i 6 Pog. 6.-Thursday, February 22, 1979-The Michigan Daily Poetry Reading with Deborah Dudley and M.A. Gunsaulus reading from their works THU RS. FEB. 22-7:30 p.m. Peking Opera rare treat GUILD HOUSE, 802 Admission Free Monroe I I Special Attraction Windom in, AN EVEN ING "J iF THURBER 'OWER CENTER t UN. F EB. 25, 7:00 ,Mkets are available at: he Michigan League, 764-0450 ours: 10-1 and 2-5 weekdays land all Hudson Ticket Outlets I 4 - -ug0m a 4t Saturday, February 24, 8 p.m. Louis Nagel, piano cpu l Ptno dAugt including works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Balakirev, and Mussorgsky Sunday, February 25, 4 p.m. Marilyn Krimm, soprano Rosemary Russell, mezzo soprano John McCollum, tenor Willis Patterson, bass Nancy Hodge, piano Richmond Browne, piano including works by Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovitch Admission for both concerts complimentary By DAVID LEWIS The theatrical traditions of China are among the richest and most sophisticated in the world. But at the same time their basic precepts are so different from those that have dominated Western theater over the last century that they have come in for little scrutiny in recent years, and for even less understanding. Chinese actress Hu Hung-yen's three person show, Aspects of Peking Opera presented Tuesday evening in Rackham Auditorium, is a bold effort to rectify this situation. In the two-hour pesentation Hu demonstrates the elaborate makeup, the stylized mime and haunting music that characterizes what has come to be known as China's most representative dramatic form. THE PEKING Opera came into existence a thousand years ago, but reached its prime only at the end of the 18th century. A tightly-coordinated mixture of dance, mime, song and musical accompaniment, it resembles Western opera in concept but differs totally in detail. Music is provided by two separate groups of instruments, one percussion, one wind and string. Both music and song are in unison, without harmony. Singing style denotes character types, so that one could large ly follow the plot with one's eyes closed. In the Opera, there is little charac- terization as known in the Western realistic tradition of acting. Costume and makeup denote character types, and there are set movement patterns for each of these characters. A pure black face denotes a man of loyalty and integrity: a pure white face, a treacherous person. Villains are made up with grotesque stripes and patterns on their face. Movements, be they the gait of a man or woman or the remarkably complicated act of looking T hsSpace contr buted by the pubsher "Maybe ittwill The five most dangerous words in the English language. American Cancer Society We \w ant to cure cancer in your lifetime. .F Chinese dancer Hu Hung-Yen, who is featured with the Peking Opera. at the ground, are stylized and exaggerated, a tradition that continues to this day even in such revolutionary productions from the People's Republic of China as The White-Haired Girl and The East is Red. LYING BEHIND many of these distinctive traits is the opera's history. At one time either all-male or all- female troops were the rule, and the elaborate makeup and movements helped support the illusion of female or male characters. Deriving from folk art traditions, Peking Opera was per- formed out of doors, and required both the enlarged gestures and heightened voice patterns to reach its audience. Even today, when the female, imper- sonator is no more, and Peking Opera is performed in theaters, the practices developed in an earlier age continue to shape and color performance practice. Hu Hung-yen has the highest qualifications for presenting these aspects of the Peking Opera to a Western audience. Beginning her opera training at the age of eight in Peking, she studied at the Nanking Chinese Opera School before leaving for Hong Kong in 1949. She became a leading soloist of a Hong Kong troupe and ran her own opera school. Coming to the U.S. in 1961, she has performed in most major American cities, and several years ago staged a successful produc- tion of The Butterfly Dream in New York. She is the only professional Peking Opera actress in America, and one of only a handful left outside of China itself. The small and demure Hu had no trouble holding her audience's attention. during her demonstrations of makeup and mime techniques and her perfor- mance of famous scenes from the Peking Opera repertory. She was ac- companied by Chang Tsuan-nien and Ng Hak-fan on a variety of horizontal flutes, stringed instruments and the "sheng" 17-pipe mouth organ. The only flaw in the show was the inept clearing of the stage between numbers. With stage settings limited to a chair and table in this mime tradition, one would have expected the sponsors to have done a better job at their end. But this was, in the end, only a small disruption in an otherwise entertaining and in- structive evening of one of the world's great theater traditions. I Proposed cheating rules revised, (Continued from Page 1) patience is now at an end... I do not wish the discussion continued. The discussion is now ended," Bardwick said. When Solomon called for avote on the proposal, Bardwick refused to allow one. "This group operates on the basis of consensus, which is why I keep asking for comment," Bardwick explained later. Bardwick called the faculty code requirement that a vote be taken "a legalism which constructs certain ad- versarial stances. The committee operates better if you don't let the discussion stop, which is what a vote does," she said. THE BOARD also added a clause in the current manual to the proposal. The clause, adopted at Friedman's urging, reads: "Under no circumstances will the Judiciary issue, condone or recom- mend the issuance of arbitrary grades. In instances in which it is found that the faculty complainant has levied some penalty in addition to that prescribed by the Judiciary, the Judiciary reser- ves the right to rescind or modify its original penalty." "I was concerned that a student would be punished greater than the Judiciary had intended," Friedman explained. "This is a mechanism that insures that won't occur." Friedman explained that a student found guilty of cheating might also receive a failing grade from a professor. Because students have little prospect of getting a grade changedIif~a professor refuses to do so, the clause allows the student to seek a lessening of his other punishment. The Judiciary also clarified a rule calling for the expulsion of a student found guilty of "a second offense." The code now mandates expulsion for students "found guilty twice of offenses serious enough to result in suspension." Suspension is levied for "serious acts of plagiarism or falsification of data. "I wan "Bu to d wort tain Abehseraspeaks on simple lifestyles (Continued from Page t) Abehsera attacked the quality of cer- Abehsera also said that one prob THE MACROBIOTIC movement tain foods, especially sugar, which he with American society today is ts to stop world hunger," he said, said causes psychological disorders over-emphasis on words. His view h t the macrobiotic movement wants and nervousness. Abehsera, whose that "you should speak only when ot ith foomacrobiotic sn wands book on marcrobiotic cooking has come are asked." o it with food."' 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