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JESSICA ZUEHLKE Fine Arts Editor MUSICAL MADMAN couldn't help it with an exciting personality like On Monday, April 7, Don Ellis and his 20- Don Ellis for a leader. Let's get them to Concordia. piece band appeared at Bemidji State College. * The audience was more than receptive to this DIRT BAND RETURNS rock-jazz outfit which has been making it big Most of you are aware that the Nitty Gritty since the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival. Dirt Band will be back for another concert, April The band performs what might be called acid 28. Just recently released by the Dirt Band is or psychedelic jazz. They play exciting concerto- "House at Pooh Corner." Along with the NGDB like things in a dizzying number of different will be Brewer and Shipley. The light, country- meters: 9/4, 11/4, 9/8. Don said, "It's difficult for folk music of this duo is their selling point. High- the band to play in 4/4. So we play in 5/4 and re- lights from their latest album are: "One Toke member to leave off the last beat." The instru- Over the Line," "The Light," "Oh, Mommy," and mentation of this group is rather unique: a string "Seems Like a Long Time." quartet, trumpets, french horn, trombone, bass, * saxes, flutes, electric piano, bass guitar, conga, Beginning next Tuesday evening will be a drummer, and percussionist. series of one-act plays as part of the Fine Arts The most talented member of the group is week. The plays will run through Saturday night Ellis—director, trumpeter, and drummer. Ellis and a minimal charge will be asked for each night. takes his share of solos both on his trumpets, one Here are the plays to be seen and their re- of which is a quarter-tone, and also on the drums. spective directors. Once in a while he uses his Condor, a box his Tuesday, April 20 trumpet is hooked to which changes the tone and A Message From, Cougar Eric Emerson timbre of his horn. Camera Obscura Doug Gens Ellis can also hook in a tape loop in order to Monkey's Paw Phil Noeske play du^ts with himself. The drum solos turn into round robins with the other three drummers. Wednesday, April 21 Clap Your Hands Mankind Dale Lammi In the beginning was the Dirt Band, now they return with some Ellis grins from ear to ear, waiting for the next friends. Brewer and Shipley, of "One Toke Over the Line" fame— musical trick, even when the drum head is Lithuania Linda Brooks Purgatory Merrill Tingum whatever that may mean. Albums are in the library for your broken! listening enjoyment. Ellis has made two beneficial additions to the Thursday, April 22 band since I heard them last fall. Two months ago No Exit Bob Onsgard Zoo Story Keith Trowbridge he added an electric string quartet: a cello, a THIS WEEKEND Friday, April 23 viola, and two violins. The quartet was especial- John MeJz will present a faculty recital tonight at 8:15. It's Taperecorder Jerry Spriggs ly featured in a number called "Loss." This was a a spring time program featuring pieces on the piano and harpsi- Thief Helen Hoverud fantastically moving blues ballad written in 7/8. chord. Their effect is something like "It's a Beautiful Birdbath Charlie Wright Excitement! The Concordia Stage Band will hold a concert at Day." Horn ma Sue Wenz 8:15 on Saturday, April 17, at the H/SS center. Under the direction Mlicho Leviev, piano player from Bulgaria, is Suicide Sue Wenz King of the Ice Cream Mountain of Dr. Charles Moore, the concert promises to be a real treat. another recent adoption to the Ellis band. Don The Fargo-Moorhead Symphony will give its final concert Sun- has been corresponding with Mlicho for the past Jessica Zuehlke (at George Washington Elem.) day, April 18, at 4 p.m. at NDSU. One of the featured soloists on two years, exchanging various tapes. To play the program is clarinetist Ronald P. Monsen from Concordia's with Ellis was a "fantastic dream" for the Bul- Saturday, April 24 music faculty. He will perform Mozart's "Concerto for Clarinet and garian, and now it's a reality. Unwrinkling Plays Nancy Nicholson Orchestra in A Major." All the soloists of the band are of amazingly The Lesson Howard Hanson The last two performances of "Long Day's Journey into Night" high quality. They have been on the road playing Rats Larry Fayne by Eugene O'Neill will be given tonight and tomorrow night at a concert every night for 5i weeks. How do they The Unexpeciated Memoirs of MS at 8:00. like it? "We love it!" replied Fred Seldon, who Bernard Mergendeiler Doug Gens plays extra good sounds on the flute. I encourage you to take in as many plays as Ellis' band is big and super loud, with every- possible to support this cooperative effort of many 4th BIG WEEK! at CINEMA 70 one plugged in and soloists to burn. The audience students (and visit the upperclass art exhibit!) Showtimes 7:00 - 9:40 Nightly. Sat.-Sun. Matinee 2:00 had a fantastic time and so did the band. They * Gary Wright's new album disappoints Gary Wright/Extraction A&M Records SP4277 BARRY WHITNEY better . . . probably Spooky Bell, and Nanette Newman, who- NOMINATED FOR Gary Wright's newest what- Tooth whom Wright created and ever they may be. Although the ever could easily be subtitled apparently wants to keep alive list of personnel may be impres- "the plight of the migrant rock in the form of Extraction. Mean- sive, the tunes are not. In writ- 5 ACADEMY AWARDS! and roll star." The album is a while Spooky Tooth has come to ing his own lyrics Wright com- collection of numerous unrelat- sound a great deal like Joe Cock- posed a song titled "Too Late ed tunes played by Wright's er and The Grease Band minus To Cry". I'm sure that's how band, extraction, which is a me- Joe Cocker who has disappeared he must have felt after listening idocre collaboration of the hang- somewhere in the state of New to his own album. ers-on of British rock. Seemingly Jersey. I hope you got lost in Wright started the album as a the shuffle of musical styles be- Keeps EITHER TBS MOST solo effort only to fall prey to cause I did, and I think that the trend of "let's get all the boys was the only intended purpose NEGLECTED HERO IN HISTORY together and jam in my bath- of Wright's album. 1 OR A LIAR OF INSANE PROPORTION! room. * If nothing else Wright suc- Wright must have expected ceeds in fitting a lot of people the album to sell on the previ- into the recording studio. There's ous accomplishments of its con- John Voorman, Alan White, and tributors, but to anyone who has other working class heroes of listened to the album more than Plastic Ono fame, Mike Abra- once, it is quite evident that hams from Jethro Tull and you've heard the same tunes Bloodwyn Pig, and the Mo-town somewhere else by someone far sounds of Doris Troy, Madeline Dr. Marian Geiger OPTOMETRIST HIBBING 71 Contact Lenses 515 First Ave. North FARGO ROCK FEST 235-1292

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