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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 25, 1968
Perform in two states
Tour tiring to bandsmen
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
Four busses pulled up to the curb of the parking lot east of Murphy Hall at noon Saturday and opened their doors to let out
the 130 members of the University Orchestra and Band.
They had departed from that same spot six days earlier for the annual concert tour, which took
Oscar Peterson Trio gets psychedelic light display
By Bob Butler Kansan Staff Reporter
Thanks to Bill Snoddy, the Oscar Peterson Trio had a psychedelic light show Sunday night.
Snoody, Hoch Auditorium's stage manager, first made his presence known when he walked to a microphone on stage just before the show began.
"One for the first guy," (one finger) "one for the second guy," (two fingers) "and one for the third guy," (three fingers).
"Hey, spotlight," he said, looking up to the projection booth at the rear of the auditorium. "Now, listen. You gotta put on the amber. The amber. And you'll have to hit it three times." He held up three fingers.
After making this clear to the man in the booth, whose telephone to the backstage area was evidently out of order, Snoddy walked back to the wings.
them through Missouri and Oklahoma to play in 18 concerts.
A moment later the trio's drummer walked on stage.
From the curtains on stage left, the audience saw Snoddy's arm with one finger lifted. Out walked the bass player — two fingers —
then Peterson himself—three fingers. The arm then retreated back into the curtains and for the first half of the program everything seemed fine.
During intermission Snoddy puffed on a cigar and grumbled about "those new guys we've got on lights. We're trying to break them in. But they haven't got the lights right yet." So Snoddy decided to climb up to the projection booth.
Things happened fast after that. The trio, which had been bathed in a pleasant pinkish glow, suddenly turned yellow and then green. The area of light on stage grew larger, then smaller, sometimes not covering the group at all, at other times spreading out over the entire stage. It formed rectangles and circles. Finally it assumed one shape, color and size.
It looked just like it had before.
Some students sat on the curb and talked, others lugged instruments into the band room and many tried to find rides home where they would attempt to sleep off their six road days.
"Well, we finally got it right," Snoddy said after he returned to the stage. "That young fellow was all mixed up, but I straightened him out."
At each overnight stop the band and orchestra members stayed in the homes of KU alumni, affectionately known as "humans."
"Each night when we came to the high school gymnasium for the concert we compared our 'humans,'" Dave Cook, Wichita sophomore, said.
Poker seemed to be the primary source of entertainment for the musicians on the long drives between concert stops. "Boy, fortunes were won and lost on this trip," James Barnes, Hobart, Okla., freshman, said. "You name it and these guys will play it."
Most trips of this sort have exciting moments and this was no exception. One of the bus engines caught on fire when a defroster motor burned out. However, it was put out without any serious damage. In two instances band members were left behind at stops and had to hitch or beg rides until they could catch up with the buses.
Most of the students agreed that the tour had been a success.
"It all went pretty well, except, perhaps, for Sedalia, Mo." Cook said. "We were playing for a high school and some guy in the back kept doing bird calls. The director just stopped the piece we were on and gave them all a lecture. They didn't say a word for the rest of the show."
Brine profits studied
Approximately 100 scientists from many nations will pool the results of their studies of technological and economic questions about a common nuisance commodity during the "Symposium on Geochemistry of Subsurface Brine," March 25 and 26, in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
The University Extension and the State Geological Survey of Kansas are co-sponsoring the event.
Christian Scientist to lecture tonight
KU's Christian Science Organization will sponsor a lecture by Charles M. Carr, a teacher of Christian Science, at 7 p.m., March 26 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
His lecture, entitled "Why Be Fenced In?" will deal with creating greater personal freedom through spiritual insight.
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