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Show THE THUNDERBIRD TUESDAY OCTOBER PACE 7 20, 1987 Shmider still fiddlin' after life in USSR view is that the United States is a capitalist country with a few very rich people, who exploit the rest. However, many Soviets, Internationally recognized Soviet violinist Dr. Edward Shmider gave a lecturedemonstration at especially the kids, admire the United States. In regard to artistic expression or freedom, he last Thursday's Convocation. said that the arts are controlled in every Eastern A graduate of the foremost music schools in Bloc country. In the USSR, the government the USSR, Shmider, a Jew, was allowed to controls the arts, and, in the United States, it is emigrate, with his wife and daughter, in 1980. controlled by private sponsors and the public. Currently, he is a professor of violin at the Thus, there is no true artistic freedom in the University of Southern California and is on the USSR. However, the arts are highly respected in faculty at the Interlochen Music Festival. the USSR, much as football players are here, Responding to questions from the audience, said Shmider. had to he what through Shmider described go He said that there were some misconceptions when he applied for permission to emigrate. on the part of many Americans about the people An enemy of the state" was how he was in the USSR. The Soviet society is a mixture of treated, said Shmider. He was subject to both different people and cultures. Shmider also said harrassment and imprisonment. It was seven t the Soviet people want war. "We should years before he finally got approval to emigrate. Soviet government and betweenthe distinguish When he and his family left, they left as the Soviet people," he said. refugees, deprived of their citizenship and of all Shmider gave a short recital comprised of two their belongings. They first went to Austria and, selections. The first selection was Meditation, by States. from there, eventually came to the United the French composer Masen Ett, and the second They finally settled in Texas. was a cycle of four short pieces by the Soviet the of had he composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which parodied When asked what perceptions some of the official Soviet songs glorifying the United States, he said that Soviet citizens have revolution. He was accompanied on the piano only vague ideas of what the United States was Antoinette Perry, a faculty member at UCLA of the most controls by The like. Soviet government sources of information. The general propaganda and of the Aspen Music School. BY RAJEEV BHASI PUBLICATIONS COUNCIL IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT MEMBERS, INCLUDING CHAIRMAN. The Council oversees SUSC's student newspaper and literary magazine and meets approximately six times per year. Pick up applications in Administration 306 from Shelley Birch. Deadline: Monday, Nov. 2 do-no- Life would be dull without arts and dance (continued from page 5) society and peace but if these instruments be silent all things dissolve into anarchy and confusion." long is maintained, symbolic fable of Orpheus to show how the humanities, the arts, help in controlling the uninhibited behavior of men. Quoting from his book, Norum Organum: "All beasts and birds assembled and forgetting their several appetites, stood all sociably together listening to the airs of the harp. The sound wherefore no sooner ceased but every beast returned to his own nature wherein is aptly described the nature of man; who are full of savage, desires of profit, of lust, of revenge which as long as they give ear to the law, to order, or religion touched with eloquence and the persuasion of books, so Think how dull the world would be without those who sing and dance. And without the humanities we create monsters. Germany proved that. A famous when German scientist, questioned at the Nuremberg Trials as to how he could torture a woman to death merely to see how much pain the human heart could endure, answered, "A pure scientist disconnects himself from the subject. And am a pure scientist." Knowledge without morality, intelligence without ethics, produces not only monsters but equally dangerous, shallow, quick witted, clever-tongue- d men, who live without restraint upon their own desires, disregarding all rules of law by which men allow themselves to be governed. Mitch, I hope you continue to but for serious scholarship and The humanities and art, and against fight, not the administration, modern society's insatiable hunger for "Ballyhoo and Bigness." "Our towns are copied fragments from our breasts. And all man's Babylons strive but to impart the grandeur of his Babylonian heart." Burch Mann It takes courage to express viewpoints TO THE EDITOR: would like to make some comments about the recent polemic over the humanities program here at Southern Utah State College. It's nice to see this type of debate presented in our school paper. It has given the faculty, staff and students something to talk about other than the usual fall topic of wondering if one has enough wood cut to make it through the winter. While I'm a neophyte to the technical details of the feel that am discussion, qualified to make comments about speaking out when having I to criticize, however, the students on this campus should be exposed to such diverse opinion. As George Bernard Shaw stated, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man," Only through discord can one make it a better world to live within nature. While it is all right to disagree with the topic of unreasonable man, it is a weak all I a different opinion, supported by the James Watt Convocation. feel that Dr. Young and Dr. Lee, like their earlier peers of Plato and Aristotle, are trying to seek the truth of how one should be educated. It takes courage to express ones beliefs in print for rebuttal the attack to unreasonable man, would like to end with some words from a song by Harold Melvin and the I Blue Notes that are the very last words give business students in Business Policy Class. feel it gets to the essence of what Allan Bloom in his book "The Closing of the Americn Mind," E.D. Hirsch, in his book "Cultural Literacy," and Dr. Lee and Dr. I I (mags and split wheels extra) Must present coupon. Expires October 31, 1987 Good only at Big-- 0 Tires, South Mam Street, Cedar City, Utah 84720. 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