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Social Change Affects Opera
College Roundup
MAY FESTIVAL MUSICIAN:
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Biggs Notes Organ History, Structure
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two main types of opera - the
Wagnerian music drama and the
Verdi opera of psychological con-
flict.
Wagnerian music drama is
characterized by unbroken orches-
tration, while the characters are
used as symbols of larger univer-
sals, Prof. Grout said. The Verdian
opera depends, however, on vocal
themes as channels of communica-
tion. The characters represent
general human types.
Early Works
The effect of Wagner may be
seen in the early works of Richard
Strauss. Prof. Grout referred to
Strauss' "Electra" and "Salome"
as examples of this influence in
the early 20th century.
Strauss' later operas fall into a
different category. "Ariadne auf
Naxos" and "Arabella" and "Cap-
riccio" all fall under the heading
of neo-classical opera, he said.
Stravinsky's "The Rakes Prog-
ress" also is patterned after the
neo-classical tradition in music,
which is more restrained than the
further advanced musical forms of
the 20th century.
Further classification of 20th
century opera divides into the
traditional, comic, political, Soviet,
new line and experimental opera.
Traditional Operas
Gian-Carlo Menotti, Benjamin
Britten and Francis Poulenc wrote
traditional operas. Britten's operas
"Peter Grimes" and "The Turn- of
the Screw" also fall under the
traditional heading, Prof. Grout
noted.
Kurt Wiel's works during the
late 1920's were political operas.
Soviet opera would include Proko-
fiev's "War and Peace."
Carl Orff's "Antigone" and
"Qepidus Tyrannus"-with their
great intensity, use of speech and
chanting-fall under the experi-
mental heading.
Prof. Grout concluded by cit-
ing Blomdahl's opera "Aniara," a
By MARGARET LOWE
NEW YORK-The Columbia
University Student Peace Union
and Committee for Disarmament
are circulating a petition to pro-
test campus fallout shelters. The
petition cites the inadequacy of
the program for saving even a
small fraction of the campus popu-
lation in the event of a nuclear
attack. The petition asks that
presidential permission for the es-
tablishment of campus fallout
shelters be revoked.
PROVIDENCE-Members of the
Brown University chapter of Pi
Lambda Phi unanimously voted
to sever, connections with its na-
tional organization and become a
local fraternity. The chapter felt
it was getting nothing in return
for contributions of time and
money which were made to the
national fraternity and that the
national did not actively and ef-
fectively support local ideals.
* * *
CORAL GABLES, Fla.-Univer-
sity of Miami President Henry
Stanford recently approved a pub-
lications board resolution forbid-
ding university publications from
carrying advertisements of enter-
prises which deny service to
tain groups of students.
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PROF. DONALD GROUT
... opera
forward looking opera whose scene
is set in a spaceship.
After playing an example from
"Aniara," Prof. Grout said opera
will continue to exist in the future
but he declined to predict the
forms it might take.
Scientists Conduct Studies
During Scaling of Everest
Alpha Kappa Psi business pro-
fessional fraternity awarded its
annual honorary membership to
Gov. George Romney Wednesday
night at the business administra-
tion school.
At a ceremony attended by Uni-
versity President Harlan Hatcher,
Dean Floyd A. Bond of the busi-
ness administration school and
members of Alpha Kappa Psi,
Romney was presented with a
certificate and a gold key for be-
ing an "outstanding leader in busi-
ness and civic affairs."
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This explana-
tion of the scientific aspects of the
successful American Mt. Everest ex-
pedition was written for the Asso-
ciated Press by Melville Bell Gros-
venor, president and editor of the
National Geographic Society, the
sponsor of the expedition.)
By
MELVILLE BELL GROSVENOR
President and Editor of the
National Geographic Society
WASHINGTON -- The first
Americans to scale Mt. Everest,
the monarch of all mountains,
undertook the most intensive sci-
entific research ever attempted in
an earthly. setting as high and
hostile.
Studies, supported by th'e Na-
tional Geographic Society and sci-
entific agencies of the government
including the National Science
Foundation, ranged from the
growth of glaciers on 29,028-foot
Everest to the psychological reac-
tions of exhausted climbers.
