Photos by
Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Chili teams to compete
Saturday for Olympic title
THE THIRD ANNUAL B-CS Jaycee chili Olympics will be
held Saturday at Fellowship Hall, 1-mile off Highway 6
East By-pass on Tabor Road exit. The cook-off will have
beer can smashing, cow chip throwing, and seed splitting
events as well as a parachutist, beer, and a live band. In
the picture above, members of the “Aggie Chili” team use
a voltage tester to sample the potency of their chili during
last year’s Olympics. Sampling is one of the biggest attrac
tions at the chili competition as shown in the picture on the
right.
Oscar-winning films
Two Academy Award-winning an animated parable about the
short films — a student-made political climate of the 1960s —
story of a young man who clings P^ s s ^9 r y a mus i c 9l friend-
to a fantasey cowboy world and S ^'P that bridges generations, are
San Antonio Symphony treats
youth to concert April 11
Three Youth Symphony Concerts by San Antonio will be pre
sented by the San Antonio Symphony in Rudder Auditorium on
Wednesday, April 11.
The concerts, sponsored by the Arts Council of Brazos Valley in
cooperation with OPAS, will be presented in this community for the
tenth consecutive year.
Harvey Biskin will conduct all three concerts, which are
scheduled for 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Texas A&M students may purchase tickets for remaining seats at
the 11 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. concerts for $1 at the box office. Tickets
are also on sale at the elementary and junior high schools in Bryan
and College Station.
The program for the 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. concerts will be:
‘Musical Menagerie’
Fledermaus Overture ... Strauss
Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks ... Moussorgsky
Tubby the Tuba ... Kleinsinger
Circus Polka ... Stravinsky
The Swan ... St. Saens
Hippo Dance ... White
Gazza Ladra Overture ... Rossini
The program for the 1:30 p.m. concert will be:
‘The Movies’
Theme from “2001” ... Strauss
Highlights from “Rocky”... Conti/Arr. Lowden
Music from “Henry V” ... Walton
Sorcerer’s Apprentice ... Dukas
Music from “Star Wars” ... Williams/Arr. Burden
Monday
featured on the tenth and last
episode of “Academy Leaders”
Monday, April 16 at 8 p.m.
The series is devoted to show
ing Oscar-winning and nominated
short films. Here is a synopsis of
the last episode:
—The Violin: A gentle fable
aobut a wandering old musician,
a young boy, and their shared
love for music. Concert violinist
Maurice Soloway appears as the
itinerant fiddler and plays a score
of his own composition. Canadian
filmmaker George Pastic won an
Academy nomin in 1974 for this
live action short.
—Is It Always Right to be
Right?: This film had its begin
ning in a 1969 Los Angeles Times
editorial on the problems of
communication between people
on opposite sides of the political
fence, which was written by War
ren H. Schmidt, then assistant
dean of the School of Business
Administration at UCLA. The film
is produced by Nick Bosustow, a
second generation animator
whose father created the charac
ter Mr. Magoo, and is narrated by
Orson Welles. The film won the
1970 Academy Award f 0 r best
animated short.
The “Academy Leaders” se
ries was produced by KCET in
Los Angeles for national airinq on
PBS.