MONDAY,APRIL21,2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Traditional performances give diverse 'Taste of Asia'
By Henry C. Jackson
cjackson@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
At the Taste of Asia festival Saturday, the University of Kansas defeated Syracuse.
Unfortunately, the game was not basketball. And the participants were not Nick Collison, Kirk Hinrich, Carmelo Anthony and company.
They were members of the Japanese Student Association performing a reenactment of the basketball game, while incorporating Japanese culture into a University event. One team wore Kansas colors and the other team represented Syracuse. The game was called kibasen, a popular playground game in Japan where participants ride atop each other's shoulders while trying to remove a headband from the opposing team.
The demonstration was one of
many cultural events during the Taste of Asia festival, which was presented by the Asian American Student Union. AASU has been working on Taste of Asia since January.
"We tried to cover the widest variety of countries we could," said Tiffany Lopez, AASU's president. "We talked to every Asian organization on campus."
Performances included songs, dances and videos from various Asian cultural groups.
"I'm enjoying myself," said Ken Sugimoto, Shizoka, Japan exchange student, who sang a song in Japanese about the need for peace in the world. "I'm especially enjoying the communication of students who come from different countries."
Though seats were set up for nearly 350 people, dozens stood at various points throughout Taste of Asia because there were
no seats. About 400 people came to the performance part of last night's festival at the Kansas Union ballroom.
"Things turned out really well," said Victoria Li, Overland Park freshman. "There were a lot of people here and we expected less turnout because of Easter weekend and the rain."
Taste of Asia also included an Asian buffet dinner at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries prior to the performances.
Martin Korykownkr, Lancing, England, senior, said he thought the show showed the diversity of Asia well, but wished there were more non-Asian students in attendance.
"The Asian community is not just the Chinese.It's so much more,"Korykownkr said.Iwould like to see more Americans,more white people here to see that."
— Edited by Anne Mantey
Kelley Weiss/Kansan
Lara Puno. Overland Park sophomore, performs a traditional Filipino fan dance at the Taste of Asia Festival. Puno said she had been in the Sinag Tala dance troop, or Starlight dance troop, for 10 years doing traditional Filipino dancing.
Carilloneurs to perform songs as part of cultural concerts
By Eddie Yang
eyang@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Melodies from different regions of the world will ring on campus this week as the World Music and Diversity Concerts begins Thursday. As part of the scheduled events, members of the KU community will play a variety of world music on the carillon throughout the day.
"We are going to have different parts of the world represented through the music," said Clarence Henry, professor of ethnomusicology and the Concerts
coordinator. "Most of the cultures in the world have a form of music, even though it might be expressed differently."
The carillon is located inside the Campanile. The performers during the day will be students of Elizabeth Berghout, the campus cariloneur.
"The carillon looks like a piano with wooden knobs that you hit with your fist," said Andrea Coleman, Lincoln, Neb., senior, one of the performers. "Your two hands play the top line and your feet play the bottom lines with pedals similar to that of an organ."
Coleman said she would represent Australia with a piece entitled "Summer Song" by Terry Vaughan, an Australian.
Although Coleman will play a composition originally written for the carillon, some other performers will play music not intended for the carillon.
"We have a performer that will represent Africa that had to transcribe a vocal melody from an old African song into music notation," Henry said.
Henry said he wanted to highlight music of all cultures across the campus.
"Students could almost play a guessing game of identifying the
"Most of the cultures in the world have a form of music, even though it might be expressed differently."
Clarence Henry professor of ethnomusicology
continent with the type of music being played," Coleman said. "I think it would be fun for students to get a flavor of different music and cultures."
Edited by Erin Chapman
WORLD MUSIC AND DIVERSITY CONCERTS
Music from all over the world will be played on the carillon Thursday
9 a.m. Fanfare for World Music and Cultural Diversity,
Lon H. Mitchell, KU Mathematics
10 a.m. South America, Anne Tempel, KU Music
11 a.m. North America, Elizabeth Berghout, KU faculty Music
1 p.m. Africa, Ashley Peterson, KU Music
2 p.m. Asia, Hatsumi Shibata, KU Music
12 a.m. Europe, Lara Walter, KU Music
3 p.m. Australia, Andrea Coleman,
KU Music
4 p.m. Antarctica, Janet Reeves KU Art
5 p.m. World Peace and Solidarity Martha Schad, KU engineering
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