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Friday, April 18, 1986
Series will mix opera and new wave
By Grant W. Butler Staff writer
the University of Kansas Concert and Chamber Music Series, which was announced yesterday, will combine a variety of different performance styles — including opera and new wave — to attract more students to the Chicago Choir looking for director of public relations for University Theatre.
Attendance by students at series performances increased from 37 percent during the 1984-85 season to 44 percent this year, Jenkins said.
the series offered performances by contemporary artists, such as the Philip Glass Ensemble, she said.
"I would say there is a direct relation with more students attending and the types of groups that are appearing," she said.
While some older patrons might be unhappy with contemporary artists, Jenkins said, performances by contemporary artists will continue to be
Next year's series will include the Kronos Quartet, a new wave chamber ensemble, and the King's Singers, a vocal ensemble from Cambridge. England, that performs music from medieval madrigals to
Beatles songs.
battle-times in performance by the Kronos Quartet will contrast with most of the performances on next year's series, she said.
"They are wild. They performed a Carnegie Hall in leather pants and I Love New York 'T-shirts,' she said. 'I don't know if KU is ready for leather pants."
"They won't do any music by anyone who is dead or whose body is cold. They do only contemporary music by people like Philip Glass, David Byrne of the Talking Heads and Frank Zappa."
James Moeser, de the School of Fine Arts, said it was important for the series to promote avant-garde as well as classical music.
"We have to be on the cutting edge of music. That's what the University's all about." Moeser said.
"I think it's wonderful when a concert series can be controversial. Nothing is duller or more bland than something that lacks controversy," he said.
Students should also be attracted to series performances because of the 50 percent student discount, Jenkins said.
1986-87 Concert and Chamber Music Series
American Ballet Comedy, Thursday, Oct. 9.
Cologne Radio Orchestra with Andre Michel Schub, pianist, Wednesday, Nov. 5.
James Galway, flutist, Thursday. Dec. 11.
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Thursday, Feb. 19.
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Wednesday, March 25.
Company
■ New York City Opera National Company in "Madame Butterfly," Wednesday, April 1.
All Concert Series performances are at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
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■ Mark Pskanov and Friends (Peskanov, violinist, Rita Sloa, pianist, and Peter Rejio, cellist) 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 28, Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
Cleveland Quartet with
Emanuel Axi, pianist, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 25, Crafton-Preyer
Theatre,
"It's so ridiculous that students can see the New York City Opera in "Madame Butterfly" for only $5" she said. "In New York you couldn't
■ King's Singers. 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 19. Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
Juilliard String Quartet, 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, Cratton-Preyer Theatre.
Empire Brass Quintet, 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 8, Crafton-Preyer
Theatre.
Kronos Quartet, 8 p.m., Sunday. April 12, Crafton-Preyer Theatre.
The University Arts Festival will sponsor a performance by the Guithrie Theater in George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre
you it for under $50, and you would cost
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Break at Kansas Statehouse allows time for paperwork
Stan Writer
TOPEKA — The hubbub has cooled at the Statehouse.
By Abbie Jones
Only a few plastic foam cups and pencils sit atop the empty rows of legislators' desks this week.
paper and this book. The House historian sat alone in the chamber yesterday.
Nowhere is there a copy of the proposed sales tax increase, which has seen more red ink than any piece of paper this session.
Jessie J. Wilson, the historian, was perched in the back row ready to help anyone who wandered into the empty chamber. But he insisted that he was there only to help — not to talk politics.
punches.
"I don't listen to anything they say to each other," Wilson said. "What I don't know I can't repeat."
Lawnmakers are on a recess until next week. Most of their doors are locked and the hallways empty, but some are walking around in casual clothes and catching up on leftover paper work.
State Rep. Jeff Freeman, R-Burlington, and a KU graduate, stroils into the chamber in jeans, cowboy boots and an American
Legion farm hat. The political science major who graduated in 1983 said that this year the state hadn't gotten a trip on its spending.
Next year there will have to be some changes, he said.
"There is going to have to be cuts somewhere," Freeman said. "I don't think we can continue at the same rate. I was always taught that when times are tough, you don't spend more, you spend less."
more, you could the failure of both chambers to reach a compromise on an increase in the state sales tax has stalled several appropriations bills, including the University's budget.
Freeman said the tax increase would pass in some form once the Legislature reconvened, but it was simply a matter of which side blinked
1987.
The Senate's version calls for a 1-cent increase effective July 1, while the House has approved a half-cent increase to take effect May 1 and another half-on Jan. 1. 1987.
the legislators are probably taking the time off to talk to constituents about the measure, he said.
"We try to form a public consensus," Freeman said.
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