University Daily Kansan
Arts / Entertainment
Thursday, February 19, 1987
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Classical sounds are the trademark of Liszt Orchestra
The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium. All seats are reserved and tickets are on sale at a Murphy Hall box office. They are $6 and $5 for students, $12 and $10 for the general public, and $1 and $9 for our citizens and other students.
By JERRI NIEBAUM
tail writer
The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra from Budapest, Hungary, will play music that ranges from bright to romantic tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
Janos Rolla, music director and concertmaster, will direct tonight's orchestra in music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini and Peter Ichh Teichakovsky.
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The orchestra also will feature Alain Marion, a French flutist, in a piece by Karl Stamitz.
Founded in 1962, the 17-member orchestra has been called Hungary's most prominent musical group. In addition to performing more than 30 annual concerts in Budapest, the group has performed at more than 200 theaters in the United States and Canada since it began touring over-
Franz Liszt was born in Hungary 151 years before the orchestra was founded, but his name is an honorary part of the orchestra. Liszt gave his first concert when he was 9 years old and went on to play piano for Ludwig van Beethoven and Queen Victoria. He is known throughout Europe and the United States as a pianist, composer and teacher.
The orchestra has made more than 100 albums and has twice won record of the year honors in Hungary. It also performed at the Munich Academy on Disque three times.
Tonight's performance is financed in part by a grant from the Eugene A. and C. Florence Stephenson Music Fund at the Kansas University Student Activity Center. KU student activity fee and the Swarthout Society also provided funds.
Because of tonight's basketball game, there will be free parking for people attending the concert in parking lot 91, north of Spencer Museum of Art. A free bus will shuttle people to Hoch beginning at 7:15 p.m. and will return them to their cars after the concert.
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France meets Hungary in musical concert
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
A French flutist will perform tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
Alain Marion, who is known worldwide for his flute solos, said Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was his favorite composer.
"Mozart makes me enjoy," Marion said Monday.
Marion is a guest performer with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
from Budapest, Hungary, that is touring the United States.
Tonight, Marion will perform the flute solo in Karl Stamitz's "Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major, Op. 29."
"The sound is very bright, very clear," Marion said.
Stamitz's piece, written in the mid-18th century, combines the passing spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach with the incoming brightness of
Mozart, Marion said.
"It is very clear,very fresh music," he said.
Marion, 48, first played the flute in his hometown of Marseilles, France, when he was 9. He had told his mother, a music teacher, that he wanted to play the flute, but she wanted him to play the violin or the piano.
Joseph Rampal, Marion's first teacher, finally convinced Marion's
mother that her son should play the flute. World War II had just ended, and Marion's mother did not want her son to fight in a future war. Instead, he would play the flute in the army band.
France didn't enter another war, but Marion continued to play the flute. He attended engineering school in Marsseilles for several years, but decided he would rather play the flute than design buildings.
Since then, Marion has performed solos with Europe's greatest orchestras. In March, he performed in Boston's Carnegie Hall with Jean-Pierre Rampal, his former teacher's son and solo flutist with the Paris Opera.
He said his best audiences had been in Italy and China, where people were "very warm, very demonstrative." But the audience in Japan sat calmly and clapped until Marion had
given them five encores.
Marian is a soloist with Radio France, a European orchestra that performs for its national radio station. He also teaches at the Conservatoire National Superieure de Musique, a music school in Paris.
During the summer, Marion teaches at the Mozartium in Salzburg, Austria, and at the International Summer School in Nice, France.
Wisconsin's 'Airkraft' comes in for a landing
By JENNIFER FORKER
Power-pop band, Airkraft, will be landing in Lawrence tonight to play at Gammons, 1601 W. 23rd St.
The five-member band has been touring the Midwest since January and plans to continue touring until May, guitarist  Mitch Veilet said.
The band played at Gammons two weeks ago to a sparse crowd, Jim Yankoviz, Kansas City, Kan., junior said. Yankoviz, a member of the now defunct Lawrence band, The Fanatix, attended the last Airkraft performance.
"They were good," Yankoviz said.
"They had their stuff together."
Yankoviz described the band as "high-tech pop" and said they were from the Duren-Duran mold.
