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Dally Nebraskan
Wednesday, November 23, 1934
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By Donna Sisson
Dolly N?bratkan StaflfReporter
An exhibition of Wright Morris' photo
graphs opened Tuesday at the Governor's
Mansion, with Gov. Bob Kerrey and Ne:
braska poet Ted Kooser presenting read
ings of Morris' prose.
The collection, Time Pieces, contains
both Morris' photographs and prose. It
was put together by the Corcoran Art
Gallery in Washington and is being spon
sored in Nebraska by the Nebraska Arts
Council, the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Mid-American Arts Alliance and
money from the Cooper Foundation.
Morris was born in Central City and
now lives in Mill Valley, Calif. Most of the
collect ion's 30 photographs were taken in
Nebraska, and most were taken in 1947.
Morris has made his mark both as a
successful photographer and novelist,
with more than 1 5 books in print. Some of
University music professors
to present duo voice recital
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his more successful works are those which
combine the two media.
"God's Country and My People," one of
Morris' books that combines prose with
photos, was the text from which Kerrey
and Kooser read.
Kooser said they decided to read prose
at the opening because people should
know that Morris is a nationally known
novelist as well as a photographer. Ker
rey appointed Kooser to the Nebraska
Arts council. Kooser is also vice president
of Lincoln Benenfit Life and has had
seven collections of his own poetry pub
lished. The exhibit will remain at the Gover
nor's Mansion until Dec. 1 6, and is open to
the public on Thrusdays from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m., as well as by appointment. After
leaving Lincoln, thevcollection will be
shown at the Stuhr Museum in Grand
Island.
Judy Cole-Shannon, mezzo-soprano,
and guest artist Jane K. Mathew, soprano,
will present a duo voice recital at 8 p.m.
Thursday in Kimball Recital Hall.
Cole-Shannon Is an associate professor
of voice in the UNL School of Music.
Mathew, a native of Loup City and a 1975
UNL Alumnus, is assistant professor of
voice and piano at the University of North
Carolina-Wilmington. In addition to teach
ing voice and diction at Wilmington, she is
an active soloist in North Carolina with
orchestra and in chamber music.
The recital in Kimball will open with
"Sound the Trumpet," by Purcell and will
feature other duets by Schumann and
Faure. The recital will close with the vir
tuoso piece, TarantelL"
Mathew will perform solo songs by
Schumann and a variety of 20th century
American composers. Cole-Shannon will
sing solos by 17th and 18th century Ital
ian composers as well as three songs by
Gabriel Faure.
The singers will be accompanied by
Joan M. Krueger, a freelance accompa
nist in New York City. Krueger has served
as coach and accompanist the past two
summers for the Oren Brown Voice
Seminar in Amherst, Mass., and also works
under the auspices of the Juliiard School
of Music.
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Ted Kooser, left, a member of the Nebraska Arts Council, looks on as Gov.
Bob Kerrey displays a picture tMt accompanies a WrigHt Morris prose piece
at the Governor's Mansion, Tuesday. Kooser and Kerrey read several of
Morris' works to an audience of about 75 guests who share an interest in
writing end photography.
Old and new, music soothes the beast
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Daily Nebr&sk&n St&ff Reporter
Music can soothe the savage beast, or so the saying
goes. Music also soothes the beast in the artist. And
sometimes it even sounds good to the rest of us beasts.
My favorite beasts who make music seem to share
some basic aspects. First, they have a universality to
their appeal Second, they display an innovative or vir
tuostic technique. Finally, their work has (or probably
will) stand the test of time. From ancientia to next week,
here are some examples:
A recent PBS documentary on a stone-age tribe in
Equador depicted the chants the elder tribesmen sing
while dousing their blowdarts in poison. This sup
posedly created "hunting magic," a practice dating back
to prehistoric cave paintings. The chants are atonal,
polyrhythmic, ancient and mystically beautiful. They
also remind you that the Talking Heads don't take all
their influences from their experiences at the Rhode
Island School of Design.
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Gustav Mahler. This guy scared some people with a
no-holds-barred (even violent) approach to composing.
His pieces scan the range of human emotion from
anguish to ecstasy. Not exactly elevator music.
Miles Davis. Miles has consistently re-defined ap
proaches and parameters of modern musical explora
tion. His On the Corner album of! 972 is a landmark in
thinkdrift music.
Keith Jarrett. Although sporadic in jazz groups,
Jarrett's solo effort, TheKoln Concert stands as a classic
in the universal dream mold of music. The four sides on
this double album drift from familiar melodies to spon
taneous improvisation, all without missing a beat. Music
to do anything to.
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Whether in duo or in
solo projects, Fripp and Eno have been the forerunners
of "ambient" music. The sounds are atmospheric and
almost subliminal Albums such as Music for Airports
and Music for Elevators are aptly titled. Muzak for the
'90s. An aural massage.
Laurie Anderson. At age 40, former performing
artist Anderson was last year's wunderkind of the rock
intelligentsia Her lilting melodies, technical experimen
tation and quirky sense of humor found a following the
last few years previously unheard of in avant-garde
music. As art goes, however, today's avant-garde is
tomorrow's old hat. Her act doesn't seem nearly as
strange as it used to, but it's still a valuable one.
Andreas Vollenweider. The newest kid on the block
and destined for fame. Vollenweider is a Swiss electric
harpist and his music is the stuff of dreams. His sound ia
difficult to describe but if you can imagine what a hot
tub in heaven would feel like, then you've got the picture.
It sounds slightly oriental, slightly mystical, slightly
transcendental
If you don't own any records by the artists mei
above, Vollenweider's might be the one to buy. T!
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is out already, the record stores seem to be having a
hard time keeping Vollenweider in the bins.
Go soothe yourself, be;
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