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Sfmorral "Pft Theater 4C People Want Ads 5-IOC Comics HC TV 12C ROCHESTER. N.Y.. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1975 The Eastman School Today The question: Should it be moved? Casals' widow weds SfifeK? i "ti IXTVZl ljSL-kJf-l; Ratp i a tN-- 1 Cr 1 ows mus mm mv a'''5S2 Pi.

affkfl 8 fc i Ti mil nil Tinn'mi mini minim wfmmmm-t- viw, Street (location. is whether the school should be are against moving and are trying to close our options by arousing public sentiment against such a move, "During the summer Mr. Freeman visited many music schools in Europe and many in this country as part of the process of studying this question. When he came back he organized discussion sessions. As a result, word got into public discussion and into the newspapers and resulted in an organized campaign to try to close our options.

"Resolutions were passed by the East Avenue Merchants Association, the Downtown Merchants Association, the Grove Place Owners Association, the Executive Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and several other organiza moved from its East Avenue Gibbs tions. Many of these organizations think they have a real estate interest in the situation. "Someone has hired a professional public relations firm to run a campaign, keep up a flow of letters to the editor, and try to influence opinion through a varied and sustained campaign." When the Democrat and Chronicle, requested an interview with either Wallis or President Robert Sproull, to ask them to substantiate some of this or to comment, it was denied. "President Sproull feels the appropriate person to talk to is Bob Freeman," said Judy Brown, of the university's public relations office. In fact, all requests for interviews with Wallis by this reporter The raging debate March 4, 1974, the question of moving the school was discussed at great length by Chancellor W.

Allen Wallis. All of the following quotations are taken from the minutes of that meeting, as recorded by Edith V. Olson, secretary. "Mr. Wallis commented on all the discussion about the moving of the Eastman School.

There has been much news coverage, very little of it relevant to the actual issues. "When he became Director, Mr. Robert Freeman had as a top priority project to make some recommendation, and he has held a number of meetings with faculty and students to discuss it. Basically, what has happened as a conse-. quence is that there are some people who 1 In Review Second in a series By MICHAEL WALSH Staff Writer Robert Freeman is in his second academic year as the director of the Eastman School of Music, but already he has had his mettle tested.

The school itself has been battered by controversy two controversies, to be exact in the past few years. The first was the student revolt that ended in 1972 with the resignation of Walter Hendl, the noted conductor, as director. The second, more recent, was the discussion over whether the school should leave its downtown location in favor of joining the University on its River Campus, or at least moving nearer to it. That controversyenveloped Freeman almost before he had a chance to find his office and put down his new carpet. The ill-will engendered by all the discussion and the decision to make, after all, no decision still rankles in some corners at Eastman.

As Freeman goes about imprinting his personality and educational philosophy on the school, inevitably there is some resistance on the part of students and faculty. In the space of less than two years, many Eastman people say, Freeman has made himself more unpopular than Hendl ever was. This feeling is largely the result of Freeman's stand during the discussion of the move. Most of the students and faculty see him as being in favor of it. They also see the university as being in favor of it, as a way to get its hands on the Eastman School of Music once and for all.

i IN A recent poll, published in "Change" magazine (Winter 1974-75) by sociologists Peter M. Blau and Rebecca Zames Margulies, "The Reputations of American Professional Schools" were examined. Deans of various professional schools were polled and asked to rank the top five schools in their fields. Categories included: architecture, business, dentistry, education, engineering, forestry, journalism, law, library science, medicine, music, nursing, pharmacy, public health, social work, I theology and veterinary medicine. is a magazine published 10 times a year with offices in New Rochelle, N.Y.

It began publication in 1969. Its editorial content is devoted to opinion articles about education, and a spokesman for the magazine said its circulation is primarily among college educators and administrators. The listings were reprinted in the Feb. 1 issue of The National Observer.) The only school of the University of Rochester to place in any of these categories was the Eastman School of Music, which was ranked second among music schools. Indiana University's music school was first, a little ahead of Eastman; Michigan, Juilliard, Illinois, Curtis, USC and Oberlin followed.

Perhaps significantly, the NAME "Eastman School of Music" was nowhere to be found in the poll. It was the University of Rochester that ranked second. Many faculty members are alarmed by what they see as increasing dominance of Eastman by the university. "It's all part of the plot by the River Campus to destroy the Eastman School of Music that's been going on for a long time," said one respected, tenured and relatively disinterested Eastman professor. A READING of the minutes of the University of Rochester Faculty Senate indicates why some Eastman people have this impression.

