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University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1983
Karel Blaas, professor emeritus of viola, taught at the University for 30 years after performing with the Rochester Philharmonic in New York. Blaas retired in 1979, but he is teaching this semester for a professor who is on sabbatical.
Professor emeritus glad he left New York to teach in Kansas
Although Kansas might be known as the geographical center of the United States, most agree it is not the cultural center.
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
But Karel Blaas, professor emeritus of viola, has no complaints.
Blaas, 73, came to the University of Kansas in 1949 from Rochester, N.Y., where he was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic.
BLAAS SAID he never regretted the move.
"It was like heaven come out here after Rochester," he said. "The weather was warm, the people were friendly."
Blass, who retired in 1979, is teaching this semester for Howard Boyajian, professor of violin, who is on sabbatical.
Removing his violin from its case, Blaas stood in the middle of his office and nestled the instrument under his chin.
He touched his bow to the strings, and
clean, lively notes spilled out as he played a short piece in the style of a Viennese waltz.
"IM GLAD I can still play," he said, gripping his fingers. "I still try to learn English."
Blaas was born in Holland and moved to Rochester as a toddler.
He had his first violin lesson when he was 9 years old, playing a half, half-size violin that his father, a bricklayer, had given to him.
"I just kind of fell into it," he said.
"I just kink or tell it to me," he said.
In 1924, Blas entered the Eastman School of Music, where he encountered some harsh masters.
"One teacher asked the students, 'Why don't you take up plumbing?' " Blaas said.
BECAUSE OF the Depression, he said, teachers warned music students that careers would be difficult to come by.
But Blaas managed to make a career out of the profession he calls his first
During his years in Rochester, he played in a variety of jobs, from radio broadcasts to weddings, from serious music to popular songs.
"Anything to make people happy," he said.
At age 42, discouraged by the short orchestra season and the lack of financial benefits for musicians, Blasas left Rochester to teach at KU.
"WHEN I FIRST came out here and saw some of those old duffers at the University, I told my wife, 'God, I don't care if you're not my friend,' "I didn't want to think of retiring."
But Blaas said he discovered he liked teaching as much as performing.
"I'm glad things worked out this way," he said, "I really think this is what I was cut out to do — teaching students."
Besides giving lessons to 18 students a week and performing in chamber groups, Blasis still makes and repairs吹琴和 violins, as he has for almost a year.
BLAAS, who learned the trade from a master whose shop was near Eastman, said he usually made about one instrument a year.
The appeal of Kansas has not faded for Blaas
Parties, litter, given as reasons Local store gives up concert tickets
"Some people say that here it's all the color of one whiten." Blair said with a tone of incredulity.
By JIM BOLE Staff Reporter
Overnight waits for front-row seats that turned into full-blown parties ended a local record store's 23-year-old tradition of supplying Lawrence with tickets to music events, the owner of the store said recently.
John Kiefer, the owner of Kief's Discount Records and Stereo, 2100 W. 25th St., said concert goers peacefully spending the night in line to buy concert tickets had attracted others, who attended with him. The sound with empty beer cans and trash
1. LIKED selling tickets, but too many problems evolved over the
time.
Last year, he said, $2,300 in damage and four hours cleaning up after the worst overnight mess he had seen forced him to quit providing tickets for
"It became a liability, not an asset." he said.
Herb Palmer, owner of Capital
Tickets in Kansas City, Mo., said Kief's in Lawrence, his 11 outlets in the Kansas City area and "Did-a-Tick," a store that specializes in the most major concerts in Kansas City.
After Kier's stopped selling tickets, General Jeans, which went out of business last year, became Lawrence's third agent for about three months, be said.
DON PILKINGTON, manager of Omni Electronics, 540 Fireside Court, said Omni had been selling tickets for the thefts and had not had any problems so far.
"We get a kick out of seeing all the different people who by tickets for Adam and the Ants, Sammy Hagar and Conway Twitter," he said.
