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2Q ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE" Monday. February 17. 197S Rw I EASTMAN SCHOOL Good Ml! SIMMS cam opener for 'Top1 little spare change is all it takes to make a big change in you at Elaine Powers. For $9.93 4 a month, you get unlimited isits. Use of our miraculous machines.

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From IC and to emphasize the pros not previously mentioned, since the cons had received much attention up to that time. There has been much inaccuracy, unwarranted assumption, and misrepresentation. "There also has been almost complete obliviousness to the reasons for making the move." Mitch Miller, one of those active in the keep-Eastman-downtown movement, said the charge that there was an "organized campaign" to "close the options" was "utterly ridiculous." "When I came to town," the oboist and conductor said, "I heard about the possibility of a move and I went on the Eddie Meath Show (on WHEC-TV, Channel 10) and talked about it and the people just came out of the woodwork." DR. JAMES Sibley Watson, one of Rochester's most respected and illustrious citizens, also was against the school's moving. Sibley Watson said that, yes, at least one of the names signed to an advertisement that called on Wallis to keep the school downtown was used without permission.

But that didn't mean the signer was against the move. He said: "We asked several people on the phone if they were against the Eastman School moving. I added some of the names to the list. Some of them didn't mind but some of them did. You know, Rochester people don't like to stand up in public.

"Mr. Eisenhart (the late Herbert M. Eisenhart) wrote to Hildegarde (Mrs. Sibley Watson) and said he was a little put out about being on the list because his reasons for not wanting to see the school moved were different from ours. "He was friendly.

I don't think he was very put out. He thought there was a paper that proved Mr. Eastman wanted everything to be decided by the Eastman Board of Managers (of which Eisenhart was the President). From Wallis' point of view, everything should be decided by the Board of Sibley Watson said he didn't know if there was a public relations firm organizing any campaign. "We tried to find out, but we didn't get very far," he said.

THE AD. titled "An Open Letter to Chancellor W. Allen Wallis" appeared in the Dec. 18, 1973 issue of the Democrat and Chronicle. It said, in part: "With the attention of the community now directed to the possible removal of the Eastman School of Music from its present location, we turn to you because we recognize that your decision in this matter will be given great weight by the trustees.

Our own conversations with Eastman School students indicate that the over THIS SPEECH drew a reaction from one of the senate members, Jack Kamp-meier, a chemistry teacher. "Mr. Kampmeier was delighted by Mr. Wallis' remarks, because, in spite of his disclaimers, it seems that he has presented an overwhelming argument for moving the Eastman School to this' campus. He personally could not think of anything that could be better for both the i Music School and the University.

"Mr. Wallis said that unfortunately he could also give Mr. Kampmeier arguments against a move." Wallis then discussed the "cloistered" atmosphere of the music school, deemed necessary to true professionalism by many. "Mr. Wallis did not feel that this atmosphere would be jeopardized by a Music School move; it results more from the faculty than from the building or location.

"He did not know if it would have to have its own residence halls; however, his feeling is that it would be a mistake to start without its own residence halls. Later if it seemed all right not to, it could gradually be changed." (The minutes of the faculty senate meetings are not for general circulation. All are marked "Confidential: For Information of Senate Members and Electorate OTHER FACULTY members are less convinced of a plot, or don't believe in it at all. "I don't think there is a plot, no," said Samuel Adler, the chairman of the composition department, now in Vienna on sabbatical. "I think the reason some people might think there is is financial.

The school is not in the best shape. The university is trying to keep everything afloat. "Look, Hanson had his financing and he could do anything he wanted. He ruled the musical education of the United' States. We have terrific competition now." Adler, who was a member of the search committee that selected Freeman, said he doesn't believe the university can call the shots at the Eastman School.

"The University of Rochester says yes to what Bob Freeman wants, at least in terms of faculty and student building." On the subject of the move, Adler had these remarks: "Hendl dropped that hot potato right back in Wallis' lap, but Freeman decided to fight it out. I don't think anything could have been done, and I'm sorry it happened. His name was badly damaged. Any administration needs a good five years to get started and the first one and a half years of his were kind of wasted." whelming majority find that the School's proximity to the Eastman Theatre and Kilbourn Hall far outweighs any advantages promised by those who would move the school to a site near the River Campus." (The letter writers based their opposition to the move on the expected effect any departure of the school would have on the city's efforts at urban re-development. The letter concluded: understand that Dr.

Freeman is expected to announce that he favors moving the School. However, we also understand that this decision will not be final." (There followed a list of more than GO names of individuals, couples and organizations.) WALLIS listed the reasons in favor of a move to the faculty senate, the university-wide representative body of the teachers. "It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the Eastman School has no relation the community around it," he said. "A tremendous amount of absolutely first-class music goes to waste at the School," he said. The "six-tenths of a mile," the distance from the school to the dormitories at Prince Street and University Avenue, "is in a rundown, dangerous area," he said.

"As to the questions of where to locate the School if it were moved, what it would be like, what would become of the present building, and how we would pay for it when the University had the Sasaki firm study the situation, it recommended three locations. "Their most preferred location is Wilson Boulevard between Hill Court and McLean Street. Another is the South River Campus (Elmwood to the Canal). A third is beyond the railroad tracks toward the Graduate Living Center. The minutes of the senate meeting continue: "With respect to the cost, Mr.

Wallis said that the construction cost might be 10 to 15 per cent less to renovate than to move. As he suggested earlier, however, it might cost the University, more to remain than to move, one of the reasons being the problem of conducting the Music School while there is riveting, jack hammers and plaster dust 'There are some of the issues involved in the decision on the School. It is not yet for general public discussion, but it indicates why the University does not yet have a definite decision. The real issue is what will be best for the Music School in the next fifth years. "The Music School must be one of the great music schools in the world.

If it is not, it isn't worth anything to Rochester, and there is no reason we should maintain it." at it! Pa By JACK GAR.VER Features Editor There's probably not a sound in music as broad and as powerful as that of a big jazz band. To take that sound squeeze it comfortably into something as small as your television set is a neat and dam difficult trick. But a crew at WXXI has done just that for the first show of its "At The Top" series which debuts at 8 tonight on Channel 21. Opener for the series is the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Orchestra, the band that is generally considered the best big band in modern jazz, jazz. It's a band that incorporates the best elements from traditional big band music, contemporary jazz and rock into a distinct and exciting style.

Musically speaking, At The Top" couldn't have a better opening act. The series was taped at The Top of the Plaza here and one of the elements that makes the show work is that the night club atmosphere is captured visually without being distracting audially. The one-hour well-edited Show is generally free of any Imnecessary trappings it's obvious that the producers consider music to be the show. Sound is the area in which television usually fails when it attempts to capture full-range orchestrated music. But the recording mix in "At The Top" is superb and if you're lucky enough tune in the show with the simulcast sound of WXXI FM radio (91.5 on the dial), you'll especially hear what I mean.

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