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Moore views U.S. opera
By Judith Faust
Douglas Moore, Rose Morgan Professor and this year's KU composer-in-residence, last night attributed the status of opera in America to the inheritance of the British attitude toward lyric drama.
"We think of going to the opera as a sort of cultural good deed," said Moore, composer of the opera "Carry Nation," which will premiere here April 28 as a part of KU's centennial celebration.
MOORE, SPEAKING last night in Swarthout Recital Hall, gave the sixth Humanities Lecture of the 1965-1966 series.
Opera originated with the Italians, who, Moore said, "break into song at the slightest provocation anyway." He pointed out, however, that it causes the Anglo-Saxon great discomfort to sing
such everyday phrases as "close the door."
The emphasis in opera has long been on singing, orchestration, and spectacle, Moore said. The original Italian idea of "drama through music" has been lost, because American audiences don't understand operas in foreign languages.
Rally asks protection
The KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam has requested police protection for its rally in Kansas City, Mo., March 26.
The decision was announced yesterday at a meeting of the organization in the Kansas Union after members expressed fear that the rally, climax to the International Days of Protest, might provoke violent counter-demonstrations.
THE RALLY WILL start at 2 p.m. outside the Federal Building. Demonstrators will then march seven blocks to Allis Plaza, over
the municipal parking lot, where speakers will denounce the U.S. position in Viet Nam.
The demonstration will follow debates held at KU March 25, first day of the protest. A "speak-out" will be held in the afternoon outside Flint Hall and in the evening there will be a debate in the Kansas Union. Defending U.S. policy will be Clifford Ketzel, associate professor in political science, and he will be opposed by Richard L. Hill, Manhattan junior and chairman of the KU committee.
Model UN still registers
With 64 fully registered delegations filed, the KU-Y Model-UN is still considering ways of increasing this number after official registration closed on March 15.
"Official registration is closed," Bob Ward, Wichita sophomore and a member of the publicity committee, said. "But if someone comes in with money, we will admit him."
In other action the steering committee received the secretary general's appointments to the
Security Council, to his staff and to the resolution area committees.
"We also changed one of the resolutions because we found that it belongs to the Economic and Social Council and not to the General Assembly," Dick White, Wakefield, Mass., senior and general secretary, said.
The resolution is the one on economic development; in its place now is a resolution on arms control and disarmament.
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Moore closed his lecture by introducing Doris Peterson, Reading senior, and David Holloway, Gas City graduate student, who sang a duet from Moore's opera.
10 Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 16, 1966
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