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THE COLLEGE NEWS



Friday, April 24, 1964



Good Band, But Bad Album Finale And A Ciciiattiah “Solo Highlight

- Asserts Waverly....Critically! Bryn Maur Employees” Spring Concert

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Sammy Davis Jr.’s latest LP
release (Reprise R6095), intended
‘ta tribute to some of the
international artists who. have
played the London Palladium’’ from
‘1937. (The Mills Brothers) to 1962
isn’t worth it.

Choosing a rather unexciting group
\ of eleven ‘‘standards,’”’ and adding

a. sometimes brilliant .big-band

background, Sammy ends up witha

rather unexciting, but sometimes

(Matt Monro),

brilliant sound, }

Opening the album with Matt
modern money-maker
. “My Kind of Girl,’? Davis sounds
' alternately like Monro andSinatra.

Nicely tapered at both \ends with

Monro’s

a smashing mid-section, the rendi-

tion favors the display of the big

_ band rather than the featured voice,
however. Duke Ellington’s. ‘‘So-

phisticated Lady’’ would have been
immensely more pleasing hadSam
forgotten to sing. ‘‘Ballin’ the
Jack’’ and ‘‘Jalousie’’ also feature
background over voice, ‘although -
“Ballin’’? has
Johnny Ray’s
‘‘Brokenhearted” saves the first:
side from total..mediocrity with

the Darin-esque
other virtues.

its solid beat, polished delivery,

and unexpectedly fine ending.
The flip side has only two bands

worth mentioning: The Mills Bro-

Spurious Frosh,
Tweedy Scholar,
_ Accepted by P.U:

The responses of college ad-
missions committees to entering
candidates may often be ofies of
alarm or pleasure, but, very
rarely utter amusement - as in the
case of Princeton University’s ac-
ceptance of a non-existent Fresh-

man-one John David Oznot-of ~

East Lansing, Michigan.

Four enterprising Princeton
invented the apo-
cryphal Ozrot last October, and
‘worked for the next month and a
half to establish necessary con-
tacts and perfect details. They
took College Board exams in his
name at Princeton High School,
scoring very high in ‘the 700’s
on all of,-thém. Then, working
thfough ‘an intermediary in East

~ Lansing, sent Princeton a School

transcript and bogus teachers’ re-
ports. Also, ~-they brought. a
sophomore friend from Columbia
for an interview at Christmas.

Director of Admissions E, Alden
Dunham, terming the incident a
magnificent hoax,’’ stated that the

"student and leader, “but pot so

much that he was unbelieveable.’’
The. spurious candidate, termed
‘san incomparable tweéd’’? by one
of his inventors, was first in his

» high school class, and a varsity

___for_ independent study of calculus

lacrosse player who found time

and Vergil each summer, ‘‘He”’
appeared at Princet with
a volume of Vergil er arm
and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED under
the other.

Mr. Dunham was uneraanaaaiis
the undergraduates ability to make
allowances for every possible slip-
up that might have occurred...

Oznot’s application. was hot sent

- in till the last possible day, so

that Princeton would: not be able
10 investigate Oznot’s" background.
Ove’ of ‘the planners ‘condensed
the phony frosh’s carefplly pre-
pared biography-‘‘A great jock,
big leader, and the smartest kid
that ever went to his school. ade

The sophomores have *eonsid-
_ ered starting a tradition of having
one fictitious applicant per_.year,

‘put their plans are as yet; un-.

certain. ‘*The only thing we can

es reported one, ‘‘is that next

sophs had made Oznot an excellent

-thers’ ‘Lazy River nn.
famous ‘This Way My Love.’’ The |

former is exuberantly but unex-
ceptionally treated by both ‘Davis

and his brass/percussion backers
(very similar-sounding toSy Zent-
ner). The latter is the only band
worth listening to twice; Davis’
voice. is controlled, precise, bril-
liant, and the arrangement is neat.
and polished.

