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University Daily Kansan / Friday. April 24, 1992
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
HAPPENINGS
Benchwarms, 1601 W. 23rd St.
Friday: Boorays,
9:30 p.m - 1:30 a.m.
Saturday: Common Ground,
9:30 p.m - 1:30 a.m.
Sunday: Psi 500 featuring the Millhouse Nixons opening for Ghost of an American Airman,
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire
Friday: Toasters,
10 p.m.-2 a.m. cover charge: $6
Saturday: LA Ramblers, 10 p.m-
2 a.m. cover charge: $3
Monday: open-make, 9:30 p.m.
1:30 a.m. no cover charge
The Brass Apple: 3300 W. 15th St
Tuesday: Karake night, 9 p.m.
1:30 a.m. no cover charge
Flamingo Club, 501 N. 9th St.
Friday/Saturday; topless
dancing; noon-1 a.m., cover
charge; $2 or a two-drink min-
mond; Poetry Slam, 8 p.m.
cover charge; $2
Henry T's, 3520 W. 6th St.
Thursday: Karaoae night, 9.p.m-
2 a.m. no cover charge
International Club 21, 106 N. Park St
Friday: Kill Creek, cover: $3
Saturday: "Az One" Live Reggae,
cover charge: $3
Sunday: Reggae with Ras Mike,
no cover charge
Monday: Movies and Beer: "City
Slickers" no cover charge
Wednesday: Blues and Jazz
The Jazzhaus,926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Friday/Saturday: Love Square,
10 p.m.-1.30 a.m., cover charge $3
Thursday: Lonnie Ray's Blues Jam,
10 p.m.-1.30 a.m., cover charge $3
Johnny's Tavern. 410N, 2nd St.
Friday/Saturday Smoot Mahu!
9:00 p.m. - 2 a.m. cover charge. $1
The Power Plant, 901 Mississippi
Ages 18 and omitted
Friday: Beach Party; 7:30 p.m.-2 a.m.
Saturday: Rave Party-progressive,
industrial sensation; 7:30 p.m.-2 a.m.
Sunday: Alternative Music Night,
11:45 p.m.-2 a.m.
Riverside Barand Grill, 520N, 3rd St
Friday. Kaw Jakuns, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
cover charge $2
The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin in St.
Tuesday: Kara.xenight, 9 p.m.1
a.m., no cover charge
MUSIC
**Friday:** Doctoral Recital: RobertAndres, piano; Swarthout Recital Hall; 8.p.m., free
Saturday. Dance Parade beginning at Spencer Museum of Art and continuing to other camp sights, 2:30 p.m., free
Student Lecture/Recital: "The Vocal Songs of Alban Berg." Swarthout Recital Hall. 230 p.m., free
Master's Recital: Fang Run, violin; Swarthout Recital Hall, 8 p.m., free
Sunday Major Works Concert:
Combined Choirs and University
Symphony Orchestra; Johnson County
Community College, 8 p.m., free
Master's Recital: Noel Arce, piano; Swarthout Recital Hall; 8 p.m., free
The Lawrence Arts Center,
200 W. 9th St.
Lawrence Children's Choir Spring
Concert, 3 p.m. Haskell Indian
Junior College Auditorium, $1-students
MONDAY: master's Recital; Isabel Jeremias, bassoon; Swarthout Recital Hall; 8 p.m., free
Tuesday: Visiting Artists Series: Lecture/
Rectal by Fabio Luz, piano; Swarthout
Rectal Hall; Ralf m. p., free
THEATER
Lawrence Community Theater
1501 New Hampshire St.
Friday/Saturday: "The Rimers of
Eldrich," 8 p.m., tickets: $
SwarthotRecital Hall
TuesdayWednesday; University
TheaterRadioDrama"Burning
Patience";Performances: 7 p.m.
Tuesday, 8.p.m.Wednesday
ARTEXHIBITIONS
Spencer Museum of Art
Tuesday-Saturday: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m, closed Monday,
Sunday; noon-5 p.m.
Cameras as Weapon: German Wark
photography Between the Wars
Kress Gallery, until May 10, 1992
Albert Bloch, South Balcony
Gallery, until May 24, 1992
Ceramics by J. Sheldon Carey,
North Balcony Gallery,
until August 1, 1992
J.J.G. Boggs, Smart Money,
White Gallery, until May 1992
KU's 'Burning Patience'
After a long absence, radio drama returns to the University
In a final rehearsal for the radio program "Burning Patience," Sean Kaplan, Northbrook, Ill., freshman, left, reads the part of Mario, with Lawrence resident Charley Oldfather next to him, reading the lead part of Pablo Neruda. The program will be performed for a live audience by University Theatre on April 28 and 29 at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall and will be broadcast in September.
By Cameron Meier Special to the Kansan
Radium drama has been absent from KU theater about as long as 1970s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda has been absent from Chilean politics.
If that seems like a leap in logic, it not. Both are returning to KU next week in a University Theatre production.
The radio play, "Burning Patience," tells the story of Neruda and creates a fictional friendship between the young poet and a mailman on Isla Negra, a small island in Chile.
Antonio Skarmeta's play, which is being presented Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Murphy Hall, will air on KANU, probably in September to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month, said program director Darrall Brodon.
Next week's presentation is part of the "Latin American Theatre Today" festival and will be taped and edited for the later broadcast. The "Latin American Theatre Today" concert is at KU. Dozens of playwrights, actors and directors from Latin America and Spain will attend.
Skarmetta's story, translated by Marion Peter Holt, is set against the backdrop of political chaos that led to the assassination of Neruda and the overthrow of Chilean President Sal-
"It puts so much emphasis on the words, the poetry. Besides, this is the root of drama before TV, before films."
films"
Christina Chang
Lawrence junior, actress in the play
vadorador in 1973. The military junta that seized power said Allende committed suicide. The main story of the play, however, involves a budding love affair between a girl on the island and a mailman, to whom the young Neruda is teaching the art of poetry.
"The love affair is a metaphor for the political situation in Chile," said director Rick Mundy, KU graduate student. "We are reminded of what happened in Chile, but we see it through the eyes of the lavers."
The young man, Mario, who is the
village's mailman, persuades Neruda to help him woo his love, Beatriz. Mario, however, causes tension within Beatriz's family and enrages her mother, Rosa. The personal turmoil are symbolic of the political turmels of the early 1970s in Chile, according to Mundy.
Mundy said that although none of the actors had worked with this type of radio drama, it was an appropriate medium to use.
"There's a whole lot of talk, very little action," he said. "The verbal metaphor is the predominant image in the play."
Christina Chang, Lawrence junior. whoplays Beatriz. agreed.
"It puts so much emphasis on the words, the poetry," she said. "Besides, this is the root of drama, before TV, before films."
Sean Kaplan, Northbrook, Ill., freshman, who plays Mario, said. "You have to rely on the words, the emotions of the characters through their voices."
Mundy said no effort would be made to appeal to the audience visually. In fact, he suggested that the spectators should close their eyes at times and try to create a picture from the play's strong images and the live sound effects.
The powerful images of the sea in contrast with the image of peaceful village life suggest a violent uprising poised to reshape the everyday life of
the Chilean peasants. Mario compares his existence and the events unfolding around him to a "boat, rocking on my words," just as the audience could be rocked by the power of the words in the script.
For example, the methodical, deep voice of Charley Oldfather, who plays Neruda, contrasts with the young, eager voice of Kaplan. The two distinct voices create as powerful a contrast as the juxtaposition of the calm life of the peasants and the pulsating ocean waters that surround them.
However, using radio to achieve these effects was not something that came easily to Mundy or the actors.
Oldfather, who has been performing since 1933 and has appeared in TV movies such as "The Day After" and "Cross of Fire," said he had never done anything quite like this before. He also said students would enjoy it because most had never seen a radio play.
"It'll be interesting to see what it takes to put a radio play on." he said.
Stacey MacFarlane, Lawrence graduate student who plays Beatriz's mother, Rosa, said it was a learning experience for her too.
"It's more challenging than I ever thought it would be," she said.
Jack Wright, professor of theater,
said most students were not familiar
with radio drama and that this work
provided a great learning opportunity.
nity.
Wright said the "Burning Patience" production would be the first time in many years that KU theater had done a radio play. "Actually, it's the first time I can remember," he said.
Wright said the play was suggested to him by George Woodyde, dean of international studies, as part of the "Latin American Theatre Today" festival. Wright said he and others thought it would be appropriate for radio.
"It allows actors to get involved in radio techniques," he said.
Sound effects and use of the microphones, for example, pose a new challenge.
He said that it took two people to play one role, one to act the part by reading the script and another to make the sound effects of the character.
In the introductory words of the play, Naruda's world is summed up:
"It's a symbiotic relationship," Mundy said. "The theater community has been extremely interested."
"Political turmoil was rampant in Chile in 1970 . . . Neruda became the Communist party candidate for president, only to be replaced at the 11th hour by Salvador Allende. Elected in 1970, Allende was assassinated in a coup d'etat in 1973. Twelve days later, Neruda was dead. It was a time of burning patience."
'Onobox' strives to keep Lennon's legacy alive
The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Yoko Ono,
John Lennon's widow who is still
reviled by those who feel she broke up
their beloved Beatles, has spent much
of the last ten years protecting and
promoting Lennon's legacy.
Now, she's put out "Onobox," a collection of six compact discs, each with about 70 minutes of her music.
"I'm just another artist trying her best to convey joy and some pain," Ono said. "In the contemporary era most artists don't get persecuted or discredited or ignored like I have. But in the old days Ibsen got flak for 'The Doll House.' Van Gogh was ignored."
The material on "Onobox" may surprise those who ante up the $80 for it. It's also available in a more economical single CD, "Walking on Thin Ice," that surveys the box set.
The expansive format showcases a startling variety of work. The music touches on rock, disco, pop, jazz, blues and opera. All of it is stamped with Yoko's wide-ranging and original vocals and her feminist viewpoint.
"Another record label has come to me in 1989 about a project, but it seemed like they wanted more to do with John and Yoko, with John underlined, said One. "It sounded like they just wanted anything of his to put out in 1990 for the 10th anniversary of Lennon's mound, which is a bit tacky.
"I'mjustanother artisttryingherbest to conveyjoy and some pain."
Yoko Ono
Producer of 'Onobox'
Ono said the label persuaded her to limit the project to six CDs, instead of nine. So "Onobox" doesn't represent collaborations with Lennon like "Two Virgins" and "The Wedding Album." Instead, it highlights her later, more commercial work.
"Rykodic came and made it obvious they wanted me."
Still, Lennon hovers over it like a ghost, contributing a kind of experimental guitar-playing he never put on his own songs. He is also heard in studio chatter between selections.
"My concern in preparing it was not to stray too far away from the originals." Ono said.
Ono thinks "Woman Power," as remixed by hard-rock producer Bob Stevens, is a potential single, after "Walking on Thin Ice." — which
"We were incredibly lucky people, despite all the pain," One said. "We had fun doing a lot of things, and maybe his death was the fare."
Lennon thought would establish Ono as a commercial recording artist. Lennon, Ono's most vocal champion, was carrying a tape of the song when he was shot and killed.
A host of books appeared after Lennon's death alleging that their public image was a facade.
*If you look at the big picture, with genocide being hushed up in the world and people living without a voice, then entertainers being fair game is no big deal.
"You get people saying things like I put cat droppings on the floor so John would step in it, it goes completely into never-ever land. Negative ones like that I think people can see that it's fiction."
"Somehow doors opened without me knocking," she said. "I'm more used to dealing with closed doors."
"Some inaccuracies from people who are friendly to us are more damaging because people assume it's true. I just keep dishing out what I think is important to about at that moment."
"Onobox" is not Ono's only current project. A festival of her films is in the works, and her sculpture and graphic works are being exhibited in Europe.
A change of pace
KU's orchestra and choirs to perform together once a year instead of twice
Kansanstaffreport
Close to one year has gone by since the University of Kansas choirs and orchestra combined talents to put on their majorworks concert. Instead of performing together twice a year as they have for almost three decades, they now are performing together once a year.
This year the musicians will come together in Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, instead of in Hoch Auditorium.
The orchestra will perform Howard Hanson's "Songs from Drum Taps" and Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem," which translates to "grant us
Five choirs — Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, and the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs will perform accompanied by the University Symphony Orchestra.
peace."
Two poems by Walt Whitman will be sung with the first piece. The second piece will be accompanied by selections from Whitman's poetry, Latin Mass, a speech to the House of Commons, and the Bible.
James Ralston, professor of choral music and dance, said the major-works concert introduced many generations of students to our heritage's major artistic works.
This year's pieces are tied together by a common theme — the horrors of war, he said.
The major-works concert was a source of pride for everyone involved, Ralston said.
"When 130 to 140 singers are put together with an orchestra, you get a pretty impressive sound," he said.
The performance is free and will begin at 8p.m. Sunday.