Lubbock Avalanche-Journal from Lubbock, Texas • Page 79

Disney Debuts Here Artist-mountaineer James Disney is showing his paintings in Texas for the first time Monday through Friday in the lobby of First National Bank. He will be present for the exhibit, which is open to the public during regular banking hours. Disney has undertaken the project of climbing and painting all 54 peaks taller than 14,000 feet in his native state of Colorado. This task, still in progress, is expected to result in as many as 200 paintings and drawings. He specializes in painting mountains and landscapes of the Southwest.

Disney works in several media, including oil, egg tempera, acrylic, watercolor and pencil. As one of best known mountaineers, he has accomplished numerous difficult ascents in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. He has ascended North third highest mountain, Pico de Orizaba, 18,851 feet, in the Southeastern cordillera of Mexico. Since becoming a professional artist in 1963, Disney has become well known in the Southwest. His works hang in numerous collections in this and in other countries.

The director of a museum which displayed a Disney retrospective last year said, knowledge of color and composition is consummate. He is sensitive to the environment and possesses the eye of a naturalist. as well as the rare ability to translate his vision into works of singular freshness and Show Biz Veteran Designs Costumes RELIGIOUS BALLET Performing Seven Last Words of Monday and Tuesday are, top, Larry Lee Van Horn (standing in for chael Rowe): center, Peggy Willis; clockwise from bottom left. Viola Parsley, Jennifer Smith, Molly Magee and Debbie Sowell. Tech, MHS Stage Ballet GUILLOTINE ROUTE James Disney ascends the Sundance Butress near Estes Park.

Colo. Seven Last Words of an interpretive religious ballet, will be presented by the Texas Tech University dance division and the Monterey High School department of music at 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in MHS auditorium. The 55-minute ballet will be preceded by choreographed by Peggy Willis, assistant professor of dance, and six new short ballets presented by seniors Paul Hunter. Diana Baker, Viola Parsley.

Lisa Loh- oefor. Patti Lowrance and Teri Close. Last has been choreographed for this program by Iris Hensley of Marietta. Ga. Singing the Dubois cantata will be the 100-voice MHS choir.

Marjore Newton will direct the choir and the 25-piece orchestra. The 40 dancers are under the direction of Miss Willis, who will perform the role of Mary. Vocal soloists in the cantata will be Tech faculty members John Gillas, tenor; Judith Klinger. soprano and Kyung Wook Shin, baritone. Tickets are $1.75 and may be obtained from Tech dance students or MHS choir members.

Tickets will be available at the door, at the Tech University Center ticket booth and at some local churches. In 1974 Miss Willis introduced the Russian accelerated six- year program for the study of classical ballet at Tech. She is one of about 100 persons in the A. trained to teach the Russian technique and Tech is the only university in this country to employ the method, according to Miss Willis. She says that the highly structured lessons consume less time, inflict fewer injuries and produce much stronger and more polished dancers than any western method.

Miss Willis studies each year under John Barker, a New York dance master trained by VS. Kostrovitskaya. To June Buxkamper, the fun of community theater is that from nothing emerges the magic of opening designing costumes for 19 actors for Great which will run April 23-27 at the Lubbock Theatre Centre, is the word she uses instead of because Mrs. Buxkamper made her on-stage debut in the arms of her parents, who worked in a traveling stock company. Her mother was the leading lady; her father, the set designer, Young June, in fashionable Dutch bob and bloomers, could play either boy or girl.

Later, as wife and mother, she became involved in community theaters. Since she moved to Lubbock in 1973, lent a hand in every phase of LTC work, Mrs, Buxkamper had the role of Sarah Goode in the last LTC production, Crucible." drawing on memories and research to costume Great The mystery-comedy-adventure is set in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and involves a team of mind-readers trying to escape the Communist take-over. In order to design the military uniforms, Mrs, Buxkamper interviewed Czechs who had lived behind the Iron Curtain at that time or who had photographs of relatives in the Czech army. The play concerns the Border Army, which wore bright forest green; uniforms were topped with shirts and ties under jackets; the enlisted with tunics. Officers wore peaked caps.

Rounding up black belts with holsters has been one of Mrs, most time-consuming tasks. For the women's gowns in the dinner party scene, she is using many patterns from her own collection. 1947, after the fabric shortages of World War II, hemlines had dropped. There were halters, definite waistlines, full skirts, flounces, riff- II esley Foundation Rebecca Graham and Anita Mills are exhibiting paintings and graphics with contemporary approach through April 16 in the Foundation, The show opens with a reception from 2-5 p.m. today.

Both this event and subsequent viewing is free and open to the public. lUBBOCK Morning, April 4, Museum Hangs 60 Paintings An exhibit of about 60 paintings by Janet Lippincott will hang today through May 2 in the Museum at Texas Tech University. The artist, from Santa Fe, is a native New Yorker. She has exhibited in the Muse erne in Paris and Instituto Cultural in Mexico City. Although primarily a painter, she also works with lithographs and sculpture.

She is listed in Who in American Winning Paintings, and Who in the fles, large cape Shoes, she remembers, were fashioned much like platforms were worn, although not at night. look is splashy with col- ort fresh and Colors are important in costuming this play. The Sebastians rely on a color code in their mind-reading act, has been very kind and adds Mrs. Buxkamper, emphasizing the community aspect of LTC. JANET LIPPEVCTT galleRy Proudly Presents Raul Gutierrez Opening Friday Evening April 9, 7:30 pm 9:30 pm 4012-34fh Street Lubbock, Texas Mr.

Gutierrez will be in attendance Friday evening, and the public is invited to meet and visit with this personable and very talented artist while viewing this special exhibition. Po Disguise Turmoil The Texas Tech University Laboratory Theatre student company of agrees that its initial interpretation of the Ibsen drama would have had the audience cheering at the title final curtain suicide. As rehearsals added depth to the production, Hedda began to emerge as a character for whom the audience will feel sympathy, even empathy. The show opens Friday and will run through April 14. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m.

Tickets may be reserved at 742-2153. When Denise Aubin stepped into the title role, she played up the demonic, overbearing aspects of the character. Then, under the guidance of director Christy Jerichow, she developed a of pretended over Hedda, who must have the quality of being attractive to other people. refusal to accept the wife-mother mold should strike a bond with every woman in the audience, believes Miss Jerichow. Although the play is 80 years old, speaks to women in their own explains the director.

In casting the characters, she chose Miss Aubin for her awareness of the versatility of personality. To contrast with Hedda, Miss Jerichow cast Allison Hagard as Thea, because of her ability to project the qualities of softness and strength. The pliable Lovborg. who is dependent upon Iwth women, is the most difficult role attempted by student actor Don Shipman, Yet, Ibsen has defined this and all the other roles in the play so well, that even the maid (Carol Brannon), who speaks only a few lines, is a clearly drawn person. Audience opponents of rights will probably cheer Judge Brack (Tommy Culpepper).

who is Hedda's equal in strength, says Miss Jerichow. As husband and aunt-in-law are Roger Scarbrough and Tinna McGee. These characters must come across as not the worthy of the contempt which Hedda has for them, according to the director. Her husband is explains Miss Aubin. The student actress notes how many times that Hedda, described by Ibsen as reverts to childish behavior, a preparation for the violence of the last act of the play.

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