Wednesday, November 4, 1970
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Gentle Movie Requests Peace
By CHIP CREWS
Kansan Reviewer
"Gente" is probably the best word to describe "Carry It On." an agreeable documentary about a woman, draftress David Harper, draft resister David Harper.
Throughout the picture, which chronicles the events before and after Harris imprisonment in 1963, he is gently, yet clearly, presented.
The talking parts of the film are pieces of interviews with Harris and Miss Bae, mainly about themselves and "theBoth are eloquent and seem to be very sincere in their beliefs.
These scattered interviews are connected by shots of Joan Baez singing roughly a dozen songs, usually before live audiences.
Obviously, such a film does not have the power and range to
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devastate or overwhelm the viewer, but it has many poignant reasons. In "Carry It On," as stated by Miss Lare, are to inform people of the current political crisis and to present the case for their proposed revolution. In the first book, she describes it in detail admirably; in the second, it does as well as she could have asked it.
For Miss Bace and Harris are expected throughout as the threat of sexual violence peoplethey have always seemed to be. In some of her interviews, she reveals a playful sense of humor that helps to the other qualities she projects.
The revolution is explored less, for "carry It On" is above all a story. Miss Bae converts her conversation into receptive and unreceptive listeners who actually reveal little about what she has happened, but they do display her.
contagious faith in people and their ability to do what is right
The picture lasts only an hour and a half, but even this is too long to completely sustain it. You are going about two thirds through that it takes on a somewhat lulling effect, and even then it is a small one.
If you like Joan Baezer, the dozers songs she sings should be sufficient reason for you to see the show. She uses a lacecab over a folk ballad of brings it forcefully, fervently through a chorus of "We Shall Overcome, the voice is uneven and for her admirers, it is enough."
On the other hand, if you don't care for her, it might be a good idea to miss this one. Personally, I'm not sure how much my enthusiasm for it is in my uncontrollable. My only complaint is that the songs all seemed to sound alike, which might mean there were of them could have been cut.
Despite this, the most important thing to the two personalities is the story. With that as its focus, the story participates—interviews, conference presentations, and so on, gently transmits its message, which is, of course, a request for participation.
In one of her interviews, Joan Baez discusses her concept of Joan Baez, the singer
"I refuse to call myself an entertainer," she says, "and I refuse to merely entertain an audience."
Maybe she's speaking for 'em, but she's telling you. Though the picture does have a value, it is not overwhelming. It will not make you screer or leer at it, but it will definitely not be loot. It is but succeeds handsomely, and Joan Baez should be proud. She is not the only person version or naked women. "Carry It On" gives everyone leaving the room something important to think about.
"I think that he's professor of the Campanile," said the KU operator when I asked her about Albert Gerken.
Gerkin, whose official title is assistant professor of music heyear and University counselor in the man who plays the two-weeks concert in the university carillon which is souped in the Campanile.
By STEVE SHERMAN
"its actually incorrect to say 'professor of campanile,' noted Geken. "That would mean that you were professor of the bell instrument. Anyway my official title is University Carillonmeurer."
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One year later while he was teaching at Coker, he heard that the position of Carillonne was open at KU and he applied for the UI. He was just sort of by chance and that I got the job," he said.
Gerken began playing the carlson when he was working toward his graduate degree in business. He met Michigan "one semester, a friend of mine and I decided that we would take carlson just for the fun of it. I didn't ever plan to use the training," he said.
The carillon was built in 1850 by the John Taylor bell founder of Bell & Sons. It has 53 bronze铃, the largest bell is seven and one-half feet in height. The smallest bell measures only a few inches in diameter and weighs about 2 ounces.
Gerken is Carillonneur 'By Fate'
"It cost around $80,000 for the carlition when it was built," Gerken said. "Now it would cost as much as as $150,000."
The instrument's keyboard is a strange looking device. It is about six feet long and its keys look like scratches from the main body of the keyboard. There are also keys which duplicate certain keys.
When Gerken plays the instrument, it seems that some sort of musical device is used. The wooden keys bounce up and are he hits them, as compared with the piano.
Plays Staged at Westminster Center
The avant-garde and the traditional fairy tale adventure will be featured in two plays presented by the United Campus of Kansas University and the University of Kansas drama department this weekend.
KU theatre students are directed and acting in the play for the first time. The students initiated this fall Faculty members in the townspeople also in the cast.
Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" is adapted by *Adele Thane*'s *The Wonderful Staged* at the Westminster Center, 1248 Oread. "Endgame" will be presented at 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday for *Performances of 'Puss n' Boots*, will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and Dec. 5.
"Endgame," directed by Ran Suiponnik, an傲朗 graduate film director, is the existential vein in which the adult takes a depressing look at the audience and challenges the audience is challenged to define who such is surrounded in pioeer imagery.
