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Photo show opens
By John Evey
“One who must be considered a
major influence for photography
throughout its evolution in
Oregon,” is how Bernard
Freemesser, University professor
of photography, labels Gerald
Robinson, a Portland attorney and
native Oregonian.
Perhaps best recognized for a
legal career with a specialization
in immigration laws and a record
which included volunteer assis
tance to those with draft problems
in the Sixties, Robinson is cur
rently featured with a showing of
recent black and white prints in the
Photography at Oregon Gallery in
the University Museum of Art.
Through his efforts as an or
ganizer of “Group 15" in Portland
and his work on the Fine Arts Ad
visory Committee for the 1959
Oregon Centennial Commission,
Robinson has considerably ex
panded the awareness and ac
ceptance of photography as a
legitimate artistic medium.
He is also a founding trustee
and continuing contributor for the
Photography at Oregon Gallery,
which became the first gallery de
voted to a continuing showing of
photography on the west coast
when it was established in 1966.
But more important than a
photographer’s background are
his images themselves.
Robinson’s attention to detail
and composition creates visual
statements, often striking in tonal
contrast, of unusual clarity con
sidering that his process is primar
ily a movement toward the ab
straction of form from the natural
images he finds in the western
landscape.
His photographic study of four
nudes, combining even more
sensitivity for light/shadow rela
tionships with the same careful at
tention to the compositional bal
ance of mass, give evidence that
Robinson is equally adept in the
studio as in natural lighting situa
tions. One of the four figures
stands with head bowed and arms
outstretched so that gender be
comes completely subordinate to
expression of the uniquely human
shape, is particularly outstanding.
Gallery hours correspond to the
regular Museum of Art schedule:
noon to 5 p.m. daily except Mon
day.
Moffo at Mac
Members of the Eugene and
University Music Association and
students will be able to hear lyric
soprano Anna Moffo at McArthur
Court tomorrow.
As a star of the Metropolitan,
San Francisco and Chicago
Operas, plus other international
opera companies, Moffo has been
acclaimed by both critics and au
diences the world over. She is
known for her remarkable vocal
and dramatic talents and her flaw
less techniques.
Friday night s repertoire will en
compass a variety of selections
including arias from Barber’s,
“Vanessa Giannini’s, “The Tam
ing of the Shrew," and Donizetti’s
“The Daughter of the Regiment."
The concert will begin at 8.30
p.m.
Students can pick up free tick
ets at the EMU Main Desk. Other
wise admission is limited to hol
ders of EUMA season member
ships.
Season tickets at the cost of
$11 for adults and $5.50 for stu
dents, are available at the Wilson
Music House and at the McArthur
Court Box office prior to perfor
mance.
Graphics show
"The Art and Architecture of the
Eastern Orthodox Church" is the
title of a graphics exhibition that
opened Monday in the art gallery
of the School of Architecture and
Allied Arts.
The public is invited, free of
charge, to the show in Room 141
Lawrence Hall. It will be open from
8 a.m. to 5p.m. weekdays through
April 30.
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Bluegrass festival set
for Lane fairgrounds
Eugene's first large-scale
celebration of bluegrass music
happens this weekend, when nine
groups will gather at Lane County
Fairgrounds for the Blitz
Weinhard Willamette Valley
Bluegrass Jamboree.
Picking the traditional tunes
from Friday night until late Sunday
afternoon will be Dr. Corn’s Blue
grass Remedy, the Muddy Bottom
Boys, and Shubb-Wilson-Shubb,
all from Portland; the Sawtooth
Mountain Boys, from Corvallis,
and from Eugene, the McKenzie
River Boys, Mason Williams,
Heavy Gauge String Band, Good
n’ Country, and Rick Cunha and
Friends.
Cross art show
"The Cross and the Crucifixion:
Medieval and Modern" is the title
of an exhibition at Northwest
Christian College, arranged by
University art historian A. Dean
McKenzie.
The exhibit of photographic re
productions and color illustrations
will be shown through Friday in the
Northwest Christian Library.
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The first concert begins 8 p.m.
Friday, with the Saturday shows
scheduled at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday s concert begins at 2 p.m.
Jam sessions, workshops, and
a Sunday morning gospel show
are also scheduled for the jam
boree, the fourth event of its kind
sponsored in the Northwest area
by Blitz-Weinhard.
Tickets are $3.50 per show or
$9.00 for the whole thing, and are
available at the Crystal Ship,
Eugene Music, and the Sun Shop.
Guitarist plays
Jazz Guitanst Jerry Hahn will
appear Tuesday with the Lane
Community College Jazz Lab
Band and the South Eugene High
School Stage Band for a 7:30 p.m.
concert in South Eugene High
School Cafetorium.
Admission is $1.50. Tickets are
on sale in Eugene at the Musi
cians Union Hall. 25th and Port
land (one block West of Wil
lamette), and in Springfield at
Lights for Music
Hahn also will present a master
guitar class for all interested
guitarists at 4 p.m. Tuesday. The
clinic will be held without charge
at the Musicians Union Hall in
Eugene.
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