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Friday, November 15, 1974
University Daily Kansan
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
--the need he would even write to presidents suggesting constitutional amendments. Throughout his life he worked constantly to enlarge citizen participation in government. He was totally in favor of mankind and the common man.
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"SURE, I KNEW THE RICH WERE GETTING RICHER AND THE POOR WERE GETTING POORER-BUT I THOUGHT I WAS ONE OF THE RICH ONES."
By KATHY PICKETT Music Reviewer
Tribute to Ives long overdue
This is the year of the Charles Ives centennial celebration. American music players throughout the country are finally paying tribute to a man who led the movement in American composer of all time.
October especially saw many celebrations, for it was the time of the entire concert edition, the entire concert season in Miami has been dedicated to Ives. On the Fourth of July there was an Ives festival in Dambury, Concord and Leonard Michael Tilson-Thomas as conductors.
There is an official committee for the lives centennial celebration. An Ives medal has been awarded to those being honored to the public.
The Yale School of Music, where lives went to school, has had a festival-conference in his honor.
Nonmusicians, and indeed many musicians, may not understand what all the fuss is about. Charles Ives as a musician was miserably neglected by his own generation. He received a pulitzer for "Four Symphonies in 1947," but it had been composed in 1911. Most of his works weren't performed until 30 or 40 years after their composition.
He was what many would call relevant. He "did his own thing." He was a shy, quiet and private man, but when he saw
Ives' recognition today, belated that it is, is entirely deserved. Today, 100 years after his birth, the ideals he held dear are also those of this generation.
million in his life insurance business. Yet he wore overalls around his house. He and his wife, Harmony, seldom went out. He kept from his income only $250,000 a year, and much of that went into a fund to copy and print his own and others' music. He gave much of his money to charity, giving back nature and the transcendental goodness of man rather than in materialism and politicians.
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His successful business career showed that he was no ivory tower musician. Instead, he strove for the fullness of life.
It hasn't been a very good year for motion pictures—at least not in Lawrence. The Commonwealth Theaters (which are all the theaters in Lawrence except for those on campus) have made their films flacks and returns of old movies. New movies have become the exception rather than the rule.
Ives was a successful businessman as well as composer. He made nearly $2
Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if the skin flicks were good, but they are terrible. Plots don't seem to exist in the films, and the actors can't act. Even seeing a skin flick in 3-D doesn't improve it because most of the movie isn't affected by the 3-D glasses.
picked up a copy of Playboy. At least the magazine has some redeeming values and it's cheaper, too.
In addition, the skin flies don't have what is needed to survive. They can eat a person could look like a lot more naked bodies if he
The theaters obviously are making a lot of money from these movies. At least someone is. The movies don't cost much to make and the theaters charge regular admission. But if people need money to waste, I suppose that it's their business—though I doubt if I will discontinue my diatribe.
Even though Ivies studied several musical instruments as a child, when he was asked what he liked to play most, he became an avid drummer and celled on the football and baseball teams at Yale.
Speaking of ripoffs, I wonder how many times Commonwealth has shown "Gone with the wind" on its currency. It's hard to see from what I have heard, it has paid for itself many times over. But theaters still charge the
Movie fare here disappointing
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It was actually modern life that made Ives' recognition possible. Television and phonographs have made his work more available. In fact, some of the sounds he strove for were not found today because of the technical advance of the recording arts.
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The details of his life since his birth Oct. 20, 1874, can easily be found. He was a true 20th Century man, for he saw the rise of large corporations and to urban life during the country two world wars. He also saw the music as a profession.
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Ives once got a musical inspiration when he heard two bands passing in different directions on a street corner.
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Once he told a music copist to stop making the notes "nice." All the wrong notes, he said, are right.
Ives knew his music was technical difficult. He once said, "Is it the composer's fault that man has only ten fingers?"
about Charles Ives through his many writings. There are his correspondence, his notes to himself, published writings, programs, reviews, clippings he saved and tapes with friends.
