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Fridav. March 26,1976
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Entertainment
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Madeleine's missing
Neli Muhberger, Tulsa, Kila, junior, tells Sharmane Smard, Nashua, H.N., seconder of his missing Madeleine. The scene is part
of the musical "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in"
the Hashington Hall production will run tonight and tomorrow
Snow's vocal control rules album
Rv ROBERT GAVIN
The emergence of the female songwriter has been the identifying factor of this musical factor, to Phoebe and Illustrates why.
"Second Childhood," Snow's second album, is a slow, lusty, jazz-oriented collection of material written to triloprano phrases within the instrumental fullness of bassist Ron Carter, saxophonist Dave Sanborn and drummer Derek result is musical assertion.
With a funky backing, strong lyrical matter and beautiful renderings of Gershwin and Holland-Dozer-Holland standards, "Second Childhood" enters the music scene with studied impact.
"inspired Insanity" is an example of one of the album's ballads. The subtle meetings of pain and hope in Williams' orchestration and Snow's painful words combine forcefully "You're like my second childhood, complete with all the mistakes I've ever made, neither logic nor a magic wand could change things.
"No Regrets," "Sweet Disposition" and "There's a Boat That 'Leaving Soon for New York'" feature up-tempo beats, basses and an electric piano, which Snow builds upon.
Add some scat or a quaver and the effect is more like Billie Holiday than popular rock.
Most impressive about Snow's performance at the University of Kansas last year were her qualities of polish, pain and professionalism. The power of her voice was often understated until crucial errors in speech on this album, she has even more control, waiting like a finger twitching on a gun.
Fuller in sound than Joni Mitchell and less绰凄 than Linda Ronstadt or Bonnie Raitt, Snow is capable of holding her notes, raising them higher still and then dropping two octaves.
Like Mitchell's lyrics, Snow's words are autobiographical. But snatches of her personal side are more carefully interpersonal within the roving fabric of her poetry than are Mitchell's. She is inclined to throw her frustrations into the third person. When she asks, "Isn't it a shame not to have something to believe in?" one can realize her struggles.
"Second Childhood" has that quiet fire that makes it a complete album. In instrumentally superb, lyrically sad and well-rounded vocally, it is done in the right vein with jazz, blues and gospel of rhythmic intensity.
This Week's
Highlights
Concerts
MISTILSKA ROSTROPOVICH; A INternationally famous Russian cellist, Rostropovich, is also known as Handel, Schumann, and Beethoven, as well as "Sonata in C Major," which was written for him by Benjamin Britten. Night in Hoch Auditorium
ERNESTO VALENCIA: The visiting artist series presents a collection of paintings taught guitar and violin at KU. (8 tomorrow night in Swarthmoor.
CONCERT CHOIR SPRING CONCERT: A program of American music will be performed by the 66 choir members, conducted by Buril Allen, instructor in choral music.
(3:30 Sunday in the University Theatre)
FACULTY STRING QUARTET; Two works by Mozart and one by Britten will be performed by Howard Harden, violin; Klaai Blaas, viola, and Raymond Hulli, cello.
TIDE: The Hawk's Nest reempcs after a month-long closing with a performance by the most popular rock groups.
(8 p.m. Monday In Swarthout Recital Hall)
(9 tonight and tomorrow night in the Hawk's Nest)
Recitals
FACULTY RECITAL:
Norman Paige, tenor and associate professor of music of Praise Psalms. Proper soprano, will perform a pro.
gram that includes compositions by Franz Schubert; Charles Ives, Stephen Foster and Giuseppe Verdi.
(8 p.m. Tuesday in Swarthout Recital Hall)
STUDENT HONOR
RECITAL: Seven students and
tour accompanies who were
performers in the show.
Performances include a string
quartet, piano, flute and voic-
e. f.p.m., Wednesday in
"JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN A MOONSHINE-UP musical comprising 24 works by Brel, a controversial Belgian composer. The variety of song forms and rhymes from vaudeville to hymns."
Theater
(8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall)
(8tonight and tomorrow night in the Hassinger Hall Theatre) **CHANGELING**: A Jacobsen play by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, well known playwrights of their day.
FABRIC DESIGN INTERNATIONAL; A juried exhibit of surface design as an act form.
(8 p.m. Thursday in the University Theatre)
SURFACE DESIGN CONFERENCE!
