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3 The Expanding I I University Schccl cf Muds 5 ROCHESTER. N. Y- SUNDAY AUG. 11. 1953 This Is anothtr in a writs of spcUl Sunday pamocrtt and Chronic! reports on tho rtaw and developing coSttjts of the University of Rochester.

The neit report wil be on the university as a whole, its administration, and its role in the community. A Problem of Money and Music -What Happens After 1965? they go on to fill places positions in allied fields. jr Vr rV; --vw. fww iniiw '2LjBMBJr WWW III I lit MMMf IKw fHf fi 'I i J-Im I All of which raises questions. Why does a youngster today choose music as a career instead of science or business or another of the more lucrative professions? What persuades him to in Ormandy's words "resist the beguilements of the space age to devote himself to the musical values of the past and to a lifetime of stirring audiences of the The answer, for most Eastman students, seems to be quite simply that, for as long as they can remember, music has been the one field that excites them.

Some youngsters meet considerable opposition at home or school to their desire to "take up music seriously." In the immedi-. ate post-Sputnik period, for example, several Eastman students reported that counselors in their home cbmmunities had endeavored to discourage them from a musical career. Nevertheless, Eastman School has encountered no difficulty in attracting prime musical talent. The greatest problem is securing an ideal balance within the student body, the proper balance between, for example, strings and wood instruments, between flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons, and the like. Fortunately, Eastman has been able to maintain such a balance largely because there are some 300 or more candi-! dates for the 110 to 120 freshmen admitted each year, The primary req EASTMAN STUDENTS in crack orchestras, top of college life, he seems to have few gripes.

In fact, according to Dean of Students Flora Burton, "our students' chief complaints are that they need more practice rooms, they want practice areas kept open on Sundays, and they'd like more opportunities to perform!" Although Eastman teachers hold high standards for their students, there's no attempt to cast them in the same mold. As one longtime faculty member comments, "Our young composers learn a lot from Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers, for instance. But we don't turn them into little Hansons and little Rogerses." As a result, Eastman-trained composers run the musical gamut from relative conservatives such as the late Lyndol Mitchell to way-out types like electronic music experimentalist Vlad i i Ussachevsky. "WHAT HAPPENS to Eastman students after they graduate? The overwhelming majority remain in music or music-allied fields. Most go directly into professional aitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiN It is center of Eastman concerts and recitals.

The achievements of th University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music ire an oft-told, and well beloved, tale. They tend to take for granted the annual clutch of awards won by Eastman composers and performers the crack orchestral posts filled, year after year, by Eastman alumni the Fulbright and other fellowship plums harvested regularly by Eastman men and women. Every so often, however, we are jolted from placid acceptance of East-. man successes. The Eastman Philharmonia's overseas triumphs, the smash Carnegie Hall debuts of the Eastman Wind Ensemble and the Philharmonia are cases in point.

i i 'For cae thing, these events focussed attention on the Eastman student, rather than the successful faculty member or, alumnus. And many of Roch- 's "knowledgeable" music lovers who had never sampled Kilbourn Hall's array of student concerts and recitals discovered that, in the eyes of New York critics, Eastman students were more than just promising. As one wrote of the Philharmonians, "Most of them could step into any orchestra In the country." ARTICULATE booster of Eastman student talent is Eugene Ormandy, distinguished conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Writing in a national magazine last month, Ormandy said, "Recently I heard a perfomance by the young musicians of the Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra, hich spent three triumphant months touring in Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Near East. They played a long and difficult program which would have challenged any of the best professional orchestras in est, income with the opportunityor, as some disenchanted teachers might claim, the necessity for concert work, composing or private teaching.

A substantial group hold, top administrative posts In the world of music. Well over a hundred of them head music schools and departments throughout the including the Juilliard School (Peter Men-nin) and Peabody Conservatory (Charles Kent). Newest member of this clan is William Bergsma, formerly DR. HANSON, director of the Eastman School he is concerned with the future of music and the performer. the whole world, and the performance came off with flying colors! The spontaneity and freshness of their musical outlook pulsed through every bar, and I knew then that our musical future was assured." "As I listened," Ormandy continued, "I thought of the nature of the sacrifice that these young people are making.

They devote all of their youthful years to conquering the demands of their instruments and to becoming acquainted with an already vast and evergrowing musical literature. Their" individual futures (with very few exceptions) are ones of complete anonymity in the ranks of large symphonic groups. Yet because of their love for music, they willingly make these sacrifices." And they are doing so, he noted, even when, as never before, "young people have been tempted from that life of sacrifice by exciting and profitable futures" 1M associate dean at Juilliard, who will become director of the University of Washington School of Music this fall. In recent years the recording industry has attracted many Eastman people, among them Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records; Frank York, president of Dash Records, and James Fogle-song, director of Epic Rec- -4r Continued On Poqe 2M 1 The hole in this reason- ing: Two airlines Pan i American and Continen- tai have already agreed 1 to buy a total of nine Concordes to be sure of being first in their fields with a supersonic trans- 1 port. If others follow suit this could reduce the 1 market available for even 3 a superior American SST to an unprofitable level.

ALL THESE uncertainties have delayed the Amer- 1 lean SST. Since it's a com pletely new concept, there 1 are likely to be some un- foreseen technical prob- 1 lems which will push back 1 further the potential de- livery date. Some sources say that if U.S. industry had enough 1 confidence that is, enough government elopment money it could, deliver SST's to airlines within five years one year ahead of the scheduled Concorde delivery date. The way things are now, the best that can be hoped for on this side of the Atlantic is 1970 one year after the Concorde begins hopping oceans in three hours.

