Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, April 17, 1989 Page: 2 of 8
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April 17,1989
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Library not the quiet place it used to be
Classical Music Society harbors culture
highly informal, relaxed meetings playing the piano for about 20 years.
However, she hasn’t toured since
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Contributors:
Sharon Haley
Editor-in-chief: Kurt K. Blocher
Managing Editor: Karen Kezele
Photo Editor: Jeff Wilson
Business Manager: Amy Brooks
Adviser: Steve Hall
Hilltop Views is a bi-weekly student newspaper serving the
St. Edward’s community. The opinions expressed herein
are not necessarily those of the University. Letters to the
editor must be signed and should be no longer than 250
words. Signatures can be withheld upon request. Hilltop
Views reserves the right to edit letters for length.
to study not to socialize; if I had the
urge to socialize I would go to the
snack room to do my talking.
I can understand becoming
sidetracked and wandering off into
a land where there are no books
strapped to our backs pounding on
us to read, but please leave your
thoughts in your mind or on your
paper and leave them off the study
carrels. If you are so anxious to
display your art or favorite band try
to find the appropriate source and
his Polish and French background,”
Mrs. McWilliams said.
Mrs. McWilliams has been
one that birthed ice and snow the
likes of which haven’t been wit-
nessed even in the farthest reaches
of Antarctica?)
I distinctly recall David asking
for volunteers to fill positions. Par-
liamentary procedure was casually
ignored. I also recall delicious hors
d’oeuvres and wines and a warm,
cozy spot by the heater.
Stadthagen’s plan is to have
tion is to encourage aesthetic appre-
ciation of the finer arts.
The next meeting and event is
yet to be announced. This organi-
zation is a chance to round off a
Graduation real or imagined?
KAREN KEZELE
Managing Editor
Last Monday night I heard the Community Symphony practic-
ing Pomp and Circumstance. I waddled along in the cold April air
and stopped close to the Carriage House. The music provided me
with the perfect chance to practice my Graduation Stride.
I just can’t believe the whole thing.
I feel like I don’t know anything. Aren’t I supposed to have
acquired some knowledge about life and different subjects?
Have I?
The other day I heard a teacher say that every Literature major
should be able to quote a certain passage from “A Farewell to
Arms.”
I couldn’t. Can I still graduate?
Isn’t there something else I should learn or that I should do?
Haven’t I missed something somewhere?
On the other hand, I have learned more about myself these four
years away from the sheltered suburban life in Grandview, Mo, than
I ever would have learned by attending Longview Community Col-
lege, living at home and working at K-Mart (Wouldn’t Raymond
Babbitt have loved me?).
I think the most important thing I learned is not to be afraid of
myself.
The scariest of the four years was when I walked into Fall 85 ’s
Orientation and I knew no one. I had no one to talk to, and I was
afraid of looking “dumb.” One of my roommates tells me that I told
her during the President’s Welcome that I could wear my sister’s
and my mother’s pants, but that for obvious reasons (a large chest,
I indicated in case she did not notice) I could not wear either one of
their tops. (What we’ll tell to strangers to make them like us!)
Somehow, though, I survived and so did Carmen. So did the
rest of our freshman group. We survived Raul’s and SEU parties,
Paul’s year in Spain (he said “Goodbye,” too), bus excursions to
East Austin, emergency trips to the airport, bounced checks, tears,
men ( boys), fights, uncontrollable giggles, scams, teachers,
meetings, loans, all-night RCM papers, mud rolls, Spring Flings,
Beach Bashes, Boxer Jams, the Dirty Boys, Thirty Something,
endless photos, South Padre and Nuevo-Laredo, hurricaines (both
the drink and Gilbert), sun bums, snow, dress hunts, Freedom Fest,
bitchiness, summer and Christmas vacations, E.T., two-for-ones,
dollar movies, Beaches, Halls in the daylight, Club C and G,
Trudy’s with Iron Phil, concerts, the grotto visits, seven (soon to be
eight) semesters of Beer and Doughnut parties and my dive into the
ice cream section at HEB.
Now we’ll be sharing one of the most important days of our
lives.
to denigrate into a Perry McWil-
liams’ version of a Latin tune,
“Guantanamera,” played loudly on
an organ to a latino/rhumba beat.
Vice President Javier Pacheco kept
rhythm on a drum and those who
knew the words sang boisterously.
I simply sat and giggled until an
unseen force drew me to the piano
where Stadthagen and I hammered
out “Heart and Soul.”
The CMS provides those who
love classical music a chance to
grow closer to others of the same
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in people’s homes. He supplies the
wine and food, although the host or
hostess often chips in a bottle or
some snacks. Attenders generally
sit around and soak up delicious
music and fine conversation.
