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Friday, April 14, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Prize photos shown in Union
Prize winning photographs from the 11th annual University of Kansas Photography Contest are on display in the Kansas Union Gallery through April 22.
The contest was open to all full-time KU students. Gary Mason, assistant professor of journalism, said 56 students entered the contest, and those entering photographs in several of the 11 categories.
Mickey Pfieger, San Francisco free-lance photographer, and Carl Davaz, staff photographer for the Topeka Capital-Journal, judged the entries on April 7 as part of the second annual Fritz Photojournalism Conference.
Mason said the judging was done in an open session where Pfleger and Davaz discussed the entries and explained their choices of winners. They also answered questions from an audience of about 25 people.
top left
1st Place portrait,
Best in show;
Randy Olson
top right
1st Place feature,
2nd in show;
Eli Reichman
middle left
1st Place abstract,
3rd in show;
Tim Ashner
middle right
1st Place pictorial;
Joe Kelly
bottom
1st Place news;
George Millener
Symphony performed by chance
Entertainment editor
By PAMEKEY
Somebody else had to promote Zami Favre's symphony before it could be performed at Lawrence next Sunday.
Bavel, professor of computer science, says he thinks his生死 is done after he had recieped the completed compilations.
"I've done my job once I've finished composing and
compiled," he said last week, "after that it up to them" to
The composition is the "Israel Rhapsody," which will be performed at 8 p.m. on Sunday in the Lawrence High School Auditorium by the Lawrence Civic Symphony. Although the symphony premiered in 1980, it has never been performed in the Lawrence area. For that matter, the fact that the performance or performed in the first place is somewhat of an accident.
BEVEN SAID HE began composing the symphony in 1858 although he had been gathering thematic material for
"I felt as if the thing had fermented enough. It was ready to put together," he said. "What followed was about a year ago."
But, when he finished it, the symphony was added to a pile of music on top of his piano, and it wasn't "discovered" until another musician found it while he was thumbing through it. It became so popular that he persuaded the Southern Illinois Symphony to perform it.
The "Israeli Rhapsody" was so well received at its 1960 premiere that the orchestra played the piece a second time in the same concert, Bavel said. The voice of Israel Symphony Orchestra recorded the "Rhapsody" soon afterwards, and it has been popular in Israel and the United States since then.
BAVEL SAID THAT visitors to his house would ask to hear his record of it.
*People would ask me to put on my record and I would think not again, because I've heard it so often, but one who doesn't always do that.*
"It is a piece that is hard to dislike. It is in a folk style. It's singable, it 'wishteable'," he said.
Paul Gray, then chairman of the Lawrence Civic Symphony executive committee, heard of the "Rhapsody," and asked to borrow Bavel's record so he, too, could hear it. Within a short time, Gray had persuaded the obituaries of the committee to listen to the symphony. The committee then decided to use it in the spring symphony concert.
ALONG WITH the "Israeli Rhapsody," the Civic Symphony will perform "Night on Bald Mountain," by Moussorgsky and Dvorka's "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra" on the Saint Louis Laut, associate professor of the as solo cello.
Bavel said that although he was reluctant to promote his own compositions, he gets enthusiastic about helping others publish their work. He said it was hard to be objective about his own work.
"Who knows whether it is good or not?" he asked.
Topeka's 'Mr. Theatre' finds show business
Staff Writer
By MARYTERESA DOYLE
Theatre may be thought of by some as a mysterious Bohemian world of so-called 'different' people, animation, painted faces and kaleidoscope light shows, but Dale Eason, who has been called the 'Mr. Easter,' prefers to think of it as show happiness.
"The theatre is understanding people, life and situations," he said. "It must keep in constant contact with reality and the box office receipts. That's why the theatre is simply show
As for the animation and painted faces—the actors and actresses and their roles—they are "people first, actors second and pervers, if they choose, third." Easton
"There are people in theatre who play a different role in every real-life situation," he said. "Those people don't have a future because a performer—and that's all any stage person is—has to have strength and consistency."
