Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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MANTOVANI I October 20, Lorasmen were treated to the special musical arrangements of England’s Mantovani at a concert in the Fieldhouse. Mantovani, noted for his concentration on unusual melodic effects and his unique style, is not only a well-known conductor, but has also achieved fame as a concert violinist and composer. He also does all the arranging for his 45 member orchestra. Mantovani’s fame rests chiefly on his well-known arrangements of popular songs, arrangements which not only involve his own special style, hot plnmh musical depths ignored or slighted by other arrangers without his unique touch. This touch involves an emphasis on strings (32 out of the 45 instruments are strings) which produces arrangements bordering on the symphonic in sound and rhythm. 18

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy is surrounded by admirers during his visit to Loras, KENNEDY Senator Edward Kennedy briefly visited the Loras campus, on September 26 on his way to speak at a testimonial dinner at Marion for Representative John Culver. Senator Kennedy, after attending Mass at St. Ra¬ phael’s Cathedral, stopped for a quick lunch in the faculty dining ball. He then went to the Fieldhouse where he addressed a group of about 2000 people. In his address, Senator Kennedy stated that Con¬ gress was quite responsive to the ideas being devel¬ oped in U.S. colleges and universities, then went on to praise the accomplishments of the Congress, especially in the areas of immigration and poverty. During the course of his talk the senator talked of the various asociations between Loras and the Ken¬ nedy family. St. Joseph’s altar in Christ the King Chapel was donated by the senator’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, in memory of his eldest son, Joseph, Jr. In 1956 the late President, then senator, John F. Kennedy spoke at commencement and was awarded an honorary degree from Loras. In 1963, on the day after President Ken¬ nedy ’s assassination, Loras established the John F. Kennedy Award to be awarded annually to an “Out¬ standing A in or i eai i. After Senator Kennedy ' s talk he left the campus to participate in the official naming of the John F. Ken¬ nedy Elementary School in Dubuque. couple of weeks after Senatoi Kennedy s isit, Lorasmen were severlv taken to task by a Clarkie w ho wrote a letter to the Lorian criticizing their apathetic response to the Senator s isit. Senator Edward M. Kennedy

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Softly—softly. Gently, aahh, perfect! The Maestro himself—calm, cool and supremely self assured. The program presented by Mantovani and his orchestra included such popular favorites as Seventy- Six Trombones’’. “More’, Fascination , Deai Heait , and “I Could Have Danced All Night combined with such serious offerings as The Waltz Fiom Swan Lake”, Blue Danube”, and Piccolo Bolero . The orchestra ran the entire sound gamut from soft, gentle, almost ethereal haunting melodies to the bold, brassiness of “Seventy-Six 1 rombones . The audience was alternately lulled and stirred as the maestro manipulated the orchestra as if it were a single finelv-tuned instrument. Reception of the program was enthusiastic and the orchestra played several encores. 19