Btmmmem. Well Professor's Jazz Work the Best of Times' Works Picked for Symposium Despite Predictability of Game a Composition by Robert Beadell, Darius Milhaud
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5, 1986 - Page 6 Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, February A (9 Btmmmem. well Professor's jazz work The Best of Times' works picked for symposium despite predictability of game A composition by Robert Beadell, Darius Milhaud. He has been a pro-- , to remind his father-in-law- , a fan- like an adult version of the Bad News professor of theory and composition fessor ofmusic at UNL since 1054. By Geoff Goodwin him, is re- Bears. in the UNL School of Music, has Staff Reporter atical Bakersfield fan, always Beadell has written works for him of As if Jack and Reno didn't have been chosen in a national competi minding the game. orchestra, band, choru3, four ope- As of his Dundee already, their wives, tion as one of eight works to be At one time or another everyone has a way purging guilt, enough problems ras, solo and chamber works, j 3zs the idea of the fed with their infatuation with foot- performed at a symposium at Rad- an experience that, given the chance, conceives replaying up ensemble pieces and arrangements outcome He tries to convince Taft's former ball, have left them. ford University in Virginia. they would gladly change the game. and film scores for educational TV. Reno to The itself, as in most movies of The work will be performed at the of. quarterback, Hightower, play game His numerous awards and grants is reluctant. this type, is predictable. If you can't Symposium XI for New Band Music the game. Hightower include the Thor Johnson Prize, a Kurt is how it comes out, you shouldn't at Radford on Saturday by the Virgi- Hightower, played by Russell, guess Ford Foundation Grant for Visiting not in be enrolled in this institution. nia Intercollegiate Band. the greatest quarterback only ComposerAmerican Opera Season but in the "of In of this the film works. There Beadell's composition is titled Taft history, history spite at the New York City Center, two Movie Review Kern He are some three-sec- funny scenes, "Chicago Dance No. 2." It is a t southern County." threw, especially National Endowment for the Arts on whose account listen towards the end. jazz-oriente- you ion, d piece, reflect- depending Composer Fellowships for "Chicago from three to touch- Williams and Russell both perform ing the composer's Chicago roots. It to, anywhere eight Dance No. 1" and annual ASCAP Porterville. well. Williams isn't as in this film is intentionally "mainstream" in "The Best of Times," a new film down passes against funny awards for Creativity and Advance- "The number as he has been in earlier movies, but style, giving its performers an showing at the Plaza Four, 12th and P As Hightower notes, ment of American Music each year that's because the gives opportunity to realize a non-nostalg- Streets, is based on this premise. keeps going up every year." mainly script since 1967. Willi- who was in the him less room to freelance. but integral jazz style. Jack Dundee, played by Robin Hightower, injured is now a mechanic and van cus-tomize- r. It's almost not to like Beadell, who served in the U.S. "Chicago Dance No. 2" premiered ams, is haunted by the memory of game, impossible For school was the this film because it to Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945 in 1985 and performed by the UNL dropping a pass against the archrival, him, high appeals sorry, of his life. He wants to Robert Frost the road not taken in received his bachelor's and mas- Symphony Band and FacultyJazz trio. Bakersfield, 13 years ago. Had he caught highlight his skills as were. each of us. ter's of music degrees from North- His work, "Evocations," settings of it, it would have given his team, Taft, remember they with the of a little sab- We want Jack to catch that ball and western University, where he stu- poems by Ted Kooser, will be per- its first win over Bakersfield in more Finally, help and the even we know he's to died under Anthony Donato. In 1951, formed on March 6 at UNL as part of than 50 years. Instead the game ended otage by Dundee, Hightower though going members of team to it doesn't detract from the he studied with Leo Sowerby and from the Kimball Faculty Composers in a scoreless tie. other the agree (Oops!) moment. And a helluva catch. 