thursday, february 19, 1976
daily nebraskan
page 9
The Tulsa Civic Ballet, classified as a "major ballet
company" by the National Association for Regional
Ballet, will perform Saturday, February 21 at 8 pjn. in
Kimball Recital Hall. It is the only professional ballet
company scheduled to perform at UNL this year.
Under the artistic direction of internationally famous
ballet dancers Roman Jasinski and Moscelyne Larkin, the
Tulsa Civic Ballet, founded in 1956, has grown from an
informal organization to its current status as a major
company, one of only four companies to receive this
honor in 1975-76.
Both Jasinski and Larkin are well-known in the ballet
world for their extraordinary memories and knowledge of
ballets. Together they bring more than a half-century of
training and experience to the Tulsa group, which now has
a repertoire of over 40 ballets. Many of these are originals
choreographed by Jasinski.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Jasinski graduated with
honors from the Warsaw Opera Ballet School. He ap
peared with the Ida Rubenstein Ballet in Paris, then with
Leonide Massine at Milan's La Scala.
He was premier danseur with the George Balanchine
Company in Paris. Choreographers Fokine, Ballanchine,
Massine and .Niginska created leading parts for him in
many of their ballets.
- Larkin was bom in Miami, Ok! a., and is one of the
state's famed American- Indian ballerinas. She studied
under Mordlin, Vilzak-Shalla, CeHi and others, before
touring Europe, South America and the" United States
with the original Ballet Russe.
In 1952, Larkin and Jasinski were chosen to head the
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Concert Company. This
group toured the United States and Canada for three
years. Its. success under the Jasinskis was such that dance
groups still are being patterened after it.
. Jasinski and Larkin have said of ballet: "At a time in
space and place when ugliness and the sordid seem to pre
vail in so much of our lives, it gives us inspiration and
strength of purpose to know that ballet is a part of the
creative force of beauty which lives in the human spirit
and which survives over all else.
Performing with the Tulsa Civic Ballet as principal
dancers are Gail Gregory, Edward Tuell and Donna Grisez.
Gassed as soloists are Timothy Fox and Jerri Kumery.
The Lincoln performance by the ballet company,
sponsored by the Nebraska Union Contemporary Arts
Committee, will include Les Sylphides by Chopin, Men
delssohn's Concerto, and Bach for a Hep Margrave (Bach's
Brandenberg Concerto No. 5 in D minor). Tickets for the
evening performance are available at the Nebraska Union
South Desk and Kimball box office.
Dance an art, science, way of life
and requires committment Lizenbery
"Dance is an art, a science, a way of life, said modern
dancer Gregg lizenbery. "That sounds heavy, but it'i
true. '. ,.-
Lizenbery is at UNL this week preparing for a free
concert at 8 pan. Friday in Women's Physical Education
(WPE)B!dg.304.
He is co-founder of the Bill Evans Dance Company,
a Salt Lake City-based company whose members tour the
country, performing professionally and teaching at
universities. Lizenbert's UNO appearance is sponsored by
the Ruth Diamond Levinson Lecture Series.
One of the 10 dances on the program is. "Salt Lake
City Rag", which will be performed by 1 1 UNL dance
students.
Hf said he arrived in Lincoln and started auditions for
the "Salt Lake City Rag" Sunday. None of the students.
he said, had ever seen the dance they would perform in
less than a week.
"It's a very short time to practice," the 29-year-old
dancer sakl, "but we're working very well.
Besides rehearsing for Friday's concert, Lizenbery
is teaching master dance classes at UNL.
He said he teaches students that modern dance
requires a 24-hour committment.
"You have to know where every part of your body
is, he said he tells students. "You have to be able to
move weU-with ease, conviction and strength. Dancing is
not just getting up there and showing off your body.
Master classes are scheduled at 3:30 pjn. on Thursday
and Friday in WPE 304. Although class registration is
closed, Lizenbery said the public is invited to attend and
watch.
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Saxophone recital
tonight at Kimball
"One of the biggest challenges to a recitaUst, and
Robert Fought, UNL associate professor of band and
saxophone, is to try to avoid sameness of sound lor an
hour-long program.' . t . ,
So Fought varied the program for h saxophone recital
8 pjn. Thursday in the Kimball Recital Hall. The free con
cert will include five selections ranging from a sonata oy
baroque composer Antonio Vavaldi to a musical epitaph,
for film star Jean Harlow.
Robert Eeadell. UNL music profrssor, composed one
of the pieces on Thursday's program. Entitled boul
Thoughts, it is a musical interpretation of five poems by
Gregorious Pines.
By Ryan Scott
Last year will long be remembered as a banner year for
film entertainment. Though Jaws ate up both national
and international box office records, a score of other films
established themselves as major box office attractions.
