Wednesday, September 27, 1978
Cleveland quartet to open series
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As many as 500 students may spend next Sunday afternoon listening to a Cleveland string quartet play the music of Mendelssohn and Brahms, Raymond Stuhl, professor eruptus of performance, said recently.
Hoffman, who founded the University of Kansas Chamber Music Series 33 years ago, predicted that 75 to 1,000 people would attend the first performance of the 1978-79 season at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 1 at the University Theatre to hear the Cleveland Quartet. He said that, based on last year's audiences, more than half the listeners would be students.
When the Chamber Music Series began, Stuhl said, the performances were attended by 300 to 500 persons who were predominantly an "ivory tower" audience of faculty and Lawrence residents.
"Chamber music," Stuhl said, "is music which was originally played in a small hall, drawing room or chamber. The musical group was always small, usually less than eight. Our greatest composers, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin and Strauss, were interested in chamber music because they had opportunities to play this music with their professional
MOST OF the chamber music groups who appear at KU are from the United States because the greatest chamber music, talent and teaching are now in this country, Stuhl said.
friends. Often they did this just after the ink dried. It served as one of their chief pleasures."
The Cleveland Quartet has performed both abroad and in the United States and has played at the White House.
Other chamber music groups that will be playing at KU this season are the Guarneri String Quartet, Oct. 29; the Beaux Arts Trio, Feb. 10; the American String Quartet, March 4 and 11; and the Mirecourt April, 22 and 23.
These groups were chosen for the series by Stuhl and a committee, who also choose some of the music the groups play. Groups may be booked up to two years in advance, primarily funded by the sale of tickets and contributions.
THE PRICE of an ensemble is of secondary importance. Stuhl said, " their reputation, their ability and their success."
Audience response to those ensembles differs between the United States and Europe, where Stuil received his KI.
"In Europe, audiences definitely have a feeling of participation and responsibility," Stuhl said. "They feel they have a right to accept or reject. They cheer or boo. Everyone has more fun."
Stuhi now gives eclo lessons at his home and promotes the KU Chamber Music Series.
Stuhl retired two years ago after chamber music and cell at KU for 42 years. He and his wife, Alberta, a pianist, also were performers. They played 3,000 works on the piano area surrounding Kansas while he was teaching, he said.
"IT'S A huge effort," Stuhl said about his work for the series. He said he had given 125 talks at the University to students and faculty.
Tickets for Sunday's performance are $ 6. A season ticket
for five chamber music performances is $8 for student and
$14 for professional.
Commission to study fireworks
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission will consider banning the sale or distribution of bottle rockets in the county at its monthly meeting tomorrow.
At the request of the Douglas County Commission, the planning commission will give its approval or disapproval of the idea. The idea must be brought before the planning commission because it involves a change in county zoning regulations.
said yesterday that the county commission initiated the proposal to help the city enforce its ban of bottle rocket sales or use in the city.
Beverly Bradley, county commissioner.
The proposed bottle rocket ban would not, however, ban the use of bottle rockets in the county, but only the sale or distribution of the rockets.
Bradley said the total banning of bottle rockets now would not be possible.
"I don't think we could enforce a total
ban," she said. "We would have to ban the
writers, and I don't think they need read for that.
I don't think the writers need read for that."
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SHE SAID if the bottle rocket sales ban were recommended by the planning commission and adopted by the county commission, it still would be possible to buy the rockets in other counties and shoot them in Douglas County.
The city of Lawrence has banned both the sale and use of bottle rocks within the city
The Midwest Regional Center of the National Council on Religion in Public Education will be on the second floor of the college, where professor of reludations studies, said.
A program designed to include religion in the curriculum of public elementary and secondary schools was initiated in Smith Hall last Friday.
The ten-member commission is an advisory group, appointed by the city and county, to recommend or disapprove city government actions on local land use.
Teachers to study religion at KU
limits. Last week the Lecompton City Council also banned the sale and use of bottle rockets within the Lecompton city limits.
u is the first regional center to be formed,
and it will serve as a model for others in the
region.
The center has its headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Money for tuition and research at the center has been provided by the Dane Hanson Foundation, which funds various youth and religious programs.
from Kannas, Missouri, Nebraska,
and South Dakota, Iowa, North Dakota
and South Dakota.
Taylor said the center would conduct summer institutes for public school teachers. The institutes, which began in 1972, have been sponsored by the Kansas Center for Public Education Religion Studies in the past.
THE CENTER is composed of teachers
Taylor said the center also would teach five fields of religious study—religious ethics and values, religious literature, philosophy, world religion and religion in the arts.
During these institutes, teachers learn concepts of all religions and develop methods to convey what they learn to their students.
The planning commission will discuss the bottle rocket issue at its monthly meeting at 7:30 tomorrow night in the city commission building. The commission is the National Bank Tower, 900 Massachusetts St.
The center contains electronic equipment
that will help teachers develop their course methods. It also has examples of teaching aids created by some of the 600 teachers who have participated in the summer institutes.
ONE TEACHER developed a game similar to Monopoly in which the student picks an event in religious history and assigns certain number of spaces on the game board.
Another teacher created typewritten designs of religious symbols for her students to use.
Undergraduate students as well as teachers participate in the program. Students in the School of Education can get a joint masters degree in religion and education, or they can place an emphasis on religion to go with their degree in education.
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