Symphony THE TWIG Monday Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College Volume XXIII MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949 Number 6 Week Filled Rubinstein To With Variety Perform Here Having as the theme “Christ Artur Rubinstein, whom the Great Difference” and as its critics have called “one of the purpose—to make a decided im­ greatest pianists of all times,” pact for Christianity upon every will appear in concert tonight phase of college life and in every at eight o’clock in Memorial area of the campus activities, Auditorium under the auspices Meredith Religious Emphasis of the Raleigh Civic Music As­ Week was held February 14-18. sociation. Tonight’s concert is Speakers for the occasion were the second in the series of six Dr. L. D. Johnson, pastor of the Civic Music concerts this season. First Baptist Church of Danville, A native of Poland, Artur Virginia, and Dr. Clarence Rubinstein’s renditions of Jordan, Director of Koinonia Chopin have been hailed by the Farm, Americus, Georgia. music critics for “a sensitiveness, General activities were begun taste and poetry hardly to be with a tea held Sunday after­ surpassed.” A master of Russian noon, February 13, honoring the music, his Rachmaninoff’s Piano guests and the committee mem­ Concerto No. 2 was RCA Victor’s bers who helped in mapping out best-selling classic album; in the weeks’ plans. Student German music he has been con­ hostesses for the tea were Sylvia sidered a master interpreter of Currin and Joyce Bailey. Beethoven, Liszt, and Brahms Morning and evening chapel since his American debut in services were conducted by Dr. 1906. Jordan and Dr. Johnson. Some 'I Currently on his eleventh m consecutive concert tour across of the sermon topics were “It :\ Couldn’t Happen, But It Did,” the country under the manage­ “Christ and the Predicament of ment of S. Hurok, Rubinstein Man,” “Are You Doing Busi­ will give almost eighty concerts ness?” and “Christ and Man’s during this season and will Search for the Good Life.” appear as soloist with a dozen Seminars were held on “Chris­ major symphony orchestras. His tianity and the Isms” and “The tour which will last into May The cagers pictured above recently went to a Play Day at Carolina where they defeated teams from Christian Way in Race Rela­ W. C., Carolina, and Guilford College. First row: Jean Johnson, Martha Lou Stephenson, Jackie Creef, this year will take him across tions.” Nightly bull sessions in Jeannette Atkins; Second row: Drake Morgan, Asha Farrior, Faye Nichols, Sue Fitzgerald, Pat Caddell; the United States several times the dorm parlors were other Third row: Kathleen Chriscoe, Hope Hodges, Betty Jean Shuler, Nellie Bostic. with a total of 30,000 miles. features of the week. Everywhere, to quote a New On February 16, the Religious York critic, his performances Emphasis Week party was given Famed Orchestra “have left his audiences cheer­ in Phi Hall the direction Campus March of Kappa Nu Sigma ing and his pianos limp.” of Marjorie Joyner as Gimmie Dimes Successful To Play in City '' Coming to Hollywood after the Napps; a radio program entitled Taps New Frats Germans entered Paris in the “Our Mess to Chew” was pre­ second World War, Rubinstein Meredith students should be As announced by the Raleigh became an American citizen in sented. Assisting her were Civic Music Association, the Carolyn Massey and Mary Ann justly proud of the fine record The Kappa Nu Sigma Honor 1946. When not on tour, he lives made in the recent March of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at home with his wife and four Goodwin. One of the highlights Society presented a lecture given will appear in concert at the of the evening was the im­ Dimes campaign. During the by Dr. Martha B. Lucas, presi­ children — his “international” recent national campaign, a local Memorial Auditorium on Febru­ family. promptu script-reading of “Life dent of Sweet Briar College, on ary 28. The brilliant young in a Dingy Castle” or “Fie on minister, in speaking of the Thursday, February 25, at 8:00 In recent years Artur Rubin­ worthiness of the cause, said that American, Leonard Bernstein, stein has had notable successes Thee, Beanrooster,” the partici­ p.m. Dr. Lucas received her A.B. who is the guest conductor with pants being Dr. Julia Harris as the campaign should not be degree from Goucher College, in movies; he recorded the piano merely the March of Dimes, but the Pittsburgh Symphony Or­ sound track for Republic’s “I’ve Fair Falstaffa, Dr. L. A. Peacock Baltimore, Maryland, A.M. from chestra, will conduct the concert as Villainous Beanrooster, and should be rather the “Tramp of George Washington University, Always Loved You” and for Dollars.” Meredith students took to be heard here. MGM’s “Song of Love.” He has Dr. Carlyle Campbell as Stal­ Washington, D. C., Ph.D. in the Now in its twenty-second wart