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One long-recognized function of the University is that of acquainting its students and tre community with'the culture of past ages. A perhaps more challenging duty 'is the presentation of the best in contemporary thought. But mere presentation of the new thought in the arts is insufficienti the arts, reaching out in new directions, have developed new materi'als and new ways of treating these materials: new techniques, new views of space an'd time, and new goals. Understanding of the past reveals that the difficulty caused by such profound change is not unique to our time. History proves that at least familiarity is necessary to make understood such new modes of artistic thought, and thus to remove a chief obstacle to esthetic perception. The Festival is not intended to produce such. familiaritYi it is hoped however, that it will serve to stimulate creativity, interest and participation in the development of the contemporary arts.
CONTEMPORARY ARTS FESTIVAL COMMITT,tt Rupert Kilgore Carl Neumeyer Robert Shallenberg Lawrence Tucker .
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SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE R. Dwight Drexler John McGrosso Mario Mancinelli Robert Shallenberg John Silber Lewis Whikehart
Guest Participants STEPHEN MAGADA
is at present Assistant Professor of Painting at Illinois State Normal University. His works appear in many public and pri vate co rrections; he has exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Phil'adelphia Museum of Fine Arts, and many others. Among his many recent awards are the purchase prize for a watercolor at the 13th Annual Texas Watercolor Society Exhibition in 1962, and a purchase prize for an oil painting at the 5th Union League Art Show, . Chicago, in 1963. DWIGHT PELTZER
has appeared as guest soloist with the Berliner Symphony Orchestra, the Kur Orchestra of Bad Gastein, Austria, and with the San Francisco Symphony; he has appeared in recital at the Aspen Music Festival and, in Berlin, on Radio RIAS. He has received a Fulbright Award, as well as many other awards and honors. Mr. Peltzer is widely known on the West Coast and in Germany for his brilliant performances of the new music as well as works in the standard repertoire. MEL POWELL
teaches composition at Yale and is director of the University's electronic music studio. He is a member of the executive com mittee of the International Society for Contemporary Music, president of the America Music Center, and serves on the edi torial boards of the Journal of Music Theory and Perspectives of New Music. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and many awards and commissions. In 1960 one of his works was chosen by an international jury to represent the United States at the ISCM Festival in Vienna that year. ROBERT WYKES
is Composer-in-Residence at Washington Uni versity, St. Louis. He has received commissions from the Paderewski Foundatfon of Boston, the Detroit Chamber Orchestra, and the New Music Circle of St. Louis, 'among others. Two of his works represented the United States at the 1962 Biennale de Paris. A work of his for Tape and Percussion was recently premiered in St. L�uis. THE ALABAMA STRING UARTET
widely known throughout the South, is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Alabama. Its members are Emil Raab, 1st violin, Frank Spinosa, 2nd violin, Henry Barrett, viola, and Margaret Christy, 'cello.
The Contemporary Arts Festival Calendar MARCH 7·11 12th Annual Symposium of Contemporary Music, Presser Hall APRIL 8·19 An exhibit of works by Stephen Magada, Memorial Center Main Lounge APRIL 17·20 The School of Drama's production of Archibald MacLeish's J. McPherson Theater
B.,
MARCH 7 1:30 p.m.-Open rehearsals of Festival Works, Presser Hall Auditorium 4:00 p.m.-Concert of New European Electronic Music, com- . mentary by Robert Wykes, Presser Hall 8: 15 p.m.-Large Groups, Presser Hall MARCH 8 10:00 a.m.-Composers' Forum, Presser Hall 1:30 p.m.-Mel Powell, "Aspects of Electronic Music," Presser Hall 3:30 p.m.-Dwight Peltzer, Recital of Contemporary Key board Works 8:00 p.m.-Chamber Music Concert, Presser Hall MARCH 9 10:00 a.m.-Student Composition Seminar . MARCH 11 8:00 p.m.-The Alabama String Quartet in concert. APRIL 17 8:00 p.m.-Consecration ceremonies for McPherson Hall, Participants: Dr. W. W. Bennett, Dr. Clifford Brown, Mrs. William Barton (for Mrs. Harry McPherson), Mr. Orme Evans, Dr. Llo. yd Ber tholf, Dr. lawrence Tucker J. B., by Archibald Macleish, McPherson Theater 10:00 p.m.-Discussion of tlie play, McP herson Theater
APRIL 18
3:00 p.m.- Inter-Arts Panel Discussion, McPherson Theater 8:00 p.m.-J. B., by Archibald Macleish, McPherson Theater
APRIL 19
8:00 p.m.-J. B., by Archibald Macleish, McPherson Theater
APRIL 20
8:00 p.m.-J. B., by Archibald Macleish, McPherson Theater
The Symposium of Contemporary Music, which is a part of the Contemporary Arts Festival, is partially supported by the Bohn horst Memorial Fund. The appearance of the Alabama String Quartet is jointly sponsored by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation and Illinois Wes· leyan University. The sound system used during the Symposium of Contemporary Music is p rovided by Mr. Dennis Aulenbacher.
