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University Daily Kansan
Monday, June 20, 1977
Players find good pickin's at Opera House jam sessions
By JANICE EARLY
Staff Writer
For those who enjoy music, whether they play, sing, or just listen, the free Wednesday night jam sessions at the Lawrence Center for Music in Austin St., offer a variety of musical styles.
The kinds of music performed are as diverse as the performers and their instruments. Bluegrass, folk, country and western, gospel and Irish tunes are played by musicians from the koto, harmonica and banjo by students, professors, mailmen and farmers.
Because they are acoustic jam sessions, no electric instruments or drums are used. The drum set is structured with open jamming from about 8 to 10 p.m., followed by the Virginia land and water systems.
AT LAST WEDNESDAY'S session,
Martha Haeli, Lawrence graduate student,
started the music by playing her guitar and
singing "When the Saints Go March In."
She was joined by guitarist David Chartran,
a reporter for the Lawrence Daily
Journal-World. Len Erker, Wichita graduate student, started playing the harmonica, and soon Dick Mulaly, RF1D, added his Jew's hard to the group.
Several persons in the audience stayed at their seats, but accompanied the quartet on their own instruments. Hailewil flowed into "Am a Pailgrim," and by the time she had finished seven persons had joined her at the microphone.
Heehl, who also plays flute, piano and mandolin, said she first became interested in the jam sessions after reading about them in the newspaper. She said each musician usually performed two or three songs, and anyone could join in.
The sessions were started and are still sponsored by the Kansas Folkcore Center, a non-profit organization established to preserve and encourage folk arts.
Gloria Thorne, director of the Center,
organizer of folk music festivals,
and festival organizer.
Free University course.
"I ALWAYS ENJOYED playing and
singing with friends," she said. "But when I
came to Lawrence about eight years ago. I couldn't find anybody to play with. Instead of waiting around several years to happen upon someone, I decided to start something that would be a regular thing where people could get together."
As the group developed they outgrew several meeting places and changed from entertaining themselves to performing for others. The group left on the Wall Hall, 737 New Hammond Street.
Since April, the Lawrence Opera House has been home for the Wednesday night jam
Throne said the sessions needed an informal atmosphere that wasn't threatening.
"IF IT'S EASY for people to drift in and out of the situation, they will," she said. "But if it'a a big production, then they're a lot more reluctant to participate."
People from Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City frequent the sessions, Throne said, adding that the type of music depended upon the crowd.
"One of the things I like is it's a cross-
section of people—some students, some farmers, who are said. There is even a farm-owner who said, “I’m not sure.”
The Mulally said they had been coming to the sessions for two years.
"We like to listen to the music and dance," Mrs. Mullay said. She occasionally winked in with her kuzoo, and said that she also had a washboard that she sometimes played.
SHE SAID THEY BECAME interested in the jam sessions after a renter left a violin in their house. They took it to McKinney-Mason Stringed Instruments, 737 New Hampton St., and were told about the musicians they played on; musicians up to their house for parties.
Hahil said he enjoyed coming to the jam sessions because she liked to play as much
Entertainment is the main reason people come, Throne said.
"People are entertaining themselves and each other," she said. "It's the idea of the people's own culture and sharing with one another."
The disabled Vietnam-era veteran is the focus of the Disabled Veteran Outreach Program (DVOP), a new program created by the Kansas State Employment Service.
By KELLY BAKER Staff Writer
Eighteen DVOP representatives were
trained to administer and register
disabled veterans in Kauger.
Program aids disabled Viet vets
Walter Merritt, DVOP representative for Douglas and Jefferson counties, said Friday, "The problem we are getting the disabled veteran aware of what's going on. We can't do anything for them if we don't know who or where they are."
Merritt said that many veterans had gone underground.
"WE REALLY HAVE trouble getting them to come and get them motivated," he said. "We want them to know that someone cares."
Merritt's responsibilities include job placement and development.
He said that the Employment Service has a policy that gives a veteran first priority on all jobs. Merritt has five days to try to place him in the military and over to the rest of the employment office.
