Sixty-Ninth Year - DITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN When Opinions A'e Free UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Truth Will Prevail'" STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG. * ANN ARBOR, MICH. * Phone NO 2-3241 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. INCLUDES CONTEMPORARY WORKS: 66th May Festival Begins AY,.APRIL 30, 1959 NIGHT EDITOR: ROBERT JUNKER The Faculty Senate Takes Welcome Initiative v CLOUD of confusion remains over the Uni- versity's 1953 dismissal of Prof. Mark Nick- rson of the pharmacology department and H. handler Davis of the mathematics depart- aent. Hundreds of reports, -petitions and letters .ave been written in protest and defense of heir refusal to tell a House Un-American Ac- vities Committee about ,their possible affilia- ions with the Communist Party. The two fac- lty 'members' final dismissal came after ionths of administrative and faculty hearings unctuated by student marches, faculty peti ions and other similar protests. The American Association stepped in and onsidered the 1953 cases for five years before nally unraveling the numerous hearings and ensuring the University. The charge was a vio- ition of "generally accepted principles of aca- emic freedom and tenure." This AAUP censure of a year ago has yet to ecome a threat to the retention of the Uni- Those Fear THE ALL-ENCOMPASSING limbo of "apa- thy" has not yet overtaken the entire stu- dent body, despite 'the fears of practically everybody. Assembly Dormitory Council mem- bers struck a blow against that vague student disease recently b1y defeating a motion to es- tablish a committee to consider changes in future Assembly Association elections. The members of ADC expressed cofncern that they were slipping into the role of mere."yes- men" for organization committees rather than representatives of independent women's opin- ion as they are supposed to be. Their fears are based on the fact that the ADC's composi- tion Was cut drastically last semester in order to give more responsibility to representatives. No changes have yet been made in its format which would do this. The meetings have be- come more informal, since more people know each other by name, and no doubt a greater percentage of the representatives attend meet- ings now; but because of this they have an even greater obligation to be sensitive to their constituents. BECAUSB recommendations by committees continue to precede any discussion by the group, the representatives. have not played a more active role. It apparently seemed slightly incongruous versity's highly-rated faculty. A University vice-president recently remarked that there are still no signs of faculty unrest due to the AAUP condemnation. And University deans are probably paying little attention to the censure with the impending threat of payless faculty paydays. BUT DESPITE the relative weakness of the AAUP's action, the censure remains as a blemish on the University's impressive record of academic freedom. The Faculty Senate's proposed revision of the Regent's By-Law is an attempt to remove this blemish and finally to prevent similar confusion from arising again. Although the Faculty Senate has not out- lined what the changes would be, a member has said they would not be drastic and the basic dismissal procedure would be continued. But minor changes may have far-reaching ef- fects on faculty rights. The Faculty Senate has taken the initiative. -BARTON HUTHWAITE ful Women to the outspoken Sembers at Monday's meet- ing that six or eight committeewomen were to present a motion concerning the ADC presi- dent's election -before representatives had dis- cussed the issue with the people they were sup- posed to represent. These women argued that it would be much simpler, and more in keeping with the idea that they each represent a specific segment of the independent body, to find out what the inde- pendent student body thinks before any mo- tion is considered. IT MIGHT MEAN that meetings would last a bit longer, for talking about a subject new to everyone takes more time than discussing the reasons a committee gives for its recom- mendation .The advantages to be gained, how- ever, more than offset the inconveniences. A decision made after thorough discussion with 22 other delegates presenting the ideas of a large segment of the independent population is of obvious value. The adequacy of any system, of course, de- pends upon the sincerity and efforts of the people within it. The effectiveness of group as opposed to committee action cannot be judged until it is tried, but the ADC members' enthu- siasm may well be a deciding factor in proving that