Portland Symphony Captures
Audience in Medford Concert
By HERBERT CECIL
Chairman, Music Department
Southern Oregon College
The Portland Symphony or
chestra came to Medford last
night, appearing before a large
audience in Hedrick Junior
' Hieh school evmnasium, and
(to paraphrase an ancient Lat
in cliche) conauerine that au
dience in a manner rarely
experienced in this area.
As Maestro Sineer said in in-
troducinc an encore "We felt
that you were with us all the
wav." He was right; the au
dience was with him all the way
and the credit is largely due
Maestro Singer.
He has taken a group of mu
sicians and welded them,
throuch the dynamic force of
his nersonality and musician
ship, into an orchestra that is
exciting to hear. The orchestra
is not as highly skilled as some
of the great professional or
chestras of the large Eastern
cities, but it is exciting and it
communicates with its audience
and perhaps these qualities are
as important as the polish of the
' big time orchestras.
Opening of Program
The program opened with Sir
Hamilton Harty's arrangement
for the modern orchestra of
George Frederick Handel's wat
er music. Handel wrote the
water music sometime around
1715 for the entertainment of
Kina George I as the royal en
tourage floated down the
Thames river. There is a popu
lar fable which tells us that
Handel wrote the water music
in order to get back into the
good graces of George I, whose
employment he had deserted
when George I was merely the
Elector of Hanover in Germany
As with many fables, there
may be a grain of truth some
where m the story, but it has
been proved that Handel was not
in Hie rnyal dislavor some time
before the first performance of
the waler music, so the fable
must join all those other stories
which make interesting reading
but are not quite factual.
The original music contained
some 18 or 20 pieces, written
for a large Baroque orchestra,
which was quite a different
musical ensemble than the mod
ern orchestra. The Harty ar
rangement, called water music
suite, employs six of these
pieces. Allegro, Air, Bourree,
Hornpipe, Andante Espressivo,
and Allegro Deciso. The or
chestra last night gave an ex
cellent rendition of this familiar
music.
Contcinpornry Composer
Second on the program was
A Young Person s Guide to the
Orchestra subtitled Variations
and Fugue on A Theme of Pur
rcll by the contemporary
English composer, Benjamin
Britten.
This piece was composed in
1045 under a commission from
the British Ministry of Educa
tion as musical accompaniment
for a film which was to be used
for music education purposes to
acquaint young people with the
instruments of the orchestra.
The music proved to be much
greater than mere accompani
ment, however, and soon found
its way into the standard con
cert repertoire.
A narrator, in the present in
stance Mark Huber, manager
of the Portland Orchestra, de
scribes the various families of
instruments and great fun is
had by orchestra and audience
alike. It is not an easy piece to
play and it was in this selection
that the individual weaknesses
in technique were faintly dis
cernible last night.
Brilliant Performance
After the intermission the
orchestra gave a very brilliant
performance of Tchaikovsky's
Symphony Number Four in F
Minor. Tchaikovsky is often
played by touring orchestras be
cause of the easy availability
of his musical ideas, the ingra
tiating melodies, and the rous
ing climaxes.
The program notes quoted a
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letter written by TTchaikovsky
in which he said "The work is
patterned after Beethoven Fifth
Symphony not as to musical
content but as to the basic
idea."
Actually, nothing could be
further from the truth. Beeth
ven's Fifth represents man's in
domitable spirit and his tri
umph over Fate; Tchaikovsky's
Fourth represents man's com
plete subjection to Fate. Tchai
kovsky was a highly emotional
person who was filled with per
sonal contradictions and his
music often reflects these con
tradictions. Performs Beautifully
Maestro Singer and his or
chestra performed the work
beautifully last night and gave
the concert a truly thrilling
conclusion with the stirring
close of the Symphony's fourth
movement. A special accolade
should be given first trumpeter
William Smith, who completely
dominated the orchestra at
times.. He is truly a magnifi
cent trumpeter.
The gracious Maestro re
sponded to the standing ova
tion of the audience by playing
two encores, Lucian Caillot's
arrangement for orchestra of
Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor
and Gaite Polka by Strauss.
There were a few rough
edges in the evening's perform
ance, but mainly it was a mag
nificent concert. Someone asked
this reviewer at the intermis
sion w1". was to be done with
the proceeds of the concert.
There were no proceeds in
fact, the concert lost money.
The deficit will be made up by
several local guarantors and
Southern Oregon college. It
should be hastily pointed out
that the Southern Oregon col
lege portion of the deficit does
not come from tax monies; it
comes from a portion of stu
dent activities fees which is
used to support the college lec
ture and concert series.
It sems unfortunate that such
a wonderful evening should end
up In the red and it is hoped
that more satisfactory financial
arrangements can be made and
that a state-wide tour of the or
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SALEM The cost of a plan
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145 Are Enrolled
In UO Law School
EUGENE - The total num
ber of University of Oregon
Law School students registered
(or the 1063 fall tonus is H5,
an increase of 17.9 per cent
over last year, according to
Orlando J. Mollis, dean o( the
school.
Of the total, 70 are first-year
students; 47 second-year; and
28 third-year students.
Four women are members
of the freshman class. The see-1
ond-yenr class includes two
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chestra becomes an annual
event. Maybe some year they
could come back and we could
offer them a real concert hall
in which to perform.
Rather than end on a note of
pessimism, however, let us be
like Beethoven rather than
Tchaikovsky and be thankful
for having the chance to hear
this fine orchestra and their
truly superb conductor. If we all
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and bigotry and ignorance and
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