Friday, November 21, 1975
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Holloway, Welting to sing tonight
By BARB HINTON
David Holloway, nationally acclaimed operative singer and a University of Kansas graduate, will combine talents with New York Opera soprano Ruth Welling tonight in a recital as part of the 1978-1980 Concert on the University Theater in Murphy Hall.
Although Holloway and Wetting have studied together in Rome and have performed together in numerous operatic productions, this will be their first concert with the Orchestra on Wednesday night at a reception for faculty and students in the Murphy Hall lounge.
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Holloway, a lyric baritone, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in voice, and joined the music faculty at KU as an instructor until 1969.
HE HAS APPEARED with such major American opera companies as New York City, the Metropolitan, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and San Diego.
His repertoire has included the performance of Figaro in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," Guglielmo in Mozart's "La Vie de Joan, the Murderer," Johann Strauss" and Ferdimaus, Marcelo in Pucucci's "La Boheme," and Lascout in Pucucci's "Manon Lescaut."
Holloway also performed as Pagagene in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" with the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada, last summer, and will return next summer to play Figaro in Mozart's "Marriage of Fizaro."
Holloway said that, as a singer, Mozart suited him the best.
He also likes the Italian repertoire. With a grant from the National Opera Institute, Holloway studied in Rome for two summers under the renowned maestro Lulci Rici, and became fluent in Italian. Weling and Holloway have both studied under Rici.
"For me," he said, "working with maestro Ricci was a way of showing me down. I can learn quickly, but the way I was learning was sort of on the surface until I learned to work more efficiently, both on one role in depth for ten months, both in Rome and the United States."
"It ites as as if Mozart's work was practically written for me," he said.
Holloway also said that learning Italian as was beneficial as anything he learned was "a great way to be a citizen."
"IF YOU WIND UP singing in Italian operas about three-fourths of your life, you may as well learn to speak the language," he said.
Holloway also worked for three months with Sarah Caldwell, a well-known conductor and managing stage director of the Boston Opera Company. He was in her master class with the late Walter Felsenstein, a Viennese operatic stage director, who has been described as one of the most demanding and brilliant of directors.
So far this season, Holloway has sung in six operatic productions, including a performance in Los Angeles Monday with the band Vivian. A solo concert at bartone in *Strafe" Dulce musculus*.
Weling, who graduated from Memphis State University, began her professional career with the New York City Opera. She has performed with the Dallas, Santa Fe, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Honolulu and Duluth opera companies.
HE MASED HER OFFICIAL. European debut at the Spelente Festival of Two Worlds in Italy, where she sang in menotu'i "Madame," and her coronation song," The Gorgan" and "The Maciere."
Last week, Welting made her debut at London's, Covent Garden as Rosina in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," and she will rake her Metropolitan Opera debut this February as Zerbinetna in Richard Strauss' "Ardaine out Naxos."
Here repertoire includes performances of Philine in Thomas's "Mignon", Adele in Strauss "Die Fledermaus", Blondchen in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", Lucia in Donzetti's "Licia Dl Lam-era" and Sanetta in Verdi's "Flastaf".
Holloway said that he and Welling had learned the repertoire for tonight's program in Italy, and had put the program together about a year ago.
According to Holloway, concert signing is easier than opera performances. There is much less time on stage, he said, but most of all, the performer has only himself to rely
Tonight's film episode to conclude follies of Flash Gordon on Mongo
Will Flash Gordon ever make it back to earth, or will he be heminced once and for all by the sinister tyrant "Ming the Mereless?"
Tonight's episode will tell all.
Popular film series fans on Friday and Saturday nights at the SUA movies in the Kansas Adventures have been subjected to the adventures of Flash Gordon in 12 to-be-continued-next-week segments this semester.
The final 17-minute episode will be shown in the movie "Chinatown" tonight and tomorrow.
"In those days," McDonald said, "they
had to run away and people to go to
the bus."
Serials like Flash Gordon were popular during the '30s, Stu McDonald director of the SUA popular film series, said Wednesday.
"I's just a joke," he said. "I really got the feeling that people enjoyed it."
McDonald said the gag, the melodrama and the comic aria dialogue were probably too similar.
According to McDonald, Flash Gordon,
Dr. Zarkov and a blonde hero went to
the planet Mongo in Zarko's spaceship to save
him from a threatenment danger in
outer space.
McDonald said Flash had been attacked every week by just about everything from the Internet.
KU concerts for youths open Sunday
Concerts for Young People will begin its fourth season Sunday in a musical program featuring the University of Kansas Performing Ensemble and marimbi Linda Maxey.
The one-hour performance will be at 2 p.m. in the University Theatre.
These selections vary from a song of African tribal rhythms and instrument-simulated fireworks to a square dancing boe-down and swinging jazz.
The Ensemble will play "African Welcome Suite" by Udow, "The Swords of Moda-Ling" by Peters, "Three Brothers" by Colgrass, "Fourth of July" by Bartlett, "Hoe-Down" by Missal, and they will close the concert with "Jazz Variants" by Beck.
Boberg will narrate the program, introducing the different songs and the introduction.
Under the direction of George Boberg, associate professor of wind and percussion instruments, the ensemble will play five selections which Boberg described yesterday as offering a distinct contrast of styles.
According to Boberg, the performance will consist of light music that can be appreciated by an audience of both young people and adults.
A third feature of the program will be the performance of excerpts from Bizet's *Children's Games* by pianists Alice Childers and by mime artists Rie and Aeneer Avellir.
Maxey will play solos in two songs—"Flight of the Bumble Bee" by Rimsky Korsakov and "Dance of the Hip-polliops" by Hatch.
Sunday's concert is the first of three this season. On Jan. 25, a program of American folk songs, spirituels, rattle, jazz and blues will be performed at Lawrence High School. Donizetti's comic opera "Don Passuale" will be given Feb. 22.
Concert tickets are available at the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont streets; Rusty's Hillierst; Kiefs' on Sunday, and at Murphy Hall on Sandy.
He said the episodes ended every week with Plasch Gordon on the edge of death, and then he went on.
"They just how!" McDonald said. "The audience claps and booes."
"Values have changed a lot since the '30s and we laugh bouts things like honor and chivalry," he said. "Flash epitomized the all-American boy that was big in those days."
He was a pure-minded warrior crushing evil around him."
McDonald said that there were three
women who had arrived from a comic
story by Alex Raymond.
"Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" was the second installment of *Flash Gordon Conquests*
McDonald said the series won't be shown next semester.
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on and doesn't have to worry whether other performers are ready. In a concert recital, he said, he could aim at perfecting his own performance.
TONIGHT'S RECITAL is a combination of duets and solos. The two performers will sing five duets: three in English by Purcell, one from Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" and the fifth from Rossini's "Il Bariere di Sivilvilla."
Holloway will solo in Pouleng's "Chansons Galliards", a group of anonymous 17th century texts; selections from Floyd's "The Songs of the Saints"; and selections texta; and an verdi from Verdi's "Fatalatt".
Wetling's solos are selections from Bellini's "Composizioni da camera," three traditional American folksongs and an aria from Thomas" "Mignon."
Plantist Roger Rundle will accompany the performers.
This is the second performance this fall by distinguished artists in KU's 73/74 season.
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