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Friday, February 21, 1975
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
ENTERTAINMENT
Opera adapted for kids
"Cinderella," a children's opera by Rossini, is being brought to Lawrence and the studentship halls for prospects for Young People, Inc.
Concerts for Young People is designed to introduce children to instrument music. Janet Margulis, concert series chairman, said, Wednesday "Cinderella" is the third and last concert of the
Marquis said this opera was the kind children could enjoy because they were so expressive as dialogue, and the opera only lasted an hour.
Alice Downs, Lawrence music teacher, who adapted the opera, said the production would be almost like community theater because people were in high school, KU students and KU faculty members had worked on the show.
Downs adapted the opera's music with the assistance of Norman Paige, associate professor of voice. Paige sang song by Mozart in "Cinderella" with the Metropolitan Opera Touring Car.
Ralph Christoffersen, assistant vice chancellor for
He takes  Cinderella's inheritance and spends it on his two daughters, Clorinda and Mike to make him grand ladies.
The evil stepmother has been replaced by a comic stepfather, played by Alfred Lata, chemistry lecturer.
junior, and JoAnn Hicks, Lawrence resident.
Mary Luokuta, a former KU student, plays Cinderella. Her stepisisters are played by Barbara Pankratz, Cassaday
Lynn Schnorrick, Yates Center graduate student, conducts the orchestra, which is mostly KU students.
academic affairs, will play the prince in this version of "Genderella," which is slightly different from the original.
Rick Averill, organizer of the Meade Hall players, directs the show. He has rewritten several sections of the opera.
Parent volunteers are making costumes, Marquus said. The University also has lent some of the materials used by Lawrence High students.
the performance will be 3 p.m. Sunday in Lawrence High School Auditorium.
BY ROBERT A. GAVIN
Records Reviewer
Three years later, Walter Carlos's "Switched-On Bach" opened a new avenue of musical
Moog updates Debussy
When Robert Moog unleashed his electric keyboard in 1965, he didn't realize the future impact of his labors. A delicate device that produced cold, atonal music played only by mathematic and electronic technicians in sterile laboratories.
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expression. The synthesizer finally could be played as if it was a regular instrument.
Electronic equipment grabbed the rock world by surprise. Within a decade everyone from Edgar Winter to Bob Dylan participated with its sounds and incorporated it into their music.
Kath Emerson learned to pluck the stick-like theramin, a four-stringed, bass-tuned instrument. Billy Preston strapped a portable synthesizer keyboard across his shoulder. Robert Fripp of King Crimson launched the rock "rock." Electronic earned accolades from musicians and audiences as synthesizers replaced orchestras.
Ten years of refinement led to such related instruments as the mellotron, a keyboard that used prerecorded sound tapes, bassboards and even the guitar synthesizer and guitar stick.
Synthesizers reflected the state of rock. Whereas rock musicians welcomed the music they admired, artists shunned such esoteric hardware. Although Emerson might try his hand at Ravel, Musorpsy or Bartok, rock and pop was among the artists remained at opposite poles.
Isoa Torita, however, has changed all that. Torita, a Japanese electronic classicist, has given new life to classical
music and created an electronic orchestra.
It is ironic to hear the floating, ethereal tones of French Impressionist Claude Debussy electronically reproduced by a musician from the Far East. "Snowflakes are poems" Tumita's RCA Red Seasnail dances with a new brush. The results are delightful and stuming.
Debussy was a master of dissonance. Chords never resolved but reached new levels of dissonance. Combinations of chords created not tension and suspense but visions and color. Chords were complex and half-imagined experience called Impressionism.
Tomita, winner of Japan's Television Grand Prize in 1973, has arranged Debussy's tone poems with euphoria grace. The book's focus on dynamics and timbre keep pace with the composer's thoughts.
"Snowflakes are Falling"
includes works from Debussy's first and second periods, "Clair d'une lume" and "Passepied" are played paramasquea," written during the first period, 1890 to 1905. They were originally written for piano.
Both pieces have tremendous feel for dynamics and lower register nonaccented rhythmic patterns. The bottom reaches of the synthesizer are particularly effective.
