4B
Fridav. April 10. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Quintet blasts musical standards
The Kronos Quartet will perform at 8 p.m.
Sunday in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy
Hall. Tickets are on sale at the Murphy Hall box
office and are $4 and $5 for students, $7
and $9 for senior citizens and $8 and $10 for the
general public.
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
The Kronos Quartet is not the usual, stuffy, high-collared string quartet. The performers don't wear black evening attire for their shows. They don't play Bach or Beethoven.
For the last nine years, the Kronos Quartet has blasted conventional music standards with its unique style and new wave attire. It plays everything from jazz to African folk, and from Bela Bartok's "String Quartet No. 6," to Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze."
The four-member string quartet will perform five pieces Sunday at 8 p.m. at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The quartet, based in San Francisco, is comprised of David Harrington and John Sherba, violins; Hank Dutt, viola; and Joan Jearenrau, cello.
only playing music by modern composers.
The quartet is known internationally for its innovative interpretations of modern music. It also is known for
"Everybody in our group did that as kids. We've done that." Harrington, the quartet's founder, said. "We're carrying on the classical tradition. People just don't realize that."
Harrington said the group's contemporary music style appealed to people of all ages and not just to young audiences.
"The music we play tends to appeal to people with youthful spirits. I don't think there's an age limit," Harrington said.
"We take all of these experiences going on in our culture and try to bring them together in one place for an evening." Harrington said. "For me, variety, as someone once said, is the spice of life. I love variety."
The quartet plays jazz, rock 'n'roll, and folk and ethnic music from different areas of the world. Harrington said it's music ranged from the spaced out and harsh to the gentle and poetic.
He said it was important to open people's eyes and ears to the quarrel.
"That's one of the things we delight in — giving people a chance to
experience music they've never come into contact with," he said. "I think it's really important that a lot of people hear what we're doing."
The quartet will open Sunday's performance with Peter Sculthorpe's "String Quartet No. 8," a visual piece that Harrington described as having colorful and rhythmic elements from Bali and Indonesia.
"It feels refreshing and exotic and colorful to play," he said.
The quartet will then play Adils Sallinen's "String Quartet No. 3," a score Harrington said Sallinen took from an old Finnish fiddle tune.
A few weeks ago in New York, the quartet premiered the third musical score that it will play Sunday. Philip Glass' 1962 "Quartet," never had been performed by anyone publicly before because it was considered too bizaare, Harrington said. The piece is 10 minutes long, contains two movements and is composed of interconnected, 30-second phrases.
“It’s going to sound really spaced-out. Be ready and reflux,” he said as a woman in his wheelchair spoke.
The quartet will play Virgil Thomson's "Stabat Mater," with a Philip Glass Ensemble soprano, Dora Orenstein.
Harrington described the piece, written in France in the 1920's, as the French champagne of music.
The quartet will wrap up its performance with Bela Bartok's "String Quartet No. 6," which Harrington said was heavy and sad.
"It's amazing what you can feel in that piece," he said.
The quartet has received 3,000 musical scores from composers all over the world. Sting, former lead singer of The Police, is writing a piece for the quartet, and plans to sing it with them this fall.
The group practices together almost every day. The quartet, performing 120 shows a year in the United States and Europe, will leave for a monthlong European tour in two weeks.
The quartet has produced eight albums since forming in 1978. Another album, "White Man Sleepes," will be released June 1.
Before Sunday's concert, contem-
porary composers Glass and Thomson will join music critic Gregory Sandow for a panel discussion titled,
"Living Composers Communicating With Their Artists and Audiences." The discussion will be at 1:30 p.m. in Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Party picture company grabs KU market
Mark Schrag, University Photography photographer, takes party pics at a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority pinning party at the Theta Chi fraternity house, 1011 Missouri St. University Photography boasts that it has cornered the market on party pics on and off campus.
By DENISE LACROIX
Special to the Kansan
Suppose you're planning a party. It's going to be great. Everyone will want to remember who wore the watering can, who played leapfrog in the living room, who swung on the chandelier.
