European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mobile classroom Johann Strauss still fiddles away in his making the Grade b Fok having a Rood Lime on the comfortable tour bus headed fur Lucy rus most Rhetor for a University of Maryland stud tour course in the viennese musical Kra of More it and announced the grading procedure this is a classroom on no you Are my captive audience or lectures and the musical tapes i will you should have read your textbooks prior to gelling on the a Grade of to will be Given for full participation in the course those of you who would like to try for a Grade of a will be required to take a 15minuto Oral exam one Day next weird the course carries one hour of the hours spent in the bus listening to lec Tures and visiting a museum and Homes of the composers and attendance at musical programs on the itinerary add up to the same number of hours As would be spent in regular classroom attendance of a  i consider this learning As an experience the Grade is the average passing Jrade i dont see How anyone could fail to absorb the just being Here and hearing the music should make an impress have no qualms at All about giving a b for this on the main University of Mary land Campus in members of the administration explained the University policy in assigning grades for study tour Many of our particularly those Lor single credit Are meant to whet the a elite of the said Matthias cultural activities and study tour director even our two week Art study tour of Florence Utah i is not really enough time to cover basically we offer two types of Tours hero Ductor and actual Sluda courses the pading is left up to the teacher he emphasized that the University has requirements for the study Tours for a Threece Wilhour course is to 45 hours in the classroom study Tours Are expected to meet this require to pointed have textbooks 1977 to be most require papers to be writ ten and tests to be students work in a seminar environment on the study some teachers Are More demanding then but the Basic feeling is that the student cant help but be and consequently Bill Dean of the the study Tours arc not just expert they provide guidance the Ideal combination in leaching is a teacher who plunking the students into the envy the Only Way to know if the student got from the course what he should have is to be a Grade should mean that they shared in the Knowle Gable persons in some things arc easier to measure for you sit a person Down and Tell them to work a calculus problem if they come up with the Correct answer Vou pass them if they they fail a cultural program like the music course Broadens a persons taste its harder to measure this knowledge than the person studying calculus what education should be teaching us cant be put into strict the Dean said that in past years universities had seen the inflation of grades whereby a b has become the average Grade instead of c now he believes the grading system is resuming to where it had with the c valued As the average pass ing i think the study Tours provide better re mention of Mary assistant to the commented years from now it May be one of the few things a student will As for the students who attended the music some Felt a test should have been Given because they were used to one woman commented that the amount of material presented was a lot but no one Felt that they haunt Learned from the experience if they regarded the study tour an Ideal Way to learn you could sit in Iowa and look at slides of the paintings in the Here you can see them rival Lucy Russell class watch Kurt Wegerer at on the Clavichord artistic tempera ments settled their differences in a Duel of keyboards in to go into an Art museum and not be Able to see the paintings would be so when Lucy Russell took her Stu dents to the music instrument collection of the Art historical she made sure the key Board instruments would be As part of a University of Maryland study tour course in the viennese musical Era of Mozart and the museum trip provided Stu dents with the Opportunity to hear classical music As it would have sounded to the the confrontation began with a composition by ital Ian composer Girolamo a professional harps demonstrated the com posers piece on a a German instrument of the 17lh Kurt of the Shook his Morti fied please do not be angry you play faking her place at the key Board he repeated the piece in his own style you the secret is inter you play too Russell Shook her she resumed her place at the instrument and played when she reached a Section Call ing for a the doctor Gri Russell a trill if played As writ ten out is she a trill must reach a Point where it is caught breathless the doctor reached Over and fingered the trill on Russell commented that Fresco Baldi himself said music must be Tutere pretend by the Russell moved on to a Clavichord of the 18th Century and pre pared to perform the same work you cant play Frescobaldi on this the doctor cried in anguish Russell played on the Way Back to the bus Russell Hud the final today you have seen a demonstration of the viennese tem you have Learned about music and the stars and stripes Page 15