(Wednesday through April 18 in the Kansas Union Gallery) TEAMS: JASON DENT FABRIC DESIGN COMPETITION: A [juried exhibit of the most outstanding works from accredited schools.
Exhibits
(Wednesday through April 18 at the Lawrence Public Library)
ETHNIC FABRIC FROM
WILLOW COTTON
LENOR LARSEN. A personal collection of historical textiles in resist techniques from the late 19th century.
FIRES ON THE PLAINS — A
military operation in
World War II. If, 1945,
in the Plains' examines the horrors of
war from the Japanese stand
(Tuesday through April 3 in the Pine Room of the Union)
COLLECTIONS DESIGNERS'
COLLECTIONS: Designs from industry.
'SPEAKERS' AND DEMONSTRATORS' EXHIBIT: The work of surface Design Center, Inc., in creating markers, including in depth studies.
(Thursday through April 3 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union)
(Thursday through April 17 at the Lawrence Arts Center and 7E7)
Films
KILLER FORCE—More mindless mimey of the "S.W.A.T." variety, starring Tillie Savat and Pete Foody.
lines to their opening-week lengths.
SWEPT AWAY—Political
savings story of this a
protesterian bitch
capitalist bitch who are
stranded alone on a desert
THEARTS OF THE WEST and
RANCHO DELUXE - Jeff
Bridges stars in two very dif-
ferent "pop"Westers. Neither
is full-fledged comedy,
there hoip to tilt for settle
for laughs.
THE THREE MUSKE-TEERS—Richard Lester has continued to lampoon the adventure genre since he made this farcical epic, but he has lost touch with that makes it acceptable.
ONE FLEE OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Last chance to see Nicholson and Co. before the tickets are sold. Awards and increase the ticket
DON'T LOOK NOW-Nicholas Roeg directed this puzzle about a young English couple who flee their home in the death of their daughter. In the smooth act of Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, the editing give the film a comical feel that is eeryly haunting.
DINNER AT EIGHT
George Kaufman and Edna Ferber made this class melo-drama, and their cutting dialogue is cynically suitable for its John Barrmyre, who John Barrmyre, Lionel Barrymore, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beere
By MIKE THIESEN Staff Writer
Fabric dyeing art studied
Surface Design Conference I, the first such international conference ever to be organized, will meet in Lawrence and on the University of Kansas campus April 13.
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In responding to the survey, the artists expressed a need to improve communication among them by working in resist and print processes on fabric. Resist is a form of tie-dyeing and battik in which parts of the fabric are dyed with paste or string to resist dye.
ELSA SREENIVASAM, chairman of the committee organizing the conference and assistant professor of design at Elsa University, who conference was also organized to acquaint the public with
the conference theme,
"Communication: Art,
Education, Industry," reflects the reactions of 75 artists from
America who responded to a survey sent by
organizers of the conference.
textile printing and dyeing as an art form and to provide an opportunity for textile artists to exhibit their work.
Exhibits, speakers and demonstrations will highlight the conference, along with an information exchange to be compiled from suggestions of those attending the conference.
Exhibits to be featured at the conference are;
- Edbin Fabric, from the collection of Jack Loren Larsen and the Helen Allen Collection at the University of Wisconsin, on display April 1-3 in the Pine Room of the Union.
-International Student Fabric Design Competition, an exhibit of outstanding work by students enrolled in accredited educational institutions, to be awarded by the Lawrence Public Library.
—Commercial Designer's Collections, on display April 1-3 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
Bicentennial Historic Textiles in the Museum of Art.
-Speakers' and Demonstrators' Exhibit at the Lawrence Arts Center and the 767 Gallery.
Keynote speakers of the conference will be Jack Lenor Larsen, head of Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc., a new York textile company. Audrey Levy, a teacher, designer and artist from London.
Greenivasam said that 30 students from advanced classes in textile printing and designing at KU and the Kansas City Art Institute were participating in the conference.
Fabric artists and leaders in the textile industry of national and international reputation have been invited as panelists to speak on topics coordinated with the conference theme.
SUPPLIERS OF materials and equipment used in resist and print processes will also always navigate throughout the conference.
Lawrence graduate students at KU who will give demonstrations at the conference are Richard Bird, Tony Davies, Shigeko Seeman and Carol Hurst, Debra Seeman, Kansas City, Kan., senior, will also give a demonstration.
