Tuesday, September 26. 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Local light show bombards senses
by Maggie Ogilvie Kansan Staff Reporter
Imagine a mouth superimposed on an eye, fading out, then flashing back to you, then dissolving into the smile on a girl's face. "Good day, sunshine," throbs a sound from the Beatles' "Revolver" album. You follow the lights as they lead you through the experiences of good and bad days in a brief hour. It is an experiment.
And the light show at 706 Massachusetts Sunday night was an experience—of sights, sounds, and emotions in a very real world, depicted in an unreal way. Everything was superimposed, to give startling contrasts, such as flowers blooming on a sandy beach. Forms jumped into sharp focus on definite beats and were fuzzed to fill the pauses between them.
Often there were puzzling halfshapes or fleeting glimpses at rakish angles that roused laughter. Added cellophane tints and hand shading over the lenses of two projectors accentuated the beauties of nature and humanity captured on a single screen.
Shapes are fleeting
The artistic photographer John Stevenson is a former history major and western civilization instructor at KU who was passing through town on his way home to England via Mexico.
Floating grocery stores cater to bargemen on Holland's canals, says the National Geographic.
"If everything is programmed, it can be most effective," he explained during the presentation which he said was unplanned.
One viewer thought Stevenson must have had "a pretty wild supper." But she was taking a "straight" view. Appreciation requires escape, for example, from conventional reactions to an ad insert of a nude popping out of a Chiquita banana.
Filmed in Hawaii
Imagine palm trees, natives' wooden images, and lithe long-haired coeds at the University of Hawaii, where Stevenson filmed his poetic message, then attune it to an Indian raga tempo. Suddenly you hear jazz and see soaring birds through twisted op art lines, and just as suddenly they become pottery, fireworks, or sculpture dissolving into a human face.
The face has an empty look, but your eyes watch it full of fascination. You have taken a "trip" with a "Travel Log for Hip People."
The problems of harmonizing concert appearances with a teaching schedule pose nothing new for Kenneth Smith, professor of voice and head of the voice department at KU.
Smith to sing his way across U.S. this fall
A dozen recital, oratorio and symphony orchestra engagements are upcoming for the bass-baritone.
The first, on Oct. 3, finds Smith one of the soloists in the Boston Symphony's concert presentation of the Wagner opera "Dit Valkure."
More than 500 recitals
More than 500 recitals
Smith, who sang more than 500
recitals in this country and
abroad before joining the KU
faculty two years ago, will tour
for 11 days in November. He is
scheduled to sing on the Community
Concert series in Idaho Falls,
Idaho; Farmington, N.M.; Las
Vegas, Nev.; Salinas, Calif.; and
La Mesa, Calif.
His single Lawrence appearance will be a faculty recital Nov. 20 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The other dates are as soloist in Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 'L'enfance du
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Christ," Dec. 10; Buffalo Symphony, Buffalo, N.Y., "Messiah" Dec. 15; Rochester Philharmonic, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Jan. 20; and Pittsburgh Symphony, William Walton's "Belshazzar's Feast" in February.
Richard Angeletti, associate professor of the music department, who is on doctoral study leave at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., will be the accompanist for the recitals.
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Student Union Activities announces
A New Series of the World's Finest Films
CLASSICAL FILM SERIES
September 27-LA STRADA (Italy, Fellini, 1954)
October 4-THE CAT AND THE CANARY (U.S.A., Leni,1927)
October 11-KNIFE IN THE WATER (Poland, Polanski, 1962)
Oct. 18-THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (U.S.A., Welles, 1942)
November 15-ON APPROVAL (England, Brook, 1944)
October 25-GOLD OF NAPLES (Italy, DeSica,1955)
November 1-THE LAST MILLIONAIRE (France, Clair, 1934)
Nov. 8-ALLEMAN (THE HUMAN DUTCH) Holland, Haanstra, 1963)
*November 29-ALPHAVILLE
(shown in Union Ballroom) (France, Godard, 1965)
December 6-MAN OF ARAN (England, Flaherty,1934)
Dec. 13-THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK (Germany, Ambesser, 1961)
January 3-TWO GREAT SILENT SCREEN COMEDIANS: KEATON & LANGDON (U.S.A.,1920-1928)
January 10-THE DRUNKEN ANGEL (Japan, Kurosawa, 1948)
Two Showings: 7 & 9 p.m. — Dyche Auditorium
Single Admission: 60c—Season Tickets: $5.00
Tickets on sale now at Union Information Booth—Save $2.80 over single admissions!