THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER. 1 THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER. ..._.. A CHASE TO APPEAR: Hines To Open Extra Concert Series difrnebteeRrs reo Hines, bass with the >olitan Opera, will open the SUnion Extra Concert Series tperformance at 8:30 p.M. ow in Hill Auditorium. s was the first American n 40 years to star in the roles at the Metropolitan broad. He also sang with mini in Beethoven's "Missa nis," and with the New York rmonic and other orches- lines has made many tele- appearances. singer is particularly f am- ous for his portrayal of Mephisto- pheles in "Faust," Gurnemanz in "Parsifal," of King Philip in "Don Carlo," of the title roles in "Boris Godounov" and "Don Giovanni." I ka Chase .. + Ilka Chase, actress, author and television personality, will read humorous literature on love in a' program entitled "The Dear Emo- tion," at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in Hill Aud. Miss Chase is the first of six guests on the Platform Attractions EXQUISITE EXHIBIT ON Colonial u a ca Photostats of PICTURES and DOCUMENTS showing the role of the Jew in Colonial Times. BRASLEY LOUNGE-1429 Hill Street October 14-November 12 B'NAI B'RITH BILLEL FOUNDATION series. Tickets for individual pro- grams go on sale Monday at the Hill Aud. box office. VU' Players .* The University Players season opens at 8 p.m. Wednesday with a concert reading of Christopher Fry's "The Firstborn" in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The pro- duction will run through Satur- day and is included in season tickets. Percussion Group .*** The University perscussion or- chestra will present the develop- ment of drummiing from the tribal tom-tom to the modern band and orchestra at 9 a.m. on WXYZ-TV. "Rhythms of the Drum" is part of the University television series "Understanding Our World." Magazine Editor . . Douglass Cater, Washington edi- tor of "The Reporter" magazine, will discuss the "Freedom of the Press" at noon today on WWJ- TV. The program will describe the difference between press freedom and the charter freedoms. String Orchestra .«. The University String Orchestra, directed by Gilbert Ross, will pre- sent a concert of 17th and 18th century music at 8:30 p.m. Tues- day in Rackham Lecture Hall. Committee Announced For Event The Spring Weekend central has been announced by Pat Lynch, '62, and Gary Roggin, '62, co- chairmen of the event. Those chosen were: Susan Fish- er, '63, and Betsy Holleb, '63, sec- retaries; Eugene Davidson, '61, treasurer; Diane Thimme, '63Ed., and J. Michael Davison, '62 A & D, programs; Jeffery Rubenstein, '63, and Marsha Kanter, '63, Fri- day afternoon events; Edward St.ein, '63, and Sue Rosenfeld, '63, Skit night. Others chosen were Jerry Las- key, '63, and Laurie Lipman, '63, Saturday afternoon events; Mich- ael Blumenthal, '63, and Rosalyn Schulman, '63, dance; Nancy Keck, '62, and Richard Strickland, '63E, tickets; Samuel Zell, '63, Pamela Marzulla, '62, and Judy Novitsky, '63, publicity; Cody En- gels, '63, and Myrna Moxley, '62, concessions; Winia Morrison, '63, and Robert Finke, '63, awards and judges. There will be a mass meeting for those interested in working on committees at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6 in the Union Ballroom. Sub- committee chairmen and workers will be chosen from those ,at the mass meeting. By JUDITH SATTLER Jazz has not really become re- spectable to many music lovers today : Brubeck cannot compare with Bach. Manymusicians, among them° Prof. H. Wiley Hitchcock of the music school, are unwilling to charge jazz off so easily, however. One of the reasons they value it is because it has helped revive an important element in serious American music - improvisation. Jazz has had a major effect. on serious art music only recently.' Prof. Hitchcock traces, American art music culture chiefly to1Ger- manic origins; American com- posers tried to imitate Brahms and Beethoven, and ignored native American folk music. 