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Friday, October 20, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Spare Time
Night Life
Lawrence Opera House, 644 Massachusetts
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- The Symptoms, Oct. 20-21, 9 p.m.
to 12:30 a.m. $25 general admission and $15
- Kathy Buehler and Karl Hoffman, Oct
2021, 1:20 a.m. to 2:30 a.m., on the balcony.
- Montage, Oct. 27, 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
$1.50 general admission and $1 for members.
Off the Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
Sour Mash, Oct. 25, 9:30 p.m., to 12:30 a.m. free until 10 p.m., and 60 cents thereafter.
*Pat's Blue Riddim Band, Oct. 20-21, 6:30 p.m. to midnight.*
- Acoustic jam session, Oct. 25, 8:30 p.m.
to midnight, free
- Washington Creek, Oct. 26, 8:30 p.m. to midnight.
- Used Parts, Oct. 27-28, 8:30 p.m. to midnight
Paul Gray's Jazz Place, 926 Massachusetts
J - Jay McShann, Claude "Fidder" Williams
& Emil Eml. Oct. 20, 19th to midnight, 18:50
Embracer 20 gp in to intenugn wi
embria, McMichael 20 gp in to intenugn wi
emblia, Embr Motor and Henry Cup, Oct. 21
- Jam Session with the River City Jazz
Broadcast 26.9 am to midnight, free.
- Tommy Johnson, Oct. 27-28, 9 p.m. to midnight. $3
Concerts
Chamber Choir, Oct. 22, 3:30 p.m., University Theatre free.
Concert Chorale, Oct. 25, 8 p.m. Swarthout
Renewal Hall, free
Student Recorder Devices:
1. Jazz Combo, Oct. 20, 8 p.m., Swarthout,
thru.
Tribute to Paul Gray. Oct. 22, 5 to 8 p.m.
Kansas University Ballroom. $50
Recitals
Student Recital Series
- Robert Yacko, flute, and Susan Wilson,
bassoon 02-38-8, Squawthorn, free.
- Nancy Baxter, piano, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.
SWarwhatch, free.
Faculty Recital Series, Sequena Costa and
Tamia Achoit, dual piano recital, Oct 26, B.p.m.
University Theatre, $2.50 general admission
and $1 students.
Odds & Ends
Maple Leaf Festival, Oct. 21:22
Baltimore
Play reading. The Waspes by Aristophanes,
Oct. 25 b, 8 p.m. 104 Indiana St.
Live bands return to city
By BRENT SCHLENDER
Reviewer
The arrival of discs in Lawrence during 1976 nearly plug the plug on live music in town. Even the Free State Opera House succumbed to the splendider, sensuous sideshow that swept the country that year. Slick entrepreneurs remanDED rendered it physically intolerable. Fortunately, it wore broke within six months.
Meanwhile, local musicians of all persuasions packed their amps and would have fled town if they could've scrapped them. But now they told toboh. Lackily for us, the sudden onslaught of discs left the unemployed musicians so broke that many had to stick around and fight with them.
Those better times are here right now. Lawrence is experiencing a renaissance in art.
LION LIVE MUSIC emporiums in NEW YORK offer a wider variety of music that even a live concert of muscians are better than ever. The problem for live lovers these days is the lack of a show.
Some of the refugees from the discs might need some help choosing a group that would be worth the admission price. With a good local agency's annotated list of the best acts in town,
FAST BREAK-If you're interested in dancing all night, this is the band to see. Fast Play breaks a mixed bag of progressive rhythm and blues, jazz country and straight for ward rock and roll. They are without a doubt the most professional band
KANSAN Review
in town, both as musicians and as stage performers.
Their reortetie includes tunes by Ray Charles, Arela Franklin, the Beatles, Free and some exceptional artists. The most talented singer and songwriter, is one of the most talented musicians Lawrence has ever heard. Drummer Gary Durette, bassist Danny Bridges played with Tree Frog.
Together with Lynch they have formed, in only six months, what has become the most successful campaign in history.
PATS BLUE RIDDIM BAND—This band has to be the most unusual one to hit town in years. The band plays reggae — that strange sound of rock and roll — with Bob Marley and the Wailers. They also throw in some James Brown and Average White Band sound tunes to remind listeners of classic hits.
