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Friday, September 28, 1979
University Daily Kansan
-UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Arts and Entertainment
Renaissance revelru
Above, Finn Kelley O'Donnell, Norman, OKa., takes a bit of nourishment between in-justice matches at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Below left the festival's
wizard, David Leonard, Denver, Colo., cast an eye at a passing visitor. Below right, one of the mines at the festival, Coly Kinser, Independence, Moug, juggles for a ball.
Festival celebrates pleasures of the past
BONNER SPRINGS—In a wood glen just beyond the civilization of 1-70, two herald trumpets announce the arrival of the king and queen of a byeer arena.
"Bow, you peasant, bow!" commands a member of the court as the nobles approach.
a scraggly looking man with a wart on the end of his nose eyes a modern visitor and points to a sign around his neck that offers kisses for a penny.
"Hail to the king and queen," exclaim the costumed peasants as the procession passes.
On all sides, sellers of pottery, scarves,
stained glass, and foods like scotch eggs,
pocket bread sandwiches and turkey
drumsticks urge passersby to try their
In the distance, a bappler plays for a dancing lass and a screaming crowd of spectators encourages the participants in a knife-fighting contest.
"Dismember him!" urges one member of the audience.
A dark-hooded witch wanders through the crowd, chanting verses of doom to anyone who will listen.
A group of madridian singers proclaims the joys of love and, not far away, a group of street actors has recruited two visitors
to act out the fight scene from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
The visitors have all come to the acreage adopting the Agricultural Hall of Fame to honor the contributions of our harvest celebration, complete with the music, dancing and merrymaking of the annual festival.
The 3rd Annual Kansas City Ren-
naissance Festival will run each weekend through Oct. 20 as a benefit for the Kansas City Art Institute.
Nancy Parks, promotion consultant for the festival, said that about 8,300 people had attended the first two days of the festival last weekend.
Parks estimated that 75 percent of the participants in the festival were from the local area. This is also true of the year's festival also had attracted craftsman, actors and musicians from as far north as Yellowstone.
KU's early music ensemble, Collegium Musicum, will be performing at the festival during its final weekend, Oct. 20 and 21.
Many of the 300 volunteers in the festival, Parks said, are members of the Society for Creative Anthropology, a nonprofit organization with the history of medieval and Renaissance Europe. At this year's festival the SCA is sponsoring the archery and the joasting
Parks said tickets for the festival could be purchased at the site or in advance from Kansas City area Sears, Macy's or Fotolat store. Tickets for students and patrons are $4.00, Tickets for adults are $4.75 at the gate, and $2.52 in advance. Tickets for
children between 5 and 12 are $1.50 and children under 5 are admitted free.
Parks said that Renaissance festivals had become popular around the country, but that the Kansas City festival's growth had been particularly rapid.
"We've really grown amazingly in the last few years," she said. "We had a large turnout for our auditions."
Weak voices detract from charm of play
"Greensleeves Magic," a children's play by Marian Jonson. Presented by the KU Museum of Fine Arts, Davis, professor of theatre, Set and lighting by Delbert Unuhl, University Theatre designer. Contested by Cher Haehl, a graduate of the University by Richard Deware, Lawrence graduate student. To be performed at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the University Theatre,
By RHONDA HOLMAN
BY RHONDA HROEMA
Entertainment Editor
In anything but the most intimate settings, children's theatre actors must be more vocal and animated to keep their wrigling audiences interested.
The University of Kansas' production of the movie *Jungle* annually successfully quiescing its young audience, then usually through technical tricks like making characters fly or disappear in a puff of smoke.
Children, unlike adults, won't strain to hear the dialogue, and with "Greensleeves" Magic," one simply has to strain or the charming story will pass him by.
The play takes place in a fantasy kingdom where an evil grand duckus has outlawed singing, laughing and dancing for so long that queen Queen queen has forgotten what it is like to be happy.
WHEN THE ROYAL princess becomes curious about what life was like before people started wishing each other unhappy days, the princess appears and introduces them to song, laughter and dance, much to the grand duchess's outrage. With the help of their green friend, the princess defy the grand duchess and bring happiness back to the world.
The actors playing members of the royal
family are consistently difficult to hear, and she has an intense love of Parish, Overland Park sophomore who plays the keyboard, and Rebecca Hines Swain, Garber Harben, graduate student, who taught her music with Miss Marisa.
The family's inadability is not due just to the noisy audience, as evidenced by the performance of Jeanne Murphy, Kansas City, M., graduate student, as the grand duchess. Murphy jumps off the hiking trail and finds herself delightful as the villain who demands sadness.