committees are sometimes expendable. -KATHLEEN MOORE CONDUCTS OWN WORKS: * * v irgu1 lnomson: Composer Critic By PETER DAWSON Daily Staff Writer By GORD Daily St BET wEEN th and 1918 fo ing composers, nov, Igor Strav ner, and Serg " ELDOM DOES a musical action of any kind speak clearly, simply, grated fim the without detours," Virgil Thompson wrote in a review in 1948. and America Ra Composers as well as performers, he said, "have trouble communi- a bulwark of cating, especially American composers. They make you great, big, with musical ra beautiful, shapely structures; but it is not always clear what purpose, ner receded in with regard to living these are intended to fulfill." scurityd Thomson, who will conduct three of his own works Saturday Prokofiev's c afternoon, has tried to get away from that in his own music, making most curious.I it clear, concise and direct. He is a skillful craftsman. He is also a very of phenominal well-known critic. He was the New York Herald-Tribune's music critic from 1940 to 1954, when he re- FOCAL POINT OF SEASON: signed to compse and to appear as a us odco.Boso -Hsern music often quote him to helpS e agescodutorBok onemd Rests on characterize composers. DON MUMMA taff Reviewer he uprisings of 1905 ur of Russia's lead- Sergei Rachmani- insky, Nikolai Met- ei Prokofiev, emi- country. In Europe achmaninov became usical conservatism, c a me synonymous adicalism, and Met- nto an undue ob- ourse has been the After sixteen years success abroad he returned, in 1933, to the Soviet Union BORN IN 1891, he had, by his mid-teens, gained fame both as a pianist and a composer. His repu- tation became international with the appearance of his theatre works "Age of Steel," "Chout," and "Sythian Suite." It is most interesting that Pro-, kofiev's return to the USSR was made after the staggering pro- nouncements, in 1932, of the offi- cial Soviet limitations on musical composition. He returned voluntarily and fully aware of the restrictions un- INTERPRETING THE NEWS: Much Talk, No Action Sound Philosophy By TOM SHAWVER Associated Press Staff Writer ANSING - It was hard to say whether Gov. Williams called a Republican bluff in the ash crisis or Republicans called his. Whichever it was, there was agreement all ae way around that the impending state finan- al crackup triggered yesterday would blacken .ichigan's credit and reputation across the nd. Also, that the other party was to blame. Political adversaries differed on just about rerything else, sometimes violently. Rep. Joseph J. Kowalski (D-Detroit), House emocratic leader, said the Republican Sen- e's abrupt switchto a combined use tax in- ease and a cash emergency solution merely vived the impasse that tied the Legislature in hots during February and March. Through >th months, Democrats in the House and enate stood to a man against any increase in le state sales tax. In practice, the use tax ost would do just that. The proposed sales tax increase was tied to borrowing solution to the cash emergency. was aimed at short-circuiting Williams' de- and for a graduated personal income tax. Williams has warned repeatedly that payless iydays were imminent for state employes un- ss the Legislature came up with some quick sh. Senate Republicans "are determined to have yless paydays and now they have their wish," said yesterday after putting stop orders on ,ychecks to 325 employes. "In effect, they have decided to let the state Michigan go down the drain," he said, thus oving to place the blame for any financial saster squarely on GOP shoulders. Editorial Staff RICHARD TAUB, Editor CHAEL KRAFTJOHN WEICHER toril Director City Editor DAVID TARR Associate Editor ,LE CANTOR ........,.. ....... Personnel Director AN WILLOUGHBY .... iAssociate Editorial Director AN JONES. ...................Sports Editor ATA JORGENSON .........Associate City Editor SEN. LEWIS G. CHRISTMAN IR-Ann Arbor) said it was "scandalous" to talk of payless paydays with over 168 million dollars in the State Treasury, money that Democrats said was mostly earmarked and couldn't be touched for payroll purposes. Sen. Edward Hutchinson (R-Fennville) chairman of the Senate Business Committee, noted acidly that $6,200,000 of the 168 millions was set aside for future payments on liquid supplies. "The people .will not agree that it is more important to hoard funds for liquor than it is to meet payrolls," he said. "Gov. Williams is attempting to punish the Legislature for re- fusing to march blindly at his command." Sen. Carlton H. Morris (R-Kalamazoo) chief architect of the new GOP trust-fund-use-tax play, thought that Williams was bluffing. "I believe the governor can, by various means, do what is