At the meeting of Tribute By TOM GREEN Television Critic The American Film Institute's 90-minute tribute to Orson Welles on CBS tonight is a strangely perfunctory affair. All the right words are spoken, the standing ovations seem genuinely extended, and yet the whole is somehow lacking in emotional electricity. Welles, however, seemed to enjoy the whole bash and when he steps to the podium after receiving his Life Achievement Award to remark that his heart is full, the sentiment comes across as warmly felt. Last year, however, the institute saluted James Cagney in a highly entertaining evening for both those in the Los Angeles audience and the viewers at home. The Welles show turns into more of a curiosity than an entertainment.

The show that's to be aired tonight was actually taped at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles eight days ago. FRANK SINATRA returns from last year to host the event. He isn't particularly witty and the song that Sammy Calm put new lyrics to for Sinatra to use Bill Cosby brings laugh medicine Martita Casals, widow of the Spanish cellist-composer Pablo Casals, was married this weekend to concert pianist Eugene Istomin, whom her husband once called "my son." The civil ceremony was performed Saturday by Judge Harry W. Davis in a studio room at the Kew Gardens home of Dr. and Mrs.

Murray Fuhr-man. The Fuhrmans were longtime friends of Pablo Casals and were with him when he died. Mr. and Mrs. Istomin flew to Puerto Rico yesterday for a Roman Catholic wedding there.

They are to return to New York in time for Mrs. 'istomin to receive an honorary degree from Marymount Manhattan College Wednesday and then leave for a concert tour of the Far East. Casals died in October, 1973, at the age of 96. He had married Martita, who is now 38, in 1957. Istomin is 49.

Offer refused Alas, he made an offer that could only be refused. The 1928 Cadillac driven by the legendary mobster Al Capone was up. for bids this weekend in Atlantic N.J., but the highest offer was a meager $87,000. Steve Demko, one of the owners of the specially designed car, refused the bid, mentioning that some time ago he had turned down a British offer of $140,600. Demko, who has part ownership in a Niagara Falls, antique car museum, said he's holding out for an additional 10 grand.

Capone's car, a marvelous duplicate of the Chicago police chiefs car, was equipped with the first private police band radio, sirens, bullet proof glass and a convenient drop-down rear window that made using machines guns a bit easier. Soviet poet exits Alexander Glozer, an organizer of unofficial Soviet artists, left Moscow yesterday to emigrate to the west. Glezer, a poet and art collector, helped organize the first public exhibit of nonconformist art in Moscow last fall and received strong official criticism. Friends said he was going to London. 'Rhoda' honored Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatri cals, which in the past has honored Katharine Hepburn, Liza Minem-and Lauren Bacall.

has named television star Valerie Harper its woman of the Miss Harper, star of the series, "Rhoda," is to be honored tomorrow following a parade through Harvard Square. Throw'm a fish! Two Harrisburg, Pa. Area Community College students are claiming a world's record they say no one has ever swallowed a goldfish thrown a distance of 41 feet 10 inches. Mikelluling, 19, flipped the fish into the air and his partner, Hank Ettel, also 19, caught it in his mouth and gulped it down, setting an as ye unofficial world record. The two were participating in the "Record Breaking Weekend" which started Friday night and continued through yesterday at the college.

For $1 anyone could take a shot at getting his name in the "Guinness. Book of World Records." The weekend was aimed at raising money for the Heart Fund and the school's Alumni Endowment Fund. From Staff and Wfres (ft II Capone have been denied over the past year.) THE MINUTES continue: "The city council has appointed a committee, charged to see that the School does not move. There was a big advertisement in both newspapers; a number of persons whose names were signed to it had not authorized the use of their signatures, and although some complained about it, no correction has been made. There has also been an organized alumni letter campaign.

The only thing the University has said publicly about the issue was an article Mr. Freeman published at the end of December (in the Democrat and Chronicle Forum section of Dec. 30, 1973), to summarize the pros and cons Please turn page Re pantomined a trip to the dentist, complete with novocaine needle and futile attempts to rinse and spit. The audiences was in stiches in spite of the fact that most were sitting on the Arena's cold floor or standing, craning for a good view of the stage. "You have to take care of your mouth and your body," Cosby said in the tone of a teacher.

