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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, October 16, 1973
THE BATTALION
World-Acclaimed Guitarist
To Be First OP AS Attraction
Christopher Parkening, who
first commanded national atten
tion while still in his teens, now
ranks as America’s leading vir
tuoso of the classical guitar.
Andres Segovia, the master
guitarist of this century, has
proclaimed “Christopher Parken
ing is a great artist—one of the
most brilliant guitarists in the
world!”
Parkening will be presented in
concert November 5 at 8 p. m.
as a Town Hall-OPAS special at
traction.
When Parkening took up the
guitar at the age of eleven, his
interest was so intense that he
mastered the instrument swiftly.
His first recital at 12 stirred the
critics. He created a sensation
two years later when he played
the Bach “Chaconne” at the an
nual auditions of the California
Young Musicians Foundation. In
1966, composer Mario Castelnuo-
vo-Tedesco chose Parkening to
play the world premiere of his
Second Concerto in C for Guitar
and Orchestra.
In subsequent years, Parken
ing took up academic and musi
cal studies at the University of
Southern California. He was also
a scholarship student in Sego
via’s master classes, both at the
University of California at Ber
keley and at the North Caro
lina School of the Arts.
In July 1968, Parkening was
named one of the outstanding
young artists of the year by
“High Fidelity” magazine. The
following September he signed
with Columbia Artists Man
agement Inc., for his first con
cert tour of the United States
and Canada. Parkening takes
lengthy tours. In addition to con
cert halls, his engagements in
clude a number of appearances
on college and university recital
series where he has an especially
warm rapport with his audiences.
During the 1972-73 season.
Parkening was soloist with the
New York Philharmonic, the
Minnesota Orchestra, the Mil
waukee Symphony, and he was
featured on television with the
Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur
Fiedler conducting. He made his
New York recital debut in the
handsome new Tully Hall on
November 2, 1972. His concert
itinerary includes tours of both
Japan and Europe.
Parkening, like Segovia, recog
nizes the obligation to pass along
the heritage of knowledge to
younger musicians. Since 1968,
he has been the head of the Gui
tar Department at the University
of Southern California School of
Music. He believes the guitar
will ultimately play a vital role
in enlarging the audience for
classical music. He points out,
“There are more than thirteen
million guitars in the United
States and young people own
most of them.”
In his foreword to his method
book, “The Christopher Parken
ing Guitar method, Volume 1, he
writes, “The guitar is one of the
most beautiful, sensitive and in
timate instruments in the world. I
will be grateful if I can to some
extent convey its beauty through
performing, and if I can teach
it properly to those who love it.”
In his concert here, Parkening
will play works by Bach, Mandel,
Weiss, Ravel, Debussy, Paulenc,
Villa-Lobos, Lauro and Albeniz.
Tickets are available at the
University Box Office, telephone
845-2916. Admission will be by
individual ticket purchase only.
Only orchestra level seating of
the University Center Auditorium
will be used.
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MIAMI /bP) — Police here are
investigating a voodoo cult in the
Latin community following the
slaying of a man who reportedly
threatened to use the head of his
attacker in a sacrificial ritual.
Police said Monday they were
sifting through the belongings of
Juan Olivier Hernandez, 36, for
information about the cult and
clues to the identify of his killer.
One officer said they found a “lot
of weird stuff” in his room.
Hernandez was killed Saturday
night when he was shot three
times by an attacker who wit
nesses said had chased him
through Miami’s Little Havana
section.
Police said witnesses told them
Hernandez had earlier told the
killer — described as a male in
his 30s — that he intended to use
his head in a sacrificial rite. These
witnesses also told police that
Hernandez practiced a form of
voodoo or black magic.
Police said Hernandez was car
rying a gold-painted hammer
when he was killed. His trousers
were decorated with two one-inch
strips of freshly glued glitter,
they said.
Dr. Hazel Weldman, a Univer
sity of Miami anthropologist who
has been studying the growth of
voodoo in the Cuban community,
said a cult was flourishing in the
area.
“It is a combination of West
ern African religion and Roman
Catholicism,” she said. “In Cuba
it was a lower class phenomenon
but here it is beginning to be used
by Cubans of all classes. It helps
them make the transition from
Cuban culture to American cul
ture.”
Police said there were a num
ber of bizarre incidents in the
city’s Latin community over the
weekend.
Roberto Gonzalez, 42, discov
ered the skinned body of what
appeared to be a dog in front of
his home. The body of the ani
mal had pennies under its feet, a
banana in its mouth and an apple
in its rectum, police said.
Neighbors said a gasoline-
soaked cross was found in the
backyard of Raul Pacheco, 42, a
minister of the Church of God.
For several months, residents
of the area have complained to
police of finding bowls of blood
at the base of trees, what ap
peared to be a cow’s tongue nailed
to one tree and findings of goat
heads, chicken heads, pigeons and
other animal parts.