Review
MARK A. ROBERTSON, Salina junior, brings the first unanimous supeal of delight from the audience after his performance to projecting his voice, both speaking and singing, but his antics on stage when the audience chirps, crunches, Fitzsneeze, are I look at you.
Much of the show's magical mood is created by Delbert Unurh's marble-like set and mysterious lighting. When the grand duchess makes her flaming exult, the dark cloaks and glowing purple sky that reflected light are to bright light and a tawny blue sky.
The music and dance sequence, choreographed by Denise Reiss, Kismet special student, provide a fun break for the children for latho in the children and adults.
"Greensleeve Magic" is appropriately fast-paced and full of well-executed action, but a bounder delivery from nearly every angle makes the magical tale more enjoyable for all ages.
Irish harp music has bit of magic
By JENNIFER HOLT
Staff Reporter
The group Clairesearch, made up of Charlotte Heymann and his wife, Ann, resurrected the sound of those at hafs Tuesday for 90 people at the Off-The-Wall Hall, 737 New York Avenue.
Heymann said the rise of the English brought the demise of the clairesearch and its music. The metal stalwart needed to produce the bell-like voice of the clairesearch were replaced by the gut strings, tuning levers and neatly trimmed fingernails needed to play.
Early wire-strung Irish harps are said to possess the ability to make the listener laugh, cry or sleep in accordance to the will of the haristr.
ANN BEYMANN'S HARP IS similar to the older Irish harp, but the strings are made of brass and wire, instead of older metal.
The claircish, pronounced "clar-skul," is the Irish name for the harp, which was popular in Ireland from pre-medieval times to the 18th century.
"I am a little superstitious about my harp," said Joe. One time when I got done with the job, I turned to the knock-knock from the harp. I was all alone and really wondered what was happening. So I approached the harp. This knack went on for about two minutes, getting faint and more spaced. It
From Heymann's singing, one might think he was from Ireland.
However, he was born in Chicago and attended college at Northwestern University in Evanston. He ill. He learned to play the fiddle from friends who had studied at the music school led him and American folk music with a band called Dayhill before he met his wife.
Am Heymian had been playing keyboard instruments with a large band three or four times a month for fun, she said. One Christmas her long time friend Barbara
From then on she was hooked on the sound, she said.
The Heymanns married three years ago and stayed with the Dayhill band until last June.
The Heymanns sang old Irish drinking songs, dances and ballads to the audience Tuesday night.
Heymann sang and accompanied his wife on the guitar and mando-cello, a laer形 form with an open body. The curta and the button accordian, which are different sized hexagonal accordians with a hollow center.
Besides the harp, Ann Heymann played the wooden wood, the tintle, the whistle, the concertina and the harmonium, an upright keyboard, which he needs that sounds like a piano accordian.
A combination of instruments were used Tuesday night for songs like "The Green Fields of America" and "For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name."
The couple has played on both coasts, but mainly in the East and the Midwest.
"We've played for varied audiences," Ann Heymann said. "The songs are just great. We've got to get much satisfaction traveling in our station wagon and meeting the people. In some cities we'll even have someone in the room, like a few fritz jigs and舞 as we play."
Heymann said they get a number of requests from the audiences to play favorite or forcited songs from their childhood.
"They usually can recite part of the verse and hum the tune and we try to pick it up from there," he said.
Kansas City sculptor exhibits works at KU
By AMY HOLLOWELL
Staff Reporter
A fundamental principle of artist James Leedy's work is the ancient Chinese Taosi belief in truth—in Leedy's case, truth to his material.
"As an artist, you must be true to your material." Leedy, instructor at the Kannas School of Art, instructs students in exhibition, "Jim Leeed: Retrospect," is in the KU艺术 and Design Gallery, Visual Arts Museum.
the exhibition is a collection of Leedy's work from the past 25 years, including paintings, sculpture and ceramic work. Leedy is an instructor in sculpture at KCAI.
His works in the KU exhibition are arranged in chronological order around the room to further enhance the retrospective orientation of the show, Leedy said.
"My work has been varied in media, he said. "I've done everything from clay to filmmaking."
What Leedy is about is using a craft or concept as a springboard and expanding the original idea.
HE SAID THE show was not for the purpose of sale, but rather to let people "see what I about."
When he was an art instructor at the University of Montana in the 1960s, Leedy and two fellow instructors began a new trend in the use of clay.
"We used the pot as a point of departure for a creative statement," he said. "Pottery had never been done that way before. We turned pet pots into non-utilitarian plhets."
As a graduate student in the late 1950s at Columbia University in New York City, Leedy said, he became interested in car engines and was old and broken and no longer usable.