So, you decide to call a party photography service. But Whistle Pies is defunct. And Flashbak Photography is brand-new in town.
Besides, a friend recommends University Photography's Party pic Service. In fact, it seems almost every emends University Photography.
That's because this particular photo business has managed to lock up through exclusive contracts — the one he and his wife're party photography, business.
University Photography, 1601 W. 23rd St., now boasts contracts with 78 percent of the greek organizations at the University of Kansas and says it serves more than half of the remaining Lawrence and Topeka markets as well.
"I don't feel that there is enough of a market in party photography, to have a show."
The contracts have discouraged new businesses from gaining a substantial foothold in the market while existing customers' ranks of paying customers.
"If others try to compete with us, it's going to be uphill for them," Dave Gregory, sales manager at University Photography, said recently.
Lyndale Moore is the manager of Flushbook Photography, 2104 E. W. 56th St., New York, NY 10024.
"Our plan is to last it out," Moore said. "There are always going to be people who want a change."
Moore said Flashbak would have difficulty breaking into the market because of the well-established competition from University Photography.
University Photography's contracts with greek houses give the photo service sole rights to cover all house activities.
The University Photography "Organization Photography Contract" grants the business "exclusive photographic coverage of all major social activities, group pictures or other situations in which photographic services are required."
Right now, a one-year contract includes a $1.80 non-negotiable per print cost. A two-year contract offers a $2.50 per print cost. $2 for customers without contracts.
Houses with contracts from previous years can renew the contracts at the same rate. Gregory said, which is less expensive for houses for staying with the company.
Camille Dalager, director of the Consumer Affairs Association, 819 Vermont St., said the contract was a binding one.
"When the parties sign the contract, both are agreeing to act in good faith," she said. "If that good faith is not honored or problems not remedied, the contract can be voided."
The contract specifies how an organization may cancel the arrangement if it has a complaint.
The organization must have a majority of its active members vote to terminate the deal. University Photography must then be allowed 90 days to try to correct listed problems.
The penalty, however, for violating the process is not great, simply the difference between the contract price charged customers without contracts.
Gregory said contracts helped picture prices stay constant and allowed the company to make more accurate pricing. Gregory also eliminated short-term price hikes.
Marilyn Douglas, social chairman of Alpha Micron Siperion, 1510 Sigma Nu Place, which has a contract with University Photography, she said never had had any problems with the company, although she said she didn't particularly like contracts.
University Photography then can concentrate on service and quality instead of worrying about the sales part of the business, he added.
Gregory said, "The benefit that the contract gives you is so intangible. The party pie market is so fickle. They are always people with new ideas.
Yet, customers tend to honor their contracts.
"A contract is one way to provide loyalty in party photography." (www.megaphotocom)
pany's customer loyalty formidable. Kevin Stefanik, former manager of Whistle Pies, which was in business in the 1970s and then died from petition between University Photography and other photo services firsthand.
pany's customer loyalty formidable.
— Dave Gregory sales manager. University Photography
If others try to compete with us, it's going to be uphill for them.'
Stefanik, who now manages a party photography service in Ames, Iowa, said University Photography was the only business in Lawrence offering party photography when Whistle Pics opened its doors.
Whistle Pies began when a University Photography manager, Greg Heinze, left to develop it as a new competitor. The struggle to win a chunk of University Photography's market was worsened by Heinze's work as manager at University Photography.
Before leaving University Photography, Heinze had created the idea of using exclusive contracts to draw cheap customers with the company.
Because University Photography dominated the market when Whistle Pigs began, Heinze's contract idea worked to his new business' disadvantage
"When waitte Pics started, we had to wait two to three years for the contracts to expire before the people would try us," Stefanik said.
Heinze, no longer with any established photography business in Lawrence, could not be reached for comment.
Because Heinze did not use contracts when at Whistle Pics, he decided to lure customers by beating University Photography's prices, Gregory said. That triggered a price increase in University Photography ultimately won.