Some may think Ivus just didn't know correct theory. But all his work at Yale was done in the traditional manner because his 'strange' ideas were rejected by the teachers.
same admission for that movie as they do for all others.
But what must be remembered about Charles Ives is his creativity, his American quality, his humanity. As Gilbert Chase said, Ives is the combination of modernistic eccentricity and Yankee ingenuity.
tried atonality, polytonality, 12ths, rhythmic complexity, asymmetrical melodies and deviations from standard pitch years before the advanced European composers did. He used polytonality as early as 1906 with a piano version of Petruchio chord (CM and F sharp M) wasn't composed until 1911.
Ives' upbringing made his original compositions inevitable. His first composition was when he was 11. When he became a teacher, his work of his that combined a Foster tune with a barn dance.
The theaters in Lawrence have been showing films that were released two, three or four years ago, such as "Cabaret," "Day of the Dolphin," "Jeremiah Johnson" and "American Graffiti." Even one of the skin flicks—"The Cheerleaders"—was over three years old when it was shown. Let's not forget "2001, A Space Odyssey." I was in high school when it came out, and that was over six years ago. And "The Shaggy Dog"—Annette Funicello was still a Mouseketeer when Walt Disney released that one.
Ives was brought up on Bach and Foster. When he was a child his father had the family sing "Swanee River" in the key of E flat while they were accustomed to playing also were required to sing quarter tones as a form of punishment.
The theaters aren't going out of their way to tell people how old some of the movies are. I thought that "King of Hearts" was a new movie. The advertisement hinted that it was made about 1973, when George Clooney starred in 1967. That explains why Alan Bates and Genevieve Bujold looked so young to me.
Obviously students are waiting for new movies. When a new movie such as "California Split" or "The Longest Yard" has come in Lawrence, it has stayed for at least three weeks. Another movie star is up 20 per cent, so the popularity of new movies isn't an isolated phenomenon.
Haven't some good movies been made in the past year? Of course, there have—"Amacord," "Chinatown," "Lacombe Lucien," "Badlands" and "The Entertainment," just to name a very few.
Get on the stick, Commonwealth. Just because you own a monopoly in Lawrence is no reason to show mainly old movies and skin-flicks. The SUA be better job than you and it only charges 75 cents.
Part of Ives' specialness is his American quality. Leonard Bernstein called him the Washington, Jefferson and Adams men. Although his work was not influential at the time it was written, its originality and creativity deserve recognition. His inspiration was often used in works for national monuments.
—Kenn Louden Entertainment Editor
His independence and humor are eternal, shown by his preface to the Concord Sonata.
A number of pieces were written for national holidays, including Washington's birthday, Decoration Day, the Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving.
beliefs about art. He believed it came entirely from the heart of life. Even though he retired from business in 1909 because of poor health, he appreciated that his art was a reflection of his art. In business, he said, one saw tragedy, nobility, meanness, high aims and low aims, bright hopes and faint hopes, great ideals and no ideals at all. He believed that he should be minded for new ideas in business than in music.
Russell casts West
Sixteen Charles Marion Bronzius bronzes, a recent and most significant gift to the Museum of Art, will be on display in the
most expressive medium. The first model, "Smoking Up," was cast in bronze in 1903 in New York City, and subsequent pieces were found in Montana saloons, as well as Tiffany's
Russell depicted many facets of the life around him, very much aware of the passive lifestyle that would soon become a key part of his West. The naturalism of execution and creative vitality of Russell's bronze sculptures will delight viewers and transport them, for a few moments, the last era of the American West.
By FELICIA LEWANDOWSKI
In his heroes, too, Ives was a modern man. His concord Sonata was written with movements for Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott and Thoreau. When someone once criticized Thoreau, Ives replied that the man who did the idle was the type to go through life playing music with the pedal down.
In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum will show a Hopalong Cassidy film at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 15 in the lecture room. See us for showing the bromes and then remain for a bit of nostalgia.
