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" ~IVERSITY OF ~!NNESOTA N£~S SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 NOVEMBER 1, 1967 For further information, contact: BETH KENT, 373-5166 KUOM TO FEATURE ROCK MUSIC REVOLUTION THIS SATURDAY (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) An illustrated account of the evolution of rock music---from the rhythm-and-blues and country-western music of the early 50's to the new rock music of the present---will be broadcast over the University of Minnesota radio station KUOM (770) Saturday (Nov. 4), beginning at 2 p.m. The program, "The Rock Revolution," will feature Barry Hansen, an authority on rock music, in conversation with KUOM Public Affairs Director Garrison Keillor. Excerpts will be played from songs by Ruth Brown, the Mello-Kings, Elvis Presley, Richie Valens, the Beatles, Donovan, Cream, the Mothers of Invention and others. Hansen says that the rock audience has grown to include a great many people over 21. "They're the people who heard Presley's music when they were children," he explains. "They've been living with rock all their lives. It's their native tongue. That's one of the reasons, I think, that rock is much better now. The people who are playing and listening to it have grown up in the world of rock. It's not a fad anymore; it's the musical language they know and speak best." Hansen adds, "I believe there is as much musical sophistication, power and intelligence in rock music as in today's classical music or modern jazz. Albums now, in rock music, are increasingly being made to listen to all the way through. What you have more and more is a record being made as a finished work of art." (MORE) ROCK REVOLUTION -2- One such record is the Beatles' new album, "Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band." It will be broadcast, complete, over KUOM inunediately following "The Rock Revolution." Hansen, 26, graduated from University High School in 1959. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Reed College, Portland, Ore., in 1963 and a master of arts degree in music from UCLA this year. His master's thesis was entitled "Negro Popular Music: 1945-1953." Hansen is a former editor of the folk music journal, "Little Sandy Review," and has written for "Downbeat," "Sing-Out," and "Record Research" magazines. He now works as archivist for UCLA's John Edwards Memorial Foundation, an organization which collects and studies commercial folk and country music recordings. "The Rock Revolution" is a special feature of "The Saturday Show," heard each week over KUOM from 2 p.m. to sign-off. "The Saturday Show" is a departure from the station's usual format in that it includes more jazz, conversation, and "frivolity" than is normally broadcast over KUOM. The station is an educational service of the University's General Extension Division. -U N S- ~------------~~---~~ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE~220 MORRILL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55~55 NOVEMBER 1, 1967 For further information, contact: JUDY VICK, 373-2126 CELLIST TO PERFORM WITH 'u' ORCHESTRA IN NORTHROP CONCERT (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Joseph Schuster, one of the world's top-ranking cellists, will be the featured soloist when the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra presents its opening concert of the season Friday, Nov. 10, at 8:30 p.m. in Northrop auditorium. Schuster entered the St. Petersburg (Russia) Conservatory of Music at the age of 10. He has been a solo cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic Orchestras. Schuster will soon make his sixth European tour. He will playa recital in Carnegie Hall in New York this season. He has performed under such celebrated conductors as Toscanini, Walter, Mitropoulos, Rodzinski, Furtwangler, Bernstein, Yochum and von Karoyan. "Cello Concerto in D Major" by Haydn will be performed by Schuster and the University Orchestra. A group of three solo works will be performed by Schuster. He will play Divertimento by Haydn-Piatigorsky, Fantasy Pieces, Opus 73 by Schumann and Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Opus 3 by Chopin. He will be accompanied by Nancy Whipkey. This will be Richard S. Fischer's debut as conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. Fischer, 44, joined the University faculty in September as assistant professor of music and music education, conductor of the orchestra, coordinator and instructor of the chamber music program and teacher of string pedagogy. (MORE) SCHUSTER -2- Fischer received bachelor's (viola) and ffiaster's (theory) degrees from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N. Y. He received his doctor of musical arts degree in violin performance from the University of Arizona. For 11 years Fischer played professionally with the Rochester, N. Y., Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Orchestra, the National (Washington, D. C.) Orchestra and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestras. He has taught at Hastings College, Nebraska, Eastern New Mexico University and Moorhead State College. At the latter two schools he originated the orchestral program. The following program will be performed by the University Orchestra, Nov. 10: Overture to Rienzi Wagner A Walk to the Paradise Garden from "A Village Romeo and Juliet"•••••..