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Thursday, March 29, 1979
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Spencer Museum will resound with music from another period
The setting will be the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art instead of the chambers of an Elizabethan castle but the music to be performed this Sunday will be the same as it was in 16th and 17th century England.
At least that is the goal of J. Bunker Clark, professor of music history and director of Collegium Musicum, the KU music ensemble dedicated to performing medieval, Renaissance and baroque works in their original style.
"Our goal is to get acquainted with older music for the enjoyment of the group and the audience." Clark said. "We also try to keep the style of performance as close to the original as possible. In the vocal group you attempt to eliminate the vibrato that singers use today. We also attempt to use old instruments."
CLARK SAID the concert Sunday will give four types of instruments: a viola da gamba, the of the ancestors of the contemporary violin, viola and cello; a positive organ, a small upright instrument; and a virginal, a small keyboard instrument that resembles a harpichord. Clark said the group of used套扣bubs, used套扣shawns, crumbers and baroque flutes, the ancestors of the contemporary oboe and flute.
Sunday's 3:30 p.m. concert at the museum will be a program of English music from the Elizabethan era. Edwin Smith, Thomas Moreley, William Byrd and Nathaniel Giles will be featured as well as some较精彩 lute songs, Weeken and John Bernet.
and Smith were being performed for the first time since their composition.
CLARK SAID two of the works by Gyles
Music performed by the Terpsichore Troupe, a recorder ensemble directed by Alan Luecke, Concordia graduate student, would complete the program. Clark said.
The 21 collegium singers and a smaller madrigal group called the Nymphes and Shepeardas are directed by John Williams, Lawrence graduate student in voice. Williams, a countertenter who has the range of an alto, will also sing a solo verse anthem. Williams is instrumentation of the group was flexible and the type of music performed varied.
"LAST SEMESTER, we featured Roman composers," he said. "Sometimes we do a theme from a certain period of music in our programs."
The Collegium Musicum style of ensemble
originated in 18th-century Germany, Clark said, for groups of amateurs who wanted to perform the popular vocal and ensemble music of the day.
"The only difference now is that the groups don't perform contemporary dance."
The KU ensemble originated during the war and was one of the first of its kind in the country.
"Interest in these groups has been growing steadily," he said. "Almost any college and university in the country has a number of professional groups as well."
"There's just an interest in learning about and playing older music. One of the aims of the group is to perform little-known music. I think we're succeeding."
Film depicts difficulties of Venezuelan Indians
A film that describes the plight of Venezuelan Indians at the hands of a U.S. evangelical missionary group will be presented Friday as part of Venezuela Night.
The film, "I Speak to Caracas," will be shown in the Lawrence Community Building, 115 W. 11th St.
The film, which has won three international film festival awards for best documentary, was released November, is narrated by a Venezuelan Indian shaman. A shaman is one of the characters in the film.
In Venezuela, the evangelical New Tribe Mission, is committing to help people in vulnerable groups, according to Lourdes Gouvea, Caracas, Venezuela, graduate student. She said yesterday that the missionaries are causing a whole culture to disappear.
"They believe the people are savages and worship evil spirits." Gouveia said.
In the film, the shaman denounces the actions of the missionary group. Gouveia uses a variety of religious and just religious activities. Equipment used for detecting uranium had been found in the film.
The film causes such a stir when it was shown a few months ago in Venezuela that a new movement, the Movement for National Identity, was founded.
Gouveia said the movement was attempting to make connections with the two groups, who shared the similar problem of a system that did not respect
Control of the Venezuelan Indians' lives by the missionaries was sanctioned in 1915 by a ruling from the Venezuelan government, she said.
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