Results of the studies are ex-
pected to be particularly useful in
solving the human problems of
the United States space program.
On the frozen slopes of Mt. Ever-
est, men have been isolated at
their difficult task in an unnatu-
ral environment; just as small
groups of men will be secluded in
space-exploring capsules.
Seven Groups
The numerous scientific experi-
ments that were to be performed
on Everest were grouped in seven
major projects:
1) Investigations into the ef-
fects of extreme stress and stim-
ulus on a man's behavior, spon-
sored by the Office of Naval Re-
search. A clinical psychologist
asked the men hundreds of ques-
tions, probing into their thoughts
to determine what psychological
changes were taking place. as they
climbed to the highest slopes;
2) Group communication under
increasing stress, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation. A
sociologist planned to use light-
weight tape recorders so that the
climbers' conversations and com-
ments can be studied afterthe ex-
pedition. The findings are ex-
pected to be valid for any similarly
isolated, highly motivated group
engaged in military or civilian
task under severe strain;
Physiological Studies
3) Physiological studies, spon-
sored by the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research and the Uni-
versity of California "to clarify
the nature of the adaption syn-
drome and to examine the changes
in responses when physiological
limits are exceeded." It is hoped,
with the help of the radioactive
isotopes, to measure the changes
League To Present
'Pajama Game'
The Soph Show for 1963-64 will
be "The Pajama Game." Spon-
sored by the League,'the show has
in the past presented such musi-
cals as "Bye Bye Birdie," "Guys
and Dolls" and "Bells Are Ring-
ing."
that took place in the men's
adrenal glands;1
4) A glaciological study for the
National Geographic Society. Ice+
appears in identifiable annual1
layers, like the rings of a tree, on
the Great Khumbu Glacier which
flows downward from 23,000 to
about 15,000 feet at the base of the
Everest group of mountains. The
glacier's vacillations in recent de-
cades suggest that it is extremely
sensitive to climate;
5) Collection of ice samples
from the layers for a continuing
research project on tritium, a rare
form of heavy hydrogen, by Nobel
Prize-winner Prof. Willard F. Lib-
by of the University of California
at Los Angeles and his staff. The;
ice samples, melted and preserved
in polyethylene bottles, will be
analyzed to determine whether
some of the tritium comes directly
from the sun during solar flares;
Solar Radiation
6) Measurement of solar radia-
tion at 20,000 to 26,000 feet-
altitudes highier than these meas-
urements have ever been taken on
the earth's surface; and
7) Meteorological observations
to be carried out by the entire ex-
pedition.
ORGANIZATION
NOTICES
SGC Cinema Guild, Petitioning for
sponsorships (grants of money to quali-
fied student organizations) for Septem-
ber, 1963. Obtain forms and policy
from Miss Helmer, SGC Offices. Peti-
tions should be in Cinema Guild's
mailbox (SAB) no later than 7 p.m.,
May 10. Interviews May 13. Applicants
will be notified of the time of their
interviews.
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Cercle Francais, Lecture, 3 p.m., An-
gell Hall, Aud. C.; Final Banquet, 5
p.m., League; May 11. For banquet res-
ervations, call Peggy Ormond, 6117
Markley by Fri., May 10.
* * *
Congregational Disciples E & R Stu-
dent Guild, Cost luncheon discussion:
"Algerian Bumble"; Prof. James Meisel,
May 10, Noon, 802 Monroe.
** *
Joint Judiciary Council, Petitioning
for council position, petitioning ex-
tended until May 13. Pick up petition
from Mrs. F. Lyndon, 1011 SAB. Inter-
views for five available positions May
14.
* * *
Mich. Christian Fellowship, Faculty
squash, May 10, 7:30 p.m., Union.
* * *
U. of M. International Folk Dancers,
Dance meeting, May 14, 8 p.m., 1429 Hill.
** *
Alumni Association Board of Student
Governors, Selection of officers, coffee,
9:30 a.m., meeting, 10 a.m., May 11,
League, Henderson Room.
