University Daily Kansan, March 5. 1982
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Playing opera pleases prof
James Seaver, director of Western Civilization and professor of history, displays the connection of opera records in his attic. Seaver produces a weekly opera program for the Metropolitan Opera.
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
Opera is James Seaver's hobby.
Seaver began his opera show in 1962, when KANU first went on the air, he said Wednesday.
"It was a good outlet for my interest in opera and singing." he said.
Seaver, KU's director of Western Civilization and professor of history, has been producing "Opera is My Hobby," a show featuring various operas, on KANU radio each Friday for the past 30 years.
"At first, I thought I might do a program or two, and here I am, still doing it."
He will present an hour-long show on Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delliah" at 7 n.m. tonight
SEAVER PLANS show about two months ahead of schedule, he said. He gets ideas for some shows from his listeners.
"I'll have suggestions from listeners of things that they'd like to hear," he said.
Some people, including Nino Libello, a foreign correspondent in Vienna, send him taped shows and interviews.
"Libello loves opera, and he sends me interviews with famous singers." Seaver said.
Seaver's programs vary in content.
"You do a lot of different things," he said. "I don't restrict myself, entirely just to opera."
One example of Seaver's occasional departures from opera is the biographies of singes, such as or Pavorott, that he produces.
Also, he sometimes features other kinds of singers.
Seaver sometimes reviews operas in Tulsa and Kansas City, he said.
HE ALSO does memorial shows on opera singers who have died recently.
"Usually, in a two-month period, I might have one memorial show," he said.
"I do modern singers," he said.
"Quite often, I do something on rising new singers and try to catch them on their way up."
Another type of show Seaver produces is an opera reading, in which he describes the circumstances and composer of the work and the character of the music, and goes through its libretto, or text.
highlights, using recordings of the greatest singer in each role.
SEAVER FNDS himself spending less time on the show as the years go by, he said, because he can rewrite existing programs.
"Now, after 30 years, I have a considerable backlog of shows," he said.
Although Seaver's first responsibility is to his academic work, he said, he enjoys the time he spends on the show.
"I get more emotional excitement out of opera than almost anything else," he said.
"When everything goes well, why, then it's just the most overwhelming experience that one can have."
Few sing tune for state song change
TOPEKA--Emil Stawitz persuaded a Senate committee yesterday to sing along with a recorded version of "Kansas, Dear Old Kansas," then asked them to approve it as the state song.
the unru time arvanda, singing senators murmured the words as yet
another version of the song was played on a tape recorder.
"It's a catchy little tune," Stawitz said after playing the song twice for the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. Stawitz had recorded three versions of the song, with a different choir singing each version.
Written by Statwick's deceased father, "Kansas, Dear Old Kansas" will become the state song if a bill sponsored at Statwick is approved.
"All I need is a simple majority," Stawitz told the committee.
BUT ALTHOUGH he persuaded the senators to sing, apparently few of them liked the song well enough to reach a "Rage" range. Kansas: state song since 1947
"I'm rather partial to 'Home on the
Range', "State Sen. Jane Eldredge, D-
Lawrence, said.
Committee chairman Norman Gaiar, R-Westwood, said, "His song has a lot of merit, but not enough to make it the best on the Range" has the amount of history to it.
The current state song was written in the early 1870s by Brewster Hilge, a pioneer Kineys physician. The music was created by Kelly, a druggist and friend of Hilge's.
The committee will vote on the bill today.
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On the record
The Douglas County sheriff's department arrested an 21-year-old KU student at 10:35 p.m. Wednesday on a warrant for violation of check laws.
Abdokarin Kersahvari, Manhattan freshman, was arrested at his residence at 518 Frontier St. Kersahvari is being held in the Douglas County jail on $2,950 bond. There is also an immigration hold on Kersahvari. His passions would not comment on the case, because it is still under investigation.
LAWRENCE POLICE arrested a 19-year-old Lawrence man at 5:15 a.m. yesterday in connection with thefts on two liquor stores.
Pete A. Yazzie, 19, was arrested after he allegedly stole a one-liter bottle of Jack Daniels whisky worth $12.29 and two one-liter bottles of Evans Williams whisky worth $4.27 from Boone's Liquor Store, 711 W. 23rd St.
Police said Yazzie also had a beer keg from Green's Party Supply, 810 W. 23rd St., in his possession.
BURGLARS STOLE more than $10,000 worth of stereo equipment sometime between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. Thursday in City, Radio 560, E2d 37 St. school.
Yazzie is being held in the Douglas County jail on $2,500 bond.
After breaking in a front window of the store, bargains carried out car stereos, speakers and amplifiers. The store has an alarm system, but it was malfunctioning, said Jim Foster, the store's owner.
There are no suspects, police said.
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