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LJi o) Vol. 14 No. 10 SUMMER EDITION Tuesday, June 22, 1948 ? E 31 LBoM Tops Present Sugh y Ei gEitf IPeireeoi Melvin Ritter, Violinist, Plays Concert June 24 Appearing in the second pro gram of a Union sponsored sum mer Artist series, Melvin Ritter, celebrated American violinist, will present a concert in the Union ballroom Thursday, June 24, at 7:30 p.m. Individual tickets which may be secured in the Union of fice are 60 cents. Ritter has won critic plaudits as "a born violinist of rare sen sitivity, mature understanding for the masters. Born in Cleveland, he started his career in his home city and evidenced early musical ability by winning the regional midwest high school music award for three successive years. In 1940, a year before his high school graduation, he played the Tschai kovsky Violin Concerto with a 70 piece orchestra and was given the chance to conduct the orchestra on another occasion. Scholarship After his graduation from high school, he played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with orchestra and was awarded a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Bal timore, where he gained wide ex perience in solo concert work and ensemble. At Peabody he studied with Oscar Shumsky and Sascha Jac obson. In the summer of 1942, Rit ter won a scholarship at the Berk shire music center and played there in the orchestra under Koussevitsky. Joined Army In 1943, he joined the army and was assigned to the sixteenth ar- mored division as a radio tech nician. The next year he was sent overseas as a replacement. He traveled with a G.I. entertainment unit for a year and a half giving over 400 concerts for the army in France, Befgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Since his discharge, Ritter has resumed his civilian concert ca reer, studying with William Kroll, noted violin authority. Besides solo appearances with orchestras, he toured last year as assisting artist with Christopher Lynch, Trich (onnr Hk efnvA a recital at the National gallery of art in Washington, D. C. last spring and made his Town Hall debut in New York last October. His program for Thursday in cludes: Chaconne Vitati-Auer Concerto No. 4 Vleuxtemps Introduction Adagio religloso Finale marztale-allrgro. Two Hungarian Dances . Brahms-Joachim No. 2 D Minor. No. 8 A Minor Meditation from "Thata" Massinet Banjo ad Fiddle William Kroll Nocturne in C Sharp Minor . . , Chopln-Milsteln Gypsy Dance from Carmen .... Sarasate Mixed All-State Chorus Will Present Concert Friday in Union Ballroom A mixed chorus of 165 members from the all-state high school mu sic festival now on the campus will present a concert in the Union ballroom at 7:30 p.. m. Friday. Also on the program will be numbers from the girls' glee club and the boys' glee club both of which are parts of the chorus. Director of the chorus is pavid B. Foltz and director of the girls glee club is J. Dayton Smith. Ac companists will be Gwendolyn Taylor and Lee Kjelson. Student officers of the chorus are Beverly Greenwood, president; Danny Jor dan, vice-president; and Wally Smith, secretary-treasurer. First on Program. First on the program will be three numbers by the entire chorus; "Alleluia," by Thompson, "Grieve Not, O My Soul" by Wil liams, and "The Promises" by Wil housky. The Girls' Glee will sing "The Monastery" by Wihtol, 'Younder! Younder!" Russian folk tune ar ranged by Gaines, and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" arranged by Gaines. Returning again, the chorus will sing "Green Rafters" by Duro, "Madame Jeanette" (French Folk tune) by Murray, "Juniata Bound" by Gaul. The fourth number in this part of the chorus concert will be a composition, "Peace," by Lee Kjelson who is a music student at the university. "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes," "Sweet and Low" by Barn by, and "Sit Down Servant," a Negro spiritual by Shaw will be the numbers sung by the boys' glee club. To climax the program, the chorus will sing "The Woodchuck Song" by Mann-Weiss and "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ovean by Simeone, a Scotch folk song. Other activities of the all-state-ers this week have included an ensemble concert on Sunday and three student recitals in the Union ballroom. Next Sunday the orches tra will present a concert in the Union ballroom at 3:00 p. m. The 226 high school students who are registered in the all-state music, speech and dramatic fes tival are receiving intensified in struction in these fields. Something new was inserted in the festival this year by turning the instruction toward learning about the United Nations through music in co-operation with Chan cellor Gustavson and the UN edu cational project being conducted at the university thiss ummer. The final concert will include music and speech numbers from different countries. This final concert will be held on he eve ning of July 1, ending the all-state festival for this year. 75 All-Staters Combine Talent For Special Recital Sunday The Board of Regents adopted a $6,173,711 budget Saturday to run the University for the 1948- 49 fiscal year. The new budget, including state, federal, and student fee rev enue, is eight percent above that of the current ilo.al year. The budget also represents an $800,000 cut in funds sought by heads of mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmMmmi.MimtaBmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmiimmmBnwLii iimiiiimm u.'