Friday, April 6, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Concert showcases best in men's choral singing
By Sarah Warren
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Six of the best male singers at the University of Kansas stood in the Lied Center lobby earlier this year, their khakis glowing in the lights of the snack bar behind them — their voices harmonized in the rhythmic tune of British musical arrangements as an audience gathered to attend a choir concert held in the center's auditorium.
This was the very first concert for the KU Men's Consort, a male singing group formed this fall by Kerry Marsh, Great Bend graduate student. Tonight the group will perform in a more formal setting. They will be performing four songs as the guest of the Lawrence Men's Chorale, at an event titled "Men's Singing" at 7:30 tonight at the First United Methodist Church, 946
VermontSt.
Ben McDaniel, Newton senior, said he attended the first-ever Men's Chorale concert three years ago and promptly joined. Also a member of the Men's Consort, he said he was lucky to be in two men's choirs because it was rare to have one at all.
"Lawrence didn't have a men's choir until Kerry and some others decided to put one together." McDaniel said.
The group traditionally puts on two programs a year and usually practices an average of two hours per week. Marsh said the group was all about enjoying music, not just singing a few songs once a week.
"We're not out to win any contests or anything; it's all about having a good time a couple times a week and enjoying music," Marsh said.
He said that the members of the group attributed to this attitude
"Most of them are between the ages of
30 and 70 and with all different occupations and interests," he said. "I mean we've got a member of the clergy, KU students and I think a few professors, too."
However, the Men's Consort was formed with a more formal and less social purpose.
Marsh wanted the group to perform music written for the King's Singers, a six-man singing group at King's College in Britain, of which KU choral Professor Simon Carrington was a founding member.
l tonight's concert will be Marsh's last with both groups. He will be leaving the University at the end of the semester to be a graduate student at North Texas University. He said he hoped that the male choral experience would live on in Lawrence after his departure because of the wonderful things that both groups had accomplished since their creation.
—Edited by Jennifer Valadez
Passover a sacred day for Jews
Special to the Kansan
"Let my people go," is a phrase with which most students are familiar, but few know what it means or where it came from.
Ask one of the 1,000 Jewish students on the KU campus and any of them should be able to tell you — especially since the eight-day celebration of Passover begins Saturday.
"Let my people go" was what Moses told the pharaoh of Egypt about 3,000 years ago. He was giving the pharaoh a message from God to free the Hebrew slaves, said Eric Allison, New Orleans junior, and president of KU Hillel, Allison said that when the Pharaoh refused to "let the people go" that God sent 10 plagues on Egypt, with the final plague being death to the first-born son of all those living there.
"The angel of death 'passed over' the houses of the Hebrews because they had rubbed lamb's blood over the doorways of their homes as God had instructed." Allison said. It was only after this catastrophe that the Pharaoh relied and told the people to leave, he said.
This weekend, Jewish students will
By Dawn North
scatter throughout the Kansas City area and beyond to celebrate Passover with family and friends. Samantha Singer, Minneapolis sophomore, will head home for a big celebration at her grandparents' house. Lisa Schlackman, New Orleans sophomore, will spend the holiday with friends from school.
Susan Shafer-Landau, executive director for KU Hillel, the Jewish student organization on campus, said Passover celebrates the exodus from Egypt, freedom, redemption and the remarkable covenant God made with the Jewish people.
"Passover is probably the most observed holiday on the Jewish calendar." Shafer-Landau said.
Because Passover begins on Saturday this year, Shafer-Landau said most students would be going home to celebrate the Seder with their families.
"The Seder service is a time to remember the exodus by telling the story to your children as if you were really there," said Shafer-Landau. The leader, usually a father or grandfather, started by reading from the Hagadah, and then everyone else took a turn reading a part of the story, she said.
Allison said family Seder services could
last for one or two hours, depending on who was leading it. As family members retold the story, he said items from the Seder plate were eaten to symbolize the hardships of the Hebrew slaves.
The Seder plate contains foods that have special meaning for the holiday: haroseth, a mixture of chopped walnuts, cinnamon and apples to represent the mortar the Jewish slaves used to build pharaoh's bricks; parsley symbolizes springtime and is dipped in salt water to remind them of the tears of the slaves; an egg is a symbol of spring; a shank bone is symbolic of the sacrificial lamb offering and the bitter herbs of freshly grated horseradish reflect the bitterness of slavery.
A plate of matzoh, a cracker-like bread, is also placed on the table. This is representative of the Jews' rush to flee from Egypt — there was no time for the bread to rise, so they took it with them and when they later baked it in the sun, it became flat bread.
After the Seder service came the real dinner with all of the trimmings.
Allison said he remembers such family dinners, and in coming to the University, he hoped to be a part of the Jewish tradition that membership in Hillel offered.
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