What is the purpose of the
CMS? “To get people who love
classical music together to interact
and share their mutual appreciation
of this art form,” Stadthagen said.
The club is a praise to the clas-
sics and the instruments that are
used to communicate the ideas of
geniuses to the minds of simple-
tons. The events at the most recent
meeting, that of April 1, most viv-
idly describe this purpose.
At roughly (and I mean very
roughly) 7:00 on the evening of
April Fool’s Day (that should be a
clue) a vanload of eager classical
music lovers departed SEU and
headed towards beautiful “Budal-
and,” home of Perry McWilliams
and his wife, Donna. The plan for
the evening was to have Mrs.
McWilliams play Chopin on the
piano while listeners sipped “grape
juice.”
Something told me that this
Staff Writers:
Adam Wright, Michael Wong,
Sondra Flores, Michael O’Brien,
Marinelle Hervas, Helen Cyr,
Jeff Kloc, Becky Chavis,
Eliza Esquivel, Todd Hart,
Dino Reyes
material.
I am appreciative of the re-
sources at Scarborough-Phillips and
enjoy the relaxed atmosphere;
however we are there to study not to
play and we should show some
respect for the material that our
money helps pay for and the stu-
dents who want to study at the li-
brary.
Yvett Galvan
Junior
Dear Editor,
Studying at the Library used to
be a sure way for quiet concentra-
tion. No longer is that tradition
upheld at the Scarborough-Phillips
Library. There have been many
times when I have gone to the Li-
brary to escape the noise in my
apartment to find it even greater
there. I am not admitting to never
seeing a friend and saying “Hi.”
However, I do whisper and make
my conversation short. I am there
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Mrs. McWilliams opened the
meeting with a description of
Chopin and the type of music he
composed. She likes his music
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because of its “emotional diversity bent. Most remarkably, however, it
and intensity.” Chopin’s music is brings people together to experi-
"infiltrated with gay refinement and ence beauty purely through music,
oriental mysticism, a reflection of The real purpose of this organiza-
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1983, when she played concerts at college education with a bit of cul-
Peruvian cultural institutes, as part ture and refinement. It is also a
ofaU.S. Embassy sponsored series chance to associate with fellow
of lectures given by her husband, classical music lovers.
Her experience on that tour was Anyone who is interested in
rough, for she had to cope with joining the Classical Music Society
“different sites having different can contact David Stadthagen at
pianos and sometimes not being 443-3732.
allowed practice times,” Mrs.
BECKY CHAVIS evening would possibly fallunder McWilliams said.
Staff Writer the classification of “weird experi- Nevertheless, it was obvious
You might have thought that ences to be filed away later.” As a that she’d had plenty of practice for
Austin was a bopping place for clue to the evening’s peculiarity, a this recital. Her playing was emo-
rockin ’-and-a-rollin’ or grooving to photo of an elderly woman sitting tional, dynamic and awe-inspiring,
fine folk music, but our little hilltop dazed in a chair was superimposed Music poured from her fingers and
community has something special in the upper right-hand comer of the through the baby grand, caressing
to offer those of you who harbor a evening's program. Perhaps it was our ears with sumptuous beauty,
more genteel, cultured dimension— an extraordinary intuition that de- An encore was promptly de-
SEU’s Classical Musical Society tected a warning. All premonitory manded. Shawn Priggel, club
(CMS). thoughts, however, were shrugged member and pianist, stepped into
This rapidly growing organi- aside as we continued on our trek. the limelight and played a Rach-
zation began as a sparkle in the We arrived fashionably late, maninoff prelude that put us in a
mind of David Stadthagen, student The McWilliams greeted us warmly state of rapturous, soggy-eyed ec-
president and single-handed and we drifted towards the snacks stasy.
founder. “I went to the Office of (which included a Texas-shaped Two hours of classical music
Student Activities and got informa- dish filled with sausage and cheese put the group in a strange mood, for
tion on how to start a club,” hors d’oeuvres and a platter of it didn’t take long for the gathering
Stadthagen said. He found that Pepperidge Farm cookies). We
once a nearly infinite amount of chatted, mingled and sipped blush
paperwork was completed, all he wine, then settled in the McWil-
needed were some officers and a liams’ living room. (During the
sponsor. chatting and mingling part, Mr.
Naturally, his first choice was McWilliams had the forbearance to
Music Director, Br. Gerald Muller, show me a favorite purchase of his—
Officers were chosen at the club’s a porcelain urinal he bought for
first meeting on a frigid February $5.00 that he uses as a planter for
evening. (Remember that night? The bluebonnets).
TINNEG-
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