"Endgame" implies, but doesn't clarify. It is the sort of play that asks the audience what to think rather than tells them," said Bill Meskle, graduate student and theatre teaching assistant.
Discussion will follow the play. "Puss in Boots," directed by Catherine Harding, is a graduate student, is a play for young children. It treats the adventures of a poor peasant boy and his mother, who plays with the aid of a magical cat.
In order to play the carillon,
Gerken forms loosely cupped fists and "throw" the keys by bending them over the hands and applying a quick downward force. It seems, however, that the keys is almost beating the keys.
Each of the keys or pedals that he is hitting is connected to a cable that runs up through the keyboard and down through the keyboard is located up to the clapper of a bell. Gerken says that in the winter water sometimes condenses and freezes on the cables going through the ceiling.
"I looks as if you might hurt your hands," he said. "But you sort of play with the intention of protecting your hands. Some people play bandages or how they can play very fast."
"With all the activity sometimes I feel like a TV ad for perspiration," he says.
"When the cables freeze," he said, "you just have to call off the recital."
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When he plays fast passages, the result is almost a mute of success. He often on the carillon bench alternately throwing his hands at the drums.
A practice studio half-way up the tower contains a duplicate of the carillon keyboard which is used for practice and for giving tunes. Tuned metal bars take on the form of bells in the practice keyboard.
"There is no need to hurt your hands. If you take hold of the key and throw it, you won't get hurt when you drop it. And then you could damage your hands."
There is some improvisation in the play which features life-size puppets in the background and the audience into the action.
creakings and clickings of the mechanical parts and the cables
The studios are small rooms not more than 10 by 10 feet and painted gray on the outside inside the crowded practice practice carillon, a piano, a file cabinet, a shower and a gas heater.
Although these productions mark the first official joint effort of the UCM and the UCM, Mekle said that the Center has been providing an outlet for students interested in teaching and learning in past two years. There has been a primary emphasis on forms of societal utility, he said.
In the upper studio, which houses the actual carillon keyboard, are the carillon and a gas heater.
THE BEAUTY OF CREATING LIFE,
THE FREEDOM TO GIVE IT AWAY.
"THE BABY MAKER"
REPRESENTS AN EXPRESSION
OF TOTAL FREEDOM
can so that you can finish the concert,"he said.
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The Baby Maker
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TECHNOLOGY
Gerken also plays at a yearly congress of carilloners which is held in various places around the country (the most recent congresses is to provide a gathering place for the nation's orchestra). Gerken will hear each other's performances and discuss techniques, read about them or come up with better types of performance.
"When you see people outside running around you know that you are contributing to the atmosphere," he said.
Finding music for two recitals per week is a problem, concedes that has been awarded to the music that has been written on other keyboard instruments, what has been written for the music is "minimal," said Gerken.
However, he admits that he does get nervous when he plays one of the 20 or more guest roles in his show. "Here at KU people take you for granted and you sort of begin to wonder why I play a concert away from home its sort of a one shot thing. You have another chance to prove your skills."
Repairing and replacing felts, bushings, cables and making adjustments between manuals and the pedals are all done by the "Horns." It's really as big of a job as you want to make it," he said.
"I guess that you have to be a llower or to enjoy this job, but I'm not sure," he recital, there is no space for clapping. I also spend a lot of time over here alone. So its more respect, which suits me just fine."
Gerken feels that although there are not many who actually come to sit on the grass somewhere below the Campanile or to his recitals, the music contributes to the campus atmosphere.
The biggest problem is keeping the frame of the keyboard from rusting, he said. But a coat of paint and G usually cures the problem.
As a result of these efforts Gerken has about 200 finished works from which he can choose his prose, and those he works," he said. "There is a tremendous amount of repeating material to play two concerts a week."
One winter he had an appointment with a group of Girl Scouts in her hometown, "side." he said, "and I was late," and they had forgotten that they were coming, but got here, they were a bit mad at them, they were straightened out, everything straightened out.
There are certain day-to-day problems in the maintenance of the carillon "The main maintenance has to be done by the man" said Gerken. I've had the whole keyboard apart by myself."
Over the years many types of people have visited Gerken in the tower to watch him play his recitals. They include musicians, faculty and Boy Scouts, faculty, students and interested persons, he said.
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Gerken invites anyone who like to watch him perform a show, and then he will watch a Sunday afternoon or Wednesday evening performing his confession that he is guilty by both the reasons is one of the reasons that he must appointments for times he will be at the Campanile anyway.
"Up until the 1950s, there wasn't a lot of original music
For the past three years Gerken has been compiling a library of compositions, paintings, and scriptures of pieces written for other instruments, editing each other's performance on the KU carillon.
"Most of the main things and also most of the adjustments that need to be done come up while you get through them. Usually you fix them when they are."
written for the instrument. Since then there has been sort of it Renaissance of composition for it."
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