Veritas, Vol. 03, No. 10, November 26, 1962

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Nov. 26, 1962
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gONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENS THURSDAY FOR THREE CONCERT PROGRAMS

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The Third Annual Festival of Contemporary International Music sporjsored b^HAIT School Music and featuring 15 \^rks by composers of
eight countries, will open Thursday night to the sound of a trumpet fanfare composedfor the occasion by Dr. Fabien Sevitzky, director of the Festival. Manager of the Festival this year is Victor Stern. Three concerts, open to the public without charge, and presenting many compositions receiving their U. S. premiere, will be given by faculty members and guest artists on succeeding evenings at 8:50 in Beaumont Hall, as follows:
Thursday: "Suite for Clarinet and Piano," by Ernest Krenek, Austria, performed by William Klinger and H. Jeffrey Stoll; "Passacaglia," by Cesar Thomson, Belgium, and "Two Croatian Rhapsodies for Violin and Piano," by Fran Lhotka, Czechoslovakia, with soloists Eugene Dubois and Joseph Tarpley; "Etudes" by Xenia A. Erdeli, Russia, and "Le Suore" (The Nuns), by Guido Guerrini, Italy, will be performed on the harp by Mary Spalding Sevitzky; five piano "Preludes" by Saburo Tokata, Japan, and "Four Pieces for Piano" by Jacques Wildberger, Switzerland, played by Rosalina Sackstein.
Friday: "Quartet for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello," by Thomas Christian David, Austria, played by Eugene Johnson, Patricio Salvatierra, Victor Stern, Herman Busch; "Chamber Music for Voice, Clarinet, Cello and Harp" by Luciano Berio, Italy, performed by Dolores M.
Fink, mezzo-soprano; William Klinger, Herman Busch, Mary Spalding Sevitzky; "Sinfonietta," by Gerard Devos, France, and "Capriccio," by Toshitsugu Ogihara, Japan, performed by chamber orchestra of music faculty and students conducted by Dean John Bitter.
Saturday: Orchestral program by members of UM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Sevitzky: "Suite Française," by Darius Milhaud, France; "Simple Symphony" by Benjamin Britten, England; "Lament D’Arrianna" by Carl Orff, Germany, with soloist Salwa Merrige, mezzo-soprano, and "Music to Hamlet"by Dmitri Shostakovich, Russia.
UM*S MOOT COURT	Three Law School seniors came home with all the honors available at
BEST IN SOUTHEAST	regional rounds of the National Moot Court competition held in Atlanta
Nov. 15-16. In competition with representatives from 11 law schools in the Southeast Conference, Richard Essen, Bias Herrero and Barbara Taylor Mattis took first place in the Moot Court trials, the team won "best brief" award and Mr. Essen won "best oral" presentation. With the team was Acting Dean Massey, director of* the Moot Court program.
UM STAMP ACQUISITIONS	The little room off the former entrance to the Library*s Circulation
GO ON DISPLAY TODAY	area on the Merrick ground floor, has been transformed into an exhibit-
ion area for the University’s stamp collection. Accumulated by gifts from a number of prominent citizens over the past 10 years, the collection now contains more than 300,000 stamps, first day covers and other philatelic items from countries around the globe. Karl Karrolin, curator of the collection since 1957, plans to display a new selection each month, for viewing between the hours of 2 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for holidays and changing of exhibits. The first display, opening today, contains mint blocks of Monaca stamps commemorating the marriage of Princess Grace to Prince Ranier, British Colonial commemoratives of the Universal Postal Union, a selection of issues depicting sports in different nations, and a group of first day covers.
STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL Richard N. Gardner, U. S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for TALK AT UC FRIDAY International Organization Affairs, will speak to 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
University College social science classes during a visit to Miami Nov. 30. He is one of the principal officers responsible for the development of U. S. policy in the United Nations and, as such, has been a key figure in the UN negotiations involving Cuba. He received his B.A. from Harvard, his LL.B. from Yale Law School and was teaching law at Columbia University before joining the administration in April, 1961. His talk will be' "live" to 9 a.m. classes, videotaped for rerun at 2 p.m. Extra seating will be available in UC rooms 120, 140, 150 and 160 at both hours.
GOLDEN PRESS ENCYCLOPEDIA	Four members of the faculty are among 16 authorities who pre-
TAPS FACULTY FOR ARTICLES	pared sections of the 16-volume Golden Book Encyclopedia of
Natural Science published by Golden Press for distribution through
v_ational grocery chain stores as well as bookstores. Intended for young people, the colorfully
illustrated set is being issued a volume at a time. UM contributors and their encyclopedic specialties are Professors Margaret J. Mustard, natural sciences, UC, writing about useful plants; Bryce Ryan, sociology, natural history of man; Virgil G. Sleight, geology, rocks and minerals, and Gilbert L. Voss, IMS, shells and seashore life. Former professor Floyd S.
Shuttleworth, botany, wrote about non-flowering plants before leaving for a new post at Lake-Sumter Junior College, Leesburg, Fla. Editorial offices for the Golden Press encylopedia project are in Tavernier, Fla. Editor is Dr. Herbert Zim.