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• Language: unknown
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Colleen; Crowder; Hodgson; Morton; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16921coll4/id/11304

Student's poem inspires director to write music CAROL KNAPP Last year, while the concert choir was traveling through the Joshua Tree National Forest on their annual tour, Colleen Sedg-wick, a junior from Edina, Minn., wrote a poem on trees. This was Miss Sedgwick's first attempt at poetic expression. Trees withered and bare, baked in the sun, growing from rocks and sand, but still living, waiting for the next shower of life to come. Prompted by friends, she showed the poem to Paul J. Chris-tiansen, choir director and chairman of the music department. He liked what she had written and asked her to write three or four more poems. Miss Sedgwick responded with poems of the mountains, the plains and the ocean. Not expecting anything to come of her ef-forts, she forgot the incident over the summer. Christiansen spent part of his summer working on music to accompany Miss Sedgwick's words. He says that the simplicity and clarity of the words stimulate the imagination. A definite emo-tional mood is evoked by each poem and that mood is understated so that the addition of music expression can fill in what the words don't say. Christiansen then sent the music to Schmitt, Hall and McCreary Company for publication. Miss Sedgwick attended a choral clinic at Bemidji State Col-lege in August and was surprised to find her name at the top of a piece of music entitled "Four Travel Pictures." She says that Christiansen brought out things in her poetry that she hadn't even been aware of. Christiansen says he thinks that the presence of both the com-poser and the writer of a piece of music being sung in a concert adds a warm, personal touch for the audience. Each time the choir sings the "Four Travel Pictures" he has Miss Sedgwick take a bow. Christiansen also says, '"This is the sort of thing I like to see happen in college. An oportunity to be creative is an important part of education and creative ability should be recognized where-ever it is found." Dr. Rogers to teach March 3, 1972 Page 3, Colleen Sedgwick, one of Pastor Lee's receptionisls, is also a published poet. Rosenfeld to present piano concert Edmond Rosenfeld, an accomplished, young French pianist, will present a concert at Con-cordia College on Sunday, March 5, in the Mem-orial Auditorium at 4 p.m. Tickets are available at Daveau's in Fargo or by calling 299-4000. Roseneld is now making his fourth concert tour of the United States under the auspices of the Association of American Colleges' Arts Pro-gram. Rosenfeld was born in Paris in 1938. His father was French and his mother, Polish. As he was reared in an atmosphere of Polish tradition and Polish folk music, he gained an early under-standing of and admiration for the works of Chopin. At the age of ten, Rosenfeld began studies at the Paris Conservatory. His teachers there in-cluded Marcel Ciampi, Aline van Barentzen and Jacques Fevrier. He also studied with the Ameri-can pianist Julius Katchen. In 1960 Rosenfeld won the Distinguished Prize in the International Chopin Competitions organ-ized by Jeunesses Musicales in Spain. Rosenfeld has performed in England, Holland, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Germany, France and Belgium. He returns to the United States for a series of recitals every year. He made his American debut at the Corcoean Gallery in Washington, D. C, in 1965. Of that performance Charles Crowder critic for the Wash-ington Post wrote, "Rosenfeld is a very special pianist. He can toss off the technical problems with a wave of the hand, it is true, but his greatest talent is in bringing a touch of cultured refinement to every phrase." On Monday morning, March 6, Rosenfeld will give a master class for music students in Hvidsten Music Hall. class in Norwegian Giant Alaskan land grab imperils tundra ecosystem A program o f Norwegian studies will be initiated at Con-cordia College next fall, accord-ing to Dr. Paul J. Dovre, vice president for academic affairs. The course in "Beginning Nor-wegian" will offer students an opportunity to acquire a basic knowledge of and facility in the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing Norwegian. It is designed for students who have had no previous or very limited exposure to the lan-guage. A recent revival of interest in ethnic origins has given impetus to the adoption of a program of Norwegian studies at Concordia, said Dr. Dovre. The course will seek to pro-vide the student with an under-standing of his own heritage and roots through the study of Norwegian history, literature, music and art. The course will be taught by Dr. Elwin Rogers, associate pro-fessor and chairman of the Ger-man department at Concordia. Dr. Rogers has done graduate work in Scandinavian studies at the University of Minnesota and at the University of Oslo, Nor-way. Chapel choir to present concerts of sacred music The Concordia College Chapel Choir, directed by Kenneth Hodgson, will present concerts in Elbow Lake, Wahpeton, and Alexandria on March 5 and March 12. The choir will perform its home concert on March 12 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead at 8:15 p.m. The concert includes a variety of sacred music ranging from early Renaissance to the late Baroque of Bach with also some con-temporary selections. The entire concert will be performed without accompaniment. Hodgson, a graduate of St. Olaf College and Central Washing-ton College, has taught music in Tacoma, Wash., and has served as a choral director in schools throughout Washington State. This is his first year on Concordia's faculty. The Chapel Choir will be performing a combined concert with the Chamber Orchestra on April 19 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead. On March 18, 1972, The Alas-kan Native Claims settlement Act, passed in December of 1971, expires. As a result, a large re-gion of Alaska will be opened up for grabs. The area in question is eco-logically important; it is also ecologically extremely fragile. The ecosystem of the tundra is so delicate that a tractor tread made today is an ugly scar in five year's time; a deep eroding ditch a hundred years from now. The smallest disturbance in this area is tantamount to ruin. A third of all North America's waterfowl come to Alaska to rest, nest, and feed. Many mil-lions of caribou, mountain sheep, moose, ducks, geese, deer and salmon make Alaska their home. In addition, many threatened species such as wolves, polar bears, and falcons inhabit this area. This is one of the few re-maining habitats where these species still thrive. If these lands are blindly ex-ploited, if oil wells are drilled, land is stripped, forests are lev-eled, and asphalt is poured, the ecosystem of North America would be severely damaged. The Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 also pro-vided the Secretary of the In-terior with full power to contin-ue protection of these lands be-yond March 18. There is a strong movement underway to protect 50 million acres of public lands from such blind exploitation, and to pre-serve an additional 80 million acres for the establishment of National Parks, Wildilfe Refug-es, and Scenic and Wild Rivers. Several lobbying groups are bringing pressure on the Secre-tary of the Interior, Rogers C. B. Morton, to use his power to protect these lands from such abuse. Among the many organiza-tions involved in this struggle are the Sierra Club, the Wilder-ness Society, Trout Unlimited, and the National Audubon So-ciety. These groups urge citizens to write the Secretary of the In-terior and ask him to continue the statuatory freeze on these lands. Information concerning this venture may be obtained by writing one of the following: Sierra Club Foundation (Dept. AK5), 220 Bush St, San Fran-cisco, Calif., 94104; National Audubon Society (Dept. AK5), 950 Third Ave., New York, N.Y., 10022; The Wilderness Society (Dept. AK5), 729 15th St, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20005; or Trout Unlimited (Dept. AK5), 4260 E. Evans Ave., Denver, Colo., 80222. U.S.SR. .—f 1 BBRIMG- 0 o to « i / * ' Kim \ A • FAIRBWKS YV ^*-^* or ALASKA if .—' \ \ \