Monday, November 9, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
The Tapkea Symphony Orchestra performs at White Concert Hall at Washburn University. The orchestra played Charles Haag's Flint Hills Contours Saturday night. Hoag wrote the symphony in 1996, and Saturday night's performance was the first in Kansas. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
Professor's music pleases Topeka crowd
By Augustus Anthony Piazza
Konsan staff writer
TOPEKA — The notes flowed like the hilly landscapes of eastern Kansas when a University of Kansas professor's symphony was performed Saturday night.
It was the first time the symphony had been performed in Kansas.
Flint Hills Contours, written in 1996 by Charles Hoag, professor and director of music theory and composition, was performed at White Concert Hall at Washburn University. The symphony was performed by the Topeka Symphony Orchestra before several hundred people.
"My music should be a reflection about how I feel about Kansas,"
Hoag said. "When one lives in a place for a long period of time, one either grows to love it or hate it. I just decided to love it."
Hoag said his symphony's music was inspired by the contours of Kansas hills that went up high and then down low.
The orchestra also performed works by two famous composers of classical music — W. A. Mozart and Jean Sibelius.
"I like contours because I think music has to have a shape," Hoag said. "I'm very interested in two contours: top and bottom."
Donald Peck, principal flute for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, joined the Topeka orchestra and performed Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1.
Many of the audience members said they were moved by the music.
"I found it very interesting," said Marvin Mcnett, Lawrence graduate student, who attended the show to listen to his wife play the viola with the orchestra. "I enjoyed his portrait of the Flint Hills in music."
Hoag said he was delighted by the orchestra's performance.
"They did a lovely job," Hoag said.
"I wanted a piece that would work for this kind of orchestra. It is a very listenable piece, but you must remember, if it's 100 percent listenable then you have heard it already."
Haag also has been the conductor of the Lawrence Chamber Players and the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra.
Living Out Loud needs volume control
Bv Jeremy M. Doherty
I propose a new law: Anyone other than Woody Allen who tries to make a comedy about neurotic New Yorkers must be shot on first offense.
Kansan movie critic
Living Out Loud plays with ideas that long have been mainstays of Allen's films: self-absorbed city dwellers who can't get their romantic lives organized. The problem here is that the movie, directed by screenwriter Richard LaGravenese (The Bridges of Madison County), doesn't know when to rein in its quirky tone.
Holly Hunter, a gifted actress when playing white trash (Raising Arizona) or mutes (The Piano), is miscast as Judith Nelson, an unhappy divorcee who lives alone in a stadium-sized penthouse in New York's Upper East Side.
After 16 years of marriage,
Judith's husband (Martin Donovan)
LIVING OUT LOUD
Kansan rating: **\*\*out of *******
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Rated: "R" for profinity and characters who make Woody Allen look like the poster child for sanity
left her for a younger woman. Since then, she has retreated socially, only leaving her apartment to visit an R&B nightclub where she fawms over the local singer (Queen Latifah). She also develops a friendship with the sad elevator operator (Danny DeVito) in her building.
LaGravenese offers a series of scenes that incite more frustration than entertainment. For example, Judith hires a masseuse and it is implied that they have sex. But the scene is filmed like a soft-core scene from a direct-to-video flick.
Then there's a nutty moment in which Judith ventures into a lesbian bar and engages in more-than-
friendly dancing with the patrons. But once the scene ends, it's never mentioned again.
The movie doesn't work because LaCravenese, an otherwise capable writer, doesn't have a clue about how to restrain his actors — particularly Hunter. Her character is prone to spouting rambling monologues inspired by the most mundane events. Ask her about the weather, and you're likely to receive an earful:
"Yes, the weather is nice, and it was nice on my wedding day. But my husband left me for a slut, so if you see him, please, give him a complimentary kick in the groin for me. Speaking of which, my knees haven't been up to snuff ever since I tripped on the stairs, which he was supposed to fix before he left me for that tramp."
And on it goes. Hunter is a fine actress, but she needs direction. LaGravenese clearly didn't have the courage to tie her down.
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