He said that as an artist, he wanted to transcend the craft stage of making funereal art, but he needed to assemble it as to remove the bottoms of his pottery to "completely destroy the inability" of the coffin.
AT THE SAME time, he became involved in the abstract expressionist movement, associating with such artists as Jackson Pollock.
This "springboard" philosophy is a result of his extensive background in art history, he said, which includes a Ph.D. Leedy also has taught art history.
"I'm not just an artist, I'm also an art historian," he said. "Although I wouldn't say it influences me, I'm aware subconsciously of the history of what I do.
"The movement was already under way," Leedy said. "I moved on into my own directions."
"I feel very strongly about knowing the history of the craft. It gives us background of what we are."
Galleries
ART AND DESIGN GALLERY Visual Arts Building
**Sculpture by James Leedy, member of**
**the Art Museum faculty, through**
**Oct. 5, Open 8:30 a.m. to 1:30**
**p.m. Monday through Friday and 1:30**
**p.m. Sunday, p.m. Sunday,
Paintings by Celia Smith and pottery by Alan Brummen, tomorrow through Oct. 26. Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. [PHY]
745 New Hampshire St.
Wildlife limited edition prints by Allen Hughes, Maynard neede. Mark Reece and Robert Bateman. Monday through Thursday, to 1 p.m. Friday through Saturday.
Anniversary Celebration Exhibition of drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture, through Oct. 11. Photography by Kent Van Hoezen, through Oct. 31. Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER 9th and Vermont streets
LANDIS GALLERY 918 Massachusetts St
623 Vermont St.
Spare Time
Paintings and drawings by Philip Wildman, through tomorrow. Oil paini-
tinges by Paul Penny, Monday through Oct. 31. Open 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
ROY'S CREATIVE FRAMING AND
GALLERY
211 W 23rd St
Wildlife prints by Roger Tory Peterson and Maynard Reece and traditional scences by Dahlah Windberg, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
7 E. Seventh St.
Kansas landscapes by Tim Saska,
through Monday, Open on noon to 5 p.m.
tuesday through Saturday.
UNIONGALLERY
Kansas Union
Annual Art Department Faculty Show,
through Oct. 5. Open 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
VALLEY WEST GALLERIES 2112-A.W. 25th St.
watercolors by Charles Sanderson, photographed by John C. Hancock and John M. Gilligan. Lorenzo, stoneware by Roger Copeland, through Oct. 5. Open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Museums
MUSEUM OF ART Chinese paintings from the Sackler
HELEN FORESMAN SPENCER
MUSEUM OF ART.
Collection, through Oct. 7; Innovations in
Century Printers, through Sunday
21st of October; through Open
open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. tuesday.
through Saturday and 1 to 4:30 p.m.
WATKINS COMMUNITY MUSEUM
1047 Massachusetts St
On the Banks of the Kaw, The History of Lawrence, Part IV; through Nov. 18. Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 to 1:40 p.m. Sunday.
Music
FACULTY RECITAL SERIES Swarthout Recital Hall
Edward Laut, cello, 8 p.m. Monday.
KANSAS UNION
KU Jazz Ensemble I, noon today,
northeast entrance. "A Tribute to Glenn
Miller," 8 p.m. tomorrow night, Union
Ballroom.
KU CONCERT SERIES
MEMORIAL CAMPANILE
Houston Ballet, 8 p.m. Wednesday.
LAWRENCE OPERA HOUSE
600 Massachusetts St.
Pott County Pork & Bean Band, tonight; Caroline Marys and Shooting Star, tomorrow night. Doors open at 8, music begins at 9.
Albert Gerken. University carillon-
neur, 3 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Wednesday.
OFF-THE-WALL-HALL
287 New Hampshire St.
737 New Hampshire St.
Bad Luck, tonight and tomorrow night. Doors open at 8, music begins at 9.
926 Massachusetts St.
Tommy Johnson Experiment, tonight;
Jim Stringer, tomorrow night. Doors open at 8, music begins at 9.
PENTIMENTO COFFEEHOUSE AND CAFE
611 Vermont St.
J. Denny Moore and J. W. Leo Pozdar, 10 tonight; Bruce and Brooks, 8 p.m.; Melissa and Johnson, midnight to tomorrow; Mike Rundel on saturday. VISTING ARTISTS SERIES
James Rivers, professor of piano at Washburn University in Topeka, 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Swarthout Recital Hall
Theatre
KU THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
University Theatre
greensueeves' Magic," 10:30 a.m. to tomorrow.
INGE THEATRE SERIES
William J. Theatre
William Inge Theatre
"Streamers" by David Rabe, 8 p.m.
Tuesday through Oct. 7.