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Music masters bring baroque to KU
Orchestra studies instruments,style of era before playing
By Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
There was an orchestra of wellstudied music at the Lied Center last night.
Hodgins said orchestraes playing in the baroque style — a period that lasted from about 1600 to 1750 — were unusual.
The Canadian Tafelmusik orchestra, which performed baroque music at the Lied Center, spends time learning about the music it plays, said Glenn Hodgins, tour director for the orchestra.
These musicians are not just musicians. They are researchers both of the music they play and the instruments they play it on, he said. The orchestra even travels with its own harpsichord-playing
"We do a great amount of research and reading," Hodgins said.
"All of the musicians are specialists in their field," Hodgins said.
librarian.
Tafelmusik's pieces differ from that of a modern orchestra because Tafelmusik uses instruments of the baroque period, which are different from modern instruments. Many of the musicians use original instruments or replicas of them.
Michael Kimber, a professor of music and dance who attended the concert, described baroque as a more transparent, leaner and lighter style. Kimber also teaches baroque violin to students.
The Tafelmusik baroque orchestra performs at the Lied Center. The concern was part of the Swarthout Chamber Music Series put on by the Lied Center.
KU students also can take classes in baroque oboe, flute and harpsichord in the School of Fine Arts.
The performer was more of a creator, he said. Baroque composers wrote music in a style that allowed the musician to improvise while playing.
Kimber said one of the main features of baroque style was that it tried to imitate speech, while music from later periods tried to imitate singing.
Tafelmusik played selections from popular baroque composers
such as Bach, Vivaldi and Purcell.
Stefanie Moore, Lawrence senior, said that she studied baroque music. She is trying to learn to sing in the baroque style, which she defined partly as musical instruments imitating voices.
"I like the beauty of the melody," Moore said.
Christopher Nemmers, Overland Park freshman, said he came with a friend who had an extra ticket.
He said he did not know much about the baroque movement.
"This is the first time I ever heard it," Nemmers said. "But I liked the violoncellos."
For those who missed last night's performance, an oboe player and violinist from Tafelmusik will hold a master's performance from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. today at Room 102 in Murphy Hall. The performance is free.
Speaker focuses on bombing of Tulsa
By Hannah Naughton Kansan.staff writer
The first place the United States was bombed from the air was a) Pearl Harbor, b) Oklahoma City, or c) Tulsa, Ula.
When Ron Wallace moved from Los Angeles to Tulsa, he learned that the correct answer was c.
Wallace met with a woman who survived the bombing and talked with her for four hours about the 1921 Tulsa race riots. Since that visit, Wallace has researched the topic and interviewed more than 100 survivors. He is coming to the University of Kansas tonight to lecture, present a video and answer questions.
"The majority of African-American history is not taught, has been left out or omitted," said
Wallace, a historian and a film producer. "It's important that this be taught because if each culture knew what each culture contributed to the country, there would be less dissension."
Tonight's program, "Black Wall Street; A Lost Dream," is part of a tour to help promote the beginning production next February of a movie based on the historical event.
According to a March 13, 1983 Parade Magazine article, on May 30, 1921, a white, female elevator operator accused Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoeshine, of attacking her. Rowland was jailed but denied the charges. The Tulsa Tribune ran a sensational story about the incident the next day, spurring a white lynch mob to gather outside the jail. Blacks came to protect Rowland, a shot was fired and rioting began.
The Black business district and neighborhood was 36 square blocks and was so prosperous that it was known as "The Negro's Wall Street." Out of the six minorities in the country at the time, Blacks were No.1 in infrastructure. Wallace said.
Parade reported that to end the rioting and looting in that district, police commandeered private planes and dropped dynamite on the area. After the mass destruction, blacks were made to carry green ID cards and the railroad was routed through the district, destroying it.
Julius Williams, assistant director of the office of minority affairs, helped to organize co-
sponsorship with the Multicultural Resource Center for Wallace's presentation. Various campus groups and University departments contributed $2,500, which is half the program's price. The other half was paid by Kansas State University for a presentation in Manhattan last night.
"I think probably the most important thing to learn is that African Americans here in the United States have a strong interest in economics," Williams said. "When you leave out certain aspects of history, you are not incorporating variables that make a difference in the fuller picture."
wallace's presentation will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art.
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