All in all, Davis’ latest effort
fails to excite this listener -- per-
haps . due to the mediocre selec-
tion of tunes, perhaps because
the blatant background brass too-
olten overshadowed the voice. In
any case I wouldn’t suggest you
hurry right down to your friendly
neighborhood disc shop on its ac-
count -- that is unless you can
rig your turntable so it plays only
two and three of side two. I man-
aged it; but then I’m just

Clever(ly).

The. Bryn..Mawr.College Em-
ployées Spring Concert last night
was just that -- a sprirs bouquet
made delightful by the performers’
pg pastel outfits, an impressive

varietayefa-—--*'-zselections, and
a fresh and gay mood which char-
acterized the entire performance,
Accompanist Barbara Ramsay
opened the concert with two well-

“Schuetz’ Group’s Warbling

Wows: Washing

by Anda Polyzoides

The Bryn Mawr-Haverford
Schuetz Group gave a concert on
Saturday evening, April 18,.. in
Washington, D.C.. The Bryn Mawr
Alumnae Association sponsored
the performance which was direct-
ed by Robert L. Goodale of Bryn
Mawr and William H, Reese of
Haverford,

The concert was given at the
home of Mrs. Archbold, a patron
of music whose house is frequent-
ly ‘the scene’ of small Saturday
night concerts, The Group, while
remaining under its original name

Teicha to faa at BMC

Death & Icons Subject of Talk ®

‘Mors testimonium vitae; The
Positive Aspects of Death in Ren-
aissance and Baroque. Icono-
graphy,’’ will be the subject ofa
lecture to be presented by Irwin
Panofsky, professor of art history
at Princeton University’s Institute
For Advance Study,

The German-U.S, art historian.
received his doctor of philosophy
from the University of Freiburg
and served as professor at the
University of Hamburg for nine
years, °
TAUGHT AT N.Y.U.

He first came. to the United
States in 1931 as visiting pro-
fessor at New York University and
in 1935 became a .member of the
Instiute at Princeton,

A historian of many icono-
graphic, stylistic, and theoretical
aspects of Medieval and Renais-
sance art, he has written the
classic account _of the work of
Albrecht Durer as wellasa defini-
tive history of sisied Netherlandish |
painting.

HUMANISTIC HISTORIAN

He holds the humanistic view
that. form and content in a work
of. art are dissoluble, that art,
therefore, can have more than
mere visual meaning and is al-.

May Day Players
Plan To Resurrect
C. Fry's Phoenix

Vicki May and a group of College

-theaterites has selected the cast

for the May Day play, Christopher

-Fry’s “A PHOENIX TOO FRE-

QUENT.’? Wendy Wassyng, .°67
will play Dynamene; Nimet Hab-
achy, Doto, and Peter Moskovitz,
Tegus-Chromis.

The plot. of this Christopher
Fry_comedy-is-as_improbable—as--
its name, Dynamene, a* Ephesian
widow, and Doto, her faithful ser-
vant, incarcerate themselves inthe
tomb of Virilius, Dynamene’s late
husband, to mourn his death,
Tegus-Chromis dicovers them in
the tomb -and what follows is both
as unearthly as the birth of a
phoenix and as human and witty
as Mr. Fry himself, ;

Vicki commented that in doing
such a May Day play, which is
neither Renaissance nor Medieval,
the group is’ bending, if not break
ing, a» May Day tradition, How-
ever, by presenting this play,
students who have not participated.
in College Theater productions
are given the. opportunity to work
a fine dramatic piece,

PHOENIX will be played by the
Cloister pool, “in the round, a
most -unusual presentation” of a
Fry comedy,

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government and participation in

ways charged with the basic at-
titude towards life of the civiliz-
ation that produced it.

His works include STUDIES IN
ICONOGRAPHY: HUMANISTIC
THEMES IN THE ART.OF THE
RENAISSANCE, and. MEANING IN
THE VISUAL ARTS, a collection
of nine of Panofsky’s. most im-
portant articles and essays,

RENASCENCES

One of his imaginative works,

entitled RENAISSANCES ANDRE- .

