University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 15, 1989
Arts/Entertainment
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Flutist draws large audiences
Photo courtesy of Sheldon Soffer Managemen
The Alexander String Quartet and Zukerman will open the KU Chamber Music Series on Sundav.
By Jennifer Reynolds Kansan staff writer
As a child, the sound of the flute mesmerized her. Now, flutist Eugenia Zukerman captivates audiences on her own.
Zukerman will open the 43rd season of the KU Chamber Music Series with a performance at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
"When I was 10 years old I saw the Harvard Symphony give a demonstration of instruments," she said in a telephone interview from her New York home. "I ran home to tell my mom I wanted to play the flute."
"My concert at KU last year was very exciting," she said. "I loved the town and the people. The crowd was so receptive."
Since then, Zukerman has played for audiences throughout North America, Europe, the Orient and the second trip in two years to Lawrence.
Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Chamber Music Series, said Zukerman gave an excellent performance last year.
"She was articulate and engaging," Davis said. "The people loved her so we invited her back to play this year."
Davis said Zukerman's wonderful stage presence and her national exposure as the arts commentator for CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt helped attract a large audience.
she said.
"Ticket sales are going very well,"
Zukerman will perform with the Alexander String Quartet, which will be the quartet in residence at San Francisco State University this fall.
"I asked Eugenia whom she would like to play with and she wanted the Alexander," Davis said. "She really enjoys playing with them."
Zukerman said that she loved the theater at KU but that her favorite theater was in Caesarea, an ancient port city in Israel.
"It was an ancient Roman outdoor theater," she said. "Being outside with the sea crashing behind me while I played was very powerful."
Besides being a flutist and a television commentator, Zukerman has written two novels and three screenplays.
This season she will travel to Switzerland to perform with the Slovakian Chamber Orchestra. Then in New York she will continue her collaboration with keyboard player Anthony Newman in the fifth season
"We give three performances there a year," Zukerman said. "In the lectures we use letters and documents of different time periods to illustrate the artistic influences of different composers."
of the New York Public Library lecture-performance series.
Tickets for the Zukerman and Alexander String Quartet concert are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office.
By Marc Parillo
Kansan movie reviewer
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The subtitled French film now playing at Liberty Hall has no prominent actors or actresses, its plot contains no leaps and bounds, and there are no exquisite special effects. So what makes "Chocolat" so appealing? Why was this picture so captivating and moving? Why was the atmosphere so inviting?
Film mood calm
To answer all those questions at once, it is simply because this film succeeds without the need for popular actors and actresses, exquisite special effects or a top-dollar screenplay. "Chocolate!" has given a new definition to the phrase "cinematic integrity." It is as fresh and clean as the location where it was filmed, Cameroon, Africa. It turns the question of race relations completely around and presents the issue in an original way.
The story begins rather abstractly. A white middle-aged woman named France sits quietly on a stone overlooking a beach where a black father and son are lying on their backs by the shore. Not a word is spoken. The sounds of the calm environment set a quiet tone for the rest of this dramatic story.
In the next scene, France walks down a winding road and then is picked up in a car by the man and his son. The games the man and the boy play in the front seat, in
addition to the surrounding landscape of Africa, jar France's memory.
She remembers growing up during the 1950s with her mother and father in the vastness of northern Cameroon. At that time, her best friend — her only friend — was a black servant named Protee, hired to care for her family.
Each character from France's past symbolised a different relationship between the races. Protee's relationship with France represented innocence; with the mother, condescension; and with the father, acceptance. From her parents' and society's examples, France had to learn to distinguish the difference between friendship and servitude in her relationship with Protee.
The director, Claire Denis, should be rewarded for this intelligent and thought-provoking story. Denis's masterpiece is rich with culture and personality. The key to the story's magnificence lies behind the abstract form of describing France's decision which she made as a child. "Chocolate" allows you to deal with the facts of societal relations and shuffle them according to your own moral code. In a sense, you see the inhumanity of others through the eyes of the innocent little girl.
Fiddlers gather in Winfield for some picking and grinning
► Marc Partito is a Lenaxa sophomore majoring in English and film studies.
By Jennifer Reynolds Kansan staff writer
They travel from all parts of the United States. They range from babes-in-arms to 80-year-old grandparents. They work as doctors, students, truck drivers, teachers, farmers, businessmen and every other profession imaginable. Yet, for four days they forget about their differences and share the one thing they all have in common — a love for picking.
Fairgrounds in Winfield, southeast of Wichita.
The 18th Walnut Valley Festival, commonly called the National Guitar Flat-Pick Championships, opened yesterday and will continue through Sunday at the Winfield
SINA.
The nine categories of competition are the international autoharp, national finger-pick guitar, national mountain dulcimer, Walnut Valley mandolin, Walnut Valley old-time fiddle, Walnut Valley songwriting, national flat-pick guitar, national hammered dulcimer and the national bluegrass banjo.
"I's a picker's paradise," said Steve Mason, Lawrence resident. "There are about 15,000 people there and about 8,000 or 9,000 of these are pickers."
Some pickers play in one of the nine competitions, others are invited to play for festival entertainment. But the majority of
the pickers are the people who come and camp by the festival grounds.
"You're picking with people you don't even know," Mason said. "You stand around a campfire and play your tunes and then go to the next campfire and iam with them."
Mason started going to the festival when he first learned to play the fiddle.
"I only knew three fiddle tunes so I went from campfire to campfire playing those three songs."
Mike Allen, announcer of a bluegrass and celtic music program at KANU and the winner of the 1986 festival's bluegrass banjo competition, said people would stay up all night and day to pick around the campfire.
"This is the only place where all the pickers can meet together all year," Allen said. "Everyone decorates their campground with parachutes and flags to identify themselves and to recognize others."
"A lot of the people who go don't even make it inside the festival," he said. "They all just stay outside and am."
Allen said the atmosphere at the festival was one of friendship and reunion.
A Lawrence band, Full Circle, is one of the bands that will play in this year's festival.
Marianne Schnebel, a member of the band, said the group was looking forward to their performances at the festival.
"I just hope the weather holds out," she
said. "Even if it doesn't, we'll have a blast."
said. "Even if it doesn't, we'll have a blast." Full Circle is basically a blue-grass band, but they play a wide variety of music, Schnebel said.
"We'll play rock to Cajun to country and western," she said. "It works really well in a community setting because if you sit around long enough, you're going to hear something you know and like."
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Wayne Steadham, press director for the Walnut Valley Association, said the association was expecting 8,000-9,000 people to attend the festival.
"If you're looking for a picker in Nashville this weekend, you won't find one because they are all here in Winfield."
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