Music is life to retiring director
Musical instruments from around the world
line Donald Lentz's office, an indication of
only one of the retiring professor's interests.
Along with an interest in ethnomusicology,
lent-? is band director and professor of
woodwinds at the School of Music.
Before he started teaching, Lentz toured
vith the U.S. Marine Band when John Phillip
Sou3a conducted the group. He joined the New
York Philharmonic and later accepted a
tejehing position at the University of South
Dakota which offered him a chance to conduct,
a rare opportunity in New York.
In 1937, he joined the NU School of Music
and was assigned to the band program.
Band Day for high school students and trips
to football bowl games for the UNL Marching
Band are two of his innovations.
CK'lv tin.1 year; music has become universal as
."3.vn by the lessons that are now offered by
i i..' public schools, Lentz said.
He said that the aim of music instruction
today is acquainting more persons with music
and giving them a better appreciation of music,
not training them to be professional musicians.
Instruments used by Lentz's
Ethnomusicology students come from the
Orient, Middle East, India, Nepal and Java. All
are souveniers of visits he has made studying
non-western music.
"The East has different premises for music
that cannot be interpreted in Western terms.
For example, much of the world's music is
improvised, contrary to the measured meter of
Western music. It is also much more a part of
the whole, not just something to entertain,"
Lentz said.
Culture can't be iusu'rd by objective
means, he said. The best lefu-ction of j
country's culture is the ,ji;;ec!:vity of its arts,
Lentz said.
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East Union
plan awaits
approval
If you want to get a
building fast you have to be
able to line up funds, according
to Daryl P. Swanson, assistant
director of the Nebraska
Union. Swanson was speaking
alx)ut the proposed new East
Campus Student Union.
The East Union has been in
the planning stages for two and
one half years and is expected
to cost S3 million. Although
the East Campus Union
Planning Committee is waiting
for the Nebraska Department
of Administrative Services
(DAS) to approve the project,
Ken Wiseman, chairman of the
committee said the plans have
advanced rapidly.
The type of financing for
the building is the reason for
the delay, Swanson said.
The UNL Law College,
which has been trying to get a
new building for more than 15
years, still is fighting for
appropriations from the
Legislature, he added.
On the other hand, the new
Union already has more than
S2.5 million through the same
bo n fieri -indenture program
used to build the City Campus
Union, he said.
Every student contributes
$2.50 in student fees to the
fund each semester, according
to Ken Bader, vice chancellor
'or student af fiars.
Of the 20 proposed sites,
the committee has chosen a
plot between the Plant
Industry Building and Miller
Hall. The benefits of the site
are that it is centrally located,
does not disrupt campus
utilities, preserves the land
directly west of the C.Y.
Thompson Library and has
good service accessibility,
Wiseman said.
The ne.v East Union will
hrwo dm.'ng and snack areas, a
lounge, large and small meeting
rooms, staff and student
organization offices, a
oookstoie, a recreation area, a
post office and an auditorium,
he said.
Transit history
speech tonight
John Scheider, UNL history
professor, will speak on the
"History of Mass Transit,"
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the
main lounge of the Union.
Schneider is participating in
a speakers' series sponsored by
the Environmental Tusk Force.
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