Viking_Yearbook_66

-J- MUSIC PSC's Music Department is pressed for space Iike many other departments. Practice rooms are us- ually filled to overflowing with musicians sitting on the floor waiting for a place. A growth of 45 per cent in the last four years, leading to an enrollment of 100 music majors and 300 non-majors in music courses, is responsible for the crowded conditions. Departmental growth within the yast year has been cultural as well as physical. The major new devel- opment was the Contemporary Music Series or- granzied by music instructor David Block. lt fea- tured lectures and concerts on avant garde music. The expanded activities of the department includ- ed an appearance before the Oregon Musical Education Association in the College Center Ball- room. Two operas were performed-the one act American work, "Down in the Valley", in the fall and the three act, "The Ballad of Baby Doe", in May. The most notable new program was the scholarship series of three concerts by the Sym- phonic Band. The receipts went towards a new music scholarship fund, the first such fund music students have ever had. 111