...-tt I Seventy five high school boys and girls attending the University All-State Course in Music, Speech and Dramatic Art .were combined into special music groups for a recital Sunday, June 20, at 3 p.m in the Union ballroom. The groups, their directors (uni versity music students), and the All-State members who compose the mare: . .Male quartet Lorraine Woita - Jim Mis ko, Ord, Dick Plerson, Papllllon, Mark Weldler, Dawnon, and Bob Brown, Sar gent; Flute Sextet James Price - Pat Brennan, O'Neill. Eugenia Cams, Kearney, Carol Duerfeldt, Nemaha, Mary Ann Kanke. Columbua. Barbara Templet on, Beatrice, and Beth Wilkins. Geneva; Girl'a Triple Trio Dora Lee Niedenthal Charmayne Reed, Osmond, Chelsea ale Grew, Orleans, Margaret Ough. Benkel man, Jeanine Novotny, Hartington, Mar lene Gates, Fairbury, Patricia Sylert, Alnaworth. Roberta Reams, Superior, Kathryn Baker, David City, and Donna Kortter, Stuart. Cornet 8extet Velma Lemon - John Gaaklll, Superior, Robert Basebrook, West Point, Robert Hook, Rushville, Jim MIko. Ord, Patsy Pangborn. Beatrice, and Dick Ralston, Geneva: Girls Trio Jean Lelay Mor ma Major, Madison, Fboeba Dempaur, Beatrice, and Gladys Novotny, Clarkson; Clarinet Quartet Orvllle Voss - Arlene Hewitt, Rushville, Donna Knobel. Fair bury. Beverly Kune, Wither, and Betty Roassler, Fremont; Madrigal Group Ralph Hoyt Donna Elliott, Mitchell, Paula Scharman, Stronuburg, Wary Middleton, Brady, Jane Lontnson. Weeping Water, Janet Clock, Rising City, Carolyn Baron, Grand Island, onnie Clark, St. Edward, Bill Beord, Decatur, Bob Melander, Fair bury, Stan Wlmberly, Kearney, Dannie Jordan, Alliance, Bob Mooney, Deahler, Ronald Lind, Falrbury, and Harold Rose nau, Geneva. Brass Quartet William Splichal - Low ell Bartek, Beatrice, Lee Hopp, Johnson, Robert Likens, Falrbury, and Vernon Forbes, Lincoln; Girls Sextet Margaret Goldsmith - Gloria Adams, Nebraska City, Alice Burt, Comstock, Kathleen Radaker, Wisner, Ina Young, Lincoln, Barbara Drost, Ogallala, and Donna Walters, Gor don; String Quartet Carol Puckett Donna Gardner, Lincoln, Irene Roberta, Wahoo, Mary Schneider, York, and David Lepard, Alliance; Woodwind Quintet William Kelly - Lawrence Everett, Lincoln, Colette Donaly, Kearney, Robert Harrison, Lincoln, Catherine Baker, David City, and Marilyn Mac, Lincoln. Male Quartet Velma Lf man . oJe Fee Bey, Grand Island, Joel Waddill, Gordon, John Worloek, Kearney, and George Gade, Ashland; Brass Sextet Martin Killlon -Bill Miller, Omaha, Ronlne Bretx, Ains worth. Joel Waddill. Gordon. Robert Mc pherson, Neltgh. Kathryn Radaker, Wis Mc, ao4 Dick Slelfife, rairbury. i Chancellor R. C. Gustavson . . . Explains Budget the University's various colleges and divisions as necessary to meet the "minimum essential needs" of the institution. Chancellor R. G. Gustavson, who presented the figures, told th Regents that the budget reflects (1) the continuing rise in living and operating costs; (2) competition from other universities, colleges and private industry for Nebraska faculty members, and (3) expansion ol instructional facilities for World War II veterans now entering the junior and senior classes where teaching is more specialized and costs necessarily higher. Difference Met. The chancellor explained that the $800,000 difference between esti mated essential needs and estimated income had to be met by elim inating requests for desirable enlargement of staffs; by refusing re quests for increased funds for supplies, part-time teaching and clerical help; and by substituting a limited number of "modest, merit in creases" for a blanket salary raise. Chancellor Gustavson also explained that one of the "very seri ous" problems growing out of preparation of this year's budget is the rising costs of operation of the College of Medicine in Omaha. Sources of Income. Income for the 1948-49 fiscal year is from the following sources; State property tax appropriated by the legislature, $3,298,000 or 53 percent of the.. budget; cash funds, mainly student fees, $2,075,000 or 34 percent; and federal funds, mainly for agriculture research and extension work, $759,511 or 13 percent. The budget for 1948-49 will be spent in this manner: Teaching 49 percent; public services 19 percent; research 16 percent; opera tion and maintenance of buildings and grounds 11 percent; and ad ministration and general expenses 5 percent. The Regents also reappropriated $2,518,061 in estimated cash in come and revolving funds to operate various university auxiliary enterprises, dormitories, stores, and various other activities.