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Friday, September 17, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Arts & Leisure
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Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
'Clappin' and stompin'
Every Wednesday night is jam at the Off-The-Wall,
Hall, when different types of musicians come to contribute
their talents to the evening's fun. Here, some of the men play the Virginia Reel while much of the audience joins in.
Discos bump live music
By GREG HEJNA
Staff Writer
It would hardly come as a surprise to anyone that the current rage is the disco. And if those who patronize it are not, it is. However, left behind all of this is what was once the mainstay of the local entertainment scene—the club with live
Those who hustle, bump and bus stop their way to the discos are being missed by the live music clubs, which depended on them. The discos has hit upon hard times in Lawrence.
ACCORDING TO Steve Mason of Off the Wall, Hall 737, New Hampshire, the attendance at clubs with live music has increased in interest in discos than in live music.
Mason said the big attraction of discos is that everyone's attention is focused on the crowd.
"Participation is the big thing at discos," he said. "All of the focus is on the dancers. When you go to a club with live music, the focus is on the stage."
To combat this, Mason is trying to turn the spectators into participants by giving them an opportunity. By opening the club's doors and stage to all corners, he says he hopes business
THE DAYS of the rock 'n' roll band pulling up to the hall, towing its equipment in a U-Haul, are fading, Ming. Live music has become a big business, and small club owners are having trouble dealing with it, he said.
Despite the poor outlook for clubs like Off the Wall Hall, Mason has no plans for discontinuing or retiring back live music
"We're doing all right," he said. "We only have to draw one person for every 12 that the discs do. Because of our low overhead, we can keep on going."
THE LIVE MUSIC crowd is older than the disco crowd. Off the Wall draws a crowd that is mostly between 22 and 30, and Paul Gray's Jazz Place, 227 Massachusetts St., has a crowd that is about half KU students.
Gray said discos aren't totally to blame for the decline in attendance at live music places.
"The crowds really haven't fallen off that much," he said. "They're down a bit, but it's not drastic."
Gray said that even though the club was losing money, he would keep it open. "LILL KEEP losing money, but I'm opacistic that things will get better," he said.
Trying to bridge the gap between live and recorded music is Bugsy's, 644 Massachusetts St. Normally a disco, the club has not on some live shows.
Although their concerts featuring nationally known groups have drawn huge crowds, the company's shows are
"WE DIDN'T have a lot of support that night," Phil Houston, promotion director for Bugsy's, said. "We're in this for the first time to play live music, we'd do it every night."
two weeks ago may cut short Bugsy's future ideas about live music.
Variety is the biggest reason that Bugsy's has live music, Houston said. The club will try again in two weeks to feature local bands at the club, but unless the turnout exceeds the turnout last time, it will stop presenting local talent.
THE PRIVATE clubs in Lawrence haven't been affected by the discos, according to Curtis Reinhardt, manager of the 7th Shine. $4% E. Seventh St.
"The type of crowds that we have aren't afflicted, discus' he said. "The people are not scared."
Because most of their business comes in after the taverns close down at midnight, Reinhardt said, the club really doesn't feel competition from discos.
"WE OFFER music as a service to our membership," he said, "not as a way to get in."
The Rubbyat, 6th and Iain Streets, reallyn't felt the effects of the disco movement, but Pete Hunt, assistant manager of the club, said that in two weeks the club would begin offering a mixture of live music and disco.
"We're doing it to keep everyone happy." he said.
By BURT ALLEN Assistant Instructor in Choral Music
Tomorrow marks the opening of the 19th season of the Kansas City Lyric Opera. The Lyric Opera, which has grown over the past decade, is an English, Despite criticism from opera purists, it can be argued that the use of English makes opera more accessible to the notice opera goer. The Lyric Opera in English can be successful.
The season, which runs through Oct. 22, will have five operas: "The Ballad of Baby Doe," "Patrons of Penzance," and "Chenier." "La Traviata," the "Barber of Seville."
