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7* 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, 1 , ** ■ 0^ I*s, f iv n * & JjL. • ' x £ % ' f | \-*■^up s % ~ • Queens Village and Danbury. 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 Mary Jo JJkm raid that dlacua- | tea co-op open la 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 (Continued on peg* 2> 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.