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PAGE 6 THE RETRIEVER APRIL 11, 1989 Musicians set to boogie 12th annual Jazz Fest. blasts off Sat. Joab Jackson Diehl. of Ron Diehl, who is also a profes- Retriever staff writer The best student musician of the sional saxophone player. "I've been day will win a one-week music camp trying to get Chris Vadala to come to It's Spring! And once again, scholarship. Trophies will also be the jazz festival for years, but he's mother nature rises from her tomb given to the best woodwind, brass and been on the road with Chuck Man- of winter to dance around and rhythm soloists, and NAJE talent gione. It so happens that he wasn't spread her color-ful creativity citations will be presented to the out- going to be on the road this month so everywhere. Flowers are budding and standing talents of the festival. The he was glad to do it," Ron says. buds are flowering. So what better camp scholarship is donated by the For those who just want to hear the time to foster a bit of musical Southern Comfort Corporation, pros play, Bill Warfield will play a set creativity as well? The judges for the competition are with the UMBC jazz ensemble at 1:00 Or more specifically, what better well-known names in the jazz field in p.m., and at 5:00 both Chris and Bill time than next Saturday, April 15, their own right. Bill Potts has will do cameo solo appearances with when junior high and high school jazz arranged for Doc Severinsen and the US Navy Commodores. musicians will get a chance to jam Harry James. Hank Levy has com- with the pros at UMBC's 12th Annual posed and arranged for Don Ellis and Bill Warfield is a New York based Jazz Festival. A dozen school bands Stanley Keaton. Jeff Taylor is a composer, arranger and trumpet from six surrounding states will all composer/arranger for the U.S. Navy player. He has worked with such compete for the chance to go on to the Commodores, and Gary Dailey is a artists as Paul Anka, Mel Lewis and national finals of Musicfest U.S.A. composer/arranger for Ethiel Ennis. Sheila Jordan as well as working as an This year's festival will feature guest Jazz fans can also rap with Chris arranger for Columbia, Lifesong and appearances by Chris Vadala, Bill Vadala in a workshop session for Seabreeze records. He also was a part v Warfield and the US Navy Commo- student musicians at noon. of UMBC's jazz band about twelve dores. years ago. The '89 festival will kick off at 10:00 Chris Vadala is probably best The afternoon's events will end at a.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall with known for his accompaniment in 6:00 with the presentation of the day's a grueling jazz band competition. Chuck Mangione's band. Chris has student awards. Although the awards School bands will play half-hour sets played on such Mangione records as are only handed out to a few students, and will be judged according to the Feels So Good, Save Tonight for Me, all the musicians can benefit from complexity of material and perfor- and Journey to a Rainbow. With the working with the pros. Past festivals mance. In addition to the rehearsed Mangione band, he has played sop- have featured jazz artists Clark Terry, set, each ensemble will also have to rano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxo- Rich Matteson, Al Cohri, Willie Tho- compete in the sight reading contest. phones, piccolo, c flute, alto, and bass mas and Dizzy Gillespie. "The other Here a band is given a previously flutes, clarinet, recorders, lyricon [festivals], they just give you a trophy unseen score of music plus two wind synthesizers, and miscellaneous and a little pat on the back, but you minutes to study the music and confer percussion (whew!). Chris now can't do anything with it," adds with the conductor before playing appears as guest soloist with various Diehl. that piece. To make this contest espe- jazz ensembles, and writes and per- Deihl says that the day's events cially testing, the scores chosen are all forms original music for short films. , adds up for a creative atmosphere. previously unreleased. His appearance at this festival is par- ' "There's a lot of learning going on, a "The judges give them a choice of tially funded by the Selmer Corpora- lot of peer learning." Junior high, high an easy, medium, or difficult piece of tion. school and college jazz musicians music, and the band director can It wasn't difficult to convince Chris rarely get a chance to interact with the choose which he'd like his band to Vadala to be the guest at this year's essence of jazz with some of jazz's try," says festival co-director Ron jazz festival. Chris is a personal friend greatest performers. Can "stress" trigger cancer? Mary