'Dip into Jazz' In the 1930s, when proletarian art was. popular, some American .composers began "dipping into jazz," he noted. These composers' were not jazz men, though, and so the results were not outstanding, he added. "Only recently," Prof. Hitchcock. said,. "has jazz been used by serious composers who are sym-, pathetic to it, and who used it well." He cited Harold Shapiro, Rolf Liebermann, and Leonard Bernstein, as such men.. With the increasing use of jazz has come an interest, inthe forms of jazz, particularly in improvisa- tion. ARTS AND LETTERS: Jazz Not Totally Respectable H. WILEY HITCHCOCK ...supports Jazz U SGC THE WOLVERIN'ECLUB Sponsors WISCONSIN TRIP '.October 28-30 Ticket and Round Trip Transportation ... $25 For Information and Reservations Call NO 5-8215 between 3 and 5 any day JEROME HINES ... to sing tomorrow FIRST AVAILABLE: 'U' Releases Translation Of Russian Course Syllabi or call NO 5-8367... Erwin or NO 2-3155 . . Judy U ,the unani mus delight of critics and audiences." LIFE Magazine +tA R H "A COMIC MASTER PIECE. .HILARIOUS FARCE ,CONSTANTLY FUNNY!" -McCAS MAGAZINE "SURE TO I TICKLE THE FANCY! SELLERS IS -BRILLIANT!" The University has released translations of the syllabi of three Russian university courses, which are the core of the Communist Party's indoctrination program. It is believed that the transla- tions are the first available to Western scholars. The three courses, which are required for all Soviet university students, re- present five years of study. The titles are: "History of the Communist Party"; "Political Economy"; and "Historical and Dialectical Materialism." Prof. Horace W. Dewey of the Slavic languages departmen did the translations. Slanted Teaching Prof. Dewey and Prof. Morris Boernstein of the economics de- partment, two University experts on Russia, agree that Communist education is heavily slanted to the party line, and that the syllabi represent up-to-date answers to problems of Communist theory. "In any sort of group discussion, you will find that all Soviet citi- zens have the same cut-and-dried answers to the problems of the world. This is obviously a result of this intensive and completely one-sided indoctrination which they get constantly through their educational career." The treatment in the syllabi of such current topics as co-existance is interesting. Prof. Dewey says. "The most vital question of Ameri- cans as well as to the whole world is to know how serious Khrushchev is about co-existance," Syllabi Passages The syllabi contain such pas- sages as these which bear on current understanding of Soviet intentions: JOSH WHITE -SATURDAY NIGHT- OCTOBER 29 All seats reserved On Sale Now at Follett's and Ulrich's "The Communist Party. organ-I izer of the struggle of the Soviet people for fulfillment of the task t of catching up with the United States in the coming years in per capita production of meat, butter and milk. "Competition of two world economic systems: socialist and capitalist. Possibility of their peaceful coexistence. Decisive ad-1 vantages of world socialist eco- nomic system over world capitalist economic system. "Incompatibility of the cult of personality with socialist ideology. Struggle of the party for sur- mounting the harmful results of J. V. Stalin's cult of personality. ! Fight against attempts to revise Marxism-Leninism and to find ! fault with Soviet actuality under cover of the fight against the cult of personality." Called Iindoctrination' Prof. Boernstein says "Syllabi in the Political Economy" course, clearly show the extent to which' economics teaching in the Soviet Union is an indoctrination in Marxism and in the current ideological line of the Communist party." University President Harlan Hatcher, who visited the Soviet Union in 1959, calls the new trans- lations "highly significant docu- ments for anyone interested in education." In part, they explain the highly distorted view of this the United States and its economic system which is held by otherwise wel - educated Russians. Contrast with U.S. "These courses provide a start- ling contrast to our own educa- tional methods. There are no theoretical conflicts, only truth and falsity; no objective analysis of an opposing system, only criti- cism, and bibliographies list only Soviet authors favorable to the current party line." In "Political Economy" for ex- ample, the required reading lists contains only six authors for 300 hours of instruction: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung. "A comparable course in an American university would include readings from at least 20 to 30 different authors," President Hatcher adds. In an introductory statement to the translations, issued Wednes- day in book form, President Hatcher explains the courses and reports on the visit of the U.S. delegation he led. (This delega- tion originally obtained the syl- labi.) Cut Dimension "With our worship of the printed page, we have cut one whole dimension out of music," Prof, Hitchcock said. He pointed out that it is exciting to communicate with the mind of someone like Brubeck, but that it is possible only in improvisation. "In hearing a composed work, the listener may communicate with the mind of Bach, for ex- ample" he said. "Why not have communication with the mind of the performer as well?" he asked. In