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1 Minneapolis Tribune 7B June 6, 1977 The weather Entertainment Arts 3 Readings for Sunday, June 5, 1977 COOLING UNITS AS OF June 4, 1977. Cooling units are used in estimating tuei consumption. The deity figure reflects the degrees bv which average temperatures went above 65, the point at which artificial cooling is generally considered necessary. Cumulative figures report cooling units since May 1. Daily cooling units, 8.

Same dale last year, 6. Season total, 170. Season total on same date last year, 51. MINNEAPOLIS RIAOINCS: Humidity Bl 7 p.m. 45 Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 p.m.

.86 Inches. Tout Jn. 1 to date 9.84 Inches. Sun rises 5:21 sel 18:56 p.m. Mean phase Fun.

Rises 12:09 e.m. Sets 11:03 p.m. COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES (24-hour period ending el 7 p.m.): Hioh 84. Low 61. Yer ago hiah tor June 5, 92 in 1911 and 1925.

All-lime low lor June 5, 40 in 1894. Minneapolis Institute of Arts Sutton directs opera workshop By Michael Anthony Staff Writer presents Japanese art Sunday's temperatures: am- 123456789 10 11 Noon temp. 62 62 61 62 62 61 62 65 69 69 73 76 P-m- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, 89 10 11 Midn. temp. 79 81 84 84 84 84 84 82 79 76 75 70 Forecast: By Mike Steele Staff Writer The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has absolutely outdone itself with its current exhibition of Japanese art from the Mary and Jackson low 80s.

North Dakota: Mostly sunny days and fair at night through Tuesday. Highs today from the mid 70s lo the mid 80s. Lows tonight from the mid 40s lo the mid 50s. Highs Tuesday from Ihe upper 70s to the upper 80s. South Dakota: Mostly sunny days and fair at night through Tuesday.

Highs today in the 80s Lows tonight In the 50s. Highs Tuesday from Ihe 80s east lo the upper 80s and low 90s wesl. Montana, East of the Olvlde: Hot sunny days and fair at night through Tuesday. Highs both days from 85 to 95. Lows tonight from 45 to 60.

Twin Cities: Clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday. High temperatures both days between 70 and 75. Low tonight in the low 50s. Winds today will be from the northwest at 15 to 25 miles per hour. Minnesota: Clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday.

Highs both days from the mid 60s to the upper 70s. Lows tonight from the low 40s to the low 50s. Wisconsin: Partly cloudy through Tuesday. Highs today from the 60s north to the 70s southwest Lows tonight from the upper 30s extreme north to the 40s south. Highs Tuesday In the 60s.

Iowa: Mostly sunny, cooler and less humid today with highs near 80. Clear tonight and Tuesday. Lows tonight in the 50s. Highs Tuesday from the 70s to Ihe Burke collection. This showing of more than 100 works from 10 centuries of Japanese cultural history is not only, beautifully installed but it's sensibly displayed and ultimately instructive.

Japanese art is contemplative art. Today's regional weather forecasts oVjMadg yesterday utternoon by the National WMther Service for Jurw Upper Midwest Winnipeg" International Falls Ma i 1 I hi ff 1 Hv 1 1 1 I f3 1 -r With perhaps the exception of the later Ukiyo-e prints, this art is all made for leisurely viewing in a serene environment. It demands study. To Westerners especially, the Imagery is unfamiliar and the dramatic impact is not immediate. Devils lake High temperature reading In the 12-hour period ending at 7 p.m.

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OFair Cloudy (J Partly cloudy Numbers indicate range of high temperatures 0Rain SI Snow Fog Showers HI Drizzle Freezing drizzle LT3 Thunder showers It doesn grab your mind like Ren-naissance art or clip you on the jaw like the Baroque. llForks (J 70,80 0 6065 6575 DllMh Far9I I I Brainerd 6575 VS 9 30 Aberdeen SI Cloud Twin 7 I Citiosf Eau Claire "1 8085 3 3 7580 7075 65,70 MINNESOTA Twin Cities Alexandria Bemidil Duluth The institute's installation, designed by Cleo Nichols of Asia House in New York, not only aids Inlernll Falls TwinCitiesand Redwood Falls 95 rTMriropolilan dr Rochester lotecas I I Xl SI. Cloud WISCONSIN The University of Minnesota Opera Workshop presented the premiere performances last week of "Words Upon the Windowpane" by Minneapolis composer Libby Larsen, plus short pieces by Mozart and Peter Westergaard. Student opera production, like piano recitals among the very young, has tended to be a grit-your-teeth-and-applaud-loudly-at-the-end affair. The kids have to get experience somewhere is the reasonable rationale, and one attends them hoping the programs will be short.