Reggae music can't be described; it can only be witnessed. The mesmerizing mix of rhythmic nodding, chanting lyrics, and electronic gimmicks almost seems silly at first, but it's truly addictive once you learn what to listen for.
ECHO CLIFF—These boys from Topeka will be the loudest band you'll ever hear. That doesn't seem to hold the crowds down, however, when the band appears at the wall of sound or that wall of sound is one of the most versatile bands around. Armed to the earplugs
with lights and amplifiers and A-1 fuses,
Echo Cliffs riffles through a playlist dominated
by heavy metal, country and progressive
rock tunes.
JUSTUS—Kansas City always has been known for its jazz, and lately several groups, including this seven-piece ensemble, have contributed to the city's reputation for being loaded with outstanding musicians. They are commercial of these bands. That's not to say, however, that they are boring. They play the most listenable tunes in the genre, and with at least as much skill as the original artists. Most songs are dancebeat, but justus is more cerebral than energetic. More funastic band would be harder to find.
POTT COUNTY PORK AND BEAN BAND—With a name like that, how could you possibly go wrong. This county's people are tough on the players sometimes, but that's because the players are having such a good time. They always have hard-drinking, boe-down musicians, treating hard-drinking, boe-down musicians.
DRY JACK—This band has the potential to be a nationally known act. It mixes eclectic fusion and old jazz standards into a sound distinctly its own. Individually, the four musicians could keep up with any jazz or fusion musician in the country if not the world. This may sound like too much praise, but that's not what they've played together for five years and they anticipate one another's moves instinctively. Dry Jack is simply overwhelming. They probably won't be playing locally much longer.
"From Evening to Mid-Day," by Victor Rozov, will make its debut in the Western World at the William Iugo Theatre in Los Angeles. It's the longest run of any of this year's productions.
By CORIE BROWN
Staff Writer
The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. every night from Oct. 28 through Nov. 4, except Oct. 30.
KU actors rehearse for Russian play
The play, written in 1969, deals with the family and home life of Russia—the common theme of all of Rozo's plays. This play is a prime example of an integration of the family in today’s society.
"THE CENTRAL conflict is between the equestrians and the non-equestrians." Slava Ivanov, a spokesman for the equestrians are those who ride their horses at a full gallop and don't see where their horses are.
The action of the play is built around the family, which is divided into members who are responsible for the game.
The grandfather, Old Zharkov, played by George Weiss, is a frustrated failure as a writer. He lives with his son, his grandson and his daughter.
His son, Kim, played by Richard Delaware, also is disappointed with life. He falls to become the world athlete that he has been in to transfers all of his hopes to his son Albert.
Albert, played by Gary Beline, in the film *Wonderland* welcomes the potential to succeed. The play climaxes when he leaves to go to live with his mother in England, who encourages him to go.
Kim's sister, Nina, played by Sara Hendrick, has her own conflicts to resolve. Her one desire is to be a mother, but she is destined to remain single and fruitless.
Yashemsk stressed that the play was not a political commentary of any kind.
It is not naming specifically Soviet or Russian in it," he said, "outside of the self-
Yashermish said that despite the differences between the students' backgrounds and those of the characters they were portraying, the actors had identified well with their roles. (BY)
THEY FOUND that the conflicts between the characters were not too different from the conflicts they had faced in their own lives.
The predominant theme is the question of whether there is a place in modern society for human worth or whether people are only capable of being social animals, Yasukeyama.
The production was planned last spring as an effort to encourage the Soviet government to send the playwright, Rozov, to KU as this year's Soviet writer-in-Residence.
THE EFFORT was successful. Robo will be lecturing at KU for three weeks, just long enough for him to see the first English production of his play.
playwrights. Almost all his 65 years have been spent absorbed in some aspect of the theatre, Yasmshek said. He is most noted for his play, "Immortal Ones."
Rosov, who neither speaks or understands English, is one of Russia's leading
Yashemek is a Russian graduate student in Slavic languages and theatre.
The difficulties in directing the first English production of Rozov's play,
Yashemkay sind, involve little more than writing the script which he revised for the K12 curriculum.
Although Rozov will not be directing the team, he will be participating in some rehearsals.
"Rozov has been very encouraging," he said. "The actors all work with great encouragement."
Coffee Break
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Sara Hendrick takes a break during the rehearsal of "From Evening to Mid-Day," in which she plays the role of Nina—a woman destined to be a play's. The play's debut is in 1987.
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