NASCENCES IN WESTERN ART,
is a study of the various and suc-
cessive periods of rebirth of art
which. occurred during the so-
called ‘“‘Dark. Ages’’ in: the —
ieval period.

Asians Visit BMC
During U.S. Tour

Twenty student leaders from
Asia visited Philadelphia for three
days, and were guided around the _
Bryn Mawr campus by members of
NSA and the Oriental Society, on
April 138, They are touring the
United States and Canada under .
the auspicies of the Experiment
in International Living. ;

The students were selected on
the basis of leadership in student

regional’ and national student
organizations, but many were also

- top scholars, athletes, writers and

editors of student publications.

Among. the diverse-programs of
study pursued by these students,
economics, education and law pre-
dominate; suggesting the new
central importance of these fields
in their countries,

- During the campus tours | and
the gathering held for the Asian
_students . (and interested students _
from. Bryn Mawr and Haverford)
in the Common Room) several
students expressed the hope of
returning to the United States for
graduate studies.

As the students scehacaal ideas
and experiences with’ us, we be-’
came alerted: to their sense of
individual. responsibility for the
educational and economic progress
of their homelands.

These Asian students and more
like them constitute a precious
reservoir ‘upon. which their
countrymen may draw in the
struggle for higher standards of
living and the peeneryatiog of
political freedom, ; .

A’Korean student declined to give
his reaction tothe American racial
probleni, saying that information
is scarce and comes only through.
the .Communist-held portions of.
Asia. Thus it. is that they exhibit
an eagerness © for education :as a



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‘Chamber Concert

ton Alumnae

--the Heinrich Schuetz Singers--
showed its true character as ‘a
small mixed chorus with a varied
repertoire, The concert began with
four Minnelieder by the comtem-
porary German composer Hugo

Distler (died-1942) sung by_the~

entire group and directed by. Dr.
Reese. These. were followed by:the
Haverford members of the group

-sifiging pieces by Randall Thomp-

son and Johann Schein, and by the
Bryn Mawr members singing works
of Hassler, Victoria, Byrd and
Holst. The performance closed
with Francis Poulenc’s ‘Christ-
mas Motets’’ sung by the entire
group and directed by Mr. Goodale.
Besides the contributions of the
Schuetz Singers, the program in-
cluded a repeat performance of
Charles, Ives’ Sonata No, 3 for
violin and piano played by Anne
Kish, violin, and Sylvia Glickman,
plano...

After the concert, the Schuetz
Group was entertained at a recep-
tion at the Archbold house, and
then, many of the members went —
to the house of a generousalumna,
Mrs. Edward Russell, for a lively
party. After informal renditions of
lantern hymns, Haverford songs,
rounds and chorales from the ST.
JOHN PASSION, the group broke
up and left to spend the night at the

. homes of Bryn Mawr and Haverford

alumni,

The Schuetz Group was founded
three years ago as a small group
of chorus members from both col-
leges who were especially inter-
ested in singing the works of Hein-
rich Schuetz (1585-1672), and of -
later composers who were influ-
enced by Schuetz, notably J.S, Bach,
The Group’s first performance was
at a concert in January 1962 which
was given in :
of Henry S, Drinker Hall, the music
building at Haverford. Since then,
the Group has performed both at
Bryn Mawr and at Haverford, and
its repertoire has increased in
scope to include works of Schuetz,
‘Bach, Monteverdi, Poulenc and
Distler, —

To Include Bach,
Brahms, Schubert

The Student Ensemble Group
under the direction of Mme. Agi
Jambor will present the fourth
and jast concert of the chamber
music series Sunday, April 26,
at three o’clock p.m. at the Ely
Room, Wyndham,

The program will include four,

certo for violin and piano, played
by Barbara Dancis and Emily Sin-
ger, Schubert’s*A minor Quartet,
Qpus’ 29, Number one played by
Barbara Dancis and Marian Brown,
violins, Susan Morris, viola, and
Jim Garson, cello.
The Ensemble will then play

‘one movement of Brahms. Sonata.