CHRISTOPHER PARKENING, twenty-five year old guitarist will appear as the dr.
mier attraction of the OPAS season. v
Crowded Existence Tests
Experimenters Nerves
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By JULIA JONES
Sonny Bono could be the next
big star of the flicks. He has the
sex appeal of Paul Newman and
Frank Sinatra combined. The
crowd at the coliseum got a heavy
dose of it Sunday night in a spec
tacular show.
Dressed in spangled skin tight
outfits he wiggled and twisted
like Presley never dreamed. In
one fantastic number “Bang,
Bang, my Baby shot me down”
he actually moaned and groaned
and got down on his knees. Eat
your heart out, Elvis. If you are
surprised at this, you aren’t the
only one. He was an entirely new
Sonny. He tried to be funny and
pass off the show as a joke, but
it came out sexy.
At one point he asked a girl to
scream, but by the time it hap-
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pened the screams were sounding
sincere. On their weekly show
Cher usually has the spotlight
and Sonny is the shorty that
hands her the lines. But not Sun
day night. Cher stayed off stage
a noticeable amount of time and
it was Sonny’s show all the way.
Cher, when she was present,
couldn’t be missed. She wore a
total of four outfits that prom
ised her every eye in the house.
Skintight gowns (the little that
was covered) showed her off to
every advantage (if she needs
any). One silver outfit was a
halter top with a long loincloth
that hung between her legs and
covered nothing. She has a long
pair of legs. Other than that,
however, she made little impact.
She sang few songs and stayed
off stage. When she was on she
did little except fool with her
hair. Her timing was off in the
monologue. She acted as if she
would rather be somewhere else,
but the crowd, loyal to the last,
loved every minute.
Their act as a whole was in
teresting. It was a big change
from their TV show. For one
thing, as their manager explained
earlier, there was no Charley, the
television censor. Most jokes were
sexual in content. It was refresh
ing to hear two people talk about
going to bed together. As per
missive as our society is supposed
to be it is rare that sex is joked
about, or even discussed in an
adult way. But they didn’t need
to discuss sex. Sonny put off
enough heat to solve the energy
problem for a week.
The act we saw is the one they
are opening with in Las Vegas,
and if Sonny keeps up the bumps
and grinds, A&M may be able to
boast we discovered a new star.
By KATHY MORGAN
A give and take theme was the
basis for Bill Schwab’s psychol
ogy project.
Schwab and Ron Sparks, presi
dent of Utay Hall, “dreamed up”
a living together set-up in order
to learn tolerance and under
standing of different people.
“I was doing it for a psychol
ogy project,” Schwab explained.
“It was to test the compatibility
of nine different people from dif
ferent backgrounds in close quar
ters,” said Kenneth Shaw, one of
the participants in the project.
“There were three Yankees, one
Chinese, two guys from Ft.
Worth, one from San Angelo, a
Cajun Indian and another from
Austin,” Shaw continued. “That
was the group. We were drasti
cally different but it worked out
great.”
The group called the effort
SCOPE which stood for Sparks
Compact Oriented Personality
Experiment.
“The reason Ron (Sparks) and
I are such good friends is because
we are both idealists,” Schwab
commented. “He’s a pragmatic
idealist which means he’s a
dreamer but within the scope of
reality. I’m a romantic idealist
and I dream outside the scope of
reality.”
The group began the living to
gether situation three weeks ago
and occupied four rooms in Utay.
It took them one night to get the
furniture moved but they later
arranged each room to their lik
ing.
Rooms 228, 227, 203 and 205
were used in the experiment and
each served a different purpose.
Desks and books were kept in
room 205 and it was designated as
a study room. Rules such as not
talking or playing radios were
enforced and Shaw described the
atmosphere as one of a library.
“We really did get a lot of study
ing done, too,” he said.
The sleeping room was 203 with
nine beds arranged according to
convenience and it was kept dark
constantly. No talking was allow
ed in there either.
The closet room, 227, had all of
the clothes but a television was
set up to watch. No smoking was
allowed in any of these three
rooms.
Party equipment, stereos, ra
dios, tapeplayers, indirect lighting
and refrigerators were arranged
in room 228, referred to
“GAS” room.
“There were internal undera
rents but we met every Tuesi
to talk and air out our feelk|
and to decide what we wanti
do with the rooms,” Schwab
“People’s habits grew on us
it was a give and take situa^
“There was nothing we coui
overcome,” Shaw added.
Jerry Mainord, civilian, ct
advisor, found out about the ps
ect and they were told to too
back into their rooms and p
back the furniture.
The group was subject to a i
fine apiece for unauthorized rc
changing and furniture mora
They were not fined however,!
cause everyone was back in pli
within a week.
“We are a little bit closer!
cause of it. We understand et
other more since the talks i
had,” Schwab said. “The gw
therapy, close living lends tot
understanding of people.”
Schwab stressed the point tk
the group did not dissolve becat
of internal disagreements but!
to housing rules and regulati®
“We did not sink the ship,
was torpedoed.”
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