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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1928)
Noted Singers To Give Concert On March First Ensemble of Six Will Sing Original Old English Madrigals Exquisite ensemble work will be the main characteristic of the Eng lish Singers’ concert to be given as the third of the A. S. IT. O. scries on March 1, judging by the com ments of leading critics who heard them make their American debut in lb 25. ' The program has 'two features which make it pleasing to the lay listener as well as the trained mu sician. It is sung entirely in Eng lish. As one writer remarked. “They have proved English singable.” Informality Appeals Another point of popular appeal in the programs of the English Sing ers is their informality. They have adopted the habit of the old English madrigal singers of giving their con certs seated informally at a table. Madrigals from rare English collec tions will be included in their Eu gene program. Most of the madri gals were written at the close of the sixteenth century and beginning of the seventeenth and mark the Elizabethan era as one in which England stood in the forefront of European music. Only a small por tion of madrigal music is printed in , modern form. ' Old Madrigals Short Some of the madrigals on the English Singers’ concert program are: “Sing and We Chant ItJ” by Thomas Morley; “O Softly Singing Lute,” a sad number written by ITuncis Pilkington originally as a fancy for viola, and “Though Amar yllis Dance” by William Byrd. These numbers are all constructed on short musical phrases and each voice has an equal share in the melo dic interest. Because of the few words in the madrigals and the fact that they are reiterated several times, each word was chosen by the composers with infinite care and the result is a charm and grace of style that it is tliaf 'BW tSAJj orate rpoddrn worksj r Of particular beatuy is Orlando Gibbon’s “Silver Swan.” The words by Joshua Sylvester tell of the death of the swan, from which the author proceeds in [didactic old-style to scorn earthly learning and ambition. ^ A canzonet, a short madrigal, of five whimsical lines written by Thomas Morley, will also bo sung. Street Calls Featured Another song group of historical interest is the one composed of Ital ian street cries. Two of the num .bers, “Chimney Sweeps” and “Hot Chestnuts” written at the beginning of the seventeenth century by Jac ques du Pont and another, “Rag and Bone,” written in the same period by Adriano Banchieri. ■ The more modern numbers on the concert include a group of folk songs arranged by R. Vaughan Williams. Among these are “The Dark-eyed Sailor,” “The Turtle iDovc” and “Wassail Song.” Dunn Talks on ‘New Reformed Calendar’ “Tho New Reformed Calendar” was the title of an address given yesterday noon by Frederick S. Dunn, head of the Latin department, before the weekly luncheon of the Eugene Rotary club at the Osburn hotel. Thirteen months in a year, the commencement of every month with1' Sunday, and the recurrence of holi days and special occasions on the same day every year, arc some pt the innovations which this calendar provides for. The change is being seriously con sidered by various governments in the world, many having established The Immortal BEN HUR —with.— Original Road Show Musical Score ;nascope Effects De Luxe Shows and 9 - - - 50c the Matinees commissions for purposes of inves tigation. It is expected that the proposal svill be up for consideration of the League of Nations in the near future. California University Requires Membership U. C. L. A., Feb. 21.—(P.I.P.) — Organizations not registering 100 per cent associated students mem bership before Monday will be au tomatically placed on probation, is the ultimatum delivered by the Wel fave board More than fifty organizations havp not yet satisfied these requirements and may therefore bo placed on probation. The period of probation will last two months, during which the organization will be restricted from all pledging, social privileges, and other considerations granted chartered organizations. Washington Plans Big Inauguration Today UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Feb. 21. — (P.I.P.) — George Washington’s birthday ceremonies, held every year on the campus, will be given added significance this week when they open the day’s pro gram for the inaugural of President M. Lyle Spencer Wednesday at 11 o ’clock. Thirty foreign consuls will pre sent the flags of their respective nations during the exercises at the Washington statue at the main campus entrance. Patriotic societies will pitesent floral wreaths through their regents or other representative officers. Special Audit Saves Washington Students UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Feb., 21.—(P.I.P.)