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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE COMMUNITY BULLETIN
College Year 11 Summer Bulletin 4
Monday, July 24, 1944
CALENDAR:
There will be a meeting of the Board of Fellows in Study 10 this afternoon from 2:30 till 4:00 o’clock.
Joseph Beritenbach will give a slide-illustration lecture on “The Personal Approach in Photography” this evening at 8:15 o’clock in the College Dining Hall.
The Board of Fellows will hold its monthly business meeting on Tuesday afternoon from 3:00 to 4:00 o’clock in Study 10.
The Faculty will meet on Wednesday evening at 7:15 o’clock in the Kocher Room.
On Wednesday evening at 8:15 o’clock in the College Dining Hall, Jean Charlot will give the second in a series of informal lectures on “Life and Times of the Old Masters”. He will speak on the life and work of Domenico Theotocopules, called El Greco.
Agnes de Mille will address the College in the Dining Hall on Friday evening, July 28.
The fourth concert in the Saturday evening series will include compositions by Mozart, Debussy, and Brahms. Rudolf Kolisch, Lorna Freedman, Marcel Dick, and Nikolai Graudan will play Mozart’s String Quartet in B Flat Major; Joanna and Nikolai Graudan will play Debussy’s Sonata for ‘Cello and Piano; and Rudolf Kolisch, Lorna Freedman, Marcel Dick, and Nikolai and Joanna Graudan will play Brahm’s Piano Quintet in F Minor.
PUBLICITY:
The Asheville Citizen of Wednesday, July 19, carried the following editorial:
BLACK MOUNTAIN SUMMER INSTITUTES
Among Black Mountain College’s many departures in new methods in education are two which- though the very newest of these- already are demanding attention in the educational and artistic worlds. One is the first Music Institute, dedicated to Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, which opened July 3 on the College campus. The second is the Art Institute, which began its first sessions this week in conjunction with the Music Institute.
The latter project has as its theme “Interpretation,” with study courses, concerts, lectures and demonstrations designed to widen the appreciation of vocalists and instrumentalists for the “problems and techniques” of musical styles other than their own. The Art Institute is devoted to the study of practice and theory of art and art education, with particular emphasis upon contemporary art and living artists.
The Institutes number among their sponsors many prominent persons from this and other sections. They have drawn a gratifying number of students from all over the country. The quality of instruction, as already indicated by several public concerts of the Music Institute which have attracted townspeople from Asheville, servicemen and others, is demonstrably high. The artists in both fields are of international prominence such as would grace a much more ambitious project of this sort. For beginnings, these at Black Mountain are large indeed. The two Institutes should become permanent assets to the cultural life of the region.
WITH FORMER STUDENTS:
New addresses: Private Herbert Oppenheimer, 14133800
1495 SCU
Medical Detachment #1
ASF Convalescent Hospital
Daytona Beach, Florida
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In the Mail:
Lieutenant George Hendrickson writes from India on July 12: “I am now allowed to reveal the fact that I am in Calcutta….Pamela was born on may 23…We are both very much pleased, as for some reason we both wanted a girl rather than a boy! It is rather hard to imagine myself as a parent and even harder to know that she will probably be walking and talking by the time I get to see her….”
Lieutenant Jack Kasik writes from somewhere in England on July 3: “I am still vegetating in well-tended, moldy England. I cannot write of the excitement in battle as Ike Nakata did, or of wild battles in the sky as Bela Martin did; life here is pretty much the same as it was on an airbase in the States, the only difference being that the missions are over enemy territory and not for practice. The pilots got the excitement and the jitters and the satisfaction of accomplishment. I was in London one night during an air raid and missed what excitement there was because I slept through it. Perhaps all this will change when we move into France….There is no need to describe the country as nothing changes outwardly, and I sometimes wonder if anything changes inwardly. Some of the people have suffered much, and all of them have worked hard and are still working hard with little obvious reward. The British soldier is paid less than the American soldier: ‘An Enlightenment and a GI we know were drinking in a local pub. When the GI asked our English friend what was the matter with the English soldier, he got this answer: He is over-fed, over-dressed, over-sexed, and over here’. I’d like to add: the English girls don’t think so….Thus far, I have been able to visit London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Bishop’s Startford on short leaves and many villages during evenings. I followed the tourists’ trails occasionally but more often saw a play or attended a concert. In London the famous ‘Picadilly Commandos’ are reaping a golden harvest by pleasurin’ a man for two to eight pounds for the evening. The strict rationing in civilian England makes you look forward to a good meal after every trip away from an army base….Tommy Brooks, John Stix, Evelyn Tubbs, and John Evarts have written to me; but so far I have been unable to meet any of them because train schedules are uncertain and travel slow, besides….The pictures on the Summer Bulletins reminded me again of the grandeur of the mountains in North Carolina and of warm sunny days that we rarely see here. Although it is light here from 5:00 AM to 11:30 PM, the days seem dreary. We had two sunny and clear days last month and none this. There is much rain, and it is cool enough to wear jackets even though it is July….”
Private Herbert Oppenheimer writes from Daytona Beach, Florida: “Camp Gordon, Surplus Detachment #1 and a weekly visit to Black Mountain were just too good to last. My orders came quickly….The hospital here at Daytona Beach is just shaping up. Most of the men here are limited service men, returned from overseas combat, wearers of the Purple Heart and the Silver Star….This is a good town with few soldiers….”
