News Scrapbook 1979

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musicians of vaned backgrounds who will. collaborate an a series of nine concerts at USO, extending through next May. The concerts will l,e_g,ven on Sunday afternoons, on the third Sunday of each , !!\Onth; each concert w,11 consist of three or four of the Beethoven sonatas, arranged not chronologically but so as to make each concert a vaned program from all phases of Beethoven's career; and all three pianists will participate in each concert. By the end of the series, an assiduous concert-goer will not only have become acquainted with the full musical personality of Beethoven and the full range of possibilities an the classical style; he or she will also have become intimately familiar with the musical personalities of the three pianists. The series w,ll thus have more of a personal flavor than many concem of senous music tend to do. There will be two special events: a gala celebration of Beethoven's birthday, following the December 16 concert, and a reception to honor the artists, following the final concert on May 18. All the concerts in the Beethoven cycle will take place in USD's Camino Theatre, on Sunday afternoons at four o'clock. The dates for the nine concerts are September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16 (Happy Birthday, Beethoven!), January 20, February 17, March 16, April 20, and May 18. Tickets (quite low-priced) are available for individual concerts as weU as for the whole cycle, and there are special discounts for students, senior citizens,

poss1bil1tic, ,f the clas. ical tyle. His own rersonal style, within the classical framework, gr dually changed throughout h1slite, othnta enesofwork covering h1, who\~ car~er not onh h,,ws us virtually everything the cbssical tyle was capable of, but also reve,,b the Jcvehtrmg emottons and mu ,cal imclhgence of the compo"'r Recthoven has three scnes of works like thts: the symphonies, the string quartets, and the piano sonatas, and in are most char:tctenmc of Beethoven and most rc~ealing of all. Haydn and Mozart wrote many piano sonatas, but onh on rare occasion are th~se among their composers' more important works. Schubert's life was too short to show Beethoven's great range of personal development, and Brahms's piano sonatas number only three, all early works. But m Beethoven's case, the piano sonata was one of the composer's chief modes of expression. He produced masterpiece after masterpiece, throughout hb career. In a sense, these sonatas ate a ·diary ofh,s musical mind; they reveal him in the antimacy of his creative power and give us the full, ,cal Beethoven. What a wonderful idea, then, to give a scnes of concerts in which all the Becrhovcn piano sonatas are performed. Many of the world's foremost pianists have given such senes of recitals, and starting September I6, San Diegan, will have the chance to hear the full cycle themselves. In this Ci!SC, there will not be one performer but three all of them faculty members of the University of San Diego. They arc rather Nicolas Reveles, Ilana My,ior and Michael Bahde, professional many way the piano sonatas - of which there are thmy-two -

Re.1Jer< of Pranul<"~ ~ware of rhc ,pe,i, I •~n,ficance of December I 5 anJ Io, for 11 "on one of those two dates ench yc,ir th,,t mw-heaJed !.ttlc s~hro.:Jer, hovl'nng ,1bove the keyboard of his h>y riann, prod, im "ToJay " f\eethovcn's h,nhJ.,y." There may be some confusion about the exact J.,te of the comroser's birth, hut there is no confusum about h,s a general term, , contr,1st 1th "popular music" and "folk nmM ." But the term "cla teal style" refers pcc1fically to a ccrtam way of compo mg nous inusic, a way that appeared around I 770, reached its high point before 1830, ,,nd by the end of the nineteenth century h I virtually d, appeared. The great composers of this style are Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. The charactensttcs of the tyle they perfected arc a trong cmphas1 on key rclanon hips treated an the most dramatic manner, a great vanety nd flcxibihty of rhythms and texture within a fixed formal context, and a unique combanation of deep emouonal cxrre ivencss with powerful intellectual form. Many music lovers feel that this style i, the h,gh point in the development of music, and that the more you listen to the works of its greatest composers the more you will underSJand about the very essence of the whole mu•ical art. Reethoven lived fifty-six year , and dunng th.it ttmc he explored all the

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Rosemary Condon's parting counsel after installing her daughter, a Tulsa freshman at USD: "Don't call home and' ay you're homesick. If you're not happy here, you won't be happy anywhere!"