The Wausau, Wis., band's other members are Dave Saidnain, lead vocalist and guitarist, Peter Phippen, bass guitarist, banjo player and vocalist; Ace Gyro, drummer, and Doug Dixon, keyboard player
Viegut said the 5-year-old band had
produced two albums, "Let's Take Off," released in 1983, and "Proximity," released in 1985.
After finishing this tour, Airkraft plans to work on a third, untitled album, which is due for release in August, Viegut said.
After the album is released, the band will take another tour of the Midwest, he said.
Vieugt said that it was important to establish a strong following in this region because he thought Midwesterners were the best fans.
"There's no better followin in the U.S., than fans in the Midwest," we said. "In the Midwest, once people a band, they like then for 10 years."
He said people on the West Coast weren't as dependable as Midwesterners because they tended to follow trends.
"You have to go to L.A. but you don't have to live there," he said. We may be playing out there, but we must be playing back in L.A. you're a dime a dozen.
"If you hit in the Midwest they hang on to you forever."
Viegut said three of the band's singles had hit the charts on radio stations in Wisconsin. One of the songs, "Make Believe," is a ballad about a girl who falls in and out of love, but are willing to give love one more try.
He said the single "Rock City",
which will be released to Midwestern
college stations in a few weeks,
exemplified their current sound.
"We're maturing as writers and gaining experience on the road," he said. "Our music is different, and there's a lot of feeling in it."
Viegut said that New York producer Glen Klokin was producing their third album. Klokin also has produced Rolling Stones. Journey and Joan Jett.
"He's making it more of a hit-oriented album by changing a couple of words and making it more danceable," he said. "We're trying to get one of them to be a hit so we can get rich."
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Band wants to play full time
By JENNIFER FORKER Staff writer
By day they are mild-mannered bank tellers, hardnardes, music teachers and electricians. But as day dades into night, they transform into the progressive rock band, Reel Features.
The five members of Reel Features, a new band that will play tomorrow night and Saturday night at Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire St., work during the day and tour at night. But they aspire to be a full-time band by next year, J.T. Flivn, guitarist, said.
"We have to be patient," said Flynn, who teaches guitar lessons at Pulliam's Music House, 2601 Iowa St. "Eventually, when it's financially feasible, we'd like to go full-time."
He said it would strain relations between band members if the band rushed into full-time performing.
"The strain on it personalitywise would be immense." he said.
Lead singer Jami Bourn, a hairdresser at Headmasters, 809 Vermont St., said the band members got along well, even when playing five nights a week
"We all know what each of our responsibilities are, and we're open to constructive criticism." He said. "We know it helps us learn."
"Everybody has an incredible
sense of humor. And last night it was shining."
She was referring to a Saturday night performance at The Picnic Nook and Lounge in Lincolnville, Kan.
Reel Features played music by the Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson. The rustically dressed townspeople requested music by AC/DC and Alabama, but the band didn't honor their requests.
But she said the people in the bar were receptive to their music.
"Every place you play, if the band's good enough, they'll listen," Flynn said.
He said everyone in the band participated in songwriting.
Flynn said that one person, usually either guitarist and bass player Jon Nicum or rhythm guitarist Miles Mrey, created a basic tone that the rest of the band later added to and improved upon.
Drummer Mark Woelk said the band's music was easy to remember
"Jon and Miles have an incredible feel for music," Bourn said.
"There's a string hook that sticks in your mind when you leave the bar." Woelk said.
"We stay away from a gim-micky sound." Flynn said. "We're real natural."
Flynn said, and the others
agreed, that drugs and alcohol hampered a band's ability to perform well. Instead, a band needs kinetic energy, he said.
"If you enjoy your work, kinetic energy comes through," he said.
"Our music is important, but it's equally important to perform well and put on a good show." he said.
The band has played to gigs since it started performing in January, Flynn said. They formed the band in late October, but performed until January because Woolk had to undergo surgery.
As soon as Woelk could play, Reel Features cautiously began accepting performance dates, Flynn said. He said the band wanted to be prepared before going on stage.
"We turned down jobs because we wanted to be ready," Bourn said.
Flynn said he thought that musicians, like actors, should be well prepared for performances.
The band's long-term goal is to play only its own music, Bourn said. But for now, Reel Features, like many new bands, feels compelled to play tunes that attract audiences.
"Once you get a reputation built up, you can play a lot more of your original songs," Bourn said.