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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949
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Efrem Kurtz, director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, is
noted as one of the outstanding symphony conductors in the nation.
This will be his first appearance at A&M.
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Abram Concert
Scheduled Here
For January
By LEWIS BURTON
Town Hall’s fourth attraction
for the current year will be Jac
ques Abram who will make his
appearance on the Guion Hall
stage January 5.
Since his electrifying Carnegie
Hall Concert in 1946, Abram has
won an international reputation as
one of the big pianists of front
rank stature. He has been acclaim
ed by Life, Liberty, and Harpers
Bazaar magazines.
After a tour of Central and
South America in 1947 critics
spoke of him as “one of the
greatest masters of the piano.”
Abram’s first acquaintance with
the piano began when he was five.
During a visit to his grandmother
in Lufkin, the household was
awakened one morning at day
break by the jarring notes of
Jacques trying to pick out a tune.
He was perched on the piano
bench in his nightclothes. This be
came a ritual every morning at
dawn.
At ten, Abram was awarded a
scholarship to the Curtis Institute.
Three years later came a felow-
ship from the Juilliard Graduate
School in New York. In 1938 he
won first prize in the annual Fed
eration of Music Clubs contest and
the Shubert Memorial Award.
He made his formal debut as
soloist with the Philadelphia
Orchestra under Eugene Orman-
dy in the Philadelphia Academy
of Music, and then in Carnegie
Hall.
Abram’s success was proved
when he returned to Carnegie Hall
after four years of war service.
It was one of the most stiring
concerts in New York’s crowded
music season.
The New York Sun placed him
“among our foremost pianists,”
while the New York Herald Tri
bune Reviewer called him “a pian
ist of firey temperment, driving
force, and incandescent spirit.”
The Houston Post labeled his
performance “as the sort that
tightens the throat and dims the
eye.”
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Szigeti Scheduled
For Violin Concert
By LOUISE JONES
Joseph Szigeti, named by the 600 leading music critics of
the United States as one of the top three violin personalities
of 1948, will appear in March as one of the main attractions
on the Town Hall series.
Lauded by critics as “one of the great names of music,”
♦he has made two round-the-world
tours and makes annual coast-to-
coast tours of America. He made
his American debut in December,
1925, with the Philadelphia Orch
estra under Leopold Stokowski.
Szigeti’s art has often been
honored. Besides being awarded
medals by France, Belgium, Hun
gary and, Japan his Brahms Violin
Concerto with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy,
was chosen by a nation-wide poll
of leading cvritics as the best con
certo recording of the year.
Born in Budapest, Hungary
in 1892, “Joska” as he is called
by his friends, performed as a
child prodigy in Hungary, Ger
many, and England. When Joska
was 12, he was brought before
Joachin, greatest violinist of the
19th century, who enthusiastical
ly predicted a great future for
him.
After repeated tours, Szigeti ac
cepted the professorship of violin
at the Geneva Conservatory, which
he held from 1917 to 1924. He
came to the United States the
next year.
The violinist has written his
autobiography, “With Strings At
tached,” which has been hailed by
the Book-of-the-Month Club as
“far and away the best book of
memoirs by a musician.” He wrote
it in the course of his sold-out
American and European concert
tours, jotting down notes on what
ever scraps of paper that were
handy when he had a spare min-
’49 Town Hall
Tickets on Sale
At Registration
Town Hall season tickets
will be sold to students at
September 17 registration, C.
G. White, manager of student
activities, has announced.
They were also sold August
27.
He said that non-students may
buy tickets on October 12.
Season tickets for students will
cost $3.50 for general admission
and $5.50 for reserved seats. Non
student tickets will run $5.50 for
general admission and $7.50 for
reserved seats. All prices include
tax.
The holder of a Town Hall sea
son ticket is entitled to see the six
performances in the series this
school year. They include Frankie
Carle and his orchestra, Burl Ives,
ballad singer, the Robert Shaw
Chorale, Jacques Abram, pianist,
the Houston Symphony Orchestra,
and Joesph Szigeti, violinst.
Individual ticket sales are not
anticipated, White noted. He said
that last year season tickets com
pletely sold out the house and he
expects the same thing this year. ute.
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Burl Ives, ballad singer of stage, screen and radio, will be fea
tured on the Town Hall program at Guion Hall on October 27.
‘Victim of Blue Tail Fly’
‘Wayfarin’ Stranger’ Will
Give Ballad Concert Here
The Town Hall programs will get off to a famous start
this year when Frankie Carle and his nationally known band
give a concert in Guion Hall October 21.
Carle will feature Marjorie Hughes, his daughter and
the band’s star vocalist, on the program. Marjorie has re-
; ♦cently recovered from a serious
illness which forced her to leave
the band several months ago.