Mostly none of this applies, however, to the University Opera Workshop, directed by Vern Sutton, a faculty member in the university's music department and himself a tenor of renown in these parts. First of all, Sutton has too much experience in the theater to settle for a dull evening, whether in an academic setting or not. He also has a very good staff working with him, including conductor-coaches Jacqueline Jones and Steven Stucki, costumer Kate Maple and all-round tech man Nathan Everett. The student singers he is working with at the moment display a varying range of abilities, but even the weakest of the lot had the advantage of participating in what was obviously a painstakingly prepared, thoroughly rehearsed evening of opera. It's a pleasure, for example, to see singers really relating to each other onstage.

Ms. Larsen's new work, a one-act opera about 50-minutes in length, is based on "Words Upon the Windowpane," a play by William Butler Yeats. Its main action concerns a seance in Dublin in which the spirit of Jonathan Swift, recalled from "the other side," relives that moment in his life when he has to choose between sexual fulfillment and celibacy, between the life of the senses or the intellect. I WOTtnmgton nocnesier i 1 8085 rV 7580 Mason V. Lr- NiiSiomQty City 61 86 58 .01 53 48 .17 56 .04 63 64 1.23 55 .63 61 .73 66 1.28 54 .70 57 53 56 60 60 57 54 59 in the contemplation of these works, it makes contemplation a happy inevitability.

Nichols has partitioned off two massive galleries into a circling, gently flowing pathway of art that Eau Claire 83 La Crosse Madison 83 Wausau NORTH DAKOTA Weather in other major U.S. cities wends its way in chronological or der from the earliest Buddhist pe Bismarck Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks Jamestown Minot Wllllslon riod (901-1185) through the latest 19th century works. The walls are of natural woods with built-in cas SOUTH DAKOTA 89 55 94 58 64 62 85 62 95 59 88 60 94 63 Aberdeen Huron Lemmon Mobridge Pierre Rapid City Sioux Falls Walertown es. Some sculptures and ceramics are free-standing. False ceilings have been built in Japanese style and the muted lighting and earth colors add the needed serenity.

From there the works take over, and they're suDerb. This is one of IC4 Wl T-Trace Canada the world's greatest private collec 75 41 73 39 72 55 .30 70 55 77 48 73 52 -70 50 -64 57 .34 Calgary Edmonton Montreal Ottawa Regina Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Today's Forecast Tomorrow's Forecast Yesterday City Sky Lo Hi Sky Lo HI Lo HI Pcpn. 1 Albuquerque sunny 57 B7 ot. cldy. 59 84 60 90 Amanita fair 63 87 pi.

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70 mdni. mis 1 p.m. 59 'Lions at the Stone Bridge of Tendai-san," hanging silk scroll from the Edo Period by Soga Shohaku (1730-1781). City Temp. Aberdeen Amsterdam Ankara Antigua Athens Auckland Berlin Beirut Birmingham Bonn Brussels Cairo Casablanca Copenhagen Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Lisbon London Madrid Malta Manila Moscow New Delhi Nice Oslo Paris Peking Rome Saigon Seoul Sofia Stockholm Sydney Taipei Teheran Tel Aviv Tokyo Tunis Vienna tions of Japanese an, amassea in only the past 14 years by St.

Paul native Mary Burke and her late husband. It wasn't seen publicly until the Metropolitan Museum of Art showed it in 1975, stunning a largely unsuspecting Oriental art world. This showing consists of a well-chosen but small or part of the entire collection. The art of this isolated island nation reflects a succession of Chinese artistic and religious influences followed by Japanese refinement and ultimately a distinctly Japanese style. The earliest items in the show, from the second half of the 10th century, are Buddhist and Shinto in influence, especially wood carvings, and we can watch them take on distinctly Japanese styles as they get older a directness, a livelier, less passive quality, an already highly formed decorative-ness.

