Oregon daily emerald., June 28, 1973, Page 7, Image 7

weekend preview
It’s bound to be an off-on weekend.
Abundance and variety, rather than spectacle, characterize the
bill-of-fare.
Like the elusive sunshine, things may prove to be a shade off
“right-on” due to a cancellation or two.
Four exhibits in the University Museum of Art will terminate this
Sunday. Drawings by Pierre Bonnard, and, in the Museum’s Focus
Gallery drawings by Jeff Battison are displayed daily from noon till 5
p.m. The Museum’s photography displays include a series celebrating
the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’ achievements and a student
photography show.
Photographs by Charlene Yogi are currently exhibited in the Erb
Memorial Gallery. Her theme: the unity of everything that exists.
Other local exhibits are pieces by Tom Blodgett and Bruce
Millette entitled “Fat Wolves and Subterranean Cloudscapes” now on
view at Maude Kerns Art Center (1910 E. 15th), and paintings by Loren
Berg at the Grandtour Gallery (19 W. 8th).
A display of rodeo paraphernalia begins today at Valley River,
and on Saturday a rose show will be conducted at that mall.
The Morgan Horse Show will be open to the public Saturday and
Sunday from 9 a.m. at the Lane County Fairgrounds.
Several exhibits at the Portland Museum of Art will also run
through Sunday. Canvas constructions, mixed media paintings, oils
and watercolors by three female Oregon artists comprise the main
display. An exhibition of brass rubbings produced by Eleanor Mat
tersdorf will be shown in the Jennings Gallery of the museum. Thesis
presentations in an array of mediums by recent graduates of the
Museum Art School will be housed in the museum proper. Finally, a
collection of German expressionist prints entitled “People and Places
in German Expressionism” are displayed in the museum in con
junction with the German Arts Festival on the Pacific.
Other events associated with the German Arts Festival in Por
tland are the Portland Shakespearean Company’s production of
“Galileo Galilei” and a performance by the Collegium Vocale of
Cologne. The play will be given tonight and Friday at 8 p.m. on the
Shattuck Stage, Portland State University. The singers will perform at
the same hour on Saturday in the Caroline Berg Swann Auditorium in
the Museum of Art.
Ron Gold will host a history of Eric Clapton’s music on his radio
spot tonight. You can catch him from midnight till 2 p.m. on KWAX
FM 91.1.
Stan Fink’s modem jazz group plays tonight at the Wesley Center
(1236 Kincaid). The second performance in the band’s six-week series
starts at 8 p.m. A 50-cent donation is requested.
The Goodwill Band plays again Sunday from 6 p.m. till closing at
Mama’s Home-FriedTruckstopNo admission is levied, but the Home
Fried people request a minimum 75-cent purchase from everyone in
the audience.
Portland State is inaugurating a Thursday Summer Concert
series with pieces for piano and strings. Tonight’s 8 p.m. performance
includes selections from Haydn, Schumann, Bolcom and Brahms.
The “Doobie Brothers”
will appear at
Paramount Northwest in
Portland this Saturday at 7
p.m. and 11 p.m. with
“Mason Proffit.” The
concert, sponsored by
Concerts West, costs $4 a
ticket in advance and $5 at
the door.
The Lane County Blues Clinic and Diane Adams, with her violinist
Rob Thomas will play Friday and Saturday as this week’s performers
in the Scarborough Faire Concerts Festival. The Bony Elbow Ridge
Runners, though listed on the handbills, were forced to cancel their
appearance. Bring a dollar and a cushion for a softer seat on the
planks to Scarborough Faire (136 E. 11th) at 8:30 p.m.
Paramount Northwest is offering a double-bill concert Saturday.
The Doobie Brothers and Mason Profitt, both sweet tinny-sounding
bands, will do 7 and 11 p.m. shows. Tickets are $4 in advance, $5 at the
door.
If rock’s your thing, but money is an obstacle, check into the free
rock concert in East Delta Park, near Portland, Sunday. Appearing
will be Hirum and Okane. Music starts at 2 p.m.
Finnigan and Wood will provide sound for dancing at the Cascade
Club (32nd and Jasper Road, Springfield). Doors open at 8:30 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday. Admission is $2.
The initial presentation by the drama department’s Carnival
Theatre program, “A Day in the Life of Joe Egg”, is scheduled for 8:30
p.m. Friday and Saturday. The play concerns the problems of a family
with an invalid infant, and was written by Peter Nichol of Britain. All
eight summer productions will be performed, weather permitting, in
the carnival tent near Villard Hall. Tickets are $2, $2.50 and $3.50.
The Hugene Hotel’s Theatre-at-Large continues its performance
of “I Do, I do” Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets for the dinner
theatre package are $8.50.
The play-bill for Ashland’s Shakespearean Festival this weekend
includes “The Alchemist,” matinee and “Henry the Fifth,” evening,
Thursday and Sunday; “Othello” and “As You Like It,” Friday; and
“The Dance of Death” and the “The Merry Wives of Windsor,”
Saturday. Matinee performances are held indoors at 2 p.m., while
evening productions are staged in an open theatre at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
to all performances range from $6 to $3, with student rush available
half an hour before curtain.
Various sponsors are offering on-campus movies every day this
weekend. Admission to all is $1.
Tonight Acme-Bijou is running “General Della Rovere,” directed
by Rossellini, at 8 p.m. in 180 PLC. Monday, they will roll “The Rise of
Louis XIV,” also by Rossellini, at the same time, same location.
