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HOUSTON — The New York Mets, shut out in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, rebounded in Game 2 last night with the kind of defense attack that enabled them to win 108 games during the regular season.
Combining offense, defense and pitching, the Mets gave Houston something to ponder on the off-day trip to Shea Stadium, scoring a 5-1 victory over the Astros and tying the NLCS at one game apiece.
Wally Backman delivered two key singles, and left-hander Bobby Ojeda frustrated Houston with a 10 hit complete game.
"We knew we had to win, basically." Ojeda said. "We were a little nervous. But when we broke the ice, you could feel a sigh of relief.
Backman ignited a two-run fourth inning and singled home one of three runs in the fifth and dissapointed a crowd of 44,391.
"You could just feel a very positive momentum shift to us."
Ojeda stranded nine runners for the victory.
"We had enough hits, but we didn't get them at the right time." Houston Manager Hal Lanier said. "You also have to give credit to their pitcher Ojeda."
Gary Carter doubled home one run and Keith Hernandez tripled home two more for the Mets.
Rafael Santana started a double play and kept the Astros from developing a comeback in the ninth.
"We made some big plays at eruicial times." Oteda said.
Nolan Ryan once again showed that his 93 mph fastball doesn't scare New York much. Ryan, who fell to 0-3 against the Mets this season, retired the first 10 batters but was hit hard over the next $1 \frac{3}{4}$ innings and took the loss.
"He threw the ball well velocity- wise." Lanier said. "He didn't get the ball where he wanted to."
When the Astros did finally produce a key hit, Phil Garner's RBI single in the seventh, it proved way too late.
"I thought Bobby Ojeda pitched a very gutty game," said New York Manager Dave Johnson.
Game 3 is scheduled tomorrow in Shea Stadium, with Houston's Bob Kneepler opposing the Mets' Ron Darling.
The difference in team attack could scarcely have been more pronounced. The first seven Met hits all contributed to a run. Meanwhile, the Astros carefully developed an almost attack. In just about every innning, they almost scored.
The pattern of Game 1 — won 1-0 by Houston — persisted three innings into Game 2. The Astros failed to produce a clutch hit and the Mets failed to hit, period.
Ryan retired all nine batters, including Len Dykstra, who once again led off the game by bunting.
In the second inning, Houston was unable for the fourth time in the series to deliver a runner from third with less than two out.
With one out, Kevin Bass doubled and went to third when Cruz singled off Ojeda's glove. Ojeda then fielded Alan Ashby's checked-swing bouncer and tagged out Bass trying to score.
one out in the third, it marked the first time in the series anyone in the top three spots for Houston hit safely. Hatcher, however, was doubled off first on a short pop to the outfield.
The Mets finally scored in the fourth, collecting two runs on three hits. Backman and Hernandez singled, and Carter lined a double off the right field wall for one run. Darryl Strawberry then lofted a sacrifice fly for a 2-10 lead.
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The Astros responded with their now-familiar routine of coming close. Garner walked and, one out later, Bass singled to third. However, Jose Cruz struck out and Alan Ashby grounded out.
KU. ISU look for best start since '81
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
For Kansas and Iowa State, the Big Eight Conference season begins tomorrow. But this match has turned into more than just another conference opener because the winning team will record its best start since 1981
"For us, the Iowa State game will be like the Super Bowl," offensive guard Steve Nave said recently. "The glory of victory is always short-lived. We have a streak going now and we have to keep that going."
Both teams are 3-1 after three consecutive victories. They also have many similarities on offense and defense.
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Concert depicts pastorale scene
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When George Frideric Handel composed "Aces and Galathea" in 1718, his first opera in the English language, he gained tremendous popularity.
Handels' "Acis and Galatee," performed in concert by the KU Concert Choralhe and the Early Music Comfort of Kansas City, conducted by Eric Ziegler. The performance is in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
"The important thing to remember is that it became Handel's most popular and most performed piece in his lifetime — with the possible exception of the Messiah," said John Stuhr-Rommeremil, Lawrence Carroll, who did concert performance of "Acis and Galatea" at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
“Acis and Galatea.” is a story about two lovers who enter a world of nymphs, birds, murmuring streams that expands the beauties of love.
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Sunday's performance will feature the KU Concert Chorale and the Early Music Consort of Kansas City playing 18th century instruments. The four vocal solos for the perfor-
Although "Acis and Galatea" was popular in Handel's time, Stuhr-Rommerneim said, it has faded in its popularity. Most modern people think choral music should be religious, and they tend to shy away from wanting to perform anything with the label "opera" on it.
"There are some reasons why it might not be performed as much, but many critics rate it as his greatest work." Stuhr-Rommereim said.
"It's very concerned with tone painting," he said. "The text is very pictoral — it's a pastoral work and these country scenes are described very vivid, and that's perfect for Handel because one of his greatest strengths is depicting nature."