Prince Henry. Guest the statement literally and made fields of philosophy and religion appeared recently in RKO’s an all-time record contribution season, this symphony orchestra “Night Song” and United Artists’ speakers of the week also dis­ from the University of London, is firmly established as one of played their talents. of $234.71. and LL.D. from Alabama College “Carnegie Hall.” Not only was this year’s the foremost musical organiza­ Rubinstein returned to Europe Emily Pool acted as general and Goucher College. She has tions in America. Although the chairman for the week assisted campaign noteworthy in its all- been an instructor of philosophy in the fall of 1947 on his first time record contribution, but old Pittsburgh orchestra was concert tour since 1939. Con­ by the following committee and English literature at Briar- founded in 1896, the present chairman: Esther Green, pro­ also in the fact that there was a cliff Junior College, associate cerned about Europes’ needs, he hundred per cent contribution symphony was founded in 1927 became the founder-president of gram; Betty Hefner, publicity; professor of philosophy and with Elias Breeskin. Then in 1937 Marguerite Leatherman, hospi­ from everyone connected with religion at the University of the Frederic Chopin Fund in the college. Every member of the orchestra was re-established December 1946; this fund spon­ tality; Dorothy Patrick, music; Richmond, and associate dean of as a major symphonic organiza­ Marjorie Joyner, entertainment; the resident and non-resident Radcliffe (College. Dr. Lucas has sors concerts to raise money for student body, faculty, admini­ tion. During the 1937-38 season needy artists and furnishes Winnie Fitzgerald, books and been president of Sweet Briar Fritz Reiner was selected to be literature; Betty Brooks, ar­ strative staff, and maintenance College since 1946. She has had musical instruments, books, and crew made some contribution to the permanent conductor, in scores to impoverished musicians rangements; Lib Jones, informal a part in the UNESCO movement which capacity he has remained discussions; Betsy Ann Morgan, the drive. The administrative and was one of six delegates on the continent. contribution was $60.65; the until his recent resignation. The Pittsburgh Symphony Or­ continuations. Miss Billie Ruth from the United States to the The Orchestra has won nation­ Currin and Dr. Clyde Parker faculty, $34.10; and the student, Utrecht Conference last summer. chestra will be heard in the third $119.96, which made the grand wide fame partly through a of the Civic Music Concerts on served as faculty advisers. She is also interested in the series of extensive tours with total of $234.71, a sum which Fullbright resolutions, and at Monday night, February 28. exceeded last year’s total by a guest conductors, among whom Sweet Briar the practice is to this season are Artur Rodzinski, LECTURER IS TO few dollars. send some girls in their junior Victor de Sabata, Charles CONCERT TO BE Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, regis­ year to study in a foreign school. Muench, and Leonard Bernstein. SPEAK IN MARCH trar, was director of the She is now a member of the It is during their four-weeks PRESENTED HERE Meredith division and to her American Philosophical Society, tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Mr. J. Donald Adams, New goes much credit for the success National Association of the Uni­ Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, York Times Book Review colum­ of the drive. She was assisted in versity of Women, Phi Beta North Carolina, South Carolina, The joint concert of Barbara nist and author, will deliver a the soliciting by members of the Kappa, and a member of the Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Troxel, soprano, and Claude lecture to the Meredith College student body, faculty, and ad­ Episcopal church. and Pennsylvania, with Mr. Watson, bass baritone, will be student body on March 3, 1949. ministration. Each year the Kappa Nu Bernstein as conductor, that the heard in the Meredith College His subject for the evening will Sigma presents a lecture at Pittsburgh Symphony is appear­ Auditorium on March 8 at 8:00 be “The Shape of Books to DR. PARK AT SEMINAR which the two members of the ing in Raleigh. o’clock. This appearance will be Come” in which he will discuss junior class having the highest the second in the series of recent trends in American average in their class are tapped Meredith College Music Con­ creative writing. Dr. Dorothy Park, professor of into the Society. Those tapped SENIOR PRESENTS RECITAL certs. Mr. Adams was editor for 17 philosophy and psychology at into Kappa Nu Sigma on Thurs­ Miss Troxel, praised by the years of The New York Times Meredith College, was guest day night were Josephine Snow Jean Daniel Scarborough, or­ New York Times as being gifted Book Review.