Easton is an exception to his own opinion that theatre participation for most people in this region is an avocational, recreational interest. He considers his life-long participation as a director, actor and playwright in theatre to be a career.
It began with his days at Crane Junior High School in Topeka, and, excluding the years he spent as an advertising salesman as a announcer, it has continued through today.
AN EXAMPLE of his consistency and strength is the 18 years he and the "Dale Easton Players," a professional theatre group, have performed "The Drunkard." For the Topeka area, this production has become something of a tradition.
"Admittedly, The Drunkard has brought in a lot of people who wouldn't go to theatre or formal performance production. It's show business and it has to make money to continue, a
general fact about the supposed theatre that most of its enthusiasts don't realize."
Someone once told him never to listen to critics and rather go to the box office and count the money to find out whether a show is successful—a lesson he has never
That he does things his own way apparently has been well-received by his auditorium guests, who demand in Topeka. He has had several guest directorships in civic, community and private theaters in the area and maintained a large office at Arm, at Lake Perry, for the last seven years.
IT IS HIS OWN brand of situation comedy that Easton has developed since being, in his terms, "the star at Crane and the punky showman" heard in the auditorium at Topeka Hip.
"Mine is a personal style because I think that theatre is better when it's a product of one mind," he said. "I knocked around the country and got my own experience in knowing people for a long enough time to decide that I was right to want to do it my way."
A director has to know that an audience won't pay for what it doesn't like or what it's not used to. I'd be a laughing stock of all a sudden I turned up with an experimental theatre piece because Topeka isn't ready to accept it and I've always done come," he
Apple Valley Farm was closed last December when he decided to accept the full-time directorship at the Showcase dinner Theater in Topeka. He will, however, continue to stage "The Drunkard" on Saturday nights at the Showcase.
"He's very well-known and, thank God, he understands the business end of it all. As far as I'm concerned, he has an indefinite contract with us."
"DALE IS A Money-maker, a crowd-
ing fan. We need to call it," said
Bob Zebulli. Showcase his work.
Easton's career has not been limited to
the Topena center. After four years in the U.S. Air Force, involved in theatre the entire time, he traveled with tent shows and theatrical performances, Houston, Riverside City and Los Angeles.
WHILE COLLEGE preparation teaches the technical, literary and historical aspects of the theatre, it's more for the movies than it is even then, it's not adequate. Easton said.
"Those were the old years that I learned everything from. After that I came back to school."
"I'm not condemning colleges," he said, "but I feel that if a student has an ability, he can learn something, but he can't be taught creativity, lines or common-sense. The high schools do a damn good job with their courses and provide production for people to cast in my own."
Theatre in Topeka has existed since the establishment of the Topeca Civic Theatre in the 1983. It joined the Recreation Commission's "Playhouse in the Park" in the 1980s and was here to stay with the dinner theater idea, according to Easton.
He quit Washburn University in Topeka after attending sporadically for two years. He never took theatre studies or learned any new techniques, a successful directing, “if any exist.” he said.
Try-outs for his plays are usually three months in advance of a production and he emphasizes that, although he works with the Dale Easton Players, the whole state is on his casting list because there is no "type" of theatre person.
THE SUBSIDIZING of area theaters is a proposal that has been debated periodically.
"The food and booze breaks down the stuffy image of theatre," he said.
Although it is gaining increasing support, Easton opposes the idea.
Those who favored the idea, Easton said, also favored the idea that they wouldn't have to depend on audience receipt because people would finance successes and failures alike.
That is a thought that goes against the grain of Dale Eason and his "own way." It is a practice of watching the box office and entertaining people in the show business style he was never taught, but that audiences have shown him they liked.
"With a government subsidy comes restrictions and someone telling you what to do."
In some cases, the
regulation would bring horrors to the theatre," he said.
Range of music helps Daredevils
By PAM EKEY
Entertainment editor
Record companies don't know what to do with a group like the Ozark Mountain daredevil, Mike Grena, bass guitarist and vocalist for the group, said Monday night.
