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Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Orchestral sounds fill calendar
by Donna Eades
Kansan staff writer
From classical, orchestral and chamber music, to avant-garde performance art, to opera and dance, Lawrence residents and students will have a wide variety of fine arts events to choose from this year.
On campus and off, the KU Symphony Orchestra, the Lawrence Community Orchestra, and the Lawrence Chamber Players provide the community with many opportunities to hear classical music performed by local musicians.
The Lawrence Community Orchestra, guest-conducted by Julian Shew for the 1989-90 season, is a full orchestra composed of Lawrence residents, high school and college students and KU faculty members.
"This orchestra represents all kinds of people in the community, not necessarily those who choose music as a profession," he said. "It gives people a good opportunity to have fun and express their talents and make good music."
The group will perform two concerts during the 1989-90 season. On Nov. 5, the group will feature works by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. On March 4, the theme of the performance will be East meets West, Shew said. The orchestra will perform two oriental pieces as well as Tchakovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor.
Both concerts will be at 3:30 p.m.
at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts
St.
The Lawrence Chamber Players, conducted by Leon Burke, is a professional community orchestra founded in the mid 70s. It has from 20 to 36 members, depending on the concert, Burke said.
"My goal is to get them playing better than the Wichita Symphony," Burke said. "We don't compete directly with them, though, because we play different pieces than the usual large orchestra."
the first concert on Oct. 1 will feature works by Mozart and Mandelsohn. On Nov. 19 the group will present a Baroque concert featuring Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. On Feb. 25 they will perform with the winners of the KU concerto audition, and on May 13 with winners of a young solosist contest.
The KU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jorge Perez-Gomez, is composed of KU students. The goal of the program is to encourage participation from all students, regardless of their majors, Perez-Gomez said.
"We're trying to make the orchestra a University-wide affair," he said.
The group will perform three times during the fall. Highlights of the Oct. 15 concert include Beethoven's 7th symphony and Teichkovsky's suite from Swan Lake.
The combined University choirs and the KU Orchestra will perform a major works concert on Dec. 3.
In addition to local orchestras, many fine arts events are brought to Lawrence through the Concert Series, the Chamber Music Series, and the New Directions Series organized through the School of Fine Arts.
Jacqueline Davits, director of the program, said that the goal of the Concert Series was to give Lawrence audiences an opportunity to see the best international orchestras, solo recitalists and opera and dance performances. The Chamber Series attracts emerging and broadly known international chamber music artists, and New Directions offers a forum for works created within the last five years, she said.
The program opens with a solo concert by soprano Leontine Price at 8 p.m. on Sept. 23 in Hoch Auditorium.
Highlights of the program include performance artist Laurie Anderson on April 18, choreographer David Gordon and his Pick Up Company performing a commissioned work on the Midwest on Nov. 19, and an AfroPop dance concert featuring bands from Zimbabwe, Guinea, and Mall on Oct. 6 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Schedule and ticket information are available at the Murphy Hall box office.
The Kansas State Fiddlin' and Pickin' contest is held annually in South Park.
In addition to the Lawrence orchestal groups, many other music and dance programs are available. Indian dances are an important part of Dlwail night.
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