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Friday. April 1. 1977
University Dally Kansan
Women in jazz mix old and new for unique sounds
By BILL O'CONNOR
Guest Writer
Women and jazz have been having an affair for some time. But many changes have taken place in the relationship since the days of Ma Rainey and her Rabbitfoot
Today's women in jazz still tend to be mostly singers. It's the way that singing is, as it is today, about 10 years ago, there were primarily two types of jazz singing - a blues line and a song line. Now there appears to be a third, an incorporation of both with electronic music.
MA RAINEY was the mother of the blues line, and Bessie Smith the empire. But, ironically, it was the onset of real blues that killed their popularity. The Great
Depression brought into vogue the song line that Esther Waters and Mildred Bailey made popular. Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald formed later branches to this historical tree. The song line dominated until the blues线 re-emerged with Jane Wynn and young singers. Today, singers incorporate many different styles as possible.
Probably the most well-known jazz singer today is Flora Purim. Born in Brazil, Florla left that country to tour with her future husband, Alto Meira, and Hermeto Mendes. She began her career years from mid-1974 to late 1976, while she served time for cocaine possession.
PURIM WON the 1974 Downbeat Leader's Poll in the female vocalist category.
lyrics to Stanley Clarke's "Light as a Feather," McCoy Tyner's "Search for Peace," Neville Potter's "San Francisco Rover" and George Duke's "Love Reborn."
Her unusual success at bridging Brazilian jazz and American pop music is explained in her philosophy: "My principle in teaching is to listen to the music on-chex-lex one of my main instruments, because I developed my wordless singing using the electronic device to distort, change or duplicate the sound as I need it, in order to team up with such instruments as flute, soprano sax, guitar, trombone and piano or pain of happiness or simple talking."
URSULZA DUZIADA also used electronic devices to achieve startling effects. Born in India, she graduated from the University of Ursula.
to Ella Fitzgerald's scat singing, with the blues interpretation of a Billie Holiday and the instrumentation of a Miles Davis or Wayne Sharp. Married to jazz musician Michael Urbanik, with whom she began her career in Europe in 1963, Dudziak first came to prominence in America with her album *Broadway*. Her albums by Dudziak include "Fusion" and "Atma" with Urbaniak, and "Journey" with Arif Mardin.
Two women jazz performers who are very much in the spotlight today, and who uphold some of the traditional approaches to jazz, are Cleo Laine and Toshiko Akiyoshi.
Shakespeare and Ogden Nash that have been set to music.
Laine, born in England, sings in all forms. Her repertory includes the blues line and the song line; songs by Noel Coward; and poems by the likes of Elliot, Donne,
AFTER ONE OF HER performances, John J. Wilson of the New York Times described Laine's voice as "richly colored in the lower range, brilliantly articulate when she puts into falsetto and fantastically adieu to the areas in between."
The lady who is currently leading the hottest big band in the country came from the opposite side of the world. Toshiko Akiyoshi was born in Manchuria, educated in Japan and began her jazz career playing with the Tokyo Jive Combo.
In 1951, she was leading her own group when she was discovered by Oscar Peterson, Norman Gantz and Bill Fryer until 1956 that she came to the United States to study in
Boston at the Berklee School of Music on scholarship.
Duke Ellington wrote similarly for his band. Voted the best big band in Japan the last three years, Akyouni's West Coast orchestra has recognized the recognition it deserves in this country.
It has been a long, old road for women in jazz, just as Bessie Smith proselyted in one of her songs in 1928. But women are finding the way, and it is jazz lovers who benefit.
Bill O'Connor is a senior majoring in journalism.
'Uncle Vanya'an emotional fall, technical success
By JULIE LENAHAN
Reviewer
"Uncle Vanya," Anton Chekhov's Russian drama about boredom, romance and old age, was a disappointment for University theatregoers last night.
The two and one-half hour play had a slow start and gained little momentum as it wounds its way through lethargic character confrontations. The drama picked up speed late in
On Stage
the second act, climaxed in the third and concluded on emphasized low note in the fourth. EVEN GUEST actor Sean McGuirk add the spark that one musician expected from a professional.
The play was emotionally draining and implemented a menage of personal traumas
how or personal traumas
he weaves his Russian tale with his own life, who loves and is not loved in return, the disillusionment of one who is relatively young and feels his luseless. He also learns about the hypochondria, the boredom of a spoiled city enchantress stifed by country bumpkin life and the exhaustion of a country man and I understand how his life has charged the past 10 years.
'Conpersonas now published
"Conspersonas" was also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as part of the award.
Paul Stephen Lim's first play,
"Compersonas," has now been published as part of the top prize Liam won in the original play. It is one of the American College Theatre Festival last spring.
The play is available from Samuel French, Inc., 20 West 45th St, New York, N.Y. 10036, for $2 plus tax and postage.
