Russians make hit with music
By PATRICIA PRUITT
The word went out, "The Russians are coming." And KU flocked to the scene.
WHEN THE RUSSIANS left the stage, they had made a hit. The packed University Theatre in Murphy demanded two encores from the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Friday evening.
"In the second encore, there was a soft passage where the violins all sounded like one. I kept listening, thinking one is going to play off key just once and I'll know it. Then I'll say, 'Aha! You're not perfect! But they didn't...' Lynn Laughlin, Denver, Colo., junior and music major, thus expressed her admiration.
"IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE, she continued. The Mozart piece was just very good. And one thing that impressed me was that the musicians seemed very un-
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emotional in their playing. The Paris Chamber Orchestra played last spring as if they were 10 feet off the floor."
The Soviet group did not speak English and spent little time in the auditorium before the concert. KU is one of 38 stops on their tour of the United States.
L. Don Scheid, assistant dean of the School of Fine Arts, said the
Two KU students injured in wreck
Two KU students were injured at 1 a.m. Sunday when their '64 model car was demolished as it collided with a truck near the intersection of 6th and Kentucky Streets.
Carey Wayne Borum, Coffeyville freshman, driver of the car, and Dennis Driscoll, Wellington freshman, were listed in good condition today by Watkins Hospital. Discoll was transferred to the KU medical center for treatment of a complex fracture of the jaw.
CONCERT-GOERS were visibly impressed, however.
Police estimated damages of $1800 to the Brown car, $600 to the truck, and $350 to damaged light poles and fuses at 9th and Tennessee Streets 3 blocks away.
KU musical audience responded with such enthusiasm because of the foreign name. "When you attach a foreign name to a group, people think it's great."
Eeva-Liisa Ninioja, Helsinki,
Finland, freshman, exclaimed,
"I was in the clouds. I wasn't listening to it. I was in it. You forget where you are. That's why the Mozart piece was best, because it's so familiar that you stop noticing and just live it."
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, an orchestra of soloists, seemed pleased with the University Theatre acoustics. In one piece, a violin soloist cried out as he finished, beaming at the ceiling.
Both Miss Laughlin and JoAnn Ferrell, Valley Falls sophomore and music major, were surprised by Conductor Rudolf Barshai's style.
Miss Ferrell said, "Obviously he's good, but he's so flowery that I couldn't see how the musicians could follow him."
CONCENSUS favored the Prokofieff piece "Visions Fugitives" over the Handel and Mozart selections. It was originally written for piano and was rearranged by Conductor Barshai. Listeners commented that it didn't sound like piano music.
This is the Orchestra's second American tour since it became a public institution in 1956. In its 1963 New York debut, the group created a sensation and was highly praised by New York Times reviewers.
Spend year in Costa Rica
Sleeping on hay in a stone hut high in the Peruvian Andes is one of dozens of experiences described by KU and Colorado students spending their junior year abroad at the University of Costa Rica.
The students—nine from KU and seven from Colorado—will return to the United States in February. They describe their experiences in two issues of "Cauliflower," the "official" journal of the junior-year abroad program.
Articles describe a student's attempt to transfer his American pilot's license to Costa Rica (three months after he applied he was still waiting), the night life (there isn't much for "nice" people), dating (chaperones are required, even for the movies), and Machu Picchu, an ancient city of the Incas ("it is not hard to imagine the days of ancient glory").
THE "CAULIFLOWER" represents attempts by the students to provide bits and pieces of their experiences. As Charles Stansifer, the KU professor in charge of the group, writes:
"Having come with the expectation of generalizing, I am struck by the individual differences."
In one home where an American student lives, legends, charms and superstitions are regular fare. Another home would fit better into the pages of "Better Homes and Gardens."
IN JULY THE students took a three-week trip through Panama, Ecuador and Peru, and it was in Peru where the students slept in the stone hut; the hotel was full.
All have broadened their acquaintances—on one train Americans, Frenchmen, Chileans, Argentineans, Peruvians and Colombians merged into one singing mass.
Limited holiday facilities
KU doors will be locked
Thanksgiving vacation may be fun for most of us,but for some KU students it consists of days of confusion.
Where to stay, for instance.
J. J. Wilson, director of university housing, said students are "being encouraged to stay at Naismith Hall or the Hotel Eldridge."
ABOUT THREE-FOURTHS of those involved, Wilson said. "are foreign students." Others include students who live too far from home or simply do not wish to make the trip.
Brent Braum, manager of the Hotel Eldridge, said the hotel will house two students per room for $4.50 a day. Students staying here will enjoy all hotel privileges, he said, except being served meals or using the telephone. Phone calls will cost 20 cents each.
Naismith, charging $1.50 per day, will furnish two sheets and a pillowcase for vacation dwellers. They will not provide meals, pillows, blankets, towels or washcloths.
LAST YEAR, 44 MALE students stayed at Oread Hall during the Thanksgiving recess. No women remained on campus during that particular vacation, Wilson said.
Next problem for the student staying here over vacation: what to do.
Watson Library will be open from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; and 8 a.m. - noon Saturday. It will be closed on Thursday and Sunday of vacation week.
The Kansas Union calendar is even more complicated. The cafeteria will close following lunch Tuesday and will not open again until 8:30 Sunday morning. It will then serve meals until 6:30 p.m.
THE HAWKS NEST will be open until 8 p.m.
Tuesday and will have the following hours during vacation week: 7 a.m.-10:30 p.m.
Wednesday; 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday; 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Friday; and 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Saturday.
It will not be open on Sunday.
On Monday, Nov. 28, the Kansas Union food service will resume operating on its regula schedule.
At noon Friday, Nov. 25, foreign students will leave the Kansas Union on an industrial tour to the Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac Assembly Plant, Fairfax, in Kansas City.
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Monday, November 21, 1966
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