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Friday, February 22, 1980
University Daily Kansan
Maynard
blows
into town
Lawrence has already been treated to glabion player Chuck Mangione, and now it will get a chance to see and hear turntables at the Lawrence Opera House tonight at the Lawrence Opera House
"This is the age of the trumpet player," Ferguson said in a telephone interview this week.
His hit song, "Gonna Fly Now," was the theme of the Academy Award-winning movie "Rocky" and won a Grammy Award nomination as "Best POP Instrumental." His album "Conquistador" sold over 420,000 selling a big Band album of the last 15 years.
8y JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Reporter
Ferguson, famous as a high-note artist who often reaches two octaves above High C, has come to the forefront of this age.
Ferguson says he really likes Mangione and doesn't mind being compared to him.
"HELL NO, I DON'T MIND. Every time Chuck has a success, I feel good," Ferguson said.
A lot of Ferguson's success, like Mangione's, is due to his popularity with younger audiences. Ferguson said this was the reason he spent fourth month tour of "nightwishers everywhere."
His current tour, which includes concerts at colleges, universities and even high schools, will eventually lead Ferguson to take them back to the recording studio in April.
"I'm a believer in change," Ferguson said. "I enjoy being contemporary."
"Young people today are so multifaceted. They can be a time, Ferguson said. "They can like me and the Chicago Symphony at the same time. Ten years ago they just had one
"I enjoy the influence of a young band," Ferguson said. "I have influence on them as a band leader, but they really influence me."
FERGUSON PREFERS to remain outside of a category. He calls himself "innovative" or "multi-directional." This is in evidence when he plays the disco- and rock influenced "Star Trek" or "Rocky II," when he plays the jazz numbers like "Mistake Me Not" or "You might feel most comfortable under a jazz label." "There is a mystic quality surrounding jazz," he says.
The jazz label could be suspect, according to one critic, who said that although Ferguson was a superb instrumentalist he was not a great improvisationalist.
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"Wohever said that, I want them to get their horn out and be with me at 8 o'clock the night of the show," Ferguson said. "I grew up with imprisonment."
Ferguson said if he wasn't an improvisationist his band would trust him to play the same thing every night.
"They don't trust me," he said. "I might pull something new on them tonight. They look forward to it."
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Coping theme of 'Circle'
The remainder of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" deals with this internal play, which is set in the Middle Ages about 1,000 years ago.
Rv KEVIN MILLS
Staff Reporter
The play's first scene is set in a war-avaged village in the Georgian province of Russia at the end of World War II. The village people face the task of reconnaissance. But the shepards want grazing land and the fruit-growers want to irrigate the soil.
Creatively coping with life after destruction is what the play, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," is all about. Ron Shull, director of the play, says.
They finally resolve their differences, and to celebrate their accord, decide to stage a play.
Shul is directing the first University Bertolt Bertelts 1943 play opens at 8 tonight, and plays again tomorrow night in the University Theatre. It will play Feb. 28.
The villager's play concerns a governor and his wife who are overthrown by their subjects. In their hasty flight, they leave behind their child, who is found by Grusha, a
"The gist of the play is the story of creativity," Shull said. "It's about doing things for people, and recovering from destruction."
kitchen maid. Grusha raises the child as her own.
"Grasha goes through hell with the kid." Shull said, "and in the end, she is prepared to do anything for it."
The governor's wife returns to claim the child, and a judge is asked to determine the right way for the mother to be on the ground, places the child in it, and instructs the woman to conduct a tug-of-war.
"Brecht was a Marxist who lived his last ten years in East Berlin, 'Shall we said?' All of his plays are about the common people trying to control over their lives."
"I don't know how people will react to this today in light of the Afghanistan invasion," Shull said. "But it's the Georgian peasants who control the situation in the play.
Sull said Brecht's early plays were nihilistic in nature, and his work gradually acquired a revolutionary tone. By the mid-1950s he was balancing blant anti-war material. Sull said.
"THE CHALK CIRCLE" premiered in Northfield, Minn., in 1948. Until the mid-80s, most Western productions omitted the chalk circle as a symbol of Russian life with a "spirit of cowardice."
"There's no sense of 'Gosh, it's great to Commisstists.' In fact, Georgians are probably the most independent of the Soviet people."
"When I first became seriously interested in Brecht, I was an undergraduate here majoring in German. 'Shall you.' You had to make a sacrifice, rists on roads, the union was burned."
nine years. He studied at Mainz, Germany, in 1975-76 and at East Berlin in 1978.
"And theater in this country was terribly alive—people were trying to make theater as exciting as the world around them.
Shull has been a Brecht scholar for about
"I was drawn to Brecht because his work dealt with world problems, and at the same time it was art. I think that is what art is all about."
THE KU PRESENTATION will be a mammoth production in more ways than one. Thirty tons of sand were added to the stage to give the play an earthen feel.
"It creates an atmosphere," Brule said, and "it makes the actors move in the right way. We're dealing with peanuts, not college students."
The play also includes 43 songs with lyrics written by Brett. Shull. Swill is using the original score composed for Brecht in 1982 by German composer Paul Dessau.
"This music was approved by Brecht. My theory is that if you want to write new music you've got to see what Brecht wanted first," Shull said.
Shull said that relatively few productions of the "Chalk Circle" had used Dessau's music.
spare time
FRIDAY
MUSIC: Maynard Ferguson, 8 p.m., Lawrence Opera House, Seventh and Massachusetts, Freak String Orchestra, 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall
THEATRE: "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," 8 p.m., University Theater
ART: "Careful Spaces," computer art by Colette Bangert, /7E7 Gallery
SATURDAY
MUSIC: Southern Fried, 8 p.m., Lawrence Opera House, Seventh and Massachusetts
THEATRE: "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," 8 p.m., University Theatre.
