European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 22, 1978 the stars and stripes a essay augus Zzz 8 i Ric 31 mro thu 31 i rc3 relative Art thrives at the House of Golden hands Page 19 i always had a dream said the Young red haired Stota. Use f suge w8s Lam Nutie went on to talk about Energy and love and Art about giving and sharing All of which Are Imo Orl to him. Instead of giving up his dream he has turned it into re his stage is Golden Handen Golden Handsaw \ " arts and a riffs fill the Golden hone in. Unusual non profit establishment in Eastern Holland that he and a Friend founded. It is partly an Art Center. It is a place filled with All _ kinds of exhibits. It is a mini k t i amusement Park. O trovtln9 More than anything it is a it with philosophy. We Are showing a Laah . What creativity can mean to r Hloi in people. We Are saying every.,. Person has something Good within himself. Let s show it. We believe this is Only Start. The name Golden Handen was first used in 1949, he explained to refer to things people make with their hands. In 1975 this Center with the same name opened in a former monastery located just a few meters from the German Border in Shterenberg not far from the town of ahem. Today Golden Handen encompasses ranch More than Art exhibits. Yet that i How it All got started. Lens was working in the advertising business new product research. He was quickly disillusioned. Adver Tising is bad. It s All Glamor. It s unreal. Selling people what they Don t he got involved putting on slide shows about specific products for housewives. He found his audience eager to they talked about what they did All Day. Most of them spent the entire Day in the House. I Felt sorry for them. In was a Boring life. Some of them said they made things he Learned that some women painted others made dolls or pots. He was impressed with their talents. What they needed he Felt was a Means of exhibiting their crafts. It would give them encouragement and encourage he thought about organizing a travelling exhibit of the homemade arts and crafts. Then be met a Busi Nessman who had bought the 75-year-old monastery in Shterenberg. They collaborated. Lens modified his idea and set up a permanent exhibition Center. Leo Uittenbogaar an author and old school Friend became his partner. Anyone can exhibit things he has made at Golden Handen and there is no exhibition fee. Currently arts and crafts by some 1,000 individuals Are on display. Dolls pre dominate some 1,500 of Are huge rooms filled with surprising varieties of mini people far greater in both numbers and originality than the dolls you see in department store Christ Mas windows. Then too there Are paintings and models things made of Glass and Wood and yarn and Metal about 50 per cent of the objects Are for Sale. But Selling is the not the purpose behind it All. If we suspect people Are using us As a business we make them get out Lens said. He added that some exhibitors have been encouraged by reactions to their crafts and have gone on to set up businesses on their own. The arts and crafts exhibitions Are just a part of Golden Handen the part Lens terms the two other departments Are material and us Larkin 1 Lens i was telling people to be an exhibit on evolution in the monastery basement Complete with Model Cave men in authentic settings Mokes up the material extrasensory department is a sound and slide show in what was formerly the monastery Chapel. The photography pictures of people animals and Beautiful scenery is projected on the Walls. Sometimes images move from he ceiling to various Walls even blending to Gether. Always the background music is Superb and the Chapel setting heightens the dramatic Impact. There is even More at Golden Handen. The latest attraction is an exhibit on Egypt including tapestries made by egyptian children. There is an exhibit on the circus and another on Clini Cal death or life after outside is a prehistoric Gar Dens with giant dinosaurs. Next to the gardens is an area of rides. What does Lens plan for the future it has to do with love and the Way Art can contribute to a better under standing a better life using what we have to contribute in a positive then he mentions different exhibits he would like to add. Even though a theme lying the different exhibits together seems to be lacking the things to see inside the old monastery Are interesting. The atmosphere is relaxed non commercial. It is Ideal for family entertainment. The kids can play among the dinosaurs and ride the rides while you take in the Art and crafts. You might even want to see the slide show twice. Golden Handen is open daily from easter until nov. 1. From 10 . Until 6 . Admission is 6.50 guilders about k for adults and about $2 for children under 14. Rides Are extra. There is a restaurant in the Complex. Fohn Klemmer upfront jazz for Ever Man by Peter j. Boyer associated press i after being trapped these Many years in k Dingy Smoky clubs and relegated to the remo a test reaches of the Corner record store jazz a May be ready to step into the Light and luxury p commercial popularity on a grand scale. Jazz never quite Able to shake its image As in Access Peart form enjoyed Only by folks who like dim lighting bowing signs of breaking through to the lucrative Aunce that has been cornered by mainstream pop. I traditionally a successful jazz record Sells in copters a pop hit Telb a couple of million. Sat \ Jota nigh fever will probably reach a Mil Lloa 8 Tazz artists like Chuck Mangione. George Benson John Jemmer have shown that jazz and Broad popu v tre not As record companies have Traditi Nauy Tod. Exclusive notions. Their records have slipped the top of the jazz charts and have been competing. A fully for the pop audience s Dollar Ujj Canmer. For one. Thinks the jazz Renaissance has just jazz is still in its Klemmer has a Lone list of theories As to Why jazz has remained in the shadows of pop music commercially. Jazz s image he says has not helped the cause. The thing that jazz musicians have been bucking for years is an incredible amount of assumptions and prejudice that s been built up Over the years when i was a kid growing up in Chicago people used to Call jazz that far out music the Black cats play jazz is associated with the Black Man with whore House music and has negative connotations. That has car ried on to today. Someone once asked me when u Jan going to make it i said jazz will make ii when the Black Manli accepted la this perhaps the chief hindrance to jazz has been a reluctance by people in the big business of pop music to take jazz seriously As a commercial Art form. Klemmer has a . I used to be on the jazz subsidiary at Abc impulse records. I went on the Road and found out that a lot of stations because the Label said impulse were using my re torts for Frisbee. By when i got off Monh Ulius and onto Abc. The consciousness towards my music changed dra Laemmer s new album. Ant tit. Zipped to the top three in jazz in matter of weeks but More Bing. The new broader popularity of jazz has been attributed to something called jazz Rock the notion that jazz is More popular because it is sounding More like pop than jazz. But a More Likely explanation lie in the changing pop music Market. Recent Industry studies have shown that u is not teeny toppers who have made Pep mute the Best new giant it has become Bat adults. And adults Are More Likely to buy a Mellower music says Herb Balkan an Abc vice president. When Jatz album goes beyond a Quarter of a million you re obviously getting help from others than the traditional jazz jazz is the people s says Klemmer. It s the Only truly american Art form. The difference Between jazz and pop is that jazz is an Art form and perhaps pop and Rock Are businesses. I mean Rock and pop arc really nothing but watered Down jazz or watered Down Klemmer saxophonist who has been credited with la Vextlor. Or it Kut perfecting the Rock Jan form to talk fates. Jazz has t come to the people by becoming More like pop he says people have come to jazz for its own have made millionaires of formula pop my id is because that s All they were Klemmer says. But rack is very limited you have a certain kind of beat a certain style even a certain Way to dress. Jan is indefinable and Klemmer says. And that s Why it is starting to break