"THE BALLAD of Baby DOE," Douglas Moore's story of Colorado silver king Horace Tabor, his first wife, Augusta, and his later love, Elizabeth "Baby" Doe, will open the
Lyric Opera opens
known to be soft-hearted toward orphans. Everyone they attack contends to be an orphan, causing the pirates of Penzance to take them out and show is a very entertaining, sometimes ridiculous comedy.
season. It's a tragic tale of the demise of Tabor's kingdom because of his mistaken belief that silver would regain the role he played in the century Colorado mining boom. Baby Doe represents Tabor's dreams. She believes in her gamble on silver even after his death. A poor woman, she is known for mountains and eventually, dies from cancer.
NO OPERA season would be complete without one of Verdí's masterpieces, and the lytic rage of Traviata." This tragedy concentrates on Violetta, who marries Alfredo, a well-to-do widow. Violetta rusees rage. Violetta had led something less than a cloistered
life and her reputation damages Alfredo's position. At her father's insistence, she leaves Alfredo, saying she desires to return to her former lifestyle. By the time Alfredo understands the situation, it's too late for her to change that popular 19th century malady, consumption, dies in his arms.
MOORE, A 20TH century composer, uses a traditional musical style, often relying on folk melodies as a primary source. The opera is directed by Patrick Bakman and conducted by Russell Patterson. Carl Fackman, a faculty member of University of Kansas graduate students majoring in voice, appear as secondary characters and will be in other Lyric presentations this season.
"ANDREA CHENIER," a fouract tragic opera by Umpire Bayer, was performed and during the French Revolution. Chenier is a revolutionary poet who falls victim to his own revolution. The opera considered Giorgio Araghi's work after the style of Giuseppe Verdi, perhaps the greatest Italian opera composer.
"Pirates of Penzance" is a two-act comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. The plot centers on a group of pirates
The fifth production of the season is Rossini's comedy, "Barber of Seville," it also will be presented by the KUC Concert Theatre. The confusing plot deals with the struggle between greedy Dr. Bartolo and the hero, Count Almaviva, for the hand of the beautiful and charming popular opera eventually unravels its snarls, to the relief and pleasure of the audience.
Lyric Opera season tickets range from $4 to $10. Students with identification receive a $1 discount on any single ticket.
Doctorow gives historical insight in collection of American tales
By PAUL ADDISON
RAGTIME (1975), THE
BOOK OF DANIEL (1971),
COMP. HARD TIMES (1975)
by E. Bardin paperbacks
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E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime," whose multicolored cover currently screams from the display cases of a million bookstores, is a delightfully portrays America at the beginning of the 20th century in its naked and naive glory.
Doctorow constructs and weaves three tales that provide fascinating insights into some of America's most involving in America at the time.
THE FIRST involves a manufacturer of novelty products and his middle class family, who live prosperously in the city. He lives in second detail the way of life of a poverty-striken immigrant family; the third is the tragic story of a black ragtime musician, Coahouse Walker, who fights a lonely battle to regain dignity in an atmosphere of blatant prejudice and injustice.
Interpersed in these scenarios are famous personalities of the era, including Harry Houdini, escape artist extraordinare; J. P. Morgan, symbol of American capital-
Peasant idealist film hero
"LOVE AND Anarchy"
Woutermiller's power in its rarest form. The pace is wild and energetic. The considerable pressure packed with scathed ironies. From the Sunday drive the trie take with Mussolini's fire of security to the rapid revelations and reversals of the ending, the command of her complex material.
GIANNINI GIVES a carefully balanced portrayal of the
(Martiangela Melato) is the ranking prostitute in the Eternal City's best bordello.
harried Tunin. He conveys Tunin's determination to succeed without obscuring his terror and vulnerability. And although Wertmuller has shaded the script to highlight the character's turbulent, it is also who gives the role conviction.
Reviewer
TUNIN IS A peasant and, as Salome leads him through the richly decorated rooms, he stares with the pop-eyed amazement of an innocent. He even falls in love with one of the younger whores, Tripolina (Lina Politi).
Since he was a small child, the hero of "Hove and Anarchy" has been told by his mother, "It's better to bow and live than to stand up and die." Unfortunately, by the early 1930s when the film takes place, Tunin (Giancarlo Gannini) has chosen to ignore this advice. He was an anarchist friend at the hands of the Fascist police, he vows to assassinate Benito Mussolini.
