Griffith Music Studio

Notes from Hopkins Center are mainly musical this month, detailing the 1968 summer Congregation of the Arts and the first international electronic music competition which will be concluded at the Center next month.

April 5 and 6 are the dates for the inauguration of the new Griffith Electronic Music Studio and the presentation of the Dartmouth Arts Council $500 prize to the winning electronic music composer. Announcement of the electronic music competition has been circling the globe in six languages since January. This "first" in musical competitions is organized by Jon Appleton, Instructor in the Music Department and director of the Griffith Studio, which bears the name of the late Charles E. Griffith 'l5, a longtime patron of music at Dartmouth.

Composers-in-residence at this summer's Congregation of the Arts will be Alberto Ginastera, Easley Blackwood, and Niels Viggo Bentzon. Ernst Krenek, Walter Piston, and Andrew Imbrie will be Visiting Composers. During one week of the eight-week festival, the Center will be host to the Fourth International Webern Festival. Eighteen concerts have been scheduled for the 1968 Congregation of the Arts, which also includes repertory theater, gallery displays, and a film program.