News Scrapbooks 1977-1979

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HAZEL TOW

WILL PERFORM TONIGHT

hot>nftld and r lhst lf-on,,re hoenfeld of th1 <:uam, rl Trt will p rform a' 8 toni ht at USD s Cam1110 llall rn a bt>neflt r•oncert for ti l 1VJ Youth Orl'l!e.tra 'V111sk by BPl:lhov n, Dvoral-. and Pi tou will bl' prt>sented by the rio, whlC'h include pianist Doris Stevenson

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Basic Bach

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tyli tic choices. Having taken the e choices into account. however, one could find much in the group 's_performance that was admirable. The main problem was that Mr . Ketcham, in his conducting, tended to treat Bach like a Romantic composer. Last year· baroque performance by Mr. Ketcham and the !\.taster Chorale could easily have been called "The Saint Mat- the" Pa ,on. by Johanne Br llm, . " The slightest sugge 110n of sadn~ss in any part of the music was an ine, 1tabk uc to tum it into a stately, hea,) fun~r11I march Ketcham would pil strings upon strings a. if he were adding fudge to a particularly deadl) sundae. the tone of the stnng players singing with endless legato. The air was~ 1!11 k with musical JV /1schmcr::. you could cut It with an axe. Luckil} for this )ear's audience. the text of the mass is less dramatic than that of either of the Passion , thus giving Mr. Ketcham less opportumty 10 reach heights of emotionalism. Only in the "Et crucifixus .. and the ..Agnus dei" did the pace become ponderous. (In the latter it wa unclear whether Mr. Ketcham or mezzo soloist Mamie Clark chose to keep slowing down; in any case. when the lamb of God uffered to take away the sins of the world. so did we.) Save for these in- stances, Mr. Ketcham ·s tempi were judi- cious, fast more often than not, and bril- liant. The surplus of strings. however, had not changed. There's no excuse for having two bas es and three cellos playing the continuo line; thi produces a heavy, tor- pid sound. There were 101 names listed for the singers in the Master Chorale. An ideal performance of the mas would, I sup- pose, have half that number, and the treble parts would be sung by boys . But the Chorale is the Chorale, and it was they, after all, who were performing. They sang very well. Their sound was huge and im- pressive. Most of the entrances were solid. I only remember the syncopated fugal en- trances in the "Et in terra pax" to have

been unsure. Occasionally some of the long ixteenth-note melismas were some- what blurred - for instance m the "Cum sanclo spiritu" fugue, which leaves the voices exposed. But for the most part the aniculauon of their notes was very clean. The ,tandard edition of Bach lists the mass as having five snloist,. standard quartet plus an additional soprano, Mr. Ketcham used four soloists, with the m "nging both the second ,oprano "nd alto parts . Miss Clari,; sounded much more comfortable in the soprano material, \\'h,m sh<.: could sing loud and high, her 01ec "as himng Her "Laudamu, tc .. was a particular su<:cc,s. But Mi" Clari..\ lower range was murky and undistin- 2uishcd. Her vocal placement turned odd whenever she tried to sing softly; ii was too cmcred and not placed sufficiently for- \\ard Pauline Tweed had beautiful tone and an e1u:cpt1onally smooth legato, as one could have predicted from la,t )Car·, Matthew Passion; she was a Joy. Tenor Leonard Johnson was the worst of the lot. He belted out the music in a loud Italianate manner with a vasl wobble. l'he writing calls for the smoothness and grace of a Leopold Simoneau: what we got was Carlo Bini on an off night. The two bass arias call ford ifferent types of voices, the f ir,t a true ba s and the second a high baritone. The old Karl Richter recording actually uses two singers. In the first ana, "Quomam tu sol us sanctus. ·· Christopher Lindbloom ·s singing was rough and choppy, but for the second one, "Et in spiritum sanctum, .. his voice blossomed forth with a Fischer- Die kau-like suavity. The performance of the Bach mass by Charle Ketcham and the Master Chorale was a traditional one I'm not wildly en- thusiastic about a tradition that insists on anachron, tically big and heavy perfor- mances of Bach. The choir and orchestra were much too large - the latter espe- cially in the solo numbers. which should have sounded like chamber music. But given the confines of that Romantic tradi- tion, their performances were excellent. D

J\'.EWSBEAT: W1lllam Pickett a_rnves next month from Univer- sity of Detroit to serve as v.p, for univer~lty relations at u~o. With him will be seven little Picketts. (1 lo 13) and his wife, Pat, curr~ntly completing a commis- sion m llturgical art for the state of Michigan

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JUN 2 O1979

Law Briefs 'Woolsack' Wins Honors The Woolsack, the University of San Diego School of Law's student newspaper, has won first place honors in the American Bar Association's Ninth Circuit Law School Newspaper Contest. The Woolsack will now compete with 13 other circuit winners in the national competition with results to be announced in mid- August.