Mozart's time, all musicians were expected to be proficient improvisors, just as they were expected to be competent in inter- preting music- written by other musicians. Rights Group1 TomlsRteslts Of Crusade' (Continued from Page 1) "We must not train ourselves in the schools to accept our current condition, but we must train our- selves in social philosophy, public administration and law, so that we may have energies and minds capable of working on the new frontiers of science and govern- ment soon." Jones asked for "posi- tivist" leadership, which "includes programs as 'well as protests so that we may negotiate with the power elite, all the while pledging mass action as our threat. We must even make our imprisonment ominous by never letting the Southern white forget that leaders like Jawkohashr Nehru and Kwaml Nkrumah emerged from jails in their own lands." Rev. James Lawson, a Negro minister who was jailed in Nash- ville and later fired from Vander- bilt University devinity school in Nashville urged students "to accept with great joy the necessity of suffering under the hatred of a whole culture." Imprisonment, said Lawson, "does not stop but incraeses the onrushing thrust of our mission. People know we are jailed unjustly; they know the character of the society we seek, and perhaps by our passivity we may instill courage in others. Mozart gave a performance In Mantua at the age of 14, in which more than half of the works listed on the program were to be im- provised, Prof. Hitchcock noted. One selection was even to be a fugue on a theme provided by, someone in the audience. This immediate kind of art died out in our "paper music- culture," Prof. Hitchcock said. But recently there have been various experiments in which the composer gives up some of his authority, either to the performer or to! chance, he noted. In some of these modern worksI true improvisation is tried, and "the performer is the source of the composition," he said. 'Knocked 'Out' For example, composer Lukas Foss is "knocked out by the idea of improvisation in a non-jazz style," he said, "and has used it entensively in his music. Foss picked up the idea -from listening to jazz. , Foss's music has achieved some notice; last week the New York Philharmonic orchestra under Leonard Bernstein performed a work by Foss entitled "Concerto for Improvising Instruments and Orchestra." Charles Ives, forerunner of many contemporary musical develop- ments, wrote passages into his music which said, in effect, here the flutist must make up some- thing." Ives also used the device of allowing the performer to repeat certain sections of the work as, many times as he wished. Other composers have used semi- improvisation of various kinds. n'a Uses Selections In 'acomposition called "Tem- pos," composer Karlheinz Stock- hausen has used sections in which the woodwind player is to hold a certain note as long as possible, or, as long as his breath holds out. This determines what the other players do, as far as time goes. "Morton Feldman is another composer with ideas," Prof. Hitch- cock said. Feldman has turned upside the tradition relationships between time and pitch. In conventional music, -'the exact pitch of the note played is determined, but the time is only roughly indicated by a nota- tion of "Fast," "Slow" or "moder- ately." Controls Timing Feldman controls timing by precisely determining the time a note is held in fractions of a se- cond: the pitch of the note is left to the performer, with only a suggestion that he play a high note or a low one. John Cage, another modern music writer, is experimenting with randomness in music. He records only two or three notes on a page, and lets the performer weave a composition around any or all of them, Prof. Hitchcock said. The way in which Cage chooses the notes he does record is also unusual. nu.Blank Sheet -Cage does the equivalent of taking a blank sheet .of paper, finding a few flaws on the paper, making pencil markings on the flaws, then putting a piece of transparent staff' paper over the blank sheet and seeing where the pencil marks fell on the music staffs. The works of these composers are only a few examples of the contemparary reaction against the paper music culture, Prof. Hitch- cock noted, and seem to be tend- ing in an important new direc- tion for music. Adelson To Talk On Russian Novel Prof. Joseph Adelson of the psy- chology department will discuss Dostoevski's "Crime and Punish- ment" at 4:15. p.m. tomorrow in the Honors Lounge of the UGLI. The discussion is part of the Stu- dent Government Council Read- ing and Discussion program. 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