The American SST program is so far behind that no one is sure what it even 1 will look like. The Associated Press sur- 1 vey found that some U.S. 1 designers favor a Delta 1 Wing like that of the B58 1 and B70 bombers. This al- 1 so is the Concorde concept. 1 Others want a radical 1 change: Pivoted wings that 1 can be retracted for high speed, extended for easier take off and landing.

work; however, an increasing number about one-third of last year's graduating class enter graduate study. Compared to sciences, of course, the number of graduate fellowships available to musicians is small. Perhaps the best known are the Fulbright fellowships for overseas study, of which an impressive total of 132 have "been awarded to Eastman alumni. Even more highly prized are the Guggenheim fellowships (30 have been won by Eastman alumni) and the Ford Foundation grants to young composers; 13 of the latter have gone to Eastman people since the fellowships were initiated only, four years ago. For the Eastman graduate interested in an orchestral career as performer or conductor, the outlook generally is bright.

A recent survey shows Eastman musicians on every major symphony roster in country, including the top five: Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. Today, Eastman musicians are associated with approximately 140 or-' chestras and bands on And this despite the fact that all have been working on SST plans for years, part of the time under government-funded study contracts. WHY THE HESITANCY? "The problem is not technology," says an industry source, "it's financing. The President wants whoever gets the SST contract to put up 25 per cent of the development cost, or about $250 million. "I doubt that Boeing, North American Aviation, General' Dynamics, Lockheed and Douglas combined could risk that kind of money." to Goast in Only 2 Hours? INDUSTRY SOURCES say many of the world's air-the Concorde will be' lines to wait for the U.S.

made large of aluminum, version. as are today's jets, with just ertough costly titanium on the leading edges to withstand the 400-degree air-friction heat generated at 1,500 miles an hour. Authorities want the U.S. plane to go faster, 1,700 to 2,000 m.p.h. (Mach 2.5 to Mach 3), which means it must be built almost entirely of titanium and steel.

This combination can resist temperatures up to 600 degrees. The reasoning: Such a plane could make the Concorde obsolete, and this threat might persuade KILBOURN HALL four continents. Some 450 members strong, they can be found from Halifax to Honolulu, Israel to Indonesia from the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philharmonic to Tokyo, Japan's Yo-miuri Symphony, and from Canton, Ohio, Symphony to the famed Con-certgebouw of Holland. MANY EASTMAN gradu-, ates go into college or public school teaching, a field that combines a regular, although usually mod Another spokesman says: "We are facing the competition of a foreign-built SST, and Concorde, which is 100 per cent subsidized by the British and French governments. The Concorde will be inferior to the kind of plane the President wants us to build, will cost less and will reach, the market first.

We're not going to say definitely that we will enter the competition until two things are settled. We have to know how the planes are to be paid for. and we need a better definition of exactly what kind of plane we're being asked to build." mil iiiiiiiiimiiiimi uiiiiiiiiiiii.nn Aviation, with a towards uisites for admission, of course, are musical talent, preparation and experience. Not generally known is the fact that prospective students must pass an audition. Live auditions are held in Rochester and eight other cities each year; youngsters who cannot audition in person must submit a recording of their performance.

ADMISSION IS NOT based solely on musical ability. Academic records are checked carefully (three out of four entering Eastman students rank in the top quarter of their high school' graduating classes). Health and emotional stability are important, too, for life at Eastman places unusually heavy demands on students. Competition for places in the top student ensembles is keen and an outstanding freshman can bump a senior from the Philharmonia, for example, if his playing merits. At Eastman, many a youth faces for the first time the challenge of coming up against others who are his equal in talent, energy, and ambition.

And if he wants to play in the Rochester Philharm i he has to compete with experienced professionals kas well as with his fellow-students. As a result, he's under tremendous pressure to achieve. And his work a formidable round of lectures, lessons, and practice, practice, practice is never finished. But although his rigorous schedule may force him to give up many of the customary pleasures By RALPH DIGHTON 1 LOS ANGELES OB America's plane builders have the know-how to put I together a supersonic I plane that could zoom from New York to Los Angeles I in two hours. The craft may be a weird-looking thing, and on returning to earth it might be too hot to handle, but these are scarcely problems that could abort the faster-than-sound pro- I posals.

They can be over- come. What might keep I America from Retting in- 1 to such an airliner pro- duction project is that the major U.S. plane makers aren't enchanted I by government financing plans. 1 JNDER A PLAN advanced by President Kennedy and his aides, aircraft mak- ers would have to ante up about $250 million. I The Federal Aviation Agency already has asked the industry for comments on the plan, and is ex- I pected to issue a call for I design bids next Thursday, 1 giving interested firms un- 1 til Sept.

10 to submit pro- posals. The Associated Press conducted a survey among i the leading aircraft manu facturers to determine where they stand on the I Supersonic Transport (SST), what they think it would look like, how long it would take to reach production, and so on. It was immediately clear that not one of the five likely candidates for the contract will say definitely that it plans to submit a proposal. Some said "possibly." The strongest was bc A FACULTY OF NOTE Dr. Allen I.

McHose, left, associate director of the school, and Dr. Bernard Rogers, professor of composition, are two of the many widely-known members of the Eastman staff. SUPERSONIC PLANE MODELS These are sonfe of the proposed designs. Larry Green of North American holds one model wing that folds back fuselage for higher speeds. 1 IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllltlllinMlltllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllltil mi I inn in i itu iiiuiiiiiiuiuiiiiiiiiiiimihiiiiiiii.

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