Frank Almond, gave a very competent performance last Friday night of the great Mass in B Minor by Bach. (That name was given it by later generations; the maJority of its movements are actually in D major.) I didn't care for some of Mr. Ketcham ·s

CHRISTOPHER SCH EIDER

The San Diego Master Chorale, under the direction of Charles Ketcham and

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The University of San Diego, a Catholic ':!.1 stitution overlooking Mission Bay, has four professional schools: Business Admmistration, Education, Law and Nursing, and a College of Arts and Sciences. Approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students attend the university, which has gained 52 percent of its growth in the past five years. It has a nationally recognized and accredited law school, and the only school of nursing south of Los Angeles designed for registered nurses who want bachelors and masters degrees. The new building housing the nursing program opened last fall. The university moved this year from Division II of the NCAA to Division I, in athletics. This summer, the university will continue to offer a unique educational program for senior citizens which began as an experiment last year. Patterned after a program in France, the project involves a complete reorientation from inactivity to physical, social, and mental ac- tivity.

Judges Henderson, Gilliam Favored to Be Named to Federal Bench in San Dieg BY TED VOLLMER Defenders and was in pnvate practice Edward T, Butler. 61, who was nam for three years. by Gov. Brown to the bench in Sep v Art G H d Gov. Ronald Reagan named Mrs. tember, 1975. He was San Diego cit eteran .)Unsts errus · en er- Henderson to the San Diego Municipal attorney from 1964 to 1969; spe son and Earl B. Gilliam • who Court m March, 1973, and last year several years m private practi emerged Tuesday as th e favorttes for Gov. Brown elevated her to the San earned his degree from Harvard la two new federal JUdgeships m San Diego Supenor Court. She was the h I · 1948 d d d t Di Id .,_ th f t d sc oo m an un ergra ua ego. wou ""' e us woman an first woman in San Diego County degree from George Washington fll'St black to hold those posts m the history to be named to the Supenor u · · city's history. mvernty. Judges Henderson and Gilliam were Court -San Diego attorney J, Lawrence named Tuesday as the choices of Sen. Over the past year Mrs. Henderson Irving, 44, who has been involved Alan Cranston (D-ca!if.) to fill the has been presiding over a family law exclusively m Ctvil tnal work smce he two openings created under the deparunenL entered the legal profesmon in 1963. Omrubus Judgeship Act of 1978. Once She could not be reached for com- Irving earned his law and undergrad- filled. the two posts would bring the ment on Cranston's nomination. uate degrees at USC. U.S. District Court m San Diego up to Gilliam, 47, is a 1957 graduate of -San Diego Municipal Court Judge aevenjUd eship . Hasting Law School m San Francisco Napolean Jones, 38, a 1977 appointee SDC others. including five )Udges and but has made htS home m San Diego to the bench after five years in pri one San Diego attorney, also were since the age of 10. vate practice. Jones is a graduate nominated by the Cahforma Federal A former deputy district attorney San Diego State University and t e Selection Comm1ss1on for the two and attorney in private practice, Gil• University of San Diego Jaw school. judgesh The comrmSSJon, formed liam was named by Gov. Edmund G. -San Diego Municipal Court Jud two years ago by Cranston and Sen. (Pat) Brown to the San Diego Judith Keep, 35, a 1976 Brown ap SJ. Hayakawa (R-Cali!.) to screen Muructpal Court in l963. potntee who worked for Defende candidates for federal posts, submit• Gov. Brown foUowed his father's Inc. and in pnvate practice before her led the eight names Tuesday morn- lead by elevating Gilliam m l975 to elevation to the bench. Judge Keep ing. the Superior Court, where the judge graduated from Scripps-Clairemont The entire list will be forwarded to has presided over trial departments. College and the University of San Prestdent Carter, but Cranston's Most recently Gilliam bas been super• Diego law school recommendation of Judges Hender- vising the court's criminal depart- -San Diego Municipal Court Judge son and Gilham is vtewcd as a strong ment5. Sheridan Reed, 35, who was appointed boost for them. Gilliam was elated at hearing the Just three months ago to the bench Once Carter reviews the recom- news and said a federal judgeship is after eight years in private practice. mcndatto • he may accept or re.)CCt something he has looked forward to She also graduated from Scripps- them and th n forward his choices to for "a long, long time." Clairemont and USO law school. the Senate £or conf1rmat1on. There is Although Gilliam IS unfamiliar with -Imperial County Superior ColfrT no time ltm1t on the election process. the federal system, he said his court Judge Donald Work, 50, a 1976 Brown M Henderson, 51, is a 1966 adm1mstrat1on background would aid ppointee who worked in private graduate of the California Western him in helping to speed up the court practiceandasadeputydistrictattor- School of Law, where she also has system. ney following his admission to prac- taught busm law. Before being The six other names to be submit• lice law in 1959. Work graduated from named a JUdgc she was a deputy city led to Carter inc ude, Ohio State with a bachelor of arts and attorney, a trial lawyer for Federal -San Diego Superior Court Judge law degrees. --..:::..==--==~==:.::::...--=~=--------- Tlmn Staff Writer

The University of San Diego has a nationally recognized and accredited law school, and the only school south of Los Angeles for nurses who want bachelors and masters degrees.