PAGE EIGHT THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 195
MUSICIANS IN KHAKI TOUR EUROPE:
KP Plays Second Fiddle to Viola for GI
(Editor's Nite:Te following article ~
is written by Grant egrarian, a soons and oboes stunned their to Joio, were enthusiastically re- as soloists in Concertos with the players to do anything. The time
graduate student at the University imaginations. Who ever heard of ceived. Orchestra. and interest he generously gave t
swak toinadetasi t reo it an Army's maintaining a sympho- Last fall and winter, the Orches- us influenced the Army to take
lia arit d ia o-r stitit- ny orchestra? But when no chorus ALL BUT ONE Or two members tra dwindled to a size where it more serious view of the worth
use seen uamy symipony ur- line of chest heavy beauties ap- of the Orchestra are young seemed almost impossible to con- and use of the Orchestra.
chestra in Europe.t peared and no Hill-Billy jamboree drafted men. Some were formerly tinue. Many persons were sent By spring th Army, b
y GRANT BEGLARIN took over during intermission, Ger- assigned either to bands or to spe- home to be released from the ing the records,ad k-
man fears were allayed and Aus- cial services to play in soldier Army and replacements were dif- than 100 young musicis, sea
jAVING just come marching trian scoffs turned to cheers. Our shows. Perhaps a third of the mem- ficult to find. I must mention here th t the Orch tra s heL
house alter spetding to years programs of Berlioz, Mozart, bers were, or hope to be. profes- that this is when my wife, who toned, and rehear al began for a
as a draftee in our Army, I feel Brahms, Beethoven and Tschaikow- sional musicians in civilian life. just "happened" to have her flute new tour of theOperas ead, once
impelled to share with you, who ski delighted them and the works They, of course, gained invaluable along, became the second flutist n, the o ers a now n
are anticipating this duty, and oth- we performed by the American experience playing with the Or- with the Seventh Army Symphony hasaaga, the concerts. The Army now
ers, some experiences and one composers, Piston, Barber and Del- chestra and some also performed and toured with us for six months. ig obalanced and excellent sound
piece of advice. Be a musician!I do not know who was more second yer , we were invited tothe
For those in fields other than mu- amazed-the Germans-as she took play a 'cries w ers t th
sic there is hope too. If you area M other's 'Bad Seed' S een her place on thes tae , or the old aa 1sicFestvnleIsPass
dancer, or if you sing, you can be Army Master Sergeants-as shetPassa s olFestial. t at
used in musicals Do you write? stood in chow-nlie in the mess appearance of the Paris'Balet
You can write them., An artist will I cto s o a g t rhals. "e"aac fh a al
YotcnAsst hm Ana utwl f -ctiofls of LD augn'ter hlt.the Festival and for the opera pe'
paint murals in mess halls or the After Christmas, the Orchestra formances of Beethoven's "Fi'
service clubs os design sets for---
(s is ot los. ets Continued from aG t) was too small to give full con- delio."
shows. All is not lost. The Army's than pcerts, so we became an opera or- Truly, thi' orhestr'tis one
new policy of placing men in pO- deress who killed her own family for itself. Later in this terse chestra. Singers were hired by the two thisgs in Germasy and
sitions for which they are trained and then the family of her husband work, March lets his characters the State Department and Ameri- Ashi whicg gain respect anI
or as nearly as possible) works except for one little girl. Looking speak and immediately the novel ka Has and we toured with good feeling for the United State.
quitc sell. up newspaper accounts, Christine proceeds on its suspense-filled thesi giving performances of from the people. The Orchestra
I was first assigned to teach the- finds that her father (though she well-conceived way. Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Old and the Anerika Bus Librarie
r' to asmusicians at a band now knows it was her adopted fath- "The Bad Seed' is oth the Maid and the Thief," "The Tele- d Iforosa C tes
scholner unch, Germany. er) reported the event. She also TeBd edps ot h and"Iandr"Tion Medtums"
scoln.rI utcs enay i rpre hec .S e x periecec in it reading to show phone' and "The Medium,"" fusds hve been reduced) eac'
When the school closed, I was learns that he wrote what became axtetwne n t n ti which were m sfscessfue. unds of pee ed sre
amazed to find myself transferred a famous story about the one per- what can be done not only with shousands of people who otherwise
to an "outfit" called the Seventh son saved from the 'clutches of the good plot and theme but with a During this period, Maestro Mi- are ignorant of any good Orches-
Army Symphony Orchestra.as a woman; a little blonde gI d masterful story-teller who knows tropoulos, in Europe for an engage- tras, literature or music cosing
violist. Christine how to write, and most important, ment, met the Orchestra and real- from America. The Orchestra even
This Sytphonyi is first or- o write well. It is too bad tht b ized that unless new men were pleases those who do not like us
anrid by Thor Johnson iirsor-r HSEREALIZATION of the "bad there will be no other books by found immediately, the Orchestra very much. -The Rus ians loed
ately after the Second World seed" that she has passed on to hilliam March. would be without the necessary us in Vienna.
ar.a It toured Germany for herdaught -r i- over-helning, yet-- ---
about a year and was then dis- antior Isrch a writlen with -'-
banded. Two years ago it was such great understanding and
re-cstabistied, and dring my depth about the psychological as-
tour of duty, was tinder the di- pects of the event and its environs
rection of James Dixon.Ile is a that the reader cannot help but see
talented .oung conductor, now the situation before him
ii'arhing i at o a Uiversi y. amid Rhodu goes into action a third7 /
a student of Dimitri Mitropoulos. time and Christine is determined
The Orchestra, within a year. that this morbid and lethal drive
traveled twice over all of Western with which she has impregnated
Germany and Austria. Not only did her daughter come to a halt. Fate's *nw f es Y oI-T o H ea
we play in large itis-Berlin, intervention at the novel's con- IlVI 'f S lo a
Hamburg, Frankfurt, M s n i c h , elusion is the author's way of
Bremen Vienna, Salzburg-but al- pointedly showing how catastrophic
so in the'smaller loins anti in fate ean be - - Fi eI t A oof[4a n
'ome villag esa'o tiny and r ote 'The stres ih of Christine lies in H igh Fidelity W o rthy of th e N am e "
that, I believe, only the persons her weakness while Rhoda's weak-
who live there and Anmy Intelli- ness is her strength. Christine does
gence know of their existence. not like to think and prefers to
The attendance at these concerts let life go on around her. Her
was always tremendous, no matter daughter would rather enter the THE INCOMPARABLE
bow thick the fog or how deep the world about her. While making it
snow Curiosity and skepticism a maelstrom, she does only what
brought people to the first concerts. she desires, . for, in reality, the
Most people had never heard an girl has no relative sense of right
American orchestra and in maan od wrong.
Iwns no orchestra had ever per- The first few chapters are a little
01ed. The fact that the Orches- weak in construction for the nara-
oa was coiposed of soldiers- time, in the third person, tells the
cal soldiers playing violins, bas- reader of impending doom rathr
"Bolero",
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