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Illinois Wesleyan VOL. 55 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1949 SOLOISTS IN BRAHMS' 'REQUIEM' a toer D oa virginia rarry University Chorus To Give Brahms' Requiem Palm Sunday On April 10, Palm Sunday, the Scottish Rite Sunday Evening club, in cooperation with Illi-nois Wesleyan university, will present the University chorus a ri d orchestra in Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Opus 45. The 225 voice chorus has been trained by Lloyd Pfautsch, director of choral music at Illi-nois Wesleyan; the 60 piece or-chestra prepared by Kenneth Cuthbert, dean of the Illinois Wesleyan School of Music. Dr. Cuthbert will conduct the per-formance. Soloists are Miss Virginia Par-ry, soprano, a senior from Che-noa, Illinois, and Albert Basso, also a senior, from Chandler-ville. This is the first time that the Requiem, which compares with large works such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, has been per-formed at Illinois Wesleyan. In its complete form, Ein Deutsches Requiem, was written by Brahms between 1857 and 1868. Its inspiration has been credited to a number of sources, including Brahms' grief over the death of Schumann, and as a memoriam for his stepmother, who died in 1865. Unlike most Requiems, which deal with the sombre side of death, Brahms' Requiem deals with the brighter side of death, and consolation for the living. The text shows Brahms' thor-ough knowledge of the German Bible, and shows unusual sensi-tivity of treatment. The urgency and clear beauty of the music combined with the unusual text make this one of the loveliest choral works in existence today. This performance is free to the public. Blackstock Hall To Be Summer School Dorm Blackstock hall will be used for the girls' dormitory during the summer school duration in-stead of Kemp hall, as was pre-viously announced. It was "D" Day in Blooming-ton Tuesday as Cecil R. Cone won the mayoralty race from Republican nominee Walter L. Benson by 1500 vote majority. Student-Faculty Workshop Will Meet. April 29 Something new in the way of student-faculty relations will be-gin April 29 when a student-fac-ulty conference or discussion in workshop form will meet. This workshop session is being spon-sored by the Student Welfare Commission of the Student Un-ion, which is headed by Carol Jean Brill. Gene Montgomery has been placed in charge of the session, which will be held in the Me-morial Center. Four topics have been selected to be discussed in this meeting. They are: philosophy of testing; techniques of testing; what de-termine grades; and the cheat-ing problem. The purpose of these ques-tions is to bring about a better understanding on the part of the student of the teachers' purposes and methods of testing and vice versa; i.e., to allow students to express to the teachers what sort of testing program they think fairest and most purpose-fulfill-ing. All members of the faculty are allowed in the meeting. Student participants will probably con-sist chiefly of members, of the Student Union, according to the plans disclosed by Carol Brill. Graduate Exams On Optional Basis The graduate record exami-nations, given by the school to all seniors last year,will be given aga n this year but on an op-tional basis requiring payment of a five dollar fee. Those desiring to take the ex-amination should see Dean Guy by Friday, April 8. To Present Two One-Act Plays In Convocation In recognition of Holy Week, April 11 through 17, two one-act plays of a religious nature will be presented in convocation next Wednesday. The plays will be under the direction of Dorothy Pierson and Alberta Carter. "Jean Marie" will be the play under Alberta Oarter's direction. Simple costumes will be used in this French play which is set in Brittany in 1871. Therese will be played by Helen Jeah Lauter-bach; Jean Marie, John Oapasso; and Joel, Bob Price. "D. A.'s" play, "The Finger of God," by Percival Wilde, is of religious character, done in mo-dern style. Dale Kassel will take the part of Strickland, ,a busi-nessman; Bill Dial will be Ben-son, a gentleman's gentleman; and a girl, whose identity is a mystery, will be played by Gay Hendrixon. SU Meetings In Student Center From next Monday until the end of the school year the Stu-dent Union will have meetings in the Memorial Center, it was