"We try to place a veteran on a job when he can better himself," he said. "We spend a lot of time trying to find better jobs for the underemployed."
Merritt said that the hardest part of his job was developing jobs.
"WE TRY TO SELL the employer on the idea that the disabled veteran makes a better employee—because he does," he said.
Merritt said that many employers had a poor attitude about hiring disabled
"With most of the vets, you wouldn't even know that they were disabled unless they told you," he said. "Most vets don't let their disability interfere with their work."
Merritt said that many veterans didn't know what their benefits were. He recommended that veterans take advantage of all their GI benefits for school, apprenticeships and on-the-job training programs.
Too-hot compressor brings fire crews
An overheated air compressor in Twente Hall brought the Lawrence Fire Department on a midnight run to the campus last night.
Two trucks and seven men answered the alarm and had the smoking compressor under control within minutes. Damage was confined to the compressor.
Theatre offers repertory season
BY LYNN BONNEY KIRKMAN
The University of Kansas summer theater program has a new look this year.
The University of Kansas summer drama department offers the Kansas Repertory Theatre, formed by the department of speech and drama this spring, will present three productions on a daily basis.
Opening the season will be "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," a musical comedy which will open July 14 and will be repeated July 22, 27, 30 and 31. The July 31 performance will be a 2 p.m. matinee.
On Campus
TONIGHT: The 1312 Army Reserve Band, stationed in Lawrence, will hold a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at Centennial Park. The graduate recital by Scott Smith, which was to be held at 8 p.m. in Swartwout Hall of Murphy Hall, has been cancelled.
The second production. "Inherit the
wheel" will also be presented
July 20, 23 and 28.
*Dark of the Moon*, the final production,
open July 16, with additional performances
TOMORROW: There will be a Lawrence retailers breakfast and conference at 8 a.m. on the fifth level of the Kansas Union. A recital by faculty artists will be held at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy the recital is free and open to the public.
ALL PERFORMANCES, except for the
bassist, begin at a p.m. in
the University Theatre.
A company of 30 actors and 12 technical staff comprise the Kansas Repertory Theatre. The company is under the direction of Jack Wright, professor of theater.
"We're quite excited about the repertory concept in theatre at KU," Wright said. Friday, "We think it will give our audiences a new dimension in theater entertainment."
production follows before they break for lunch. A second rehearsal is held during the afternoon. After a supper break, the group returns to rehearse in the evening.
"THE TYPE OF PROGRAM allows audiences to select the nights on which they will see performances," Wright said. "They may choose to attend all opening nights if they wish, or they may decide to attend productions only on Fridays, for example."
*Repetery offers people a chance to watch a play devellon.*
The members of the company are each enrolled for about five hours' credit during
The company members are now rehearsing all three productions. Their day begins at 9 a.m. with an improvisational theater workshop. A rehearsal for the first
Wright said that "Inherit the Wind" was the company's community production. Lawrence residents, as well as members of the company, will be involved in the play.
Because of the nature of the repertory company, its members spend a great deal of time with their customers.
"They're together from 9 in the morning to about 10:30 or 11 at night," he said. Working together, she gives them a lesson and knows how one another and work out their problems."
Repetition also means that the actors are involved in developing several roles for the actor. For example, a character may be where an actor perfects one performance and completes it before developing another role, repetition demands that the performer understand the roles of roles and present them in rotation.
"THIS IS QUITE DEMANDING," WRIGHT
chaunces a chance to grow. "It is a real challenge."
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The actors assist the production staff in making the set changes. Wright said.
The actors aren't the only part of the company who have additional demands placed upon them by repertory. Because of their high vocal range, they must be designed so they can be taken down after each performance, stored and reassured when they are needed a few days later.
"The company works every night after the performance," Wright said. "The set is very complicated."
"THE GIVES THE ACTORS A chance to be a part of the total production."
Season tickets for the Kansas Repertory Theatre are on sale now at the University Theatre box office in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $12.50 and may be used for any combination of six admissions to any of the season's performances.
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