The University of Michigan Chapter
of the American Association of Uni-
versity Professors will hold its final
meeting of this academic year Tues.,
May 14, at 8:00 p.m. In the East Con-
ference Room of the Rackham Bldg.
Prof. George Peek will moderate a
panel discussion on "Can the' Faculty
be Effective in Determining Education-
al Policy at the University Level?" Par-
ticipating in the discussion will be
Professors Heady (political science),
McKeachie (psychology) and Brubacher
(higher education). A short business
meetin gwill precede the discussion.
AAUP members and other interested
faculty are cordially invited to attend.
ALBUQUERQUE-University of
New Mexico voters have decided
to retain affiliation with the Na-
tional Student Association.
COLUMBUS-The Ohio Legis-
lature is reviewing a bill to es-
tablish state-wide policy on col-
lege campus guest speakers. The
bill requires that speakers must
not be subversives and that their'
speeches must be for the "best
educational purposes."
* * *
SYRACUSE-The Syracuse Uni-
versity Interfraternity Council re-
cently voted to oppose all hazing
and to refer all hazing cases to
its judicial board for action. It
defined hazing as "any action
taken or situation created by a
fraternity intentionally, on or off
the fraternity premise, to produce
bodily injury, public embarrass-;
ment, morally degrading or illegal
action."
* * *
PROVIDENCE-Atty. Gen. J.
Joseph Nugent warned students
at Brown University to confine
reading of Henry Miller's "Tropic
of Cancer" to the campus. He
threatened to arrest anyone who
"leaves the campus with the book
in his pocket-unles he's using
it in some course up there."
* * *
PRINCETON - The Princeton
campus has quieted down after a
riot Tuesday by 1500 students-
one-third of the university's en-
rollment.
The three-hour spree caused
considerable property damage in
the town and resulted in the up-
rooting of an iron fence around
President Robert F. Goheen's
home. Fourteen students were ar-
rested.
Across
Campus
The world premiere of "Still Are
New Worlds" by Prof. Ross Lee
Finney of the music school will
be featured at 8:30 p.m. today in
the second concert of the May
Festival Series.
Pianist Grant Johannesen will
play Wallingford Riegger's "Varia-
tions for Piano and Orchestra"
and Schubert and Liszt's "Fan-
tasia for Piano and Orchestra
(Wanderer').*
Thor Johnson will conduct the
orchestra and the University Chor-
al Union in Verdi's "Te Deum."
He will also conduct "Still Are
New Worlds," which Edwin C.
Burrows will narrate.
Behavior .. .
Prof. Harry Harlow of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin will deliver
the psychology department's sec-
ond John Shepard Lecture on "The
Effect of Early Experience on
Heterosexual and Maternal Be-
havior" at 4:15 p.m. today in Aud.
A.
Assembly .. .
Eugene Ormandy, director of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, will speak
at an honors assembly at 3 p.m.
today in Rackham Lecture Hall.
Choose Staff
For '64 Ensian
The following people were ap-
pointed to the 1964 Michiganen-
sian junior staff,: James Zimmer-
man, '66, sports copy editor; Ellen
Ramee, '64, house groups layout
editor; Gale Maynard, '65, house
groups copy editor; James Klein,
'66, sales manager; Joan Wolf-
sheimer, '66, organizations layout
editor; Claire Aitken, '64, art lay-
out editor; Ricky Wachtel, '66,
sales manager; Iris Brauer, '66, art
copy editor; Erica Olson, '66, or-
ganizations copy editor; Connie
Witucki, '66, schools and colleges
layout editor; Patti Joseph, '66,
associate copy editor; Margaret
Franks, '64, schools and colleges
copy editor; and Michael Sawdey,
'66, photography editor.
By JEFFREY K. CHASE
The first American congrega-
tion which had an organ consid-
ered it only a "box of whistles
with the devil inside," and were all
for "throwing it in the harbor,"
organist E. Power Biggs said re-
cently.
The first organ in America was
an English import brought here
by Thomas Brattle in 1713 and
given to a Boston church, Biggs
said.
