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Your Leisure jorney erson Youth Symphony kids have been working several years on this trip and they nave had to set priorities and make some Spainhour Director Anderson Youth Symphony The symphony already has some experience in performing outside of the Anderson area Myrtle Gillespie a parent of an or-chestra member said October many of the young musicians played at Ersklne College In Due West for the Forum on Education Gov Riley was so impressed with the performance that they were invited to play at the state capital for the SC Board of Education and later he personally invited a smaller string group to a private By Betty Martin As June 23 gets closer and closer excitement Is mounting dally for 42 young Anderson musicians On that date they fly to Brussels to begin a European concert four visiting places where stringed instruments originated and where some of the greatest music was written and performed "The kids have been working several years on this trip and they have had to set priorities and make some said Alex Spainhour director of the Anderson Youth Symphony have had to give up their sports we have a swimmer whose coach told her she was giving up a swimming career to make this trip to Europe" In addition to rehearsing the students have been working on money-making pro- Kto earn the $1400 each needs for the For months the symphony members their parents and Mends have held yard sales car washes and have performed in was watching the third class in a row come along that was very good I told them you get to be seniors! will see if I can arrange a These students have been studying string instruments nine to 10 years he said and it will their cultural to visit Italy and France The project was initially planned as a school-funded program but the recession dampened financial resources I decided if the school' was not going to do it I would do it on my own But we told the students we could not make a promise of financial said Spainhour The Orchestra Parents Association a booster dub has been helping symphony members raise the traveling expenses The organization has mailed letters inviting donations for the tour in care of Mrs Elaine Galloway president Anderson Orchestra Parents Organization 509 Estes Drive Anderson 29621 small groups at the Arts Center or other places to raise the funds But their and primary fundraising effort will be the May concert at Anderson Fine Arts Center The concert sponsored by the School District 5 Orchestra Parents Organization will give Anderson audiences a premier of the music the youngsters have been rehearsing for the past two years It will also give them opportunity to perform for a familiar audience before their performances in Europe Their repertoire includes in Biber's an arrangement of from Offenbach's contemporary Norman from a Stage and of Your The selections must be varied said Spainhour we would not want to play the same thing on a town square we play in a cathedral Their performances will be in a Paris cathednu at Temple de Bas in Neuchatel Switzerland at Sopracenerlna Hall in Locarno Switzerland at the Royal Gardens in Innsbruck Austria and In The Marktplatz In Rothenburg West Germany year we rehearsed once a month to get everybody used to each said Spainhour year we rehearse twice a month The second week in June we will rehearse every day for about six hours" The idea for the European concert tour was bun about six years ago said Spainhour District 5 honor string quartet was Invited to do an performance for ETV Five of these students were selected from statewide auditions to perform at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston last spring Many of them play with the Anderson Symphony Orchestra and others are routinely seen performing at the Arts Council events at civic meetings and in Anderson chur- New Country Music Club Scheduled To Open Tonight By Tony Kiss machines at Anderson nightspot Country City scheduled to open Thursday night will offer country music said the owner Wendell Roach places claim they play country said Roach who also operates toe popular lounge then have a band that oily some country and mostly rock try City be like that We will be for the die-hard country Country City located in toe old Big Roach said he to open the new but wanted to provide country tans with a place of their own and to the image of this side of He promised that Country City would be a place to take a wife or date without worrying that someone would bother her do not tolerate that he said As unusual as it might seem Roach said shying away from two-for-one drink specials at his new bar so patrons be tempted to overindulge can just hurt themselves if they he said Roach spent 20 years as a singer before deciding to move into the nightclub field played everywhere from Maine to he said been in the best places and the biggest He opened 2tt years ago installed 650 seats and a concert-hall stage and has been pleased with the response had he said packed most lounge building is just off US 29 on Broadway School Road north of toe Anderson city limits which will continue with a Too 40 music format and house band Little Rock is directly across the street Music at Country City will be provided by the Solid Country Band The band was handpicked by Roach a singer who is known to croon with groups that play his watering holes Both Country City and are open 6 pm to 2 am Thursdays and Fridays and 6 pm to 11:45 pm music fans playing nothing but country music The new club is scheduled to open tonight Wendell Roach and his wife Darlene stand in their new club Country City on US 29 in Anderson Roach promises the new lounge will favor die-hard country Inside Leisure I VV SCETV Back In The Black Anderson TV Station Plans Summer Debut By Tony Kiss Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell in Swing Shift The 'Iceman' Cometh and Timothy Hutton is his friend -PageS-C Weird A1 Yankovic Thrilled By Success -Page 2-C 29 Bypass) are under construction The equipment is on order are very optimistic that we will be on the air sometime this summer I don't want be more specific than that because there are so many variables involved want to be on the air by June July or Channel transmitter will be located near Fork Shoals in Greenville County and will beam a 25-million watt signal throughout Upstate South Carolina Kupris said primary signal area is Anderson Green- By TOny Kiss MfWMNr When will new television station hit the airwaves? By summer promises the Atlanta firm that owns the planned WAXA-TV Channel 40 The independent station (not affiliated with a network) will serve a mix of new syndicated shows local programming old off-network reruns and movies said John Kupris vice president of Mark III Broadcasting Co the owner "Everything is on schedule4 Kupris said in a telephone Interview from Atlanta a few days ago studios (on SC Eme-time programming The goal had sn only $380000 There are plans this summer to build a new television station in Greenwood and a new radio station in Conway are very pleased with where we Ms Dressier said in a telephone interview this week from network headquarters in Columbia Festival (the March fundraiser) we brought in 2000 new Ms Dressier the director of Information said many SC ETV viewers now realize that someone must pay for the high-quality programs aired on the network think that some people would turn on the television watch us on the cable and think we were getting our money from toe cable she said See ETV Page 2-C Here was the story in October 1962 The South Carolina Educational Television Network was in the midst of a financial crisis Ordered by state officials to trim its budget by almost $600000 the network handed walking papers to some 20 employees More than 70 other jobs were not filled after employees left or retired recalled network spokeswoman Patricia Dressier About 1400 hours of programming was cut from the lineup And the network stopped mailing its viewers free copies of the ETV program guide Today a different story at the lO-station network (served locally by WNTV-TV Channel 29 Greenville) A March fund-raising effort brought $420000 into the coffers enough to pay for three-fourths of its Jv-V'V Area arts drama and music detailed in Calendar -Page 8-A 4 i See New TV Page 2-C.