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University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1980
Page 9
Talk draws unexpected attendance
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
More than a third of the people who came to listen to a speech sponsored by the Humanities Lecture Committee Tuesday night were locked out of the Spencer Art Museum auditorium where it took place.
A crowd of about 350 people packed the 300-seat auditorium last night to listen to American composer John Cage give a speech titled "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet."
About 200 more people waited outside the museum's locked doors, some of them demanding entrance and others accusing "claustrophilia," the French national anthem.
The size of the crowd was a surprise to the lecture committee, according to Tony Genova, professor of philosophy and a member of the committee.
IN INTRODUCING Cage last night,
J. Bunker Clark, professor of music
history, joked, "Mr. Cage, when I said
you drew a crowd, draw a crowd,
they didn't believe me."
"With respect to the typical humanities lecture, 300 seats would be more than adequate," he said.
They should have, said Edward Mattilia, professor of music theory and math.
"In a way, it's an affront to John Cage, to put him in that small auditorium," Mattila said. "Cage is an internationally known figure, and to put him in a little place where not everyone could get in showed a lack of foresight."
The film, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," was attended by 93 people. Mike Gebert, chairman of SUA films, said.
Robert Spires, chairman of the lecture committee, said that the committee wanted to have the lecture in the 500-seat Woodruff Auditorium, in
the Kansas Union, where the lectures usually are held, but that an SUA film was scheduled.
FRANK BURGE, director of the Kansas Union, said that events for Woodruff were scheduled early in the summer, and that the lecture committee had not made their schedule requests until August.
or early summer, but wasn't able to
the lecture with Cage until
August.
"We'll do everything we can to cooperate and accommodate, but a reservation is a reservation." Burge said. "Wooldruff Auditorium was built for student activities, and the films are scheduled there on a regular basis."
"Spencer was not where we wanted him," Spires said, "but the alternative was canceling him. He went to a lot of classes and saw a lot of people. I felt that for them and for the 300 people who got in, it was worth it."
Spires said the committee usually turned in its schedule request in spring
The auditorium was full and the doors were locked about 15 minutes before the start of the concert.
Because the state fire code prohibited an overflow crowd in the auditorium, the museum staff didn't force anyone who was already there to leave. When a fire alarm closed off the museum as soon as they realized the auditorium was full, according to Keith Barmhart, who is in charge of security at the Museum.
The speech was delayed for 20 minutes while the staff tried to set up speakers in the main gallery so the crowd outside could come in and hear the lecture. However, they could not get the speakers to work, Barnhart said.
"We didn't set up speakers in the afternoon because they didn't really expect the crowd," he said. "We were warned that there might be standing room only, but nothing like what came."
"The problem was that the committee chose a woefully inadequate room to hold that lecture in," said Jim Smith, music library assistant.
**SMITH SAID HE** thought the lecture committee should have anticipated the overflow crowd. Anthony Burgers, a writer of "Oyster Creek last year," drew a similar crowld last year.
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