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Tachibana Dances WELCOME JANUARY Sahomi Tachibana gave a lecture and demonstration of Japanese dance in Shirley Auditorium, 7:30 PARENTS PROGRAMS p.m., Feb. 7. Nervously groping for words, Sahomi began her talk with aihr aletnitE the history of the first Japanese dance, the kagura, performed three Volume Llll Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 11, 1972 Number 17 thousand years ago in honor of the sun goddess. Today the kagura is a religious entertainment at Shinto shrines. From the kagura developed by Rick Mitz the bugaku which has become the official imperial household enter Band To Highlight Parentis Day True Confession; I laugh at “All where everything must have a Pro tainment. A stylized pantomime, it effectively shows tension in angular In The Family” and have gotten so found Meaning; where anything LEE CASTLE excite and delight fans over a twm- mous “hot” band of the day. Then, more than a pair of jeans and a movement and deep bends and has used to growing up with Lucy on decade period are very few and far first Jimmy and later Tommy, be stereo system borders on decadence; a definitely masculine quality. It has long been established that TV that I just can’t cut the cord. between. Tommy and Jimmy Dor gan to break in with the top name where back-to-earth means back-to- when someone had to get up and I run the water while I brush my The nogaku dance was begun by sey were two such performers. To orchestras of the day, a history of dearth. lead a Dorsey band (who was not teeth, I use Tide. And two-ply a Buddhist missionary who sought gether, or with their own individual instrumental performances which Ecology, racism, women’s libera named Dorsey) that someone would toilet paper. Blue. With those to teach the people Buddhism orchestras, they delighted audiences climaxed with their appearances tion, war and the rest of the list be Lee Castle. For Lee, one of the little fleurs de lis on them. Be through the medium of dance. It from coast to coast with their great with Paul Whiteman. The King of are all important issues. Too often, best trumpet-players in the-country, cause they match the motif of my eventually developed into a per music. Reunited a few years ago, Jazz. By 1934, when Tommy and it seems that it’s not the issues that has been more than just a member bathroom. formance for aristocratic audiences an entirely new generation who had Jimmy decided to form their own are significant but only the rele of the Dorsey band for many years; I enjoy blazing fires in my fire only. The nogaku is characterized known of “The Fabulous Dorseys” group, both were accomplished sty vance of the issues. We feel guilty he has been considered the “third place. The last movie I saw was by small, slow steps, and the exten only by reputation saw and felt for lists and masters of their instu- if we’re not doing what’s Right, son” of the Dorsey family. “Lady and the Tramp,” which ex sive use of fan and mask to express themselves in the same great band ments. During the following two and we feel Wrong if we’re not Lee started playing when he was ploits women. My bottles are non- emotion. that delighted their older brothers years, they won nationwide acclaim. very young, accepting every oppor returnable and I don’t separate my feeling the guilt. and sisters, and in some cases, par tunity to play that he could get, garbage; which I burn in my blaz There are things—little and big— Another style, the kabuki, began ents, years before. And now, carry The Dorsey Brothers split up in spending a great deal of time play ing fireplace. that can be enjoyed. For their own as the entertainment of the common ing on in the same tradition, is the the early part of 1936, each with ing at the local Italian street fes I just can’t help it. I’m a failure sake. And for no other reason. people. Today only men are allowed Great Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. the idea of building an orchestra at relevance. Too often the Relevance Regalia to perform the kabuki dance on tivals, but still not quite sure that around his own conception of There are, however, some things focuses only on what’s not there stage, while women may perform it was to be his career. It took the The first Dorsey brothers orch music. Tommy’s orchestra was the about which I am relevant. I don’t rather than what exists. only in concert. The kabuki is sound of one of America s greatest estra was formed in 1922, a small first large dance band to play thea have a snowmobi’e or a sable coat. For some people, perhaps, the characterized by a stylized mime trumpet players, Louis Armstrong, group called the Dorsey’s Novelty tres as the featured attraction, and But that’s about it. I read the patterns of smog formed from a walk, stamping, and exaggerated to settle Lee's mind and that was Band which played local dates in during the late 1930’s, he estab wrong things (Nash, not Yevtus dingy smoke stack might be aesthe poses denoting a climax or the end it—he decided that the truuipet WnS and around their home town in lished box office records which henko). I eat the wrong things tically pleasing. That doesn’t justify of a phrase. Famous kabuki families his instrument and the name of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. Then, stand to this day in many houses. (meat, not brown rice). I enjoy the polluting smog, but it creates a each specialize in a certain style of “Mr. Trumpet' and “Prince of the for near y ten years they performed Tommy was responsib e for the the wrong theatre (Neil Simon, not new and positive viewpoint where kabuki, training their children from Trumpet” (a name given to him by as top instrumental soloists for the first success of many top vocalists, Albee). even the ugliness of pollution can the age of three onward. The dance Jackie Gleason) are now. well re leading orchestras of the period. In including Frank Sinatra, Dick So what can I do? I am a pro have its own beauty. is taught as a whole, not as sepa lated to Lee s capabilities and 1934 they organized their own or Haymes, Jo Stafford and Connie rate techniques. Young girls are achievements. duct of an educational system and Truthfully, I haven’t resolved my chestra and began to make musical Haines. Jimmy, on the other hand, taught the same dances as older emphasized a sweeter style which a bio-degradable environment that own guilt feelings about being irre It wasn't long after Lee decided history. Bob Crosby was their vo women but perform in a more sim brought such tunes as ‘Amapola” makes me feel I have to take the levant. True Confession: In my to play the trumpet protessionaliy calist, Ray McKinley played the plified manner. A kabuki dancer and “Besame Mucho” into the class pleasure out of pleasure, the enjoy city. The Lucy Show is on at the that he startea with the joy Dyams drums, and the late Glenn Miller must also be an actor, for the danc ment out of enjoying. The product same time as the Evening News. played second trombone in this of standards, and was responsib'e ing and acting are inseparable. Band, and irom there went on to ot a guilt-ridden culture where free- So I sit near the color television— great musical aggregation, which in for such stars as Helen O Connell Chanting is the main musical ac piay with the better-known bands love means I always have to say receiving radiation—and constantly two years established musical tra and Bob Eberly. companiment. ot the day, such as Artie Shaw, I’m sorry. recycle the channels back and forth G enn Miller, and Tommy Dorsey. dition for an entire generation. Fi- na.ly. Tommy and Jimmy decided For nearly seventeen years, the But what’s so relevant about from one show to the other. Last The lecture was slow and labo Dorsey immediately noticed the po to go their individual ways, and two Dorsey Brothers carried on a relevancy anyway ? night, Lucy talked about the casual rious, the demonstrations intricate tential talent that Cast.e possessed A while ago, I visited the Uni ties in Viet Nam while Walter fine ochestras emerged. Together friendly feud which ended at thg and moving. On the whole the pro and insisted that he leave Pennsyl Hollywood Paladium where Jimmy versity of Wisconsin campus at Cronkite put on a Charlie Chaplin gram was quite interesting and dif vania to study with Mr. Dorsey, and apart the Dorsey brothers so.d Green Bay—a college totally de costume and danced at a PTA meet a combined total of 110 million re was playing an engagement. Tommy ferent. Senior. Lee spent a great deai of and his Orchestra were the next voted to the study of ecology. There ing. It all evens out. cords. the next few years studying under attraction, and, more or less as a one student told me, “It’s okay, but the Dorsey name and became so you feel guilty doing anything that’s Both Tommy and Jimmy made preview of coming attractions, popular with the family that they Tommy played with Jimmy’s band.