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"Gathering of Grace"
October 5, 11:15 a.m.
Plymouth Congregational Church
Robert Hilberter, clatistic artist,
Rebecca Blastone, taper artist
October 10 - 7:30 p.m.
Ulied Center
- Public Gallery Talk
October 5, 2:00 p.m.
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium
"State of Grae": October 7, 7:00 p.m. Overcoming adversity through creativity, Lawrence Memorial Hospital Auditorium
"Coffee and Conversation"
October 9, 12:00 p.m.
Kansas Union - Hawk's Nest
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All-Beethoven Program
Takács Quartet
October 12 - 2:00 p.m.
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Lecture
As an entertainer, Louis Armstrong enjoyed playing for the camera, widening his eyes and singing as if he had gravel in his throat.
By Alex Hoffman
ahoffman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Courtnev Kuhlen/Kansan
He also used his gift for humor to broaden his audience.
Robert O'Meally, director of jazz studies and professor of literature at Columbia University in New York, spoke about Armstrong and his use of humor last night at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group presented the lecture, entitled Louis Armstrong's Comic Masks.
When O'Meally was a boy in Washington, D.C., Armstrong performed at the theater a half-mile from his house.
"I didn't want to see Louis Armstrong, I'm ashamed to say now," he said to an audience of more than 110 people. "I loved the music. My parents played it at home. But I'd seen him on Ed Sullivan's show on TV too often not to be a little embarrassed by the man, with his handkerchief and his big old grin."
But Armstrong attracted a large following by relying on his big smile and comic approach to jazz.
Robert O'Meally chuckled as he played a Louis Armstrong song for the audience gathered in Alderson Auditorium last night for the evening of jazz studies. O'Mealy, a professor at Columbia University, lectured about the comic masks of Louis Armstrong.
approach. When he wasn't playing his trumpet or scatting vocals, he often laughed in the middle of a song.
O'Meally also showed a video clip of a 1957 performance with Armstrong and white trombonist Jack Teagarden. They had a genuine friendship and traded lyrics that subtly made fun of racial stereotypes.
"I think the most important effect in the long haul is the
effect of making people feel good," he said of Armstrong's humor. "People laugh and feel identification with him. There is ultimately this bonding of the community he created."
Not only was he an accomplished musician, but also an actor in such movies as Hello, Dolly! He enjoyed writing and he carried a typewriter wherever he went. He also had a career as a radio personality in New York.
O'Meally said it would be difficult to find an equal.
"It's as if Beethoven stood up to sing," he said. "It's hard to imagine somebody else with the range of gifts that he had."
Before the jazz lecture, the KU Jazz Combo I, taught by Dan Gailey, director of jazz studies, performed for about an hour.
University paleontologist dies at 85
— Edited by Ehren Meditz
By Amber Bylarlay
abylarlay@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas lost a helping hand this week.
Morton Green, 85, died at his home on Tuesday. Green was a research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the University.
"He was a tremendously helpful person and contributed to paleontology and the museum," said Larry Martin, head of vertebrate paleontology.
Martin encouraged Green to move to Lawrence and help at the University after Green retired from teaching at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Green came to Lawrence in 1980 and worked with graduate students at the University. He also continued his research in vertebrate paleontology, the study of fossils of animals that have backbones.
Martin said Green was an expert on fossils of rodents, rabbits and insectivores.
Five different animals have
been named after Green, including a beaver, a Jurassic fish, and the oldest known horned toad.
Green received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas. He then attended the University of California-Berkeley for his doctorate.
In addition to working with fossils, Green also played the violin. Martin said Green helped add to the University's music library.
"I think had he not been a paleontologist he would have wanted to be a concert violinist," Martin
said.
Green is survived by his wife, two sons,daughter and five grandchildren.
"We'll miss his sense of humor the most." Martin said. "He had a well-developed sense of humor and made people laugh. He was a nice guy."
Martin said Green would be missed.
Memorial services for Green are pending.
— Edited by Andy Marso
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre & Film
The University Theatre
Musicals and More
University Theatre Season Kickoff
2003-2004 Season
All performances are in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Picnic
by William Inge
directed by Jack Wright
Sept. 5, 6, 2003 - 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7, 2003 - 2:30 p.m.
Mainstage Series (80th Season)
All performances are in the Crafton Preyer Theatre
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
directed by D. Scott Glasser
Oct. 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 12, 2003 - 2:30 p.m.
by Kander, Ebb, & Masteroff
directed & choreographed
by John Staniumans
Nov. 14, 19, 20, 21, 2003 · 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 15, 22, 2003 · 5 & 8 p.m.
Nov. 16, 23, 2003 · 7:30 p.m.
Cabaret
A Little Night Music
by Sondheim G Wheeler
directed by Jack Wright
Apr. 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2004 · 7:30 p.m.
Apr. 18, 2004 · 2:30 p.m.
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker directed by Delores Ringer for 30 p.m. Mar. 14, 2004 - 3:00 p.m.
Inge Theatre Series
Performances are in the William Inge Memorial Theatre.
-in repertory with-
This Is Our Youth
by Kenneth Lonergan
directed by Michael Bradley
Sept. 26, Oct. 1, 2003 - 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 27, 2003 - 5 p.m. @ 9 p.m.
Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Forne directed by Laura Leffler-McCabe Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 2, 2003 - 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, 2003 - 5 p.m. 6:9 p.m.
Lulu
by Frank Wedekind
directed by Patricia Ybarra
Dec. 2, 3, 4, 5, 2009 · 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 6, 2003 · 5 p.m. 9 p.m.
Dec. 1, 2003 · 23 p.m. 8:30 o.m.
Thirst
by Kevin Mayer
directed by Danon Park
Mar, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2004 · 7:30 p.m.
Mar, 6, 2004 · 5 p.m. & 9 p.m.
*George Dandin*
by Molliere
directed by Michele Leon
Apr. 30, May 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2004 · 7:30 p.m.
May 2, 2004 · 2:30 p.m.
**Really Rosie**
by Maurice Sendak & Carole King
directed by Jeanne Klein
Feb. 21, 2004 *·* 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 22, 2004 *·* 2:20 p.m.
KU Theatre for Young People
Performances are in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre
Special Event
Performances are in Swarthout Recital Hall
Reverend Billy:
The Church of Stop Shopping
Resignity.
Sept.15,16,17,18,2003 Performances:
Sept. 19, 20, 2003 · 7:30 p.m.
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