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Entertainment
University Daily Kansan, April 22, 1989
Turnout higher than expected at Hashinger's arts week events
By WARREN BRIDGES
Staff Reporter
The Ninth Annual Spring Arts Week this week at Hassinger Hall has been surprisingly successful, the program director of the hall said Tuesday.
Between 50 and 60 people had attended each of the programs, and Jones said that number was anually high.
Bruce Jones, Topeka graduate student and the hall's program director, said he was amazed at his success.
"We figured that if we got 20 to 30 people in here, we're doing well," he said.
Spring Art Week, which began in 1974, is an opportunity for residents of Hashinger Hall to not only exhibit their handiwork, including sewing projects, drawings and sculpture, but also to showcase their talent, including singing, dancing and poetry recitation.
THE WEEK BEGAN with Monday night's concert, which featured the KU Concert Chorale.
Jones said that the Hashinger Choir, comprised of residents of the hall, was originally scheduled to perform a classical recital, but the group had to cancel for various reasons, including previous engagements of several of the singers.
Tuesday night's festivities included a produce
Today's Organization:
"People don't normally flock into see someone recite poetry," Jones said, "but we have ran out of programs every night."
Wednesday night's activities included what Jones referred to as a "special performance."
tion of "Composition and Wit, Music and Poetry-Original Works."
ROMALYN TILGHMAN, the regional representative for the national endowment for the arts, spoke to Hashinger residents and other University students about the future direction of the arts and the government's involvement with the arts.
"She came in especially for this lecture," Jones said. "We are not paying her anything. The federal government is paying for her air lift down here from Minnesota and everything else."
Thursday night, the KU Jazz Ensemble performed at Hassinger.
Tonight will be the biggest night of the week, Jones said.
The performance, called "Best of Sneaky Pete's," will feature residents of the hall performing musical and other acts that have been performed throughout the school year.
"SNEAKY PETE'S." Jones said, was origi-
nally titled "Sneaky Pete's Prairie-Rose
Room."
Jones said that several years ago, one of the
residents of the hall had made a large, life-like doll which was given the name "Sneaky Pete"
"Every Friday he was displayed up in the theatre and people would gather around, play guitar, drink beer and eat pretzels," he said. "It was an informal group of people having fun."
He said that "Sneaky Pete's" performances were held about once a month in the hall's theatre and that tonight's "Best of Sneaky Pete" act was the act that the hall residents liked the most.
The public is invited at no charge.
"The residents have been voting the past several weeks for their favorite "Sneaky Pete's," Jones said. "Tonight about 20 of those visitors will be performing at the hall."
IN NOVEMBER OF 1881, the hall charged 50 cents to residents to view a "Sneaky Pete's" and the money was donated to the Women's Transitional Care Services Inc.
In 1972, Hashinger underwent a $75,000 renovation and it was converted into one of the few halls in the world designed for students interested and involved in the creative arts.
Residents of the hall now pay $100 extra every month to help pay for special features of the hall, including having 24-hour access to a piano room, stereo equipment, a ceramic kiln, tools for making jewelry, weaving looms and sewing machines.
Weekend Review
Rating System
--run, unfortunately, you can't sit through this film without thinking you've seen all this fun someplace else. It's almost a carbon copy of Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
"The Meaning Of Life," Monty Python.
"The Meaning of Life," mother, asks. "The most obvious thing about "The Meaning of Life" is that it has almost nothing to do with the meaning of life. The film is a hodge-podge of silliness and satire aimed at religion, poverty, obesity and occasionally life itself, and has a plot like a line of floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
In spite of that weakness, or perhaps partly because of it, parts of the film are outrageously funny and irreverent in the finest Monty Python tradition. From a biting satire on the difference between Catholics and Protestants to a gruesome scene entitled "The Autumn Years," this seems bent on forcing the audience to lose its hard-won crew demonstrates its unique brand of humor.
Although this film certainly is not up to the standard set by "The Holy Grail," it is far from being a rip-off.
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"High Road to China," with Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong.
Whatever you can think of, "High Road" has it. The film is filled with adventure, excitement, disappointment, hope, disaster and even murder.
"Magnum P.1." star Tom Selleck plays Patrick O'Malley, an unshaven, moody pilot not unlike the brush Indiana Jones in "Raiders."
"High Road" features Eve Toster(Bess Armstrong), a millionaire flapper who is told that her wealthy father will be declared legally dead if he doesn't appear in British court within 12 days, giving his company and assets to an evil business partner Mr. Bentick.
Her father, however, was last seen in Afghanistan. She hires Selleck and his porty mechanic to flirt her to find him.
If you haven't seen "Raiders" this movie might be worth the time and money. If you have, we suggest you take the high road to another theater.
"Max Dugan Returns," with Jason Robards and Marsha Mason.
