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U H d V U J Peter O’Tbole in ‘My Favorite Year* also: Split Image George Thorogood Dire Straits 2A Thursday, October 14,1982 Diversity of Culture in Silk Route Program By KATHERINE D. ZIMBERT A wide diversity of culture revealed itself to the nearly full auditorium in Campbell Hall Friday night. UCSB Arts amd Lectures opened its season with Music and Dance of Contents the Silk Route, a presentation from the Peoples’ Republic of China. The title is derived from the ancient caravan trade routes in China during the Tang dynasty about 2500 years ago. Accordimg to the tour and stage manager, Roberta Stalberg, the poetry upon which many of the pieces in the Music and Dance of the program are based was written by scholars who made up about 1 percent of the population during the Tang Dynasty. Silk Route.................2 These poems were written as philosophical exercises, and it was not until later that well-educated women singers set My Favorite Year...... 3 these poems to music. The rest of the program was based on folk tunes from various small cultures throughout China Studio 19 .................. 4 which have existed since pre-literate times. The program was unique in that it featured performers S.B. Ballet’s Carmen . 4 from five different parts of China who had banded together especially for this presentation, and will probably never Rewatching Rocky work together again after their tour of the U.S. has ended; they have 16 more cities to go. The five regions of China that Horror..................... .5 were represented were the Kergez, the Uighurs, the Xin jiang people, the Miao people, and the Inner Mongolians. Split Image............... 6 Five instruments which best represented each culture were played; the pipa was the only one which has ever been George Thorogood ... 7 played in the United States before. There is something incredibly universal about folk music, Album Reviews.......... 8 regardless of what country is originated in. Folk songs are an expression of the daily lives and emotions of peole all Jekyll and Hyde........ 9 over the world; they release tension and express celebration. The “Keng Dzaylo — The Vast Pastureland in Summer,” certainly illustrated this point. This is a traditional Kergez melody which was inspired by the image of the Kergez herdsmen living their peaceful lives amongs the cows and sheep. The music, however, was more reminiscent of what these peaceful shepards did during their not-so-quiet melodies. moments. The dances of the evening were often a combination of The soloist was Maimaiti Tulumaxi; the instrument was instrument playing and dancing by one performer. The a kumuzi, a three stringed instrumdht which is a little Miaon piece called “The Cock-Fighting Dance,” was one of smaller than a guitar. It was remarkable how he used this these. Jin Ou acted the parts of both cocks as they fought Editor: instrument to evoke many sounds one would not normally over some food in the grass, while he used the lusheng as an Barbara Postman associate with a string instrument. Maimaiti made use of extension of his body to aid him in creating the stance of a not just the strings, but the wood surrounding them as well. cock. The lusheng is a reed instrument about the size of a By using his fingertips, his knuckles, the back of his hand saxophone, and sounds like a small organ. Staff this issue: and the palm of his hand, he created percussion and string “llie Tajik Dance,” performed by Maliyamy Nasaier, Jonathan Alburger sounds simultaneously. The result was a fast, foot-stomping was an enactment of the joys of an Uighurian sheperdess as traditional folk tune. she goes about her daily chores. She glided across the stage Jay DeDapper Another example of the appeal of folk music was the while undulating her head and neck, smiling mischievously Julie Desnick Uigher Tune titled “Xiadiana”, meaning happiness. This at the audience. tune was similar to the “Keng Dzaylo” in its fast explosive In the “Mongolian Bowl and Wine Cup Dance,” dancer Ji Greg Harris tempo, but the instrument, the rewapu, was even more Ya balanced three bowls on her head while doing various Peter Lefevre versatile than the kumuzi. The rewapu is a long and narrow dancing feats. At one point she knelt on the floor, bent insturment consisting of about seven stringes, a hollowed backwards, and balanced the three bowls on her forehead. Jane Musser area about the size of a hand, and a long neck. Dawuti The “Lusheng and Mangtong Melody” finished off the Bill Shinbrot Awuti played the rewapu with both hands, holding it program of 23 pieces with a bounding leap from Jin Ou. He Katherine D. Zimbert parallel to the floor. His hands danced back and forth along hopped up and down, did partial splits, and skipped about the instrument, displaying great coordination. One of his the stage playing the lusheng, while Hu Zhihou and two hands treated it as a percussion instrument while his other other musicians played the horn-like instrument called the hand made the strings hum. The sounds that emerged were Mangtong. Hu Zhihou also played the guanzi, a reed pipe so diverse that they could have come from two different produced in China’s Xinjiang region. instruments. “ Music and Dance of the Silk Route” lived up to what it The most varied string instrument, however, was the had promised to be: a small taste of the many different pipa. In “Ambush on All Sides.” He Shufeng portrayed the ethnicities residing in China today. The difference between story of a battle. With this lute-like instrument, she created the Chinese and American song and dance rountine is the sounds of marching armies, bugles, war cries and the great, but the audience was not alone in its attempt to howling of the wind. She played almost violently at times, understand these startlingly different cultures, because the going from harsh grating sounds to beautiful mournful performers were sharing new things with each other as (Please turn to pg.llA , col.4) Democratic Process and the CIA: A Conflict of Interests? A.S. PROGRAM BOARD & KTYD Bring you 1 A - I C a m p a i Thursday, October 28 The True History of the CIA 8 : 0 0 p .m . The Award Winning Documentary "Dialogue with the Producer" Extraordinary! Raises the most profound questions Howard Dratch. co-producer UCSB EVENTS CENTER ebout American conduct ebroed." On the problems o f making - BOSTON GLOBE an expose on the CIA "ft rids you with e Tickets $9.75 and $10.75 — plus — sense o f rege end shame. 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In the is an endless chorus of “So when is Mr. Big Shot motile star Steve Sloan and recently released film My Favorite Year, hardly a second going to settle down and raise a family?” The scene defies passes when one isn’t wishing for a pen and paper to you to keep a straight face. Sean Kimbrough eagerly scribble down every one of the flood of epigrams, Mark Linn-Baker as Stone is a good foil for O ’Toole, Pick them up at: anticipating a chance to dazzle the cognescenti at the next although when the time comes to get serious he doesn’t D.P. kegger. And what better voice to utter these bon mot seem to have the emotional recall needed for the lines he W . A. King Co 9 E. Figueroa, S.B. than the commanding one belonging to Peter O’Toole, a must deliver. Traditional Clothing for Men & Women man who can give the word “schlong” a ring of biblical Jessica Harper as an assistant to the producer of the show and the love interest in Benjy’s life, is attractive without stealing the scenes she is in. She has the certain poise of someone who is entirely self-sufficient and sharp enough to see when the skit ends. Baker and Harper make a good couple. H E W L E T T J ip i PACKARD Joseph Bologna has the manic energy required, even Aa Equal f i j lu'ir inherent, in a television comic, though his face is a bit too good-looking and honest to do comedy. One of the best is grateful for the outstanding reception from the students at UCSB this recruiting year. We continue to have openings Harper, Baker and O’Toole for career opportunities in importance. Computer Science, Accounting, My Favorite Year is a showpiece for O’Toole, giving him the opportunity to play a film star in the tradition of Errol Electrical, Mechanical, and Flynn, making his first appearance on American television.