The ' sculptures capture in bronze the life of the American West and the spirit of its inhabitants as depicted by Russell's cowboys, wild range horses, wolves and bear cubs.
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Main Gallery of the museum from Nov. 18 to Jan. 5.
Uniqueness was what Ives continually strove for. He said that familiar sounds, like drugs, could be habit-forming.
Russell, often called the "Bowboy Artist," is well known for his paintings, but the bronze sculpture is often considered his
Ives also borrowed many themes, mostly American, for his music. These included barbershop ballads, psalmody and hymnody of New England, and revival spirituals, blackface minstrel tunes, Stephen Foster songs, fiddle tunes and barn dances, village church choir songs, patriotic and college songs and ragtime. He even wrote Beethoven's 5th into a piece. National regionalism also was important to his music.
He wrote, "These prefatory essays were written by the students," he said. "I stand his music—and the music for those who can't stand his essays; to those who can't stand his whole is respectfully dedicated."
We can learn a great deal
One of the things that must be remembered about Ives is his remarkable sense of humor. He would write funny cadenza chices, or put special tune-up times in the scores. There often are funny written messages to Ives that were not the joke would be just between Ives, the conductor and the performers.
It is natural to wonder why Ives' musical genius was so creative and individual. He
Band catching on; Dry Jack great
Dry Jack is a new band in town and it merits everyone's attention. Originally from New York, the group presents on a self-styled tour of
KEN SEGALL Reviewer
the Midwest, playing and promoting modern music that is conceived, composed, and conveyed a full measure above our current hard rock and country rock music.
and Herbie Hancock make it clear that the group is moving toward funky jazz.
The band consists of two guitars, piano, bass, drums, congas percussion and lead singer. These seven individuals deal out music that can almost be labelled as electric-kunk-jazz-rock. Santana, Stevie Wonder, Breyers and Buddies Miles performs with imaginative competence, but more complex undertakings by such artists as Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea
Dry Jack's enthusiastic performance further demonstrates that more popular styles of music are in style of music. Indeed, recent wide-scale popularity of such modern jazzmen as Chick Corea or Johnny Hallyday djuck seems to point the way a major pop music upheaval.
Dry Jack and similar groups demonstrate that more challenging music is not only more fun to play, but is decisively more entertaining to rock oriented audiences. Rock fans across the country are exposed to this music with recent exposure to what Chick Corea calls “...this electric jazz rock fusion.”
KU students interested in seeing and hearing a first-rate rendition of modern jazz are advised not to miss the free performance of Dry at 8 p.m. Friday at Wesco Auditorium.
On stage
Don Juan Tenorio—Adapted from the text by Zorilla. An event that tells, through space, movement and newly found words, the exploits of the explorer Benito Mujica by Marcia Grind. (At 8 p.m. through Nov. 16 in William Ine Memorial Theatre.)
Thanksgiving Story and The Adventures of Nyfrm the Sprite, Part 13<sup>a</sup> to Apt. m. saturation at Daybreak. (80% at 6 a.m., 92% at Massachusetts St.)
A Company of Wayward Saints—At 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Lawrence High School Auditorium.)
Snow White and the Three Stooges—For the kids. Directed by Walter Lang. At 1:30 p.m. in Woodruff auditorium.
This Week's
ENTERTAINMENT
On screen
The Mask of Fu Manchu—1932 film with Boris Karloff. Directed by Charlie Brabin. (At Wesley Tuesday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
Patton - Overblown epic about the famous general during World War II. George C. Scott Patton. With Karl Malden and Karl Vogler, Directed by Franklin Schrauker. (At 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Friday and noon, and at 11:30 a.m. in Woordriff Auditorium.)
Hell in the Pacific—Excellent film about World War II that was filmed by Jim Boorman. Directed by John Boorman. With Lee Wardin and Toshiro Mifunen. Highly recommended. Day in Woodruff Auditorium.