1962 to 1963, he studied under Dundee is tortured by the memory of play the game. it's his mistake. He constantly watches The problem is that Bakersfield looks "The Best of Times" isn't the best of and Taft looks but it is worth Band's sound films of the play. If that wasn't enough like the Chicago Bears films, seeing. unique '1888' voices appear tonight late '60s Vo- Sam for cil. It is also of a series of events recalls the A dramatic reading of "Blizzard Ridge has been a puppeteer part al- 19 in the Room to By Randy Schummer "Life in a Northern Town," the ices," a play by poet Ted Kooser, will more than years and has more than scheduled Heritage 130 TV local increase the awareness of the Staff Reporter bum's first release, is doing remarkably take place today at 7:30 p.m. in the puppet plays, shows, public well on the charts. This album should Heritage Room on the third floor of movies and commercials to his credit. literary and artistic heritage of Ne- The Dream Academy, "The have many hit singles. "(Johnny), New Bennett Martin Public Library, 14th This program is the last in a series of braska. contact Dream Academy," Warner Bro- Light," is almost an exact duplicate of and N streets. four, made possible in part by a grant For more information, the thers. what the Mamas and the Papas would Based on true personal accounts of from the Lincoln Community Arts Coun Heritage Room, 435-214- The Dream Academy's album is one do, but has The Dream Academy's the blizzard of 1888, this play is spoken of the biggest surprises of 1985-86- . sound. "The Party" is more of an in four interweaving voices to create Taking a huge risk, the band plays upbeat, bouncy song destined for a the overall picture of the blizzard, its music resembling the mid- - to late-60- s place in the top 40. victims, and its survivors. The not The is read Alan Bar- to hit sound. lead vocalist, Gabriel, does play by Drees, Starship Omaha have a melodic voice, but the two bara Frank, Susan Cross Helms and female backup singers have excellent Sam Ridge, all of whom have appeared Grace Slick and Starship will appear exhibits "a modern, superhot mix of Record Review voices. Gabriel's voice really doesn't on stage at the Lincoln Community in concert March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the great 1980s style rock. This is not '70s hurt the album that much, but I would Playhouse. Also, Alan Drees has ap- Omaha Civic Auditorium Arena. rehash." like to see one of the background sin- peared in several roles with the Lincoln Starship, formerly known as Jeffer- Outfield will open the concert. The The Academy consists of only three gers sing lead on a song. Mellerdrammers and the Star City Din- son Starship, last appeared in concert group's LP, "Play Deep," features the band members Gilbert Gabriel, After listening to so many albums ner Theater. at the auditorium May 11, 1978. single "Say It Isn't So." Nick Laird-Clowe- s and Kate St. John that can only be labeled generic trash, Barbara Frank is a member of Clowns "Knee Deep In The Hoopla," the General admission tickets are on but the complicated music also required this was a breath of fresh air. The music of America, was county-outreac-h story- Starship's latest album, is a new sale now at the auditorum, Brandeis many studio musicians. The band doesn't is not meant to be danceable or trendy, teller for Lincoln City Libraries and has beginning for the band. ticket outlets, TIX and Pickles Records. have many electric guitars, but rather just different. Finally a band pulls off appeared in many college and com- The "Gavin Report" recently reported Advance tickets are $13.75, day of timpani, cellos, and harmonicas, that task, flawlessly. munity theater productions. that the hit single "We Built This City" show, $14.75. I errorism could end Nebraska's woes veryone knows that Nebraska's state out of this economic dedine. So we must form the Nebraska Separa- be non-existe- since few people take and the Isle of Mann as places to dump economy is in the dumpster. But if Nebraskans will follow the tists Front. Since Nebraskans tend to enough interest in the thing to stand large secret stores of cash. E State senators are running simple plan suggested here, I guaran- shy away from violence, the NSF must close to it. Tourism tee prosperity for all of them. pick out targets that won't harm any- Blow up the KOLN antenna. When All those Japanese, German and The first thing Nebraska must do to one, instead endearing the group to the Nebraskans realize that the NSF is French tourists who usually just visit improve its economy is to secede from people's hearts. responsible for taking Mel Mains, Linda New York City, Los Angeles and the Stew the Union. Things to blow up Beerman and Dick Janda off the air, Grand Canyon will flock to visit our How to secede from the Union All terrorists must blow things up.