University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 5-1986 Wavelength (May 1986) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (May 1986) 67 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/59 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. , . - .. .. .. - .. ..._ ... .. 1685 C0550 EARL K. LONG LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS LA 70148 STARTING TIMES: MAY 9:30 - Mon. thru Thurs. 10:30 - Fri. and Sat. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday DIRTY DOZEN 1 2 3 JOHNNY ADAMS BRASS BAND and NEVILLE PIANO NIGHT RHYTHM & BLUES RAMSEY McLEAN'S JAMES COTTON'S CLIFTON CHENIER BROTHERS featuring REVUE SURVIVORS featuring BIG BAND BLUES and his with special guest King Kleary, Tom featuring WALTER Charles Neville, with special guest RED HOT THE COUPE de VIllE McDermott, Amasa WASHINGTON, Channaine Neville, JOHN MOONEY'S LOUISIANA BAND Reggie Houston, Harry RADIATORS Miller, Diz Watson and TOMOTHEA, BLUESIANA BAND with special guest others and SNOOKS Connick Jr., and Herlin Riley AND a special SPENCER BOHREN EAGLIN' BAND third set jam! 4 5 6 7 8 10 KOKOTAYLOR Tipltlna's and Her Blues 1st Annual PIANO ROOMFUL ROOMFUL CROWBAR Machine, TIP'S TEE OFF NIGHT TBA OF OF featuring MARCIA BAll, at City Park BLUES BLUES KING BISCUIT BOY UL' QUEENIE with 9 a.m., dosed in p.m. and KEllY JAY JOHN MAGNIE Call Tips for details 11 12 3 14 15 16 17 GREEN BARRENCE ON FRANKIE FORD'S THE PIANO WOODENHEAD WHITEFIELD and the RED IRMA THOMAS All. STAR SO's SOOW BEAT FARMERS NIGHT and SAVAGES and and the featuring: Joe Barty, with special guest featuring THE with special guest THE PROFESSIONALS Bobby Marchand. Skip DASH RIP ROCK KING KLEARY NEW ORLEANS JOHNNY J. and GEORGIA Easterling. Tommy STICK BAND theHITMEN SATEUTES Warren, and the louisiana Coumy 18 19 20 1 22 23 24 Benefit for the New Orleans Free School PIANO EDU featuring John Mooney's CLOSED NIGHT and the Bluesiana Band, DAllOL THE THE featuring SOUNDS OF Snakebite and the Ninth (Ethiopian Reggae) OTIS CLAY RADIATORS KING KLEARY BRAZIL Ward M.illionaires, (tentative) REVIEW members of the Radiators, and others 25 26 28 29 30 31 ANSON THEN.O. An Evening of FUNDERBURGH SONNY LANDRETH'S MUSIC AWARDS a..osED Acoustic Music THE and the ROCKETS BAYOU RHYTHM Membership Drive Private Party featuring: RNR, TBA BLUE RIDDUM featuring SAM MEYERS featuring with special guests THE ROYAL ST. BAND IWh special guest C. J. 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BAND DRUM CENTER THE PETRIES THE PRODUCERS STARZ ORIGINAL CRESCENT CITY JAll. BAND ..... ~ THE CRUISERS RUMBOOGIE EXIT 209 JAVA SALES... SERVICE •.• INSTRUCTION ALL MAJOR BRANDS e COMPETITIVE PRICES For bookings and 528 Wilkinson Row COMPLETE TEACHING FACILITIES further information contact: New Orleans, La. 70130 e (504) 581-2661 2013 WILLIAMS BLVD. 466-8484 MAY 198&WAVEI..ENGTH 3 -. - -- - - In the early 1970s, while holding the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Sun. 4 Butch Thompson Ragtime Piano Poetry at Harvard, Leonard Be­ Sun. 25 West End Jazz Band rnstein delivered a series of lectures entitled The Unanswered Question. In these highly eclectic, synthetic, Mondays and provocative discussions, Be­ Live Classical Music rnstein asks the question "whither Tuesdays goes Western music?" According to Bernstein, tonality Jon "king" Cleary met its death with the Ninth Symphony of Gustav Wednesdays Mahler. As the Twentieth Century J. Monque'd Blues Band dawned, music, as with all other Thursdays arts, sciences, and intellectual life, Faire Band faced a great abyss. The old things simply no longer seemed to bear validity. From out of this lacuna Fri. 2 Marcia Ball rose two distinct movements: the Sat. j Femes! ind the atonality, then twelve-tone system Thunders-Zydeco Band of Arnold Schonberg and the resur­ Coast Symphony Orchestra under arranged it in a blues, jazz setting. Fri. 9 The bdiators rected, transformed tonality of the the direction of Jim Shannon per­ Continuing in this arrangement of Sat. 10 The File Cajun ~nd Stravinsky of the Firebird and the formed the piece Sebastian with lib­ other composers' work for new Fri. 16 Angeb St~lie Rite of Spring. Hovering above this reno by Mary Jane Redmon; on media, Harbor Music will be con­ "Stranger Blues" foray lay the work The Unanswered February 6, Weigel's Dancing on tributing a five minute synthesis of Sat. 17 Dewey Balla Question of Charles lves. Indeed, Glass was performed at the Mem­ the Italian composer Nino Rota's "et ses arnis acadiens" where would music and all art go? phis State University conducted by Casanova film score for a tribute Fri. 23 Tony Brown Band Native New Orleanian composer, Professor John Bauer; as part of the album based on his work. Jazz Reggae Rock fusion teacher, and music coordinator Jay contemporary music festival at the guitarist John Scofield will appear Sat. 24 Tony Brown Band Weigel possesses his own, highly CAC, Change is Seldom, poetry by on this collaboration. Finally, Rep Rock Fusion Bing­ creative responses to this almost Kim Backalanick, was performed ham and Weigel will make contri­ Rockin' Oopsie ind Fri. 30 the portentious question. A graduate of by the Contemporary Arts Ensemble butions to a forthcoming Charlie Cajun Twisters De La Salle High School, Weigel conducted by the composer. Mingus tribute. Sat. 31 Ansun FunderburP ind earned a B.A. in music from In addition to his the Rockets w/Biind Sam continous com­ Most importantly for those who Tulane in 1981 and an M.M.