Stuhr-Rommereim said he found "Acis and Galates" last year when he took a course on Handel. The in-depth research suggested they were available within 300 to 400 miles.
"All of the players have studied Baroque performance practice and are playing on copies of instruments made in the 18th century." Stuhr-
Rommereim said
A performance using original instruments has a much different sound than one with modern instruments, he said. Part of the difference is the Baroque pitch, which is half a tone lower than modern pitch.
"The sound is more delicate and more transparent," he said. "You can hear individual lines and parts more clearly.
But the difference also stems from sound quality of the instruments.
Stuhr-Rommermeiren said the sound produced by the ensemble showed how talented the musicians really were because the ensemble was so
"You get a blend in the sound. There's character and a flavor that gets lost with modern instruments."
"To get two violins to be the orchestra they have to be two very good violinists. Otherwise you'd have to get 10 to do what they would because it's difficult for two players to play in tune." Stuhr-Rommereim said.
John Stuhr-Rommereim, Lawrence graduate student and the conductor of the KU Concert Chorale, leads a rehearsal of "Acis and Galatea," which will be performed in partial completion of his doctoral requirements.
Michael Kimber, associate professor of music and a violinist in the ensemble, said the performance might have originally heard
"We hope to make the music sound more as it would have sounded when it was written," Kimber said.
Although performances of works by Baroque composers on modern instruments have become accepted, there is a particular vitality which only be added to the music on the instrument of that day, Rimber said.
The original instruments are very different in construction and sound that they were made.
"We hope we can get a reasonable facsimile of the sound of the 18th century." Kimber said. "Of course, it will be colored by our living in the 20th century and the other musical experiences we have had."
"The sound of the Baroque instruments is, perhaps, less brilliant than modern instruments. It is, perhaps, sweeter." Kimber said.
"When you hear music played on Baroque instruments and then hear it on modern instruments, the modern sounds so heavy — the sound is heavily sustained. There's a lot of vibrato. " Kimber said.
Stuhr-Rommermein said that if he were to perform the work again, he would stage it as an opera, not a concert performance.
“When you hear it played on Baroque instruments, there's a freshness and vitality you don't find in modern instruments. There's so much content in heavy and light on the Baroque instruments. There's more flexibility.”
Susan Hicks Brashier, associate professor of music, plays a replica of a 17th century oboe. She sheared last week for a performance of Handel's "Acis and Galatea" in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The performance will be at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Beth Titterington, a member of the Early Music Consortium of Kansas City, plays a replica of an 18th century Baroque violin.
'Out of Africa' mixes beautiful scenery with vawns
By GRANT W. BUTLER
"Out of Africa," directed by Sydney Pollack and staring Mary Strelte, Robert Reford and Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985, 150 minutes/color). Presented by Student Union Activities at 3:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m. today and featuring Woodstock Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Isak and Denys, portrayed by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, witness the corruption of the native man in the ruination of the land and its habitat.
When the flowing plains of Africa, lush with animal life, were conquered by the white man, an entire way of life was lost.
For Isak Dinesen and Denys Finch Hatton, the main characters in Sydney Pollack's "Out of Africa," this destruction initially brought them together, but ultimately victimized their love.
Review
"Out of Africa" is a painstakingly beautiful film, but the landscapes, costumes and lovely manners of the early 20th century blur into each other as the film goes too long.
Isak, then called Karen Blixen,
comes with her husband Bror, played
by Klaus Maria Brandauer, to Africa
where they begin cultivating coffee. Isak and Bror's interest in each other wanes as Bror pursues extramarital relationships and Isak becomes infatuated with Denys, a war hero and gamesman with a feel for the African way of life.
Streep is in her element as another foreign heroine. She becomes immersed in her character's accent, mannerisms and expressions. There isn't a scene in which she isn't convincing.
Denys represents both the spirit of life and Africa. His untamed nature, like that of the continent, eventually led Denys to abandon his life, which dwellled on the simple
pleasures and beauties, ends as Africa is conquered by white men.
The problem with Redford's performance is that he looks the part of the rustic English outdoorsman, but his performance simply isn't convivial enough. "I like to play plain Bobby Redford," an American, without any attempt at an accent.
Perhaps the decision for Denys to be characterized this way was a smart one. Any attempted English accent would have sounded ridiculous next to the brilliance of Streep's portrayal.
There is a lot to be commended in Pollack's product. The cinematography and the mood of the
But the feast of visual images "Out of Africa" supplies — the flowing African veld and the painting-like images of life on a coffee plantation — are worth the long wait.
film capture the theme of loss over the corruption of the African wilds. But one wonders why Pollack didn't trim his work to a more manageable size.
The tumultuous relationship between isak and Denys seems interminable. There are too many wine and oranges picnics laden with pretentious dialogue. Perhaps the screen could have been spared one or two of these feasts to keep the film from becoming so tiresome.
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