Monday, November 2. 1970
University Daily Kansan
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Variety Spices Chamber Concert
By JIM BARNES
Kansan Reviewer
A varied program, that dated chronologically from 1955 to 1969, was featured by the University of Kansas Chamber Choir in their concert Sunday afternoon in Swainson Hall's able direction of James Ralston. the choir exemplified its fine reputation of being a thoroughly well-rounded, broad woody cropped musical organization.
The program opened with the "Mass for Five Voices," by the English Renaissance composer Johann Sebastian Bach, who work was well performed although I thought the tenors had a couple of weak entrances in the Credo that tarnished the smooth contours and the counterpoint for a moment.
The mass is a fine example of the contrapuntal coundrums that make up the tension and temporaries constructed their marvelous moments of pure. "I'll put all my weight in any fall up all yah, no matter what the size. Here Bure." He is one of the most important of line, although he does not completely foresake it. He is more than capable of doing so.
It never ceases to amaze me how these men could make so much difference in the proportions of a mass, with a mere set of sertiments from the earth.
Next on the agenda was the Missa brevissima in D (K.IV.194) of wolgang A. Mozart, and in my lecture at afternoon. Mozart's clarity—his emphasis on melodic content, and his ever present gusto made this work seem as short as a mere 6 minutes, although the work was of much more depth.
The scoring calls for strings and four soloists along with the choir. The string parts were played by the Marshall, first violin; Carolyn Rodgers, second violin; Laura Praizer, viola; and Donald Violins, viola; Kathryn Taylor led soloists; the soprano solos; Terry Knowles sang the mezzo-soprano parts beautifully, along with fine basses; and some sine work by the bass, Eddard Cooler.
The choir as a whole was a bit too romantic for my tastes at the beginning, but it was reserved *emotion* with crescendo. Portions could have been tighter, but all in all, it was more appropriate to Mozart work; a combination of simplicity and complexity, of subtlety and complexity of excitement and relaxation, but
with Mozart always handling it in the perfect proportions to form the symmetry that is the unaltered proof of this master's genius.
After these two masses came a set of three songs from "On the American composer Robert Starrer The last of five Noneset albums and employed just enough of everything to make a snappy, lively song."
changed the mood of things for a moment. It was well programed, as we had by this time almost done, but in "Creeed" to death. These were charming little songs, and it was worth noting that they were included on the program
The afternoon ended with the *Stabat Mater* of the conventicles held in his skirt, Krzysztof Penderecki, and verily contemporary it was. Employing such devices as a completely automated system (his own part), whispering and
several improvisation sections,
Pendereck took it upon himself
to pronounce an old Latin
tatin somewhat, because that if William Byrd had heard
a performance he would have
had to sing a bad bad. It was great—but it was
nothing like anything that the
sound of beard. Portions of the "Sabat
Matte" were used on the sound-
dyssey" and with good result.
As far as the performance went, the chair, with a lot of assistance from Mr. Ralston, was standing in the mosphere that it caused while it was being performed was nothing less extracitic. It is so different, that one cannot help but to it in one way or another.
It is high time that composers are writing some music that will at least get some kind of arouse out of the totally bored concert music, and we have music, and we have Mr. Ken derecki and his Polish compilist Lhotlaski to thank for starting the ball roiling, "Stabat Mater" works and consequently is not of as high quality as the "Passion
According to St. Luke," the
"Throenody for the Victims of
Hiroshima" or some of his newer
tales, and the "Pittsburgh
Shnois" and "Pittsburgh
Overture." There are some
tremendous sections in "Satab
for the Devil," and even rather uneven. The work ends, of all things, on a "D" major chord, sounds quite obtrusive; rather than being sitting down on a waffle iron.
Linguists Meet
Holiday Inn Happenings
Approximately 100 linguists attended the Fifth Annual Kansas Linguistics Conference Friday and Saturday here at KU.
1. Noon Buffet
Charles J. Fillmore, professor of linguistics at Ohio State University and chair of the Center for Behavioral Studies at Dartford, was the featured speaker for the conference. Fillmore works on language and time in semantic theory.
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1. Noon Buffet 2309 lo
   Fried Chicken—Fried chicken
2. Chicken Fry Tuesday Evening ___ $1.70
Maybe that's stretching the imagination a bit, but why not? We've been listening to it. The music is excellent, as usual, and it provides a different kind of similar tunes. Don't pass it up because the songs on other albums; they may have the same titles and feel like they are indeed different songs.
Fried Chicken—Everyday ... $1.45
3. Fri/Fry
Wednesday Evening ... $1.49
2. Chicken Fry
But the recording difficulties inherent in a live album have changed the mood and sound of the songs. Mick Jagger's vocals are haunting, with instrumentation, and bass outweighs treble in every number. Some music fans say they don't like albums for the above reasons.
4. Mexican Comida Thursday Evening $1.95
With songs like "Honky Tonk Women," "Street Fightin' Women," and "Rockin' (eight minutes worth)," and "Jumping Jaws Flash," the song is
In addition, the crowd reaction and to the record. The rhythmic clap of the crowd, the interplay between performers and audience, the occasional high-pitched feedback add to the album. This gig really happened; your living room is a concert hall, not a studio.
Thursday Evening $1.95
5. Spaghetti Night
The album, "Get Your Ya-Ya Ya-
Out," recorded in Madison
Square Garden last November,
and failings of any other live
album.
Adults $3.00 6-12 $1.50 Under 6 Free
7. Children $0.00
7. Football Feast Buffet
1. Football rest Buffet
    Breakfast $1.70, Saturday Noon $2.75,
    Saturday Evening and Sunday Noon ___ $3.25
    (Football weekends only)
Live Stones 'Gutsy
3. Epilogue High Friday Evening $1.50
Gary Porteous Innkeeper
The Rolling Stones have done it
Following the path of numerous
groups these days, the Stones
have released a live album,
the photographs on the cover and extended versions of old favorites on the servers
By TED ILIFF Kansan Reviewer
I personally like live albums for those very reasons. The sound focuses on the instrument, not the sound usually processed out of it, but the highly structured studio set up.
Rita Skaggs Asst. Innkeeper
are habitually and unavoidably poor in technical quality.
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