Film on Junction City's jazz street to be shown
A condensed version of "Ninth Street," a 1999 award-winning feature film directed by Kevin Willmott, Kansas University assistant professor of theater and film, and Tim Rebman, will be shown at noon today during a free workshop on the influence of oral history in Kansas.
The workshop runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union and is free and open to the public. The film will be shown in Alderson Auditorium.
In the film, a group of longtime residents look back on the years when Junction City was a Midwestern jazz landmark known as "the Harlem of Kansas." They grapple with the decline of their city and the modern-day problems that go along with it. The film stars Isaac Hayes, Queen Bey and Martin Sheen and is based on stories Willmott's mother told him.
The film received first place in the feature film category of the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame. Now available in video, the film made its premiere at film festivals in Berlin, London and Australia.
Revue to raise money for Baldwin theater
Baldwin "Cabaret: A Black Tie Affair," a musical revue to raise money for Baldwin City Theater, will be at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at The Lodge, 502 Ames.
The show will feature a number of singers performing songs from Broadway shows, such as "Les Miserables," "Chicago," "Mame," "Guys and Dolls" and "Annie Get Your Gun." Singers include Robin Miller, Beth Rea, Ed Lammers, Marion Constatinescu, Tom Sigvaldson, Brenda Achten, Medora Davidson, Heather Ballinger, Mary Barbush and Jan Cooper.
Tickets are $15 in advance and are available at The Lodge, (785) 594-3900. Tickets at the door are $17.
Kansas Woodwinds to perform at museum
The Kansas Woodwinds, an ensemble of Kansas University faculty, will perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art on the KU campus.
The quintet includes John Boulton, flute; Margaret Marco, oboe; Larry Maxey, clarinet; Alan Hawkins, bassoon; and Paul Stevens, horn. Guest pianist Robert Koeing will join the group for a performance of Albert Roussel's "Divertissement."
The Kansas Woodwinds program includes selections by Charles DeLaney, Robert Muczynski, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Juran Andriessen.
Ottawa University to present Guare play
Ottawa Ottawa University Theatre will present "Lydie Breeze" by John Guare at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday in the University Administration Building Auditorium.
The play takes place in 1895 in a beach house on Nantucket Island, formerly the center of an idealistic commune. The hopes of the commune were destroyed by adultery, murder and suicide, and those haunted by the tragedy gather to seek expiation.
Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students. To reserve tickets, call (785) 242-5200, ext. 5037.
Teen-ager to give organ recital
Topeka Felix Hell, a 15-year-old organist, will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday at Grace Episcopal Cathedral, 701 S.W. Eighth St.
Originally from Germany, Felix had his first piano lesson at age 7 after having heard the "C Major Prelude" of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" by J.S. Bach and playing it by memory a few days later.
Since then, Felix has won international competitions and performed around the world. He studies with John Weaver at the Juilliard School and is an organ scholar at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City, where he works as assistant organist. He has recorded three CDs.
The program will include "Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 542," "O Mensch bewein dein Sunde gross, BWV 622," "Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV 564," "Trio Sonata No. 1 in E-flat Major" and "Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532," all by Bach; "Sonata No. 1, F Minor, Op. 65" by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; "Abendfriede" by Rheinberger; "Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H" by Linzt; "Toccata 'Schlafes Bruder'" by Schneider; and "Symphony No. 5 in F Minor" by Widor.
The concert is free, but an offering will be taken.
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