In two or three months, tickets will be distributed by computer, allowing the same ticket choice at all outlets in Kansas City and Lawrence, he said.
Omni Electronics receives 25 cents of the 75-cent service charge on each unit.
PALMER, WHO founded Capital
Tickets in 1978, said area promoters contacted him when they wanted to sell tickets for a concert.
Before he began the company, promoter had to contact individual suppliers.
He said he had been a promoter and had sold tickets in Lawrence through KKW.
Kiefer said he began selling tickets in the late 1950s, when Kief was propping concerns as well. He said all his friends then could attend an admission, so no one waited overnight.
BUT WHEN reserved seating tickets were sold, people began lining up early outside the store to get good seats, he said. Soon people were spending the night, bringing sleeping bags, ice cream and even barbecue grills, he said.
The party-like atmosphere drew people that did not want to buy tickets, he said.
"It was those people who started the fights, ran on the roof and tore out electrical outlets," he said.
Films, talks about gays to celebrate special week
Julian Rush, an ex-Methodist minister, will open Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week with a speech titled "Being Open Gay in a Closed Society" at 7:30 tonight in the Room of the Kansas Union.
Other speakers and films will be featured during the week of activities sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
SUSAN JOHNSON, president of a Kansas City gny awareness organization, will present the film, "Straight Talk About Besbians," at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday in the Union's Jawhawk Room.
Leonard Matlowt will give the keynote speech at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in Alderson Auditorium of the Union. He will speak about his court battle with the U.S. Air Force to challenge him because of his homosexuality.
Matlavich will also speak at 10:30 a.m. next Saturday as part of a day-long seminar.
TWO STUDENT Union Activities films will also be part of the week's activities. "Taxi Zum Kleo" will be shown Wednesday night, and "Personal Best!" will be shown both Friday and Saturday nights.
The week will end with a dance from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday night at the Entertainer, Eighth and Vermont streets.
Medieval gardens, art sprout on KU campus
By JENNIFER FINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Medieval gardens will be growing all over campus this week, when exhibits, lectures and special events focusing on the culture of the Middle Ages will take place at the University.
The events began yesterday and will continue through May 1.
The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art will feature an exhibit titled "Gardens of the Middle Ages" with more than 75 tapestries, paintings, colored manuscript illustrations and ceramics that show medieval artists' perceptions of the gardens.
THE CENTRAL court of the museum will be transformed into a model of a medieval garden with live plants, flowers and herbs.
Marilyn Stokstad, University professor of art history, directed the exhibit with Jerry Stannard, professor of history.
Stokstad said the works in the exhibit are from various museums, libraries and private collections across the country, including the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Stokstad said she and Stannard had been researching and organizing the events for the last few years.
"We haven't had a show quite like this since 1969." Stokstad said.
SHE SAID THAT because the works of art are so rare, the curators from the
loaning museums must carry them in by hand.
"We just don't have medieval art in Kansas. This is a very thrilling experience," she said.
The exhibit is financed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.
After the exhibit is shown here, it will be displayed at Dumbarton Oaks at the Harvard Research Center in Washington, D.C.
University of Kansas libraries and other museums will also sponsor events.
THE KENNETH R. Spencer Research Library has compiled 600 years of books and illustrations from its collection that show a variety of gardens for an exhibit "All That in This Delightful Garden Grows."
The Entomology Museum will have a display about the Black Plague. Lectures on the medicinal and modern uses of medieval plants also will be preset goals and priorities analyze your personal time log learn time management
Robert G. Calkins, professor of art history at Cornell University, will present a Murphy Lecture in the College of Arts and Sciences at the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, Mo.
A medieval day at the museum will feature demonstrations, activities and events.
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Stokstad said the exhibits could interest people in several departments, including history and the history of science, religious studies and fine arts, as well as those who were interested in horticulture and botany.
"Few people have enough time,
yet, everyone has all there is."
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