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• trator, who, in the words of one McEl- roy loyalist, "is willing:-to take the heat withou having to spread re- sponsibility across the whole place." But tlie same UCSD administrator has complained that McElroy flies off the handle m a Cl1SIS and sometunes acts unwisely under pressure. Certainly. in his long career as scientiSt and then science administra- tor before coming to UCSD, McElroy has been no stranger to controversy. He earned the wrath of some people at the National Science Foundation, the federal agency he directed for more than two years before he came here in 1972. His short tenure at N$F was marked by an organiZational shakeup at the agency, which created tensions with the old-guard admirus- trators there, according to an article in the magazine Science, published at the time of McElroy's move to the La Jolla campus. 'I'he same article reported that McElroy gave his assJStant chrector, Bernard Sisco, a new Job m thell' final months at NSF, before both men moved to UCSD - Sisco to become a top campus admirustrator. The change in tille, from asSJStant director to special assll!tant to the chrector. made Sisco eligible for a special early retirement annwty given to NSF officials whose ]Obs were abolished m the agency reor- gamzation. Because of the tille change, when Sisco qwt NSF to assume his uruver- s1ty JOb here, he was able to receive a S12.000 a year federal pension, even though he was 10 years short of 55. the earliest retirement age for civll servants, according to Science. Pleue Turn to Pace 5, CoL l

McElroy, It's Back to the Lalf. BYPAULUCOBS. ~-- , -,q-1'1 LA JOLLA - When UC San Diego Chancellor William D. McElroy • nounced he will be stepping down from that post, he said that eight years in the job was longer than he expected when he took it. Clashes with the faculty over the past year - conflicts that ended in a faculty-wide vote of no confidence in June - hastened his own timetable roz: leaving about a year from now. he said at a relaxed, almost jovial press conferenceMonday. His departure was greeted With some relief by some of thooe on the faculty who had wanted him ousted Thell' central complaint ~ut McElroy w~s his tendency to malce administrative decisions affecting the fa~ulty without listening to faculty oplillon-a problemon many campuses m the UC system, where faculty mem~rs by_tradition play a large role m setting uruversity policy. IDs supporters argue that McElroy has been a tough, decisive admims- ™™. ... McE/roy earned the wrath of some at Na- tional Science Founda- tion.

and the military. For further information, call 291-6480, ext. 4296. -Thomas Ame

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SAN DIEGO CLIPPING SERVICE SAN DIEGO UNION UP 14 197~

Additives Issue Debated pounds that occur "naturally" in strawberries to make her point. Consumer Writer, n, San Die90 Union

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The federal Delaney Clause which bans food additives found to be carcinogenic when taken by man or animal, m Whelan's view, is "a straightjacket law." "'I'he (lecision to accept or reject a food additive should be based on a benefit-risk evaluation." She made the point that the proposed saccharin ban was based on one Canadian experiment in which male rats fed large doses of saccharin (born of pregna:i• mothers fed large doses of saccharin) had a high rate of tiadder cancer, after 19 other experiments were either mconclusiye, ambiguous or showed no cancer.' ' • She also pointed out that only five to JO percent of a person's daily exposure to nitrites (an additive also earmarked for banning by the U.S. government) come from bacon, ham and luncheon meats in which they act as a preservative. 'I'he major nitrite source is our own saliva and the eating of vegetables like spinach, beets and collard greens. · If the government is not domg anything about the (Con 11ued on D-2, Col. 3)

Sparks were flying shortly after Elizabeth Whelan, Ph.D., and Ellen Haas met for the flrst time yesterday afternoon in the office of a University of San Diego official. The fire had subsided, but not the intensity that fed it when the two women confronted one another agam last night to debate whether the government ought to ban cancer-causmg additives in food. "Hands off," was the message of Whelan, executive director of the American Council on Science and Health Harvard School of Public Health research associate and author. "Hands on," was the plea of Haas, director of the consumer division of the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C., and president of the Consumer Federation of America. Whelan, who looked like a grown version of Buffy, the pug-nosed redhead of the late T.V. show ''Family Affair," used everything from cartoons of rats overdos- mg on diet soda to an analysis of the chemical com-

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Because of her pro-· us- try stan<;e, Whelan has been the target of critir.s. 'I'hey feel the American Council on Scienr.e and Health, which she rounded, is a front for the food and chemical industries and has a board or less-than- independent scientists.

who · a member af the U.S. Department of Agri· culture's Agricultural Poli- cy Advisory Committee and former chairperson of the Maryland Consumer Coun- cil, was that scientists sim- ply do not know how much of a carcinogen is too much. Therefore any food additive that is a known carcinogen should be avoid- ed. She m in ined that not only do eople not have enough ifrformation to make an informed decision about eating foods with dangerous additives but these food are eaten by children who are not able to read the la~ and many who are flltletionallv il!i· teratc and can't weigh the risks against the benefits.

( Continued r m l) rcin')gens that occur nat- urally, why should it regu- late food additives which have other, benefidal pur- poses, Whelan reasoned. ' Meanwhile Haas who started out with a light jab at Whelan - "I didn't bring any slides. I didn't bring any Jokes. I came to talk to you about a serious prob- lem" - proceeded predict- ably to call the Delaney Clause "appropriate and iustif1ed " "I believe t1msumers ex- pert special care and pro- tection to be taken with their food . . It Is unco~- c1onable for our govem- mi:nl to i;anctlon the use of known carcinogens in foods The argument of Haas.