From the maa of noteworthy films, one had to emerge
. and reign supreme as the "best" film of the year. Barry
Lyndon has done just that.
Currently showing at the Cinema 1 , 13th and P streets,
Barry Lyndon is magnificent. It typifies film as an art.
I hesitate to call it the perfect film, since no film h
without shortcomings. Yet if a flaw mm Barry Lyndon, I
missed it. Afterwards, I ran to a Thesaurus to enlarge my
vocabulary of superlatives. v
The film marks the return of Stanley Kubrick to the
screen after nearly a three-year absence. He was both the
film's director and producer, and adapted the story for
the screen from William Thackeray's 19th century novel.
The film is roughly divided into halves. The first is
about young Redmond Barry, a spirited. mischievous Irish
man obsessed by his own ambitions, who, after an odd life
of aimless wandering, marries into nobility.
The second half deals with Barry Lyndon's (the aris
tocratic stature requires a change in name) boyish misuse
of nobility in trying to obtain a Lordship for himself, to
remain entrusted with the Lyndon fortune. ,
Enthralling performance
The film ends 185 minutes after It begins, but one is so
enthralled with the performance that the three hours pass
almost totally unnoticed. (A brief intermission at the end
of the second hour is Included for those who need to
stretch.) . ,.-
A better choice of actors could not have been made in
casting Ryan O'Neal as Lyndon. O'Neal's personality, as
the media have presented it, is perfecdy matched
Lyndon's.
O'Neal's cockiness and natural charm animate Lyndon,
for a seemingly effortless and most enjoyable interpreta
tive performance.
Kubrick deserves much praise. Barry Lyndon is doubt
lessly his masterpiece. Its wide appeal is responsible for its
outdistancing Kubrick's earlier successes, 200T: A Space
Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange.
Bony Lyndon is a movie for everyone. Not just for
those with esoteric tastes, to whom Kubrick so often
C&tCf$
Kubrick concentrates on the visual. Rarely has more
panoramic splendor been witnessed on film. The audience
begins to "ooh and ahh" with each scene change.
Kubrick appears to derive playful enjoyment with the
beauty recorded by the camera. He often opens a scene
with a close-up of the action at hand, before proceeding
to draw the camera slowly back to reveal a wide-angled
landscape, beautiful to the point of defying definition.
The cinematographic beauty adds much to the film's over
all impression of sheer elegance.
. Dialogue refilled to perfection
Each aspect of the film is dealt equal concern. Dialogue
is a perfect example. The conversational English used is
polite and refined to perfection.
Symphony concert honors top seniors
nf Music will eive solo
en seniors in uic V- c,!au
performances with the UNL Symphony at 4 psn Sanday
at Kimball Recital Hall. Robert Emile will conduct the
reThnSfiuai honors concert Is a long-time UNL tra
dition. School of Music Director John Moran d. .
Each year. Moran said, School of Music Acuity mem-
bers nominate outstanding senior class uc3
ers. The cles votes on wlo will have what tmcM
the honor and opportunity to perform wi A the orchcsU
lids year the . 70-nwmber class selected violinist Apm
Kohl of Lincoln, oboist Deborah Shidlcr of Omaha,
trumpeter Dean Haist of Lincoln, pianist Susan Frita of
Lincoln, soprano Suzan CovoJik of Lincoln end baritone -Vaughn
Fiitts of Lincoln. , ' t.
The selections tojbe performed Sunday are from Bach s
Violin Concerto No, 1 in A Minor, I lander Oboe Comer'
to in G Minor, Neruda's Trumpet Concerto in E-fiat
Major, Rachmaninoff s Rhapsody on A llieme ofFagth
m'ni. Covolik will sing an area from Puccini's opera La
Bohmc, and Fritis will sing an aria from Verdi's opera
Dm Cerht .....
In today's film world the visual usually creates impor
tant moments. Kubrick's skillful use of dialogue makes
each verbal exchange a special moment. He uses a narrator
to progress the story, increasing the dialogue's Impact.
Even the haunting background music enhances the
film, painting each scene's tone. ,
When viewing the film, you do not feel as if you are
watching a movie . It is rather like a visual novel. . .
Lady Lyndon's (Marisa Ceienson) unique beauty fur
ther enhances the elegance of the film. Though her lines
are reduced to a bare minimum, each is poignant and vital.
Bcrenson shows real acting skill in her interpretation of
Lady Lyndon. I am sorry her role was limited in scope.
She is an actress to watch in the future.
Barry Lyndon is a visionary work of art. Certainly it is
Kubrick's most remarkable film yet. It represents the
highest level of achievement and perfectionto come from
Hollywood. ,
