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Kokkonen became the first recepient of the Henryk Szeryn Foundation Award in 1992.
Hull: Choir, Mozart Players perform
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tra and the Baltimore Symphony.
Tickets for the concert range in
price from $12 to $36, but they’re
$10 for students and youth. Tickets
are available at the Hult Center and
the EMU Ticket Office. The show
begins at 8 p.m., and Harth-Bedoya
will give an informal conductor’s
talk beginning at 7:15 p.m.
But the orchestra’s concert won’t
be the only musical sounds drifting
out of the Hult Center in the com
ing week. The Eugene Concert
Choir and the Oregon Mozart Play
ers will give their third concert of
the season tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
They’ll perform Haydn’s “Mass in
Time of War,” one of his most pop
ular works.
Composed in 1796, “Mass in
Time of War” is about the immi
nent threat of war as Napoleon’s
troops advanced on Haydn’s native
Austria. The piece was considered
the most spectacular and innova
tive of the six masses Haydn com
posed.
Several members of the Eugene
Concert Choir will also join the Eu
gene Vocal Arts Ensemble in per
forming Bach’s “Lobet den Heim”
and Brahms’ “Schaffe in mirGott,”
as well as some Brahms folk songs.
Diane Retallack will conduct the
performance. Tickets range in price
from $8 to $21, and they’re available
at the Hult Center Ticket Office.
Giving a free performance at
noon on Thursday, March 19 at the
Hult Center will be the Eugene
Peace Choir, which will perform
songs about peace, justice and the
environment as part of the Hult
Center’s SHOcase Concert Series.
The Eugene Peace Choir
formed in 1984 “by a small group
of friends who shared a love for
music and for peace,” according
to a press release. The a capella
group has performed at festivals,
churches outdoor markets and
events throughout the state,
singing songs about empower
ment through music.
The SHOcase Concert Series is a
free, informal series held each
Thursday that highlights local and
touring artists.
For more information about any
of these events, call the Hult Center
Ticket Office at 682-5000.
Hult Center Events
The coming week promises to
be a busy one at the Hult Center
■ March 13: The Eugene Con
cert Choir and the Oregon
Mozart Players will perform
Haydn’s “Mass In Time of War”
at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range in
price from $8 to $21.
■ March 19: The Eugene Peace
Choir will give a free perfor
mance at noon. They will per
form songs about peace, justice
and the enviornment as part of
the Hult Center’s SHOcase Con
cert Series.
■ March 19: The Eugene Sym
phony will perform Osvaldo Goii
jov’s “Last Round,” a violin con
certo composed by Igor
Stravinsky, and Jean Sibelius'
Symphony No. 1 in E minor. In
ternationally acclaimed violinist
Elissa Lee Kokkonen will per
form Stravinsky’s violin concer
to. Tickets are $10 for students.
Absolute Improv!: ‘I’m not intimidated’
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“Improv is an essentially collaborative art form, so
even though we’ll be competing with Yale, we also want
to work with them,” he said.
The competition
Chandler Melvin, a University senior and a member
of Absolute Improv!, said he’s not worried about going
up against Yale’s troupe, which comes from a presti
gious acting program.
"I’m not intimidated at all,” Melvin said. “[The Exit
Players] work under different conditions than we do.
Certainly, what’s funny on the East Coast may not be as
funny on the West Coast. But what I’m going to be look
ing for is some universal comedy; some things that we
both find funny.”
The teammates
All of the 18 members of Absolute Improv! are also
heavily involved in the University’s theater program.
Most have performed extensively in both Robinson
Theatre and Pocket Playhouse productions.
Honey, Melvin and Bemasconi all agree, however,
that scripted dramatic acting is vastly different from im
provisational comedy.
“Improv is a totally unique art form,” Honey said.
“You have to get up there and trust people, and trust
yourself.”
Melvin agreed. “It’s so important that you establish a
rapport with the people you’re working with,” he said.
“To be spontaneous, you have to know what you each
think is funny, and then use that in your act. We’re all
friends [in Absolute Improv!), so we’ll sit around at par
ties and think of jokes. We really know what makes
each other laugh.”
Honey said improvisation relies a lot more heavily
on audience participation and reaction rather than on
introspection and character development.
“With drama, you start to really delve into your char
acter and focus internally,” he said. “But improv is a lot
more audience-oriented. You want to make sure the au
dience is having a good time.”
Tonight’s improv competition will begin at 8 p.m. at
the Actors Cabaret, located at 10th and Willamette.
Tickets are $6, and drinks and dessert will be served.
The Exit Plavers: Yalies’ favorite aames
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ment will be paramount. The teams will take turns
performing from a long list of eligible games, and
after each round, the audience will select the better
performance with applause. In the end, the score
will be tallied and the improv champion declared.
To come away with their No. 1 ranking intact,
the Exit Players will have to execute their signa
ture games to perfection. In “Director’s Cut,” the
troupe spoofs method acting by allowing the au
dience to be the voice of their difficult director.
The crowd will orchestrate the characters in the
scene, providing motivations, conflicts and hid
den interests.
“Writing Styles” is another Exit Players’ favorite
in which the audience picks a famous author and
invents a book title. The Exit Players must then
create a literary classic on the spot.
It is the audience’s entanglement in those
games that often translates into crowd-pleasing
shows.
“The audience was so involved that it was al
most like a mutual performance," said Franze of
one Exit Players event at Yale.
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