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THE BATTALION
Wednesday, September 1, 1971 College Station, Texas
Page 5
Renovation of airport
to begin within month
British singer performs both jazz and opera,
has no desire to become international star
A $569,735.50 contract was
awarded Tuesday by the A&M
System Board of Directors to
Young Brothers Inc. of Waco for
renovation of Easterwood Air
port.
Work is expected to begin with
in a month.
The contract includes overlay,
leveling and strengthening Run
way 16/34, the instrument run
way for the community airport
which is owned and operated by
the university.
Other improvements included
in the contract are repair of the
16/34 taxiways, reconstruction
and expansion of the parking
apron and site preparation for
an instrument landing system.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Her voice has the rich power
of a Caruso, the delicacy of fine
lace, a stupefying range full of
shades and tones, and her songs
range from opera to Duke Elling
ton.
She rarely appears in public
and she is virtually unknown
outside Europe. But musicians
and fans insist she is the finest
jazz singer alive.
She is Cleo Laine, British, 42
years old—a onetime hairdresser
and shoe repairer who awes
crowds like a four-alarm fire,
but prefers living in the country
with her children to the frenzy
of showbusiness.
“If I had the desire to become
an international star, my next
step should be to go to America,”
she said recently, sitting back-
stage in a jazz club while Prin
cess Margaret waited outside to
congratulate her. “But I’m hap
pily married and I don’t want to
leave here.”
But still she stars in opera,
acts in straight stage plays—Sir
Laurence Olivier thinks she’s ex
cellent—sings classics with sym
phony orchestras, and the former
conductor of Britain’s Royal
Choral Society is trying to per
suade her to record Shumann’s
Song Cycle.
At her latest concert in Queen
Elizabeth Hall—where she once
premiered a new work by Francis
Poulenc with the London Phil
harmonic — she sang standard
jazz tunes, pieces by Bach, Kurt
Weill and Charles Ives and poems
by T. S. Eliot and Shakespeare.
“No other singer in the world
could have coped so awesomely
with the range of material,” ap
plauded critic Derek Jewell. Her
voice, wrote reviewer James
Greenwood, was one of the most
beautiful instruments on earth.
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“I’m sure I’d get bored if I had
to sing just jazz,” she said, her
face a sort of happy Byzantine
mask with its quizzical smile and
sloping lines.
“All the good singers influ
enced me — Ella Fitzgerald and
Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday
and son on—but I hope I’ve taken
everything that I can from them
and discarded it, and found my
self.
“I’m occasionally pleased with
myself, but very often depressed
—like every artist should be if
they’re not fooling themselves.
“I don’t suppose I appeal very
much to the mass of younger
listeners—but I was fourth in the
hit parade once—but I feel I ful
fill a need for a lot of people
who are neglected by the pop
scene.”
Switching from jazz to classics
works better than opera singers
tackling jazz, she thinks, because
most of them who try it sound
“interesting, but very unrhyth
mical.”
Musically, Miss Laine is a nat
ural phenomenon. Born of West
Indian British parents in London,
she grew up with no training, and
her only exposure to showbusi
ness was as a child extra in the
movie “The Thief of Baghdad.”
In 1950 when she was 23, she sang
once with a semi-pro band at a
dance. And once was enough.
The bass player immediately
took her to meet John Dank
worth, the British musician who
composes, arranges, works with
people like Yehudi Menuhin and
leads some of the most venture
some jazz groups in the country.
Dankworth hired her, coached
her and married her.
By 1961 she had sold more
than a million records. That sum
mer she starred at the Edinburgh
Festival in the Kurt Weill-Bertolt
Brecht opera “The Seven Deadly
Sins.” Classical appearances fol
lowed, with some movie work, and
in 1965 she recorded a stunning
album of Shakespeare set to
music that won the international
critics’ poll as the triumph of the
year.
She has acted in non-musical
roles at Edinburgh—Andromache
in “The Trojan Women”— at Lon-
dotfs l R8jfer v dotirt ThSat&rV and
on radio. Shb won a Berlin TV
festival award and the city of
London commissioned a song
cycle for her.
Now she and Dankworth live
in a 21-room country home in
Buckinghamshire, building their
own theater for musical festivals.
She sings only a few times a
year in London but—“I do a lot
of television on the continent and
I do cabaret whenever we have
to pay the income tax.”
Youth market
provides impetus
to designers
The youth market is providing
a big impetus to home fashion
designers, who must look at de
sign as a many-faceted challenge,
says Lionel Simons, president of
an English company making
stoneware products for the home.
And the young people are influ
encing women in the 35 to 45-
year-age bracket, whose husbands
are moving up the executive lad
der, enabling them to refurbish
their homes.
Simons has had a crew re
searching the American market
trying to find out what makes it
tick, and they have found young
people are accessory-minded in
decorating.
“Young people are cutting
corners by using only avI at is
useful to them. They aren’t load
ing their cupboards with a lot
of things that might be used
only two or three times a year.
Mother no longer dictates the
life style when her daughter is
married.”
Instead of having three sets
of dishes for day-to-day use and
a “good” set stashed away for
special occasions, 5 r oung people
are likely to choose one all-around
useful service for all occasions,
changing the accessories to suit
the mood.
The whole spectrum of youth
rebellion surges up when a girl
gets married these days, he ob
serves. She no longer adopts
mother’s silver, china and glass
ware patterns, but she is likely
to say, “This is my home, and
I’ll furnish it the way I w :nt it.
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