RECORDS: A real feast
By WILL HARDESTY
In a dark room, you are seated, tied to a chair, blindfolded, and stereo headphones are clamped on your head. "You will hear this music and tell us who the artists are or you will die," a foreignly accented voice hisses into your ear. "This is a brand new album. Now tell us."
And what a pud it is to say who it is. The sound is the same great sound which began back in the days of "Satisfaction." "It's the Rolling Stones," you shout rockily, chortling at your Tom Swiftly. "Curses, foiled again," the arch villian hisses in his benign way as he frees you.
And you were right, too. The album is BEGGAR'S BANQUET on London.
This is the album which was supposed to have the cover which looked like the inside of a well-graffittied head, I believe. But something must have been decided by the powers-that-be in the London organization since the cover is quite tame and elegant.
The sound is not tame. The album starts with "Sympathy for the Devil" which is one of the best songs that the Stones have produced, but which seems to be destined to be heard only on the album and not on the airwaves. This song, which almost has a calypso beat, has a lot to say, knocking the traditional view that there is a devil which causes evil and says Everyman is the devil and he causes his own evil.
BEGGAR'S BANQUET has the same basic sound as "Satisfaction," "Not Fade Away," "Under My Thumb," and "Time Is on my Side." The lyrics are more meaningful, but the Stones are a lot like Dylan—they have had a definite style and have been making social comment since they started—not as much as Dylan, but still some.
BEGGAR'S BANQUET also shows the Stones still are the best English blues band.
An excellent album.
RAMBLIN', GAMBLIN' MAN by The Bob Seger System on Capitol gives Seger a chance to show off his hit single for which the album is named. Other than that, the album is pretty ordinary, doing little to excite mind or body.
A limited number of coupons are left for the third annual Festival of the Arts, March 16-22 Kent Longenecker, Shawnee Mission junior and chairman of the program, has announced.
Ticket plan announced
Students who indicated during enrollment they wanted a ticket will receive the coupon notice in the mail within the next week, Longenecker explained.
Reserved seats will be made available to coupon holders only from March 3 to March 7 on a first-come, first-serve basis in the SUA office.
From March 10 to March 14 tickets will be available to the general public, Longenecker added.
The schedule of artists appearing nightly at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium is:
Sunday, March 16 "No Exit." Jean Paul Sarte's one-act play performed on the KU stage by the Contempo Players from New York.
Monday, March 17- Pauline Kael, film critic for the New Yorker magazine in a presentation and serve with faculty, students, and the audience.
Tuesday, March 18—The National Pantomime Theater, in a pantomime on stage entitled "Beyond Words."
Wednesday. March 19-Dave Brubeck Trio with Gerry Mulligan, the jazz world with Brubeck on piano and Mulligan on baritone sax.
Also, a survey of New York Underground Films.
Thursday, March 20 — A survey or retrospective of three Oksas, father and chief spokeswoman in new York underground, and Robert Kavanagh, radical political film "On the Edge."
Saturday, March 22—Lou Rawls, in
the music of jazz, pop, and rhythm
and blues.
KU documentary shows programs
"Spearhead at Juniper Gardens" is not the name of the newest Clint Eastwood flic. It is not an underground epic produced on a wing and a prayer by bearded, long-haired K.U. Fellini's. It IS a black and white 30-minute long motion picture, but there the similarity between Fellini and "Juniper Gardens" ends.
"Spearhead at Juniper Gardens" is a film produced by the Kansas University Bureau of Child Research. It was made to explain the community anti-poverty programs going on in Kansas City, Kan., especially KU's efforts in behalf of educationally deprived children.
Bob Hoyt, assistant director of the Child Research Bureau and script writer for the film, explained its purpose as "research oriented, not for public relations. It was not intended for the man on the street. Its main circulation has been in educational circles, and it was meant to be a research demonstration.
"The program in Kansas City began three years ago. As interest increased in what we were doing with these educationally deprived children, some of whom could not even write or speak their names, the number of visitors we had also increased to such an extent that giving tours of the project took too much time away from the staff's work. We made the film mostly to save time," Hoyt added.
The films was first publicly shown at the American Association on Mental Deficiencies meeting in Boston last May. "It was just a case of putting it out at the right time. We had no idea it would be so well accepted.
"I suppose its most attractive point is that it shows the work of a research team right in the midst of a community. Very often research is isolated from the communities involved, but this program operates right in Kansas City," Hoyt added.
Feb. 21 1969 KANSAN 5
Rivals
Photo by Halina Pawl
Carolyn Weber, Topeka freshman, and Kathy Kirkpatrick, Des Moines freshman, are both in love with the same man in "The Mikado," opening March 5 in Strong Auditorium. Tickets are available at the SUA office and Bell's Music Co.
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