Number 2 in A major, Opus 100

_featuring Barbara Dancis on the

violin and Mme, Jambor, piano.:
The last selection will be Con-
certo in D minor for Two Violins

‘and Piano by J, S,. Bach. The

concerto will be played by Marcia
Fullard, violin, Robin Kadison,
violin, and Mme, Jambor, piano.

In playing chamber music the
Student Ensemble Group is helping
to keep alive the more intimate
musical form. which. declined in
importance when the drawing room -
was replaced by “the concert hall

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tained this level of expertness

throughout. One could only hope
that the piano on the seating level

“of Goodhart was in better tune,

and it was a great relief when

she accompanied all choral num- ~

bers with the plang on ane stage
itself,

Patsy Ann. Edison’s sensitive
solo in “The Birth of Morn,’’ a
most apt opener for the concert,
was followed by -the equally ap-
propriate “Oh What A Beautiful

Mornin’,’”” delivered with great

gusto by the whole chorus, It was
+here that Director Walter Ander-
son’s considerable -talents were
first displayed. The close attention
which soloists and the entire
chorus alike paid to his direction
was one example among many
which attested to his skill and
polish, 2

The concert was divided into
five groups of various selections,
such as spirituals, show tunes, and
religious anthems, The more rous -
ing fumbers,. such as ‘Stout
“Hearted Men,’ and a: version of
««Seventy-Six Trombones,”? com-~-
plete’ with instrumental improvi-

- gations, seemed the most-enjoy-

able, or what may. be the same
thing, the most spring-inspired
selections.

It was in.the more ‘serious’’
numbers, however, that Mr. An-
derson’s rapport with each
individual member of the chorus
could be best noted, especially
in the expert cueing and part-
singing of ‘‘Lord We Pray, In

* Mercy Lead’ Us,” (a strong point
of the entire concert), in which

the female voices joined with un-
expected but stunning dynamism.

Solo performances were uni-
formly fine, but Bertha Nichol’s
coquettish rendition of ‘‘Love’s
A Merchant,” was particularly
outstanding. She was highly suc-
cessful in drawing the audience

‘into her song, as were Al Mackey —

and Dorothy Backus’ with their
‘ewith a‘ Song in My Heart.” This
duo brought out the full conver-
Sationalism inherent in this song,
and Miss Backus as the shy yet
convinced maiden was delightfully
human and particularly appealing.
Doris Gaymon’s solo in “Italian
Street Song’? in which she dis-
played a great. and controlled
range, was also superior, This .
closing melody, sung by the entire _

‘ chorus was also obviously the one

they enjoyed the most -- as well
they might ~-- for it brought to a
close such an original and en-
joyable evening, which certainly
earned them many springtime bou-
quets of their own.

by Peggy Wilber

Awards Night
(Continued from page 1)

field and Barbara Thacher.
Owls were given to Beverly Keith,

Margery Aronson, Rowena Lich-
tenstein, Mary Schoenbaum, Gail
Simon, Janet Swift, Lynn Thomas,
Mary. Johns, Anne Johnson, Allie
McDowell, Sandy Phillips, Sheila
Walker, Vee Wathen, Kitty Tay-
lor, Senta Driver, and ~ Grace
Hamilton for eae anaes over
1000 points. -

A ‘skit was also presented by
members of the Physical Educa-
tion Department, Miss Clayton
played instructor to a tennis class
and listened to the other depart-
ment members as they gave the
same excuses for missing gym
Bryn Mawr students usually give.

This has-been the -first year
Awards Night has included a dinner
and a Speaker. In the past, pre-
sentations were made in Applebee
with ~ light refreshment being
served afterwards. The Athletic
Association hopes that this year’s.
-innovation will eventually coma

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