Echo January 15, 1964

              Choir to Tour Upper Midwest States
The Augsburg College Choir
—Special Photo
This year's annual Augsburg College Choir tour, beginning January
30, will include parts of southern
Minnesota, northern Iowa and eastern South Dakota.
The choir will present its program of sacred music to church,
school and college groups, returning to present a home concert February 9 in Si Melby Hall.
MUSIC    BY    COMPOSERS    of
many nationalities will be presented. A seventeenth century chorale,
THY TRUTH WITHIN US, begins
the program.
Other numbers included in the
choir repertoire are: TU PAU-
PERUM REFUGIUM by Josquin
des Prez, HOSANNA TO THE
SON OF DAVID by Orlando Gibbons, THE SPIRIT ALSO HELP-
ETH US by J. S. Bach, CHRIST IS
RISEN by Lenel, ANTHEM by
Igor Stravinsky, HAIL 0 SON OF
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The Augsburg Echo
Vol. LXX	
Famous Astronomer
Explore Space
in Coming Convo
"Exploring Outer Space" will be
the theme of the address presented
by Dr. Harold Shapley at the February 23 convocation.
For a period of forty years Shapley has been known as an internationally famous scientist and astronomer. He received his degrees
from the University of Missouri
and Princeton University.
HE JOINED THE STAFF of the
Mount Wilson Observatory in 1914.
He continued in this position until
1921 when he became Director of
the Harvard College Observatory,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shapley
held this post for thirty-one years
and since 1952 has been Lecturer
on cosmography at Harvard University.
Shapley holds honorary degrees
from several universities and is the
recipient of several medals and
prizes. He is an Honorary Foreign
Member of the national academy in
ten foreign countries.
THE AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS
scientific publications, Shapley is
perhaps best known for OF STARS
AND MEN. This book is a study of
the bearing of current cosmic discovery on the problems of human
destiny. The book has been reprinted in seven languages and in a
pocket edition.
Five other books are also credited to Shapley. In addition he has
written a large number of articles,
dealing mainly with the field of
astronomy.
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Wednesday, January 15, 1964
No. 12
The Augsburg College Band
-Special Photo
College Band Dedicates '64 Tour to JFK
"Because of his deep concern for
the development and encouragement of art," the Augsburg College
Band is dedicating its 1964 tour to
the memory of late President John
F. Kennedy. This was the statement released the other day by associate Professor of Music Mayo
Savold, the conductor of the band.
The annual tour continues from
January 30 through February 9.
The first appearance of the band is
at Spring Valley, Wisconsin, and
the other appearances in that state
will include Sheboygan, Cambridge,
Carthage College in Kenosha, and
Bradhead.
CONTINUING ON its tour the
band will appear at Christ Lutheran
Church in Chicago on February 6,
then return to Wisconsin to present concerts at Blanchardville and
Eleva. On February 16 the band
will present its home concert in Si
Melby Hall.
One of conductor Savold's innovations in the band training is the
use  of the  members  as  a  choral
group. This has earned the title of
"singing band" for the concert
group. This year the band will sing
BREATH OF GOD by Leland B.
Sateren, professor of Music at
Augsburg.
A number, SIGN OF THE
CROSS, has been dedicated to the
band by its composer, Peter Sivan-
ich. The band is the first to play
this number which is still in manuscript form.
HEADING THE selections included in the concert will be BAL-
Village Stompers to Climax Sno Days
Dr. Harlow Shapley
Village Stompers will blend folk music and Dixieland jazz in a setting of FROST FANTASY to climax
the 1964 Sno Days, February 19-21.
Other FROST FANTASY events center around
the all-day outing at a ski resort February 20. A Sno
Days kick-off dinner in the dinning hall February 19
will be followed by the Coronation of the FROST
FANTASY royalty and an all-school variety show in
Si Melby Hall.
The eight "folk-Dixie" artists who cut the hit
record WASHINGTON SQUARE will present an evening concert February 21 in Si Melby Hall.
THE VILLAGE STOMPERS are a group well
fortified with musical background. Two of the members have college degrees in music. All have experience in playing Dixieland and jazz groups.
In addition to this nationally known group, the
FROST  FANTASY  agenda will  include a variety
show featuring Augsburg's own talent February 19.
Those appearing in the variety show will be selected from faculty as well as student entrants. All
entrants must contact the variety show co-chairmen
John Bruntjen and Barb Walen prior to February 12.
BOB HANSEN, Sno Days chairman, announced
the first election to select the FROST FANTASY
king and queen will be February 12 across from the
bookstore. At this time each student will vote for two
men and two women from his own class.
In the semi-final election February 12 students
will choose at large from the two top men and two
top women from each class in the first election.
Winners of the semi-final election will appear
during the convocation period in Si Melby Hall February 13.
The final election will be held February 17.
LET DU PLAISIR by Gustave
Charpenter, WILLIAM BYRD
SUITE by Gordon Jacob and SIGN
OF THE CROSS.
The last section of the concert
includes SYMPHONIC PRELUDE
by John Cacavas, THE NEW COLONIAL MARCH by R. B. Hall,
MARCHA 3 DE FEBERO (Bolivian
concert march) by Simeon Rencal,
SEMPER FIDELIS by John Philip
Sousa, YE BANKS AND BRAES
O' BONNIE DOON by Percy Aldrich Grainger and FINALE from
Kalinnikov's SYMPHONY NO. 1
IN G MINOR transcribed for band
by Glenn Cliffe Bainum.
The 48 band members, a nurse
and manager will be traveling a
distance of approximately 1400
miles by bus with a truck transporting their instruments.
President's Convo
QUESTION MARKS AND
EXCLAMATION POINTS is the
title of the President's Convocation February 6.
Dr. Anderson will present a
discussion of the tension at
Augsburg between the spirit of
inquiry and the Christian affirmation, and its relation to the
future of the college.
This will be the opening address of the second semester
convocation series.