"In the last three years, University Photography has been more adamant about really competing, and so we played Heinze's price game," Gregory said. "But now our policy has become so stringent that we don't play pricing games."
"In the short run, the competition may lower prices," he said. "But in the long run there will be a definite linear increase in price because they must recoup the losses and debt incurred when the price was low."
KU students treated for STDs increases
By ROGER COREY
The number of patients treated for sexually transmitted diseases at the University of Kansas student health center was 457. Buck, Watkins Hospital physician
Staff writer
Sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, include many different diseases, not just syphilis and gonorrhea Other forms of STDs are herpes simplex, chlamydia and genital warts (HPV).
"Chlamydia and HPV are the most common sexually transmitted diseases we see at the health center." Buck said. "We have no statistics, but may there has been a 25 percent increase in cases over the past year."
Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States today, infecting from 10 million to 14 million people each year. Its symptoms often are similar to men's and are caused by a virus-like bacterium that infects the urethra in men and the cervix in women.
"Chlamydia is by far the most common sexual disease." Buck said. "If a woman has gonorrhea, we also treat her for chlamydia."
Joe Blount, a statistician at the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said of chlamydia, "Sixty-five percent of the cases occur among people who are 25 years old or less. Two and a half million of those cases are teen-agers."
Because a test for the disease wasn't created until 1980 by a Swedish medical team, doctors had difficulty diagnosing chlamydia. Culture techniques used today in testing are unreliable.
"The problem has been to have a good test." Buck said.
He said Watkins Hospital had ordered a special microscope to check cervix specimens for
"Thirty to 40 percent tested positive for chlamydia," Buck said. "That's how fast the disease is spread."
Buck said the state health department in Topeka recently conducted a study among young women between 16 and 25. The young women were tested for chlamydia during regular office visits.
"I treat the partner as well as the patient," Buck said. "If I think someone has it, I give them enough antibiotics to covet both partners."
Possible complications of chlamydia are sterility in both men and women, and eye damage or infant pneumonia in newborn babies. The antibiotic tetracycline, some other antibiotics, amorrhoea, is used to treat chlamydia
chlamydia. The microscope should arrive in the next few months and be installed for tests by summer.
He said the second most common sexually transmitted disease at the University was HPV, or genital warts. The warts are found on the vulva, vagina, penis, and women and may be treated using only a laser or freezing.
If not treated, genital warts may cause cancer of the cervix.
"We'll be the only place in town to do that test." Buck said.
"Cancer of the cervix in younger women is increasing." Buck said. "Also, abnormal pap smears are increasing."
Barbara Mikkelson, director of nurses at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, 336 Missouri St., said the number of genital warts cases at the department had nearly doubled since 1985
"We treated 214 cases of genital
injuries in 1985 and 425 in 1986." Milk-
epsilon lesions.
She said that the health department did not have the facilities to test for chlamydia but that it was aware the disease was increasing.
HURRY!
Don't miss a chance living with all your friends next year!
COLONY WOODS APARTMENTS
1301 W 24th
(one block East of Gammons)
842-5111
The apartment complex built with the STUDENT in mind!
Pre-leasing Now Accepted! 10 Month Leases Available!
Featuring:
- one bedroom apt. ($345)
- two bedroom apt.
with two full bathrooms ($370)
Amenities
- drapes are furnished
- fully equipped kitchen with
  MICROWAYE DISHWASHER and
- only equipped kitchen with *
* MICROWAVE DISHWASHER and IDEMAKER
Amenities
3 outside hot tubs
large indoor/outdoor pool
weight room
laundry facilities
satellite extra
ample parking
ICEMAKER
PYRAMID PIZZA'S "WEEKENDER"
842-5111
LARGE...$8.95 TWO TOPPINGS & TWO FREE COKES
MEDIUM... $6.95 TWO TOPPINGS &
TWO FREE COKES
SMALL ... §4.95
TWO TOPPINGS &
TWO FREE COKES
FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY ONLY GOOD FOR DELIVERY AND PICK-UP.
14th & OHIO "We Pile It On" 842-3232