One of the finest sections in the show feature monochrome ink paintings. These are subtle, introspective works reflecting the rise of Zen in Japanese culture with its emphasis on contemplation, meditation and introspection. These subtle works were Introduced from China in the 13th century and were used not as religious icons but as forms of mental and spiritual exercise. These spontaneous paintings achieved the goal of maximum expression using minimum means with slight brush strokes conjuring up expressions of mountains or blossoms. Many Temperatures are overnight lows and davtime highs.

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1 p.m. Today's National Weather Service forecast Supplied by the Associated Preaa Warsaw are accompanied with poems which elevated the works in Japanese minds. By the 16th century, these subtle paintings had grown to large proportions in the form of screens, without any loss of simplicity or subtlety. The screens are the high point of this show as they were of Japanese art history and some, like the painting of Uji Bridge, rank with the world's art masterpieces. One must keep in mind while looking at these works that unlike Western art virtually all Japanese art alludes to literature.

Literature and calligraphy were among the highest arts and poetry abounds. The Burke collection is especially heavy on allusions to that first, Latin America It is best not to inquire why Swift has to make such a choice or, plainly, "Who cares?" That was Swift and the 18th century. The fact is that Ms. Larsen is skillful enough in the writing of dramatic music to make us almost care about Swift's plight and to make us, if not care, at least feel a chill when, at the end, Swift overtakes the body of the medium, Mrs. Henderson, so that he can communicate his despair at will.

Moreover, this is an apt piece for operatic treatment: The story is dramatic; it builds, and it has a number of good characters. Ms. Larsen works in basically a tonal, often tuneful, medium. Her recitatives have the natural flow of speech while still maintaining an arioso quality, and her instrumental writing, though sometimes a little too busythat is, too many things happening at once to have a clear dramatic referent is evocative and imaginatively conceived. Not all of the upstage singing during the Swift tableaux, placed cleverly on a platform and viewed through a scrim, was articulated clearly enough Friday night.

But the whole piece was directed tightly and dramatically and featured, beside Stucki's assured conducting, especially strong performances from James Bohn (Swift) and Judith Tiller (Mrs. Henderson). Baritone Bohn, who contributed the best singing of the evening, also played Colas in the charming presentation of Mozart's little singspiel "Bastien and Bastienne," opposite Mary Borsgard and Norman Engstrom. The other work in the first half, engagingly performed by Paul Neslund and Joy Hammer, was Westergaard's wryly schizoid "Mr. and Mrs.

Discob-bolos," based on the poem by Edward Lear. Com i 100 JWtll'l Warm Z7 Nti) OcckjctodSSS Stationary Aiunclon 8 a.m. 66 Buenos Aires a.m. 59 Lima 7 a.m. 63 Montevideo 9 a.m.

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St. Kitts Trinidad Tegricigafpa Vera Crui Tegriclgalpa great romantic novel "The Tale of Genji" written around 100 A.D. There are also handscrolls, called emaki, which relate stories in words using the pictures to express the emotions of the characters. Another major section of the show features Nanga paintings, a school of 18th and 19th century southern painting that represented both the final Japanese movement heavily influenced by Chinese esthetics and the rise of middle class patronage. This middle class spirit led to a form of populism, the Ukiyo-e school which depicted urban street life, courtesans and Kabuki actors, all celebrating man's pursuit of pleasure.

The woodblock print was the major form because of its easy distribution and potential for "best seller" status. The show also has ceramics, lacquer furniture and book illustrations. The exhibition successfully blends them together in a pleasing, sensible harmony. The labels are concise and helpful and the institute has Issued a very good, inexpensive catalog. There is also a well-done orientation gallery that is worth spending time in before going into the show.

It will all be on view through July 17. Artist says presents Mrs. Carter gives not most costly Associated Press Atlanta, Ga. The artist who made the glass dogwood flowers that Rosalynn Carter Is presenting to foreign leaders says he has more expensive sculptures available, "but I think they want to cut down on the cost to the taxpayers." Hans Godo Frabel sold the 12 glass sculptures to the State Department for less than $50 apiece before President Carter's wife embarked last week on a 13-day goodwill trip to Latin America and South America. Fifty dollars is the limit Carter has established in giving gifts to foreign leaders.

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