The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 17

SECTION 1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1930. 17 U. of L. Music Festival Highly Successful Ormsby Village Seniors Plan Home-Coming Memorial Day Getting An A Difficult Inspiration Really Isn't Task, Composers Agree 1 i -i V.

Bastin, superintendent, will conclude the program with a speech paying tribute to those who served their country during World War II and to board members "who have served the causa of youth so unselfishly." Sutherland Ideler, Mary Jane Campbell, Virginia Kershner, Fletcher Smith, Doris Davis Owen, Martha Ferguson, Patricia S. Reddon, and Mrs. Lee Moore. Organizations taking part are-the Crescent Hill Woman's Club Chorus, Claude Almand, director, the Louisville String Quartet, a brass choir from the School of Music under the direction of E. Dudley Howe, the University of Louisville Madrigal Singer and the U.

of L. School of Music Chorus, Claude Almand, director, and the University of Louisville Orchestra, E. Dudley Howe, conductor. An exhibition of sculpture and painting by Louisville artists is being shown at Gardencourt in conjunction with the festival. The concluding concert this afternoon will present music by Giannini, Kodaly, Fuleihan, and Stravinsky.

The senior class of Ormsby Village will sponsor a home-coming on the campus Memorial Day, May 30. In connection with the homecoming there will be a program observing the 25th year on the compus of the Louisville and Jefferson County Children's Home. All former students and their families and all former board members and employees and their families are invited. The morning program includes athletic events and games, a talent show, and a baby show of the children of former students. At 11:30 a.m.

the booths and side shows will open. Beginning at 2 p.m. there will be a program depicting some of the memorable events of the past 25 years at Ormsby Village. H. tyhj, "'r A 1 if I V.

I 'ft 3 rf 'f-jj BUILT OF ECONONVICALC 3-Year-Old Drives Tractor Into Creek Clymer, N. May 20 Three-year-old Paul Beckerink climbed into a tractor in gear, pushed buttons, and rode into a creek. His grandfather, Lawrence Beckerink, who had been working nearby, chased, the machine into the water and grabbed Paul off the seat. Neither was hurt. The tractor was recovered.

C.rlocrete manufactured in i area exclusively by Worrall Bros. grip on the audience. Certainly not a pleasant piece, it nevertheless is a work of sweeping turbulence and disturbing significance. Owen's performance mounted with the music to an overwhelming climax, and the 'audience brought him back many times in appreciation of his accomplishment. Sixteen composers, some of them attending the concerts, are represented on the festival programs.

Besides those already mentioned, these include Peter Mennin, Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Piston, William Presser, Bo-huslav Martinu, Paul Hindesmith, Tom Scott, George Perle, Paul Nordoff, Vittorio Giannini, Zoltan Kodaly, Anis Fuleihan, and Igor Stravinsky. For the first time this year, a special program of compositions by student composers was given Friday afternoon, and works by students from Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, College of Music iof Cincinnati, and the U. of L. School of Music were heard. Most of the performers on the festival programs are either faculty members or students at the university.

However. Dale Dykins, pianist, and John Harnish, cellist, came from Cincinnati to present Barber's Sonata for Vio- lincello and Piano, Opus 6, and Joan Benson, from the Indiana University School of Music, will play Fuleihan's Epithalamium for Piano and String Orchestra during this afternoon's program. Others who have been participating in the programs include Martha Graham Hill, George Perle, Alberta Zurfluh, Pearl LEARN TO PLAY A PIANO ACCORDION Try It Before You Buy FREE HOME TRIAL For Six Veeksi Free Band Training-Private Lessons Available In Our Own Studio by Mr. Perry Pryor (Mationally Knotcn Virtuoso) 621 South Fourth Crowds Large And Appreciative By WILLIAM MOOTZ The University of 'Louisville School of Music's Fourth Annual Festival of Contemporary Music which began at Gardencourt Friday night has been the most festive and successful of the presentation's history. The crowds have been larger, the standard of performance higher, the atmosphere more charged with excitement and real interest over the music presented, and certainly the audiences have been marvelously appreciative of most of the music performed.