—Sweeping aside all suspicion from the gradu ate manager, board of control, build ing committee or any others who have handled finances in the con struction of the athletic pavilion, President M. Lyle Spencer late Sat urday issued a formal statement ap proving their work, following com pWtitfH; sof- ■a-tspeeiai'. the pavilion booW by a national firm to# certified public accountants. “I have never doubted that the special audit would do anything else than vindicate those who have worked so conscientiously for the past two years to realize our present goal,” he declared. Pledging Announcement Alpha Beta Chi announces the pledging of Randolph Rebo of Port land. Spring Hats 100 Received Today by Express $1.98—$4.98 HAMPTON’S European Libraries Aristocratic; Service Poor? Says Professor Smith Buildings Badly Heated and Lighted;. Circulation Limited; Research Msfin Use The libraries in Europe make no pretense at service, they are purely aristocratic, and used on the whole for research workers, S. Stephenson Smith, associate professor of En glish, who has studied extensively in the foreign libraries, said yes terday. The great Bodleian library at Ox ford has neitlisr light nor heat, is cold as a tomb most of the time, and is open during the middle of the day only. The founders, said Mr. Smith, when they started this I library, forbade the installation of light and heat, owing to the danger to the precious books and manu scripts. They are not libraries as we un derstand them, said Mr. Smith,.they have no circulation, no shelves, and it would probably require an apt of parliament to take a book from the two great libraries of England, the British Museum and the Bodle ian. These two libraries have a copy of every book that has been copyrighted and printed in England, and together they have a total of nearly 5,000,000 volumes and manu scripts. In general the European libraries arc not well administrated, and are extremely cold. It takes about four days to get a book from the Great Prussian State Library, and one is examined carefully when ho enters and more carefully when he leaves. The Great State Library of France doesn’t appear to have been swept since Bichlieu built it, according to Mr. Smith. The dirt under the tables is about eight inches deep. The catalogues arc almost impossible Band Activities To Get Participation Credit U. C. L. A., Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 21.— (P.I.P.)—Wth the idea of furthering the interests of the JJ. C. L. A. University band, the fac ulty committee on “Courses and Credits,” with the sanction of the ud;muw^tra.tren''«f AkeyUniwersUv, passed on a measure Which ’ will give one and a half units of music credit for participation in the band’s activities This decision will result A. J. Atwater DENTIST Tiffany Building Phone 1115 French Pastry May LOOK good But Our HOMEMADE PASTRY Tastes Good! Electric Toastwich Shoppe 786 East 11th c 0 N T 1 N U 0* U s T o D A Y 2 T 0 11 P. M. TODAY and THURS. Great Comedy Great Romance Connie’s Greatest! VENUS X OF „ VlHlCfe 11 p. M. AESOP'S FABLES Harry Langdon -in FIDDLESTICKS” USUAL PRICES 784 E. 11th Ave. to use, as no index filing method is used at all. The entries which are made in big black books arc very inadequate. It takes skill and cunning to use the foreign libraries, Mr. Smith thinks, the assistants never help you find a book, as a rule they are un lettered, illiterate scullions, with no social status, rather on the order of our boll-hops and porters, but the heads of the libraries are important officials of the state. The students at Oxford and Cam bridge buy their own books for study, as do most of the people in England; they can afford to do so, says Mr. Smith, because the books cost about one-tenth of what they do here, and are paper bound. Mu nicipal libraries are very rare on the continent, but they are begin ning to be developed in England. On the whole the libraries abroad are not. used for recreational read ing, but for scholars who are pur suing a special line. They are the home, of book lovers and are used mainly for research workers. Mr. Smith advised that students who plan research work in the con tinental libraries should know how to read Latin, as the entries of most of the old books aro made in that, language. Tho superiority of the foreign li brary over ours, thinks Mr. Smith, is due to the fact that they have been running for three or four hun dred years. Tho seven or eight learned libraries of Europe '“have the bulk of tho valuable manuscripts and records of tho pre-printing era. They have hundreds of unique manu scripts never seen in America. in the combining of the military band with the Pep band and will give U. C. L. A. assurance of a 100 piece band for rallies and athletic events. Stanford Lifts Ban on Infantile Paralysis STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 21.— (PJ.P.) — Normal university activities were resumed last week when the social ban and extra health precautions measures were lifted by Dr. Thomas Storey, university health officer. A threatened epidemic, of infantile paralysis, numbering eifcht cases, was successfully checked by isolation of patients and voluntary “informal quarantine” of the cam pus. The swimming pools were closed and all university social functions cancelled to avoid unnecessary dan ger of spreading the disease. U. C. L. A., Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 21. — (P.I.P.) — Scoring 94.1 points out of a possible 1000, the 1927 Southern Campus, yearbook of U C. L. A., placed as one of the eight all-American yearbooks in the national contest conducted annually by the department of journalism at flic University of Minnesota. Classified Ads TYPING WANTED —Theses, term papors, ete. Experienced steno grapher. Paper furnished, one carbon copy free. Attention given to spelling and punctuation, if desired. Public Stenographer, Eugdne Hotel. Phono 228. Ees. phone Springfield 111-W. fe 22-24-25-28 Do you students— realize that, you spend over $4,000 a day, $120,000 a month or $1,080,000 in nine months in Eugene? 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