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Photo by Kim Orth e areas ra lent — sail l!s said. s researdi ie Internal! I Training I: I nd RecreJ I nnesseei'i I tas A&Mil By NANCY WEATHERLEY ton and Pi Battalion Staff The music filling Rudder jirstcounli eatre Tuesday night was flaw- from the i ;s The toll j n t erms 0 f perfection, you nil thenaS ^ h ave been listening to a re- -osta Rica r( j w } iere • the performers had ice, Milks , chance to redo and rearrange ih piece before selecting a final act. However, the Cleveland String artet was performing live, hout the security of the record- # | Ite studio. \! I liPresented by the MSC Opera \ ylUt Perform-vug, Arts Committee, the quartet wove the intricate polyphonic sounds of chamber music by Beethoven, Ravel and Brahms into a single voice. Polyphony is layered sound, a major part of chamber music. In a broad sense, chamber music is de signed for one instrument for each part of music. Each musician in the quartet is responsible for his own melodic line, which weaves together to form the stucture of the piece. The quartet is composed of Atar Arad on viola, Paul Katz on cello, Peter Salaff on violin, and Donald Weilerstein on violin. Together they played in total synchroniza tion, placing power and express ion where it was needed in music al phrases. In their last and best piece, Quartet in F Major by Ravel, the quartet blended the many diffe rent sounds into a monophonic, or single layer of sound. Unlike some musical pieces, which, to the untrained ear, sound cluttered with no particular tke Acad ig be widf lodate p« anges in If alth insuu ance covei maternity ■esentedto )Id sailing ship, he Elissa, opens or tour Saturday ' livery Bill United Press International GALVESTON — The restora- he Battalii m of a 104-year-old iron sailing Ire altered ip, the Elissa, is at its perma- tudentfe berth at Dock 22 and will be apers as tpcned to the public Saturday. Regular tours of the square- ending Bit jSged vessel, a visitor to Galves- dvngitnacii I twice in the 1980s, will not es beplaffl Bin until next summer when $1 Jillion work is completed on her »ation Billftks and masts. But Saturday she nment esi® be viewed free during the nt theirconPual Dickens on the Strand ng the sBristmas festival, elides asf A tugboat Monday towed the pus Canvfbsa about a mile from Dock 42 to record ■■ ere it had been worked on for acquaint f ree years. The restoration will uresentati" ay ►riohl 3 t $3.6 million at completion, iject director David Brink said. Originally, the Elissa was to ve been rebuilt to sail regularly a sea-experience vessel for stu- snts. “That idea was scrapped as in- ppropriate,” Brink said Tuesday. “It’s a more than 100-year-old ves sel. Plus, the Coast Guard never would have gone for it. They have no classification under which the Elissa could sail and carry passen- gers.’’ Plans now are to sail her as a yacht to “keep the tradition of sail ing alive,” Brink said. About 40 employees of the Gal veston Historical Foundation, and 70 volunteers have worked on the Elissa since it was purchased in Greece for $40,000 in 1975. The hull was redone there, and the vessel was towed to Galveston. The Elissa was originally a bark built in 1877 by a Scottish ship builder. Her log indicates while under the British flag, she sailed into Galveston in the 1883 and 1886. Since then she has been re named five times and altered dras tically in shape to accommodate faster sailing. Going to be around for at least two more years? GOING TO BE INTERESTED IN MAKING MONEY? Call 696-1212 Tuesday-Friday from 3:30-7:30 p.m. to find out how to apply for this salaried, managerial position. 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He said he usually carries the gun for his own protection. “It was so small that I had for gotten it was in my pocket,’’ he said, explaining he would have re turned to his car with the gun, but “it was a long way back to the car, and it was cold outside.” Chess was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possession of an unre gistered handgun and ammuni tion. He was detained by Secret Service agents for 30 minutes, and following the Secret Service inter rogation, was detained by Washington police for five and a half hours. Chess’ friends in Houston threw a party for the couple Mon day with gifts of toy pistols and a cake, decorated with a blue- coated, snarling policeman. Chess said he worked for Presi dent Reagan’s election last year. m-A PRESENT: Dawn’s early light Danny Williams is silhouetted against Lake Caddo near Marshall as he begins his morning duck hunt last weekend. Chamber music delights audience String quartet hosted by OPAS Courtea SEBRING... 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