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S. C. Receives $19,000
Grant in Music
Freeman
Conducts
Symphony
Here
Dr. Paul Freeman, world
famous Negro conductor, will
conduct the Atlanta Symphony
for the Festival of Contempor
ary Music to be held at Spel-
man March 12-16, 1968.
Dr. Freeman is director of
the San Francisco Community
Music Center. He is winner of
the $2,500 prize in the Di
mitri - Metropoulon Interna
tional Conductors’ Competi
tion, and winner of the Spole-
to Award (to guest conduct at
the Festival of Two Worlds in
Spoleto, Italy this summer.
A 32-year old musician from
Virginia, Dr. Freeman is a
graduate of Eastman School of
Music and a former Fullbright
Scholar of Europe. He is
steadily rising on the interna
tional scene as one of the most
gifted conductors to come out
of America. His accomplish
ments are many. He was the
first Negro to conduct the New
Orleans Philharmonic as well
as The San Francisco Sym
phony on its regular subscrip
tion series, and the Okla
homa City Symphony. He
founded and conducted the 65
piece Hochstien Sinfonia of
the Hochstien Music School in
Rochester, New York, and was
musical director of Opera
Theater of Rochester. He has
guest conducted the following
orchestras: Berliner Sympho-
nisches Orchester, Berliner
Mozart Orchester Berliner
Kammerorchester, Berliner
Hochschule Orchester, Aal
borg By-Orkester, Oslo Phil
harmonic Orchestra, Oslo Ra
dio Symphony Orchestra, Ka
towice Philharmonic, Bydgo
szcz Philharmonic, Warsaw
Philharmonic, Lodz Uhilhar-
Conductor Paul Freeman
monic, Posnan Philharmonic,
Krakow Philharmonic-, RIAS
Orchestra (Berlin) Rochestra
Orchestra, Internaional Youth
Orchestra (Berlin), Malmo
Symphony Orchestra ^Sweden)
San Francisco Symphony, and
the Opening of Stern Grove
Festival a part of the Summer
Series of San Francisco Sym
phony.
Dr. Freeman is married and
one of twelve living children.
He was born January 2, 1935
in Richmond, Virginia, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Free
man. Obtaining his Ph.D. in
theory, he did his distertation
on “The Compositional Tech
niques of Wallingford Riegger
as Seen in his Twelve-Tone
Music.” He has studied com
position with Wayne Darlow
and Bernard Rogers and has
written several works for or
chestra and other instrumental
cofnbinations. His visit to the
Festival made possible by the
$19,000 grant from the Rock
efeller Foundation shall in
deed be of benefit to the pro
gram.
This month the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, under
the leadership of its Music Di
rector, Robert Shaw, will spend
a week “in residence” at Spel-
man College. During this per
iod, the Symphony Orchestra
will hold a series of reading
sessions of new compositions
to be solicited from composers
in the Southeast and from Ne
gro composers throughout the
United States. Some of the
composers, whose works will
be performed, will be brought
to the campus, and each of
the reading sessions will be
followed by symposiums in
volving composers, conduc
tors, faculty and students. The
climax of the visit wil be a
public performance in Sisters
Chapel on the Spelman Cam
pus.
The program is designed to
benefit all the Atlanta insti
tutions of higher education;
the colleges in the Atlanta
University Center (Atlanta
University, Clark College,
Morehouse College Morris
Brown College, Spelman Col
lege and the Interdenomina
tional Theological Seminary),
Agnes Scott College, Emory
University, and Georgia State
College. The musical program,
planned by a committee which
includes the Music Depart
ment Chairmen of all the
schools, will enable students
from all the institutions to at
tend.
This Festival has been made
possible by a grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation to
Spelman College.
Spelman College is taking
a giant step in bringing to
gether contemporary compos
ers and the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra to the College cam
pus. Here the orchestra will
have the task of rendering be
fore an audience and compos
ers, compositions heretofore
unplayed—premiere perform
ances of works by worthy
composers. This they will do
for the university community
The word was passed quiet
ly, but heard. “Stokley’s here!”
Thursday, February 28, as
the crowds grew seemingly
endless, Archer Gym was filled
with more than a thousand
people who rushed in to hear
Stokely Carmichael’s words.
It is often said, as Black
people our leaders need only
appear to touch our hearts,
but Stokely’s foremost appeal
was to the intellect of his lis
teners. He spoke of our his
tory, our future, and our need
for organization. His words
came forceful with logic and
precise examples.
The concepts for organizing
our people was the primary
subject of his talk. “It’s a
question of survival,” he said.
The first concept for organi
zation he said is “undying love
for our people.” He told the
crowd they must understand
and tolerate all Black people
because “every Negro is a po
tential Black man.” He said
another concept that needs to
be understood is that “the
question of our community is
not geographical but physical.”
It’s a question of color. Home
is where our people are. The
white man has scattered the
Black man across the waters
but “blood is thicker than
water” and we want to unite
as well as the general public
of Atlanta.
President Manley, in dis
cussing the expected benefits
from such an involved and ex
citing festival, indicates that
the value of such a program to
the College community should
be very worthwhile:
The most obvious benefit of
the program would be the en
richment of students and fac
ulty through the opportunities
to observe, meet and work
with a professional symphony
orchestra, distinguished musi
cians, and young and mature
composers through exposure
to new works.
all black faces.
Then Stokely talked of the
white man’s games for break
ing up our unity and disil
lusioning black people. He
said, “The vote is nothing but
a trick,” and that it is irreve-
lent to black people.
He said anybody we put in
office they can take out of of
fice. They say Black Power is
Stokley Carmichael
{Cont’d.Pg. 11)
Maestro Robert Show and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, scheduled
to visit Spelman College Campus, 8:00 p.m., March 16, 1968 in con
junction with annual Founders’ Day Activities.
Stokley Speaks