SEVERAL actors deserve recognition for the element of pathetic tragedy in their characters, if nothing else. He is an exceptional graduate student, portrayed Ucany Vane, perhaps the most sympathetic character in the cast. Weiss did a commendable job of communicating his melancholy existence throughout the play, being appropriately foretold, hurt or angry.
Arts & Leisure
Teligeyin, played by James Paul Ivey, South Holland, III., senior, provided a scanty amount of humor in the play. An idiosyncratic walk and manneries made Mrs Teligeyin perhaps the most lovable figure in the play.
LASTLY, Sean Griffin, professional actor and KU graduate, gave the audience an exhilarating break from the play's dolldrum country life, as Dr. Astrov, a doctor and aspiring environmentalist. Griffin's portrayal was crisp and lively, but he noteworthy more polished than the rest of the actors in the cast.
Although the play was a disappointment, it wasn't a disaster.
The set, designed by Pat Atkinson, assistant instructor of speech and drama, was masterfully done and created an impressive atmosphere for the play's action.
Constructed as an open frame, the set was built on a turntable and mounted directly act. The viewer was able to experience the dimensions of an authentic country estate by taking one room directly into another.
Characters could be seen entering and leaving the rooms, which added to the play's action. The multilevel seted two actions, isolating certain character involvements periodically.
Last night's University Theatre production of "Uncle Vanya" was technically good and well executed. The play, however, was an emotional flasco.
The spirit: Anton Chekov's. The faces: cast members of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya," which opened last night in the University Theatre. From top left, clockwise, they are George Weiss (Vanna), Lawrence
graduate student; Peter Garrison (Scribrakloh), Linden, N.J., graduate student; Sean Griffin (Dr. Astrov); guest actor from Glen Head, N.N.; Rhoenka Blair (Snail), assistant instructor of speech and language.
By KATHY GANNON
Personality, translations become one
Staff Writer
Stan Writer
The art of translating classical literature isn't at all Greek to Douglass Parker.
professor of classics at the University of Texas.
Parker, who has translated the works of Aristophanes, Terence and Seneca, is visiting
"TRANSLATING is like looking at a building in stone.
Weekend
Highlights
Theater
"UNCLE VANYA," 8 tonight,
Saturday and Sunday.
University Theatre.
"HOW THE EASTER BUNNY GOT HIS EGGS" and the "ADVENTURE OF THE BRIDE SPHELOR 1962." Seem to Be-Players. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Lawrence Arts Center.
'THE WONDERLAND
PUPPET TURTLE'
puppet turtles. 1: 30, 3; 1: 30, 3; 7: 30, p. Saturday and 1, 2 and 3, p. Sunday. Oak Park Mall, 8: 30, p. Sunday.
Concerts
KANSAS CITY BALLET
performs "Giselle"
and performs "The
Martha McBride and Heiql Tomasson
from the New York City Ballet.
8:15 tonight and Saturday. 2:15
p.m., Sunday, Lyric Theatre.
PETER GABRIEL from Genesis, 8 tonight. Uptown Theater, Kansas City, Mo.
MASKED DANCE-DRAMA
OF KOREA, 2 p.m. Sunday.
Swarthout Recital Hall.
LAWRENCE SYMPHONY
CONCERT featuring Sequela
Costa, piano, 8 p.m. Sunday,
Lawrence High School Auditorium.
Recitals
DELORES BRUCH, ROGER
DERS, organ; trumpet and
trombone; 8 p.m.; Saturday;
Saints Stone Church, Independent
TANIA ACHOT, piano, wife of Sequestra Cequina, professor of music, Visiting Artist Series, 8 tonight. Swarthown
MASKED DANCE-DRAMA OF KOREA WORKSHOP, by enrollment p.m. p.m. Sunday. Robinson Gymnastics Dance Participants must register at the University Theatre box office.
ALBERT GERKEN, carillon. 3 p.m. Sunday, campanile.
JEFFREY SMITH, viola.
Student Recital Series, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Swarthout
Nightclubs
THE TOM MONTGOMERY
guitar, 9 to midnight Fridays
Paul Gray's Jazz Place. MIKE
Gang. 9 to midnight Saturday
UNMIGFUNG Saturday.
FESTIVAL!
show band, 9 to midnight Friday.
Opera House. THUMBS and
MILLIONAIRE AT MIDNIGHT.
rock bands, 9 to midnight
Saturday.
THE POT COUNTY PORK
ARABA (AUSTRALIA)
midnight Friday, Off the Wall
Hall. COUNTRY HEIR, country
rock band, 9 to midnight
THE NAIROBI TRIO, with drummer JOHNNY MOORE, midnight to 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday, the Seventh Spirit.
'THE BARGE SHE SAT IN:
SHAKEPEARE, PLUTARCH
AND EOBARUBUS.' Douglas
Hawks departments of English and
classics. University of Texas.
