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~ .. ·u.s.s. MANDEVILLE: Battleship for the Arts . UCSD'will dedicate its new S~ . 3 million Ernest W. Mandeville square fe'et of space that is easily convened, through the use ot Center for the Arts with an II-day public festival of music, drama wooden risers, from seating to orchestra space or even additional and art in the Center March 6 through 16. stage space. All of the events are open to tbe public. Many are free and There are some 500 permanent seats and 3~O movable seats tickets to the others are available through the UCSD box office. allowing for a ~reat vanety of stage and audience configurations The II-day festival bas been desisned to bring to the com within the audItorium. munity a kaleidoscope of events rangmg from early works of an The Center was ~med in honor of the late Ernest W. Man=- and music to the most avant-garde realism and elecuonicper deville, a businessman and patron of the arts whose fmancial formances. The program will allow the University to show off the support to UCSD helped the young campus develop its programs varied and unique aspects of the Center. in me ans and humanities. The Mandeville Center, designed by A. Quincy Jones and An ODCn house is schedule-d from noon to ~ : OO pm, on Sunday, Associates of Los Angeles, houses office, lecture and work space MilJ'ch. 9. for which a number of special shows and programs have for the UCSD Departments of Music and Visual Am. Ground was been set. A display of super realistic an will be in the An GaJlery broken for the 109,189 square-foot building on January 9, 1973, and a display of scene and costume design, put together by the on a site that spans what was once U.S. Highway 101. The Center Department of Drama, will be in the East Room. Musicians will was constructed by Nielsen Construction 'Company of San Diego be "tuning" the building during the day. Visitors will get a look and the flCSt offices and work rooms were occupIed during the inside a laser beam art restoration laboratory. An architects' fall, 1974, academic quaner. panel on •'New Directions in Architecture" featurin~ some of the The Center, a three-level concrete and wood structure, stands top architects and communicators in Southern Caclifomia is set of at the hub of the UCSD campus. It has offices and studios for a 2:00 pm in room B·210 of the Center. faculty of 40, music rehearsal rooms that can serve groups as large as a full symphony orchestra, shops for wood and metal An environmental music event, " Museums," will o~n at noon working, space for print and filmmaking, and equipment for on Sunday in the Recital HaU . The event includes VIdeo works, recordings of the highest fidelity. films, electronic music, light compositions and biofeedback An 851-seat auditorium lecture hall serves as the " focal point" equipment. Visitors wiU be invited to compose their own music by of the Center since it is the principle " presentation" area. Its using their brainwaves together with the biofeedback equipolC' nt. unique stage is able to accommodate performances of ballets, Student guides will be stationed throughout the building chamber operas, and Mendelssohn·sized oratorios. The wooden during the day to assist visitors in finding their way and to · x stage (96 feet wide and 38 feet deep) provides 3,6~O square feet plain the work going on in the various studios and work hop . of performing space. In addition, the pit provides another 2 , ~8~ Refreshments WIll be served in t\l,(0 location in the build ini. UC Sa" Diego /¥'edne da ,March 5, 1975 Edjtorkll A Complete Student Guide to the Mandeville Opening Cul... inating years of dreams and momhs o(work, the Erne~t W. M~ndevi1le Center for the Am throws open Its doors at last ID UCSD MANDEVILLE CENTER FOR THE ART5- a gnla ~pening celebration. The ans have long been slighted at UCSD, shoved into the OPENING CElEBRATION, March 6-16 8:00 " Lateral Zig·Zag" See March 7 March 13, Thursday corners of the campus and largely regarded as having value mai nly as a balance for the" hard" sciences, which have made up 8:30 Performance by Atomic Cafe, UCSD avante.garde music 12 :00-9:00 the bulk of the San Diego campus' atmosphere. It is the hope of March 6, Thursday group. " Innovatio ns: Then and Now·' See March 6 the Triton Times that the implicit subservience of the arts here at Manaeville Auditorium. 