University of North Carolina School of the Arts - Spectrum Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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level appropriate to the performance standards, Dr. Suderburg has established a sound fiscal policy and effective, pro- ductive supporting departments. He promoted the School’s module five-weeks tours — performances show- ing the work in dance, drama, design and production and music — in high schools throughout North Carolina, as well as the expansion of the School’s summer offer- ings to Asheville and Charlotte. He also developed the faculty performances in a series of Contemporary Music Ensemble performances in 1975-76, and, with the addition of faculty from drama and dance, began in 1976 the Kaleidoscope series of eight performances for the School and community. 17

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History music and dance, the North Carolina Summer Festival, and School tours which each year take performing groups of young dancers, actors and musicians to all parts of the state. Dr. Robert Suderburg, nationally rec- ognized composer, was named chancellor in 1974. Primary thrusts in Dr. Suder- burg’s administration have emphasized the performing arts as vital for the quality of life in this state and the nation, and projected the North Carolina School of the Arts as an institution which provides not only professional training but also one which offers unique and broadly- based service to the public-at-large. In the process of reorganizing the school administration for a professional 16

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Highlights In February 1969, the School’s produc- tion of Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer’’ was chosen as one of 10 finalists out of 1,976 colleges in the first American College Theatre Festival. The 10 finalists performed in Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. in May 1969. In August 1970, the student orchestra from the North Carolina School of the Arts summer session in Siena, Italy gave a concert of works by American and Italian composers honoring Rome’s first 100 years as the capital of a unifed Italy. A five-day Aaron Copland festival on campus in 1971 celebrated his 70th birth- day with his conducting the North Carolina School of the Arts Orchestra. His works were also played for dance perfor- mances and by chamber groups. In April 1972, the School’s production of Lillian Heilman’s “The Little Foxes’’ was chosen as one of four finalists in the American College Theatre Festival and performed in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In September and October 1973, Agnes de Mille’s “Heritage Dance Theatre’’ was prepared on the School’s campus for the national tours through 1973 and 1974. Of the original cast of 25, 15 were drawn from the School. A film produced by the School of Dance using Agnes de Mille’s “Cherry Tree Carol’’ won the Cine Golden Eagle award for outstanding non-theatrical television films. The International Festival Orchestra, in Italy for the 1976 summer session of the International Music Program, was selected by the American Embassy to present a concert in Rome on July 26, 1976, as the Bicentennial Event to Italy. 18