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't -y t-tv Not All UNM 'Lorighairs' Have Time for SiMns, Yapping By JIM NEWTON, musicians can teach at UNM and perform with the Albu journal Mm November 10, 1968 CI Friends Seeking Support For Serious longhairs' The Friends of Music is a newly formed organization of adult music lovers who wish to encourage the efforts of such young people as speak here for the University of New Mexico Music Dept. The organization, headed by Kurt Kuhie, is seeking members to assist it in its goals of encouraging interest in serious music, to provide scholarship support for UNM students, and to generally promote the UNM department. Special programs for Friends members are planned through the year. Details of the various membership categories, ranging from a S5 associate member, are available from Jo Eckert Huber. musicales, and was a part of the "King and and "Funny Girl" successes.

The fact professors take a personal interest in students was cited by Templeton as a plus factor. "I think the student in return is grateful and puts out a little more." He already is giving piano lessons privately and while he hopes to land a professional orchestra post upon graduation, "I love to teach" and at least plans to seek a spot where he can continue performing. CASSONDRA MORAS, who came to UNM from Tulsa upon the recommendation of her teacher who was familiar with pianist George Rolx'rts' work over a couple of decades, is working toward a career as a music therapist who would work with psychiatric patients, hoping to reach 'unapproachable' patients through music. In addition to Rolierts' reputation, Albuquerque's climate and the facilities which she termed "much better than many state universities" lured the pianist-violinist to UNM. She comes from a musical family.

Her father was a part-time musician; her mother, Mrs. Julius Moran, teaches music and speech in Tulsa public schools; a sister likewise is a violinist and pianist, and a younger brother plays in a high school orchestra. She was a violinist with the Albuquerque Symphony her first year here, but found school work was too time consuming. TIME IS A MAJOR PROBLEM for the music major, she believes. "Music majors find it difficult to get through in four years, but feel pressured to do it not by faculty as much as by the fact friends in other schools in the university do, "I think a major cause is the curriculum.

In other schools, both state and private, more emphasis is placed on being music concentrates. And chamber and ensemble work carries more weight. Here there's an enormous requirement. "I think there should be more emphasis on the fine arts. As a music major I feel it's important to be involved in ensembles and if I have to sacrifice grade points in other classes I don't mind.

"Students here are criticized for not going to concerts. It's not apathy, just lack of time. They are so busy trying to get their course work done they don't have time for such activities even though they admit music majors should have time for hearing professional musicians." The quality of public programming offered by the UNM music department indicates that these students are not atypical. And not one of the students visited wore the faddish long hair, even though all are deeply involved in the truly "longhair" field of music. Journal Arts Editor Not all the "longhairs" on the University of New Mexico campus are the radical protesters making nuisances of themselves in the name of intellectual freedom.

The music department where one used to find the "longhair" types is teeming with young men and women so busy getting an education they don't have time for picketing or day long coffee breaks in the Student Union or yapping at alleged infringements of their "rights." And if the goals and ambitions of others in the department are as high as plans of several visited with during the past week, UNM will have some illustrious alumni in years to come. THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT IS GRADUALLY gaining a widespread reputation as a good place to study, according to the students who were selected as representing a cross section of the department. All agreed that for a state university the opportunities and the facilities offered for music study are superior to many others. Rita Boyett of Amarillo left Texas Tech two years ago to follow her teacher, flutist Frank Bowen, to UNM. "It's just fantastic here," she commented.

"There aren't many places with as nice a recital hall and Concert Hall and other facilities such as the Fine Arts Library's listening rooms, the practice rooms and even classrooms." The music department, of course, is quartered in the Fine Arts Center complex and has row upon row of individual practice rooms, all of them much in use throughout the day. Miss Boyett, a senior, is a member of the concert band and woodwind ensemble, and hopes to rearrange her schedule next semester to join the UNM orchestra. SHE HAD ONLY TWO CRITIClS.MS-actually one criticism and a dream for the department. One complaint, echoed by others, is the limited credit given to participation in small ensembles such as the woodwind quintet, and even in the band and orchestra. For instance, she pointed out, only eight semesters of ensemble work credit is given students in band or orchestra, even though they remain in the group throughout their full four years.

Her dream is for a lounge for music students, "where we could go relax and discuss music in an informal atmosphere. It would be open to both students and faculty. I think it would improve the student-faculty relationship. The Student Union with its hippies just isn't relaxed. I'd just as soon eat my lunch in one of the practice rooms." She would like to join a university music faculty in a community where she also could continue performing with an orchestra.