With its lurid lighting and earthy inhabitants, the bordello, like the island in Westerbork, becomes the stage for a running sexual and political debate. Here Tumun may enjoy the same pleasures that the Fascists take, and here the battle lines rise between Tripolina, who have both fallen in love with the doomed idealist.
As one would expect from writer-director Lina Wertmuller, the freckly-faced idealist is promptly thrown into a situation destined to test his resolve. Tainu's contact in Rome resides in a hotbed of pragmatism. Salome
By CHUCK SACK
Melato is even better, playing Salome with a cold braviado that is sharply contrasted with the warm sand at reservations are subdued, yet when she gives in to Tripolina's scheme for saving Tumin, the change has been foreshadowed with a sensitive rendering of the role.
STILL, "LOVE and Anarchy does suffer from some excess. Or, because excess seems to be an integral part of Wurteller's
in 1967, who attempts to reconstruct and analyze the truth about himself, his parents' deaths and his sister's insanity. The parallel with the Rosenberg spy case is chilling, for as Daniel begins remembering his experiences, he realizes that Communists executed in the early 1950s for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.
A scene of the whores at dinner drags on too long with little purpose except to demonstrate how skillfully Wertmiller can incorporate a character from "Batman" later, a tender scene between Tunin and Tripolina descends to bathos.
YET MANY of these failings are redeemed by the subsequent passages. A rapid montage of the prostitutes enticing their customers, and a scene when one of the genitals, while not moist, take similar risks and are frumuhl brilliant.
All three novels lend much to an understanding of American society and society because they capture the lives of times in powerful but subtle imagery. Doctorow lets his mind wonder but he rarely realizes it. He lets imagination. The result is a balanced, easy-to-read style that leaves one eager for more fully acquainted with each era.
unassinct blend of humor and pathos, maybe it should be said that some of the excesses are miscalculated.
AS IN "RAGTIME," fear and damage the emotions, because the prospect of starving or freezing to death is balanced only by the hope that the crudely built shacks in the state of California Territory will one day become a prosperous township.
"Welcome to Hard Times"
succeeds as a novel because
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about early American life on the
expanding frontier.
Exhibit displays color, strength
"THE BOOK OF DANIEL" also emotionally involves the reader with the major characters. It's important to have the student at Columbia University
settlement while suffering numerous setbacks.
The large, colorful paintings of Edward Navone and the architectural sculpture of James Crates are now being shown at the 7E7 gallery, 7 E. Seventh St.
By LEROY JOHNSTON
ism; and Emna Goldman, anarchist and supporter of women's rights.
Navone, who teaches at Washburn University, is known to some people for two shows he has given on television about art history.
The two area artists are presented in the show, which ends Sept. 30.
HIS PAINTINGS and drawings are like doodles taken
THE CHARACTER of the figures, however, may remind one of Miro, forgetting for a
to an extreme. Many intricate shapes are used to all but fill the canvas, creating a jumbled space, which is shallow and creates the feeling that it is looking down at a plane of tiny figures.
Navone selects certain areas or geometric shapes to stand on and the fields use these ascompasses in places where the eye can rest.
DOCTOROW starts to construct—in the manner of a ragtime player—variations and improvisations on his major compositions, and becomes caught up in the personal lives of all the characters, and it becomes increasingly difficult to divorce the realities of the situation of the major's fictional interpretations.
Crates' sculpture shares the hard-edged calligraphic nature of Navone's paintings, but not their format.
Crates, a Kansas City artist who has been showing throughout the Midwest the last 10 years, is working on his Master of Fine Arts degree at KU.
It may be that Wurtmiller simply prefers to preserve the imperfect and the superficial in his writing, but he profound. "Love and Anarchy" is certainly entertaining, especially when it is rough. And as Salome cautions Tumin, he adds a messy mass of the world in the end."
moment that Miro's figures are often animal-like, not purely geometric.
But places for the eye to rest are few and the overall impression is burdensome.
