Curtain closes an era of local music in Lawrence
The Opera House era ends as Moon and partners recount the building’s history from Red Dog days to Free State Opera House and later Lawrence Opera House. Owners faced financial woes. a planned revival stalled. Moon, now with Alpha-Byte, recalls entertaining hopes and a sense of defeat.
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Murfin
Brown
Free State Opera House
Roger Aldis
Bob Gould
Moon
Seventh Spirit Club
Opera House
Red Dog
Lawrence
Bugsy
Disco
Bugsy’s
Lawrence Opera House
Alpha-Byte
Reinhardt
KU Performing Arts 1981 Highlights and 1982 Plans
KU concerts and productions highlighted a busy year featuring the KU Repertory Theatre with 22 performers, a Okinawa dance play group on a North American tour, and Witkiewicz and Andersen plays. Lighting upgrades with Strand-Century system, Vespers, Jayhawks marching at Chiefs game, and notable guests like Raymund Klekot and Vermeer String Quartet shaped the season. The 1982 festival lineup includes the Juilliard String Quartet, Thea Musgrave symposium, Kansas City Ballet, Dorian Wind Quintet, and Jean-Pierre Rampal, plus The Rainmaker and The Rape of Lucretia. A joint Jim Thorpe staging and Seraikella Chhau Dance Drama premiere are also planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Wills
KU Repertory Theatre
Okinawa
Japan
North America
China
Korea
Indonesia
Madman
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Hans Christian Andersen
KU Theatre For
Willis
University Theatre
Jayhawks
Kansas City Chiefs
Arrowhead Stadium
Raymund Klekot
Warsaw Mime Theatre
Wanderer
Vermeer String Quartet
Northern Illinois University
U.S
Julliard String Quartet
Thea Musgrave
Kansas City Ballet
Swarthout Recital Hall
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Romeros
KU Dur
School of Fine Arts
Benjamin Britten
Ntozake Shange
William Inge
Ruth Wolff
Sweden
Andrew T. Tsubaki
International Theatre Studies Center
Thunderbird Theatre
Haskell Indian Junior College
Jim Thorpe
Calamity Jane: Nashville quartet signs with CBS after pizza night
Four Nashville singer songwriters who formed a female country rock quartet found fame after a pizza restaurant encounter. CBS Records picked them up following artist Virginia Team's endorsement, as they prepared for their first appearance on Sept. 16 and a debut album due early 1982. The group chose Calamity Jane as their name, rejecting sexier image aims to emphasize their musicianship and unity.
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Nashville
Tenn
CBS Records
Virginia Team
CBS
Mary Fielder
Mary Ann Kennedy
Linda Moore
Pam Rose
Peronis
Ms. Rose
Ms. Fielder
Ms. Moore
Ms. Kennedy
Fielder
Ceramics show at Spencer Museum highlights medieval pieces
A KU sponsored display titled The John Philip Kassebaum Collection of medieval and Renaissance ceramics runs January 8 to February 7 at the Kansas University Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. The collection spans Persia to England, dating mainly from the 10th to 18th centuries, highlighted by a 300 to 100 B.C. Iberian bowl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Philip Kassebaum
Kansas University
Helen Foresman
Spencer Museum of Art
Kassebaum
Persia
Spain
Italy
France
Germany
Netherlands
England
Iberia
Sally Hoffman
Wichita
New York City
Wichita Art Museum Members Foundation
Carolina Art Assn
Charleston
S.C
Egypt Golden Age travel exhibit opens at Boston MFA
Egypt BOSTON AP reports a major traveling exhibition on Egypt’s Golden Age opens at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on February 3 and runs through May 2. The show titled The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558 1085 B C features more than 400 treasures illustrating daily life in ancient Egypt about 3 500 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Egypt
Museum of Fine Arts
New Kingdom
B.C
Arts center offers quirky winter classes at Lawrence center
Lawrence Arts Center unveils a winter program with unusual offerings like A Day Of Massage In Pairs and Explore The Creative Process. Workshops cater to all ages, with one day sessions and eight week courses led by instructors including Susan Hamilton and Melissa Barrett. Registration opens January 9 with limited spaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas University
Lawrence Arts Center
Stan Haehl
Shellie Bender
LAC
Arts Center
Susan Hamilton
Melissa Barrett
Appalachian Mountains
Thea Millich
Bayliss Harsh
Ms. Bender
Bender
City of
Lawrence
The
Kansas Arts Commission
National Endowment For the Arts
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Kent van Hoesen
Ing
Celedonio Romero
N. Richard Nash
Guthrie Theatre
University
Spencer
Rockefeller
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michael C. Rockefeller
Africa
Journal-World
ACT One. Ltd. Theatrical Books & Supplies
Hillcrest Shopping Center
Iowa St. Lawrence
Phil Goldberg
MS. Hamilton
Jéan van Harlingen
Journal- World
Journal-World Office
New Hampshire
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