- 1g t nnua USIC 1n1c role 'of the world premiere of fessor, Juan Fors. Mrs. Fors be- ' Benjamin Britten's opera, "Billy ban the painting in the ' fall of Will Be Held July 25 31 Budd" in Covent Garden in Lon- 1936 and finished it in the spring - don during the 1951-52 season. of 1937 in time for the mural to By CORA PROFFITT nell, director of the college bands His performance was so impres- be unveiled for a sentennial cele- Staff Reporter and associate professor of music, sive that he was at once re-en- bration. The Eighth Annual Marshall and guest conductor Mr. Sidney gaged -for later performances of The mural was commissioned College Music c 1 i n i c for high Berg, director of the Maury High the opera in London and Paris, DR. ELIZABETH COME'n'I by the State Board of Education. school students and teachers will School Band at Norfolk, Virginia. and when the opera was introduc- ... Author Of Article lt was done on canvas and then be held July 25 through July 31. The mixed chorus will be un- ed in America in '1952 he sang the attached to the wall. The center der the direction of Lee Fisher, lead with the NBC Television tory in Charleston. Printed mat Panel represents the Teacher's _The clinic is intended to gi_·ve a Th t erial came c h i e f I y from the f d d Director of Choral Music and O pera ea re. and Arts and Science Colleges. wid~ range O a vance .~usic ex- associate professor of music. He mad~ his debut at the Met- Library of Congress. • The Panel on the right represents pe_nences to young mus1c1ans and J't . 1953 th I I d ·t· I I - b . ropo 1 an m · as e ma e ea The article shows how West West V·1·rginia literature and the w1 11 b e val uabl . e .t o those w h o p Ian Add1 10na c asses w1 11 e ava11 - , . f " M . ,., ts 'h d m the revival o Pel1 eas et e 11- Virginia's experiences with Swiss panel on the left de p i ct s the t o s t u d y _m_us1c m co11_ ege. a ble t o the s t uuen 1 an a - ,, . h t th · d ' t d b sande. His ot er successes a e immigration illustrate the gener works of three noted American The _ cI 1~1c b and w1 11 b e u,n d er Van ced piano c 1ass 1rec e y . d f d al immigration problems of the th d t f Th oc w·ir D ·d • t t Met me1 u e per ormances un er authors. All models for the paint- e irec ion ° omas on- 1 iam avi ~on, as~lS a~ pr~- Bruno Walter in "The Magic post Civil War period in the ings were Marshall students. fess?; of m~sic, which is pn- Flute" Karl B o eh m in "Don United States, according to Dr. pet e Harrington, Huntington r • 8 I man Y for high school students o· ' .,, d . th t d Cometti. rranc,s ayes $ who plan to study piano in col- , lOVanm .' an m e.. WO ~- graduate student, said in regard lege; a special voice class under hghtful hght operas, La Pen- This is the third of a series of to this mural, "I find the figures A Dedicated Man chole" and "Fledermaus" articles on immigration publish- in the painting quite effective the direction of Jane Hobson Wh U . t b 'th ed by Dr. Cometti. The previous but I'm not certain what some of Sheppard, John Creighton, assis- en jpman is n~ tsy w;h articles appeared in the South At- them are meant to represent." · Some people will go to any tant professor of music, and Leo opera per orma~ces, de . ours e lantic Quarterly and The West- I • . ' country extensive1 y omg con- , Susie Cox, Milton freshman, extent to obtain a college educa- mpen, ass Is tan t professor of ts d . ·th . ern Political Quarterly. tion. music, for those who plan to con- cer an s l n g l n g w1 . maJor said, "I think the painting is very orchestra on TV and radio Dur interesting, especially now that Such a person is Francis Bayes, tinue voice study in college·' and a mg. the summers' he appears· m. - a 1950 graduate with a Liberal course in fundamental music . I realize what the various figures t h t d b Th summer festivals of hght opera. Annual Vacation .r. t I I f 1 th t th Arts Degree, who lives at Sandy e or Y presen e y omas . repre.. en . a so ee a e H 00k K O'Connell associate professor of He ?as sung m every state m mural blends in beautifully with • y. , , m . the union. For two seasons he was Tour Cancelled the decor and style of the Ii- Bayes works 4o hours a week usic. soloist with the Gershwin Orches- This year's a n nu a I vacation brary." at the Elliott County Board of . Membership in the clinic will tra and later was baritone in tour to New York City sponsor- You may obtain further in- Education, besides carrying eight ?e ?e~ermined by_ application._ It tours by the Bel Canto Trio. He ed by W. Page Pitt, professor of formation on the murals at the hours of class work. One of his is limited to the mstrumentati_on has sung with such orchestras as Journalism, has been cancelled.