THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1978
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LT ^ irovement funds will be used to
Jl onnect Jersey and Kyle streets with
)ominik. The project, which is de
igned to relieve traffic congestion
it the intersections of Texas, Kyle,
cts (lie ersey and Dominik streets is being
mp said iinded by money raised in College
Itation’s April 1 bond issue.
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College Station’s street
improvement project
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bond issue, $300,000 will be allo
cated to street rebuilding in the Col
lege Station area. Elrey Ash, Col
lege Station city engineer, said the
city engineering department will
evaluate existing curbed and gut
tered streets to decide where to use
the funds.
Bidding for construction contracts
will also begin in late April or early
May, said Ash. These contracts will
also be for street improvement and
will be financed by the Department
of Housing and Urban Develop
ment. The $275,000 grant, which
was awarded to College Station last
January, will be used for clearing
streets to prepare them for repav
ing.
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Seven national championships
NTSU jazz band to play April 25
When North Texas State Univer-
hich w|maj in dance band in 1947, it began
program which has since attracted
itemational recognition.
But the story of jazz in the class-
oom actually began in 1942 when
of the 4. E. (Gene) Hall was a graduate
tudent at NTSU and was asked to
each dance band arranging to two
5 an enl pecial students. Word got around
nd 15 students were enrolled. Hall
ft the school in 1944 after receiving
lis master’s degree, but was asked
ly School of Music dean Dr. Walter
on dun: 1. Hodgson three years later to re
urn to the campus to develop a
lachelor of music degree curriculum
ss, abdo n lab band.
As with every new project, the be-
uce in ti inning years for Hall posed many
approxim roblems, not the least of which
le of tbfi (ere the lack of teaching materials
the fees nd the problem of academic accep-
ple wlio ance. But grudging, then total, ac-
lany yea eptance was ultimately succeeded
y intense pride in the accomplish-
nents of the lab band. Curricula
;radually were evolved, and the
lavetrai roblem of arrangements and com-
ositions was solved through two
annels: a number of music pub-
shers began the issuance of scores
esigned specifically for student
ands, and several jazz leaders do-
ated arrangements that had been
dtten originally for their units.
ments that Had been written origi
nally for their units.
In the 1950s the lab band program
began to expand its horizons, with
Hall entering the jazz group in na
tional competitions. By 1959 the
group had placed third in the finals of
the “best band of the year” contest at
the Roseland Ballroom in New York
City, the only collegiate group
against three commercial bands.
Later that year Hall decided to ac
cept a teaching position at Michigan
State University and was replaced as
lab band director by Leon Breeden,
a former high school and college
band director who had earned re
spect as a clarinetist, arranger and
composer.
Since Breeden took over the pro
gram, the lab bands have won 38
national awards for bands and indi
vidual performers, including seven
national championships; toured
Mexico for the State Department;
and in the summer of 1970 appeared
as the official big band of the
Montreux International Jazz Festival
in Switzerland.
The 1975 album of the 1 O’clock
Lab Band, “Lab ’75,” was nominated
for a Grammy in the big band jazz
category marking the first time a col
legiate band was so honored. In the
summer of 1976, the 1 O’clock band
made a triumphant tour of Portugal
and the Soviet Union for the U.S.
State Department.
In June 1967 an NTSU lab band
became the first big band from a uni
versity to perform by presidential
invitation at the White House when
it played for President Lyndon
Johnson’s State dinner for the King
and Queen of Thailand. NTSU lab
bands have performed jointly with
such bands as the Stan Kenton,
Ralph Marterie, Tex Beneke,
Woody Herman and Les Brown
groups.
Each of the honors garnered by
the NTSU jazz groups is seen by
Breeden as “a great tribute to jazz
education,” for when one collegiate
jazz group is singled out as equal to
the professionals, it shows how far
education itself has come in the last
quarter century.
The NTSU band will perform
April 25 at 8:00 p.m. in Rudder Au
ditorium. Tickets are now on sale at
Rudder Box Office. Student tickets
are $1.50 and $2.50, non-student’s
are $2.50 and $3.50.
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