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Thursday, March 27, 1947
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Page 5
TTLiss (foan Sberhart
Courtesy of Lincoln Journal
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Eberhart announce the engagement of their
daughter, Joan Winnifred, to John Edwin Smith, son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Smith of Omaha. Miss Eberhart is attending
the university .where she is a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.
Mr. Smith is also attending the university.
Five Seniors Display
Concert Competence
BY SAM WARREN.
A group of five talented seniors
Tuesday night showed why they
had been chosen by their own
classmates for the honor of per
forming with the University Sym-
phony Orchestra in its traditional
senior concert. All competent per
formers heard before in university
r musicals, they provided the audi
ence with a pleasing program, al
tho some measured up to past per
formance more ihan others.
A revered stand-by, concert-
worn by well-meaning pianists,
closed the concert on an enthusi
astic level when Marilyn Nelson
played the opening allegro from
rieg's "Concerto in A minor"
with the orchestra. There was a
condifence and composure about
her playing that was of the ut
most clarity. Her technique was
sure, her interpretation straight
forward and convincing.
Fine Interpretation.
- One of the more dependable
performers on campus, contralto
Helen Laird gave another of her
consistently fine interpretations,
singing Richard Strauss' "Cacilie"
and Marx' "Hat dich die Liebe
beruht." In the higher reaches of
the two songs, the contralto color
ing of her voice shaded into a
rinnging dramatic-soprano quality
that coursed thruout the hall. Un-
fortunately, Mr. Wishnow's or
chestral accompaniments were of
such sympfhonic proportions that
Miss Laird's voice, which is full
and by no means small, was too
often submerged to orchestra do
mination Rarely heard in concert pro
grams today are organ and trum-
pet concerti, but Tuesday night's
audience was treated to both.
Mary Alice Feterson appeared as
first soloist playing proportions
from a Handel concerto for organ
and orchestra which were com
pletely charming and graceful.
The brilliance of the strings
formed an interesting contrast to
the mellower organ voice.
Trumpet Concerto.
Equally unusual was the Haydn
trumpet concerto which Margaret
Modlin chose to play. Not a pro
found work by any means, it is
exhuberant ' and melodic and
' makes pleasant listening. Miss
Modlinn played with the control
" that the solo part demanded, altho
she has been heard to better ad
vantage in previous public per
formances. This was true also of Richard
Koupal whose rendition of 'La
Fleur que ta m'avais jetee from
Carmen". hardly compared with
his excellent work in this year's
production ' of "Pagliaeci." The
"Carmen" aria was sung conven
tionally but without the feeling
necessary for the Done Jose role.
Thruout the evening, the or
chestra supplied able accompani
ments, notably in the organ and
piano concerti by Handel and
Gneg. The string sections par
ticularly played with marked inv
provement promising that a sur
prise will be in store for anyone
skeptical of the orchestra s merit
when the symphony presents its
remaining spring concerts.
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Music School
Director Ends
7 Year Term
Dr. Arthur E. Westbrook, direc
tor of the School of Fine Arts,
ended seven years' service as a
national committeeman on the
undergraduate college curricular
commission of the National As
sociation of Schools of Music, re
cently when the association con
vened in St. Louis.
The only accrediting agency for
schools of music thruout the
country, the NASM is called upon
each year to examine music
schools that apply to be accred
ited. Any one of the six commit
tee men may perform the exami
nation, which includes extensive
inspection of all departments
within the school. Dr. Westbrook
has made an average of five trips
yearly to applying schools.
Five other national music fig
ures serving with Dr. Westbrook
on the committee are chairman
Howard Hanson, Nebraska-born
director of the Eastman School of
Music; Earl Moore, Michigan Uni
versity; Glen Haydn, North Caro
lina, and Charles Haake, from the
American Conservatory in Chi
cago. At the St. Louis convetion, Dr.
Westbrook was elected to serve
on the graduate college curricular
commission.
Unwanted Weatherman Soon
To Be Replaced by Science
BY DON SHEPHERD.
The latest news is that the day
of the weatherman is about over.
Science claims that before many
moons you will no longer look in
the papers or glue an ear to the
radio to see if rain is predicted,
but instead you can just order
your weather a la carte.
Science by way of General
Electric and the army have de
cided that thpy don't like the way
the weather has been going, so
they are just going to make their
own weather.
Make It Rain.
If you're sitting around some
Sunday afternoon with onthing to
do, the weathei is nice and some
one suggests that you run out and
work in the garden and you don't
feel like it, you just call up the
army and say "Make it rain at
the corner of Maine and Pine!"
and before you can get into your
old clothes and break out your
hoe, it will be raining like mad!
Sounds like a pretty good idea.
If your little brother feels like a
sleigh ride he just orders snow
for Saturday afternoon. If the
corn is getting dry the farmer
orders some rain.
The Pit.
Of course, there's the darker
side of the question too! Around
the campus we might as well
have spring all the time. It would
make it nice, encourage candy
passings and free cigars, and what
water is needed to keep things
green could be distributed from a
hose. OK, suppose you are on the
campus, spring is in the air, birds
are singing, flowers are blooming,
the better half is looking like
Hedy Lamarr, your car (a con
vertible) is loaded with cokes,
hot dogs and marshm;illows. and
the only thing in store for yu
on the campus is a Poli-Sci I
class. A great day for a picnic!
You cut your class, dive in the
car, and head for Pioneers park,
and on arrival find that the Corn
husker staff has decided to take
winter pictures and the whole
place is under ten feet of snow.
You get caught in a drift, can't
get to a phone to order a hurried
thaw, and are found the next
morning frozen, stiff in your
slack suit. It's terrible! Your
friends sue the army, the army
gets mad and rains all over the
country, the world comes to an
end, there's no one to read this
junk, so I'm out of a job and my
mother starves to death. See
what you've done, ya dope, ya!
No, dear friends, I don't think
it will ever replace the horse.
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crepes . . . and gadabout la gabardine
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ncL Trudy Ilair lodai.
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