The band leader has worked
with Mai Hallett and played with
such outstanding orchesti’as as
those of Gene Krupa, Jack Tea
garden, Jack Jenny, and Toots
Mondello in his years on the road.
Learned From Uncle
Carle learned to play the piano
under the instruction of his uncle,
Nicholas Colangelo. A vaudeville
trouper at the age of 15, he played
piano for visiting acts at a theatee
in his hometown of Providence,
Rhode Island.
Three years later he realized
that vaudeville was dead, so he
joined Ed McEnelly’s band, then
one of the most popular bands in
New England.
A decision to form his own band
came as no surprise to Carle’s
friends in show business. His five
years with Horace Heidt’s orches
tra, and a series of solo albums
made for Columbia had created a
following of fans for his new ven
ture.
Marjorie Makes Debut
Marjor}e Hughes became her
father’s vocalist after he had re
fused to let her sing professional
ly. She simply made a recording
which was played at an audition
held by Carle. Carle, not recogniz
ing her voice, ordered his manag
ers to hire the singer and the next
night Marjorie joined the band.
Later she married the band’s
piano player, Hughey Hughes.
Carle has a new radio show en
titled, “Carle Comes Calling.” Some
of Marjorie’s Columbia records in
clude “Oh, What It Seemed To
Be,” “Roses In The Rain,” and
“Rumors Are Flying.”
Shakespearean
Comedy Set For
December 15
William Shakespeare’s hil
arious comedy, “The Taming
of the Shrew,” will be presen
ted at Guion Hall December
15 by the National Classic
Theatre of New York.
Critics agree that the natural
style of playing Shakespeare de
veloped under the direction of
Clare Tree Major, founder of the
Classic Theatre, will bring its
listeners exciting stage entertain
ment.
“Few stage plays have ever
equaled this Shakespearan master
piece for sustained hilarity,” C.
G. White, manager of student act
ivities, commented. From the first
scene where Petruccio undertakes
to woo and wed the sharp-tongued
virago, Katherine, one riotous sit
uation follows swiftly upon the
heels of another.
By LOUISE JONES
I Tail Fly,” and “Wooly Boogie 240 pounds, has appeared in four
Bee,” Ives has been called “Amer-
Burl Ives, famous ballad singer, I ica’s Mightiest Ballad Singer,” by
will star in a Town Hall concert Carl Sandburg,
on October 27. Known for popular- The towering minstrel, who
izing such songs as “The Blue | stands 6 feet 2 inches and weighs
I Student Magazines
Readied For Year
With a football laden Commen-1 Station, will preside over the Agri-
tator hitting the newstands on Re-1 culturalist. Wallace of the Veterin-
gistration Day, the four magazines
of Student Publications will open
another year of feverish but pro
ductive activity.
The Commentator is the first
magazine on the stands because
editors Welch and Nolen, aided
and abetted by a mammoth staff
consisting of W. K. Colville spent
much of the time since summer
school getting the football edition
ready for the presses.
The other three magazines,
which are born and raise.d in
Goodwin Hall, will make their ap
pearance later in the year..
The Engineer, edited by C. C.
Schwab, senior ME major from
Beaver, Pennsylvania, will reach
the public in October with the
first of eight issues.
The Southwest Veterinarian,
under the guiding hand of Hugh
Wallace will hit the newsstands
in November at the same time
as the Agriculturist.
James E. Park, senior dairy
management student from College
arian is a senior veterinary medi
cine major from Oklahoma City.
Present plans call for publish
ing the Southwestern Veterinar
ian four times during the year,
in November, January, March
and May.
Staff positions for interested
students are open on all the maga
zines, the editors have announced.
Any person who wishes to help in
the writing or production process
of the magazines may contact the
editors on the second floor of
Goodwin Hall.
Subscription to all of these pub
lications can be made at the time
of registration or by mail to the
Office of Student Publications,
Goodwin Hall, the editors conclud
ed.
Broadway stage productions. He
clinched his reputation with his
popular radio show, “The Way-
farin’ Stranger,” and with his per
formance in the Theatre Guild’s
production of “Sing Out, Sweet
Land.”
Christened Burl Icle Ivanhoe
Ives, the singer was born in 1909
in Illinois. The son of a family of
preachers, river gamblers, and
steady old-time farmers, Burl
wanted to be an evangelist like
his great-uncle. He gave up the
idea when he was in college and
set out to tour the country with
an old banjo on which was in
scribed, “The Vagabond Lover.”
During his cross country tour
Ives enlarged his repertoir of
folk songs to such an extent
that he can sing for several days
and nights without repeating a
song.
