University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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WITHIN THE DIAMOND PATTERN of its new acoustical shell the symphony plays a popular Sunday Twilight Pops Concert. New Symphony Shell Improves Acoustics Heads certainly turned for the first concert of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra’s 59th season, but eyes were directed to the ceiling rather than to the stage at first. Suspended from the high Northrop ceiling were large Plexiglass panels. When the curtains opened, the audience had its first view of the new all-steel orchestral enclosure, which promised to provide listeners with a dramatic acoustical improvement and an entirely new sound. True to its advance notices, the shell did all this, but the “new sound” was due mainly to the Symphony and musical director Stanislaw Skrowaczcwski. The young Polish conductor exhibited his concept of music programming as he planned all eighteen evening concerts as one scries of programs designed to bring out the important lines of development in musical history. Guest artists joined the Symphony in offering fine musical entertainment. Pianists Philippe Entremont and Cilcnn Gould, violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern and guest conductors were all seen on the Northrop stage. The University Choir and the Macal- 28

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Homecoming THE BAND WAITS to go on field of half time. Gopher rooters need cheering up with the Gophers behind 8 to 13. STUDENTS SPENT 4th hour in serious study — of the porade. 27

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ONE OF THE SYMPHONY'S great guest artists was violinist Roman Totenberg, an old fishing companion of our President Wilson. I THIS UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS YOU the view straight up and straight out from a front row scat in Northrop Auditorium. One recent concert-goer said she spent more time looking at the reflections of Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and the orchestro in the plastic thon listening to them ploy. 29