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Third Student Art Exhibit Called Outstanding in Several Details
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The third art display of the summer comes down today, and the final display of the summer goes up in the exhibition gallery of Murphy Hall.
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This critic found the third exhibit outstanding in most areas represented. The most outstanding areas were fashion design, figure sketch, and nature drawing in this exhibit. The oil paintings and water colors which we had earlier expressed disappointment in have improved greatly.
Crafts were exhibited for the first time this summer. Joan Fowles and Barbara Moorehouse each had a vase exhibited, work that was beautiful and original in design. Miss Fowles' vase was a cream-colored one with brown texture. Miss Moorehouse's was brown with the center to the left.
ALSO OUTSTANDING in the area of crafts were three jewelry projects. A bracelet by Judy Hershman was particularly unique and artistic. Mike Elzea had a very beautiful, rough-textured ring displayed, and a pair of cuff links by Cathy Harris was of splendid design and expert workmanship.
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In the area of water color an interesting composition by Jill Wilise was done with clean strokes and was effectively presented. Another water color was one of three trees by Rogene Pfuetze. Miss Pfuetze had many things displayed in the exhibit, all of which were nothing short of professional. To say that it was a one-woman show would be incorrect though, because several other girl art campers also are exceptional.
In the oil painting section interest was centered around a portrait by Mike Elzae. The mood was projected well by the free technique used. Rogene Flietze had an oil painting of a girl sitting which was very colorful. The two oils were by far better than the rest of the oils.
THERE WERE MANY outstanding figure sketches, but we singled out one by Eetsy Warland as the best. It was done in red and showed freedom of movement in the two figures.
The fashion designs by Judy Hershman and Kris Hermanson were terrific. Miss Hershman had one which was done in charcoal and one in wash that were two of the best fashions displayed. Miss Hermanson got some dramatic effects by the use of charcoal and pencil in her series of fashion designs which were displayed.
The cartoons were refreshing and surprisingly original. Mike Elzea satirizes the music camper in his dainty
Mets Sign Renko So He's Ineligible
Steve Renko, KU junior athlete, has confirmed rumors of accepting a professional baseball bid by signing a $12,000 bonus contract with the National League New York Mets.
Joe McDonald, director of the Mets farm team in Marion, Va., announced that Renko had officially reported for work-outs after pitching and playing first base in the Basin League at Rapid City, S.D., for KU Coach Floyd Temple.
The hard-throwing right-hander will definitely be ineligible for all college sports because of this action. It also was rumored that if Renko had accepted an offer from the Mets after his sophomore year he would have received a $40,000 bonus. Because he has been playing below par the last two years his bonus was lessened.
Arrest Egyptian Editor
CAIRO, U.A.R. — (UPI) — The semi-official Middle East News Agency said Mustafa Amin, editor of the newspaper Al Akhbar, was arrested while passing political and military information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
The agency identified the alleged CIA agent as Bruce Taylor Odell, a political officer at the American Embassy here.
and effective technique. Niel Shapiro had two large and outstanding cartoons which probably were the most noticeable. Both Shapiro and Elzae were in the camp last year and have shown talent in many areas of the camp.
SHAPIRO AND MICK Thompson made some free and expressive sketches at the Swope Park Zoo in Kansas City when the art camp took its field trip there last week.
The pastels displayed were not one of the show's strong points. Most of those displayed were rugged and unfinished looking. Particularly weak were several pastel portraits. An exception was one by Mick Thompson which was done on textured paper and finished with touches of ink.
The portraits exhibited were not up to those displayed previously. Past years have shown much better portraits than the ones seen this summer. Exactly what is wrong with the portraits is hard to describe but the faces lack form and perspective.
TWO DESIGNS which were superior were by Judy Hershman and Karen Thompson. Miss Hershman's design was in subdued colors on a dark blue. The effect was very dramatic. Miss Thompson's design was a bird done in mild blues and greens. Both were exceptionally good. The other designs were also superior.
The nature drawings were all well done but two by Rogene Pfeutze were probably the most outstanding articles in the entire exhibit. Done in water colors and pen and ink, the two animals show character and the artist's original style.
The exhibit was terrific. Today's will probably be even better. But this year the biggest talent would apparently be feminine in contrast to previous years, when the males outranked the females.
Names to look for in today's exhibit? Try Hershman, Hermanson, Warland, and especially Pfeutze. For male art there are Norland, Elzea, Day, Thompson, and Shapiro. But if past exhibits are any prophet, the girls will be best.
Friday, July 23, 1965
'Carmina Burana' Ready For Concert on Sunday
Bv Mike Holder
SINGING THE SOLOS will be college students. Martha Clark, soprano, and David Holloway, baritone, two of the three soloists, are teaching at the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. The third soloist will be Richard Wright, a tenor.
Orff has given rhythm a place of prime importance in all his compositions in order to establish a basis for a "new musical order." He holds rhythm as a "balance between sentiment and intellect," and as an independent form-building element. Orff has his melodies develop from rhythmic structure instead of having a melody evolve from a basic harmonic form.
"Our production of the 'Carmina Burana' will be just about the same as the one the University did the first semester of this year. How good it will be performed remains to be seen."
Carl Orff, German composer, educator and musicologist, has set his aim of educating the lay public with his creative musicianship. He has made an attempt through his musical compositions to make the dormant "powers of musical expression" useful with dance and musical improvision.
Clayton Krehbiel, choir director, was speaking of how this week two choruses, the orchestra, and three soloists have been working hard in preparation for presenting the number at the Sunday afternoon concert.
Yesterday both of the choruses practiced together for the first time and today the orchestra worked with the choruses for the first time. Saturday will be the first time all of the groups have come together to go through the whole number. This is the only combination number planned for the rest of the season, and if it is a success Sunday there will possibly be similar numbers planned for next year.
THE "CARMINA BURANA," composed in 1935-36, was Orff's first composition for the stage. He admired and made use of the Wagnerian
principle of "Gesamtkunstwerk," or totally organized work of art. However, his style was an entirely new interpretation. His works were greatly simplified since he deplored the increased complexity of the Wagnerian principle.
Orff's inspiration for the "Carmina Burana" was a collection of secular poems from a 13th century manuscript written in low Latin and low German. "Goliards," who were wandering minstrels and scholars of that time, better known for their satire and riotous living than for their scholarship, wrote these poems.
The work is described by Orff as a "scene cantata" to be performed with dancers, but his valid musical setting of the poems eliminates the necessity for the staging of this work, and it can successfully be presented in concert.
THE PERCUSSION section of the orchestra is enlarged by Orff, giving it equal status with the strings and winds. Percussion is used to heighten the feeling of gaiety and frivolity which was so evident in the life of the Goliards.
Both the poetry and music of the "Carmina Burana" show the influence of the Catholic chants. However, there is little that is solemn or "churchly" about most of the resulting combinations. Orff often used plainchant type melodies which would develop into something worldly and vivid.
In direct contrast, he also presented the plainchant type melodies in a setting of delicacy and beauty. Orff was interested in "the spiritual realities" included in the texts he chose. The spiritual reality of "Carmina Burana" is an unquenchable assertion of life and its joys. Orff does not hesitate to make use of any musical means in order to express the texts.
The original manuscript bears a cover design which acts as a motto for the entire collection, the Wheel of Fortune.
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