Alumni Magazine December 1980 Whitworth University

Whitworth Digital Commons Whitworth University Whitworth Alumni Magazine University Archives 1980 Alumni Magazine December 1980 Whitworth University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/alumnimagazine Recommended Citation Whitworth University , "Alumni Magazine December 1980" Whitworth University (1980). Whitworth Alumni Magazine. Paper 368. https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/alumnimagazine/368 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Whitworth University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Whitworth Alumni Magazine by an authorized administrator of Whitworth University. Vol.49/No. 2/ December 1980 I -2 concept of liberal arts, in contrast to the current version, did not hold the study of the arts and of vocational skills as mutually LIGHT AND exclusive. We need to see it in the contemporary milieu. How does It was Homecoming one make life most valuable, most football game, and a fulfilling? That, I think, is the heart student in the Whitworth of what we mean by a liberal LE1\RNINGrooting section found herself seated education." next to a pair of distinguished- Dr. Mounce stated his looking people. Their conversation philosophy of Chrtstian education was stimulating, and she was soon more fully in his article "The Dr. Robert H. Mounce, drawn into it. As the fourth quarter Marks of an Educated Person," neared its end, her friends left, but Christianity Today, November 2, on the eve of becoming she remained to continue talking 1979. In it he wrote, "The history with the two, President-Elect of Christian thought convinces us Robert Mounce and Whitworth that precisely where scholarship Whitworth's fifteenth Trustee Dorothy McLarren. and devotion have been properly The incident delighted Dr. blended, theological greatness has president, reflects on Mounce. "She entered freely into been born." The statement is based conversation with us, and there on Luke 1027, "You shall love the were no barriers because of who Lord your God with all your heart, what it is to be truIy we were. Those things just don't with all your soul and with all happen at a large university. I'm your mind." educated. looking forward to this kind of He then described the marks of more immediate contact with being educated. First is the habit of students." inquiry. "To help a student ' "At a large university, in the develop an inquiring mind is administrative offices, you have a perhaps the major obligation of the tendency to forget what it's all teacher. There is no place in a about. There's an impersonality Christian college for a professor built in. But it's the students who, who (wants only to be) a vast as the song says 'light up your life. repository of knowledge to be And maybe, as educators, we can dispensed in a manageable light up theirs as well." segments on Monday, Wednesday , The light Dr. Mounce would and Friday at II o'clock. ofTeris what he terms a "liberal When we help students education." "We must," he said, personally interact with and "continue our traditional synthesize some portion of that commitment to the liberal arts, but knowledge, we are engaging in the in an atmosphere of awareness of process properly called the realities of life. The medieval 'education'." lilt's the students who, as the song says, 'light up your life'." 3 own. .The role of the college is to open up the various possibilities, allow the student the conflict of personal engagement, yet stand by for guidance and direction. "If true discernment is our goal, we cannot sacrifice intellectual honesty for a biased presentation of the major alternatives, nor can we set the student adrift on the sea of possibilities without direction." Thirdly, an educated person possesses what Alfred North Whitehead calls the habitual vision of greatness. Constant exposure to great ideas provides the transforming experiences that lie at the center of effective education, ~ providing the inquiring mind with I a criterion for excellence and a ~ constant source of motivation for I growth. "It exposes the trivial and the mediocre as the real enemies of "How does one life. A college must bring its students into contact with greatness make Ii e mas va uable, at as many points as possible, and the student must seek to face most fu/filling?" greatness wherever possible. "If an educated person," he concludes, "is one who has been molded by the habitual vision of Dr. Mounce calls the second greatness, then the Christian mark of education the power of college has the finest conceivable discernment. "To develop the opportuni~ to educate. Only eyes student's capacity for rational opened by faith can recognize true judgement is one of the college's greatness as the reflection of God supreme responsibilities. This in human achievement." means that the student may well It is upon this conviction that be exposed to a bewildering array Robert