Friday, April 26, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SEMINAR SPEAKERS
Six of the major speakers for the Seminar on the Role of the Mass Media in a Free Society are: Top row, from left: Theodore Koop, Stan Freberg, and Ben Bagdikian. Second row: Carl Rowan, Bill Moyers, and Bosley Crowther.
Berg foursome will perform Sunday at Jazz Festival
The Chuck Berg Quartette, a local jazz group, will perform at the Kansas City Jazz Festival from 2:40 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium.
Organized by Chuck Berg, Big Springs graduate student and assistant instructor of radio-TV-film and speech and drama, the quartette has been playing as a unit since September. It gives regular performances Thursday nights on the KU Tonight Show sponsored by KUOK radio at a local pizza parlor and Tuesday nights at a local tavern.
"We feel honored to be picked to play on a bill of performers rated as some of the outstanding jazz talent in the world, such as Wes Montgomery." Berg said.
The quartette submitted a 15-minute tape to the judges of the festival, who selected them to perform along with 24 other groups and individuals. Beer said
The repertoire of the quartette includes popular tunes done in the jazz idiom such as "Shadow of Your Smile," "Girl from Ipanema," "Going Out of My Head," and "Comin' Home Baby" and hard core standard jazz tunes such as Charlie Parker's "Ornithology" and "Scraple from the Apple" to Sonny Rollins "Jazz Waltz" and "Doxy."
The quartette is composed of Berg, who plays alto and tenor sax and flute; Horace Bond,
Louisville, Ky., graduate student and assistant instructor of speech and drama, guitar; Leif Ostergard, Jasa, Finland, graduate student in business, drums; and Hank Gutierrez, Tropea, bass.
Bond and Berg, both Speech I instructors at KU, were discussing their ideas about music early in September and then decided to have a jam session.
Ostergard and Berg had been playing as a duo for two years. Both play in the KU Kicks Band. Gutierrez, who used to travel with a Latin jazz band, was a friend of Berg.
"So the four of us got together and had a jam session improvising on the music we love best—jazz!" Berg said.
Gutierrez said the group generally plays more avant-garde at a local "hip" tavern than at others where the atmosphere is more relaxed.
Berg feels the quartette's style is "in the post-bop tradition—an extension of the bop-style developed by Charlie Parker, alto saxophonist, and Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter.
"We've also developed a Latin and bossa nova approach when I play the flute," he said.
One of the highlights for the group this year was providing the musical score for "Jayhawk '67," a football highlights film produced by the radio-TV-film department during the fall semester, he said
Journalists here for seminar
Visitors from at least nine states and Washington, D.C. will be at KU to hear 15 top journalists discuss and debate present condition and future direction of the mass media next week.
Advance registration for the $2\frac{1}{2}$-day seminar in "The Role of the Mass Media in a Free Society" which opens Sunday evening at KU includes persons from Missouri, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Virginia, Nebraska, Illinois, Texas, Arizona and Washington, D.C., as well as numerous Kansans. High school and college students from the area also are expected for the seminar.
Six of the 15 program participants will give major addresses during the seminar, starting with an 8 p.m. Sunday talk on "The Press and Its Crisis of Identity" by Ben Bagdikian, one of the foremost press critics from Washington, D.C. This opening session will be in the Kansas Union Ballroom
Monday's sessions will shift to University Theatre in Murphy Hall. The lectures will be: 9 a.m., Stan Freberg, West Coast advertising executive and satirist; 2:30 p.m. Bill Moyers, former press secretary to President Johnson and now publisher of Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.; 8 p.m., Carl Rowan, nationally-syndicated columnist and former director of the United States Information Agency.
Tuesday's first two lectures also
will be in the University Theatre.
Theodore F. Koop, vice-president of the Columbia Broadcasting System in Washington, D.C., will speak at 10:30 a.m., and Bosley Crowther, long-time movie critic for the New York Times, will speak at 2:30 p.m.
A final dinner-roundtable discussion featuring most of the seminar participants is scheduled at 6 p.m. in the Union Ballroom.
All the lectures and final seminar dinner are open to the public. The lectures are free; a $3 charge will be made for the dinner, and advance reservations should be made with the School of Journalism.
Serving as critic-commentators for the sessions will be: Samuel Blackman, general news editor, the Associated Press; Hodding Carter, editor and publisher, Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss.; Grover Cobb, chairman of the board, National Association of Broadcasters and vice-president, KVGB, Great Bend; Richard Doderidge, partner, Bruce B. Brewer and Company advertising, Kansas City, Mo.; Irving Dillard, former editorial editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ben Hibbs, retired editor of the Saturday Evening Post and now contributing editor for Reader's Digest; Norman Isaacs, executive editor; Louisville Courier-Journal; Ernest K. Lindley, special assistant to the secretary of state and former chief of Newsweek's Washington bureau; and Houstoun Waring, editor emeritus, Littleton Independent and Arapahoe Herald, Littleton, Colo.
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