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i ii i i.i i i i honhu, 11 1. KPKA ui'l 'vii' Cnii'tH 'I' .1 I re 31 al Yi ill Oui, McCra.Iv i I I'll- mathematics at Carrrie Tn-' wa one of ten nominee Milule of Teclinolopy, has from Tech. been awarded a Wilson fellow- though lie is a mathematics shin for prariuntp si inly next major, his fellowship is in tl.v at p. ni on the ti, 1 I-or the I.ecora feature of KPKA's "Proeram T.M IVijilr i hrcnl At lil SIios rIVcIinif iic Foss Draws Big Crowd Bv DONALD SIMM IKST 1 Pnglish. nis and Chloe" Suite of Pavel, all played earlier in the season in Syria Mosque and reviewed in these columns.

TTip third Composers Korum at Carnegie Music Ha-11 Saturday afternoon presented the music of Luka.s Foss, conductor and pianist. Mr. Foss, currently Professor of Music at UCLA, pave a large and generally bemused audience a in OR BAKING tounding as tonal effects and Mr. Foss Is not above using some tricky methods to get precisely the effects lie Hants. For example, at one point the clarinet plays with the bell of the instrument vertical against a tympany to secure a sonorous effect.

Another improvisation, entitled for "piano four hands" has the second musician plucking the strings of the piano while the pianist plays the keys. This is live and fresh sounding music but alas, too often it sounds pretty much alike and one wonders whether there are not limits to which this technique can be applied. Another Technique Another interesting technique utilized was that employing a prerecorded tape of the quartet, an improvisation in itself, with the quartet ltself.This creates what might be called, I suppose, "the live man's stereo." "F.cliol" Is written music not improvisation. The sounds are again not much different although the composer uses long pregnant pauses for certain effective -M, tori ti 1'HIomhi George M. Logan, senior If in i year.

Logan, of Smiths (hov 1 a 1 I measures. The Time Cycle, on the contrary, proved to be a wholly original and inventive work. Mr. Foss here uses texts of Auden, Hausman, Kafka and Nietssche for the soprano voice which in turn is often part of the ensemble. The vocal demands are tremendous and Adele Addison, the soprano, sang with a superb technique which enabled her to take the deep leaps imposed by the music which often changed into a sort of Schoenbergian Spreehtstimme.

Of the four excerpts, the final extract from "Zarathustra seemed, with its tragic overtones, more apposite than the balance of the ork. Pianist Meets Concerto Test The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting, gave its annual Music for Mt. Lebanon concert Saturday night in Mt. Lebanon Auditorium. Ivan Davis was the soloist In the Secondor less familiar Liszt Piano Concerto in A Major.

The balance of the program consisted of the "Roman Carnival" Overture of Berlioz the Fourth Symphony of Beethoven and the "Daph- need to run when the telephone rings if you have an extension at hand. call our Business Office or ask your telephone man. West ii i i i I'M-r aiid Lov'me of i 'Musi's i1 xr rf. 1 I i 4 lit i i i II i i i There's no To order, THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA Your neighbors enlarging your world through service and science sight into his newiyreviserl chamber music improvisa-rional technique as well as two examples of his writ ton music. The latter consisted of two sections of his work in progress entitled 'Tlui" atul his "Time Cycle" written for soprano and four instruments.

Fascinating Kesults The art of improvisation is old as the first recognized musical instrument. Indeed, at one time, it was very much more in vogue than it is today. Mr. Foss has adapted contemporary harmonic systems and ideologies to it and the results are often fascinating. Many of today's composer are seeking; new ways of unusual sound production by combinations of Instruments, niusiajie concrete, tape recordings, serial techniques.

With his own piano and the clarinet, cello and percussion of Richard DuFallo, Howard Coif and Charles IleLanuey. 51 r. Foss has developed a whole aeries of novel tones and Impressions. The composer would probably object to the appellation "controlled" when applied to improvisation as contrasted perhaps with the term Nevertheless, this is what he doesr and this is not in any sense to be meant as derogatory. Certain Limits Within certain pre-ordained limits, each artist improvises around a given core.

The composer has indicated that each improvisation is a team effort or to quote him exactly "the result of collective planning." It may he questioned whether in the larger sense this is, in reality, "improvisation." No matter. F.ach is agreed that if any musician or several starts to memorize the performance, that particular improvisation is discarded. The results are often as COWE TO THINK OF IT THINKING OUT LOUD IF INDULGED IN BY A LARGE GROUP COULD BE MOST CONFUSING OR EVEN SPELLING IT OUT BY A FEW THOUSAND COULD MAKE FOR A DIFFICULT CONCENTRATION SO CONSIDER OUR THINKING OUT LOUD A MERE FIGURE OF SPEECH. LIKE PUTTING OUR 2 CENTS IN SiH GREEN STAMPS FOR WHICH WE FEEL SURE YOU GET UP TO 3 EVEN 4 CENTS IN COMPARABLE RE-TAIL VALUES FOR GIFTS OR USE FREE. WE HAVE TO ADMIT OUR EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY WITH THE LEADER-S4H GR'ttN STmP3 aND THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THEIR KNOW-HOW IS SORT OF ON THE SIDE OF MIRACLES MARKET AFTER MARKET DOUBLED AND TRIPLED SALES AND NEW ONES OPENED TO BOOMING AND SENSATION.

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I The piano woods seem to 'be filled these days with gift-j ed young artists, all equipped with impeccable technical proficiencies to whom the word "virtuoso" might well he applied were technique the only consideration. The LK-t Con-j certo, which lasts only 17 min-j utcs, is a razzle-dazzle work which tests the agility if not the depth of perception of any pianist. Mr. Davis meets every test of this nature. lie is quite obviously a talent of high attainment.

In this work where every note must be articulated cleanly, his runs and scale passages were polished and clean. The're were cascades of sounds from the fast moving fingers and an abiding identification with this piece of showy brilliance. Mr. Steinberg and the orchestra provided an alert accompaniment and there were fine solos from the orchestral desks of the first violins and from Mr. Salman, the principal S.

Teacher Here Wins Fcllowshi Mrs. Maxine E. Whedbee, Ivanced Spanish teacher at Taylor Allderdice High School, hasbeennamed a John Hay Feliovv andwil'l study next year at Yale rniversity.She was one of 8S teachers chosen from 23 states for a year of study ndy VW ies. lutA. in Humanities, twofe.

Mrs. Whed- hedbee bee lives at 5913 Bryant East End. She has her B. A. from the University of Pittsburgh and her M.

A. from the University of Indiana. In 1951, Mrs. Whedbc-p studied at the University of Mexico on a grant from the Ford Foundation. Ticket 'Scalping' Krings 25 Fine Arthur S.

Pattini, 41, of 639 Tingley Bellevue, arrested near the Pitt Field House for "scalping" in basketball tickets, was fined $25 yesterday in Oakland Magistrate's Court. Plainclothcsmen Donald Miller and Henry Rem testified that Pattini tried to sell them tickets to the Mt. Lrh-anon-Uniontovvn WPIAL semi final championship game Saturday night for S3 each. Police reported finding 'seven tickets in Pattinfs possession. He said he received them from a school teacher.

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