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Friday, November 8, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Performance exudes excitement [vtkiifa ay from || ment. tic obsei ttes aboi ns of on lorate " commii. nade gram lany ban ed i 'mniuniii nunityol ghiers. Medal ol m andu as well a will offa ion, Con ■ and tk nal Cenr Man! »f the Fa- be flow >se meii' e Unitec cM Sing' dIor art (then» federaitl m. tmentofl Pianist magnetizes audience By CYNTHIA GAY Staff Writer I An internationally acclaimed ! pianist strode on stage Thursday light, labored upon the ivory iteys for two hours and left be hind a feeling of excitement. I As Hugh Tinney arose from jhis instrument, Mozart’s Piano ioncerto No. 24 in C minor still ringing in his ears, three encores Acre magnetically pulled from he Rudder Theater audience. Thirty musicians sat patiently be- lind him. The members of the ftrazos Sinfonietta rested their vi- dins, violas and violoncellos to sa vor the moment. Director Franz Anton Krager )f the Brazos Valley Symphony xchanged his conducting wand ora handshake with the pianist ho has wowed audiences in pain, Italy, New York, London, ublin and now (College Station. Irager, also a lecturer of philoso phy and humanites, waited in the ings while Tinney played Cho- in’s Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 8. Tinney said in an earlier inter- riew that he had never played blo recital followed by a concerto jn a single performance. 1 think it (the performance) dll be very nice for the audien- te,” he said. “It will be quite hard lor me.” But Tinney showed no strain is he alternately glided and bounded through Chopin’s 24 musical poems, comprising all 24 [keys in a varying parade of trills tnd slow notes. Hugh 1 inney plays to an enthusiastic crowd in Rudder Theater Thursday night. -yea 1983 received 1983 Ettore Piz/oli Pi ano Competition and the Paloma O’Shea International Piano Com petition in 1984, described Cho pin’s preludes as romantic but technically difficult. Famous writer George Sand said of the pieces, “Many of them call up to the mind’s eye visions of dead monks and the sound of their funeral chants. ...” Meshed with Mozart’s Con certo, which tends to warm audi ences, the evening promised to be demanding, Tinney said. “It’sjust a challenge,” he added with a grin. As Krager kept his musicians in sync with Tinney, the concerto soared with a single flute and thrusted forward with a volley of violins echoed by the piano grac ing the mood. But Tinney’s performance was preceded by another musical oc currence. He was awakened Thursday morning by some members of the Corps of Cadets running by his hotel room in the Memorial Student Center at 6 ne, HI i A men-1 r' at Eaq pplications available for Battalion editor Nov. I le CotjuffiThe Student Publications Board is accepting applications for spring Battalion editor. ■Applications are available in the communications department office, 230 Reed McDonald, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Deadline for submission of applica tions is 5 p.m. on Dec. 2. The Battalion spring editor will serve from Dec. 16 through April 25. Qualifications for editor of The Battalion are: •Grade-point ratio of 2.0 or higher, overall and in major at the time of taking office and during term of of fice. •And, at least one year of experi ence in a responsible editorial posi tion on The Battalion or comparable student newspaper. •Oi, at least one vear of editorial experience on a commercial newspa per. •Or, at least 12 hours of journa lism including Journalism 203 and 303, or the equivalents The 12 hours must include completion of or enrollment in Journalism 301. Avid civil liberties defender speaks out to A&M crowd By MARYBETH ROHSNER Staff Writer FBI agents monitored Frank Wil kinson’s public speeches against re pression of civil rights for 38 years. They wiretapped his phone and al lowed assassins to plan an attempt on his life. After dedicating over 40 years of his life to the protection of civil liber ties, Wilkinson told an audience at Texas A&M Thursday night that his battle for civil rights is far f rom over. “Potentially, I think the civil liber ties and civil rights problems we face today are more serious than those we laced in the McCarthy era,” he said. And Wilkinson, 72, should know. In 1961 after refusing to answer questions from the U.S. House of Representatives GnAmerican Activ ities Committee, he was jailed for one year. But he emerged from prison not as a disgraced criminal but as a man determined to abolish the very group that put him behind bars. Though the UnAmerican Activ ities Committee was disbanded in 1975, Wilkinson said he believes the committee has been revived in re cent years. “It’s now called the Senate Judi ciary Subcommittee on Terrorism,” he said. “(The Senate) is exploiting the national fear of international ter rorism. “If we needed any laws to deal with terrorism, they would be han dled by other committees who are le gally empowered to write criminal law.” Wilkinson said the terrorism com mittee infringes on freedoms of reli gion and press. “The committee is revived again and will be used against people in this generation if they are overly in volved in the peace movement, the civil rights movement, even the envi ronmental movement,” he said. Wilkinson also said that President Reagan’s executive orders have re stored violations of the First Amend ment that were practiced by the FBI in the 1950s and ’60s. Wilkinson, former executive director of the Na tional Committee Against Repres sive Legislation, added that the problem of civil rights denial is now worse because of “coordinate repres sion.” “The checks and balances that are provided in the Constitution are not there anymore,” he said. “We’re get ting coordinate repression from all three sides (the judicial, legislative and executive branches).” Wilkinson said the Supreme Court, which has always declared unconstitutional any law that vio lated the Bill of Rights, is now upholding those laws. In addition to the Supreme Court’s defense of anti-civil rights legislation, he said Congress has sac rificed concern for rights for politi cal expediency. He cited last year s Criminal Code Reform Act as an ex ample of careless anti-civil rights leg islation. Wilkinson said the act allows po lice officers without proof of guilt to jail persons, even those charged with civil disobedience, for four days without bail. Wilkinson’s distaste for some \of the U.S. government’s actions are flavored by personal experience. Wilkinson’s lawyers estimate the FBI spent $17 million to track him from 1942 when he left the Method ist ministry. Through the Freedom of Information Act, Wilkinson found the bureau kept a 132.009- page record on him until 1980. While rummaging through the file, Wilkinson said he found a lettei dated March 1964 and addressed to then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover He said the letter referred to an assassination attempt made on him. The FBI knew about the attempi but failed to inform him. In fact, the bu reau kept Wilkinson under surveil lance the night they knew the assas sins wotdd make their move. aditioni id: Wliij E.L. MILLER LECTURE SERIES ant re- )any to >ather. 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