\he Battalion College Station (Brazos County/, Texas
lGE 2 Friday, March 7, 1958
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Art for
Aggies’ Sake
By WELTON JONES
Next week, for the second time in the history of Texas
&M, a full program of ballet will be presented here.
The first time was last year, when the sparkling Ballet
usse de Monte Carlo broke a long drouth by captivating
i surprisingly large audience with a program consisting of
wo ill-starred “originals”, a spirited “Gaite Parisienne” and
l pas de duex (duet) fiom Ballets are classified roughly
Swan Lake . into two groups: the classical or
This year’s group, The Na
tional Ballet of Canada,
Ivhile not as famous as the
lallet Russe, evidently ranks
Ivith the older group in accom
plishments.
Celia Adams, the troupe’s art
istic director since its birth in
L951, was well known for many
fears in Britain, where she was a
^oloist with the Royal Ballet
[then the Sadler’s Wells Ballet).
Bhe was called “probably the
treatest dramatic dancer the
Wells ever had,” by Dame Ni-
lette de Valois, the legendary di
hector of the British company.
For a young group with few
1‘name” dancers, the National is
Extraordinarily ambitious. Al
ready in their repertoire are all
fhe great classical ballets such as
‘Giselle”, “The Nutcracker”, “Les
Sylphides,” “Coppelia” and, fan
tastically enough, a full, uncut
four-act version of “Swan Lake”.
“Swan Lake,” as Peter Tchai-
cowsky conceived it, is rarely pre
sented in full, for reasons varying
From technical difficulties and
Fatigue to dancers to plain incom
petence.
The question now arises, “Why,
Ivith such a complete classical
representation, are we allowed to
fee nothing but ‘modern’ and
original’ dances here.”
The program for next week,
listed elsewhere in these pages,
contains two of the company’s
lew productions and one old
thestnut by the ever-reliable
Jacques Offenbach, “Offenbach
|n the Underworld.”
We are fortunate in having a
fhahee to see the two new dances,
TLe Carnaval,” Michel Fokine’s
pallet to Robert Schumann’s mu-
and “Winter Night”, to the
Jnusic of Sergi Rachmaninov’s
(hrobbing Second Piano Concerto.
But this column seripusly ques
tions the placing of these two ex-
|jei*imental productions in the pro
gram for such a relatively un-
[ophisticated audience as ours.
Any arranger of programs
)nows that a prime requirement
balance. However, whoever
fanned the program for the coni
ng Town Hall show lost sight of
Ihis fact, for there is no represen-
lation of classical dance.
“white” ballets, usually danced in
traditional costume and conform
ing to rigid traditional styles, and
modern ballet, in which there are
few limitations.
Both types have their place and
both are enjoyable. A good eve
ning of dance contains samplings
of both.
But the program liere, through
some misguided sense of attempt
ing to appeal to someone’s idea
of the local tastes, has been com
posed entirely of modern dance,
one of which (“Winter Night”)
is entirely new!
Certainly, also, with an audi
ence as inexperienced in viewing
dance as ours admittedly is, it
would seem that the logical course
in scheduling programs would be
to lean the other direction and
attempt to start a good foundation
of the classics, which, by the way,
became classic partially by en
during in the public’s favor.
Apparently those responsible
for the programming here, and
for the light fare we are usually
treated to through local artists
series, are underestimating the lo
cal spectator.
They seem to fear that the very
word “classical” puts the kiss of
death on any program.
Their thinking is obvious, and
perhaps has more than a little bit
of truth in it. “Most of those
who notice the lack will come any
way. And those others will be
more attracted by something mod
ern than a ‘classic’.”
In partial answer to this argu
ment, this column points to the
success, both financial and artist
ic, of the Aggie Players’ “Mac
beth”, certainly a classic in any
sense of the word.
People came to “Macbeth” and
enjoyed it. It was more of a spac
ing success than many more
modern productions of the
Players.
Perhaps Town Hall has some
thing to learn from such groups
as the Players and the Memorial
Student Center’s Recital Series,
both of which are ready to bet on
the local audience’s maturity.
The program Wednesday night
will be enjoyable and probably
artistically quite well - turned.
But still the lack of balance will
be present.
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Letters To The Editor
Editor
The Battalion:
Your articles and editorials on
the issue of compulsory Corps
seem to try to give the impression
that the recent decision of the
Board of Directors was an out
rageous and direct attack to the
Civilians. The enrollment statis
tics, the old story that a student
has the “right” to decide whether
he wants to be in the Corps.
These things and others which
are less obvious indicate that you
believe that non-regs are non-
regs because they decided they
didn’t like the Corps; and that
since there are more non-regs
than cadets, the compulsory mili
tary was an outrageous attack
to a majority by a prejudiiced mi
nority. Stop rationalizing Tindel:
isn’t that your view of the mat
ter?
As President Harrington said,
many of the Civilians are gradu
ate students, and as everybody
knows, many more are either vet
erans, or fifth and sixth year
men. Many others are juniors and
seniors without contracts, and stu
dent's from other countries;
and still others are men who are
physically disqualified for mili
tary service of any kind, or men
who wer^ ordered by their Dean
or family doctor to quit the Corps,
finally there are all the men who
transferred from civilian junior
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