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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1964
Belafonte Plans Move Ahead Allen Field House Prepared
A special student committee of the Student Union Activities is running full speed ahead in preparation for the Harry Belafonte-Homecoming concert November 7.
The concert, to be held in Allen Field House, is the largest undertaking ever attempted by SUA.
In order for the audience to be as close to Belafonte as possible, the concert is to be seated "in the round"; the audience will sit in the balcony all around the performer. There will be approximately 900 seats on the main floor, and bleachers set up on all four sides of the court. In all, 16,000 seats will be available for use.
Setting up the Field House in this manner involves the construction of a special stage. The stage, built by Buildings and Grounds, will stand about 30 feet righ and will rest on the floor of the basketball court.
To protect the basketball floor from being marred from the chairs and people's shoes or warped from the uneven distribution of weight. The entire floor will be covered first by a layer of canvas, then a layer of plywood, and finally another layer of canvas.
Complications arose when it was discovered that the bleachers normally used at Field House events will be in use at the football stadium for the Homecoming game the afternoon for the concert. SUA is renting bleachers for that night.
The KU concert is one of the 27 concerts presented by Belfonte on a college tour. This is the first college tour he has made in 10 years.
During this 10 year period, representatives of SUA attempted to engage him every year. Because of this continued contact with his agents
UP Names Fall Slate Candidates
The candidates will be running for seats on the ASC in the annual fall elections, tentatively set for Nov. 10 and 11.
UP candidates from the men's large residence halls are: Russell Cummings, Topeka graduate student; Larry Geiger, Shawnee Mission junior; Dave Lutton, Bartlesville, Okla.; junior; John Putnam, Kansas City junior; and Dick Walker. Kansas City junior.
Running from the women's large residence halls are: Dorothea Bunting, Atlantic City, N.J., sophomore; Bette Harrison, Shawnee Mission junior; Nancy Myer, Shawnee Mission junior; and Barbara Widmer, Prairie Village sophomore.
Representing the freshman women's residence halls in the ASC race are: Janet Anderson, Shawnee Mission; Jean Foss, Great Bend; Julie Shottenkirk, Wichita; and Janis Whelan, Tonka.
Running from the men's small residence halls is Richard Reynolds, Shawnee Mission senior.
Conrad Wagenknecht, St. Joseph, Mo, senior, is the UP candidate from the professional fraternity cooperative district.
Jacquelyn Thayer, Ellsworth sophomore, is the women's small residence hall candidate.
In the unmarried-unorganized district the candidates are: Lee Avres, Park Ridge, Ill., graduate student; Jon L. Spies, Leawood senior; George Tannous, Beshmezeen, El Koura, Lebanon, senior; and Mulchand Vira, Bombay, India, senior.
UP candidates from the sorority district are: Susan Sorem, Hutchinson sophomore, and Mary "C.C." Waller, Girard sophomore.
George Henry, Leawood junior,
and Thomas Snyder, Independence
senior, are candidates from the
fraternity district.
The candidate from the married district is Mike Johnson, Garden City junior.
KU was one of the first schools to be booked last spring when Belafonte decided to make a college tour.
Approximately 10,000 tickets to the concert have already been sold. Mike Rogers, senior and chairman of SUA Special Events which sponsors the concert, said, "We expect to have a capacity crowd by that weekend."
Harry Belafonte will present to the KU audience a program which features many new songs as well as many old favorites aimed specifically at the interests and tastes of college students.
"We've been fortunate over the last few years, drawing responsive crowds to all of our appearances," Belafonte is quoted as saying. "If we want to continue the enthusiasm and build our following, we must present a show that the students can identify with, understand and become enthusiastic about."
The show will feature the art of Belafonte, singing the songs of people from all over the world in the varied settings of their own natural habitats. Many of the songs, actually most of them, will be all new. Songs like the West Indian "Sailor Man"; the Israeli "Hayoshevet Baganim"; the American "Shake That Little Foot"; afford the show with a rainbow of lyrical color. The moods of the songs range all the way from sweet ballads, to dramatic songs of history, to gay, fun filled calypsos.
In the program, Belafonte will present for the first time in the United States, Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, whose unique style and ability to sing in many languages has already stamped her as an artist of the first caliber. He will also feature veteran folk instrumentalists Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, who toured with him last summer and appeared with him on his TV specials several years ago.
Miss Mouskouri sings six numbers in the second act from the American "Loneliness" to the Greek "Mia Pana Gira." Belafonte joins her in a duet at the end of the segment. They will sing "Summertime Love" and "Lyla Lyla," allowing the program to flow smoothly from one performer to another, as Belafonte takes over the stage by himself again.
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