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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