•••.••••Delius-Beecham Cello Concerto in D Major.••••••••••••••..••.••••••••••••••••Haydn Capriccio Espagnole ••.•.•••••••..•••.•.••••••••••..Rimsky-Korsakov The concert is sponsored by the departments of music and of concerts and lectures. It is open free to the public. -U N S- ~ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERV!CE-220 MORRILL HALL I MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 NOVEMBER 1, 1967 For further information, contact: GLENN ICKLER, 373-2126 BRECKENRIDGE'S ARCTIC FILMS TO OPEN BELL MUSEUM SUNDAY PROGRAM SERIES (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) "The Far Far North," films of the Arctic by Professor Walter J. Breckenridge, director of the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History, will open the museum's 1967-68 schedule of free Sunday programs. The films will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 5) in the museum audi- torium on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. Breckenridge will show films from several trips to the Arctic regions. He will discuss Arctic living conditions and how plants, man and other animals adapt to them. The remainder of the November schedule includes programs on Minnesota, Japan and East Africa. On Nov. 12, J. W. Wilkie, president of Continental Machine Co., Savage, will show a color-sound movie of Minnesota wildlife. The film, "The Touch of Nature," is one of several nature movies Wilkie has produced. "Aboriginal Ainu People of Japan," a color movie expanding a recent story in "National Geographic" magazine, will be shown Nov. 19 by Sister M. Inez Hilger, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. The program will be co-sponsored by the University's department of anthropology. Zacariah Subarsky, associate professor in the Minnemath Center, will give an illustrated talk about his four years in Africa on Nov. 26. The program is entitled "Camera Adventures in East Africa." There will be 22 Sunday programs this season, with the final program schedUled for April 14. -U N $- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 NOVEMBER 2, 1967 For further information, contact: ~OBERT LEE, 373-5830 DRUG RESEARCHER TO SPEAK AT U (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Barry M. Bloom, director of medicinal chemicals research for Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., will present the first in a series of visiting lectures sponsored by the University of Minnesota's College of Pharmacy at 11 a.m. Monday (Nov. 6) in 125 Mayo auditorium. Bloom, who received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, recently developed a novel hypothesis on the molecular nature of adrenergic receptors. A member of the American Chemical Society and of the editorial board of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Bloom has published a number of technical papers and holds more than 30 U. S. patents concerning drugs. -U N S- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA NtWS SERVICE-220 MORRILL HALL MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55455 NOVEMBER 2, 1967 For further information, contact: JUDY VICK, 373-2126 UNIVERSITY GALLERY TO PRESENT ALAN DAVIE OILS (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Alan Davie's wild interpretations in oil will be presented to the public Monday, Nov. 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the University Gallery. "The exhibit is a treat -- bright candy of all flavors, yet rich in intellectual content," says Charles C. Savage III, director of the gallery. "His paintings are an attack on the visual sensibilities and allow no intrusion. His titles seem to corroborate his fantasy obsession with love." The showing, one of the largest ever presented by the University Gallery, will include 36 works---oil on canvas, oil on paper and watercolor. Davie's works are ostensibly abstract expressionistic. Vividly colored symbols---ranging from numerals to household Objects to ancient religious forms---are superimposed on rich, somber colors. The titled works include "Oh To Be a Serpent, That I May Love You Longer," "Reach for Joy," "Flyaway Slide," "Make Love to He On the Blue's Edge," III Love You In Pink," "Make a Fish," "Holyman's Game," and "Lustful Frog." Davie was born in Scotland. He attended Edinburgh College of Art and taught art to young children before becoming, for a short time, a pro- fessional jazz musician. At one time he made his living by creating and selling gold and silver jewelry. He now lives in Hertfordshire and Cornwall and continues to be devoted to the sport of gliding. Davie has had one-man shows in Edinburgh, Florence, Venice, London (Gimpel Fils), Paris, New York City (Hartha Jackson), Zurich, Sao Paulo, Oslo, Bern, Baden-Baden and Amsterdam. The Davie show will be open through Dec. 29 in the third floor galleries of Northrop auditorium, University of Minnesota, MinneapOlis campus. Hours are 8 a.m.