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INSIDE: Students Join In N.Y. Premiere ...... Computer Virus Called Common 3 M&C Stages 'View From The Bridge' 6 Calendar Of Events 8 '&' FAC/ADMf MR„ PHILIP A. METZGER UNIV LIBRARIES LINDERMAN LIBRARY BLDG #30 B0306 fefc 'Hagoromo' is a very exciting piece -- after you play it, you feel like you've run five miles. 55 -oboist Katie McDermott, '89 Premiere. Page 3 ^Mm Lehigh University, ^^ A "^a^ Bethlehem, Pennsylvania LehighWeek FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 Volume Two, Issue Twenty February 22,1989 Composer Steven P. Sametz, associate professor of music, whose choral work "Echoes" premiered last week. Sametz' 'Echoes' A Riveting Blend Of East And West By Kurt Pfitzer Lehigh University Writers' Group "Echoes." the newest composition by Lehigh's Steven Sametz. was unveiled Friday as a riveting blend of East and West, mysticism and meter, and static facade and inner turbulence. The world premiere performance by The Philadelphia Singers and Chanticleer of San Francisco enhanced the choirs' reputation as two of the nation's best vocal ensembles and established Sametz as one of America's bolder and more exciting composers. The singers amply displayed the control, precision and intricate give-and-take that "Echoes" demands, and thus conveyed the subliminal metamorphosis Sametz sought to create. "Echoes" is based on "The Leaden Echo" and "The Golden Echo." two poems by the 19th-century Englishman Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poems depict the songs of maidens who have dedicated their lives to Winefred. a legendary saint who was beheaded by a Welsh chieftain after she resisted his attempts to rape her. The object of the maidens' songs and of Sametz's composition is the ephemeral nature of physical beauty. "Leaden Echo" begins: "How to keep — is there any any. is there none such. nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it. beauty, beauty, beauty....from vanishing awav?" : "Golden Echo" answers that beauty is best surrendered to God. who will keep it "yonder" with "fonder a care than we could have kept it." Besides the two choirs. Sametz scored "Echoes" with amplified harp. Tibetan cymbals. Tibetan singing bells, xylophones, a Burmese gong, other percussion instruments and 19 water glasses. The xylophones were struck lightly with mallets and sawed with cello bows. Members of the choirs ran their fingers around the rims of the glasses during the performance. The Philadelphia Singers, a 30-voice mixed chorus. Echoes is "hushed...an engaging exploration of inner sounds and subtle distinctions." Daniel Webster, The Philadelphia Inquirer stood onstage. Chanticleer, a 12-member male chorus, stood offstage to the right. Three-note motives, played first by the harp, were traded back and forth from choir to choir, from section to section, and sometimes within sections, from singer to singer. The singers were required to sustain clusters of tones at both piano and forte levels, to change meter frequently, and Continued On Page 3> Stock Market Game Battles Economic Illiteracy By Roger Clow College Relations Officer Ho-ho-ho? No-no-no. Paul Volcker's holiday message was anything but glad tidings. Just after Christmas, the former Federal Reserve chairman announced the results of a special "Test of Economic Literacy" which had been taken by several thousand high school students. The results showed that the nation's young people know woefully little about the basics of economics — things like unemployment and profits and inflation — that have real impact on all of our lives. One response to the problem is the annual Stock Market Game, which kicks off this week in the Greater Lehigh Valley. For the youthful participants, the game is the most exciting of the many activities conducted by Lehigh University's Center for Economic Education (CEE) to promote economic literacy. More than 2,000 area students in grades 4-12. grouped into teams of three or four, are learning about business basics by "investing" a stake of imaginary money in the stock market for a 10-week period, with the assistance of about 70 teachers. The most successful teams of investors will be honored at the annual awards dinner at Lehigh. Last year, top laurels were won by teams from Five Points Elementary School in Bangor and Moravian Academy Middle School and Liberty High School in Bethlehem. Continued On Page 5> Savings And Loan Crisis Is Topic Of Conference Eli Schwartz. Macfarlane Professor of economics, will present a research paper entitled, "The Problem of the Savings and Loans" as the centerpiece of a conference on the crisis in the U.S. thrift industry, on Wednesday. March 1. from 2:00 to 5:15 p.m. in Physics 270. Other conference topics and participants include: *"What Went Wrong." Edwin J. Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). the thrift industry's regulating body. *"Easing the Plight of the Thrifts." Robert B. O'Brien. Jr.. '57. a former director of the Federal Savings and Loans Insurance Corp. (FSLIC) and chairman of the executive committee of the FHLBB. O'Brien is chairman, president and CEO of Carteret Savings Bank. Morristown. N.J. *"The Impact on Real Estate Finance." John A.Tuccillo. senior vice president for real estate finance and chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. ^"British Thrifts Thrive." Mark J. Boleat. director-general of The Building Societies Association of the U.K. *"The Canadian Perspective." Joe O'Brien, director of the National Housing Act Mortgage-Backed Securities Centre. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. The conference will be sponsored by the department of finance, the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise and the Murray H. Goodman Center for Real Estate Studies. Carl R. Beidleman. DuBois Professor and chairman of finance, will moderate. Geraldo Vasconcellos. assistant professor of finance, will provide background information and a summary of recent developments.