In 1759 Thomas Johnson built
View1rs Costs
O f Hospitals
Hospital costs cannot be cut
unless several basic trends in
American society are reversed, As-
sociate Director Ernest C. Laetz
of the University Hospital said
yesterday.
He cited four economic trends
which make the outlook for even
a leveling-off of hospital costs ap-
pear "bleak."
1) Rising wages and supply
prices force up hospital expendi-
tures. Laetz asserted that firm
price and wage controls on the
entire business and labor com-
munity would be necessary to halt
this trend.
2) Another expense is incurred
in developing better diagnostic
and treatment facilities. Halting
such research would save money
-at the cost of the improvements
it produces, he noted.
3) Shorter work weeks require
that more money be spent in pay-
rolls, if services are to be main-
tained. Thus, a work week of at
least 40 hours would have to be
maintained.
4) Hospitals now foot much of
the bill for education in the health
professions. Laetz noted that the
armed forces, industry and many
doctors who employ nurses "have
never trained a single nurse." Hos-
pitals are also training grounds for
doctors, and "even as trainees they
are paid salaries," he added.
If these costs are to be elimi-
nated, "other agencies" would have
to handle the training functions,
Laetz said.
Studies show that hospitals of-
ten are run more efficiently than
many major industries, Laetz con-
cluded.
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We recommend that you see
it frm th hpnnnin
the first all-American organ in
Boston's Old North Church, which
Paul Revere was to make famous
16 years later. The design of this
organ closely resembled that of
organs in England, although it was
constructed on a smaller scale.
Hymn Accompaniment
Because early American organs
were used almost exclusively for
hymn accompaniment, they did
not contain many stops or coup-
lers. Also because American
churches contained less masonry
in their construction than those
in Europe, the organs did not
sound as good as their. European
counterparts.
"The fact of the matter is, how-
ever, that the organs were general-
ly as good as those built on the
Continent. This fact points up
only too well the necessity for the
appropriate placement for optimal
organ tone production," Biggs
pointed out.
One of three characteristics im-
portant to a high-quality organ is
tracker action-a direct connec-
tion from the keys to the pipe
mechanisms. Also important are
a rich specification of components,
such as stops and couplers, and the
placement of the wind chest (the
pipe container) in a high open
area.
Lacks Features
The organ in Hill Auditorium,
although very fine, is lacking in
two of these characteristics.
The keys stimulate the pipes by
electrical means and the pipes are,
not arranged in open placement.
Biggs emphasized, though, that
Hill Auditorium does not permit
the pipes to be fully in the open.
Today, the best organs are made
in Holland. They are built essen-
said. But this method involves a
time lag from the point at which
the key is depressed to the point
when the pipe responds.
Biggs arrived in Ann Arbor last
Monday so he could determine the
stop-settings which would express,
on the Hill organ, the intentions
the composers specified in their
stop-setting designations for the
organ for which the works were
written.
tially on the same principle they
have used for the last three cen-
turies, the principle of tracker ac.
tion.
Electronic Age
Many American companies use
an electrical mechanism-typical
of the age in which we live, Biggs
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HONORED AT FOUR 1962
EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVALSI
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Regular Feature
Come Fly With Me
Shown Both
Before and
After Preview
AT THE
THE POWERFUL DRAMA OF A
FIGHTING AMERICAN
IN EASTMAN COLOR
the University Players
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CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO OUR SPRING 1963 SCHEDULE:
5.4.
CINEMA GUILD prejenta
the
last times tonight at 7 and 9
JUDY HOLLIDAY in
BORN YESTERDAY
WILLIAM HOLDENa
MAY 15-17
G. B. Shaw's
Caesar and Cleopatra
Stewart Granger-Claude Rains
and Vivien Leigh as "Cleopatra",
MAY 22-26
THE FIRST
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MAY 18-19
JOSEPH CONRAD'S
Outcast of the Islands
An excellent Film, directed by
Carol Reed. Starring Trevor Howard,
Ralph Richardson, Wendy Hiller
MAY 30-31, JUNE
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