In the first three years of the festival's, history, it always attracted a good deal of but this year to a much greater extent than before, the laymen and amateurs as well as the professionals and scholars of the city have recognized the festival as one of the major attractions of the season. If the School of Music ever had any doubts of its success, or wondered if the tremendous effort involved was justified by the response received, such doubts must now be dispelled. Festival concerts were given Friday night, yesterday afternoon and evening, and the final concert will be presented this afternoon at 4. The third program last night marked the first time a solo re-, cital has been included in the festivals. Benjamin Owen, from the piano faculty of the School of Music, played a concert consisting of piano sonatas by Norman Dello Joio, Burrill Phillips, and Samuel Barber.

In his many appearances before Louisville audiences, Owen has proven more than once that he is wonderfully responsive to contemporary keyboard literature. Last night was an evening that confirmed and enhanced his reputation. The structural and rhythmical complexities of these works always found clear-cut statements as he played them, and each of the sonatas was brought to life with understanding, vitality, and a depth of communicative power that constantly held the attention of the listener. Both the Dello Joio and Phillips sonatas are notable contributions to piano literature, but last night were practically engulfed by the power of the concluding work on the program, the Sonata, Opus 26, by Samuel Barber. Since the piece is dated 1949, thex inescapable conclusion is that it's a brooding, terrifying product of an artist sensitive to the chaotic state of present-day history.

It is a harrowing piece of music that never releases its Their Music Heard at U. L. By ELEANOR YAGER Getting an inspiration for a compostion sounds easy when the process is described by William Presser, one of four composers here for the fourth Festival of Contemporary Music at the U. of L. School of Music.

Presser, a professor at Florence State Teachers College in Alabama, says he relaxes, takes a nap, gets up, and thinks of something. His "Chorale" for brass was performed yesterday at Gardencourt at the three-day festival which ends today. Another composer, Tom Scott, whose "Prologue to Look Homeward, Angel," was sung yesterday for the first time, had a different idea. Scott a native of Campbellsburg who now lives in New York, says programs of modern music "inspire lines of poetry in my mind," and the text always controls the music. Sonata Is Heard "You could almost say Thomas Wolfe wrote the music," he said, referring to his composition.

"Once you get a good melody, it sinks into the subconscious, and there is an automatic creative process going on beneath the surface." He added that "Bach stimulates a creative flow from me." "I have a simple way of finding ideas," said George Perle, staff member of the U. of L. division of humanities. "All I have to do is sit down and play Haydn and it comes." Perle's "Sonato for Viola and Piano" also was heard for the first time yesterday. The fourth composer, Burill Phillips, teacher at the University of Illinois School of Music, felt that when one didn't have a text to work from, "the shapes and phrases of music you use the avidity with which you invent." Wrote One-Act Opera The reaction of an audience to ones music is not always a test, said Scott, although it is the first objective approach the composer has.

In regard to' modern music, Scott added, the person 'who is "completely wrapped up with romantic music cannot grasp contemporary music." But a child who never has heard romantic COMPOSERS on a holiday did what they liked to do most at the University of Louisville School of Music yesterday. George Perle plays for, from left. Tom Scott, Burrill Phillips, and William Presser, here for the festival. I.oratrJ at Poplar Level Road just beyond Hess I.ane, F.hrler's Dairy Mas built of Celoerele by conlraclor Robert because of C.elorrete's adaptability to eomniereial building. Celoeretc is a lightweight building block that saves money in construction, and maintenance.

It is fire-safe, rodent-and-decay-proof, and st'lf-insulaling against heat, sound, and cold. You're invited to drive out and see this modern dairy store today. The front is a retail dairy store, and the rear is a modem pasteurizing and bottling plant. or classical music before can understand modern music, he said. Phillips, who wrote a one-act opera in 1943 called "Don't We All," said the opera, "The Consul," by GiaivCarlo Menotti, which is playing on Broadway now, has had a great effect on contemporary opera.

Because of Menotti, he said, the neutral plot is out, and a dramatic and exciting plot will be one of the necessities of modern opera. Had Beautiful Setting: Asked whether festivals of contemporary music were increasing throughout the country, Scott said they were fairly rare, but growing. "They are very important," he said. "It is the only way ever to have an audience for contemporary music. It has to be arranged asst.

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