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  • Western Carolinian/April 14, 1983 9 Choral Ensemble To Perform - by Wanda Crawford The WCU choral ensembles and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra will perform Sergei Prokofieff's cantata, ALEXANDER NEVSKY, tonight (Thursday) at Asheville's Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Diane Willis of New York City will be the mezzo-soprano soloist. Robert Hart Baker, musical director of the Symphony, will conduct. "A Russian Spectacular" is the theme of the evening's program, which will also include performances of Tchaikovsky's ROMEO AM) JULIET OVERTURE and Shostakovich's PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MAJOR, featuring pianist Roman Rudnytsky of Youngstown, Ohio. Baker, who is into his second season with the Asheville Symphony, is a graduate of Harvard and Yale. He was founder and director of the Connecticut Philharmonic and has conducted at such notable events as Italy's Spoletto Festival. He is also currently the conducter of the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Willis has performed in various operas around the United States, including productions with the Boston Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic. In 1981, she was a finalist in the prestigious Pavarotti International Voice Competition. She holds Master of Music degrees from both Yale and Indiana University. The 140-voice chorus, directed bv Dr. Robert Holquist and Dr. James Dooley, is made up of the WCU Chorus, the Concert Choir, and the Western Carolina Community Chorus. In the past, the combined ensembles have performed with the Asheville Symphony such masterworks as Mo/art's REQUIEM, Handel's MESSIAH, Verdi's REQUIEM, Cherubini's REQUIEM, Poulencs GLORIA, Beethoven'i NIMH SYMPHONY, and Carl Orff's CARMINA BURANA. Dr. Holquist, Associate Professor of Music and Director of WCU'l Choral Activities, received his Ph. D. from the University of Iowa and for eight years directed choruses at Dakota Wesleyan University. He is familiar for his role as Music Master in the annual Madrigal program. Dr. Dooley, former head of WCU's Music Department, is Vice- Chancellor for Development and Special Services. He has taught at several colleges and has to his credit several publications, including a coral arrangement of the folk song, "Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier," which was recently performed in WCU's Choral Festival. Regarding this ambitious production of ALEXANDER NEVSKY, Holquist thinks the audience will enjoy "an aspect of musical literature not heard any other way." More an orchestral work than a choral one, the cantata is not frequently performed, but is still part of standard musical repertoire. Consisting of seven movements narrating in sound the crucial episodes of one of Russia's great national epics, NEVSKY was originally composed in 1939 as background music for Sergei I isenstem's A I I XANDER NEVSKY. Prokifieff had received world acclaim for his background score to the Russian film, L1EUTEVW I Kill , also directed by Eisenstein, and was therefore a logical choice to compose the music for NEVSKY. The two scores were so lucceitful that Prokofieff transformed them into works that could be performed in other settings. KUE became an orchestral suite and NEVSKY a cantata lor mezzo- soprano solo, chorus, and orchestra. Prince Alexander Nevsky. the hero of the epic, gathered with his intense personal charisma an enormous army to defend the town of Novgorod and hence, all of Russia, against the Knights of the Teutonic Order, who invaded Russia in 1242. The cinematic celebration of the crushing defeat Nevsky dealt this German-Swedish enemy was most timely, as the film was made one year prior to the signing of the Sovie Nazi pact. At that time.anti-Germa sentiment was rife, and the film w< popularly received, as much for i' patriotic nature as for its quality. The evening's performances wil begin at 8:15. Tickets at the bo: office are $4.00 for students am $6.00 for other adults. Braving cool temperatures, these fans came out to support the WCU Baseball Team. (Photo by Mark Haskett) Western Sponsors Olympics Of The Mind Intramural Activities It's time for the Intramural Track and Field meets. Women's competition will be Wednesday, April 13, 3:00 P.M. to 5:30 P.M., and Men's competition will be Thursday, April 14, 3:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. Both meets will have field events, running events, and novelty events. For more information come by the Intramural office or call us at 7477. Rain dates: Women's Meet - April 20th, Men's Meet - April 21st. Attention all coed