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Title | LehighWeek Volume 02, Issue 20 |
Subject | Lehigh University--Periodicals |
Description | Reports on the past week's news, and schedules of upcoming events, at Lehigh University. Thirty issues yearly, published weekly, except for vacations, during the school year, and once or twice a month during the summer. |
Creator | Lehigh University. Dept. of University Relations. |
Publisher | Lehigh University |
Date | 1989-02-22 |
Type | Text |
Format | newsletters |
File Format | image/tiff |
Extent | 8 pages |
Dimensions | 38 cm. x 28 cm. |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V2 N20 |
Language | Eng |
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Catalog Record | https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/304229 |
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Title | [Front cover] |
Identifier | SC LSer L522 V2 N20 001 |
Language | Eng |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Catalog Record | https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/304229 |
Full Text | INSIDE: Students Join In N.Y. Premiere ...... Computer Virus Called Common 3 M&C Stages 'View From The Bridge' 6 Calendar Of Events 8 '&' FAC/ADMf MR„ PHILIP A. METZGER UNIV LIBRARIES LINDERMAN LIBRARY BLDG #30 B0306 fefc 'Hagoromo' is a very exciting piece -- after you play it, you feel like you've run five miles. 55 -oboist Katie McDermott, '89 Premiere. Page 3 ^Mm Lehigh University, ^^ A "^a^ Bethlehem, Pennsylvania LehighWeek FIRST-CLASS MAIL U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 230 Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 Volume Two, Issue Twenty February 22,1989 Composer Steven P. Sametz, associate professor of music, whose choral work "Echoes" premiered last week. Sametz' 'Echoes' A Riveting Blend Of East And West By Kurt Pfitzer Lehigh University Writers' Group "Echoes." the newest composition by Lehigh's Steven Sametz. was unveiled Friday as a riveting blend of East and West, mysticism and meter, and static facade and inner turbulence. The world premiere performance by The Philadelphia Singers and Chanticleer of San Francisco enhanced the choirs' reputation as two of the nation's best vocal ensembles and established Sametz as one of America's bolder and more exciting composers. The singers amply displayed the control, precision and intricate give-and-take that "Echoes" demands, and thus conveyed the subliminal metamorphosis Sametz sought to create. "Echoes" is based on "The Leaden Echo" and "The Golden Echo." two poems by the 19th-century Englishman Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poems depict the songs of maidens who have dedicated their lives to Winefred. a legendary saint who was beheaded by a Welsh chieftain after she resisted his attempts to rape her. The object of the maidens' songs and of Sametz's composition is the ephemeral nature of physical beauty. "Leaden Echo" begins: "How to keep — is there any any. is there none such. nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, lace, latch or catch or key to keep Back beauty, keep it. beauty, beauty, beauty....from vanishing awav?" : "Golden Echo" answers that beauty is best surrendered to God. who will keep it "yonder" with "fonder a care than we could have kept it." Besides the two choirs. Sametz scored "Echoes" with amplified harp. Tibetan cymbals. Tibetan singing bells, xylophones, a Burmese gong, other percussion instruments and 19 water glasses. The xylophones were struck lightly with mallets and sawed with cello bows. Members of the choirs ran their fingers around the rims of the glasses during the performance. The Philadelphia Singers, a 30-voice mixed chorus. Echoes is "hushed...an engaging exploration of inner sounds and subtle distinctions." Daniel Webster, The Philadelphia Inquirer stood onstage. Chanticleer, a 12-member male chorus, stood offstage to the right. Three-note motives, played first by the harp, were traded back and forth from choir to choir, from section to section, and sometimes within sections, from singer to singer. The singers were required to sustain clusters of tones at both piano and forte levels, to change meter frequently, and Continued On Page 3> Stock Market Game Battles Economic Illiteracy By Roger Clow College Relations Officer Ho-ho-ho? No-no-no. Paul Volcker's holiday message was anything but glad tidings. Just after Christmas, the former Federal Reserve chairman announced the results of a special "Test of Economic Literacy" which had been taken by several thousand high school students. The results showed that the nation's young people know woefully little about the basics of economics — things like unemployment and profits and inflation — that have real impact on all of our lives. One response to the problem is the annual Stock Market Game, which kicks off this week in the Greater Lehigh Valley. For the youthful participants, the game is the most exciting of the many activities conducted by Lehigh University's Center for Economic Education (CEE) to promote economic literacy. More than 2,000 area students in grades 4-12. grouped into teams of three or four, are learning about business basics by "investing" a stake of imaginary money in the stock market for a 10-week period, with the assistance of about 70 teachers. The most successful teams of investors will be honored at the annual awards dinner at Lehigh. Last year, top laurels were won by teams from Five Points Elementary School in Bangor and Moravian Academy Middle School and Liberty High School in Bethlehem. Continued On Page 5> Savings And Loan Crisis Is Topic Of Conference Eli Schwartz. Macfarlane Professor of economics, will present a research paper entitled, "The Problem of the Savings and Loans" as the centerpiece of a conference on the crisis in the U.S. thrift industry, on Wednesday. March 1. from 2:00 to 5:15 p.m. in Physics 270. Other conference topics and participants include: *"What Went Wrong." Edwin J. Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). the thrift industry's regulating body. *"Easing the Plight of the Thrifts." Robert B. O'Brien. Jr.. '57. a former director of the Federal Savings and Loans Insurance Corp. (FSLIC) and chairman of the executive committee of the FHLBB. O'Brien is chairman, president and CEO of Carteret Savings Bank. Morristown. N.J. *"The Impact on Real Estate Finance." John A.Tuccillo. senior vice president for real estate finance and chief economist of the National Association of Realtors. ^"British Thrifts Thrive." Mark J. Boleat. director-general of The Building Societies Association of the U.K. *"The Canadian Perspective." Joe O'Brien, director of the National Housing Act Mortgage-Backed Securities Centre. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. The conference will be sponsored by the department of finance, the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise and the Murray H. Goodman Center for Real Estate Studies. Carl R. Beidleman. DuBois Professor and chairman of finance, will moderate. Geraldo Vasconcellos. assistant professor of finance, will provide background information and a summary of recent developments. |
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