"We don't fit into a mold, we don't have an image like Linda Ronstadt or like Kiss," he said.
"How do you classify a group that can play 'Jackie Blue,' and then turn around and walk out?"
promote the group in their advertising. The group plays a variety of music, ranging from bluegrass to blues and from country to Rock, Granda said. The record companies can't classify the group as strictly country or bluegrass performers because of the diverse styles of music the Daredevils perform, he said.
"WE, DON'T THINK of ourselves as a
'WE' and us together as another
group, and play each other's
tale."
All of the Daredevil's music is composed by members of the group, he said.
"We pride ourselves on the fact we can play a variety. That's where the music is.
"We don't fit into a pattern and the record companies don't know how to deal with us."
Until then, the group will continue to play what it wants to, Granda said.
"Eventually diversity will appeal to people, it will attract them to us."
THE DAREDEVILS performed Monday night at the Lawrence Opera House before an audience of 850 people. The performance was one of 14 that are being
He said the group wanted to produce a live album because some of the music sounded better when it could build on the energy of the crowd.
"It's like a circle," he said.
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He said the energy from the audience combined with the energy of the band, and the band played better and produced more energy as the crowd's energy increased.
It's like a CICer, the Snail.
GRANDA SAID the Daredevils did not like to blast the audience out of the auditorium with its sound.
"I don't know if we'll use any songs from this gig. We may use them, but we can't. The "good" ones aren't really well made."
The Daredevils are recording the concerts only in the Midwest, Granda said.
recorded so the group can produce its most concert album.
"We like to keep it down to make it sound good," he said. "We got a lot of acoustic instruments that would be drowned out by the sound."
About 30 hours of recordings will be condensed into the 40-minute album.
Granda said that even though the Daredevil would record seven more concerts, he thought the group already had enough good recordings to produce the album. He also tapes after each performance and discusses ways the songs could be played better.
"We want to play before audiences that know us. If we recorded on the east coast, in Boston, we would have to reach out to the audience and convince them we are good before they would warm to us. The Midwest audience is already enthusiastic," he said.
"We want this to flow like a concert, so we take only the best from each gig," he said.
Arts & Leisure Musical features French
Parize-vous francais? If so, you might want to catch the performance of the "Play of Robin and Marion" next Tuesday night in English class. There is a musical play performed entirely in French.
The production will feature the performances of the New World Consort, a group of five young New York City musicians.
The musical comedy originally was titled "Le Jeau de Robin Et Marion," and remains
one of the earliest examples of secular
performance. It is the forcemer of modern opera.
The play is performed with the use of voices, recorders, shawms, rebec, viele, trummschet, psaltery, harp, hurp-gyard, bagpipe and dundry percussion. The performance is being sponsored by the KU International Theatre Studies Center, School of Fine Arts and the departments of French and Italian.
Staff Writer
Quilting regains popularity
By KATHY CONKEY
The men in old western movies built the cat cahins while the women made the quilts.
Quilting is an old art that many people think is only for great-grandmothers, but according to some local quilters, the craft is alive and well.
"It's a craft that had almost died out, but I think it will survive because it's become popular with young people," Jean Mitchell, a local outfit, said.
Mitchell started quiting when she was 31. She wanted to make a quilt for her son's room, so she gathered together old scraps of wool and made one.
"I remember how my grandmother had quilted when I was growing up," she said. "I drew up a design and started. Now there are many books out to help beginners.
MITCHEL HAS written a book called, "Quilt Kansas!" which contains 40 patterns, eight of which Mitchell designed. The others are traditional patterns with Kansas
The book goes on sale July 21 at the Kansas Quilt Symposium and, in conjunction with a quilt exhibition, at the Helen Wiley Museum of Art from June 18 to July 30.
Quilting takes a phenomenal amount of time. Carol Hurst, a graduate student in textile design who quits with Parn Carvalho, also in design, said even an uncomplicated quilt usually took them 300 hours to make.
Hurst started quilting in 1972 when she was 29. Her interest in the handicraft soon led her to return to college and to begin graduate study in textile design.