Sponsors of the conference include the University of Kansas, the Kansas City Art Institute, the National Encyclopedia of Music, and Lawrence Arts Center and the Lawrence Art Guild.
Mistislav Rostropovich,
famed Russian cellist, has been referred to by musicians as superhuman or God-like, although he would certainly deny these labels.
Rostropovich's sensitivity gives virtuosity its will
By JENNY CARTER
Chaff Writer
SREENIVASAM said the idea of holding the international conference came to her one day when she was having coffee with her students at a professor at the Kansas City Art Institute and assistant chairman of the conference. The idea grew, and so far more than 400 registration forms have been submitted to the United States and Canada.
Instead, he is a man who understands, perhaps more clearly than most, the true essence of a human being. In Him, Jesus has taught life he has done much to demonstrate his limitless potential.
On March 27, 1927, Restoprost was born into a musical family in Azerbaijan, Russia. His father and grandfather were cellists and his mother was a pianist.
ALBERTA STUHL, pianist and wife of Raymond Stuhl, professor of stringed instruments, said she was a little embarrassed to be crying during one of Rostropovich's concerts until, looking around, law that everyone was crying.
He said in an article by Mary Campbell, a writer for the association Press, that he considered Gaumann's "Concerto for Cello" and "Orchestra in A Minor" the hardest concert for cello, not because of it "technical problems, but problems for the spirit."
This spirit is deeply felt by his audiences.
His friend, Aleksandr Solzenhytam, was awarded the Nobel Prize much against the Russians government.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AT THE AGE of four, he began to play and compose for the piano and at eight he began to study cello with his father.
He gave his first appearance at 13 and a year later he performed at a Composer's Conference cellist, pianist, and composer.
Students or anyone else wanting further information may contact Sreenavasim in the KU department of design, 864-3925, or Campell at the Kansas City Art Institute, 8161-6452-852.
In 1970 came a great test, not only of Rostoproth's love of music, but also his personal intention to defend his beliefs.
AT 23, Rostropovich began giving frequent international appearances, and since then he has lived in Europe and North America.
"You cry and you can't help yourself." she said.
His technical mastery of the cello is perhaps not the major reason for his fame. A man of deep spiritual convictions, he possesses the sensitivity that gives virtuosity its purpose.
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HE WAS forbidden foreign travel, and concert tours within Russia were enveloped.
ROSTROPOVICH took Solzenhist into his home and wrote an open letter to four leading Soviet pipers in defense of his friend, saying, "Every man must have the right to think independently without fear and to express his opinion without bias. What he has personally thought about and experienced"
A recording he was making with his wife, celebrated soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, gave him permission by Soviet ambassador.
But his international fame was great enough to prevent his imprisonment and he was allowed to perform in Siberia where he played an accordion when a piano was not available
In 1974 he obtained a two-year visa, and, possessing only his cello, he, his wife, daughters Oglia, cellist, and Elena, pianist, Oglia, dog, Pookie, left their country in Russia to go to London.
CAMPBELLE SAID that in response to what was termed "voluntary exile" he felt that "when an artist is denied the art and staring it on his art and staring it on his art, he is, in essence, dead."
"Our stay abroad is not an escape from Russia, but the only opportunity left for us to realize our musical dreams, to discover what I love from Russia and the great Russian people," the Chicago Daily News quoted him as saying.
His visa will expire in May but Rostropovich plans to ask for an extension until 1979 so that he may honor contracts he
has made through that time. Among them is a two-year contract as music director for the Walt Disney Symphony in Washington, D.C.
He doesn't know whether the extension will be granted but the uncertainty and experiences of the lawyers haven't dampened his spirit.
CAMPBELL SAID
Rostropovitch thinks that all of life is a risk and it would be boring to live conservatively.
He said, "In life one must try to make some experiments. When life gives you both gifts and interests, then it is interesting."
The impact of the man on those around him is summed up in the words of Janet Frank, for the National Symphony.
She said, "He's a power for good, a force for love. He's really an amazing creature."
Comfortable checkers
staff photo by DON PIERCE
Design pieces ranging from photograph to textiles are included in the design students' exhibit at the Krasnian Museum Gallery, Jain Cos, Lawrence senior, created the wooden cheeker set in the display.