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...Nikki Giovanni has ever suffered personally from the color of her skin, she does not admit it. An honor graduate of Fisk (in history) who nearly went into social work too, she has instead taught creative writing at Rutgers and become a major figure in the black oral poetry movement. Hers is a committed social rage. She is capable of scalding rhetoric, but the artist in her keeps interrupting. For one thing, she is a natural fabulist. A tirade on colonialism turns into a series of irresistible parables about the wise and natural black man faced with the petty, scheming...
Patrolman George Fisk, a witness for the prosecution, said yesterday that he arrested Harrison after the defendant had "grabbed his partner" around the neck...
With any concert involving organ in Mem Church there are serious problems for the audience. The Fisk instrument has two entirely separate characters. In Appleton Chapel, it is a magnificently powerful baroque organ. But for the majority of listeners in the nave of the Churc, the top-heavy registrations are not backed with sufficient fundamental tones to carry through sucha a large structure. The result is exactly what happened last Wednesday: the small group in Appleton is far more satisfied with the playing than the bulk of the audience who are listening, essentially, to a scaled-down version. The performers...
...zymbalstern stop tinkles in the background. The Ligeti is very much an organist's piece for it experiments continously with varieties of tone color in the different stops rather than relying on pitch differentiation. George Ken: performed well, demonstrating an impressive sensitivity to the possibilities of the big Fisk organ...
Though the predominantly white colleges seem to have taken over the teaching of jazz, I believe that future jazz musicians will come from such colleges as Hampton or Fisk...