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Monday, December 5, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Requiem Mass fills Hoch with throbbing emotions
Bv PAMEKEY
Reviewer
A standing ovation appropriately reflected audience appreciation of the performance of the Verdi Requiem Mass yesterday afternoon in Heoch Auditorium. The chorus was vibrated with the passion projected in this mass, which was written in a theatrical style and performed by the combined University of Kansas choirs, the University Symphony Orchestra and soloists Charleen Carrere, the Thomas Harper and William Anderson.
The slow somber tone of the first movement, the "Requiem or Kyrie," set the mood for the performance while it introduced the chairs and the solists. Choral repetitions of the word "Requiem" gave the movement an anxious undercurrent.
But the relative quiet of the first movement was shattered in the dramatic
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"Dies irase," which vocalized terror of God's wrath on Judgment Day.
FOUR VIOLET orchestral chords followed by a frantic swirl of sound from the chair heightened the feeling of fear while the auditorium seemed to lose its power as the soloists alternated crying their terror while singing the 13th century poem about Judgment Day. Long solo passages interspersed with orchestral and vocal parts gave impact to the second movement.
The soloists' clarity provided stark contrast to the choir of 255 persons, whose pronunciations were largely unintelligible. At times the orchestra overwhelmed all
other sound, but the pure voices of the soloists ultimately transcended the background cacophony.
The chair depended on emotional dynamics rather than clear pronunciation to carry the undercurrent of fear towards the Requiem. Frequent repetitions of the word would create a cacophony, and underscored Verdi's fatalistic emphasis on damnation.
TENSION AND emotion continued to build throughout the Requiem, culminating in Ayers' soprano solo in the final movement, the "Libera me." The dramatic four chord theme from the "Dies Irae" returned as the climax to this movement, and when that energy was exhausted the last pleaded delivery from inevitable fate.
The Requiem was an emotional,
theatrical performance, bearing little ex-
Strike . . .
From nage one
repeatedly stressed that they did not want violence...
complete the performance without noticeable problems.
FREDRIK SAID it was silly to think farmers would blockade county roads.
Two local truckers who specifically work with farmers said last week they did not answer.
With help from truckers such action would be possible, he said, but added that there is not a close alliance between truckers and farmers.
One said he had supported the farmer on many occasions and would never back anything against the farmer. The strike is what he considers against the farmer, he said.
Police seek to question car riders
Occupants of a late-model car are being sought for questioning in the slaying last week of Samuel C. Norwood, 30, manager of the North variety store at 911 Massachusetts St.
Richard Stanxiv, Lawrence police chief, said that the car was seen in Lawrence on Sunday.
The car, identified as a 1977 Chevrolet
brown in color, is thought to have been
stolen by the authorities.
Norwood's hands were bound behind his
heard. He had been shot in the back of the
behind him.
But whether the Requiem was intended to be a religious experience or a moving theatrical performance, the audience was treated with great respect by the combined talents of the KU choirs.
Norwood was found dead Tuesday morning by a police officer on a routed patrol. His body was on the south bank of the river at River at the north end of New York Street.
NORWOOD, WHO had moved to Lawrence in July, was last seen alive at about 5:45 p.m. Monday as he was leaving the store.
He was carrying or wearing a light beige topcap, a gold wrist watch, a camera with a microphone.
None of these items has been found.
Norwood's car was found locked in a parking lot across the street from the store's
According to Rex Johnson, Douglas County sheriff, no letters have been received in response to a $5,000 reward offer from the F. W. Woolworth Co.
The department, however, has received several phone calls from persons who had been around the parking lot area, Johnson said.
As an emotional experience, conductor James Raisten effectively tuned the choir and orchestra to emphasize the full impact of the Requiem to the audience. The only weak section of the performance was the beginning of the "Sanctus," when the chorus failed to follow the director for several measures. The group recovered to
"We hope that more people will call," he said.
About 25 members of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Lawrence police, Douglas County sheriff's department and the KU police are investigating.
Johnson said he hoped to have complete autopsy results today or tomorrow.
He accused the farmers of living beyond their means.
"The farmers have brought this on themselves. They've bought too expensive machinery and they don't need a lot of it," he said.
He said draft horses were a better investment than tractors and he encouraged them.
DON HARRIES, who works for Farmers Elevator Co., in Eudora, also said that farmers lived beyond their means. He said he thought it was hard to understand why farmers would drive their $15,000 to $40,000 tractors in parades, wasting fuel.
Harris said he favored the strike, though, and hoped that a leader would emerge from
Schruben said that right now there was no recognized leader, but rather a consortium pulling the strings. He agreed that a leader should emerge.
None of the four national farm organizations can support the strike because of the Capper-Voledast Act of 1922. The act, proposed by Arthur Capper, Kansas senator, and Andrew Vostead, Minnesota congressman, prohibited cooperative farm groups such as the National Farm Organization, the Farm Bureau, the Farmers Union and the training trade and industry employing prices.
And so is Kinko's.
BUT INDIVIDUALS belonging to those
organizations are free to act as they please.
Lew Carson, field man for the Kansas Farmers Union, said about 60 per cent of its members backed the strike. He said that farmers with several hundred-acre farms and farmers with less than a hundred acres were involved in the strike.
"There is no distinction as to who supports the strike. It's just a matter of who has the vote."
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ceptual structural resemblance to the religious service it was meant to be. Guiseppe Verdi completed the Requiem Mass in 1874 as a tribute to Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Its presentation was so controversial that in 1903 Pope Pius X banned it and all music written in the theatrical style from use in church services.
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