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Conert
of
New
E ur opean
E l e c tronic
M u s ic
Presser Hall, Thursday Afternoon, March Seventh Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three Four O'Clock
COMMENTARY BY ROBERT WYKES SERENATA NO. III -------------------- Bru no Maderna ARTI KULATION ------ ------------------ Gyorgy Ligeti WAYFARING SOUNDS ------------------- Herbert Brtln PSALMUS 1961- ------ ------------Christoph Penderec ki ANALOGI QUE -------------------------Yannis Xenakis a. b. DlAMORPHESES ---------------------- Yannis Xenakis
* * *
Next Event:
Thursday, March 7, Concert.
8:15
p.m.--Large Groups
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC L arge
G r o u ps
Thursday, March
Concert
7,1963, 8:15
p.m,
L EMANCIPATION SYMPHONY Opo 6 la, for wind ensemble (1962) - - - - - - -'- - - - Robert Kelly John McGrosso, Director IL DRIEMAL TAUSEND
JAHRE
(1949)
Op.
49b
- - - - - - - Arnold Schoenberg VARIATIONS ON A POEM OF CAVAFY ( February
---------
1963)
Kenneth Gaburo
Theme
( Commissioned
by the Collegiate Choir,
From "THE LAMENTATIONS OF
1962-63)
JEREMIAH'"
(1947)
- - - - - - - - Alberto Ginastera III.
Recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis
( Remember,
0 Lord, what is corne upon us )
Collegiate Choir Lewis Whikehart, Conductor IlL STANZAS
(1959)
for orchestra - - - - - - - - - - Mel Powell
Mario Mancinelli, Director * >:< >:<
Next Events: Composers' Forum - Friday, March Lecture:
8, 10:00
aom.
Mel Powell, "Aspects of Electronic Music,"
Friday, March
8, 1:30
p.m.
Recital: Dwigh:t Peltzer, pianist, Friday, March
8, 3 :30
p.m. Concert: Alabama String Quartet, Monday, March ll�
8:15
p.m.
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL O F MUSIC SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC presents A
Recital
of
Contemporary
Piano
Music
by DWIGHT PELTZER, Guest Pianist
8, 1963, 3:30
March
p.m.
-ProgramCOCKTAIL MUSIC FOR PIANO - - - Salvatore Martirano --- -----------
VARIATIONS, Op. 2 7
Anton Webern
I. Sehr Massig II. Sehr Schne11 III. Rtihig fliessend TOCCATA
( RAMUS )
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Robert Erickson Intermission
THRONES--IMPROVISATION PIECE FOR TA pE AND PIANO - - - - - - - - - - - -
Ramon Sender
------------------
Pierre Boulez
SONATA No. I I. Lent
II. Assez Large * * * *
A
Concert
of
C o n t e m p or a ry
March
8, 1963, 8:15 -Program-
Cha m b e r
M u s ic
p.m. .
' DE R VE RLORENE HAUFEN, Op. 12 , No. 2 - - - - - - - Arnold Schoenberg Henry Charles, Baritone Anna McGrosso, Piano
TWO PRAYER SETTINGS
(1963) -------- Mel Powell Barbara Len-z, 'Cello
Mario Mancinelli, Violin ' Leonard Altieri, Viola
Jill Rylander, Oboe
Paul Sommers, Tenor John Silber, Conductor MUSIC FOR BRASS qUINTET
( 1961) -- Gu nther Schuller
Edwin Harkins, Trumpet
Basil Tyler, Horn
Robert Armour, Trumpet
Roger Rilling, Trombone
Jerry Hugg, Tuba
John Silber, Conductor
HERBSTTAG
(196 2)
HAIKU SETTINGS
- -- --- ---- -
(1961)
Robert Shallenberg
- -- - - - ------- - Mel Powell
Li nda Fulton, Soprano Celia Shallenberg, Piano POINTS AND EXCURSIONS
(196 2) ----- Robert Wykes
Edwin Harkins, Trumpet
Roger Rilling, Trombone
Robert Armour, Trumpet
Charles Dalkert, Bass trombone
Basil Tyler Horn
John Silber, Conductor PSALM XXIV --- - - - -------- -----SOMETHING LIES BEYOND THE SCENE ( te?Ct by Dame Edith Sitwell) -- - - - -FROM SHAKESPEARE SONGS
Charles Ives
(1959-60) Wilbur Ogdon
(1951)
-----
·R. Vaughan Williams
II. The cloud-capped tower III. Over hill, over dale The I W U Chamber Singers Lewis -E. Whikehart, Co nductor * * *
Next events: Student Composition Seminar, March 9 , 10:00 a.m. , Events of Interest: Bloomington-Normal Symphony, March 10, 8:15 p.m. AlabCirna String Quartet in c oncert, March 11 , 8:15 p.m.