Entertainment
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University Daily Kansan, October 19. 1982
TV buffs at home in Union
A door bell rings.
Thirty-six people seated on vinyl couches in the Kansas Union television room sit up in anticipation as they try to guess their favorite soap opera characters' next moves.
"I usually sit here to kill some time while I'm waiting for my ride home," he said.
power the dumb door," they urge.
There are obvious reasons for watching television in the United States.
Kirk Clinkenbeard, Tepeka junior, said he watched about two hours of television a week at the library.
Leland Engelbrecht, Carbondale graduate
institute, watches television at the Union for a
different view.
"I don't have a TV in my room. It's just too small, so I come here to watch the news and any good movies that are on. It's a good change of scenery," he said.
Bill Towns, Union operations manager, said recently, "The TV room — its real name is the Traditions Room — is in constant use from the time the Union opens until it closes."
THE TRADITIONS ROOM was named to honor the KU students who died fighting in World War II, Towns said. A composite picture of the men hangs on one wall of the room.
Although the room is always in use, it is especially crowded at three times of the day. Toward
Most people watch the morning or evening news or soap operas, he said.
The soap opera crowds are very vocal — they oo, clap, cheer and occasionally throw cups and saucers.
Kevin Winston, Lawrence senior, said, "I watch 'All My Children' every day. I schedule my classes around it. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, on Tuesday and Tuesdays and Thursdays. I come in here."
The TV room also draws large crowds during historic moments such as inaugurations, World Series games and space shuttle landings, Towns said.
A SECOND television in the lobby of the Union is usually turned to the Music Television Station,
"I was there myself when Spiro Agnew resigned," he said. "That room was really packed when Nixon resigned."
"The original purpose of the set was to continuously broadcast news and weather, but viewers seem more interested in the music," he said.
Although the TV room is open the same hours the Union is, there are no problems with vandalism because the televisions are big and bolted down, he said.
The TV room is serving its purpose well, Towns said.
"This is a student union. The students should feel like they can use it."
Area choirs to be in festival
The Lawrence High School A Capella Choir, directed by Lewis Tilford, and the Shawnee Mission Northwest Chamber Singers, directed by Jack Ballard, will perform special concerts.
"We were very pleased to be asked to perform. I think the addition of this honor festival is a good move on the part of the KU music department," Tilford said.
The KU Chamber Choir, conducted by James Ralston, will perform with the featured Gread Festival Chorus at a closing concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Tilford said the A Cappella Choir was Lawrence High's select junior and senior choir. The 90-member choir has 18 students performing in the festival chorus.
HE SAID that he thought the festival would grow and that many more schools would want to be a part of it in future years.
The festival is co-sponsored by the department of art, music education and music therapy and the division of continuing education, in cooperative with the department of music in the School of Fine Arts.
The festival will have clinics, music-reading sessions, special performances and a closing concert.
White said a festival that brought together a select group of students from Kansas was a good idea.
He and other choral music faculty selected the students on the basis of their high school directors' recommendations, he said. The directors filled out a form on each student. Ninety-seven students were chosen to participate in the festival.
He said the visiting directors would participate in clinics while the students were invited for the Saturday concert. He will give a lecture on 80th century choral music for high school choirs.
Dennis Cox, director of choral activities at the University of Maine in Orono, will conduct the "Maine Choir to a Flower" event.
The director, Nancy Osman, from Bishop Miege, went to graduate school with Cox.
One high school director said, "The kids will have a positive musical experience under the direction."
COX WAS ASKED to conduct because the sponsors of the festival wanted to invite a person who was well known as a choral conductor outside the area, White said.
French horn soloist scheduled to perform in KU Concert Series
Barry Tuckwell, who began playing the French horn at age 13 and became a world-recognized master of the instrument, will perform in a solo concert tonight.
The concert, sponsored by the KU Concert Series, begins at 8 p.m. in the University theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets for the concert are on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office.
Tuckwell is the first French horn player in this century to establish a career as a solist, David Bushuse, associate professor of music performance, said recently.
"Some did this in Beethoven's time," he said.
Tuckwell will be accompanied in tonight's concert by Leann Hilmer, KU associate
The concert program will consist of "Prelude, Theme and Variations" by Rossini; "Romance in E Major" by Saint-Saad; "Agamid and Allegro in A-flat Major" by Schumann; "Concert Rondo in E-flat Major" by Mozart; "Autumn Poem" by Alan Bush; "Intermezzo" by Reinhold Gilere; "Romance" by Alexander Scriabin; "Reverie" by Alexander Glazunov; and "Villanelle" by David Pukas.
TUCKWELL, WHO PLAYED a solo part in a concert with the KU University Symphonic Band in 1975, conducted private master classes yesterday afternoon with five KU horn students who were selected for the classes by KU music faculty.
Bushouse said Tuckwell seldom conducted master classes because he preferred not to teach.
However, Tuckwell, who recently finished a series of concerts in Europe, had a free day on his schedule and agreed to teach the classes, Bushouse said. He did not teach master classes during his 1975 appearance at KU.
"We think this is a rather rare treat," Busheh said.
Barry Tuckwell
On campus
TODAY
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room in the Kansas University
SLAVIC LECTURE. "Contemporary Soviet Literature," will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP'S Bible study and fellowship will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
TOMORROW
FITNESS AWARENESS TECHNIQUES seminar on nutrition and weight control will be at 12:10 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium lobby.
INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL and the American Red Cross Blood Drive will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Union.
EAST ASIAN LECTURE SERIES, "East-West Connections During the Mongol Period," will be at 7:30 p.m. in 4033 Wescow Hall.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CLUB will have a games meeting at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of
ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR, "Recent Developments in Hominid Origins," will be at 4 p.m. in Parlors A and B of the Union.
LIFE IN CHRIS SERIES, "Orthodox Baptism is at 8 p.m. in the Regional Hall of the Union."
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