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Thursday, March 29, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Festival Includes Lectures, Music
BY BETSY RIORDAN
Kansan Staff Writer
The seventh annual Festival of the Arts begins next week with the Empire Theatrical Corporation production of Kurt Vonnegut's play, "Happy Birthday, Wanda June." "Happy Birthday, Wanda June!" Vonnegut's first endeavor in playwrighting was for a collection of books he "Cat's Cradle," Slaughterhouse Flex" and "The Sirens of Titan."
The play is, in the author's words, "a simple-minded play about people who enjoy killing." The cast headlines Wayne Sherman and Vivien Lvanden in the leading roles. Sherman appeared on Broadway as Henry Birdle and as Conrad Birdle in "Bye Bye Birdle."
Landau first appeared in Maxwell Anderson's "The Golden Six." She has tourned in the national companies of "The Owl and the Pussycat" and "Star-Spangled Girl."
The play is in three acts and has two intermissions. Tuesday night the festival, in cooperation with the Humanities Lecture Series, presents Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Although RCA developed a synthesizer in the 1950s, Moog further developed the concept of electronic music.
Moog will spend two days on campus, possibly speaking to several classes.
Moog holds a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University and is president of Moog Music, Inc., the company which makes the synthesizers and related audio signal generating and processing instruments.
The double bill of David Steinberg and Jimme Siemer makes Wednesday night a double pleasure. Steinberg, who holds a Master's degree in computer science, is best known for his comic "snoresmenets."
Film's Simplicity Enhanced By Excellent Photography
By BOB GILLUM Kansan Reviewer
Liv Vulmann was nominated for the best actress Oscar but lost. This is understandable, because her role is in a Swedish film dubbed for release in the United States. It's encouraging that she was nominated for a non-Inngar Bergman film.
Ullmann and Max von Syod, two of Bergman's best, have ventured out on their own in "The Emigrants." It's about a Swedish family who, like many in the mid-nineteenth century, find themselves on a ship for North America.
The story is simple and well constructed. Farming life in Sweden was barely tolerable. The work-weary father dreams of traveling to the United States, a new promised land.
The journey was rough. Two children died
within a family that is rich, untouched,
much loved by home.
This has all been told before. The Jan Troell-Bengt Forshand script is dull and unenlightening. But the photography is what makes the film worth seeing. Every scene, each angle and composition, is a picture to be framed over a fireplace. The countryside images are similar to those of painter Andrew Weth.
Ullmann, von Syndon and other main
characters are convincing in their Swedish
language. The character is clearly a man.
'Beginnings' May Be Last For Allmans
By JOE ZANATTA
Kansan Reviewer
Friday afternoon in Robinson Gymnasium.
Cost is $1 and anyone may come.
B. B. King, world-famous blues singer, will top the bill Saturday night, the final night of the festival. He is acknowledged by many jazz musicians and has been performed in Las Vegas at Caesars' Palace and has done many television appearances for Carson, Cavett and Sullivan. A documentary is being made of King's life, which was to Chicago's Cook County jail in 1970.
"Beginnings"—Allman Brothers Band (Atco Records)
Two previously issued Allman Brothers Band albums have been repackaged under the title "Beginnings." The two-record set includes all songs previously issued on the albums "The Allman Brothers Band" and "Idlewild South."
Since the original sessions that produced these songs, two members of the Allman Brothers Band have been killed in motorcycle accidents. It is doubtful whether the band will ever produce anything as good again.
handed details well but let the story lay by not developing the characters fully. When on Sydow lies in his new field, smiling, we don't know what he's all about. of promise a new future, but what has really changed? Two children are dead, and his wife nearly died on the ship. He's on strange land that he'll have to work hard to develop.
For those who missed the Allman Brothers the first time around, "Beginnings" is a good chance to hear the creativity and genius that their music stood for. For those who have been Allman Brothers fans, it's a good caenhance to replace those albums that are probably worn out from playing over and over again.
"Beginnings" contains some of the best Allman Brothers material ever recorded. "Don't Want You No More," "Black Hearted Woman," "Hipshot Post," "The Red Ride" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" are among the better cuts included.
"The Emigrants" is one of a series of Swedish films. Next to be released is "The New Land." The American Dream has grown more beautifully, simply and natively.
In 1963, Steinberg joined Chicago's famed Second City Company, performing and writing material for the group for four years.
He has appeared on Broadway in Jules Fieffer's "Little Murders" and in Robert A. Arthur's "Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights."
Spihera, Columbia recording artist, will sing and play guitar and piano. He will be participating in the annual Carnegie Hall Jazz Festival.
closest friend, on flute, bass and acoustic guitar. Nicole occasionally will accompany you.
Spheres will on campus Wednesday afternoon and will speak to jazz music
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John Lahir, author and dramatic critic, will speak Thursday night. Lahir is the theatre director for "The Autograph Hound" and "Astonish Me." His best known work is "Notes on a Cinderella," the dramatic tribute to his father, Bert Lahir.
Friday night marks the performance of the Elso Parmance Dance Company, a company founded by dancers in New York. Its purpose is "the creative utilization of black talent and ability in contemporary modern dance in an effort to break away from the confining stereotypes of Negro culture."
The company will perform with Tau Sigma, KU dance fraternity, at 4 o'clock
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