"We probably have an ideal setup here where querque Symphony." SAMUEL TAPIA may find his dance interest of value when he completes his UNM studies and begins teaching English as a second language among Indian and Spanish-American youngsters. Although working on his master's 'degree in English, he is taking enough courses from Elizabeth Waters' dance program to get a minor in dance. One reason for returning to UNM where he received a BFA degree in drama was Miss Waters. "She's a Southwestern inspiration, basing her whole approach to dance on Indian philosophy which I can really Identify with," the Valley High School graduate commented. Although not trying for a career in dance, Tapia has studied with such name dancers as Hanya Holm and Vincente Romero.

Miss Holm, who choreographed such Broadway shows as "Camelot" and "My Fair Lady," was Miss Waters' teacher at Colorado College. Tapia is pleased that the dance program at UNM has been moved from the physical education to music departments. "But I'd like to see dance really accepted and recognized as a minor in all colleges at UNM, not just education and fine arts. The arts and sciences college doesn't recognize it yet. His love for dance is evident in the fact he studies some 10 hours a week with Miss Waters in addition to his education courses.

CHARLES MacKAY, SANTA FE HIGH SCHOOL graduate who also has played French horn with Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Orchestra and the Los Alamos Synfonetta, finds the atmosphere at UNM almost too relaxed and pressureless. "There is no pressure and a musician who wants to can got a lot accomplished. Unlike some of the bigger music schools, we can participate in various ensemble groups. And private lessons are offered as part of the tuition, whereas in many other schools they are extra. I have one friend who went to a larger school and although there was a 'name' horn player on the faculty she had to share a 15-minute lesson a week with another musician.

"Here Prof. Dale Witlow and other teachers really take a lot of time with each student and this personal interest makes the lessons more interesting." MacKay, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joyn MacKay both have musical backgrounds, served last summer as assistant personnel manager and librarian for the Opera orchestra, and played horn for "Der Rosenkavelier." ALTHOUGH HE HOPES to end up in a professional orchestra, MacKay is taking the precaution of getting a degree that will provide him the ability to teach music, preferably in a private school. While he praised the relaxed atmosphere of UNM which made it easy for him to adapt from a high school environment, MacKay feels perhaps there is too much of the easygoing attitude which does not prod some students into working to their utmost.

"I know regimentation is bad, too, but if there could be a tlog-eat-dog atmosphere it would be nice." He also feels a program for non-music majors who perhaps were musicians in high school would be a plus for UNM. "I know many good musicians who aren't in the music school because they are majoring in other fields, but still retain their musical interests. If they could play in small ensembles I think they would jump at the chance." HIS INTEREST IN THE REVIVED Albuquerque Light Opera is one reason Tony Templeton elected to attend UNM this fall after graduating from Del Norte High School last spring. Templeton has played violin with the Light Opera since it first started reviving itself a year ago with a series of Coke's Writing Detail State Ex-Albuquerquean, Now Top Trumpeter, to Appear Here OnMany Key Painters Who Visited Area ts, vA UN'M is made up of university Concert Band and orchestra members and is conducted by Ernest M. Kazmier, a music education senior who has played with the Navy Band in Washington.

Boston and Brooklyn. He has also conducted stage bands aboard the aircraft carriers Independence and Enterprise while touring as part of the People to People Program. Tickets are available for the concert, which will be at 8:15 p.m. in the Recital Hall. CRAFTS OFFICIAL SPEAKS Albuquerque Designer-Craftsmen will hold their monthly meeting Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m.

at the Museum of Albuquerque. Donald Wyckoff, executive vice president of American Craftsmen's Council, will present an illustrated program on crafts prepared by the ACC National Headquarters. The public is invited. LOPEZ SIGNED HOLLYWOOD (UPO-Perry Lopez signed with producer Hal Wallis for a top role in "True Grit" starring John Wayne. Albuquerquean Bobby Shew will return here Friday to appear as guest soloist at a University of New Mexico Stage Band concert.

Before he was graduated from Valley High School in the trumpeter had studied under the school's band director Ted Rush (now at Sandia High School) and had received a number of musical honors, such as his selection for the All-State Band. He continued to study music and the trumpet at UNM, then played with the NORAD Band in Colorado Springs to get more experience in the popular music field and, while he was doing that, take care of his military obligation. WITH his separation from military service, he moved to Ias Vegas, where he was hired by the Tommy Dorsey Band. Since then he has played with other top bands, including the new Buddy Rich Band. Appearing in clubs in Las Vegas, he has worked with many well-known entertainers.

