University Daily Kansan, March 2, 1982
Spare time
Lawrence Symphony to have guest conductor
By DEBORAH BAER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The slim, white stick hit bottom and the sound poured into the room.
A few seconds later, the flow was effectively plugged.
This time the sound came unchecked for almost two minutes.
Then the stick stopped, and with it, the sound. The man wielded the stick turned to his left.
"My tempo," was the only voice credited, and one on which the white stick rose and fell insistently, rhythmic.
He was speaking to the first violin section of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra.
it's a difficult line. It's not anything you're going to be able to figure out on the spot, so look at it." Mitchel Klein, assistant conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra.
THE LOCAL ORCHHESTRA, a collection of students, professors and townpeople, will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Admission is free.
The permanent conductor of the Lawrence Symphony, Charles Hoag, KU professor of music theory, is on sabbatical this semester. He said he would be out of town, but conflicts to conduct the symphony this season.
Hog, in his third year with the symphony, recommended Klein as a guest conductor for the spring concert after his wife, Mary, played viola as a substitute for the philharmonic. Hoag said she had been impressed by Klein's conducting skill.
THE SEMPHONY SEEMS to like the way he does things, too.
Ross Muller, personnel manager and trumpet player in the symphony, said, "He doesn't make any value judgments. He just goes right to the problem."
Klein, 34, conducts most of the tour and youth concerts for the philharmonic, and was recently appointed the principal conductor for the "Pops" concert series.
The symphony has been working hard under his patient and efficient direction, according to Miller and David Shumway, assistant personnel manager and cellist.
Although the Lawrence Symphony is not of the same caliber as the philharmonic, Klein seems to enjoy working with the community orchestra as well as the symphony members like working with him.
"The atmosphere here is highly congenial. The people obviously love what they're doing, and
most of them are very good players." Klein said.
"But when your livelihood is on the line every time you play, there are positive and negative results. It makes the people very happy and very well prepared. The price are good, but it costs a price for that. The price is professional tension, what you would expect in any field.
"PEOPLE PLAYING FOR the love of music only can afford the luxury of enjoying it."
The members of the symphony have little in common beyond their love for music. The musicians include a Lawrence High School junior in the violin section, and a silvery-haired woman playing viola. Some are KU professors, and some sell insurance.
The music to be played tonight by this varied assembly of musicians is music a good community orchestra can handle, Klein said, but it is not easy. The program includes Beethoven's
"Everything is hard," he said. "If you really want to do a good job, there's nothing that is too hard."
FOR PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS like
KLEIN, not only is the music hard, but so is life.
Klein was almost out of a job early last month when the philharmonic folded mid-season because they were out of funds. Just before the orchestra died and was resurrected by R. Crosby Kemper, a Kansas City banker who has since promised to foot the philharmonic's bills for this season, Klein said he felt terrified, angry and finally, resigned.
Now, he is confident that the philaharronic will still be in business next year, and he plans to
But, with 15 minutes left in the Lawrence Symphony rehearsal, Klein had other problems on his mind. He stopped working through the band's rehearsal, and his orchestra through a complete run of The Boethoven.
In this mock performance, his movements became bigger and he avoided the occludor's chair on the podium that he had sat in during the earlier drilling of difficult passages.
FOR THE FIRST TIME all evening, his fine brown hair combed into a side part, fell into his face. His face showed concentration, and the anvil occasioned occasionally as a cue to the violus or himani
But during the beautiful flute melodies, he never smiled, as do some conductors who obviously delight in the music they conduct. Was he enjoying himself?
"Oh, I love it," he said grimming. "It's fun. It not hasbabe it, it is serious fun. It's nice to be able to be funny."
MARK McDONALD/Kansan Staff
Exhibition design assistant, David Hill, Bartlesville, OKa., senior, sets up the three-dimensional logo of the SITE Co. exhibit. The exhibit will be on display in the Kress Gallery of the Spencer Museum of Art through April 11.
THE TAU SIGMA DANCE GROUP will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. in 242 Robinson Center.
THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTIST will meet at 5 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the
THE NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS ORGANIZATION will sponsor a dutch lunch for members at 11 a.m. in Cork II of the Kansas Union.
on campus
Art, architecture merged in 'SITE'
TODAY
ALLIANCE will sponsor a Non-Violence Training Workshop, in a two-part series with the first session beginning at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Union.
THE MARANATHA CAMPUS MINISTRY will meet at 7 a.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM
THE DUNGONS AND DRAGONS CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail' Room of the Union.
Staff Reporter
THE STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION will sponsor a speech by Ron Harland, sales manager of the satellite office, at 7 p.m. in Room 306 of the Satellite Union.
The Kress gallery is, so to speak, under construction
The students, from the School of Architecture and Urban Design and the School of Fine Arts, are working in conjunction with the opening yesterday of a new exhibition at the museum, TEB: Buildings and Spaces,' which will run through April 11 as part of the University Arts Festival.
The plywood fence comes from an actual building project in Brooklyn, N.Y., complete with the graffiti by a New York street gang. The workers, however, are KU students.
DURING THE LAST FOUR WEEKS, four groups of three to five people each, will be using the materials left by the previous groups, and learning how to change whatever was built before, Roeer said.
Rick Gruber, an art history graduate student who will lead a tour of the exhibition on March 7, said that having people designing and building buildings is one of the attempts of an attempt to brine architecture into a gallery.
Barry Newton, assistant professor of architecture and urban design said that even
THE PLYWOOD FENCE is the actual SITE exhibition itself, while the students were brought in by the museum to add to the exhibition.
TOMORROW
Mark Roeyer, exhibitions designer at the museum, said that the museum staff wanted to invite the involvement of as many students as possible.
be windows for pass-byss to see the construction of the building — much of one of my projects with Best Products Co., Inc.
For the first 12 days of the exhibition, six groups of architecture students, with 20 people in each group, will be using materials and tools selected by the museum to build whatever they can come up with on an 8 feet by 44 feet construction site inside the fence. Roever said.
galleries are open, Reeay said, so that museum visitors will be able to see the work in progress.
SITE designs the outside of commercial buildings for the Best Co. making "architecture as art, not as design." Gruber said. The inside measurements of the buildings have been standardized and changed. SITE designs the buildings for BEST with the outside measurements of 203 by 164 feet.
THE STUDENTS ANTI-NUCLEAB
The student work, which will all be on the 8 by 44 foot site is surrounded by the plywood fence, which is the exhibition as it came from the SITE organization. SITE is an architecture and environmental art group that was formed in New York City. The Wines, architect and environmental designer.
In one project with a false front, part of the front was built so that it appeared to be falling down. SITE designed the building that way on purpose. The bricks were glued together with an epoxy-based mortar, so the appearance is only an illusion.
though the students would not have much time to
exhibit, they would put in a very credible
presentation.
The idea is to have the work going on while the
Richard Findley, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, said that SITE's work was important because they have captured part of our culture - commercialism.
Findley said that as a comment on society, SITE's work had profound implications.
COLOR TRANSPARENCIES of work done by
organization appear in recourses of the
plowkey.
"They want to capitalize upon the fact that our culture is a consumer culture," he said. "When you don't want to be consumed."
THE GROUP'S WORK, HOWEVER, is a farce when it comes to building, Findley said. For example, the bricks that have been glued continually fall down, and will have to be repaired.
Findley said that SITE's style of architecture would probably die out within a decade, just as the gas stations of the 1830s that looked like Chinese temples did.
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