“Gardens in the Rain,” “The Engulfed Cathedral,” “Girl with Flaxen Hair” and “Footprints in the Snow” from Debussy’s second and final work, “Gardens,” 1910. “Gardens” is from the 1903 piece “Estamps.” The latter three works are from his first book of “Preludes.” “Footprints” conveys a sharp impressionism. The music often sounds like the title.
The album even has a number with the syncopated tune "Gollow's Cakewalk," from "Children's Corner." The synthesized sounds with echoes and phase shifters give the song a deep beat with dissonant high passages.
Tomita's engineering is superb. Track upon layered track gives the homophonic image of an orchestra that really sounds like an orchestra complete use of sixteen tracks allows the listener to find new pieces every time. His work further defines not only the seemingly endless possibilities but also the complete mastery of the production studio.
Tomita's arrangement of Debussy is a milestone. The effect of a new Debussy coupled
with an intelligent electronic presentation is awesome. Although other keyboard artists may try, Rick Wakeman, Brian Eno and Jan Hammer can't touch Tomita's skill.
"Snowflakes are Dancing" is one of the best albums of the '70s and stands alone in its purpose, progression and form.
If the forces of advanced technology and age-old classicism have met and are Dancing" is its most representative pact. The twain have met.
'Jaws' full of bite
By CHRISTOPHER M. RIGGS
Kansas Reviewer
"Jaws" by Peter Benchley,
Doubleday & Company Inc., 309
pages. $1.95.
The title 'Jaws' seems to suggest an extremely bloody novel, but the inference is incorrect.
Although the cover shows a shark about to attack a woman, there are few deaths caused by the shark throughout the story. Peter Benchley writes about the attacks with obvious knowledge of sharks and their behavior. He also writes about written and descriptive to a point just short of being sickening.
While reading "Jaws," memories of similar stories about the struggle of man against nature come to mind. In "Jaws," the great white shark is being stalked by Chief of Police Martin Brody. In "Moby Dick" the greatest ship in history, Captain Abqah. Each man is seeking revenge on the sea creature, in Abqah's case because of physical injuries, in Brody's, harm done to his pride.
The story takes place in Amity, a summer resort town on Long Island. Because Amity has no residents for its livelihood and because the shark has killed some citizens near Amity's city hall, pressure from the pressure is put on Brody. Brody must decide whether it is safe to
open the beaches or whether he should keep them closed until he is convinced the shark is gone. In Jaws Benchley gifted a surfboard to the instinct of self preservation is. Since the life of the town depends upon its summer residents, great lengths are taken to quiet accounts of the killers in the second and third attacks take place, witnessed by a beachful of bathers, Amity's citizens can't keep away television cameras. This widespread knowledge ensures Amity as rent summer houses are received.
Bensley does a good job of keeping the reader in suspense. He not only keeps the reader's interest by the constant threat of a sudden story an affair that involves Mrs. Brody and Matt Hooper, an old friend. Larry Vaughan, the mayor of Amity, has some silent partners whom Brody is familiar with. And Brody then unhappily finds out.
If you are too lazy to read "Jaws," Paramount will soon release a movie based on Benchley's exciting novel. In all honesty the first chapter alone worth the price of the book.
Benchley seems to have followed the new trend in stories lately—that of catastrophe. His descriptions of the attacks are frightening as any means of death can be.
Judqing an exhibit
Ole Moran, director of the research and education department of the American Crafts Council, examines an entry in the 21st annual Kansas Designer-Craftman Exhibition. The exhibit will continue until March 21 in the Kansas Union Gallery.
MONKEY BUSINESS—With the Marx x brothers, Typical hilarious, zany comedy. The four brothers are let loose on a luxury liner in this 1931 movie. 77 minutes.
On screen
(At 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Woodruff Auditorium.)
By Photographer FAITH LUBBEN
(At 1:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
ARENSCI AND OLD LACE—1944 film directed by Frank Capra. Captured by Ronald Massey, Peter Lenton and Edward Everett Horton. Very good and very funny adaptation of a play about two seemingly harmless men, the plucky civilian callers. Lorre and Massey are especially excellent. 110 min. At 7:30 p.m. Monday in
GUNGA DIN—Excellent Hollywood action adventure story, slightly related to Kipling's poem. Three soldier comrades in 19th century India battle savage maurers. Made in 1939, this film stars Cary Grant, Victor McLagen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Gough and Sam Jaffre. 129 minutes.