"When I was 8-years-old I had a hernia operation from picking up my brother. He was sooo heavy, but I kept picking him up. My mother kept telling me not to, and one day, something went Some of the funniest moments of Cosby's performance came when he moved a little away from the subject of health and talked of fathers and mothers. "Fathers are strange people anyway. They don't talk much.

They only seem concerned with your mental health 'Are you 'Are you Mothers are health conscious, did you ever notice that? They're always talking about their own health. 'You just make me sick and 'You think I'm picking up after you for my "You'll be the death of me Cosby mimicked a kid in a supermarket bugging his mother to death until she gives him the potato chips he wants. "You can't do that with fathers though. They get mad when you bug them. My father used to say 'Go to your room take off all your clothes and wait for me." Then he'd forget.

I'd be there at 4 a.m.; nude, and he'd come in and say 'What are you doing there in the 'Oh, just airing In less than an hour Cosby was leaving his enthusiastic audience with a semi-comical semi-serious observation "You happen to be your own -he told his listeners. "At one time or another you were a sperm cell. And in order to get here on this earth, you had td hit the egg. You had to beat out 100 million other sperm cells. "Imagine! At one time you were in a race against 100 million sperm cells and you won.

Yes, you won. Now, if you don't ever win another thing as long as you live, you won the big one. So take care of yourself and be proud of your trophy, be' proud of yourself. And even if someone comes up to you and says: 'Boy, are you Just say: 'Yeah, but you should have seen the guys I beat awiih.KiiiiMMiT"i i-iif-iiiiii'-ii-iir- "V--'-l Bill Cosby to Welles lacks emotion doubt they'd come for him. Cosby got off to a slow start.

"It's quite evident the young people take care of 'themselves. Little kids run around all the time. My little brother, Russell, was the champ runner-into-things in the house. And the kids and parents were restless. Cosby's mouth produced a tire blow-out, a heart beating, snow tires in summer.

Ten minutes later he got into the swing of things, and though most of the comedy still centered around health, he'd pulled in some well-known friends from his past. He became Mrs. Peabody, the 89-year-old dental hygienist in starched-white who taught him how to brush and care for his teeth in fourth grade: "Don't drink Coca-Cola. It'll eat your whole face up." Orson Welles 0 By MARY RITA KURYCKI Staff Writer Bill Cosby in white sneakers and sweatsuit bounded onto the stage of the Dome Arena yesterday with a mouthful of sound effects for an audience of children and parents eager to hear about health. Well, really they'd come to hear Cosby do anything.

But he was there courtesty of the RHN Health Plan and the day's program was called "Feeling Fit in February," so Cosby obliged by talking about bodies and teeth and mothers and fathers and' getting born in a way with which everyone, specially the kids, could' readily identify. The doors of the Dome Arena opened at 2 p.m. and by 2: 15 many had secured seats in the stands, though Cosby wasn't due onstage until 3:30. There was little among the guests went to Ingrid Bergman, but even she seemed a little bewildered at what she was doing there, never having worked with the man being honored and, she says, not even having ever been married to him. But she happened to be working at a theater across the street, so she just came on over for dinner.

THE BEST PART of the 90 minutes is easily the bits of film from Welles' extraordinary contribution to cinema. Although much toO brief, they make the special worth watching. The actor-director-writer hasn't worked much in the past decade, but his genius is apparent even in the flashes of "Citizen Kane," "The Third Man," "The Lady from Shanghai," "Othello," and "The Magnificent Ambersons." Much is made of Welles' girth, a development accentuated by the clips from his early films. Natalie Wood is on hand for a scene from a film she made with the actor when she was just a 6-year-old. "Of course, I'm bigger than that now," she says, "but so is Orson's lap." Television as his personal love song to Welles is awfully silly and Sinatra sings it badly.

There are a number of other major stars on the evening's bill But as so often happens, the presence of some of them is utterly baffling. Johnny Carson, for instance, climbs on stage to tell a story of how he was picked up by the Shore Patrol at age 17 when he attended a Welles magic show. A tenuous connection, at best. Not that some of those who were truly linked to Welles in his prime years are not represented. Actor Joseph Cotten is there and his segment is quite nice and sincere.

There's also a very nostalgic bit from Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It was good to see them, but their only excuse for being invited was that Welles' notorious 1938 Mercury Theater of the Air production of "War of the Worlds" happened to be on the radio opposite Bergen and McCarthy that night. The evening's warmest reception.