The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1961 Page: 5 of 8
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FEBRUARY 24, 1961
THE THRESHER
Five
Glenn Gould Captivates
Symphony Audience
By HERBERT GARON
Monday night a phenomenal
young man, slender of build and
interesting of face, with a Li'l
Abner shock of unruly hair, sat
down in a low folding-chair and
bent reverentially over the key-
board of a piano; and the cas-
cade of tone that poured forth
was of such clarity that a capa-
city Music Hall audience was
moved to a demonstration unique
in the annals of Houston con-
cert lore.
Glenn Gould, the daring young
man on the musical trapeze, pool-
ed his talents with the Houston
Symphony Orchestra under Sir
Malcom Sargent to produce a
superb, but mannered, reading of
Bach's D Minor Concerto. Gould
does not have an antiquarian
attitude toward Bach. His inter-
pretation of old music has lots
of life and no preciosity. The
piano is no imitation harpsichord;
it suonds like a piano, with a
piano's dynamics and color. His
playing was imaginative and
assertive, vital and mechanical.
It had the breadth of pace and
rhythmic grasp which define the
true Bach interpreter. The coun-
terpoint was crystal clear, with
clean articulation and no pedal
blurring. Gould doesn't merely
THRESHING . . .
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others are being planned for
the near future.
PERHAPS THE FACT is not
sufficiently well known that
membership in the Forensic So-
ciety is open to any student of
the University who wishes to
attend its meetings. Special in-
vitation is not necessary, and
"recruiting" is seldom practiced.
The Society has nine faculty
sponsors, from eight different
departments, who stand ready
and willing to give help and ad-
vice whenever sought. It re-
ceives generous support in many
different forms from the Dean
of Humanities, who himself was
one of Rice's greatest debaters
and President of the Debate
Club in the i930's. Neither the
faculty nor the administration,
however, attempts to set policies
for the Forensic Society. Essen-
tially, it will become what its
members wish it to be, but I will
hope with you that the greatly
increased activities of the pres-
ent academic year and those
contemplated for next year may
result in an expanding relation
of forensics to the total activi-
ties of the University. May I
solicit your continuing support
in the form of adequate no-
tices and reporting?
Yours sinaerely,
J. D. THOMAS
Faculty Adviser
Rice University
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interpret Bach's music; he re-
creates: it.
A group of excerpts from
Wagner's philosophic music dra-
ma "Die Meistersinger" brought
together three of the loveliest
episodes from the most human
of' his operas. The theme of re-
signation that motivates the pre-
lude to act three was emotional-
ly stirring. The "Dance of the
Apprentices" and the finely pom-
pous "Procession of the Masters"
were given spirited readings in
a performance that had about it
the festival atmosphere that per-
meates this portion of the opera.
The orchestra gave a zestful
rendition of Rossini's overture to
"II Viaggio a Reims," but failed
to realize the dramatic content
of Sibelius's Symphony Number
1. The latter was a listless per-
formance, uninspired and unin-
spiring.
Health Service
Giving Boosters
Beginning March 6, 1961,
the Student Health Service
will start immunizations for
Tetanus, Typhoid and Small-
pox on students desiring
them and also for boosters
needed.
Students leaving the United
States this summer and need-
ing a smallpox vaccination,
are urged to report early for
this immunization.
ALL OVER THE MAP
Africa Concerns College Presses
(ACP)—Africa, its people and
its problems, get increasing com-
ment in the college press.
Political science professor Rob-
ert O. Byrd, in Africa on a year's
leave, writes to his school's North
Park College News, Chicago:
"'The universal thirst for educa-
tion is one of the most marked
characteristics of Uganda and,
I'm told, of the the rest of Af-
rica as well. The way to get
ahead in politics here is not to
promise a new post office or some
public works, but to go ahead and
come back with 50 or a 100 schol-
arships in American or European
universities.
"The major question in educa-
tion developments is not money.
There is no question about this;
it must be found. Nor is the issue
the availability of teaching per-
sonnel at the university livel, as
serious as that may be.
"The principal problem is
training a large enough number
of students at primary and sec-
ondary levels to prepare them
adequately for university work.
Heaven, to Ugandans, consists of
universal, free, primary and sec-
ondary education, and independ-
ence."
At Syracuse University, N. Y.,
a group of African students
wrote UN Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, expressing "con-
cern for the safety and we^l being
of the Prim Minister of the
Congo, Patrice Lumumba."
Daily Orange quoted part of
the letter: "Until such time when
the elected Congolese Parliament
is reconvened and decides the
question as to whether Mr. Lu-
mumba still heads the govern-
ment, he must be recognized as
Prime Minister . . . Subsequent
arrest and ill treatment under de-
tention is not only illegal and a
failure to observe basic civilized
standards, but can be only looked
upon as an attempt by desperate
forces using every available
means of naked aggression to re-
establish the imperial and co-
lonial hegemony in the Congo."
Phoenix, Our Lady of the Lake
College, San Antonio, makes this
general observation, typical of
those in many papers:
"The 'awakening' of Africa to-
day is unique in world history.
It cannot be paralleled to the set-
tling of America by groups from
all over Europe nor to the rise
of the nations of Europe in ear-
lier centuries. . .
"The situation is made even
more singular and significant by
the fact that never before in the
history of the world has the gain-
ing of the tiniest parcel of land
. . . meant so much to s omany
powerful nations."
Hamline University Oracle, St.
Paul, has begun a series of ar-
ticles on African leaders.
And at the University of Kan-
sas, the student who may have
traveled further to get home for
Christmas than any other colle-
gian, told the Daily Kansan about
the holidays in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
On Christmas Day, said soph-
omore Robert Day, he saw gal-
lows in the town square and "a
rebel hanging there. I don't know
who he was. He was probably
tried for treason. They have swift
justice in Ethiopia."
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