THE EARRINGS OF MADAME D . . . -France, 1953. Thin and airy story of love
FOOTLIGHT PARADE—Excellent fast-moving, nearly credible New York City show business story. Highlighted by Busy Berkley production team. Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell. Made in 1933. 90 minutes.
(At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
Mammoth canvases
The artist, Gerald E. Lubensky, assistant professor of painting and sculpture, stands before one of his paintings at the exhibition "New Imagery" in TET gallery.
Texture of paintings brings life to exhibit
Rico, gooey-looking colors seem to swell and almost dip off some of the paintings that this month appeared through February. The exhibit, "New Imagery," contains both paintings and serigraphs by Lorenbury, assistant professor of painting and sculpture.
This Week's
By FAITH LUBBEN Art Reviewer
Art Reviewer
Lubensky's works reveal a joy in the media. Numerous layers of pigment in the paintings yield a thick, textured relief that measuresurable relief. His canvas approaches seven feet in length. The character of the silkscreen is used to give texture to the layers of ink in the serigraphies. An unexpected series in "Fuzz in Your Eye"—the print is flocked
traditional abstract exercises, nicely done but obvious.
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Others, though, have a strong quality that may merit the title "New imagery." Some of the works, like the painting "Give a strong feeling of the physical presence of the color areas. Instead of drawn planes with applied color, one perceives areas whose shape and edge are determined by the color of the spherical sense of space rather than a cold vacuum of so many nonobjective works.
The compositional feel of many of the works is that of dynamic diagonal lines. A few scenes seem to be a rehab of
Lubensky's colors are gorgeous. He displays a sensitivity to a diversity of combinations, ranging from neutralized tones — "Collage I"—to more pure intensities — "The color combination of "Duende" is unexpected and impossible to describe; and it is my favorite in the show.
One color area in "Horquilla" was so suggestive of strawberries and sundaes that it resisted a Baskin-Robins after seeing the show.
and deceit. Based on
deMaupassant works. With
Charles Boyer, Vittorio DeSicla
with James McGee. Subt.
105 minutes.
(At 8 p.m. Thursdav in Woodruff Auditorium.)
LENNY—Bob Fosses' version of Julian Barry's play about the life, problems and death of the controversial performer Lenny Bruce. Fine performance by Dustin Hoffman and by Valerie Perrine as Bruce's mixed-up wife.
(At 7:30 and 9:30 daily with matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Varsity.)
THEIEVS LIKE US-Robert Altman film about a group of small time losers in the mid-20th century. Honest and compassionate. Alas Altmanesque atmosphere includes trashy radio plays, Father Coughlin broadcasts and Carriage videos. Carriage and Shelley Duval.
(At 7:35 and 9:50 p.m. daily with matinee at 2:10 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at Hillcrest II.)
THE KLANSMAN—One of last year's worst. Lee Marvin, Richard Burton and Cameron Mitchell in one big, bad cliche about South Asia. The South artistist with an accent half-way between Shakespeare and an old soundtrack of "Gone With the Wind." The movie would almost be comic if it wasn't so tragic to see Burton cast so low and they clumsy picture about the South.
(At 7:25 and 9:30 p.m. Friday to Sunday with matinee Saturday and Sunday at 2:10 p.m. in Hiclervest III.)
THAT'S ENTERAIN-
MENT-Enjoyable reash of
GM musicals from 1929-1958.
History as well as nostalgia.
Be prepared to take it with a grain
of salt and you'll like it.
(At 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Hillcrest L.)
( AT 8 p.m. daily at Granada.) THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD—A Walt Disney production.
THE TOWERING INFERNO-1 The last best year of the world movie. Good effects, good cast, bad script.
(At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. daily at the Varsity.)
