SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1952

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T HE MICHIGAN DAILY

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EUROPEAN TOUR:
Prof. McGeoch Attends
Famed Music Festivals

By CYNTHIA BOYES
While most people visit Europe
to look, Prof. Glenn,'McGeoch of
the School of Music tried some-
thing different on his European
tour last summer-he went to
listen.
Leaving Ann Arbor at the end
of August, Prof McGeoch spent a
month attending some of Europe's
finest music festivals. His first
stop was the Wagner Festival at
Bayreuth, Germany, where he
heard performances of Wagnerian
operas in the theatre built by
Richard Wagner, the originator of
the festival.
BECAUSE he wanted a theatre
specially designed to suit produc-
tions of his operas, Wagner work-
ed with the architect himself and
approved a plan for a sunken or-
chestra pit. Completely beneath
the stage, the pit is designed in
steps so that the violins are in
front and on the highest level anc
the brasses are low and farther
back, giving a beautifully blended
sound in which the brasses don't
blare and the singers voices car
be heard at all times. At the same
time the conductor is within view
of all performers on the stage.
The over-all effect of this
structure is so magnifcent that
Prof. McGeoch expressed sur-
prise that more of our modern
theatres haven't adopted the
idea.
Another feature of the Bayreuti
festival that Prof. McGeoch found
of particular interest was the sim-
plicity of the sets. He calls it the
perfect example of necessity being
the "mother of invention."
DURING the war when the fes-
tivals were discontinued, occupa-
tion armies used the Bayreuti
theatre, sets and costumes for pro-
duction of army shows, and poor
people of the vicinity helped them-
selves to the costumes and wore
them as clothing. Consequently,
when Wagner's two grandsons re-
vived the festival after the war
the sets and costumes were a]l
gone or ruined. Having no money
to buy new equipment, they went
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ENDING TODAY

ahead and began producing operas
on nearly bare stages employing
unusual lighting techniques.
"The effect of the simplicity is
terrific," said Prof. McGeoch.
"By taking away local color,
they universalized Wagner and
focused attention on the music
instead of the set. All the trap-
pings that made Wagnerian
operas difficult to perform were
done away with."
Commenting on some of the
other festivals he attended, Mc-
Geoch felt that the music festi-
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High Schools
Will Attend
Theater Clinic
Four hundred high school stu-
dents and their teachers, from all
over the state, will gather in Ann
Arbor today to attend a Theater
Clinic, sponsored by the Univers-
ity Speech Department.
The program has been planned
around a special performance of
"The Birds," to be given at 10:30
a.m. for the benefit of the guests.
"THE BIRDS," the current
speech department offering, pre-
sents many unusual production
problems. Not the least of these
are making goddesses fly, costum-
ing people so that they bear a
reasonable resemblance to birds,
and giving old jokes new topical
significance.
Immediately .preceding the
presentation, at 10 a.m., the
group will hold a discussion, in
which they will attempt to iron
out some of these difficulties.
After seeing how they have been
solved in' the speech department
presentation they will meet again,
to offer opinions and criticisms of
the play.
Slosson To Lead
Panel Discussion
Prof. Preston Slosson will mod-
erate a UNESCO sponsored panel
discussion on "The Situation in
Africa Today" at 8 p.m. tomorrow
at the International Center.
Three students representing
Egypt, South Africa and the Gold,
Coast will participate in the pro-
gram, which will be open to the
public.

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Following his plan of keeping
the audience part of the show,
Rosen chose as his first play
"The Clown Who Ran Away,
which will repeat last week's
performance today and Sunday.
Lines calling for audience par-
ticipation and a plot with a run-
SL Movies
Continue Run
Two movies, "The Magic Horse"
and "Nanook of the North," pre-
sented by the SL-Cinema Guild,
will continue their run with show-
ings beginning at 6, 7 and 9 p.m.
today and at 8 p.m. tomorrow at
the Architecture Auditorium.
"The Magic Horse," the fea-
ture length cartoon, is a story of
a little boy and his horse who has
magical powers. The movie, based
on primitive nature myths of an-
cient Russia, contains English
dialogue.
"Nanook of the North," por-
trays the struggle of an Eskimo
and his family for survival against
nature. Original Eskimo songs
have been used as the theme for
the background music.
Editor Resigns
University officials yesterday
announced the resignation of Da-
vid S. Pollock, assistant editor of
the University News Service, who
will become editor of The Michi-
gan Tradesman magazine in
Grand Rapids.

away clown, talking dolls,
horse, and robbers, he reason,
would keep critical lolli
crowds interested.
The enthusiastic response
significant absence of paper
planes flying through the
performance confirmed this t
ry.

a
ned,
pop
and
air-
first
theo-

Ann Arbor Children's Theater
Stresses Audience Interest

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"There are many parts even in
children's plays which require
work and interpretation by older
students," he explained, noting the
six roles filled by University stu-
dents in the current production.
He also added a request for tech-
nicians, costume designers, build-
ers, makeup artists-in fact, any-.
one with time and willingness to
work.
Children's Theater's next pro-
duction is scheduled for spring.
Tryouts open to the public will be
announced then.
Prof. Blum Says
Resources Low
"Our natural resources are run-
ning out and we may soon have to
rely on income energy from the
sun," Prof. Harold F. Blum, of the
zoology department of Princeton
University, said yesterday at Rack-
ham Amphitheater.
Prof. Blum spoke on subjects
relating to his book "Time's Ar-
row and Evolution."
Future Therapists
To HoldMeeting
An important meeting for all
medical school juniors who have
declared their intention to concen-
trate in physical therapy will be
held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in Rm.
4303, University Hospital.
Students in that category who
cannot be present should see or
call Virginia Wilson at 2-1531, ext.
337 to make another appointment,
Hospital officials said,

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The Student Players announce . . .
TRY-OUTS

PROF. GLENN McGEOGH
* * *
val at Salzburg, Austria had fallen
into the hands of commercialists
and thereby lowered its level of
performance.
THE EDINBURGH Music Fes-
tival, though presenting a some-
what conventional program, gave
outstanding performances of sev-
eral lesser-known works. How-
ever, according to McGeoch, "The
one criticism I'd have of the Edin-
burgh Festival is that they have
too much going on. there - too
many different kinds of festivals
at once."
Particularly impressive, to
Prof. McGeoch, were his visits
to some of the new group of
minor festivals of superior qual-
ity that have grown up in
France, Switzerland and Italy.
These are all characterized by
the unusual nature of the music
they present. Unlike the larger
festivals at Bayreuth, Salzburg
and Edinburgh which are pro-
grammed to please international
audiences, the small, unpretentious
festivals avoid the ordinary and
choose relatively obscure works tc
please the musical elite.
Asked to compare American and
European festivals, Prof. McGeoch
could only say that he thinks
American orchestras are superior
and he felt that "America is be-
coming aware of what Europe has
long been aware of-that is, the
unique opportunities offered by
festivals."
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