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Summer Session Kansan
tuesday, July 27, 1965
'Carmina Burana' Is A Qualified Success
By Tim Miller
The Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, and Orchestra scored a limited success Sunday in their presentation of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." It was produced in just one week and could be considered a good presentation for that limited preparation, but there were several noticeable weaknesses in the work.
In general, the softer parts of the work lacked the power and feeling which are essential to the understanding of the mood Orff tries to convey. The loud parts came through more clearly.
There seemed to be an undercurrent of restlessness on stage, indicated by a continuous rustling of pages, and at times the audience also was made restless.
THE PIECE STARTED well with the powerful "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" section. The next section, "Primo Vere," contrasts with the first one; it was handled well except for a number of bad attacks on opening notes that were to characterize the entire presentation.
The following section, "Uf dem Anger," opens with a dance played by the orchestra only, which did not achieve sufficient feeling. It was saved, however, by a fine flute solo. Throughout this section the orchestra had some difficulty staying together. The chorus had some trouble with the sudden changes in volume which abound in this section.
The women sat down for the next section, "In Taberna," which is a rousing piece for a male chorus. It was here that the orchestra did its best work, particularly in the little song "Cignus ustus cantat," which is full of difficult and strange harmonies, but which the orchestra fully mastered. The chorus also did well in its difficult part, except that a shouted "Ha Ha" at the end of one song failed to materialize.
THE SOPRANOS were inconsistent in the "Carmina"; one of their better performances came in the opening song of the final section, "Cour d'Amour." Later in this section, however, they sounded like a chorus of young Girl Scouts who didn't have the faintest idea that the Latin words they were singing said such things as "yielding gratifies me; refusing makes me grieve" and "my maidenhood excites me, but my innocence keeps me apart."
The whole work, in fact, enshrines the worldly joys of love, a fact which was probably not sufficiently appreciated.
It is to the credit of the "Carmina Burana" that it closes with the powerful "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi." Its power is quite great when performed as it was Sunday, and through it the audience forgets the weak parts that have passed and is swept up into the grand finale. This conclusion was very well done and brought the audience to their feet for a prolonged standing ovation.
THE SOLOISTS Sunday were University students of music. Two of them sang the same parts last January in the University presentation of the "Carmina," and both were improved this time. Richard Wright, tenor, did quite well, particularly in difficult falsetto parts.
David Holloway, baritone, deserves special note for outstanding
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vocal work throughout. His voice was filled with power and feeling. The soprano soloist, Martha Clark, was new to the "Carmina"; her singing was good except that she could not quite reach the highest notes of the solo "Dulcissime" and her voice broke. This solo, however, is one of the most difficult anywhere and does not detract from her total performance.
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On the whole, the "Carmina Burana" was well done and was quite well received by an appreciative audience.
Allergy Institute Receives Grant
The Allergy and Infectious Diseases Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service has granted a third year renewal for KU research.
The principal investigator is William H. Coil, assistant professor of zoology, who is studying the reproduction of an unusual group of tapeworms that live in marine birds.
Coil began this study when he was doing summer research at Duke University marine laboratory in 1962.
Steals Wrong Clothes
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — (UPI)-
The thief who stole $800 worth of clothes from a parked car here is probably looking for a good tailor.
The clothes belonged to Alan Glueck of Salt Lake City, who is six-foot-six and has his clothes custom-made.
University of Kansas students interested in creative writing are going to have more and better opportunities.
Special Writing Classes Offered
In 1965-66, new courses in advanced fiction and poetry writing will be offered, with established writers instructing the sessions periodically.
Available this fall will be "Writing of Fiction," taught by Edgar Wolfe, associate professor of English. Toward the end of the semester, two novelists will come to the class, each for a two-week period.
The novelists are John Hawkes, Providence, RI, and Wright Morris, Mill Valley, Calif. Hawkes, who teaches at Brown University, is author of "The Cannibal," "The Lime Twig," and "Second Skin." Morris teaches at San Francisco State College and has written "Ceremony in Lone Tree," "One Day," "The Messenger," and a critical study, "Territory Ahead."
The course will be open only to students who show special ability in fiction writing.
Then, next spring, a class in advanced poetry writing will be offered. Similarly, two professional poets will attend the class and work with the students. As yet, the poets have not been selected.
Two Killed in Crash On Kansas Turnpike
LAWRENCE — (UPI) — A car crashed into a bridge pillar on the Kansas Turnpike Sunday near Lawrence, killing the two occupants.
Officers said the victims were Pfc. Donald P. Dillon, 23, of Norristown, Pa., and Pfc. Robert Gorski, 24, of Bridgeport, Pa. Both were stationed at Ft. Riley.
The accident occurred four miles east of the Lawrence service area.
Radio Program Provices Real Test for J-Campers
By Kim Freshwater
Last week was a rough one for the journalism students of Midwestern Music and Art Camp. It was their turn to be "under fire" and have a performance reviewed by the other sections of the camp.
Fortunately, some of them feel, no more than a handful of their fellows witnessed their "embarrassment." It consisted of a radio program which was broadcast over the University radio station. KUOK, that lasted one day from 4-9 p.m.
However, the journalists could see the humor (and still can) in almost any situation. They not too earnestly "laughed it up" throughout the whole grueling 300 minutes of "news, music, and general entertainment" arranged in five one-hour shows.
AS A MATTER of fact, their radio and television class adviser in lab work thought the whole thing was hilarious: almost every time some confused "board op" would have to frantically search for an unknown switch or lever, or try to correct a mistake, Gene Boomer would just sit back in his ribside seat and collapse into gales of laughter.
Admittedly, he later assured some of the "devastated few" that the programs "were superior to many of those put on by the KU sophomores who plan to make a career of it."
The extravaganza began with David Stone as disc jockey, Kit Gunn as "board-op," and Mike O'Hara, Anita Wicke, and Martha Teitelbaum as news announcers. They were followed by Jonathan Block and Phil Higdon, board technicians, and news reporters Frances Galawas and Hugh Tessendorf.
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Mexico, entertained for another hour, assisted by technician Dan Partner of camp Hootenanny fame, and "your favorite newsman" as one of them happily introduced himself, Shelley Bray, Stan Oftelie and Bruce Erickson.
Then, "female disaster" as she put it, Kimberly Freshwater, arrived on the scene with not only dialogue, but tidbits of Egyptian news, live Navy recruiting (a particular promotional tape that never seemed to get played), and a little Japanese.
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Her partners in crime were board man Robert Lovelace and press personnel Mark Catiom and Christine Howard. The finale of this little interlude was left mainly on the broad shoulders of the journalism camp's remaining male marvels. Dick Dodge was dee-jay, Mike Holder, board man, Mary Ann Dodge (music camper) and Mike Shearer, newsmen.
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The percentage of errors could have been remarkably less. But congratulations are due this handful of ad-lib artists and quick learners.
U.S. Envoy Is Subject Of Indonesian Protests
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — (UPI) An estimated 3,000 Indonesian youths chanting anti-American slogans demonstrated yesterday when U.S. Ambassador Marshall Green presented his credentials to President Sukarno.
Some demonstrators carried signs and banners reading "Green go home." The protest was held at the headquarters of the Communist youth group, just down the street from the presidential palace where the ambassador was meeting Sukarno.