an-nounced by Jim Lucas, president of the body. The meeting will begin unoffi-cially and informally at 4 p.m. with refreshments for the mem-bers of the Student Union and will start officially at 4:30. It will be held either in the Green room or a closed-off space in the Lounge. Trustees To Discuss Plans For Old North North hall, local landmark and fire trap, is to be discussed at the meeting of the University's Board of Trustees this week. At the meeting blueprints and ,estimates for rendering the almost century old landmark safer from fire will be presented to the group. NO. 26 Evans, 'Ferro Receive Sawyer' Musical Leads NOTICE Petitions for positions on the student publications should be turned into Bob Nelson Friday, April 8. The Publications Com-mission will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday morning to vote on these petitions. Christian Virtue Outdoes Greed In Shaw Play "In this play I have presented one of the Roman persecutions of the early Christians, not as the conflict of a false theology with a true, but as what all such persecutions essentially are: an attempt to suppress a propagan-da that seemed to threaten the interests involved in the estab-lished law and order organized and maintained in the name of religion and justice by politicians who are pure opportunist Have-and- Holders." Such were the words of Ber-nard Shaw at the concluson of his play, "Androcles and the Li-on." The play was written in 1916 and pictures Androcles as the perfect humble Christian. It also pictures in its other characters examples of people who think they are Christians but who are not, suggesting their counter-part in today's life. The American Repertory the-atre, in the winter of 1946-47, produced "Androcles" under the direction of Margaret Webster, and featured such stars as Er-nest Treux in the part of An-drocles; Victor Jory as Ferrovius; June Duprez as Lavinia; and Phillip Bourneuf as Caesar. May 4, 5, and 6 have been set as the dates for the play's pro-duction at Illinois Wesleyan. Bill Duell and Suzanne Brooks have the leading roles of Androcles and Lavinia, and Harvey K. Smith is production director. SU Treasurer's Report FINAL REPORT submitted by Russell Olson on April 5, 1949 Item Income Dad's Day ------ $ 178.00 Jazz Concert --------- 312.86 Name Band Dance_ 1,596.90 Homecoming -------- 1,598.50 Miscellaneous ------- 1,057.39 Expense Balance $ 107.50 264.93 2,513.75 1,302.99 665.57 $ 70.50 47.93 -916.85 295.51 391.82 $4,743.65 $4,854.74 $--111.09 Balance at beginning of year-- $ 543.54 Total operating income- ---- 4,743.65 Income plus balance at beginning $5,287.19 Total expenses ------------------ 4,854.74 FINAL BALANCE $---4-3-2--.4--5------ Announce Cast Of Eighteen; Choose Dance Group The cast of Wesleyan's origin-al all-student musical, "Tom Sawyer," has been announced. Bob Evans has the title role of Tom a:nd Audrey Ferro will play opposite him as Becky Thatcher. Heading the rest of the cast are Bob Price as Huck Finn and Scott Kell as Sid. Pauline Har-rington will portray Aunt Polly, Joyce Knoureck, Amy, and Ro-bert O'Neill-Butler, Injun Joe. Jerry Ippel will play Muff Potter, Bill Wente, Judge Thatcher; Ma-ry Belyea, Mrs. Thatcher; Jim Ross, Amy's father; and Norma Bogard Amy's mother. Alan Dickerson will take the part of Dr. Robinson, Leni Kesl that of Pete; Buck Johnson, Joe; and the caretaker will be played by James Basham. Darrell Pier-sol is the state's attorney; Bill Wyckoff, the defense; Chauncey Conklin, the schoolmaster; and Dors Mauer, the widow Douglas, The parts of Ben and the sheriff are as yet uncast. The dancing group will consist of Chris D'Amelio, Martha Wyc-koff, Betty Foutch and Joe Solls. Rose Stock, Agnes Kramer, Jo-bie Sayler, Jim Burgess and Em-ma Hodge will be extras. Heading bthe committees are Jim Barnett, stage; Ollie Henry, lighting; and Cathy Carson, cos-tumes. Syl Legner will direct the pit orchestra. IWU's Choice Former Dairy Queen of Mc- Lean county, Mary Sue Wil-liams of Normal will be Wes-leyan's first queen candidate for the Drake Relays to be held April 29 and 30. Chosen by the executive council of Student Union, Sue, a fireshman, won the nomina-tion partly on her 3.5 grade average. She's a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, WSA, the League of Women Voters, Al-pha Lambda Delta, and Na-tional Honor Society of Thes-pians.