necessary to prevent payless paydays," he said. "And this way we are giving the people what they want," he said. "The senators' mail for months has indicated the people want a sales tax in preference to an income tax." Likewise, House Speaker Don R. Pears (R- Buchanan) assailed the refusal of Democrats to go along with Republicans in support of a sales tax referendum in the April 6 election. "As long as someone is not going to be paid, it's only right that the legislators are the first to go without paychecks," he said. REP. GEORGE W. SALLADE (R-Ann Arbor) didn't agree. He called the Senate caucus action "reprehensible" and "a disgrace to the Republican Party." "I predict that if the bill comes to the House floor it will be stripped of all tax provisions," he said. Democrats like Sen. Philip Rahoi (D-Iron Mountain) insisted that Republicans were fighting the trust fund plan chiefly to embar- rass Williams personally and cut down his chances for winning the Democratic presiden- tial nomination in 1960. Democratic State Chairman Neil Staebler sent telegrams to State GOP Chairman Law- rence B. Lindemer and Paul D. Bagwell, the party's governor candidate last fall, urging them to rally Republican support for imme- Born in Kansas City in 1896, Thomson often uses idioms and quotations from American folk- songs-for example, in his highly- praised music for the film "The Plow That Broke the Plains." He uses other material, too, including original melodies, hymns and waltzes. "The Seine at Night" has "memories of Gregorian chant," as he says in the program notes he wrote about his music for the May Festival. He describes it as an attempt to portray its subject, a quietly lapping river, with a few firework rockets flaring over Notre Dame or from Montmartre and later on a fine rain. Thomson spent many years in Paris. There he studied under Nadia Boulanger, who increased his awareness of the need for discipline in music. He was also influenced by several unconven- tional, imaginative composers liv- ing there in the twenties, includ- ing Arthur Honegger, Darius Mil- haud, Eric Satie and Francois Poulenc. * * * THOMSON has used a variety of styles. In one movement of his 'Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion,' which will be per- formed Saturday, he uses as ac- companiment to the flute two in- dependent sets of four-note chro- matic chords, which are played simultaneously and change simul- taneously. No note is doubled, he says in the program notes, so he has nine notes all the time, count- ing the flute. This place is one of the more than 100 musical portraits he has done. Like- the others, it was drawn from life, with the subject sitting for him as for a painter. Its subject is unknown. Tohe -pro- gram notes say Irving Kolodin has quoted, Thomson as saying it sounds like a bird, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes angry and excited. In another piece of his to be played Saturday, "Fugues and Cantilenas from the United Na- By ANITA FELDMAN Daily Staff Writer THE ONE WORD which appro- priately describes the Univer- sity May Festival is 'unique.' Featuring four days of exten- sive musical performances, the series is not 'thrown together' ran- domly, but is based on a definite threefold philosophy. Discussing this approach, Gail Rector, director of the University Musical Society which presents the Festival each year, explained that its primary aim is to "nour- ish the public musically' by pre- senting a wide range of music of Secondly, the concerts are planned to provide members of the University, the community, and the state in general with the opportunity to hear a high cul- tural plane of music literature performed by outstanding expo- nents in their respective fields. And finally, the Festival is in- tended to supplement the musical programs presented during the numdrous winter concerts at the different periods, types, and places. University, thus culminating the entire season. * * * WITH this philosophy in mind, the Musical Society plans its Fes- tival programs not only for their entertainment value, but also for their sound educational contribu- tion. Rector described the four-day Festival as the "focal point" of the season's music. Its reputation has been established over the past 66 years of annual presentations, ,and now "the concert-goers en- joy the music as well as the pres- tige that the significant festival brings to the University," he said. Not only does the Festival fea- ture 'established' performers in all fields of music, but newer per- sonalities as well. This year, for instance, the public will have the opportunity to hear both Rudolf Serkin, who has been internation- ally