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WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS FESTIVAL 1973 - 1974 Compiled by Office of Acting Dean of Potter College of A rts and Humanities IVAN WILSON CENTER FOR FINE ARTS o ~ feJRj \, ~-----." --- ~ Western Kentucky University 8 THE COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD, Bowling Green, Ky. Tuesday, September 11, 1973 , • COLLEGE HEIGHTS HE~LD TUES. , SEPT. 11, 1973 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ivan Wilson Center: the fine art ofa-maze-ing the students By SCOTT JOHNSTON The finished product includes being renovated. each of the four floors is laid out suited to the needs" of the the 320-seat Russell Miller­ Itall sounds simple enough until differently. Room 151 is not departments now housed in the Theatre, an exhibit gallery, a you actually enter the building. It directly below room 251. The fact building. Western's newest building, the 250-seat recital hall, a music will not take long to discover that that you know where room 368 is Although Lawson says "most Ivan Wilsm Fine Arts Center, rehearsal room, 41 classrooms, 85 everywhere you turn there are does not help you find room 468; may someday be nicknamed the everyone feels we have a fine faculty offices, 30 office-studios halls and passages. Some of them . 4ffi is not directly above 368. 'facility," more than a few labyrinth on the hill. Anyone's and an open-a ~ r theater. merely go in circles, but others are Owen Lawson, physical plant fl1'St encounter with it is likely to imtructors have recounted tales of . dead~nd affairs. There are some administrator, said in late August smrching for offices or classrooms . be confusi~. The Fine Arts Center is the new signs which will direct you to the errors on some of the The building has been in various home of the speech and theatre, The lesson here is that it may rooms which aren't there. On one directional signs should be take more than a few minutes stages of planning and develop­ art, music and foreign languages to floor there are a number of rooms corrected by the beginning of find your class. Start looking ment for several- years. Actual . departments. The history depart­ which you have to go through classes. But don't go looking for early. Try thinking of your search construction began in August, ment and part of the English aoother room to find. room 129; it's still missing. department will o.ccupy the as an adventure into uncharted 1970 and was completed this The _!llost interesting ob!!er~a­ La wson also said "we feel the regions (who knows? you may March. structure while Cherry Hall is tim this reporter made is that facility is well designed and well locate one of the missing rooms). SUN., SEPT. 16, 1973 DAILY NEWS, BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY Fine arts festival to follow center dedication The n (''.\ lD~~ Wilson Center Through Friday. Sept. 28, N· , .. rk aFre hcomedyby the center dedication has been completely renovated. scheduled to visit Western I ew 10. ne 0 t"'- ha b d" ted Tuesday Ma,'ch 19 c, Vint· :\1' : ..; !, ]~ opened on the st':lSlm (i('kl'ts for the general a professional theatre com:n illce. Cook also has c Cut:r S een cSlgna _ • . ,." <,s :"rtl ca l~ l p u s ; nd a year­ pu blic at $,4 per person arc company, a concert by the announced that tickets for Inaugural Month of the center, (,ng fi ,w ,1r!s [, ·., tj·:a! ;s pl;l nned a Vll ilable. These lic ilp.ts will Rogcr Wagner Chorale, and a Single ('vents will go on sale accordmg to Dr. Robert "llt,w in!; ib (:l'dication (1.'1. 