Youth Symphony Group To Make Tour of Japan
Br RODNEY GUILFOIL
San Francisco-WW-A group
of youngsters in the San Fran
cisco Bay area are making
plans for a summer of hard
work - but they're wildly ex
cited about it
They are members of the
California Youth Symphony
orchestra and they have been
Invited on a month-long tour
of Japan beginning July 20
The trip is being sponsored
by the Asahi newspaper
group, which also sponsors a
number of youth orchestras in
Japan
The California Youth Sym
phony orchestra is composed
of 104 amateur musicians who
play to professional standards
The reason is that their con
ductor, Russian-born Aaron
Sten, insists on nothing less
No Auditions
"I never conduct auditions
for the orchestra," Sten said.
"But our orchestra has devel
oped such high standards since
it was founded in 1952 that
any youngster wanting to
join us starts working hard
long before, so he'll be tech
nically equipped. '
The orchestra rehearses ev
ery Saturday at Foothill Col
lege in Los Altos, suburb
of San Francisco. It rehearses
12 months of the year and
even twice a week during
Christmas vacation. During
the summer, the youngsters
go to camp in the High Sierra.
The orchestra gives six
with a number of special con
certs. The boys and girls
range in age from 11 to 18.
"And we don't play any
easy abridgements either
Sten said. "We play the stand
ard symphonic repe r t o i r e.
with emphasis on Mozart and
Beethoven. We play every
work In lb entirety and I
don't let anyone skimp at the
hard parts.
Branch Out
"Right now, I'm letting the
orchestra branch out a little.
We're working on Walter Pis
ton's Fourth symphony, a
complex and difficult work
with many variations in
rhythm."
Stcn's musicians are en
thusiastic. For example, Linda
Wynn of Millbrae - a pretty
and petite 16-ycar-old blonde
regular concerts a year, along
who plays first violin - said
she sometimes gets tired of
Dvorak or Tchaikowsky.
"I love the Piston sym
phony because it's a great
challenge," she said.
But Sten said that since
he's dealing with fledgling
musicians, he must emphasize
the classics so his players will
get a thorough grounding in
their musical fundamentals.
And he's a bear on accuracy
- accuracy of pitch. Intonation
and attack.
Infectious Vigor
For example, a recording
the orchestra made of
Dvorak's "New World" sym
phony shows it lias a profes
sionally strong attack in its
phrasing and an authoritative
command of rbythm. Nor does
the orchestra neglect tonal
qualities. And with its profes
sional sound, the young musi
cians play with infectious
vigor.
A number of the orchestra
members intend to be pro
fessional musicians and music
teachers, but many do not.
"The purpose of the orches
tra," Sten said, "is to broaden
the children's musical educa
tion, to give theni something
that will enrich them for the
rest of their lives."
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Children Should Help
Choose Home, Is Claim
Chicago - DPI - A grand
mother who has added a fem
inine touch to the field of real
estate finance advises parents
to let their children help
choose the family's new home.
Sylvia A. Miedema, pres
ident of the Clyde Saving
and Loan association in sub
urban Cicero and a leading
Chicago area land subdivider,
has strong views on how
houses should be bought and
sold. She is putting her ideas
into action at her third major
housing development, the
1,000-home Maplebrook com
munity in nearby Naperville,
111.
"Our salemen have been
instructed to pay attention to
the needs of the entire fam
ily," she says, "In order to
match the family to the
exact house, we need to know
their interests and activities,
both present and future.
"For example, if there are
small children, it's obvious
thai in a few years there will
be need for a recreation room
for teenage parties. If the
family likes music, we sug
gest installing the equipment
for piping in hi-fi during con
struction, not after."
Above all, the Maplebrook
salemen encourage the "fam
ily conference," at which all
members participate in the se
lection of the kind of house
the group wants to occupy.
"After all," Mrs. Miedema
says, "it will be the young
sters' home just as much as
it is the parents. And, as a
matter of fact, it is more dif
fucult for children to adjust
to a new residence than it is
for the adults, who probably
have changed abodes many
times during their lives,"
Mrs. Miedema, who became
president of Clyde Saving and
Loan in 1937 and has seen its
assets grow from $200,000 to
nearly $100 million, believes
the family housing conference
can give choldren a wonderful
opportunity to learn "the
financial facts of life,'1
Should Know
"There is no reason why
they shouldn't know what the
house will cost, and this is a
good tme for them to learn
about mortgages, down pay
ment, earnest money, interest
rates and all the other details
of home financing," she says
"In this way they will apprec
iaie their new home much
more. They will know the
sacrifice and thrift involved
in providing them with
home.
The main thing in con
ducting a family meeting of
this kind is to draw the child
ren out," Mrs. Meidcma says
"Let them know that their
ideas are considered import
ant and that their opinions
are thoroughly respected.'
Three Indicted for
Assault, Battery
Pendleton - it'Pli - Three
youths were indicted on
charges of assault and battery
by the Umatilla county grand
jury Tuesday.
They are Charles Kearney
Jr.. 21, McMinnviile; Eric Ja
cobsen, 18, and Neal Winters,
20, both of Pendleton.
The youths are charged
with assaulting Dennis Hach
ler, 28, Pendleton, at Pendle
ton last Friday night. Hachler
was hospitalized.
They each posted $1,500
bail.
'Disgusted' Actor
Faces Firearm Charge
Hollywood - HH - Actor
Damon Knight, who appears
on the "Combat" television
series, today faced charges of
discharging a firearm within
the city limits.
Knight, 27, was jailed Tues
day after neighbors c o m
plained he was shooting into
the brush behind his apart
ment. Arresting officers iaid
Knight fired his revolver into
a closet door when they ar
rived, ripping holes in five
suits.
"I'm just disgusted," was
the actor's explanation. "You
wouldn't understand."
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