Human Beast—French film directed by Jean Bean Roir. With Jean Gabin and Simone Simon. Highly recommended. At (7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
The Dude Goes West—A mess of a comedy that wouldn't even make it on daytime television. With Eddie Albert and Gale Storm, Directed by Kurt Neumann. (At 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Woodruff Auditorium.)
The Longest Yard—Starring
Burt Reynolds. Fourth great
week. Highly recommended.
(41:30 and 9:45 p.m. through
saturday) at 2 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at the
Hillcrest I.)
The Groove Tube-Shorts of the comical television business. Directed by Ken Shapiro. Second week. At 7:45 and 9:30 at the Maitness Theatre. Matteines 2:20 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Hillcrest II. )
The Dove—About a boy who sailed around the world, (At Tampa through 2008 to Tuesday. Maines at 3:30 p.m. at the Hillcrest III.)
Funky Car Summer—Has anyone ever heard of this movie? (At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. through Tuesday. Matinees at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Granada.)
The Trial of Billy Jack—More sloppy, sentimental junk by the same left-wing propagandists who made the same stars, too. And they are actually charging $2.50 a person. For extravagant bleeding-hearts (At 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Varsity.)
In concert
John Bally Group—(At 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the Free State Opera House.)
Memorial Carillon Recital—Albert Gerkin. (At 3 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Sunday.)
Collegium Musicum — (Music of the Middle Ages. David Ellender and J. Bunker Clark, directors. Organum. 13th-century motets; medieval liturgical drama. (At 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Spooner Art Museum.)
Barrelhouse—A rock band. (At 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Free State Opera House.)
Concerts for Young People—"Strings and Things." Charles Hoag conducting the Lawrence Chamber Players. (At 3 p.m. Sunday in the Central Junior High School Auditorium.)
KU Jazz Ensemble-At 3 p.m.
Sunday in Battenfeld
Auditorium at the University of
Kansas Medical Center. )
Student Recital—Celeste Myall, pianist and Roger Kendall, soprano and alto saxophone. Winifred Gallup, accompanist. "Program" by J. S. Bach. "Six Minor" by J. S. Bach. "Six Bagatelles" by Beethoven. "Fantasia" by Benjamin Lees. "Three Romances" by Robert Schumann. "Tableaux de Provence" by Paule Maurice; "Renaissance" by Lex Van Delden. (At 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall.)
Student Rectal—Woodwind Quintet and Connie Kelley, oboe and English horn. Janet Guebert Bucher at the keyboard and Mary Hoag, violinist. Kelley program: "Concerto for"
Obeo》 by Cimerares-Benjamin,
"Duo for Obeo and Viola" by
Alvin Eler, "Partita for
English Horn and Organ" by
Janko Kesiet. The Woodwind
Shakley, flute; Patricia Molina,
oboe; Diane Snodgras,
clarinet; and Charles Kessler,
bassoon and David Tallent,
horn. Buch-Hoag Program:
"Trois Pieces pour une Musique
de la Chanson," by
Theme Libre》和 "Scherzo"
by Bozza. (At 8 p.m. Tuesday in
Swarthout Hall.)
At the gallerv
Kansas Union Lobby—"Lakeside Studio Exhibit." Over 1,000 original prints with a total value of over $100,000. Includes Blake, Pariansi, Blake, Rounault, Whistler and Richard Hunt. Also in this collection will be a number of Japanese woodcuts from the Ukiyo-E School in Japan. Area artists featured in this exhibition include Paul Poliholp, Black, Pozzatti and Talkeur. (a.m. to 4 p.m. monday.)
Kansas Union Gallery—"The Art of Women: A Panorama of Achievement." (From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday through Nov. 27.)
7 East 2 - "Grafts Tangent." (From noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday through Dec. 4.)
**Museum of Art - "Charles**
*Marion Russell*. A collection of
*10 works by Cowboy Artist". Art of the
*American West*. (From 9 a.m.
to 4:45 p.m. Thursday through
10:30 p.m. Sunday until Jan. 4.)