Monday, November 10. 1975
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Music helps blunt winter's bite
By IAN KENNETH LOUDEN
Staff Writer
While the winds of winter descended on the University of Kansas campus, the University Symphony Orchestra kept its audience comfortable last night in the University Theatre with the warmth of tradition and a touch of spring.
led by conductor George Lawner, the orchestra began with Mozart's "Symphony No. 41 in C Major," a popular, traditional orchestra piece. The symphony, which was completed in 1788, was Mozart's last and, arguably, his best symphony. Because of its publiably victorious theme and serene vigor it was named "Jupiter."
The symphony consists of four movements with individual themes. The first movement is characterized by contrasting saring and woodwind sonata in its second movement. The second movement interpretation emphasizes the music's strength and lyricism.
By passing notes in the second movement, the orchestra did a fine job of evoking
separate harmonies. The result was songlike unity. The third movement, the mimeet, was carefully characterized by its opening, which glided chromatically downward. The chromatic woodwind movement to be more than a mere dance.
The finale, which is possibly the best that must or any other classic composer has ever accomplished, is
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five simultaneous themes presented in fugal fashion. Mozart carefully sought a balance between formal and spiritual contrasts by a type of contrapuntal artistry that is enhanced by the careful timing of the orchestra.
fugue and sonata—between the baroque mechanism and the classical spirit.
The result was a construction between the
The second work, Brahms' "Double Concerto for Violin and Violincello, Op. 102," also is a traditional piece, although not as popular as his other three solo concertos.
The concerto, which was written in 1887, was the last of Brahms' four solo concerts and permahe the most exact on the strings, which are brilliant, the work is serious and fervent.
The first movement, which is the longest, featured the performers, Chris Harden on violin and Gwen Lewis on violoncelo, playing first successively and then jointly in a cadena. The grave solo work was contrasted by the lush, loud orchestra.
The second movement is shorter and lighter, almost songlike. The soloists carefully alternated, keeping excellent rhythm and maintaining the section and then joined in the reprise.
The third movement began with a rhythmic theme and culminated in a tour de force that was melodic and joyful. The orchestra carefully transformed the beginning theme
by careful accentuation and timing into sweeping fervor.
The final selection on the program was doubledly the most daring- "Stravinky's" win. In the game, they were
The choice is daring because it is an extremely difficult piece and there are many people who are so prejudiced against Srivanky that they refuse to listen to his.
"The Rite of Spring," a ballet that was first performed and created an uproar in 1913, has been recognized as having the most influential score of the 20th century. Unfortunately, many people still balk at its exploration of bitalency and rapidly shifting rhythms. The patterns are irregular down to the smallest cell, but the pattern varies by the listener. The result depending greatly upon the listener, is pleasant or unpleasant.
The piece is often melodic but usually frantic. It consist of two main parts, "The Adoration of the Earth" and "The Sacrifice."
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The University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by George were Chris Harden (left), playing violin, and Gwen Lewis, Lawner, gave it's fall concert yesterday. The featured soloists played violoncello.
The Kansas Woodwind Quintet is made up of five assistant and associate professors of wind and percussion and music history, who mastersts at Mozart, Hans Werner Hanze and Platon.
Performances by the University of Kansas Percussion Ensemble and two KU Faculty Recital Series programs will highlight this week's programs in Murphy
Percussion, faculty recitals in Murphy
The performance, part of the Faculty
Rockwool Festival at 8 tonight in
Snearhott Rcal Hall.
KU's 16-member Percussion Ensemble and 42-member Chamber Choir will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the University Theatre.
According to the Percussion Ensemble Conductor, George Boleh, the program will be a unique mixture of compositions, percussion, improvisation and "Psalms for David"; a canta by Robert Schechtman, the text of which is attributed to Thomas Aquinas; and a piece recently composed by Bruce Penner, a Lawrence Sullivan composer, whose poems as the text of his composition.
Boberg will be assisted by Inci Bashar Paige, a dramatic soprano who also has a degree in Turkish law. The Chamber Chair of the University of Iowa associate professor of choral music.
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Fernez Gaal, assistant professor of voice.
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and Richard Angleletti, associate professor
folksongs, as well as compositions by Schubert, Brabhams and Mozart.
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When the piece was written it combined the most modern developments of music with a primordial theme: a solemn pagan rite that demands a young girl to dance herself to death in front of sage elders as a sacrifice to the god of spring.
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Despite the difficulty of the work, it was the highlight of last night's concert. The orchestra performed with rhythmic verve and near-perfect timing. Each instrument in the orchestra carefully formed its own harmonies into a calculated whole.
The two faculty members will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in Swarthout Reall Hall.
The result was a successful and enlightening evening that ended much too quickly.
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