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MERCER OWYE—ITT. MACON. GEORGIA. FEBRUARY U. lMt
Number 12
Willingham Chapel to Host
Princeton Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Harsanyi and the
Princeton Chamber Orchestra will
visit Mercer University, March 1,
presenting a concert at Willingham
Chapel at 8:20. The Princeton
Chamber Orchestra is a brilliant
addition to the roster of great
orchestras in this country, and
has been acclaimed by press and
public alike at its numerous
appearances. It is a hand-picked
ensemble of the finest professional
musicians fashioned into an in
strument of great distinction by its
music director, Nicholas Harsanyi,
and many of its players have been
associated with leading symphony
orchestras and chamber ensembles
throutfiout the country. The or
chestra is the finest permanent
chamber orchestra in the United
States, and its influence is rapidly
spreading with its reputation as an
orchestra of international quality.
Eugene Ormandy, Erica Marini and
Vincent Perischetti have each en
thusiastically hailed its outstand
ing features. Nicholas Harsanyi’s
musical Insight-and direction have
drawn him and the orchestra to the
forefront as one of the finest en
sembles on the musical soence to
day.
The PRINCETON CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA U entering its fourth
season. It made its debut under the
direction of Nicholas Harsanyi In
Princeton at the 1984 New Jersey
Tercentenary Festival of Music.
The orchestra is comprised of
twenty-one string players, winds
and brasses being engaged when
the repertoire calls for them. The
repertoire spans a wide range,
lending variety to the orchestra’s
work. The baroque, the classical,
the romantic and the contemporary
literature are all well represented,
and the group responds to each
with enthusiasm and accomplish
ment.
A week before the PRINCETON
C. H. Posey Elected
G.A.C.R.A.O. President
Columbus H. Posey in, registrar
at Mercer University, has been
elected president of the Georgia
Association of Collegiate Regis
trars and Admission Officers.
The election took place at the
annual meeting of the association
at Jekyll Island.
Paul Gaines of Abraham Baldwin
College was elected vice president
and Mrs. Emhree Humphrey of
Brunswick Junior College secre
tary-treasurer.
The association represents re
gistrars and admissions officers In
85 Georgia colleges and univer-
Posey has been registrar at Mer
cer since 1982. He Is a native of
Moultrie and a 1984 graduate of
Mercer. He received his master’s
degree from the University of
Georgia in 1952 and has done addi
tional graduate study at the
UnlveraHiy of CMwg*
He taught French and Spanish
in the Moultrie public schools for
C. H. Posey
one year before coining to Mercer.
From 1964 to 196 he was acting
chairman of the Department of
Modem Foreign Languages at Mer
cer.
Referendum Results
Announced by SGA
Vice-President Hugh Ihikas
presided over the fifth meeting
this quarter of 9GA.
Martiel Babbit announced that
the raising of the activities Me
peased Ml to 171 in the student
referendum. It will be preesntod
to the Trustees at their meeting in
April. .. f**.
Steve Richey reported that the
Orientation Evaluation Committee
win be distributing quettionaires
on Thursday, February 12. It will
be distributed only to the FraNr-
man. • - a
The Trustaae agweri greet
deUtfit in the SGA and student
body's interest in Itderal Aid.
High Patera r””™*** hit the
Insist Program entitled "Issues
which arffl be pretented far
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA'S debut
in Princeton, composer Vincent
Perstchettl heard his Firth Sym
phony at a private invitation con
cert and said he had not heard a
finer performance of the work.
Later in its first season Eugene
Ormandy and Erica Morini attend
ed the orchestra’s first New York
City concert in April 1985. Mr.
Ormandy said of the Town Hall
performance: "This is one of the
finest orchestras of its kind any
where!” Madame Morini was
equally enthusiastic and later
collaborated in making the or
chestra’s first record album for the
Decca Record Company. The or
chestra has been praised by the
press, as well as by musicians.
From Harold Schonberg in New
York in 1965 to Paul Hume In
Washington, D. C. in April 1986,
its press has been excellent. Mr.
Schonberg of the New York Times
said of its New York debut: “The
Princeton Chamber Orchestra is a
smart, tight ensemble with superior
players. Well trained, spick and
span, precise In attack, responsive
to dynamics, it is able to approach
music of any kind with complete
confidence." Mr. Hume wrote of
the Washington debut a year later:
“Slightly larger than the best
known European chamber orches
tras whom they comfortably
rival .... the players quickly
established their right to high
honors by the lively, crisp, yet
warm realization of the music.”
The orchestra’s second season
(1965-68) saw its Washington de
but at the invitation of Mrs. Lyn
don B. Johnson in the State Depart
ment Auditorium. In addition the
orchestra played its inaugural sub
scription series concerts in Prince
ton, and returned to New York
City to give two concerts on the
YMHA’s Chamber Music Series; it
performed in Boston, Philadelphia,
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A national tour has been schedul
ed for the PRINCETON CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA during the 1968-1989
season under the auspices of the
Herbert Barrett Management. The
music director and conductor of
the Princeton Chamber Orchestra
is Nicholas Harsanyi, whose vision
and enterprise have been essential
contributions to the development
of this orchestra and indeed to the
cultural advancement of the State
of New Jersey. Mr. Harsanyi is
Hungarian by birth, the son of a
publishing company executive.