12 :00-9 :00 " Sense of Reference" See March 7 UCSD will come to an unmoumed end with the opening of the No Admission Charge. Mandeville Center, and the arts will take their rightful place in 12:00·9:00 "Innovations: Then and Now" An exhibit orscene 12 :00 and costume designs of some 2 ~ of the country's Composers workshop on works by currem and fo rmer the structure of the campus as an equal to the sciences. UCS D musicians. For the opening, little effort has been spared to bring a foremost designers for professional and regional theatres. (See story on Page 9) Mandevill e A udirorium diversity of quality performances and exhibits. Planning that has No Admission Charge. been in motion for well over a year has served to bring events of East Room. No Admission Charge the highest caliber to UCSD, representing the contemporary 12 :00·9:00 "'nnovations: Then and Now" See-March 6 2:00 Rare Films. See March 10 advances in music, theatre, dance and art, as well as lectures and 8:30 pm " Stage Works" by UCS~ Composers" Four p~eces by panels uncovering_the roles of Art in Government, its relation to UCSD composers includlDg three world Premieres. 12 :00·9:00 "Sense of Reference" See March 7 8:30 " Lateral Zig-Zag" See March 7 science and its effect on our day to day lives, for the eleven day " Hockshurr" "My, My, My What a Wonderful Fall" Rare Film§ from the Eastman House Collection. openin~ celebration. " .. From Behind the Unreasoning Mask," and' 'Crow Two" 2:00 First in series of five showings through March n . 8:30 Despite all this planning however, the Mandeville Opening (See story on Page 8) " Endgame" See March 11 Celebration has failed to incorporate one vital element IOto its (See Story on Pa~e 7 for full schedule). Maqdeville Audltprium_ Free Stu4.eru tickets available Mandeville AudItorium. workings: the students of UCSD. The choice of planning the in advance at Student Center Box Othce. 8:30 Co ncen by UCSD Gospel Choir with Edwin Hawk ins. opening celebration to coincide with the last week of winter Series tickets: General Public $tO ., UCSD Students $~ . Individual programs: General Public $2.50, (JCSD Students $1. 50 Ma ndeville Audirorium. quarter when many students are feeling the crunch of ftnishing General Public $5/$7. UCSD Students $2.50 / $3.50 their studies and preparing for fmals seems to show a lack of March 7, Friday concern. -Even with student prices for many events, there are 4:00 Poetry Reading by Adrienne Rich (See Story on Page 13) those who feel the cOSt of tickets will prohibit them from at· 12:00·9:00 "Innovations: Then and Now" See March 6. Mandeville Recital Hall. tending a bulk of the events. No Admission Charge We are all aware of the imponance of the Mandeville Cemer in 12 :00·9:00 "Sense of Reference " An Exhibit of Realistic Art 7: 00 terms of its public-relations value to the campus, and yet in the " Cataloging the ~ainbow " A lecture by Philip Morrison, March 14, Friday interests of "community involvement," the most immediately including paintings, drawings, photographs, films and Professor of PhYSICS at MIT and an editor of Scientifi c American on the available community, the students who must live and work with videotapes. (See story on Page 14). topic of the relationship of science ' An Gallery. Admission Charge the center, have largely been ignored. No and the arts. (See Story on Page 14) . 9:00-12 :00 " Innovations: Then and Now" See March 6 The Triton Times presents this special issue of the IT, striving Mandeville Auditorium to make the Mandeville Center accessible in the hopes that as 8:00 "Lateral Zi~-Zags" Three one·act plays, Megan Terry's No Admission Charge many students as are able will find their way to events in the " Pro-Game' and "Calm Down Mother" and Sam Shepard's " The 9:00- 12 :00 " Sense of Reference" See March 7 celebration. Convenient or not, the next 11 days will mark the Unseen Hand," by UCSD Drama Dept. (See Triton Times 3/3) 8:30 "A Chamber Concen in Honor of Ernst Krenek" A concert bringin, together of some of the most imporatnt forces in the UCSD Theatre, 203 Matthews Campus. fea turing works by Schoenbe rg , Will Ogdon, Ern t Krenek, 4:00 Poetry reading by Josephine Miles featuri ng a poem worldo An. General Public: $3 . UCSD Students $ 1. )0. and a theatre piece for guitar by J ean·Cha rles Francois. com missioned for the occa sion (See story on Page 13.) Furthermore, the Triton Times would like to take this op· Mandeville Recital Hall Mandeville Recital Hall. ponunity to call for a second opening, one that is more open to 8:30 " Bewitched" A. dance·theatre·musical by Ge neral Publ ic $2. UCS D Studems $1. No Admission Charge the interests and needs of the students.