renowned for many years, and Giorgio Tozzi and Sidney Harth, artists more recently arisen. * * * RECOGNIZING the significance of individual composers as well as their contributions to the field of music, the 1959 May Festival will open with an entire program de- voted to the works of Johannes Brahms, and on Saturday after- noon, in the area of contemporary works, Virgil Thomson will pre- sent the world premiere of his new suite, "Power Among Men." On Friday evening, the contem- porary composers Vaughan Wil- liams and Prokofieff will also be heard. The repertoire of the Festival is always diverse, offering choral, orchestral, and virtuoso perform- ances. The University and com- munity are joined together and enriched by these different facets of music. der which he would have to work. In his own words Prokofiev de. clared, "Foreign air does not suit my inspiration because I am Rus- sian, and that is to say, the least suited of men to be an -exile, to remain myself in a psychological climate that isn't of my race." It is possible that, musically, Prokofiev sacrificed nothing by his return. His evolution into lyricism and his retreat to traditional and simpler forms was apparent much earlier than 1935. He spent a great part of his time at the production of hack patriotic marches, work songs, the "Greeting to Stalin," "Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the Octo- ber Revolution," and"On.Guard for Peace." But from the same period care his "Alexander Nev- sky," "Romeo and Juliet," the. two excellent Violin and Piano Sona- tas, and the impressive 5th and 6th Symphonies. THE SECOND Violin Concerto, opus 63, was completed in 1935, the year Prokofiev became a Soviet citizen. It is the first major work of his Soviet period. Started In Paris and finished in Baku, this warmly lyrical work was given its first performance' in *Madrid by the violinist Robert Soeteus, for whom it was written. It will be performed at Friday night's May Festival concert Scheduled for Saturday night, the Seventh Symphony, opus 131, is one of Prokofiev's last composi- tions. It ,was written immediately after a serious rebuke by Zhdanov and a panel of Soviet aestheti- cians against Prokofiev's "rising experimental tendencies." The Seventh Symphony, though lack- ing "rising experimental tenden- cies" and the freshness and vitality of his preceding two sym- phonies, is representative of the composer's finest lyrical and mu- sicianly craftsmanship. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Modern IdTraditional Themes By CHARLES SHERMAN ALTHOUGH Ralph Vaughan Williams is perhaps England's greatest composer since Henry Purcell, his music has been almost absent from past May Festival programs. The "London Sym- phony" was performed in 1924 and the "Five Tudor Portraits" in 1957. Particularly welcome, then, will be Friday night's Festival perform- ance of "Flos Campi," one of the composer's finest though least- known works. Written in 1925, "Flos Campi" is a suite of six movements for solo viola, small orchestra and a wordless choir of mixed voices. Each movement of the suite bears a sunpersrint from the Song nof every medium: opera, ballet, inci- dental music for the stage, film scores, symphonies, concertos, or- chestral music of every descrip- tion, chamber music, music fqr band, church anthems, hymn- tunes, carols, solo songs, part- songs. instrumental solos. * * * "TOWARD THE Unknown Re- gion," a piece for chorus and or- chestra presented at the 1907 Leeds Festival, was the first work to gain him wide-spread recogni- tion and clearly marked Vaughan Williams as the coming composer among Britain's younger genera- tion. The "Choral Symphony" pre- sented at Leeds three years later served notice of his full arrival. phony orchestra with the sonori- ties of unusual instruments. The score of his "Sinfonia Antartica" includes organ, vibraphone, wind machine, and wordless women's voices. The fourth movement of his Eighth Symphony is a toccata for all the tuned percussion in- struments of the modern orches- tra. The Ninth Symphony, com- pleted shortly before the com- poser's death in 1958, has solos for flugelhorn. FROM THE beginning of his career, Vaughan Williams was pri- marily interested in composition. As a young man he became in- terested in two facets of his musi- cal heritage -English. folk-song and the works of the Tudor musi- cians-both of which contributed decisively to the modal and rhyth- mic aspects of his language. In- deed, Vaughan Williams' mature style is more profoundly indebted to these sources than to the in- fluences of his teachers. Together with his good friend and contem- norarvG ustav TT.T he was able A s I M: I