Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY -SESQUICENTENNIAL SUPPLEMENT THE MICHIGAN DAILY - SESQUICENTENNIAL SUPPLEMENT Tuesday, March 7, 1967 Tuesday, March 7, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY- SESQUICENTENNIAL. SUPPLEMENT .. ,. Music Highlights of 1967 Hudson s salutes Univer by SUE REDFERN The University inaugurated the musical celebration of its Ses- quicentennial year last Jan. 8, when the Detroit Symphony in- cluded in its performance "Var- lations for Orchestra" by Univer- sity composer Leslie Basset. The performance of the Bas- sett work is part of a program to recognize the achievements of University musicians throughout Diny 1967. Every orchestra scheduled under the auspices of the Uni- versity Musical Society to perform in Ann Arbor during the year has been invited by the Sesquicen- tennial Committee to program a work by a University composer. The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra performed Ross= Lee Finney's "Concerto for Percussion, and Orchestra" in its Feb. 26 Hill Auditorium concert. Finney, like' Bassett, is a professor and com- poser in residence at the Univer- sity's School of Music. Two Commissioned Works The Sesquicentennial Commit- tee has also commissioned two delphia Symphony conducted by University alumnus and former faculty member Thor Johnson will play the orchestral score. Waldie Anderson, another University Choral Union providing the chor- al background. The second commissioned work is a composition for orchestra by Roger Sessions, a prominent con- tempory composer now in resi- dence at the University of Calif- ornia at Berkeley. According to Rector, Sessions has not decided what form his piece will take, but Rector speculated that the score will include a piano part. The complete work will receive its premiere performance Oct. 1 by the Chicago Symphony Orches- tra under- the direction of Jean Martinon. Summer Music Program The year of celebration will see the inaugural of a University- sponsored summer music program, the Fair Lane Festival. Patterned after annual events such as the Berkshire Festival in Tanglewood, Mass., the festival will be located on the lawns of the late Henry ofMichigan's Sesquicentei and the hundreds of graduw'e wl oe o h le FiAIR LANE EVRTATE ROSS LEE FINNEY works especially for the celebra- tion: The world premiere of Finney's "The Martyr's Elegy" will be per- formed on Sunday, Apr. 23, as part of the Musical Society's an- nual May Festival. The musical society changed the traditional May date to April this year so that the festival could serve as a pre- lude to commencement, Gail Rec- tor, executive director of the Soc- iety, explained. Based on the text of Percy By- sshe Shelley's poem "Adonais," "The Martyr's Elegy' is scored for high voice, a chorus of mixed voices, and orchestra. The Phila- Ford's Fair Lane Estate in Dear- born. This 1369-acre wooded tract has been the center of the University's Dearborn Campus since 1956, when it was bequeathed to the University by the Ford Motor Company. Its grounds include a 56-room mansion and large ex- panses of natural landscaping and formal gardens. The festival, which is expected to become an annual event, was planned by the Musical Society under the direction of Rector, "in keeping with celebration motif of the University as a 'spearhead of new ideas' and as a 'sustaining margin of excellence' ". Festival of Festivals This summer's concert program has been conceived as a "festival of fesivals," Rector explained. Five Festival orchestras will present concerts over five weekends in June and July. The schedule is as follows: June 4: Baroque Ensemble of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, conductor. (two concerts) June 11: Baroque Ensemble of the Chicago Symphony, Antonio Janigro, guest conductor. (two concerts) July 5-6: Caramoor Festival productions; two parable operas by Benjamin Britten. July 16: Bath Festival Orches- tra of London, Yehudi Menuhin, conductor. (two concerts) July 23: National Festival Or- chestra of Stratford, Ontario, Os- car Shumsky, conductor. (two concerts) vl'i na.LAii'i careers through the ye LESLIE BASSET 6 d Nl I~ __ _ ----------- . il ill GAIL RECTOR 11 Alumni WithV By CAROLYN MIEGEL The alumni kicked off their cele- bration of the Sesquicentennial year whenr300 alumni participated in an around-the-world cruise aboard the- 20,000-ton liner, the S.S. President Roosevelt. Sponsored by the University of Michigan Alumni Association, the cruise left from San Francisco last October 12 and arrived back in San Francisco on January 9. Visit- ing over 20 ports and meeting with other alumni organizations during the cruise, the S.S. President Celebrate "I is .... --------------------- - i;" { . :":": :": a :: :"::. . . i 4:" : : 1:1": Vorld C Roosevelt offered alumni seminars by University faculty, special so- cial events, visits by University ad- ministrators along the trip, as well as flown-in films of the Mi- chigan football games. University President Harlan Hatcher, in a message to alumni, described the trip as a "highly ap- propriate prelude to the fine ser- ies of events being scheduled" for the Sesquicentennial. "It repre- sents a new invitation to world understanding through a cultural exchange among people with the common background of the Uni- ' ij , l , , , } ...... "":".."..:..:... .... .*JJ'"" .*.*. ........*".*." "... :..... ".. :".... . --7--- ..-' I PROUD TO SERVE THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY NOW TWO LOCATIONS: West Side-Stadium Blvd. at Jackson Rd. New East Side-Washtenaw Road at U.S. 23® rruise versity of Michigan," Hatcher add- ed. Fares for the cruise ranged from $3,200 to $18,340. Alumni had two alternatives: they could take the cruise all the way around the globe or leave the Roosevelt when it docked in New York on Decem- ber 19. The 300 alumni traveled from San Francisco to Hawaii and from there to Japan, Hong Kong, Man- ila, Singapore, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, Italy, France, New York, Jamaica, Co- lombia, Panama, Mexico and back to the United States, docking in San Francisco. The trip covered approximately 27,000 miles. Other alumni activities celebra- ting the Sesquicentennial include regional alumni celebrations in Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Hous- ton, as well as other centers of alumni concentration. Happy Birthday These regional celebrations will be similar to the festivities that took place here in early March, whirh concluded with an "Alumni Birthday" celebration in Cobo Hall on March 4. "Our Michigan," edited by for- mer University Secretary Erich Walter, is a collection of remin- iscences by University alumni, in- cluding Arthur Miller, John Ciardi, James A. McDivitt, and, the late astronaut Edward H. White,, II. Another alumni contribution to the Sesquicentennial is an art ex- hibit that will open at, the Uni- versity Museum of Art on October 1. The exhibit is' a show of art works collected by alumni. ..... . W ..,. * 2dli $$$.....p. .i~elf ::tii'. ns;. .Rg 'XiN {,r,? sti I I- .::: S -V8 :ll@$iif ty D s 0 Michigan's World-Famous Depart uit