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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
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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.	
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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.