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i Friday, February 25, 1949 THE DAILY NEBRASKA! PAGE 3 Spring Concert to Include Composition -by Instructor ... At Coliseum Sunday Each fall, as the new school year begins, excited fans assem ble in the stadium on Saturday afternoon to cheer new football heroes. They watch the University maching band take the field be tween halves and are thrilled by the shows which have earned for it the name of the midwest's top collegiate bands. Perhaps they don't always realise that a band can do something beside intricate game formations. But during the fall band mem bers plague Director Don Lentz with the question, "When do we start having concert band prac tice?" When football is forgotten, about the first -week in December, 'a phase of band life unknown to most Comhuskers begin. Some of the brass and percus sion players leave the main group to make a brass choir; 16 women r added to form the University ROTC Symphonic band, and some 95 musicians settle down to piay the best available band litera ture. Almost immediately there is the Military Ball, in which the band traditionally takes an important nai t .After it is over, work is be st m in earnest on the winter r-nnwrt the band's first oppor tunity each year to play and be th whole show. This vear's concert is sched uled for 3 p. m., Sunday, Feb. 27, in the Coliseum. The program consists of a variety of works by classical and contemporary com posers, and even includes a march. "Pantomine," written Dy Director Lentz himself. Outstanding numbers will be "Siegfried's Rhine Journey," by Wagner, and "Legend," by Paul Creston. ( contemporary American composer. "Legend" is one of the few concert pieces originally dritten for band. Instructor's Art Exhibited at Show T.pRov K. Burket, instructor of art, has been invited to show his "Sculptured Figure." The invitation comes irom tne third International Sculpture show sponsored by the Philadel phia Art Museum lor tne air mont Park Art association. This show is known as one of the foremost exhibitions of its kind. It includes representative works of sculpture from several nations. Burket also has four etchings now hanging in a special show at the Walker Art center in Minne sota which will be shown later in the season at the Colorado Springs art center. A paint ing by Burket is now on display in the Six States exposition of the Joslvn Art museum in Omaha. Burket joined the University staff in the fall of 1948. x y A-.- - ?V 1 v - v V, r& n LEADERS OF the clarinet section, largest in the band, are these three Norman Todenhoft, Aaron Schmidt and Bill Elliott. In their corduroy jacket and Windsor ties they set a style in clothes as well as in music. ' iw M Vi x r. y5Y . . . . rH, 1 A DIRECTOR DON LENTZ sets the beat for a rehearsal of "Sieg fried's Rhine Journey." The recording apparatus shown in the background is a valuable piece of band equipment. Play-backs give members a chance to hear themselves and are a help in per fecting difficult passages. Handicapped, Exceptional Children subject 01 Meet Nebraska has about 60,000 public school children who are in need of special attention to com plete their educations. However, these youngsters gen erally do not need or qualify for institutional care. If they are to become useful citizens they must get special attention from pudhc school teachers because they are unable to "keep up"with their classmates. On the other hand, the gifted child races far ahead of other members of the class. This was the problem laid be fore 150 Nebraska school admin istrators and teachers by Dr. D. A. wTT:tr nf th University of Ne braska Teachers college Thursday morning. He addressed the open ing session of a three-day Insti tute on Exceptional nnaren dc- ing held on the university cam pus. THESE YOUNGSTERS are vic- time nf rerphral nalsy. or other wise physically handicapped, men tally retarded, emouonauy niai adi lifted, defective in speech, hard of hearing, having poor eye sight or being especially ginea. Dr. Worcester said the problem can be met by training teachers to recognize these exceptional youngsters and to effectively su pervise special courses of instruc tion for them. "WE SIMPLY can't dismiss the boy in the back seat as necessarily being too dumb to learn," Dr. Worcester asserted. "We know frnm a fnmnrphcnsive 25-Vear testing program conducted by the University in the public schools of Nebraska that the lad may not be too dumb at all. but probably suffers from a not-too-obvious physical or mental handicap." OTHER SPEAKERS on the pro gram Thursday morning were Chancellor R. G. Gustavson who Pave an address of welcome: Prof- Samuel Kirk of the University of Illinois; and miss Komaine MacK ies of the U. S. Office of Education. ParticiDants in the discussion groups Thursday afternoon were: Dr. Kirk; Miss Mackie; Miss Kos- March Issue Scarlet and Cream Ready Pictures features high school news compiled into four pages of Scarlet & Cream. A monthly newspaper printed by the Student Foundation for the benefit of high school students throughout Nebraska, the Scarlet & Cream, acquaints them with university activities, academic and social. This issue carries an interna tional flavor and features the re cent model UNESCO conference. A new addition to the publication, the high school page, contains news stories from various hign school reporters. Several feature articles give the paper an enter taining outlook. Two thousand pa pers are being sent to Nebraska high schools this month. Tho Ariitnrial staff is made urj of members of the Student Foun dation Publication committee. M. J. Melick and Eugene Berg are editorial advisors; Poochie Redi ger, editor; Virginia Kock, ex change editor; Jerry Ewing, sports editor; Dick Kuska, cartoonist; Janet Zlomke, Janet Anderson, Jackie Hoss, Mary Hubka and Elizabeth Moodie, reporters. alie Farley, Douglas county; Max Pumphrey, Lincoln schools; Mrs. F. L. Johnson, Scottsbluff; Miss Mary Moodie, Hastings; Miss Opal Jewell, McCook; Mrs. Myrtle Mills, Lincoln, and Prof. John Wiley of the University. ;;,,..rwf ,,::: . 1 .(v. -S tv. -i. J M" 1 : ---J f i s i ig i I j I v I . . l- V i' I ! J X I : : 'yi ' "' - I ' " If flllHll 1 1 1 niTTTrnTnrnj KATIIRYN ELLIOTT, regularly a bassoonist, will play a special marimba chorus on the percussion novelty, "Listen to the Drum mers." The solos were written by student musicians. rf i. 3- n f A ' i k - f I V i - hit v. ANt'NLSL-AL feature of the concert will be a number, "Listen to the Drummers br the band's crack drum ensemble. Its members are, standing left to right: Jack Tilton Harvey Knoblock, Kent Tiller, Donald Loy, Harold Schroeder and Edward Ga'ss. Kneeling, left to rit;ht. Bruce Hendrikson, Gerald Morris, and Harold Holmquist. & ' 1 . i r If) b) 1 1 i i PRIDE OF THE brasses is the cornet choir, which will play Williams' brilliant "Orion" at Sunday's concert. Members are, left to right Marlin Killian, Jam Hanson, Eugene Stoll, John Curtiss, Len Allen and William Splichal.