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Title | 1949-04-06 |
Publication title | The Argus |
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Year | 1949 |
Decade | 1940 |
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Full Text | Illinois Wesleyan VOL. 55 BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1949 SOLOISTS IN BRAHMS' 'REQUIEM' a toer D oa virginia rarry University Chorus To Give Brahms' Requiem Palm Sunday On April 10, Palm Sunday, the Scottish Rite Sunday Evening club, in cooperation with Illi-nois Wesleyan university, will present the University chorus a ri d orchestra in Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Opus 45. The 225 voice chorus has been trained by Lloyd Pfautsch, director of choral music at Illi-nois Wesleyan; the 60 piece or-chestra prepared by Kenneth Cuthbert, dean of the Illinois Wesleyan School of Music. Dr. Cuthbert will conduct the per-formance. Soloists are Miss Virginia Par-ry, soprano, a senior from Che-noa, Illinois, and Albert Basso, also a senior, from Chandler-ville. This is the first time that the Requiem, which compares with large works such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, has been per-formed at Illinois Wesleyan. In its complete form, Ein Deutsches Requiem, was written by Brahms between 1857 and 1868. Its inspiration has been credited to a number of sources, including Brahms' grief over the death of Schumann, and as a memoriam for his stepmother, who died in 1865. Unlike most Requiems, which deal with the sombre side of death, Brahms' Requiem deals with the brighter side of death, and consolation for the living. The text shows Brahms' thor-ough knowledge of the German Bible, and shows unusual sensi-tivity of treatment. The urgency and clear beauty of the music combined with the unusual text make this one of the loveliest choral works in existence today. This performance is free to the public. Blackstock Hall To Be Summer School Dorm Blackstock hall will be used for the girls' dormitory during the summer school duration in-stead of Kemp hall, as was pre-viously announced. It was "D" Day in Blooming-ton Tuesday as Cecil R. Cone won the mayoralty race from Republican nominee Walter L. Benson by 1500 vote majority. Student-Faculty Workshop Will Meet. April 29 Something new in the way of student-faculty relations will be-gin April 29 when a student-fac-ulty conference or discussion in workshop form will meet. This workshop session is being spon-sored by the Student Welfare Commission of the Student Un-ion, which is headed by Carol Jean Brill. Gene Montgomery has been placed in charge of the session, which will be held in the Me-morial Center. Four topics have been selected to be discussed in this meeting. They are: philosophy of testing; techniques of testing; what de-termine grades; and the cheat-ing problem. The purpose of these ques-tions is to bring about a better understanding on the part of the student of the teachers' purposes and methods of testing and vice versa; i.e., to allow students to express to the teachers what sort of testing program they think fairest and most purpose-fulfill-ing. All members of the faculty are allowed in the meeting. Student participants will probably con-sist chiefly of members, of the Student Union, according to the plans disclosed by Carol Brill. Graduate Exams On Optional Basis The graduate record exami-nations, given by the school to all seniors last year,will be given aga n this year but on an op-tional basis requiring payment of a five dollar fee. Those desiring to take the ex-amination should see Dean Guy by Friday, April 8. To Present Two One-Act Plays In Convocation In recognition of Holy Week, April 11 through 17, two one-act plays of a religious nature will be presented in convocation next Wednesday. The plays will be under the direction of Dorothy Pierson and Alberta Carter. "Jean Marie" will be the play under Alberta Oarter's direction. Simple costumes will be used in this French play which is set in Brittany in 1871. Therese will be played by Helen Jeah Lauter-bach; Jean Marie, John Oapasso; and Joel, Bob Price. "D. A.'s" play, "The Finger of God," by Percival Wilde, is of religious character, done in mo-dern style. Dale Kassel will take the part of Strickland, ,a busi-nessman; Bill Dial will be Ben-son, a gentleman's gentleman; and a girl, whose identity is a mystery, will be played by Gay Hendrixon. SU Meetings In Student Center From next Monday until the end of the school year