13. er. ab!e fe sti va l-goe rs at series of films by Ingmar Mon day , Oct. 1. Mounce, actmg dean of the Sl';I ~[Jl1 tic kets for six ma jor Weste rn to see pcriorma nces by Bergman. The formal dedication of the Potter College ?f Arts and ~ ''' l'l1tS in COl1ju:l ttion with the the Cinci nnati Ball ct , pianist "This $22.50 value entitles the new center Oct. 13 will begin at Hu~an/ t les . Five .of the ·l'slir.il cur rcllti y are on sale in Van Cliburn in CO:lccrt, John holder to a reserved seat for 10 a.m. at the center's Outdoor festival s mam attrac.tlons are lie t 'ni versi ty 's Business Gay's ,. Begga r's O~'e ra" by the each of the events," said Dr. Theatre where the permanent scheduled dun~g thiS month 'ffici'. Cil y eC'!ller Actirg C ():!1~.'i1 ny of Paul B. Cook, co-chai rma n of seating of the former stadium With the Roger \\ agner Chorale r on sale until Sept. 28 COLLEGE HEIGHTS HERALD FRI., SEPT, 7, 1973 . By MORRIS McCOY pn'sent.ed Thursday, Oct.!.,), at 8:1::; p.m. in Van l\1l'ler Auditor· Season tickets :l rt; on sale for ium with tickets pricf'd :I t $3 .50 the fir st Fine Arts Festival at and $2 .50. West('rn, according to Dr. Robert Tick('( s for " L'A varc" ("The H. Mnunre, acting dC:l n of the Miser") IJ!, Le Theatre ~ationa l De Potter College of Arts and L'esl Parisian and Le Trl'teau ric arts PAR K CITV DA I LY NEWS Humanities and co·chairman for Paris with Jean De Ri Kau lt arC' MON'lSEPT. 10.1973 the Fine Arts Festival. $2.50. This pl ay about compulsivE' A season ticket will admit the greed will be prC'sent cd \V t~ d nes· estiva ticl{ets bearer 'to six performance!> day, Oct. 3, in Van l\ l eter including Thc Cincinnati Ballet,' Auditorium at 8: 15 p.m. the Van Cliburn Concert, the Bergman Film Series, Moliere's The Bergman Film Series will sale at WKU "The l\liser," The Roger Wagner be he ld _ in t hree parts wi t h ew Ivan Wilson Center cvcnts in conjunction with thc Chorale and "The Beggar's Opera" "Se\'C'nth Seal," a fil m s('t in the Arts has opened on the fcstival currentl\' are on sale in by the City Center Acting Middle Ages, being shown on campus and a year· the universit\··s business offi ce. Company. Wednesday, Oct. 3. "The l\lagi. arts fe stival is pl annl'<i Throug h ~'r iday . Sept. 28, Season tickets for non ·students cian" is to be s how n on gs its derlication Oct. 13. season tickets for the general are $1 ·1, an $8.50 saving on the Wl'rinesday, Oct. 17, and portrays public at S14 per person are tjckcts for six major separate ticket purcll:lse price of il1u ~ io n and r eali t y th rough a available. The tickets wilL $22.50. charlata n and fju:lck ·hl'alpr. Fri· cnable festi\'al goers at Weste rn Te nt.ativ(' pl an" (' :til for sturient to sce prrforl1lall("rs by the day, Oct. :26, "' \'inl('r Li ght" will .Cincinnati Ha llr!. pianist Van seasnn t i{' k l'l!> 10 cost $1 0 for a' bf' shown . It is a t h('olog-ica l Cliburn in concer!. John Gay's saving of Sl~ . .'iO on th e ~('para t" C' xl'loration hy th is S wcdish "Beggar's Opera" by the City ticket purchase pricc. r\ot yet dircctor. Cellter Acting Co. of l\ew York, finalize d is the po~slhili ty of All showi ngs will he at t he Ivan a Fn'llch comedy by a stude r.t s being charg-l'd onc·half Wi lson Cl'nter for Fine Art~ at (:) professional theatre company, prict, on the regular singl'" til'ket and 9 fJ .m. Admission for ('ach film a cOlleerl by the Roger Wa gner purchase. is Sl. Chorale. and a scries of films by The Ci ncinnati Ballet perfur· TIlt' R O)~f'r ",'agn(,r Chora le will Ingmar Bergman. be TI1 C'"day. ;>. Iarch 19, a t 8: 15 p.m. "The $22 .50 value entitles the in Van :"11 et er Audi torium. The holder to a rescrved scat for Ch orale, \\·hi,·h Ins wnn a Gramm,\' each of th l:' event s." according Aw:tl·ri. pr e~l'nh mu;;ic fr om the to Dr . Powl B. Cook, -::0- s pi ri t u:,;s anri folk mu !>ic of chairman of the center AnHTif' :I a nd Engl:lilrl to 16t h dedication committee. C{l,lk c('nt llI'.\· church music. also has announced that tickets for single e\·e nt.s will go on sale ~l os t of t hl' activiti('s arc sc h(' duil'd to coincide wi th the Monday .