University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 30, 1991
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Juilliard instructor gives rhythm lesson
Dalcroze earrhythmics helps students feel,not just perform music
Robert Abramson, an instructor at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, teaches Dalcroze earrhythmics.
By Paula Taylor Special to the Kansar
Tennis balls are not usually part of a dance or music lesson.
But along with more traditional clapping, stomping and piano playing, they are part of a method that was taught to about 40 KU students and faculty members Saturday at Robinson Center.
The method, Dalcrouze erhymphics,
was taught by Robert Abramson,
a faculty member at the Juilliard School of
Music in New York.
Dalroze eruhythmics is a method of teaching rhythm that includes games that are designed to make performers feel like individuals and not just part of a group.
Through the method, which was developed in Europe by Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, performers learn to control, generate and recognize what they hear and feel.
"Dalcroze wanted to cultivate the something extra that technique seems to kill," Abramson said.
The class is not just for dancers, he said. All students at Juilliard are required to take a class in Dalcroze earhythmics.
"It is for all artists that deal with music," Abramson said. "Art are nowhere purely as technical work, and I want to be where they originated back where they originally started."
Abramson said that performing arts training focused on much timing.
"Artists have been taught to do
something on count one and something else on count two," Abramson said. "I want to focus on how you get from count one to count two. This will induce a better flow."
Abramson said that to be a great performer, a person needed not only technique training, but something else as well. The artists were in touch with the rhythm.
"I want artists to respond to the music," Abramson said. "It is the difference between playing notes and playing music."
Abramson used several methods in his class to get participants to think about rhythm. Students bounced tennis balls, waltzed and pinnomedim
Many of the activities were accompanied
by Abramson playing the piano
"I wanted the students to learn to have quick and accurate response between their ears, brain, nervous system and body," Abramson said.
Janet Hamburg, associate professor of dance, said the KU dance department already was trying to integrate the Dalcroze method into its teachings. Abramson visited KU last year to teach the technique.
"The method is good for anyone dealing with rhythm," Hamburg said. "It enlivens performing arts — theater, music, dance — in all of its variations "
Mary Jane Landaker, Upland, Calif., senior, said she took the class because some friends had recommended it.
"I am a music therapy major, so I learned some good techniques I can use for teaching children," she said.
Bill Wachspress, New York senior,
said he had learned a lot in his voice
and movement class and was looking
for other ways to learn movement.
"I am working on allowing the music to start and stop me," Wachsspress said. "I have been given a lot of material today to think about, and it will take awhile to digest."
KU conference stresses education on health and environmental issues
By Stephanie Patrick
Kansan staff writer
Eating red meat every day is the single most important reason that every 30 seconds someone has a heart attack in the United States, a scientific adviser said Saturday.
The adviser, Michael Klaper of the EarthSave Foundation, a national environmental action group, spoke to more than 100 people at 3140 Wescoe Hall.
vegetarian diets.
The speech was part of the first Kaw Valley Health and Environment Conference sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Action, which was formed this year.
Klaper, a vegetarian of 11 years and author of "Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple," was one of many national and local environmentalists who spoke about topics ranging from recycling to
A vegan is a vegetarian who eats only fruits and vegetables and avoids all animal products.
Klaper said the four basic food groups system, with meat listed as an important source of protein for the body, was inaccurate and dangerous.
"There is other reason to be eating beef except for the taste." he said.
Farmers should shift their energies to raising grain and wheat crops and should stop breeding cattle, Klaper said.
Also speaking at the conference was Patricia Marvin, recycling coordinator for the city of Lawrence. She spoke on issues of posting and consumer education.
Douglas County has no landfill space. Therefore, people needed to think locally and reduce their amount of garbage, she said.
Marvin said environmental composting, mixing biodegradable products with the soil to make fertilizer, offered one solution.
"If you have a yard, get a compost pile," she said.
Marvin also stressed educating the public about what was recyclable.
Marvin said the public was being misinformed by companies that claimed their products were recyclable.
One example is plastic packaging, which can only be recycled once. Often, the plastic packages have recycling symbols on them that give the impression that it can be recycled more than once, she said.
Devon Durr, president of Lawrence EarthSave Action, said the goal of the conference was to make people more aware of their health and the environment.
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WICHTHA — A United Airlines plane lost oil pressure in one engine and made an emergency landing yesterday at Mid-Continent Airport, authorities said.
The Boeing 721, enroute from Denver to Springfield, Mo., diverted to Wichita after developing problems in its left engine, said Gene Gautiere, Federal Aviation Administration official, in Kansas City, Mo.
About 1:20 p.m. the pilot announced that the plane was headed toward Wichita, a passenger said
No one was injured when Flight 388 landed at the airport shortly after 1:30 p.m.
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