From some desk drawer of unfinished screenplays, Neil Simon pieced together a warm and unpredictable comedy. "Max Dugan Returns" makes you smile for the two hours that you follow Max Dugan's dreams and stumble into his surprises.
The screenplay isn't Simon's best, but the movie conveys a kind of pleasure that doesn't strain to convey some significant statement about the human condition. Simon doesn't really let us get used to characters he uses us off just as we get to know who those people really are.
Jason Robards, who plays Max Dugan, holds us in the palm of his hand as he irresistably works his way into good graces with the player he abandoned, played by Marsha Mason.
Director Herbert Ross, a longtime Simon cohort, doesn't let the actors act when they should and sends us too quickly from scene to scene.
But the movie's sudden twists seem to distract attention from the fact that the movie unfolds too easily.
All in all, Max Dugan is a winner. The movie lets you enjoy feeling good.
--in cooperation with William Jewell College. All seats are reserved; tickets are sold on the basis counts for students and senior citizens.
"The Outsiders," with Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell and Ralph Maccioh.
Francis Ford Coppola remade "West Side Story" with a cast of teenage heartthrobs in S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders." With Matt Dillon (Dallas), C Thomas Howe (Boston), and the boys' mother, the movie is for the younger set. The closures of the stars brought shrinks from many of the girls in the audience.
Ponyboy tells the story of Tulisa in the '60s with the struggle of the "greasers" and the "socials." Everyone learns that the two groups can get along and that life is worth living. The traditional girl crosses gang lines to help the greasers in their struggle against the socials.
The movie deals with teenagers' lives exclusively, as evidenced by the fact that there are almost no adults in the movie. They run into trouble and the law and learn about growing up.
All in all, it is a good movie — if you're a teenager.
--in cooperation with William Jewell College. All seats are reserved; tickets are sold on the basis counts for students and senior citizens.
"Flashback," with Jennifer Beals, Michael Nour, and an incredibly ugly dog.
In "Flashdance," a New Wave fairy tale, a woman welder dances her way from the steaming steel mills of Pittsburgh to prince charming in a Porsche.
Jennifer Beal, as the welder-flashdancer Alex, bravely recruits the tired role of a slum kid searching for a break. Michael Nouri fits perfectly into the story as Nick, her rich supervisor at the mill, who spots her stripexie act in a sleazy bar one night, sweeps her off her feet and gets her an audition with a repertory dance company. What a guy.
Even though any partially intelligent viewer knows Alex's audition for the company would be virtually impossible for an untrained dancer, it can be done by knowing the theme song is more driving than "Fame."
In all its screaming sexism and occasional brutality, "Flashdance" shows us that the world is pretty crummy, but fairy tales still come true.
Spare Time
Friday
The Ohio Ballet will perform at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium in the last event of the 1982-83
Saturday
A master's recital by Nancy Kvam, violin
at 3:30 p.m. in swarthout Recital Hall.
KU Collegium Musicum will perform, "Music in a Medieval Garden" at 2 p.m. in Spencer Art Museum.
A senior recital by Steven Latham, frow-
bone, will be at 3:30 p.m. in Swartwout.
A senior recital by Trilla Lyeria, piano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
Tuesday
Thursday
A faculty recital by Alice Downs, piano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
Sunday
Monday
"The Sea Gull," by Anton Chekov, will be at 8
A faculty recital by Ronald McCurdy, trumpet; Chuck Berg, tenor saxophone and flute; and Dick Wright, tenor will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthport.
A doctoral recital by Kathy Petree, piano,
will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
p. m. in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre. All seats are reserved; tickets are $4, $3, $2, special discounts for students and senior citizens.
"The Sea Gull" will be performed at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5, $4, $3; special discounts for students and senior citizens.
A student composition recital will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout.
A junior recital by Mark Steinbach, organ, will be at 8 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 10th and Vermont streets.
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The works of Dave Woods, including wooden spools and black rubber strung on string, Venetian blinds and a wheel barrow, are on display at the Kansas Grassroots Arts Association museum in Vinland. The association has documented from 200 or 300 artists and is currently displaying the works of seven.
Grassroots Art Association displays personal visions
By LAUREN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The air is cool and clean and filled with the fragrant scent of purple and yellow wildflowers.
In Vinland, about 12 miles southeast of Lawrence, the vast rolling hills are beginning to reflect a spring emerald hue.
And hidden among those hills is one of inland's best kept secrets, the Kansas Mountain
Ray Wilber, one of the original organizers of the association, said that the museum was established in August 1981 as a home for works that the group had collected since its inception in
The art is exhibited in the downstairs of Grange Hall, across from the Vinland airport, which was built in 1856 and still serves as a location for the Vinland Grange group, a farmers' organization.
Wilber explained that grassroots art was different from folk art.
"WOLK ART HAS an ethnic or regional tradition," he said. "Grassroots art comes out of one person's vision, a vision completely outside of mainstream art."