3:30 p.m. today, 405 Wescoe
will take the leading role
the 'Thieves' with the classics
department playreading group.
8 tonight, Union's Jayhawk
Lectures
'UNIVERSAL MAN OR ROUND PEG IN A SQUARE HOLE?' Reyner Banham, professor of history of ar- tures University College. London. 3:30 p.m., today. 3140 Wesce Hall.
S P A R R O W
MILLIONIARE  A T MID-
night Friday, J Watson's
night Friday, J Watson's
MILLIONIARE  A T MID-
night Friday, J Watson's
GREEST WEB, tok singer 9 to midnight Friday, Sister Katie Cate BARRY BERNSTEIN; tok singer 9 to midnight Saturday
Films
SEVEN PER CENT
SOLUTION-Sherlock Holmes
meets Sigmund Freud in the
movie adaptation of Nicholas
Meyer's best seller, Nicol
Alkiri is Fred Rowe, Robert
Arkin is Freud, Robert Duvalis
Watson and Herbert (RD) is
seasonal is flat. (PG)
ROCKY-Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, the film is more satisfying than the one you believe. Sylvester Stallone write the script and stars. (PG)
SILVER STREAK—A comic suspense film set on a train. The story fails to get up steam until Richard Pryor gets on board. The stagnant direction keeps it from getting untracked (PG).
WIZARDS--Ralph Bakshi's fiery tale about the struggle between two sexes is beautifully animated in a style that will thrill adult as well.
AIRPORT 1977—This series is now threatening to draw out as much of the movies did. This time the plane goes under water somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, but the movie shows that Charles Hinton isn't in the cockpit—if you think Jack Lemmon is an improvement.
SHERLOCK HOLMES*
SHERLOCK HOLMES*
Wilder directed this mildly pleasant spoof, and stars with
Melissa McCarthy and DeLuce
and Madeleine Kane (G).
KANSAS UNION
SUU SUNU
nallam contest winners and
the National Cone Box Show,
an exhibition of ceramic
moulds
Exhibits
THE ADVENTURES OF
LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER—Third Annual Juried Painting Show, ends today.
LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY—Lawrence Public Schools exhibit, through April. LERN—Ann Nunley paint and silversmithing, Sunday through April.
7E7 GALLERY—H. J. Bott.
sculpture, Saturday through
April 28.
SPOONER-THAYER MUSEUM OF ART—The Salite Casey Thayer Collection, Main Gallery.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY Women Artists 77 Exhibition; Sunday through April 29.
tearing it down and then rebuilding the same structure in brick," he said yesterday.
Parker began translating Greek and Latin literature 25 years ago because he's "devoted to the idea that there's something particular about what can't be found elsewhere."
His first translation was a work of Aristophanes that took him almost nine years to complete.
"I'm lazy, given any good occasion," he said.
Such occasions don't often occur in Parker's life. As a musician, poet, actor, translator and professor, Parker has contributed his talents to many fields.
YEARS AGO, Parker played a trombone in a jazz band and still plays occasionally.
Once a year, he acts in productions of Shakespeare plays at the University of Texas. When Parker returns to Texas, he will act in a television drama.
"I am a ham," he said, "like to act, but I've known very few hams in the teaching profession."
Waving his arms, shifting his eyes and changing his voice, Parker explained the stories of seven works he has translated.
"When I make translations,"
he said, "I have to play all the parts."
PARKER ENJOYS comedy and it's in insuperable from most of his work. He writes comical诗 ("Fypapers," a three-
Personalities
Michael Shaw, assistant professor of classics and a former graduate student of Parker's, said Parker was lost in a labyrinth of puns, jokes and quoted lines.
poem collection, is letters written to a trapped fly's mother), with a dramatic and best portrays the comical characters in plays.
"He's always footnoting himself. Everything Parker does comes out a Parker. Itkersa," she said, but comes out as a Parker."
Parker was the translated one of Seneca's poems, "a rude jumpon on the dust" and a parody of the poem "cateay at the Bat,"
HE SAID he puts his personality into his translations but added, "Some people say I put translations into my personality."
Translators must often explain details in a play that weren't 'included in the original version, he said, so that an
audience understands the circumstances.
But translator notes in a play often accumulate and result in "islands of text and oceans of notes," he said.
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Parker said notes are awkward if a translator tries to retain the humor of a joke in a Greek comedy.
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Korean stagecraft is virtually an undiscovered treasure for Americans accustomed to dance-dramas traditionally from Japan and India. At 2 p.m. Sunday, the masked Dance-Drama of Pongsa Korean will visit Hall, the first appearance for such a group at the University of Kansas.
The performance is sponsored by the International Women's Committee in cooperation with the Department of East Asian Studies.
Those interested in learning techniques of the masked dance-drama may register before Sunday's performance at the University Theatre box of theatre. Tickets are $2 at the box office. Tickets are $2 at the box office.