After graduating from the gym
nasium, he entered the University
of Budapest Academy of Music,
joined the celebrated master class
of Hubay, and studied chamber
music with Leo Weiner. At this
time Harsanyi became a member
of the Budapest Symphony Or
chestra, the entire first violin sec
tion being comprised of members
of the Hubay class.
HELEN KWALWASSER, concert-
mistress
An outstanding talent, Helen
Kwalwasser made her debut with
the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
at the age of six, playing Bach's A
Minor Concerto. At the age of nine
she began study with Louis Per-
singer, and three years later
attended the Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia. Here she
studied with Efrem Zimbalist under
a full scholarship, and then be
came a pupil of Ivan Galamian
with whom she studied for ten
years. In 1954 Miss Kwalwasser
entered the Juilliard School of
Music, working under Galamian
and in 1947 she won a Juilliard
Award to attend the World Youth
Festival in Prague where she won
honorable mention in the Inter
national Competition. The same
year she made her Town Hall
debut in New York and here
showed the fulfillment of her
early promise In 1948 she won the
Philadelphia Musical Fund Award
and in 1950 she became concert-
mistress of the American Chamber
Orchestra whefe she remained
until 1958, presenting over seventy-
five performances of Muzart con-
certi during those years. At this
time she made two highly success
ful European tours and upon her
return to this country she toured
the south and mid-west. In 1953
she became a playing member and
'vice-president of the Collegium
Musicum (later called the Chamber
Music Circle), and gave the first
American performance of the
Haydn “Melk” Concerto with the
American Chamber Orchestra in
1954.
'Uncle Vanya’ Will Be
Presented February 27, 28
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The Perspective Committee will
be meeting every Thursday at 5:00.
Steve Carreker moved that all
main motions be written and sub
mitted to the secretary before it la
voted on. The motion was passed-
The Perspective Committee con
tacted all SGA committee Chair
men to evaluate their committees.
It met for its final meeting Tues
day, February II.
The SGA directed its President
to write each Trustee on behalf of
the SGA; thanking them for their
support of Federal Aid.
The SGA met February 17 and
President Ed Bacon reported on
the Conference on Racism held in
Atlanta this peat weekend.
Hugh Dukes reported on toe
Insight Program on May 2 featur
ing Carl Sanders.
The Food Committee asked that
SGA reqtetet from the Vice Prate
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Under the direction of Mr. Ed
Williams, the Mercer Theater
Company will present Anton
Chechov’s UNCLE VANYA on
February 27 and 28 at 8:20 pnu In
Willingham Chapel.
Set in nineteenth-century Rus
sia, the play takes place on a coun
try estate where the aging Pro
fessor Serebriakoff (Bill Lund,
Junior) and his beautiful young
wife Elena (Barbara Marshall,
junior) have come to rest and to
visit Sonia (Caroline Hamilton,
sophmore), the professor’s daughter
by his first wile, and Voinltsky, or
Uncle Vanya (Jerry Yeargln,
freshman), Sonia's unde. Hie action
revolves around Elena, who no
longer loves her hushend and is
attracted to Astrott (Gary William*,
senior), toe country doctor. Astrott
Uncle Vanya has fallen in love with
Elena also.
Carol Credit, freshman, will play
Maria Vasllievna, Vanya’s mother;
Glenda Tully, freshman, will play
Marina, the old nurse; and Telegin,
an impoverished landowner, will be
played by Thomas Michael, junior.
Photo Club Holds Monthly Contest
for many yean loved Astrott and
The Mercer Photo Club has been
officially organized by and for
Mercer amateur photographers and
its main objective is to promote
photography as a hobby and to
teach the simplest ways of taking
pictures, processing, printing, and
other phases of photography. Mem
bership in Photo Club is com
pletely free; no charges and no
fees to pay. The only requirement
for membership in the Pilot Chib
la being Interested in photography
and attending a minimum of two
meetings each month.
In order to promote photography
as a hobby and to encourage the
students to take quality pictures
the Photo Club has decided to
sponsor a photo contest on the
campus each month. The subject
for this month’s photo contest is
MOOD on campus and the prize
tor the winner is $10 cash. A com
mittee of qualified people will
judge the entries. The • contest.
rules are as follows:
1. All entries must be Black St
White.
2. The size of pictures must be
5x7.
3. All the processings must be done
by the contestant.
4. Each contestant is limited to a
maximum of two entries.
5. Each entry must be accompanied
by its negative.
8. All contestants must register by
February 25, 1969
7. The deadline for submitting all
entries is March 3, 1969.
8. Professional photographers and
officers of the Photo Club are
not eligible.
For more information please con
tact Jay Mesbahce, president of
Mercer Photo Club or write Box
1116.