Mounce bases his hope that of ideologies. Even one's faith must under his leadership, Whitworth sometimes pass through the College will indeed "light up" the traumatic experience of doubt lives of its young men and before it can be possessed as one's women. Unda Sharman "We cannot sacrifice intellectual honesty for a biased presentation of the alternatives. II -- TQDAY 4 or 41 years, enabled the Moldenhauers to recreate. independently brought top Hans Moldenhauer has acquire, eventually, a "To be sure, 1 might well have performers to Spokane. been a fixture in Spokane's comprehensive Webem archive. done so at any time before my Moldenhauer applied to enter musical community. Following the investigation, emigration to the United States in Whitworth in 1944, desiring an FHe founded the Spokane Webem's eldest daughter told the May, 1938, since my own American degree in order to begin i Conservatory of Music, gave live Moldenhauers that she had some teachers, Hans Rosbaud and his doctoral work at the Chicago I and broadcast piano performances, of her late father's music Eduard Zuckmayer (brother of the Musical College. After challenging i - taught piano and wrote a manuscripts and writings, which famous playwright, Carl), were competency in a number of fields, I dissertation on duo-pianism that she desired placed. in 1961, actually personal friends of Webem he received senior standing. became the standard text on the arrangements were made for the and leading exponents of his music." I, subject. transfer of these pieces-induding I But it has only been during the many formerly-unknown Recalling how he would browse e had served in last year, following publication of compositions-to the Moldenhauer through scores in a music store in H the u.s. Army's 87th Hans and Rosaleen Moldenhauer's Archives. Two years later, four his hometown of Mainz, Germany, mountain regiment during the war, biography of modem composer large Webern sketchbooks were Moldenhauer said he was "awed and was honorably discharged Anton von Webem, that the also acquired. by a music that I recognized was after his feet were frozen. "I couple's work as musicologists wholly apart from the mainstream, brought the awareness of the Gl (music historians) has awakened a music that then was as elusive Bill to Whitworth," he said. "The the people of Spokane to the scope dramatic discovery for me as it was formidable." registrar had never heard of it, and and importance of the work bemg A in fall, 1965, of 1,700 Moldenhauer, after studying at they set up the machinery (to conducted in their midst. additional pages of Webemania the Mainz Humanistic Gymnasium handle veterans' educations) for "The Pacific Northwest. linked "the entire earlier period of and the city's Municipal College of me," might appear an unlikely place for Webem's creative life with that Music, worked as a teacher, He graduated with a Bachelor of the establishment of an archive for covered by the sketchbooks." The lecturer, choral conductor and Arts degree in music, although, primary source materials about a Moldenhauers were looking in the harpsichordist. But Hitler came to with his past experience and composer. .(who was) deeply parental home of Webern's power in 1933 and, as Germany training, he never took a music rooted in Austrian soil," 7,000- daughter-in-law, near Vienna, for a moved towards war, Moldenhauer course at Whitworth. miles away, acknowledges bust of the composer when determined to emigrate to the His wife, Rosaleen Jackman Moldenhauer in the book "Anton Rosaleen came across the crate of United States. He spent his first Moldenhauer, was born in von Webem: Perspectives," which Webem documents, which had year in New York City, but his Spokane, She was first Hans' piano Moldenhauer compiled. lain forgotten in the attic for 20 interest in the out-of-doors and pupil, then teaching assistant, then "Yet, a chain of interlacing years. The discovery has been mountain climbing precluded his two-piano partner. For twelve circumstances has brought about called one of the most significant remaining there, and on the years- after their 1943 just such a phenomenon." musicological finds of modem recommendation of a friend he marriage-the couple gave a And the 803-page book "Anton times. moved to the Pacific Northwest. He weekly half-hour program of two- von Webem, A Chronicle of His Moldenhauer notes in the was persuaded to settle in Spokane piano music on KGA radio. In Ufe and Work," which Time introduction to the Webem by Roy Goodman, himself a recent years, as the result of her biography that he had never met trained concert pianist, who had a magazine in November, 1979, Continued on page 13 called "the magnum opus of the composer whose life he was to local piano dealership and Scholar and Archivist Hans Moldenhauer, 72, in collaboration with his wife, Rosaleen," drew accolades throughout the world.

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