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Monday, April 3, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Prof's Avocation Is Opera
By MARCIA CLIFTON
Kansas Stuff Writer
Puccin's opera, La boheme, is set in the 19th century, but he wrote it for children. Seaver, it could apply to lovers living in Greenwich Village or elsewhere.
Seaver, who is a University of Kansas history professor and directs the western civilization program, has presented a weekly lecture titled "Opera's my Hero." University Theatre will be presenting La Boheme beginning April 18, and Seaver had advice for people who wanted to see opera but are not regular operagoers.
According to Seaver, Puccini achieved a timelessness in La Boheme.
"It's a very real story of love to try to overcome the hardships of poverty. In fact, it reminds me of the woman in Rhaca, N. "Yaer," Saway said.
The opera concerns the love affair between Rodoofo and Mimi it takes place on Paris' left bank. The opera makes paper flowers for a living.
THE TWO FALL IN LOVE but Mimi eventually leaves Rododo after struggling along in poverty. She is forced to die of dying of tuberculosis and returns to Rododo. The story ends on a tragic note when Mimi finally dies.
Seaver said that all anyone needs "is the mere sketch of the story and then you can look for the highlights."
"The great thing about opera is emotion." Seaver said. He said that opera personalized emotion and felt like a film. And funny, as well as tragic.
"You can be swept up in the emotion if you allow yourself not to worry about the singing or the singing that came along," Seaver said.
Referring to La Bohme, Seaver said a highlight of the first act was the meeting of Mimi and Rodolfo. Each sings a long verse with some exclamation that acts as they sing a duet and fall into other one's arms.
Seaver said there was a familiar waltz song in the sedond act, and the thrid act was
highlighted by a quartet and Mimi's farewell to Rodolfo.
Do some girls have more fun?
THE FOURTH ACT was highlighted by all the themes presented in earlier acts, was moving, according to Seaver.
The plot is not intricate or complicated, said Seaver, and recurring themes are easily recognized.
James Seaver
Some girls do have more fun than others. They're always on the go. Love hiking, camping, all active sports. If you're that girl,
Seaver recalled a production of La Bohème which he saw in
Kansas City several years ago when Jan Pearce had the role of Rododo and Mimi was played by a soprano from Mexico.
you probably use Tampax tampons. The internal sanitary protection that solves your monthly problems. Lets you be as active as you please. The silken-smooth container-applicator makes Tampax tampons comfortable and easy to insert. Go ahead, be the girl that has more fun. There are millions of girls just like you. All Tampax tampon users.
"Mimi was on the heavy side," Seaver said, "and it was difficult to imagine that she was tuberculin. In the last act as she woke up from bed, she had broken, and somehow that production never recovered."
Seaver also recalled meeting the owner who created the role of head office manager for production. The man was 94 when Sever met him in Rome in 1954. The man had left opera earlier and was still offered a $5,000 bill by a U.S. bearer.
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banker for his collection, but decided to sell them instead to the Italian government for millions of litre. He only collected an amount he believed to be necessary, however, and was living in poverty when Seaver met him.
The two kept in touch and Seaver has a picture which the man sent him as he was prepared to sing in the opera in 1986.
Seaver said he became interested in opera when he was "Catastrophically converted" at the age of 12. He grew up in Los Angeles and had "intermittent access" to opera. He attended a music conservatory where he said that it was "the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard."
Seaver said that another thing which had interested him in opera was his friendship with the conductor. He correspond and Stack signs his letters "Ellott Mess." Several summers when they were growing up their travel videos to Lake Michigan and to Lake Stacks' uncle, Bonell Belloue.
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As a result of his interest in opera Seaver is now a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Quiz season. He has also flown Seaver flies to New York on the weekend, sees operas courtesy of the Met, and on Saturday afternoon serves on the Met's piano experts. His last visit was in Jupiter.
Seaver said that opera had "emerged with every high culture, whether it is in light opera or in dark opera," said he believed the main purpose of opera was to take a drama and "raise it to the nth degree and achieve a relationship in the story and the music."
"Opera should also be believable," Seaver said. "It must pertain to humanity—to real people."
and other opera singers came to practice. Safer said that he had enjoyed these people and had at one time thought about seeking a career singing opera. He decided, "I enjoy opera merely as a hobby."
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"Seeing their lives from the made me get away and it felt like I was not allowed that the life of opera performers was not, at that time, a stable one."
AURH Elects Officers; Student Activity Is Goal
Bill May Increase Aid to KU Students
The Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) Council met Thursday in Hashinger Hall to elect new officers for 1972.
The Pell plan, part of the team at the college, designed to give more equitable financial aid to college students, should help more students at the university pass, according to Bernard Taylor, assistant director of
Taylor said recently that middle-class families who had been overlooked in present aid and should benefit from the plan.
Those elected were Alex Thomas, Adibas Abisa, Ethiopia, junior, president, Matt Browning, senior, city judge, first, inst vice-president; Jack
Every college student would be eligible, through the plan for a maximum annual federal payment of $1,400, minus the amount that his family could be expected to contribute.
Meyer, Norton junior, 2nd vie-
president; Jean Foreman,
Shawne sophomore, secretary,
Jay Sullivan, Salina
freshman, treasurer
programs to be used as supplements to the new basic grants.
The Pell proposal also would reauthorize present aid
According to Bill Wohlford, research assistant to Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan, a final decision on his bill should not come until May 17.
These include grants for students from low-income families, work-study payments, government-guaranteed loans, low interest loans and government-guaranteed loans obtained from private lenders. The university committee members, who have been debating the $23 billion higher education bill, agreed on the proposal. Senatorate February 29. House conference accepted the provisions on an 11-9 vote.
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NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS ON THE SELECTION OF
STUDENT SENATE Committees
The Student Senate in accordance with the Senate Code, will pick new members to its committees and urges all students to apply.
The Committees Are:
Standing Academic Affairs Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Housing Student Services Finance and Auditing Communications
Boards & Commissions
University Judiciary Union Operating Committee
Other Committees
Teacher-Course Evaluation Elections International Film Series Concert Course
Descriptions of these committees are available in the Student Senate Office, B105, Kansas Union. Applications are also available there and are due at 5:00 p.m. on April 6, 1972.
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