SUNDAY
MUSIC: Fresh String Quartet, 3.30 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall
Carillon recital, Albert Gerken, 3 p.m., Memorial Carillon, Winter Concert, KU Symphonic Band, 3.30 p.m., University Theater
THEATRE: "The 5th of July," 8 p.m., Inge Theatre.
MONDAY
THEATRE: "The 5th of July," 8 p.m., Inge Theatre.
TUESDAY
MUSIC: Faculty recital, chamber music for winds and strings, 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall
THEATRE: "The 5th of July," 8 p.m., Inge Theatre.
WEDNESDAY
MUSIC: The Dillards, with Riverrock, 8 p.m., Lawrence Opera House, Seventh and Massachusetts
Carillon recital, Albert Gerken, 7 p.m., Memorial Carillon, The Art of Fugue, "Quentin Faulkner, 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall
THEATRE: "The 5th of July," 8 p.m., Inge Theatre.
THURSDAY
MUSIC: Master class, Plainlayavsky, organ, 9 a.m., Swarthout Recital Hall
Master class, Quentin Faulkner, organ, 1 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall
Organ concert, Peter Planaysvky, Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont
THEATRE: "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," 8 p.m., University Theatre.
Contemporary fare offered by quartet
An extraordinary opportunity to hear one of Sweden's finest string quartets will be presented on Thursday, March 10th and 3:30 Sunday afternoon, Raymany Crawford, ennusert of performance, said that we have
The Fresk String Quartet will perform in Saworthback Hall at Mallin Harp Hall as part of the KU Chamber Music Series. This is their first appearance at KU.
The quartet was formed in 1965 and has since toured extensively in Europe and America.
They will perform works by Shostakovich, Havden and Dag Wiren.
"This type of concert is not available in Lawrence every day." Stuhl said. "We have a combination of distinguished music and a group of distinguished musicians."
"Shostakovich's eight quartet is among his five greatest works," Stuhl said. "It is a very listenable work and, although it is contemporter, it is understandable.
Also contemporary, Stuhl said, to the Dag Wien work, which the Quartet insisted on playing. Dag Wien is Sweden's leading contemporary composer.
But the program is not solely for music students or professionals to come and listen to our concerts, he said. "They have acclaimed themselves." We want to attract all types of people."
Tickets for the two performances are on sale at the Maupity Hall Office. All seats are free except those made be by calling 804-3828. Ticket prices are $4 for the public, $2 for KU students and $15 for students.
"It does not take a music expert to understand and enjoy these concerts."
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Mellow bass
Tofu Teddy members Barry Bernstein, left, and Dean Ottinger pause during an at home practice.
Tofu Teddy has 'big party' act
By RICK HELLMAN Staff Writer
It all started three years ago when campus police made a Bacon stop on the way to Yosemite Hall. The University Events committee said Berstein's playing might disrupt students' classes.
So it was only natural that when the KU Free Speech committee asked Bernstein and his friend Dean Otteridge to get a little bit closer to lay at their rally last year, they accepted
Thus were born Tofu Teddy and the Brown Rice Cowpee. The Free Speech rally led to the group being asked to play at the KU Committee on South Africa's rally in of Strength Hall last spring. But the Electoral Commission was born at a dance last summer.
THE GROUP CONSISTS of Bernstein and Ottering on bass and drums, and Darrell Lea and Bob Leonard on electric guitars. Kevin Davin occasionally performs with the group.
As might be expected, neighbors complained about the sound, and the police came and broke up the dance.
"We like to spice it up a bit," Bernstein said. "We like to make our shows memorable.
"It's worked so far," he said. "It's like a big party."
TOFU TEDDY ALSO has experimented their environments with a room, called Off-the-Wall Hall employed tapes, decorations, three screens for movies slides, slides at midnight, a riddle screen, and a video.
"Right before midnight it got really intense." Bernstein said.
Bermstein and Ottinger's other group, OPUS, also likes to experiment with environmental factors in finding a new approach to music.
OPUS was born out of a class called the
Todd Teddy likes to keep their audience off guard. You can never tell who might show up at all of their gigs. They have打ugglers, bagpops, electronic tape accessory, soul singers and the Heirloom United perform with them at various times.
OPUS is comprised of Bernstein, Ottins,
and Burke on bass, drums and piano with
Joanne Harrell, guitar, Bill Oldfellow,
Jim Dightrizz, Dritz Fripper, on clarinet
and saxophone.
"The first six months, we played in the living room," Ottinger said. "And at first, we really drove people off, but it's like a new music, it takes time for people to accept
BURKE, HARRELL and Frizzell compose most of the group's music. "We're an avant-garde, new music, improvisational group," Ottinger said.
The band's experiments with environments resulted in a performance last December at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, which featured performances of an enclosed affair hung over the seats, and an enclosed environment with pillows and rugs to lie on.
"We were doing this wild, space-out jam," Bernstein said, "and the police marched up on stage but we just kept playing."
"It doesn't have to be people sitting in a chair," Bernstein said.
"Music can be experienced in a lot of different ways. Our goal is to break down barriers, to make it one body instead of two separate ones."
Summer Orientation Program 1980
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
STUDENT STAFF POSITIONS
. . . leadership abilities
. . . knowledge of University programs & activities
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. . . enthusiasm about program
... interpersonal communication skills
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"new Music Ensemble," which was taught for three semesters by Leon Burke III.
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