In concert
GAYLE SAMPSON, Cellist,
and MELOY NEWCOMB,
pianist—With Anth Schoenorr at
the piano. The twentieth includes Bach's
"Capriccio on the Departure of a
beloved Brother"; Mozart's
"Fantasy," K. 397; Beethoven's
"Sonata for Bass and Piano.",
102, No. 1; and Lee Finey,
Ravel and Saint-Saens.
(At 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital hall.)
KU SYMPHONIC BAND—Annual tour concert. Robert E. Foster, conductor; Lee A. Mendyk, associate conductor. With Antonio Perez, baritone soloist.
The program will include Richard Strauss' tone poem "Dor Juan," Mozart's "Non piur andairst" from "The Marriage of Figaro": "Avant de quitter seieux" from Gound's "Faust"; "Largo al factotum" from Rossin's "Barril de Berville"; Bernstein's "Overture Carcassin" in Carcassin's and Paloute Polichetin's works by Sousa, Arthur Sullivan and Pagani.
(At 3:30 p.m. Sunday in University Theatre.)
NON-FICTION JAZZ
GROUP -SUA Concert. (6:30
p.m. Sunday in the Forum
Room. Kansas Union.)
RICHARD REBER, pianist—Performing works by Haydn,
Beethoven. Chopin and Ravel.
CHARLES BENBOW, Guest Organist-Performing works by Lizzt, Frescobaldi, J. S. Bach, Lance Massey, Jehan Alain, Cesar Franck and Marcel Dupre.
(At 8 p.m. Sunday at Plymouth Congregational Church.)
Performing Works by* Hayn, *Bryan*
(A 8 p.m., Monday in Battenfield Auditorium at the KU
Medical Center.)
STAGE BAND-Lawrence High School. (At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the LHS auditorium.)
LITTLE SYMPHONY-
Thomas Gorton, director. With solists Jack Winerock, piano, and John Boulton, flute. Program: Vivaldi's "Concerto Grosso in D Minor"; Schumann's "Concerto," in Boulton; Rhapsody for Flute and Strings; and Sibelius "Pelleas and Melisande."
(At 8 p.m. Wednesday in Swarthout Recital Hall.)
On stage
M A D W O M A N O F CHAILT-Story of a French madwoman who foils the evil plans of executives looking for oil undercover and sends them miserable death in the sewers of Paris.
(At 8 tonight and at 2:30 p.m.
Saturday in Hashinger
Theatre.)
(At 8 tonight and Saturday in University Theatre.)
CINDERELLA — Adaptation of Rossini's opera. Part of the
Concerts for Young People series.
(At 3 p.m. Sunday in Lawrence High School auditorium.)
AN EVENING OF ONE ACT PLAYS—By various authors, including KU's Gene Pindar.
(At 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in William Inge Memorial Theatre.)
un
(8 p.m. Saturday on ABC)
television
HUSTLING-Tough drama with Lee Remick as a magazine writer trying to expose the big prostitution business.
(8 p.m. Saturday on ABC, "The Real
REMEMBERED— An Unau-
authorized Biography—Frank
Capra, Joan Blondell, William
Wellman and others recall
Gilbe. Films that will be
released in 2015 by the bouncy "
I Happened One Night" and "Boom Town."
(At 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on ABC.)
HOMOSEXUALS: OUT FROM THE SHADOWS-David Frost as host of an in-depth study of homosexuals in contemporary contexts, interviews with a lesbian couple, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and parents of homosexuals.
(At 10:30 p.m. Thursday on ABC.)
At the gallery
SPENCER LIBRARY—"An Exhibit Commemorating the bicentennial of John Baskerville's Death," Art of the Spanish Poet and His Passions Experiences the Robert L. Gilbert Family."
MUSEUM OF ART—'A Textile Sampler," 'Medieval Madonna and Child: Symbol of an Age.'
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL
LIBRARY—Paul Penney,
paintings.
JIVANA GALLERY-Nick Gelbard and Alan Webster, hand blown glass and pottery; Mitzi Sudlow, stained glass; Betsy Webster, batiks and collage; Karen Becher and camara; Janice Webster, weaving and macrame; John Clifford and Kimberly Webster paints and prints.
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