Ann D?;,^ professional seminar series. tal tactors are all patterns that are Retriever staff writer Presently, Levy is also the Asso- related to the illness." Did you ever stop to think thai ciate Director of the Division of She will also discuss natural killer endless hours of cramming for Biobehavioral Oncology at the Pitts- cell activity (which is and important exams, heated disputes with burgh Cancer Institute. She has part of the immune system) and the your boyfriend, and getting nervous appeared on The Today Show, and relationship between disease outcome about interviews and graduation may she's known nationally for her studies f and infectious disease activity of result in life threatening health and work with cancer patients, both at breast cancer patients. conditions? The National Cancer Institute in Recent studies show that stress and Washington, D.C. and at the Pitts- Levy's findings show that fluctua- people's way of coping with burgh Cancer Institute. tions in personality affect the immune Chris Valdala, a member of Chuck Magione's band, will appear at the UMBC Jazz Festival on Saturday, April 15. stress in their everyday life has a direct Levy has been involved with cancer systems of normal, healthy volunte- correlation with the incidence of can- research for several years, and her ers, and can be associated with health cer. Additionally, studies suggest that current focus is on those women with outcomes such as increased fevers and physical and mental vitality, stimu- early stage breast cancer. A longitudi- strep infections. Similarly, her work Swinging profs, ride "Edge" lated by nutrition and exercise, as well nal study on breast cancer patients at with breast cancer patients has shown along with the rest of the band Labor as by a positive and relaxed mental The University of Pittsburgh has that those who are subdued, masking Joab Jackson Intensive, who opened the latest in- followed by the more subdued, but attitude can strengthen the body's yielded important and enlightening their pain and frustration over their Retriever staff writer stallment of the music department's just as unpredictable live/electronic immune system. findings. illness and surrounding circum- Man, sometimes life is just too End of the Edge series last Thursday, piece entitled "Triune," composed by Dr. Sandra Levy, an Associate Pro- "In my presentation I will be dis- stances, tend to develop complica- good. Imagine my surprise April 6. Jeff Smith. fessor at the University of Pittsburgh cussing how stress and coping affects tions and die sooner than those who when I saw my old The End of the Edge series is the The first half of the set closed up Medical School, will speak here at natural immunity related to disease cry and express themselves openly. psychology professor, nor-mally a brainchild of both Dr. Stuart Smith, with an acoustic song and poem UMBC on personality traits and how outcome," she explains. "In addition, Dr. Sandra Levy's presentation on laid back scholarly type, up on stage director of the New Music Ensemble, recited by John Keczmerski. The song they affect cancer patients' immune research with normal, healthy com- these and other notable findings will wailin' away on the bass clarinet. But and Mike Cerri, director of recording "Child" and the poem was both whim- systems. Her lecture, as a part of the munity volunteers has revealed that take place on April 13, 1989, at 5:15 there he was, Dr. Robert Provine, facilities. The idea is to "tear down the sical and painfully honest, an enig- UMBC Psychology Department's personality, attitude and environmen- p.m. in Fine Arts Room 306. all right. He was gettin' down too, Ivory Wall" as Smith puts it, to let the matic but successful combination. rest of the campus know what the After the break, Mike Doye music department is up to, as well as returned to the stage to recite his tone to present to the public some of the poem "Song to Promote Peace in ethnical music which exists in Balti- South America Composed up North." more, but rarely gets heard. This This poem had the same fluidity as particular installment concentrated Mike's bass playing. The poem was on the works of the students in full of different dialectics, strange "... integrating Smith's music composition class. phrases and anonymous govern- The opening band Labor Intensive mental doubletalk. It ended with the the forbidden describe themselves as a "psycho- question "I...?" sexual acoustic phenomena" but in Doye's poem was followed by and peripheral more practical terms they're a jazz another electronic/live piece by Steve quartet focusing on free improvisa- Snyder, called "Dialogue." Steve sounds of the tion of standard arrangement.