But quilters enjoy the work.
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"Things are more individual when you make them instead of buying them," she said. "Also I like to use up old pieces of fabric. That's why quilting was started."
She said she and Carvalho recently started a series of quilts with Kansas themes, then usually create designs from events in their own lives.
MITCHELL SAID she had always done things for herself because it was more fun.
When they sell their quilts, there is very little monetary satisfaction. Hurst estimated that they made an average of seven cents an hour.
Hurst said that the high number of friends indicated the risk of interest in quality friends indicated the risk of interest in quality friends.
"It's great because there are so many different kinds of expression in their work."
"There's a great bond that exists in the silence of the work," Hurst said. "There's a joy in the doing as well as in the finished product."
The Lawrence area has a quitting club called the Kaw Valley Quilter's Guild. It meets every third Tuesday of the month.
He will be in attendance with the president, Chris Edmonds, at 9:42:517.
This Week's
Highlights
Exhibits
The 767 GALLEY will display the works of Vera Bregia and Robert Zewyeh through May 3.
**KERNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY**
**SPECIAL EDITOR:** Aida Ways and New Aspects of Main Gallery and the Archive
WATSON LIBRARY will show "Swiss in American Life" through April 30.
THE KANASS UNION GALLERY will display the "inited Exhibition of Art" through April 23.
THE HELEN FORWARD THE SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART will have the "Hidden World of Miercledons" through Sunday in the Raymond Woolen Art Gallery, 125 E. Pearl Street, Nathaniel Painting and Calligraphy in the Kress Gallery
THE LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY is featuring art from the Lawrence Public Schools throughout
THE GALLERY, 745 New Hampshire St. is en-
closing the annual exhibition of acrylic by Glenn Leiden and weired by Eileen McNeil.
Concerts
THE ART AND DESIGN GALLERY, in the visual Arts Building is showing the works of Ariel Bloch
KAREL BLAAS, professor of music performance.
Theatre
LOU REED, along with ian Dury and the Blockheads, will perform at 8 Tuesday night in
will present a classical concert at 6 p.m. tomorrow
start of Marmola's Renaissance in Hangshi Hall.
THE VOCI DICAMERA will perform a 2 m. SHOW
throughout the Helen Foreman
Bursary Museum of Art.
**THE MISSING LAMB** and **"BUFFALO BILLS"
**THE MISSING LAMB** and **"BUFFALO BILLS**
performed at 8 a.m., tonight and tomorrow in
the ballroom at 8 a.m.
THE NEW WORLD CONSORT: a group of five
Robin and Marian, at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Swatworth
Brown and Marian, at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Swatworth
Lectures
"VANITIES," a act by Jack Heitner, will be performed at a part of Magge's Renaissance at Bard College.
"AGAMEMONN," "THE CHOEPHORI" and "THE EUMENDES," three Greek plays, will be read on Sunday afternoon in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
Miami artist ROBERT RANSOM THIELE will give
a free public lecture at 10 a.m. today in Woodruff
Auditorium.
*Portraiture in Freud's Vienna: From Facade to Payche'* will be the topic of ALESSANDRA COMINI, a professor of art history at Southern Methodist University. She is also the author of the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
G. ROBERT KEBEN, Sigma X II Lecturer from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, will speak on "Safeguards for the Nuclear Economy Projected for the Roosevelt Island 8 tonight in the Forum Room of the Kansas Univ."
JEAN MICHEL COUSTEAU will speak on "A man's Penetration of the Oceans," accompanied by a film presentation, at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
ROBERT LANGAUM, author of "The Poetry of Experience, Ivan Dinesen's Art. The Modern Spirit of Literature," and a Sunday day evening in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas University Library, wrote for Peter Potter, "On Thursday he will lead a discussion on poetry." On Thursday he will lead a discussion on poetry."
**PROFESSOR FLUELLER FULLENBERG** will speak on
the history of the University of California's Kalouve.
8 p.m. Thursday in the Council Chamber