He is presently appearing at the Sahara with the Robert Goulct Show and is playing with the Terry Gibbs Band on the TV series "Operation Entertainment." THE STAGE BAND at Red China Expert To Narrate Film A noted Danish journalist, author, film producer, explorer and anthropologist, Jens Bjerre, will lecture and narrate in person his full-color documentary film, "Red China," at the University of New Mexico's Popejoy Hall at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Bjerre made two long trips into mainland China to study people and their lives behind the Bamboo Curtain. His pictorial report criss-crosses the mainland, capturing vignettes of the people and places. Bjerre's appearance is part of the travel-adventure at Popejoy Hall, co-sponsored by Popejoy Hall, the UNM Associated Students and the Sandia Kiwanis Club.

Tickets are available at the Popejoy Hall box office. his graduate students in a showing of new orks in March at San Francisco. This month the Kentucky Review is publishing a portfolio of eight of Coke's photographs. Prof. Coke emphasizes his interest in artists of New Mexico, saying, "By publicizing information on these artists, it makes people realize our rich heritage in New Mexico.

The 10 members of the early Taos Society of Art became world famous, yet most of their work was restricted to Western imagery. However, many others who painted in New Mexico are now established as America's modern masters. "For instance, Stuart Davis came to New Mexico in 1923 as a close friend of John Sloan. Through paintings of Blumenschein, Berninghaus, Cassidy and their local colleagues, the romance of the New Mexico landscape and the Indian culture were widely known around the world. Yet on the other side of the coin, these were followed by Henri, Sloan, Dasburg, Davis, Hopper, and later by O'Keeffe, Marin and other contemporary painters.

"THE TRADITIONALISTS were fascinated by the landscape and the Indians whereas the others were influenced by the environment, using it as a point of departure for their creativity giving it their own free interpretation. Frequently their i a i ve paintings set 1 the surface better than an objective image," Coke continued. "John Marin, working in By FLO WILKS Van Deren Coke, University of New Mexico art department chairman, has written the catalog for the forthcoming art exhibition of works by John Marin, opening Nov. 18 in the UNM Art Museum, in a continuing series of publications related to artists of New Mexico. "Taos and Santa Fe, the Artist's Environment, 1882-1942," a hard back book published by the UNM Press in 1963, was written by Prof.

Coke in conjunction with an exhibition opening the UNM Art Museum in the Fine Arts Center. Other publications of his on New Mexico artists include works on Kenneth Adams, 19t4 Raymond Johnson, 1964; Andrew Dasburg, 1966. COKE 01 RAGES graduate students to write theses on the state artists. Among these are the work on Cady Wells, done by Kate Duncan. Prof.

Coke also directed studies on Hartley in New Mexico; Fechin in New Mexico; Thomas Benrimo; Victor Higgins and is now directing a thesis on Robert Henri and His Circle in New Mexico. Among photographers covered by Coke's graduate students publications are Edward Weston and Paul Strand and their works in New Mexico. He also has done two Issues of the Art Museum Bulletin devoted to Julius Rolshover, 1965; and the Penitente motifs in work of B.J.O. Nordfeldt, 1967. He is now working on a book on Nordfeldt to be Issued in 1970, in connection with an exhibi i.

Cultural Groups lo Discuss Flans For Arts Council A meeting to organize an Albuquerque Arts Council has been called for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday by the city chapter, American Assn. of University Women. The session, open representatives of all interested fine arts groups in the community, will be held in the hospitality room of First National Bank, E. Central and San Mateo.

Speakers will include Mrs. Scott Mabry, chairman of the New Mexico Arts Commission, Don McAlavy, head of the Clovis-Portales Arts Council, and a representative of the Los Alamos Arts Council. The Arts Commission has been encouraging communities to form councils with representatives of all fine arts groups as a means of coordinating efforts to promote New Mexico culture. AAUW chapters throughout the country have been active in forming such councils. Mrs.

Franz Springer, 1408 Somewell NE, is local AAUW committee chairman. Club to Present Crusade Concert Albuqueqme Music Club will present its annual "Crusade for Strings" concert, a project of the National Federation of Music Clubs, at 8 p.m. Friday in the home of Mrs. L. C.

