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Wednesday, April 4, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Week Scene
Steinberg, Spheeris Star Tonight
FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
SINALVE OF THE ARIS
DAVID STERBERG AND JIMMIE
SPHEREIS: This packed
double bill consists of popular comedian
Steinberg and mellow guitarist and singer.
Spheiris: Show begins at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
JOHN LAHR: Author and critic John
Lahr special at 8:15 p.m. Thursday in
Houston.
ELEO POMARE DANCE COMPANY:
This predominantly black company will perform contemporary modern dance, at 18:54 Friday in Hoch Auditorium.
8:15 Friday night in Hoch Auditorium.
B. B. KING: "The Undisputed King of the Blues" will on stage at 8:15 Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium.
MOVIES
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE. Showtimes are
7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in
Woodruff Auditorium. Admission is 60 cents.
HIS GIRL FRIDAY: A wacky 1940 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant as a man with a mind in continually being upset by the number one girl reporter (Rosalind Russell). Showtimes are at 12 and 10 p.m. Oread, Inc., 1204 Oread, Admission is 50 cents.
THE GOLD RUSH: Hailed by critics as Charlie Chalkin's Masterpiece, this 1924 comedy feature finds the lovable tramp prospecting for gold in Yukon territory. The film will be shown with a newly recorded musical sound track. Shows will begin at 8 p.m. on Saturday at the United Ministries Center, 1230 Grand. Admission is 50 cents.
THE EMIGRATES: Starls Liv Ullman and Max von Sydow. Shows at 7:10 and 9:45
THE ROOMMATES: Showtimes at 7:40
and 9:15 pm. Hillcrest 2 Theatre.
p. m. Hillcrest 1 Theatre.
THE GODFATHER: Starring Academy Award winner Marlon Brando. Performances at 7:15 and 10:30 p.m. Hillcrest 3 Theatre.
THE VALACH PAPERS: Crime story with Charles Bronson Shows at 7:30 and 10:30
BALL OF FIRE: 1941 film with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwick. Woodruff Auditorium Wednesday 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. Admission is 75 cents.
BULLITT and BONNIE AND CLYDE:
Bullitt stars Steve McQueen and Bonnie and
Clyde stars Faye Dunaway and Warren
Beatty, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. sunset Drive In.
MUSIC
A BAROQUE CONCERT: By the
Collegium Musicum, directed by William
Melin, 3 p.m. Saturday at the Art Museum in Spooner Hall.
Kansan Photo by CARL G. DAYAZ JR
Robert Moog Sets the Tone on His Synthesizer
Moog's demonstration topped off the second night of Festival of the Arts . . .
Moog Demonstrates Versatility
SENIOR RECITALS; Performances by Deborah Layman and Priscilla Kingry, presented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts. Recitals will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday Swarthout Recital Hall. Admission is free.
Robert Moog, inventor of the "Moog" electronic music synthesizer system, presented a very informative lecture on "Synthetic Sound and Real Music" to an attentive Hoch Auditorium audience. He was one of the pioneers in engineering physics, was the pioneer in the manufacture of package synthesizer systems in the United States.
By ROGER OELSCHLAEGER Kansan Reviewer
During his lecture, he not only gave a demonstration of several of his instruments, but he presented brief examples of electronic and the aesthetics involved in its production.
The major point brought forth in the talk was that electronic music was no more unnatural than music played on conventional instruments, and therefore should not be criticized purely on this basis. To support this claim, he played a great deal of electronic music, of great variety, to show the craft that was involved in its production. In several pieces he seemed less interested in those matters, and instead Ussachevsky and Davidovich and devoted most of his applause to some of the more popular things such as a selection from Walter Carlos "Switched-on Bach." Moog nevertheless made his point quite well.
Moog apparently is quite tone of Waster Carlos. He not only spoke highly of Carlos' efforts in the classical music field, i.e., "Switched-on Bach" and "The Well-amplered Synthesizer," but he also pointed to this composer-performer's taste in electronic music as an indication of the evening maturity of the artist.
Another important aspect of Moog's philosophy about electronic music was that sounds from synthesizers were "not designed to imitate anything," and that electronic instruments' ability to imitate any sound was merely a testimony to the versatility of the machine. He further assured the audience that musicians would learn to play machines, because man does not have enough insight into what actually makes a good piece of music to be able to teach a machine how to compose skillfully.
Unfortunately, the audience did not seem to be appreciative of Carlos' evolution from a player of Bach, to a composer of vast onic modes of sounds that did not have a tune that was appropriate. But he could be foot-trapped. As mentioned before, the selection from "Switched-on-Bach" was received warmly, but the excerpt Moog played from Carlos' new album, "Sonic" was met with little more enthusiasm than the pieces by Ussachevsky and Davidovsky.
All things considered, Moog presented an interesting lecture which moved at an easy pace, but yet had such a wide variety of elements that it was never dull.
SENIOR RECTALTS: Katherine Kirk-
patrick and Martha Cushman B p.m.
5:30PM
He seemed in tune with all aspects of electronic music, praising nearly anything that he could hear.
attempt at good musical craftsmanship.
attempt at good musical craftsmanship.
If a man can stand before an audience and shake hands with both the virtuosity of Bach's music and the stage antics of Alice
Cooper, it is certain that he possesses the flexibility to remain always at the fore of a field that promises to move steadily into the future as technology itself.
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