softball unit managers. Revised scheduled are available at the Intramural Office. Come by and get yours. The Fishing Derby is in progress and continues until May 3rd at 3:00 p.m. Fishing prizes are awarded for Bass, Ciappie, Bream, Rainbow Trout, and Brown Trout. These prizes can be seen in the Intramural display case located in the lobby of Reid Gymnasium. All fish must be measured at the Front Equipment Cage. Hie only entry so far was John Mauser who caught a 19 5/6" Brown Trout. Intramural Bench Press competition for Women will be held Tuesday, April 19th in the Reid Weight Room. Sign ups: 8:00 - 4:00 and 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. in Back Cage. Competition is divided into weight classes and ribbons awarded to the top three finishers. Men's Bench Press will be Wednesday, April 20th, 8:00 p.m. in the weight room. Sign up procedure and awards are the same in the women's competition. Leonardo daVinci rest easy, work on your spring- powered car is still under way. This winter some of North Carolina's brightest and most creative young minds have been busy matching wits with Leonardo daVinci, rewriting their own humorous v ersions of Homer and designing devices such as a $35 mechanical miner's helper and a wrecking structure. Friday, these students, more than 350 of them from 32 teams, will compete in the first North Carolina State Tournament of the Olympics of the Mind at Western Carolina University. The Olympics of the Mind began several years ago at Cilassboro State University in New Jersey, the brainchild of industrial education faculty members who wanted students to develop projects that required some creative problem solving. Today, expanded into humanities and well organized, the Olympics of the Mind Association has state tournaments in 30 states that lead to the World Finals on May 26-27 at Central Michigan University. Last year North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction conducted workshops to help get the state's public schools involved in the competition. School systems which join the Olympics of the Mind Association are given long-term problems in the fall for their students to work on. Competition with these long- term problems begins in late winter and early spring in three divisions: division I for grades K-5; division II for grades 6-8; and division III for grades 9-12. At the state tournament, teams also must compete in spontaneous competition where they are given 15 minutes to respond orally to an Olympics of the Mind problem. Scores are determined by several factors, including the creativity of the response. The LSDC (Leonardo daVinci Spring Car) project requires a team to construct a spring car for $35 or under, that a team member drives. It must do a number of very specific things—travel a certain distance, have brakes, make noise, make turns, etc. Rules state that the LDSC must have rubber wheels and further states that "although Leonardo didn't have such things, we are sure he would approve of this to avoid the damage to the tournament site floor". The usual inhabitants of WCU's Reid Gym, where the state tourney will be held, were quite pleased at that stipulation. Because the Olympics of the Mind involves close and exacting scrutiny of the competition, more than 30judges are required. They come from a broad background from a time management specialist to a newspaper editor, from a librarian to an engineering technologist. Many of the teams entered in this year's competition come from the Raleigh and Charlotte areas, but the concensus among school officials is that the numbers competing in the Olympics of the Mind will expand considerably as more people are exposed to its excitement. Competition at WCU begins at 10 a.m. Friday with an awards ceremony scheduled for 3:30 p.m. V PRAY FOR SUNSHINE!!! April 25 !L_ is sponsored by: —LMP —DASL —IFC —Panhellenic Council —WWCU j^^^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ —RHCC Monday: Scavenger Hunt begins—Listen to WWCU for details Tuesday: International Students Day Wednesday: —Carnival, Bar-B-Que, & "PKM" beginning at 4:20 p.m. on th lawn of the U.C— Caricaturists Thursday beginning at 5:00 p.m. -WWCU LIVE REMOTE with Beach Music —Contests: Prizes awarded! —Shag —Limbo —Human pyramid building —Frisbee throwing —Tug-of-war —Best-dressed beach outfit —Outdoor movie: "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" at Helderwood Friday beginning at 8:00 p.m. 30th —BEACH CONCERT with "Chairmen of the Board" "Poor Souls" and "Breeze" Saturday beginning at 12:00 —Live WWCU Scott Beach —Contests Remote —Album Giveaways —Beach Music
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