Philly Band
Puts Eugene
In Big Time
By MICHAEL CALLAHAN
Eugene, at long last, has hit the
cultural big time. On May 24, the
University will hear the touringest
symphony in the country.
The note on any social calendar
ts to hear the
Philadelphia or
chestra under
veteran leader
Eugene Orman
dy, in its first
Eugene appear
ance since start
ing its annual
cross - country
jaunts in 1936.
Disc ban or not, Ormandy and
company (HO others,) are off
again on their regular record
boosting tours, with an eye on past
years when one-night concerts
rocketed their symphonic disc
sales. As a result, Columbia has
never used red ink on its books, de
spite a heavy ($150,000) expense
ticket for each tour.
Heading Ormandy’s program for
May 24, according to preview al
bums sent ahead to music editors
(lis, by gosh!), are Brahms sym
phony No. 3 in F major, and “Der
Freischutz Overture” by Weber.
Back in 1817, Karl Maria von
Weber was a fairly good composer,
off a classical Tin Pan alley, but he
was getting ambitious. Weber
wanted to compose a strictly Ger
man opera, something to stir Teu
tonic tempers. One day, while idly
thumbing through a volume of
ghost stories by Apel, an obscure
title made him pause, intrigued.
“Frei Schutz”—“Free Guard" —
something nicely revolutionary—
Weber quickly composed a theme
to this first great work of his, but
the drab business of earning daily
bread and wine forced him to shelve
it again and again. Finally, in 1821,
“Der Freischutz Overture” received
its Berlin premiere. The results
were awesome.
After the introduction of the ma
jestic but restrained theme, an en
tire audience of stiffly-monocled
and stiffly-corseted Prussian nobil
ity rose to its feet, stamping and
shouting. The scene was repeated
in opera halls in city after city as
audiences, inflamed by German na
tionalism, hailed Weber as their
prophet.
Critics and some musicians
raised colder eyebrows over the
stormy overture, but the German
fanaticism went beyond the critic’s
rules. In Berlin, the overture was
played 50 times in only a little
more than a year, and in Vienna
drew record crowds for 60 consecu
tive nightly performances.
Oddly enough, Weber is not re
membered for his great overture,
but rather for a showy little piece
called “Invitation to the Dance,”
which he wrote years later. That
was followed by “Till the End of
Time,” “Full Moon and Empty
Arms,” and other melodies rfrom
the classics.
Pops notes: This guy Dorsey
can't seem to make up his mind.
Despite rave reviews for his latest
discs, “Tschaikowski Melodies for
Dancing,” TD is changing bands
again.
Ziggy Elman, one of the bettor
name horns, is on the outside again,
after signing with the Sentimental
Gentleman for a trial run. The
Town Criers, notable for one Gor
don Polk, have quit too, and solo
ists Stu Foster and Audrey (Neck
line) Young went along with them.
While the old Dorsey rep is still
holding together, catch “Just an
Old Love of Mine,” backed by “The
Piano Tuner.” Waxed not long ago
with better than fair vocals, and
novelty on “Tuner.” Danceable, too.
Resolution of 1948 Forensic League
Asks New U.S. Policy Toward Russia
Editor’s Note: Following is the resolution passed by the
1948 Assembly of the Pacific Forensic league, when it met
early in April in Reno, Nev. The convention was attended by
17 delegates from 10 coast schools. Warren Miller, senior in
political science, and Ralph M. Teters, junior in psychology,
represented the University, with W. A. Dahlberg, associate
professor of speech and drama, as faculty adviser. The Emer
ald prints the resolution without endorsement as a matter of
information.
WHEREAS it has become evident that the peace of the
world is being threatened by the following acts:
(1) Economic Warfare
(2) A race to military power
(3) Misuse of methods of public information
(4) Fomenting of spurious nationalism
AND WHEREAS those and similar acts are aggrevated by a
mutual fear among nations generated by a desire for security,
coupled with a lack of understanding.
AND WHEREAS the result of such acts constitutes a crime
against the peoples of the world, and specifically those repre
sented by the United States and Russia.
AND WHEREAS these peoples are desirous of acquiring an
equitable basis for the prevention of war.
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that this assembly urges
the following immediate remedial steps be taken by the United
States with regard to its foreign policy toward Russia:
That the President of the United States officially and pub
licly announce and initiate the following changes in foreign
policy and the organs of its administration:
(1) Removal of all personell whose policy it has been to
advocate officially or unofficially a policy based on
the supposed inevitability of conflict, or who have
encouraged the use of American military forces in
maintenance of governments other than those oc
cupying defeated axis nations, or who have encour
aged the use of American production and commerce
for the purpose of controlling the internal policies of
independent nations; or who have wilfully and
knowingly distributed erroneous and/or inflamma
tory information regarding the preceding or, by
doing so. have contributed to the growth of spurious
nationalism.
(2) That the American Foreign Policy be altered as fol
lows :
a. American economic action for rehabilitation and re
construction shall be carried out through the Unit
ed Nations rather than on its present unilateral
basis.
b. The United States rescind its restrictions on trade
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with Russia, in order to encourage commercial in
tercourse wherever possible,
c. Reciprocal agreements be instituted to foster full
interchange of information of an industrial and ag
ricultural nature.
(3) That all military troops, military supplies, military
funds, and military advisors, except in the case of an
actual occupation, be withdrawn from the support of
foreign governments, and wherever possible govern
ments should be operated by the state department
with the help of any other governmental branch' nec
essary.
(4) That misuse of public information facilities be pre
vented by the extension of criminal slander and libel
laws on an international basis to protect governments
and government personnel; and that the lack of un
derstanding be ameliorated by active programs to
promote the exchange of information between coun
tries pertinent to their economic, political, and so
cial systems, and by the exchange of residents, i.e.
college students, and business and professional rep
" resentatives.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in order to more com
pletely achieve this program the delegates of the ten Western
colleges and universities hereby call upon President Truman
to invite the leader of the Russian state to meet with him for
the purpose of formulating mutually compatible foreign poli
cies on the basis of the’foregoing requested change.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that inasmuch as this
is not a request for a policy of appeasement, but rather one
based on a policy of mutual cooperation, that the delegates
from the aforementioned colleges and universities, in the ad
option of a platform embodying these principles and a candi
date, for the presidency, who will support them.
APPENDIX
The ultimate success of our foreign policy depends upon
whether the peoples of the world believe it is sincere; their
belief in its sincerity partially depends upon whether our
domestic policy is synchronized with it; their belief as to
our domestic policy’s synchronization with the foreign pol
icy partially depends upon the passage of the following
measures:
(1) Establishment of a civil rights program
(2) Abolition of the house committee on un-American ac
tivities.
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