the Stu-dent Union will have meetings in the Memorial Center, it was an-nounced by Jim Lucas, president of the body. The meeting will begin unoffi-cially and informally at 4 p.m. with refreshments for the mem-bers of the Student Union and will start officially at 4:30. It will be held either in the Green room or a closed-off space in the Lounge. Trustees To Discuss Plans For Old North North hall, local landmark and fire trap, is to be discussed at the meeting of the University's Board of Trustees this week. At the meeting blueprints and ,estimates for rendering the almost century old landmark safer from fire will be presented to the group. NO. 26 Evans, 'Ferro Receive Sawyer' Musical Leads NOTICE Petitions for positions on the student publications should be turned into Bob Nelson Friday, April 8. The Publications Com-mission will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday morning to vote on these petitions. Christian Virtue Outdoes Greed In Shaw Play "In this play I have presented one of the Roman persecutions of the early Christians, not as the conflict of a false theology with a true, but as what all such persecutions essentially are: an attempt to suppress a propagan-da that seemed to threaten the interests involved in the estab-lished law and order organized and maintained in the name of religion and justice by politicians who are pure opportunist Have-and- Holders." Such were the words of Ber-nard Shaw at the concluson of his play, "Androcles and the Li-on." The play was written in 1916 and pictures Androcles as the perfect humble Christian. It also pictures in its other characters examples of people who think they are Christians but who are not, suggesting their counter-part in today's life. The American Repertory the-atre, in the winter of 1946-47, produced "Androcles" under the direction of Margaret Webster, and featured such stars as Er-nest Treux in the part of An-drocles; Victor Jory as Ferrovius; June Duprez as Lavinia; and Phillip Bourneuf as Caesar. May 4, 5, and 6 have been set as the dates for the play's pro-duction at Illinois Wesleyan. Bill Duell and Suzanne Brooks have the leading roles of Androcles and Lavinia, and Harvey K. Smith is production director. SU Treasurer's Report FINAL REPORT submitted by Russell Olson on April 5, 1949 Item Income Dad's Day ------ $ 178.00 Jazz Concert --------- 312.86 Name Band Dance_ 1,596.90 Homecoming -------- 1,598.50 Miscellaneous ------- 1,057.39 Expense Balance $ 107.50 264.93 2,513.75 1,302.99 665.57 $ 70.50 47.93 -916.85 295.51 391.82 $4,743.65 $4,854.74 $--111.09 Balance at beginning of year-- $ 543.54 Total operating income- ---- 4,743.65 Income plus balance at beginning $5,287.19 Total expenses ------------------ 4,854.74 FINAL BALANCE $---4-3-2--.4--5------ Announce Cast Of Eighteen; Choose Dance Group The cast of Wesleyan's origin-al all-student musical, "Tom Sawyer," has been announced. Bob Evans has the title role of Tom a:nd Audrey Ferro will play opposite him as Becky Thatcher. Heading the rest of the cast are Bob Price as Huck Finn and Scott Kell as Sid. Pauline Har-rington will portray Aunt Polly, Joyce Knoureck, Amy, and Ro-bert O'Neill-Butler, Injun Joe. Jerry Ippel will play Muff Potter, Bill Wente, Judge Thatcher; Ma-ry Belyea, Mrs. Thatcher; Jim Ross, Amy's father; and Norma Bogard Amy's mother. Alan Dickerson will take the part of Dr. Robinson, Leni Kesl that of Pete; Buck Johnson, Joe; and the caretaker will be played by James Basham. Darrell Pier-sol is the state's attorney; Bill Wyckoff, the defense; Chauncey Conklin, the schoolmaster; and Dors Mauer, the widow Douglas, The parts of Ben and the sheriff are as yet uncast. The dancing group will consist of Chris D'Amelio, Martha Wyc-koff, Betty Foutch and Joe Solls. Rose Stock, Agnes Kramer, Jo-bie Sayler, Jim Burgess and Em-ma Hodge will be extras. Heading bthe committees are Jim Barnett, stage; Ollie Henry, lighting; and Cathy Carson, cos-tumes. Syl Legner will direct the pit orchestra. IWU's Choice Former Dairy Queen of Mc- Lean county, Mary Sue Wil-liams of Normal will be Wes-leyan's first queen candidate for the Drake Relays to be held April 29 and 30. Chosen by the executive council of Student Union, Sue, a fireshman, won the nomina-tion partly on her 3.5 grade average. She's a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, WSA, the League of Women Voters, Al-pha Lambda Delta, and Na-tional Honor Society of Thes-pians. |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |