ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN
September 9,1983 Page 6
Soprano set to perform
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
In the past two KU Concert Series symphony concerts, audiences have heard familiar works from traditional favorites, such as Strauss, Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner.
But when Leonard Slatkin, music director,
brings the St. Louis Symphony to Hoch
Auditorium at 8 p.m. tomorrow, at least one
work will be a little out of the ordinary.
The orchestra also will perform Guiseppe Verdi's "Overture to La Forza del destino" and Johannes Brahms' "Symphony No. 2." The
Soprano Lucy Shelton will be the featured soloist with the orchestra in a 1983 work by Joseph Schwantner titled "Magabunda (Witchmand)." Four Poems of Poems Pizzaro."
'In my personal opinion, I feel a strong commitment to the new music. I feel it is rewarding for the audience. It pulls the audience in with the verbal messages.'
Soprano, St. Louis Symphony
-Lucy Shelton
concert will open the KU Concert Series and will be the first stop in the orchestra's touring
THE SOLOIST WON the Nauburg competition in 1980, an international contest for solo vocalists with a recital, rather than opera, repertoire. She said Wednesday from New York that she had been performing at music festivals across the country all summer.
Shielton said she had no qualms about performing a new work for a concert series in audience because he has heard the large orchestras that have come here.
*In my personal opinion, I feel a strong
commitment to the new music," Shelton said. "I feel it is rewarding for the audience. It pulls the audience in with the verbal messages."
She will perform two songs in English and two in Spanish in the 30-minute "music drama", which was first performed in April in St. Louis. She said the work was received with "a lot of enthusiasm" by the audience.
"One problem with the new music is getting people in," she said. "Some may not like all of it, but it's important."
THE SONGS ARE FULL of composite words formed from Spanish and English, she said, and they create "wonderful imagery" for the audience.
The work's composer, Schwantner, was commissioned by the symphony to write the composition for *Sevento* to perform. Schwantner then composed a musical for his composition "Aftertenes of Infinity."
He is one of six American composers working with American symphony under a program sponsored by Exxon, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Schwantner is on a two-year contract with composer of composition at the New School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.
In an April article, Time magazine rated the St. Louis Symphony the second-best in the country in terms of achievement, behind the Chicago Symphony but ahead of such luminaries as the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
The magazine said the St. Louis Symphony, which was founded in 1880, "at its best in big pieces, but of a more recent vintage and much better music, Shoskowitch and Prokofiev symphonies."
Tickets for tomorrow night's performance are on sale in the Murphy Hall box office. All seats are reserved. Tickets for KU students are $6 and tickets for students for KU students for children and senior citizens are available.
Children and adults. Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Concert Series, said those who bought tickets at a student discount would need to show their KUID at the door. The Hoch box office will open at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
Festival to feature folk music
By PAMELA THOMPSON Staff Reporter
He is well known as KJHK-FM'S "Ethnic Cowboy," but later lately Rick Frydon was also saddled with the title of music festival promoter. To help people listen more closely to what local songwriters have to say, he and two other KU students wrote a book titled *Songwriters' Festival this weekend in Lawrence*.
The western folk music festival will include a competition between 25 regional singersong-writers and will feature Butch Hancock, a jazz musician from Austin, Texas, said Freedman. Lawrence senior.
Alison Sobiek, Chicago senior, said the idea for the amateur festival was "born sponsorship."
Sobiesk, Frydman and Gary Smith, Lawrence senior, have been planning and promoting for the past month what they call a unique musical event.
"THERE ARE SO MANY talented song-writers...All they played was a chance to play."
These talented local songwriters will get to perform two of their own songs in a competition that will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday in KU's Marvin Grove, which is located between the Spencer Museum of Art and Potter Lake. The competition is open to the public.
The contest will provide a forum for songwriters who have previously performed on street corners, at open microphone sessions in clubs, or in their own homes, Frydman said.
"There's an overwhelming amount of talent out there," he said, "that is too good not to be featured."
HANCKOCE AND TWO local music experts, Gloria Throne and Ardys Blake, will judge the performance.
Frydman, who is also a songwriter and a frequent performer at several Lawrence clubs, became interested in western folk music three years ago. He's based on commercial radio played anything new."
will perform on Frydman's Saturday "Ethnic
will radio" show and receive prize money
Western folk music is certainly not new, but the simple, emotional lyrics of the progressive country songs have become popular recently, even outside of Texas, he said.
"There's a trend towards the rock-a-billy type of music today," he said.
Hancock will be the showcase performer at the festival, Frydman said. Although the country music scene in Austin does not attract the mainstream country and western audience that Nashville does, Hancock's following has been growing steadily.
glow here in the dark.
"I HATE TO COMPARE singers, but I think Hancock sounds a lot like an early Bob Dylan," Frvdman said.
Hancock's songs concern the realistic disappointment of today's working class more than the radical protest songs that are reminiscent of Dylan during the late '60s, he said.
Last year, Hancock, who has written songs for last artists as Jerry Jeff Walker, the Sir Douglas Quintet, Crow and Joe Ey; played at 4000 a.m. on Friday, Lawrence that is owned by Frydman's brother, Lawrence
Frydman said that he and his fellow sponsors, who have invested almost $1,000 in the festival, did not organize the festival to make a profit and that they would be fortunate to break even.
This year, Hancock will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday at Bogart's. 611 Vermont. Paula Florciuore, the owner, said that she was expecting about 150 people. There is a $4 cover charge.
Regardless of the financial returns from this year's festival, he said that he hoped the festival would become an annual event.
jousting with dragons is an But the excitement and color Bonner Springs brings back
Gary Smith/KANSAN
those mythical days of long ago. Brian Rodgers, 9. Kansas City, Mo., joins with the dragon at the festival, which will run every weekend through Oct. 9.
Students seek to revive Renaissance
Rv SARA KEMPIN
Entertainment Editor
BONNER SPRINGS — the belly dancer is a blur of color as she twirls and swaits to the fluid strains of Middle Eastern music. The small gold coins on the chains around her neck and waist jingle as she raises her arms and gently shakes her tambourine.
She is Cheri Brown, one of two KU students who will perform with the Qaria Egyptian and Ethiopian dancers at the Renaissance Festival until Oct. 9.
Brown said she had decided to work at the festival, which is sponsored by the Kansas City Art Institute, because she wanted to keep the excitement of the Renaissance period alive.
'It's a part of history that we shouldn't forget,' she said.
The other student, Lavonda Key, St. Louis senior, said, "Well, I'm a history major. But it's just fun. You've got to know where you came from to know where you're going."
The two women decided to dance at the festival after taking belly dancing classes at the Lawrence Community Center in Albuquerque, NM, in KU's department of human development and family life.
ALTHOUGH THE WOMEN do not get paid for working at the festival, they agree that the
enjoyment they get from dancing is enough reward.
Wright said, "We do it more for fun than for nav. We do it for the spirit of the dance."
Trish Wagner, Dodge City senior and a member of the KU Crew, said that the rowing club had decided to work at the festival to raise money to finance its activities this year.
WAGNER AND JULIE MARTIN. Boulder, Colo., senior and another KU crew member, worked in the sun picking up trash from the straw-covered ground. They were dressed in brown burlap vests that were adorned with a black felt spade or diamond.
Wagner said, "We did it last year and made a lot of money — about $6,000. We expect to make even more this year. It's hard work, but it's fun."
The women Said they enjoyed the Renaisance Festival's exciting and colorful atmosphere. An aura of authenticity surrounds the percymaking.
In the Renaissance Downs, a knight wearing a black hood and a black and yellow tunic maneuvers his horse around poles in the middle of the arena.
A few hundred yards away, in the Golden Groves area of the grounds, children dressed in Robin Hood outfits perch precariously on an outdoor showground showing of their newly painted faces.
IN A TENT NEARMY, a fortune teller wearing a black turban sits in a smoky room reading tarot cards. A lady wearing a long blue velvet dress with large puffed sleeves strolls past the tent, which is underneath trees that have been festooned with flags. She is accompanied by four elegant whippets on the end of a leaweed leash.
Over a bridge, jesters and juggers in the Three Lions Theatre and on the Mermaid Stage try to coax laughter from the audience with acrobatics and other feats.
Bawdily dressed wenches accost male festival-goers. And Lord Mayor Martin Boleyn, a character played by Jim Stamberger, Independence walks around hitting women in the park and at a tauromawe "Did I tell you this fair lady, you be venged by the best?"
Donna Wilt, Winfield, was one woman who received such a greeting from Boleyn.
"This is my third time at a Renaissance for her," she said. "And the crafts are marvelous."
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The festival started Labor Day weekend with the opening ceremonies and will continue until the weekend of Oct. 8.
The five coming weekends will feature themes such as a Royalty & Sovereign's Weekend, a Costume Weekend, all All Foods Weekend, a Swashbuckle Weekend and a Swashbuckle Weekend.
NBC to air awards spoof
Pinky returns to the screen Sept. 16 on NBC-TV's first Yummy Awards, a spoof of the awards shows that blitz the tube so often.
HOLLYWOOD — Pinky Lee, the leprechaun in the houndtooth cap, Peter Pan collar and checked suit, skips back to TV briefly next week as he tries to remember memories of childhood in many adult viewers.
Pinky was a pioneer of early kiddie shows in the 1950s before cartoons took over, a prancy pixeled of song, dance and nonsense — an adult who plowed and caped at children's games.
Collins will be joined on the air this year by his wife of 15 years, Mary Ann Mobley, a former Miss America.
HOLLYWOOD — For the second straight year Gary Collins, host of the daily "Hour Magazine" talk show, will be master of ceremonies of the "Miss America Pageant" in Atlantic City Sept. 17.
Collins succeeds Bert Parks and Ron Ely as emcee of the beauty pageant, which was ranked No.1 in the ratings for the week of Sept. 6-12 last year.
Soap star signs contract
HOLLYWOOD — Gloria Loring has renewed her contract to star for three additional years in the daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives" for Columbia Pictures Television.
David Martin, Loring's manager, said the contract was in "six figures" and would provide Loring with "greater visibility as well as the freedom she requires to pursue her thriving nightclub career."
Information for these stories was supplied by United Press International.
SPARE TIME
Items for the On Campus portion of the calendar should be free and open to the public. Lawrence and regional activities must be open to the public. The deadline for calendar items is 4 p.m. Wednesday for Friday and 4 p.m. Thursday for Monday.
ON CAMPUS
THE WORK OF KU faculty members Richard Branham and David Hill will be on display through today in the Art and Design Building gallery.
THE BUTA AND OTHER Images: Paisley and Cashmere Shawls by Eileen Murphy will be displayed at the Art and Design Building gallery starting Sunday.
THE KU FOLKDANCE club will sponsor folkdancing 7:30-9:30 p.m. today on the second floor drill deck of the Military Science Building.
A WORKSHOP TITLED "Aquatic Biology" for those ages 8 to adult will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Natural History Museum.
THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY club will make an appearance in the Sunflower Room Kobe Uniroyal.
A WORKSHOP TITLED "Bug-A-Boo" for children aged 5 to 7 will be 9:30-11:30 a.m. or 1:3 p.m. at the Natural History Museum.
A JUNIOR ORGAN RECITAL by Brian Williams will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall.
WANDERING AM KAW sponsored by the KU German Club will meet at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow on the west side of Murphy Hall. Those attending should bring an item for a pot-luck picnic lunch.
BY BERKE BREATHED
Recital Hall
EDWARD LAUT WILL give a faculty recital on the cellat 8 p.m. Monday in the Swarthout Recital Hall.
A LINGUISTICS COLLOQUY will feature Choon-Kyu Oh at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 2016 Blake Hall. He will give a speech titled "Why Formal Linguistics?"
THE ELIZABETH M. WATKINS Community Museum is showing its permanent collection, which includes a 1920 electric car, Old Watkins Bank orate teller cages an a 19th century surrey with-the-fringe-on-top. Hours are 10 am to 5 pm daily through Saturday and 1:30 pm to Sunday.
THE KU CIRCLE K CLUB will meet at 7 p.m.
Sunday in 6070 Mallt Hall.
THE INTER-VARSITY Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Pine Room of
LAWRENCE
ON DISPLAY AT THE Spencer Museum of Art is "Eldred and Nevelson: Another Dimension," "Influences: Antique and Contemporary Qualls" and "Early Modern Art from the Guggenheim Museum." Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1-4:30 p.m.
ENROLLMENT FOR AUTUMN arts classes at the Lawrence Arts Center is now taking place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday until the first day of classes, Sept. 19.
A GENERAL MEETING of the Oread Neighborhood Association will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the South Park Recreation Center. The meeting will feature a slide presentation and narration of the history and development of the neighborhood
A LEISURE TOUR by THE Oread Mount Club will begin at 1 p. at South Park Baseball.
THE TEDDY BOYS, a rock-a-billy group in
REGION
the midst of their first U.S. tour, will play at the Jazzhaus today and tomorrow.
A BENEFIT TITLED "Animals . . . And All That Jazz" will take place from 1:30-5 p.m. Sunday at the City Light Restaurant & Lounge, 74th and Broadway. Proceeds will be gofitten Animal Kind's projects and to help pets and wildlife.
JAMES TAYLOR WILL- perform at 8 p.m.
today and the Manhattan theater will perform
THE MISSOURI VALLEY Folkie Society will feature Malcolm Daglish, Grey Larsen and Pete Sutherland in concert at 8 p.m. at the Community Christian Church, 4601 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. The show concert is called "Music from the Celtic Corners of the World."
B. J. THOMAS WILL give two shows at Worlds of Fun tomorrow and Sunday.
THE RIREWOODBURY Dance Company will perform at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at Avila College.
"IOLANTHIE" WILL BE presented at 6:30 and
8 p.m. Saturday in the Bell Road Barn PARK
PATRICIA KOSTK Hueber will give a clarinet琴 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
BLOOM COUNTY
LARRY STRATEMEYER will give an organ recital at 3 p.m. in the Grace & Holy Trinity
DAVID MILLER WILL give an organ recital at 3 p.m. in the RLDS Auditorium at UMKC.
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