Burl has received national ac
claim on the concert stage, on
radio, in night clubs, in films, and
as a recording artist. His records
are the largest selling folk song
records on the market.
Today Burl Ives has won dis
tinction in his seventh field of en
deavor with the publication of
“Wayfaring Stranger,” his auto
biography.
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Carolyn Brooks, five-foot, five-
inch browmette from Hempstead,
is among the many attractive
baton twirlers who will compete
for prizes on Kyle Field
Efrem Kurtz Conducting
When Frankie Carle makes his appearance at A&M on October 21
he will parade Miss Marjorie Hughes up to the microphone to handle
the vocal numbers. Marjorie is the bandmaster’s daughter but, un
fortunately, is married to a member of the band.
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Artists Series
Program Is Set
The 1949-50 Bryan Artists
Series will open on October
31 with “The Hasty Heart,”
a play to be presented by the
New York Theatre Guild.
Other artists in the Bryan ser
ies will include Elsa Maxwell on
November 10, Dallas Symphony,
directed by Walter Hendl; Robert
Rounseville, a New York City
Center Opera Company tenor who
will appear February 4; and Apple-
ton and Fields, duo-pianists who
are scheduled' February 24.
The performances will be given
in the high school auditorium
which seats around 1000 persons.
Tickets may be bought at Has-
well’s store in Bryan.
Smith Named Head
Of Vet Pathology
Dr. Hilton A. Smith was named
head of the Department of Path
ology in the School of Veterinary
Medicine during the summer, Dr.
I. B. Boughton, dean, announced.
Dr. Smith received his DVM de
gree from Colorado State College
in 1928 and his MS in pathology
in 1936 from the medical school,
University of Michigan, and his
PhD from the University of Michi
gan Medical School in 1949.
Arlington New
Name of NTAC
Arlington State College is now
the name of what was previously
known as North Texas Agricult
ural College.
The reason for the name change,
according to R. H. Shuffler, di
rector of information and publi
cations, was that the former name
was not truly descriptive of the
educational nature of the college.
Arlington is and has been, since
it was founded, a two-year junior
college. It has not been, strictly an
agricultural college, but has out
standing departments in engine
ering and commercial art.
Until the change from Texas
A&M College and branches to the
Texas A&M College System, Arl
ington was operated as a branch
of A&M. With the change, Arl
ington became part of the System.
Arlington places great emphasis
on courses of a terminal nature—
courses designed to turn out skill
ed workers and give vocational
training. Special courses are of
fered for coeds in training for as
sistants to dentists and doctors,
Shuffler said.
The name change was in ac
cordance with the policy of the
System to change names when
they did not fit the nature of the
college, Shuffler said, pointing to
the recent change of JTAC to
Tarleton State College.
Other name changes that have
been made during the years, Shuf
fler added, were the changing of
State A&M College to the A&M
College of Texas and Prairie View,
which started with the name of
Prairie View Normal College, was
changed to Prairie View Univer
sity, and still later was changed to
its present name of Prairie View
A&M College of Texas.
Houston Symphony Signed
For February Concert Here
The Houston Symphony Orches
tra under the direction of Efrem
Kurtz has signed a contract for
an appearance on the 1949-50
Town Hall program.
The concert will be presented
either in February or March of
1950.
Kurtz was appointed conductor
of the Stuttgart (Germany) Phil
harmonic Orchestra in 1924, a pos
ition which he held for 9 years.
He has conducted symphony
orchestras in South America, Hol
land, Belgium, Poland, Italy, Aus
tralia and the United States. In
1932 he was appointed musical di
rector of the Ballet Russe de
Monte Carlo.
Besides conducting guest per
formances with the New York
Philharmonic in 1939 and 1940,
his recordings with the New York
Philharmonic rank among the best
selling classical records.
Andor Toth is the newly ap
pointed assistant conductor of
the Houston Symphony. He was
formerly conductor of the Cleve
land Little Symphony and assis
tant concertmaster of the Cleve
land Symphony Orchestra. Toth
has served as a member of the
NBS and New York Philhar
monic Orchestras under Toscan
ini, Stokowski, Mitropolous and
others.
New players occupying key pos
itions in the orchestra this year
include William Rose, new tuba
player. He formerly played with
the NBC Symphony under Tos
canini.
Armando Ghitallit, a member of
the Bell Telephone Hour Orches
tra, has signed as first trumpet
player.
Max' Winder, member of the
first violin section of the Cleve
land Symphony Orchestra, has
been engaged as principal of the
second violin section for the com
ing year.
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The Houston Symphony under the direction
of Efrem Kurtz will perform at A&M this year
under the sponsorship of Town Hall. Last year
the San Antonio Symphony presented a concert
at Town Hall.