Rosenbaum, 1400 Cornell NE. Guests are invited. Nancy Ruth Weart, from Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra, will perform Turina's "Ciclo Platero for the Harp." with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Rosenbaum. Margaret soprano from Santa Fe, will be accompanied by Marie Keney.

pianist, from Gallup. Fred Russell, violin, Sandra Lipka, viola, Greg Matthews, cello, all from Albuquerque Symphony, will accompanied by Mrs. Rosenbaum in performing Mozart's in Minor. Lewis Exhibition Reflects State New works by artist Ralph Lewis are on exhibit today through Nov. 23 at First Unitarian Church, 3 7 0 1 Carlisle NE.

The show includes 13 relief paintings ranging in size from 18x24 inches to 4x4 feet. The works are built up with vinyl paste and sand, and reflect such regional influences as petroglyphs, Indian rains and faults "on the face of New-Mexico mountains. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. -4 p.m. and before and after Sunday services at 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Influence New Mexico in the summers of 1929 and 1930, reacted to the rugged landscape of New Mexico by giving a sharply delineated near-far viewpoint. In New Mexico he found a landscape where mountains rose abruptly from bare mesas and revealed their every part for his analytical study," Coke said. "In his pictures of Indians dancing, there appeared a new note. He did not pretend to understand the cultural background, but reacted to capture the dramatic cadence by diagramming leg and body action with arresting inventiveness, energy and emotional tension communicated through composition. "MARIN GAVE a mountain scene a graphic quality, accentuating corrugations of the terrain.

"Prof. Coke has identified areas where many of the paintings were done, pinpointing details of the abstract elements. Coke's catalogue of the Marin exhibition will contain an extensive essay on the artist's work in New Mexico, and also will, contain a map showing where he actually painted many of the works in the show. For instance "Near Taos" and "Taos Mountain" clearly indicate specific location of these as the entrance to Hondo Canyon or Pueblo Peak from the Northeast corner of Taos. "Marin, 59, when he came to New Mexico, was acclaimed-as A i a' greatest watercolorist since Winslow Homer.

Born in New Jersey, he painted principally in New York City and the landscapes of Maine," Coke said. "He came to the state at the suggestion of Georgia O'Keeffe, a visitor in the state in 1929, and was the houseguest of Mabel Dodge Lujan during his summers spent at Taos. "About 63 of his paintings done in New Mexico are now located, and of these we are able to borrow 43 paintings for the show." The exhibition, opening in the UNM Art Museum, wiU then go to the Marion Koogler McNay Gallery, San Antonio, and to the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Tex. NAN COLLINS SHOWS Nan Collins, member of The Ten Plus artist group of contemporary painters, i exhibiting in a one-artist show at the Lobo Arts Theater through Nov. 30.

The show of 20 large acrylic paintings represent the broad scope of Mrs. Collins' art production in works varying from studies in realism to abstract expressionist and impressionist styles, with emphasis on color and texture as her signature. Si rfi i Van Deren Coke (Journal photo) tion scheduled to travel nationwide. Coke's book "The Painter and the Photograph" is now being re-issued in both hard back and paper back, in a greatly expanded edition due for publication next fall. His essay written for Jmpression-ism in America, 1965, is being reproduced this month in a catalogue published by Hirsch and Adler Gallery, New York, for its exhibition of American Impressionist Painters.

IN A TOTALLY different vein, Coke continues to photograph, exhibiting 30 of his prints and 30 by his graduate students in a show last spring at Carmel, Calif. He will have the same number of his prints and those of rs rmzm r. AJ flashes, driving rain and motion of foliage swept by high winds are projected on the canvas, encased in Marin's dramatic "framing," characteristic of his unusual manner of encasing his ideas within their own frame. Works in the show were done in 1929 and 1930. "Storm" is loaned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from its Alfred Stieglitz collection.

in the smaller part of a teen friend who makes the daughter's pool his second home. Andrew Hebenstreit, right, got the motorcycle role, but finds it difficult to dislodge young Thomas. The show opens Dec. 5. Reservations may be made by calling the box office daily.

(Journal photo by Barry Aguilar) WATEKCOLOR: "Storm, Taos Mountain, New Mexico." a watercol-or by John Marin, is among paintings to be exhibited by the University of New Mexico Art Museum in a show opening Nov. 18, displaying 43 of the artist's paintings done during vo summers in Taos. Capturing the feeling of the storm as it broke across the mountains, lightning YCLE CONFLICT: Little Theatre director Bernard Thomas has problems off stage as well as on as he rehearses for 'The Impossible Years," in which he stars as the harried father involved with teenage problems. Thomas son Karl, a motorcycle buff, read for the role of a cyclist in the show, but was cast.