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Show Park City News Thursday, December 2, 1982 Page B3 Streak through Greek and Turkish culture immm by Rick Brough Here's a wedding announcement an-nouncement you probably missed. Cathy Morris and Blake Jones married each other last summer. However, it's a marriage recognized only in the Islamic Islam-ic world, according to local Katherine Janka. It all happened when several Park City residents traveled to Turkey and Greece last summer, and they'll tell their story with sights, sounds, and food next Sunday Sun-day at the Egyptian Theatre. During the trip, explained, Janka, Cathy and Blake went through a Moslem wedding ceremony, although Blake can dissolve the union by saying "I divorce thee" three times. It isn't that easy, however, said Janka. According to the terms of the marriage agreement, agree-ment, his "alimony" consists con-sists of three bags of gold! The show is called "A Taste of Turkey, A Glimpse of Greece," (sounds like a review of Thanksgiving dinner). din-ner). It features an exciting review of the trip, plus food, exhibits, and live belly-dancing by Park City's local troupe, Arabian Daze. The reception starts at 7:30 p.m. Sunday night followed by the performance at 8: 15. The local travelers to the Mediterranean included Blake, Cathy, Katherine, Rocky and Shirley Smith, Ron Privot, Laura Thomas, Jan Mann, and Ren Ander-ton. Ander-ton. Two others, Demie Milliken and Susie Williams have since moved from the Park City area. The trip took some 20 days in late August and early September. The show focuses on a slide presentation of the trip, but Janka promised it won't be one of those dull "here-we-are-at-the-airport" collection collec-tion of pictures. "The show is not chronological," she said. "It's arranged by topic." One of the most important topics, she said, is eating and drinking. The show will give us never-before-revealed statistics like the fact the group gained a total of 680 pounds. The crowd can feed on the national delicacies and pastries at the reception. The menu includes Greek wine and meatballs, and Turkish cheese-stuffed grape leaves. Another topic, "Water Sports," shows our heroes on the waves, and the most spectacular crashes ever taken on a sailboard. The Smiths were among the best aquatic athletes, Janka said. Blake Jones and Cathy Morris were among the worst. Other sections focus on the native towns and people. The group made many friends, Janka said most of them tavern-keepers. One restau-ranteur restau-ranteur baked a cake for Janka's birthday. As an extra added attraction, attrac-tion, you'll see photos never before exhibited to anyone anyone of Kaunos, a fifth-Century Roman city now being excavated in Turkey. Photos of the site were prohibited, but one of the Park City group snapped a few illegal shots. The group saw the remains of several civilizations-Rome, civilizations-Rome, Greek, and Ottoman which successively overwhelmed over-whelmed the Turkish homeland. home-land. In Greece, they visited the Acropolis and a temple . dedicated to the God Poseidon. Posei-don. The souvenir exhibit includes in-cludes several shells the group found at the shore and in shallow water. (Snorkel-ing (Snorkel-ing is allowed in the region, said Janka, but scuba-diving to deeper levels is prohibited an evident attempt to keep tourists from finding and snatching the country's undiscovered un-discovered artifacts.) The display this weekend will also show off jewelry, brass and native coffee-pots. Finally, the most important impor-tant topic of the slide show is called "Good-looking Men." Janka said, "This is mostly about the crew of our boat." Park City's local belly-dancing belly-dancing troupe, "Arabian Daze," consists of Roger Fuller, Annie Bowman, Sandra San-dra Cymet, Leigh Terry, Laura Begy, Jane Singer, Cheryl Thompson, and Judy Summer. Their teacher is Shelby Mikkelsen. Admission is $2, which goes toward support of the Egyptian and Park City Performances. The Middle Ages come alive in Park City The medieval Christmas feast began as part of an effort ef-fort to chase the winter blues away. And those were the days when the winter blues could be fatal, said Joyce Newman. Joyce is the vocal director of the Collegium Musicum, a University of Utah folk-music folk-music group that will appear Dec. 10 at an authentic old English feast to be held at the Cowboy Bar. The revelry, music, food, comes to modern-day Park City as a benefit for the Egyptian Theatre. But 700 or 800 years ago, the feast served a more crucial purpose. The winter months in Europe were a dangerous season, said Newman, when the cold easily killed the sick or ill-fed. ill-fed. "People seemed to come through the season healthier if they kept their spirits up," she said. (Could it be that psychosomatic medicine was devised in the midst of the Dark Ages?) After Halloween every year, she said, the lord of the manor appointed a Lord of Misrule whose job was to plan festivals, dinners, games, and skits for the next few months. His job ended at the celebration of Mardi Gras, about eight weeks before Easter. And naturally the Christmas dinner was a big part of the goings-on. In its earliest days, it was strictly a pagan custom, and the Lord of Misrule was even sacrificed at the end of his "term of office," said Newman. Gradually, Christian traditions were added to the dinner. A priest was present at the feast, but the revelers also hosted an array of scantilv-clad dancing dan-cing girls. (Sorry, none this year!) The skits staged by players at the dinner were medieval "roasts" that poked fun at the lord and his coterie. Such activities no longer go on at Christmas, but many of the medieval carols have survived and are still popular today. '"What Child is This' or 'Greensleeves,' goes back to Shakespearean times at least," Newman said. Other old tunes can be recognized by the way they mix English and Latin lyrice. Newman has a Ph.D in musicology. One of her tasks is to take old songs like this and transfer them to the modern musical notation that was developed around the 16th and 17th centuries. The job is somewhat like translating a language. (The oldest piece of translated music, incidentally, is an Abyssinian melody dating back to 1500 B.C.) Newman is a member of the music faculty at the University. Many of the instruments featured at the banquet go back to ancient times, Newman said. "We have the lute, which is like the guitar except the back is like a bowl," she said. The crumhorn is an instrument with a twist in it like a shepherd's crook, "which doesn't matter to anybody except the sheep " It's an older style of oboe, with a distinctive "buzzy" sound, she said. One member of the Musicum troupe is a falconer, Newman said, and may appear with his trained red-tail hawk. The Musicum consists of 12 singers and 8 to 10 people playing instruments. They all participate in skits on stage. The group has three scheduled concerts this month mon-th at the University. By last week, Newman said, they were all sold out. Old-music societies have sprung up in every major university in the country, said Newman. 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