Monday. October 5.1970
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KU Orchestra Leader Assumes Varied Roles
By BECKY CHITESTER Kansan Staff Writer
As I sat waiting to talk with the KU band director, a tall gaurit man accosted me, saying sternly "Going over to my competition, huh? Well, we直觉 this right time, but let's not it happen again."
The man was George Lawner, professor of orchestra, who has conducted the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra and coached the KU Dance University Theatre productions for the past four years.
Before coming the KU Lawner was an opera coach and a conductor with the New York City Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera.
Lawner directs the KU Symphony Orchestra, the musical and opera productions of the University Theatre, the opera workshop which puts on two symphonic concerts each semester, teaches classes in conducting and score reading.
This year the KU Symphony Orchestra will give two symphonic and two choral concerts, participate in the Symposium on Contemporary American Music program and play several concerts on a fall tour.
"In former years we toured with the KU band," her said. "Starting this year we are going on
Lawner has directed all the musicals for the KU theatre since he has been here. Musicals that have been produced include "Oliver," "Gypsy," "Kismet," and "Three Penny Opera."
In the opera productions Lawer coaches the vocalists and directs the Little Symphony which consists of faculty members and students from the KU Symphony Orchestra. In the years he has been a part of "The Rake's Progress," "Midsummer, Night's Dream" and "Die Fidelma-mae" have been produced.
Eighteen instrumentalists will play in the Little Symphony for "Man of La Mancha." The group
consists of wind, brass and percussion instruments.
There will be two guitarists who also play string
along with the bass.
Lawnner said "Man of La Mancha" would be the first play for which he has directed the orchestra behind the stage. In the production of "Man of La Mancha," a 1985 short story, the cloth behind a scrim cloth instead of being in the nit
When the lights hit the scrim cloth from the audience side the orchestra will be able to see the actors. However, the actors will not be able to see the orchestra.
Because the orchestra will be out of the actors' view, there will be no direct eye contact between them and the performers.
The orchestra's position make the ensemble between stage and orchestra more difficult." Lawner said. "The idea is to play exactly the way it was reheared, which is a good policy in any case."
"Perhaps the idea of this is to create a closer contact between stage and audience," Lawner said. It should also be kept in mind that this is a play within-a-play. The poet, Cervantes, awaiting trial during the Spanish Inquisition tells the story of a man who was to his fellow prisoners and acts it out with them.
Costumes and make-up are put on and properties are shifted in full view of the audience. Cervantes often uses a real person, but rather a latter, however, is not a real person, but rather a square country squire who imagines himself a knight in an armor.
"It is this indirectness of identity which is perhaps to be matched by the indirectness of the orchestral sound coming from behind the stage," Lawner said. "Anyway, that is my speculation."
The play is being directed by Thomas Rea, associate professor of speech and drama, with whom Lawner has collaborated in several other musical productions.
"Rea has imagination and insight," Lawner said. "Besides, he has a very good musical ear. Sometimes he calls my attention to musical mistakes which I missed. I love working with him."
It's taken a little more than nimble fingers and needle and thread to outfit a proper Man of La Mancha.
the 70 costumes involved in this week's University Theatre show. He offers extensive research, sketching and the ingenuity of Cheer Haeli, associate professor of speech and drama, and costumer for the KU production.
Haehl Adept at Costume Design
But the Man of La Mancha costumes tell only part of the story. The Man of La Mancha shop. About 750 garments will have been produced there by the team, but each created through a step by step research and construction.
Against a background of armour and knitted chain-mail, Haeh examined the detailed mission he pursued short break in his busy schedule.
"As soon as the theatre season is decided upon," Haeli said, "I read the scripts until the characters come alive to me,
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The wardrobe room, just a few steps from the costume shop, is a small room in which are filled with about 8,000 costumes filed according to period, including Oriental, Indian, Celadon, Roman and Renaissance.
When asked if there was a written record kept of all the men who had been to his head and told, "The costumes are used and altered so often that they have become a symbol of his life."
'My staff and I make all the contemporary ones, which are bought if the right thing can be found on the racks and it's not too bad.'
Another exception, he added, is men's clothing from the 1880's to
The costume should also make a statement about the person wearing it," Haehl said.
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taking note of specifics of the play concerning the season, period and the country in which it takes place."
After talking with the director about his visualization of the play, Haeli had extensive costumes and dresses costumes. Because the costumes depend on the director's interpretation of a show, Haeli said, he does not always strive for identical costumes of costumes of a period.
perience includes being the guest costumer at Stanford and for the San Diego Ballet Company
once the actual construction starts, less enjoyable 14 hour days ensue."
Haeli designated the Elizabethan period costumes, 12th century pieces to each, as the number of pieces noted the complexity of the sixteenth century La Mancha clothing. It is structured large enough to allow for a layering of costumes, since the garments made from a trunk on stage.
cutting of the garmets, he has a staff of 14 part-time student teachers, and Mrs. Lula cowbridge, his full-time assistant
the present, which has been largely donated due to the intricate tailoring involved.
This is Hael's eighth year as costumer for the KU Theatre. His professional costuming ex-
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Reflecting on his years of professional experience, Haeh said. "The designing, planning and implementing part of the whole process, but
"The greatest satisfaction of all is seeing a costume on an actor on the stage, doing for the actor who has envisioned it doing," he said.
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However he generally maintains the silhouette, then expresses the character through color choices. He chooses in. Selecting colors for the costumes, Haehli consults with the director, scene designer, and light designer Together they help create the look and don't fade under the lights.
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Haile emphasized that customers an important factor in the success of their production. They should make a visual statement about the play.
"For example, in a tragedy the costumes are toned down, and a heavier fabric and line is used.
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