The canvases are large and unstretched, giving the paintings the quality of murals.
americana is Doctorow's speciality. In his first novel, "Welcome to Hard Times," published only after "Ragtime" became a best seller, he deals with the lives of people in 19th century, and with the survival of people desperately trying to establish their own
HIS WORK is clearly made to appear outdoors as public
Many of Crates' pieces are like fragments of hydrographics, made thick by laminations of different materials. Other pieces are more architectural, having the same basic organization being the basic organization.
sculpture, and the pieces in the gallery are models of larger future works.
A FEW WEeks ago in this column it was suggested that the bookers for Commonwealth Theatres would give Lawrence special consideration if it were to be included. It has exists. "Love and Anarchy" has been scheduled to test that proposition. Please join with me in supporting this film, both by attending and recommending the film to others. Your work will help the selection of films—American and foreign—in local theaters.
What impact Crates' works would have on a larger scale is unknown. The effect of enlargement would probably be strong. The simplicity they have at their heart makes them even more their monumental intentions.
This Week's
Highlights
Exhibits
"ENVIORMENTS", a display of objects of day-to-day life by objects of day-to-day life. Webernwick is on display at the Lawrence Arts Center Gallery. Lawrence
"THE BARK ARTISTS OF YRKALKA" on display at the Union Gallery, is a collection of paintings on bark by Australian artists.
THE BICENTENARY OF A BOOK: Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" is on display at Watson Library.
On display in Spencer Research Library are "WHEN SUBJECTS ARE REBELS" AND SERVATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTH OF AMERICA," north gallery; and "STUDENT EDITIONS, 1926." Archives gallery.
Theater
THE BALLAD OF BABY EARTH be performed by the Kansas City Lyric Opera September 18. The performance will occur on a certain time on Wednesday 7:30. The Lyric Theatre is at Eleventh and Central, in Kan
Concerts
MARIBETH KIRCHHOFF,
mezzo-soparo, performs a faculty recital Wednesday night at the Rehearsal Hall in Murray.
REBECKA JEAN KEEN performs her graduate lecture repertoire from the KANSAS CITY PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONETTE will give a performance Sunday at 3:30 in the Nelson Art Gallery.
KANSAS CITY PHILARHAM
Love You Madly," an unusual visual and auditory experience, will be featured Thursday nights and Oct. 1, and all at 7:45 in the Crown Center Multimedia Forum in Kansas
Nightclubs
MIKE BEERS plays guitar and piano tonight and tomorrow night from 9:30 to one at the Rubayaty Club, Ramada Inn.
THE JOE UTTERBACK TRIO, a jazz group, performs at the Paul Gray's Jazz Place. Saturday night, Gray's own "Auntie Dixieland" from nine to midnight. The Jazz Place offers its FREE JAZZ JAM SESSION Wednesday from nine to mid-night.
OZ, a local band playing dance music and rock, plays to night and tomorrow night from Nest's nest in the Kangas' union.
Films
JOHN POZDRO plays folk and bluegrass guitar tonight from midnight to two a.m. at the 7th Spirit. Wednesday night will play JAZZ BAND will play mainstream jazz from 11 to two a.m.
ON THE BEACH- In 1959, a serious American film had to be ponderously slow and morally insensitive. Its directors, director Stanley Kramer's handling of the nuclear destruction of the world is a very, very serious film. With Gareth Gardner a gardener and Greory Peck.
HAMLET—Tony Richardson's 1969 production was filmed in an abandoned railway roundhouse where the play was being done onstage. Nicole Williams gives an extraordinary role in the lead role in this confused but interesting interpretation.
THE GANG'S ALL HERE-
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laws like 'No Love,' No
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Star," Lady in the Tutti Fruffi Hat" and "Padduccah," in which Miranda performs duets, with Benny Goodman.
COONSKIN- Ralph Baskin's controversial underground action and animation for some of the harshest satisfs of all
AMERICAN GRAFFITI-
George Lucas' nostalgic tribute to the floating world on wheat is a great place to watch, and has since gained fame in other projects, but for sheer moxie, few of them have surpassed her.
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