Wednesday, April 13, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Pittsburgh Symphony
erforms here tonight
by Karen Schrimsher
Battalion Staff
WWrhe Pittsburgh Symphony
v jpnhestra will perform in
’et Rudder Auditorium tonight.
itlifBie concert, presented by the
ill) IvISC Opera and Performing
ical |A" S Society, will begin at S
s: ly,
1 he orchestra will perlorm
Unei
iannes Brahms’ “Second
Bmphony in I) major,” and
H mcla Bartok’s “Concerto for
•tl'Bichestra.”
bellJ Brahms was Ixtrn in Ham-
tidinjBrg, Germany, in 1833.
lllflBecond Symphony in 1) ma-
Sw jiH,” written in I87(), is a man-
| lt pstalion of Brahms’ deep-
"Rated aesthetic beliefs. It is a
. ■mantic piece, written
1 Jpcording to classical guide
lines.
IIiikR Bartok was born in Hun-
ires jgaryin 1881. He settled in the
thfe jjiiited States in 1940. “Con-
JjjjRfto for Orchestra,” written
hisnil * s considered the
■e.itest work of what critics
j 1 ftll his “American period.”
npaBMichael I ilson I homas,
inJMindpal guest conductor of
Be hos Angeles Philharmonic
Rirhestra, will direct the per-
Hrmance.
trlkiH
Tilson 1 homas graduated
)tn the University of South-
n California in 1967 with a
tster's degree in music.
Jin 1969, at age 24, he made
ijs-New York debut with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
(atLincoln Center, one month
■ter he had been appointed
jjOsRislant conductor. He took
t Jjfler in mid-performance for
Failing music director William
™ leinberg and conducted tlie
Imphony for the remainder
jol the concert. Ca itics praised
him for his mature musician-
imp.
Michael Tilson Thomas
Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony
timtii
After liis unscheduled de
but, he conducted 37 concerts
with the orchestra to finish the
season, and was appointed
associate conductor in 1970.
He performed many guest
engagements from 1971 to
1979 after being appointed
music director of the Buf falo
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tilson Thomas has been a
guest conductor of the Pitt
sburgh Symphony Orchestra
since 1976, and principal
guest conductor of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Orchestra since 198 1.
Andre Previn, music dire
ctor of the symphony, suc
ceeded William Steinberg in
1976. He has been recognized
internationally for his
achievements as conductor,
composer and pianist. He re
ceived two Emmy Award
nominations for his U.S. tele
vision program, “Previn and
the Pittsburgh.”
The orchestra performs
nearly 300 concerts a year. It
has performed throughout
the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Europe, the Middle
East and Japan.
Seating for the concert is
still availiable for $21, $10.7:3
and $13 for the general pub
lic, and $17.75, $14.25 and
$11.50 for students. Tickets
may he purchased at the MSC
Box Office in Rudder Tower.
Art exhibit opens tonight
An art exhibit entitled “Matisse:
Jazz” opens tonight in the
Memorial Student Center Gal
lery.
The opening is from 6 p.m. to
8 p.m. The exhibit will be on
display through May 11.
The exhibit, a collection of
vibrant illustrations created us
ing a method of paper cutouts
and stencils, is sponsored by the
University Art Exhibits and the
MSC Arts Committee.
Henri Matisse, generally re
garded as one of the giants of
20th century art, showed
through his work an intense in
terest in color combined with a
desire for clean controlled line.
At the time of his death in 1954
he had worked in painting,
sculpture and the graphic arts
and had designed books, stage
sets and costumes, rugs and
stained glass windows.
Completed near the end of
his life, the jazz portfolio has
been described as the “summa
tion of Matisse’s delight in line
and color, his mastery of the
graphic arts and his passion for
design.”
Machine to aid
blind students
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O 415 University w 846-5816
by David Marchand
Battalion Reporter
Blind and visually impaired
students will be able to read
printed and typewritten mate
rial with the aid of a talking
machine here by May, a Sterling
C. Evans Library official says.
Susan Lytle, head of the lib
rary’s Learning Resources De
partment, said Texas A&M pur
chased an almost $30,()()() Kurz-
weil Reading Machine — KRM
III — for the blind in late
March. She said this purchase
followed a proclamation by the
Texas Legislature recommend
ing this machine.
Kurzweil Computer Pro
ducts, manufacturer of the
machine, says it is the first device
that can scan and convert to
synthetic speech almost any in
formation printed or typewrit
ten in English.
The machine consists of
three parts: an automatic track
ing system, a control panel and
an electronic control unit.
Documents are placed on the
glass top of the tracking unit,
which scans the document much
like a copying machine.
The electronic control unit
controls scanning, character rec
ognition and conversion to
speech.
The control panel has un
marked push-button controls
that enable the user to halt scan
ning, back up to repeat lines,
skip forward, locate and spell
out a particular word or change
the volume.
By changing the program
tape, the machine can be con
verted into a talking calculator
capable of performing ordinary
computations and some adv
anced mathematical functions.
Lytle, currently the only qual
ified operator of the machine
here, said public demonstra
tions will begin in about two
weeks — after some members of
the library staff are trained to
use the KRM HI. The staff then
will train students to use the
machine.
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