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ocal THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1981 Page 5 Friday, Oct. 30 8 p.m.-Midnight at the Lakeview Club ntsii Music by The Debonaires Staff' photo by Colin Valentine $3.00 per person at the door |ie Empire Brass Quintet performed last night in Rudder liditorium. The ensemble was sponsored by the MSG pera and Performing Arts Committee. The members. clockwise from the front, are Charles A. Lewis Jr., David Ohanian, Samuel Pilafian, Mark Lawrence, and Rolf Smedvig, the founding member of the group. WARM-UP YELL PRACTICE AT INTERMISSION uintet has soothing sound Sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists SDX By NANCY WEATHERLEY roken. s 1C Battalion Staff [The Empire Brass Quintet, ich played in Rudder Audi- ium Thursday night, presented efined and clear sound that was ith soothing and entertaining, hough brass instruments are ally associated with harsh, tin- sounds. | Presented by the Opera and iforming Arts Society, the intet, composed of trumpeter If Smedvig, trumpeter Charles Lewis, Jr., David Ohanian on french horn, Mark H. Lawr- :e on trombone and Samuel lafian on tuba, entertained some )people with classical, Renaiss- ce pieces and foot-tapping mod- a tunes. Seated on a bare stage, with ly white panels behind them, equintet exhibited professional ”ntrol and complete synchroni- tion. Everything, from polished dings to simple hows to the dience, was done in unison. Toward the beginning of the ow, the group seemed stiff and kuted. However, their formal lesentation only added to the ftusion, that if you closed your eyes, a complete orchestra was playing. In Suite en Sol by Tomaso Albi noni, the group brought out the loud tones of their instruments, but never in a way that was brash or unnerving. Mid way through their prog ram, as they played tunes like “Bess, you’re my woman now’ and “It ain’t necessarily so from George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” the quintet began to loosen up. Feet started tapping and the trumpets had a jazzy, but not bois terous, big-band twang in them. During Alvin Etler’s “Quintet for Brass Instruments, the quin tet showed off their technical ex pertise. Pilafian introduced the piece and said Etler was exploring special effects such as the use of mutes when he wrote it. The piece is considered very difficult and Etler required virtuosic skills in his players, Pilafian said. Even if the quintet had no musical talent, they would have to be applauded for the skillful way they maneuvered the changing of different mutes on their horns during the piece, often with only a few seconds in which to do it. t. 30,1 ith Ola toward il yman to return are Mi Saturn tor homecoming P.M, jtter By SIMON GONZALEZ Battalion Reporter heri Ryman will return to Col ie Station Friday for her second [mecoming since she was iwned Miss Texas 1981 in June. Her first homecoming, in Au- |st, was a send-off to Atlantic ty for the Miss America igeant, Randy Leyba, director of |e Miss Texas A&M Pageant, Ryman finished as fourth Inner-up in the competition. “The second one is to welcome tr back when all of the students rehere,” Leyba said. “It’s to rec- Jiize her achievements.’’ ftyman currently attends North ffsas State University on a one- ftr scholarship prize from the k Texas Pageant. "She is still an Aggie and will ways be an Aggie,” Leyba said, iitian’s weekend schedule be- ins at 6 p.m. Friday when she Battalion Classified 845-2611 will eat dinner with the Corps of Cadets. At 7 p.m., she will intro duce Charley Pride at his concert in G. Rollie White Coliseum. At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Ryman will be honored at a reception given by Student Government leaders. At 10 a.m., she will be presented with a music box with the Aggie seal in the Forsyth Alumni Center. At 11:15 a.m., she will attend a reception with University Presi dent Frank Vandiver, members of his office and visiting dignitaries from Southern Methodist Univer sity. At 12:30 p.m., she will na rrate a gymnastics demonstration in the MSC Main Lounge. Before the football game, a local dealership will present Ryman with the use of a car for one year when she returns to Texas A&M in September. NEEDMONEY for TRAVEL ? CVER M \1 ILOAN r U N ID ► rd iterviews Will Be Held lTov.^ nd and Contact MSC Travel At -/J/eTor come by The quintet did four encores, musical “Annie,” which sounded including a Scott Joplin tune and , , i .. ” .« T i >. i .i • as good as the actual production the song 1 don t need anything ^ _ hut you” from the broadway and was just as entertaining. Friends sometimes question your taste in movies. But they ll see them with you anyway. S' 1* It sounded fantastic in the newspaper. But only to you. Still, you had to see it, and with a little arm-twisting your friends agreed to see it too. You’ve already heard a barrage of jokes about your taste in movies since the curtain came down. And, knowing your friends, it’ll go on for weeks. So, to make it up to them, and show them your taste isn’t bad in everything, you do something a little special. Tonight, let it be Lbwenbrau. Ldwenbrau. 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