Wilber, like most of the original association members now living in or near Lawrence, was a graduate of Harvard.
He said that he and his friends became interested in grassroots art when they saw the Garden of Eden, an elaborate concrete construction of plants, animals and figures by S.P.
"This whole art form was totally unknown to me," he said. "I introduced it to my friends and we realized that there was a lot of grassroots art out there that needed to be preserved and documented or it would come and go unrecorded."
THE WORK OF Dave Woods, a retired brick-factory worker in Humboldt, which is displayed in the grassroots museum, finally convinced Wilber and his friends that they should organize themselves, he said.
The pieces of the collection that are exhibited include a mobile made from a broken umbrella with strands of fake pearls, metal measuring spoons, a chair and toy airplanes hanging on cushions. No spoken items.
When Woods died in 1975, his family gave Wood's collection of grassroots art to the association.
BARBARA BRACKMAN, current president of the grassroots associations, said that many of the grassroots artists were retired before they began their careers in art.
That is the case with Ed Root, whose work dominates the Vinland museum.
Root built a unique sculpture garden on his farm near Wilson, after he suffered a broken hip in the late '30s from a car accident and had to retire from farming.
He spent most of the last 20 years before his death constructing hundreds of concrete pieces studded with broken glass, ceramics, toys and jewelry.
one of the small concrete works displayed in the museum incorporates two rooster feet in the center of a tombstone-shaped block.
BRACKMAN SAID that two pieces of Root's work were taken to Eastern Europe as a part of the U.S. Information Agency's "Art America Now." an art exhibit displaying contemporary works.
In addition, she said that about 15 paintings by Moe Tolliver, an Alabama grassroots artist, were being exhibited in Houston as part of a Smithsonian tour of black folk art.
Brackman said that because the museum room, which is 24 by 47 feet, was not large enough to hold all of the collected works, the group had to store the rest of the pieces.
She said the group tried to have at least one show a year with another gallery in Kansas since the museum is only open on the first Sunday of each month from April through November.
In August, the group will display a show called "Animals," including a variety of pieces based on the theme of animal images, in Kansas City, Mo., at Avila College.
Kansas Woodwind Quintet to play music scholarship benefit
By LA DONNA LONGSTREET
The Kansas Woodwind Quintet will perform a benefit concert Wednesday that will include works by J. SCH and Mozart.
Staff Reporter
John Boulton, associate professor of flute, said the five instrumentalists would perform works from three musical periods, giving the concert a variety of tone and style.
by the quintet, which is comprised of KU music professors, will play at 7:30 p.m. in the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets. Proceeds from the concert will help pay for scholarships for KU music students.
"It is all serious music as opposed to pop music," he said. "But none of it is hard to listen to. Some of the music is almost reminiscent of oldies and jazz and humorous. This is a general-audience concert."
LAWRENCE MAXEY, professor of clairtien,
said. "It's a very easy-to-listen to program.
We looked for variation in tone color, style and
variations of instruments."
Better Baron, a club member, said she hoped enough people would want to hear the quintet to fill up the center, so that the club could raise funds for the scholarships.
The scholarships are $300 for a pianist-
composer major, two $400 scholarships for
a pianist minor.
woodwind and string performers and $200 for a Lawrence High School graduate who intends to go to KU or to Baker University to study piano or voice.
The quintet consists of five KU instructors playing their chosen instruments. They are Maxey; Boulton; David Bushouse, associate professor of French horn; Alan Hawkins, associate professor of music theory, playing the bassoon; and Susan Hicks, assistant professor of oboe.
Richard Angeliett, professor of piano, will also play in the Mquart G琴尉 for Piano and Winds.
Paige Morgan, Raytown, Mo., junior, who received one of the scholarships this year, said,
"they're all the top faculty here. They're very good. There's no doubt about that."
BOULTON SAID that although the concert consisted of only six performers, there would be four combinations of instruments.
The performance will include the quintet, a wind quartet without the horn, a reed instrumental trio without the horn or flute, and a bass trio with the piano and without the flute, he said.
"There are three different styles and periods represented in the program." Boulton said. "Pieces written for wind instruments are not lengthy, so there are more pieces possible on a program."
The musicians will perform a concerto by
J
Bach from the baroque period, the Mozart quintet from the classical period and works by three 20th century French composers, Bouillon said. The latter pieces include a scherzo by Eugene Bozza, the "Concert Champtey" by Henri Tomasi and "Quasi-jour" by Jean Francais.
SYLVIA FSANK, president of the music club,
said. "I think that the Mozart that they're doing
with the piano will be a real drawing card with
Richard Angeloetti."
maxey said, "There aren't many pieces written for this combination of music. The one that we are playing is considered to be a master work by a master composer."
Tickets are $3.50 for the public and $2 for students and children.