COMMUNITY WORK REPORT:
(July 17- July 22)
The terrace goes on, and the area immediately beyond the Art Room is gravelled and level. More fill was hauled in and distributed at the far end. Chuck leaps lightly from the dump truck into the Hough leader, grunts around with her, then back again into the dump truck. An impressive business.
The bathrooms in the new building now have white walls.
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Mundy and Ted Dreier, Jr., have hauled creek rock and continued working on the terrace stone work.
Walt finished the linen closets and began work on the new Entrance fence.
Odd jobs included hauling trash, repairing the Charlots’ icebox, and fixing windows, curtain rods and other things.
At the Farm the sweet corn was cultivated and heed, woods were cut on the edges of the fields, and the potatoes above Black Dwarf were harvested. The field where the potatoes were is now replanted in late beans.
The grass around the Science laboratory, the tennis courts, and the campus entrance was mowed.
Six more benches were delivered to North Lodge from the Shop, and another Dining Room table was completed.
The partition which sought to divide outdoor tools from indoor tools in the Shop was removed; the result is, suddenly, space.
The yearling beef and two Gurnsey heifers are now in the Drama Shed pasture. So are the music cubicles and the Drama Shed. (The yearlings are not musical.)
An ever increasing number of workers are absorbed in the Kitchen dish washer- a hot sticky business, but the dishes get washed, and everyone is grateful.
--Mary Gregory
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Photographs by Joseph Breitenbach are now being exhibited on the panels in the College Dining Hall.
Ruth O’Neill arrived on Tuesday to resume her studies after a year’s absence from Black Mountain College.
Doris Humphrey arrived this morning from New York City to participate in the panel discussions on contemporary questions of music, dances, and theatre.
Another Monday morning arrive was Mrs Kenneth Robinson of Denver, Colorado.
LAST WEEK’S VISITORS:
Among the visitors early in the week was Mr Baskett, a librarian at the University of Georgia.
Sergeant Albert Haig, stationed for a few weeks at the Rest Centre at Lake Lure, spent the weekend at Lake Eden with his friends the Henry Leonards, Mary Jane Brennan and Paula Lenchner. He was formerly a student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
Corporal Dan Heffrey arrived on Tuesday from the Pacific coast for a six day visit with Mr and Mrs Nikolai Graudan, his uncle and aunt. He is en route to Fort Belvoir in Virginia for an Engineering CCS.
Emil Holzhauer, a member of the Art Department at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and Miss Blackburn, an instructor at the same institution, were dinner guests at Lake Eden yesterday.
PAST EVENTS:
The students in the Music Institute entertained the College with a Supper Party on Sunday evening in the College Dining Hall. They prepared and served a plate supper of boiled weiners, potato-salad-
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Stuffed tomoatoes and watermelon, after which they presented a series of vaudeville skits. Sam Brown acted as interlocutor and introduced each number; “The Bach Style” by Mrs May de F. Payne; “The Music Lesson” by Lois Lautner; Parker’s “The Waltz” by Barbara Pollet; “Studies in Music Styles” by visiting-Sergeant Albert Haig; a duct from “The Marriage of Figure” by Liese Kulka; and “The Chorus”. Danced by Patsy Lynch, Faith Murray, Carol Ostrow, and Barbara Pollet. The skits were followed by round dancing and squard dancing.
FUTURE EVENTS:
August 5: Viola Recital Marcel Dick
August 12: Chamber Orchestra Concert Lotte Leonard and Yella Pessl
August 19: Beethoven Concert The Institute Quartet
August 26: Piano Recital Edward Steuermann
September 2: Concert Joint A Capella Chorus and Community Chorus
The Institute String Quartet Lotte Leonard Ernst Krenek Edward Steurmann
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE ART INSTITUTE:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
9:30 to 12:30 Theory of Composition Charlot, Drawing and Painting Charlot, Drawing and Painting Charlot, Colo Josef Albers, General Design Josef Albers, Drawing and Painting Charlot
4:30 to 6:00 Photography (4:00 to 6:00) Breitenbach, Textile Design Theory Weaving Anni Albers, Photography Breitenbach, Textile Design Theory Weaving Anni Albers, Photography (4:00 to 6:00) Breitenbach
MUSIC INSTITUTE SCHEDULE:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
8:30 9:30 Style in Music, Democratic Principles, String Quartet, A Capella, Democratic Principles
9:30 10:30 Style in Music, Democratic Principles, String Quartet, A Capella, Democratic Principles
10:30 11:30 Cello-Piano Orchestra Musicianship for Singer, A Capela, New Ronda, Moans of Expression, Musicianship for Singers
11:30 12:30 Cello-Piano Musicianship for Singer, A Capela, New Ronda, Moans of Expression, Musicianship for Singers
4:30 to 6:00 Operatic Workshop, Open Rehearsal, Figured Basses: Operatic Workshop, Operatic Workshop, Open Rehearsal
8:15 Lecture Hour, Chorus, Lecture Hour, Chorus, Concert
SUMMER SCHOOL SCHEDULE:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
8:30-9:30 Philosophical Classics (Plato), Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian
9:30-10:30 Philosophical Classics (Plato), Plato
10:30-11:30 Introductory Writing, Introductory Writing, Plato, Introductory Writing: French Literature
11:00-12:30 World Minorities, World Minorities, World Minorities, World Minorities
11:30-12:30 English Literature, Eukinetics Beginning, English Literature, English Literature
3:00-4:00 Eukinetics Dancing; German, Eukinetics Dancing, Eukinetics Literature
4:30-6:00 Cultural History; Psychology, Cultural History, German; Eukinetics Beginning, Psychology
7:15-8:15 French Literature
