CONDUCTOR. ARTIST TOO
Versatile Musician Studies Here
by Anne Ritchey
Emartld Feature Editor
A campus musician with a fam
ous musician’s name is Nelson
Eddy Tandoc — pianist, artist and
cello player. In the tradition of a
true artist, he is unwilling to talk
about himself*.
In the first place, he made it
clear that his name happened en
tirely by accident. The first name.
Nelson, was his grandmother's
married name; the middle name is
for his great-grandfather.
Tandoc, a freshman music ma
CAMPUS BRIEFS
0 The Inter-fraternity eouncil
will not meet Thursday as pre
viously scheduled, according to
IFC Ted-Rubenstein. Next IFC
Irteetihg Will be Feb. 25, Ruben
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0 United Independent Students
will meet tonight in the Student
Union, according to President Hol
lis Ransom. The meeting will be
held at 6:30 and the room number
will be posted.
Two representatives of the
Shell Chemical corporation will be
on campus today to interview can
didates for positions as engineers
and chemists in Shell laboratories
aij,d technical departments. All in
terested students should contact
the .graduate placement office in
Emerald hall.
• House librarians will meet to
day at 4 p. m. in the browsing
room, according to President Peg
gie Miller. All students are invit
ed to attend the meeting, which
will feature an interpretive read
ing group under the'direction of
Sandra Price-, senior in spech.
• Auditions for Frosh Snoball
entertainment will be held today
at 4 p. m. in the Student Union
ballroom, according to Gary West,
intermission chairman.
• The Student Union board will
not hold its regular weekly meet
ing today, according to Chairman
Andy Berwick.
• Martin Mackay of the Rob
ertson Q-Floor Construction com
pany will speak in another of a
series of programs sponsored by
the Producers’ Council Thursday
at 3 p. m. in Architecture 138.
• The student traffic court will
meet at 7:30 p. m. today in Stu
dent Union 309, according to Don
Ro ten berg,. court chairman.
Today at 5 p, m. is the dead
line for news from the living or
ganizations for- this week’s Cam
pus Merry-Go-Round. Write-ups
should be deposited in the Merry
Go-Round box at the Emerald.
Anne Hill to Head
WUS Publicity Job
Anne Hill, sophomore in journ
alism, has been appointed chair
man of publicity for the campus
World Unjyjersity .Service -drive,
Ted Goh, general chairman of the
drive has announced.
WUS is the new name for the
World Student Service Fund on
campus for the last two years. In
these two years Oregon donated
the largest amount of money of
the participating Pacific North
west schools. The WUS drive will
be held here from April 18 to 24.
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jor, has had many achievements
in his chosen field as a soloist
and. recently, as an experimenter i
with composition. But his real love j
is conducting, which is entirely
self-taught.
The first time he ever conducted |
was four years ago, when he was
a sophomore at St. Francis school,
j His orchestra-teacher had known
i for a long time that he wanted to
conduct, and a friend convenient- j
ly knocked the fingerboard off his
cello, and for the first time an
orchestra was under his direction!
Flays Cello
He has been doing work in
music at the University for sev- j
eral years. having played in the i
summer sessions and having been
a member of the University or
chestra itself for two years, play
ing his cello.
Tandoc is especially reticent
when it comes to art, a field
which he is most talented. After
seeing Toscanini conduct in Port
land, in 1950, he sketched the en
tire orchestra from a photograph.
He was very surprised when the
sketch won a prize and publica
tion in Etude magazine.
Art lessons were a part of Tan
doc's early education, and he took
a ten-week course at the California
School of Fine Arts. The school
taught him “one thing — to do
broad sketching before filling in
details,” he said. In the classes
they drew such things as trees,
and his line is strictly portrait
drawing.
Attends Academy
Another link in a long line of
Chairmen Needed
For Easter Rites
Petitions for general chairman
j for the Easter sunrise service are
now being called by the Univer
sity religious council, which is
sponsoring the service.
The service will be held at Mc
Arthur court, as it was last year,
according to Bob Adams, publicity
chairman for the religious coun
cil.
The service is also under the
sponsorship of the campus YMCA
and YWCA, and petitions are to
be turned in to either office. The
petitions are due Friday noon.
education extraordinary was the
three years Tandoc spent in mili
tary academy in Los Angeles. This
was soon after he had begun draw
ing, and he spent the third, fourth
and fifth grades there.
Tandoc attended Eugene high
school for his senior year, grad
uating last spring, nnd while he
was there he did much in the way
of string conducting.
He did arrangements for the
string quartet there, of which he
was a member. One of his arrange
ments, which was for the Eugene
high spring concert, was of Igor
Stravinski's “Firebird Suite."
Commenting on Stravinski, Tan
doc noted that the famous com
poser will be appearing in Eugene
on March 2, and that "a town
of this size is very fortunate in
being able to see him in person.”
Begins In Los Angeles
Tandoc’s work in music began
when he was in Los Angeles, in
the second grade. It was then he
began his piano lessons, and he
didn't begin cello lessons until his
freshman year in high school.
He concentrates chiefly on the
cello now and is attending the Uni
versity on an applied music scho
larship. He takes lessons from
Milton Dieterich, assistant profes
sor of music.
Dieterich is a musician of some
note, having recently published
an arrangement of the first move
ment, for chorus, of the "Sonata
for Cello & Piano,” by Eccles.
At present Tandoc is again mix
ing music and art, working on a
series of sketches of great com
posers. Many of them, the more
recent, are drawn from photo
graphs. He has approximately
eighty such sketches, and expects
them to total, one hundred before
he is finished.
Appears Here
Tuesday night Tandoc appeared
in a student recital in the music
school's auditorium, and played the
same sonata, accompanied by Don
na Brewer, freshman in liberal
arts.
With his full schedule it would
be hard to believe Tandoc has time
for a job, but he works in the
Register-Guard's circulation de
partment “seven days a week,
every week in the year.” Prior to
his job with circulation he had
worked for five years as a carrier
for the paper.
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The Providence Journal-Bulletin
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stop included so-calied "Agony j
Programs” in the rauio and tele- j
vision listings carried daily in the
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OR...Who Ever Called
it a “Blessed Event”?
Once there was a Sophomore who
had a Sister. He also had a Gill. As
Coincidence would have it. both fe
males labored under the Baptismal
Handicap of Ermintrude. Small world.
The sister (call her Ermintrude 1 for
the record) (tot married. In due proc
ess, she produced an Offspring. So,
fraternal-like, Our Boy sat down and
wrote her a Letter of Congratula
tions, starting “I hear you have a
Baby ...” Qnly trouble was, he for
got to mail it. Went off for the Vtcek
end, leaving it on his desk, where his
Roommate spotted it.
The latter, being The Soul of Honor,
didn't read any farther than the lead
off . . . which was, logically enough,
"Dear Ermintrude.” Jumping at a
Conclusion, he addressed an enve
lope to Ermintrude H, slapped on a
stamp and dropped the Missive in
the Mail..
Our Sophomore .till ha* a aUter
named Krmintrude. No Girl. And he
.till ha* No Idea why.
Had he but had a Telegrammar, he'd
have Known F.nough to .end Sit and
Spou.e a handsome ConKralulationa
telegram. (Telegrammar — an idea
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to Room 1727, Western Union at 60
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just rail Westrrn Union or sprint to
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