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Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian College Archives 4-7-1977 Kenyon Collegian - April 7, 1977 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - April 7, 1977" (1977). The Kenyon Collegian. 962. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/962 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The enyon Collegian Established 1856 23 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022 Vnlume CIV, Number Thursday, April 7, 1977 College Hires j: Brico to Conduct to Kenyonites ; . ' PR Firm T By CORY KARKOW From April 8-1- 4 Kenyon will be honored by the visit of conductor By RICK WESTON Antonia Brico. Described by one critic as, "not merely a good con- In an effort to make knowledge of ductor, but an extraordinary Kenyon more wide-sprea- d, the musician who Richard Fox breathes compassion college has recently secured the and understanding into music, and services of a prominent public the media: "We hired Gehrung for whose long-repress- ed career may be relations firm. its distinct relationship with, one of the most tragic examples of Richard Fox, Vice President for representatives of prominent media idiotic artistic prejudice in our X ) Development explained that the firm, organizations," he said. Fox ex- times," Brico has fought for over ,CCr Gehrung Associates of Jaffrey, New pressed distaste for any sort of slick forty years to achieve the in- Hampshire, would show "the good packaging of Kenyon: "I abhor the ternational recognition she enjoys points of Kenyon. It would stress the notion that you could sell Kenyon today. solid academics to be found here." like Ivory Soap. He (Gehrung) will The Department of Music has Fox initiated the proposal of hiring use the facts present. Gehrung has scheduled two events related to a public relations firm in the hope built its reputation on truth." Brico's visit. At 3:00 p.m. or, that this would alleviate Kenyon's Fox said that the hiring of Sunday, April 10, in Rosse Hall, she "isolation from an urban en- Gehrung Associates would have will conduct a reading of the Mozart vironment. We're all aware that additional benefits: "Gehrung has Serenade in C Minor for winds, K. Kenyon is one of the best of the small broad experience in colleges. He will 388. The eight wind players will be liberal arts colleges," stated Fox. give advice on how we can best use mostly young professionals from the "... However, there is enormous our limited resources and give us Columbus area who have volun- competition to" be heard. One of the counsel on how to get across in- teered their services in return for the Antonia Brico reasons Kenyon is not better known formation about the academic opportunity to work with Brico. This education in California schools, acclaimed by the San Francisco is that we don't use methods open to possibilities at Kenyon." session is not intended to be a graduating from the University of Examiner as, "a phenomenon and a us today. The media of today is Gehrung Associates has had many polished performance, but rather an California at Berkeley with a degree symbol. A phenomenon in her highly complex it's an almost different colleges for clients, some of opportunity for the public to view a in music and a major in piano. mastery of the orchestra a symbol frenetic business. Subsequently, it's whom include Dartmouth, Colorado conductor in the process of shaping Following her graduation, she served because she illustrated the eman- difficult to relate directly to the Women's College, Duke, Ithaca an interpretation. on the University of California cipation of woman from the man-impos- ed media." College, University of Denver, In addition, on Tuesday evening, summer faculty and was later made a fetters of the ages." She Fox emphasized that Gehrung Trinity in Hartford, Tulane April 12 at 8:00 p.m. in the Biology Berkeley Fellow of the school. She went on. to conauct a nignly suc- would provide a bridge of com- University and closer to home, Auditorium, Brico will give a lecture became the first American student to cessful European tour, directing munication between the college and Wittenberg; as well as numerous entitled, "Be Not Deflected." be accepted to the Masters School of orchestras in Mexico, Norway, college associations. Students wishing to talk with Brico Conducting at the Berlin State Japan, England, Denmark, Finland, Fox was optimistic about the new during her week at Kenyon are Academy of Music. Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Fast hiring: "I'm delighted ... I don't requested to contact the Music Brico made her European debut as Holland, Poland and Latvia, in- think Gehrung takes on everybody Department. a conductor with the Berlin cluding a command performance for it's a two-wa- y street. ... It would be Philharmonic in 1930. She made her Queen Elizabeth in Brussels. self-defeati- ng unless the or- Born in the Netherlands and American debut later that year as After her European tour Brico Past guest Half ganization represented had some- brought to this country as a child, conductor at the Hollywood appeared with major orchestras Bowl. she was By VTCKI BARKER thing to speak about." Brico received the greater part of her For this performance throughout the United States. However, serious musicians were not yet Five hundred and eighty Kenyon prepared to afford a woman students went lunchless Monday, equal prominence in the conductor's OSU Company Dancing podium, raising $307.40 for the hungry of and though highly praised Knox County. by critics, offers for return Paul Cummins, who with Jerry engagements were not to be had. refused to give up, King organized the fast, was pleased in Rosse Tonight Brico, however, responded by creating with the results, but added that and her own symphonic orchestra, the New York money-makin- g was not the sole goal: "The fundamental purpose of the Women's Symphony Orchestra, comprised entirely of women. In program is to provide a positive means of fighting selfishness, 1938, after receiving critical acclaim, the symphony was opened to males, hunger, and waste," he said. Among and later renamed the Brico Sym- other things, provides students "it phony Orchestra. with the experience of feeling In 1942 she moved to Denver, hungry. They can begin to see how Colorado, where, over the next thirty their attitude toward things in years she was a guest conductor with general changes when they have not the Denver Symphony Orchestra, had enough food." Continued on page 3 In addition, he said, "the program strives to make students aware that the need is real in Knox County Poet Meredith many just don't realize how extensive the problem is. And they mostly have . , In Philo to look for themselves because we J. &.:'.,' cannot publish confidential case Tonight histories." In the course of the fast (which will Tonight at 7:00 p.m., Kenyon will host a reading by William be repeated, as planned, on Mon- 1 Meredith, L one of America's day), "students ask themselves where i t , ,. most respected l poets. the ,;sa real problem lies. Do we see ... Adopting a more humorous ap- perform delicate and birdlike was in New any farther than ourselves? Is there By TIM HAYES dancers Meredith born York Sheldon Ossosky's "Nine "Configurations," also Lenox any reason people should be deprived proach, movements. City, and educated at the sends audience back by Pierson, studies shapes, patterns, His when I have so much especially Alive with high spirits and writhing Lollipops" the School and Princeton University. recreating the designs. piece focuses on those so near?" bodies, the Ohio State University to the jazz period, and The poetry has earned him numerous spirit and mood of the era. relationships like Yale Series Cummins received $7.72 in Dance Company will ease Kenyon's vitality, and, the other accolades, including the they The stylize the movements of dances, a quality. Harriet donations from persons whose hearts cultural energy crisis when dancers contains humorous of Younger Poets Award, the ragtime and vaudeville to The University Dance Company is the Oscar were m the right place but whose perform tonight in Ross Hall at 8:00. dixieland, Monroe Memorial Prize, a fun and entertaining piece. composed- - of the advanced dancers Prize, and a National stomachs won out in the end. He also According to the Columbus Citizen produce Blumenthal spirited, choreographed by selected by audition from grant in cited confusion about the petitions Journal, the dancers are "so "Tracks," the Institute of Arts and Letters is a work of graduate and undergraduate poems published in that had been circulated. "Many so well trained, so exhilarating that director Blaine, student literature for A series of solos, duets, body in Ohio State's Department Poetry Magazine. Pople asked where they could sign you may find that you and modern precision. of and group sections Dance. The Company is a part of the addition to contributing to UP," he said. "Signing up is no dance were made for each other." trios, quartets In a collage humor set to dance major curriculum and each sundry periodicals, Meredith has longer important. Saga will not Directed by Vera Blaine, the form of subtle receives par- seven collections, in- honor your signatures only performance includes a wide range of a soundtrack of country western, member credit for published construction site ticipation.