Thursday, Nov. 21, 1985
Thursday Features
University Daily Kansan
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Graduate recital asks musical question
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
When students return from
When students return from Thanksgiving vacation next week, many will face the back-to-school blues. But a group from the University of Kansas is offering a remedy for the post-vacation pre-finals colddrums.
Mark Ferrell, assistant professor of music, prescribed a cure; a vocal performance called "Is It Broadway or Is It Opera?"
"It's a perfect pre-study break before finals begin," Ferrell said. "It'll pick up anybody who has the blues after Thanksgiving break." The performance will incorporate selections from operas and musicals such as "West Side Story." "Show Boat" and "Porgy and Bess." The show will be performed by eight graduate students and seven of their friends at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2 in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The graduate students all are enrolled in VOIC 420, graduate vocal coaching. "It's a means for the students to
have a performance experience," said Ferrell, who is coaching and accompanying the performers. "Mostly, it's fun. I selected the pieces to point out the fact that it's enjoyable."
Sarah Taylor, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, will be performing in the show. She said the idea for the program developed from a group of people who met weekly to listen to operas.
"It was very spontaneous," Taylor said. "It's nothing really legitimate.
The performance precedes next semester's production of "Sweeney Todd," which some agree is an opera and others say is a musical, Ferrell said. This is part of a larger debate among music enthusiasts concerning the difference between operas and musicals.
"It's intended to demonstrate new and innovative ideas in recitals. It'll really lift you up."
nresses emotions
"Music is music," he said. "The difference is in the function of the music. In operas, the music carries the main bulk of the story and ex-
"In musical theater, the music helps along the story and shows feeling, but the main bulk of the action is done by acting and by dialogue, not by music."
For instance, Ferrell said, the music in "West Side Story" is operatic, but the show is described as a musical because there is no aria at the end when the character dies.
Ferrall said that besides the variety of music, some surprises would spice up the Dec. 2 show to help cure students' blues.
“There are a few surprises,” he said. “We'll do a few things that have never been done on the Swarthout stage before.”
He would not say what the surprises were, however, because he didn't want to spoil the effect. Also, he said, he was afraid that if someone knew what the surprises were, he wouldn't be allowed to do them.
Chad DeShazo/KANSAN
Stefane Humes, Lawrence graduate student, practices her part in the vocal performance "Is it Broadway, or is It Opera?" The show will be performed at 8 p.m. Dec. 2 in Swarthout Recital Hall by eight students from a graduate vocal coaching class and seven of their friends.
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