Friday’s flicks are sponsored by the East Asian Society and the
University Film Society. “The Road,” with Mandarin dialogue and
Chinese and English subtitles will be shown in 177 La. “The Lavendar
Hill Mob” starring Alec Guinness, and short “The Case of the
Mukkinese Battle-Horn” starring Peter Sellers, will roll in 150 Science
at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
^nanc*a Marga Yoga Society’s unusual film selection from the
USSR describes the life of the Gustul sect in 19th century Russia. Also
in 180 PLC, the show starts at 7 & 9 p.m.
Terry Sotta
art
From
the
person
who
theorized
the
solar
system
It’s one of the dozen or so most important books in the history of
humanity. Yet it looks as unpretentious as a cookbook.
A man named Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for
propounding what’s written in it.
This book shook the minds of men so much that the vested in
terests of that day frightened the author enough to forbid publication
until on his deathbed.
The book is Nicolaus Copernicus’ “De Revolutionibus.” It’s on
display under glass in the Museum of Art. It is touring the world under
the sponsorship of the Polish government as part of the celebration of
the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’ birth. It was brought to Eugene
through the efforts of two visiting Polish professors of chemistry, Jan
Wieczorek and Konrad Galuzko.
It’s difficult to comprehend the significance of a book like this one,
since it is more than 400 years old and Copernicus was a contemporary
of Columbus.
Copernicus theorized that the sun was the center of the solar
system, rather than the earth the center of the universe. Man’s con
cept of himself took the first of a series of kicks in the pants. A com
parable recent experience for mankind may have been seeing those
photographs of the earth from the moon showing up no larger than the
palm of an astronaut’s hand. Copernicus’ book was a turning point in
the development of the science that put the astronauts on the moon to
take those pictures.
Looking at the book makes you feel a little like you might if you
saw a copy of the New Testament in St. Paul’s handwriting.
The Polish government has also sent a display of photographic
posters of Poland. Included are pictures of towns and buildings that
Copernicus knew, as well as more modern scenes, none of them
tainted by propaganda. It’s another shock to realize that the streets
and buildings Copernicus knew are still standing. What seems so
ancient to an American is contemporary for Europeans.
And then you come away from the exhibit feeling humble. A
human life is a very short thing, America is very young, and an
average American can’t name the planets as they appear in the sky,
dozens of centuries after they were discovered.
But, that average American is linked to those towns in Poland, and
to Copernicus, if in no more certain a way than that he or she is paying
taxes to send astronauts off on the adventures of the mind that
Copernicus furthered so much.
A book whose author was born five centuries ago continues to have '
a measurable effect on us all. That’s what being human is all about,
really.
Joyce Boles
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great
Polish astronomer, Nicholaus Copernicus. The Polish government and
UNESCO have both designated the year as “Copernicus Year.”
There are celebrations afoot world-wide to note the occasion, and
in Eugene a special Copernicus exhibit opened June 17.
Konrad Galuszko and Jan Wieczorek, two Fulbright-Hays
scholars from Poland at the University’s chemistry department, and
Galuszko’s wife Anna have put together the display at the University
Museum of Art. The presentation, which includes 26 two-sided pic
torial panels, books, records and brochures, will run through July 1. It
is free of charge to the public.
“1116 exhibit has been made in Poland, and has been provided to
us by the Polish Consulate-General in Chicago,” explained Galuszko.
He also quickly added, “We have had tremendous cooperation from
Professor Virgil Boekelheide (of the chemistry department) and the
Museum of Art, and we are very grateful.”
Copernicus was the Polish astronomer who in the early 16tn
century proposed a radical departure in man’s thinking on Earth’s
relationship with the solar system. He concluded, from “30 years’
study and observation,” that the other heavenly bodies did not revolve
around the Earth, as had been widely presumed until then. Instead, he
asserted, the center of th? solar system was the sun. He proved it in his
findings published in the early 1500s.
Copernicus was born in 1473 in Poland as Mikolj Kopemik, but he
later adopted his more familiar Latin appellation as Latin was the
going language then.
“Copernicus was not only a great Pole but he was also a
distinguished figure of the Renaissance era,” said Galuszko.
“Copernicus was initially educated at the Jagiellonian University at
Cracow, Poland, in mathematics, physics and astronomy,” he con
tinued.
Later the Polish astronomer studied law and medicine in Italy,
which at that time was one of the great learning centers of the world.
Copernicus returned to Poland in the early 16th century and became
an attending physician to a bishop in Frombork, a small town in
Poland.
During this period he made extensive studies of the skies from a
small observatory, and later went on to theorize that the solar system
does not revolve around the earth after all.
But Copernicus was not a man without caution. Realizing that his
new theory might be too radical for his times and that he might be
subjected to the Holy Inquisitions for his radicalism, Copernicus
dedicated his publication to the Pope.
Reflecting that “Poland is not existing in the Eugene public’s
mind, though in their maps,” Galuszko feels that it is particularly
important that Copernicus be clearly identified as a Pole so that his
achievements can help familiarize Poland to the Eugeneans.
Galuszko and Wieczorek are visiting researchers in organic
chemistry at the University. Both are here through the sponsorship of
the Fulbright-Hays scholarship program. Anna Galuszko is here on
her own so that she can be with her husband. She is a research
assistant in the biology department.
Shah Ahmad