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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1984)
Festival celebrates springtime in city With spring in the air, the Houston Festival '84 is featur ing both major art attractions and outdoor events every * weekend through April 1. The fine arts attractions in clude an exhibit at the Mu seum of Fine Arts featuring 164 art objects from the Peo ple's Republic of China, the well-known mime, Marcel Marceau, at Jones Hall on Saturday night and the play, "Crimes of the Heart," at the Alley Theatre. The "Treasures from the Shanghai Museum" exhibit includes works spanning the entire history of Chinese art, from prehistoric to modern times. Many of the works have never before been out side of China. Outdoor festival events in clude an arts and crafts expo sition, outdoor performances of music, dance, art and fun. On Saturday, over 100 crafts people and other artists from around the nation will dis play their work in tents in downtown Sam Houston Park. The festival also features vending stalls catered by many of Houston's finest res taurants. These stalls provide a choice of gourmet cuisine from the city's national and cultural groups. For more information con tact Karen Kershner at (713) 323-6613. Vocal ensemble scheduled to perform at Texas A&M The MSC Basement Commit tee is sponsoring Trovatori, a vocal ensemble in the style of Manhatten Transfer, this Satur day night. Trovatori, composed of four members, is originally from Spokane, Wash. The group started singing together when all four were section leaders of the Edmond's College Choir in Washington State. Encouraged by their choir di rector to get together to form an ensemble for a Christmas choir, group members Jonna Schutz, David Hardin, Jeff Clark and Idarae Prothero teamed up and have been together ever since. Trovatori — whose name comes from an Italian word meaning "traveling minstrels" — started out singing madri gals, over the years has ex panded its repertoire to include jazz, folk, pop, and '50s and '60s sixties rock. About two years ago, the a cappella group started perform ing in the Seattle area doing pri vate parties, banquets, conven tions and progressed to singing at the Seattle Center, opening for other acts, doing radio com mercials and now touring col lege campus throughout the states and in Canada. The group enhances each performance by varying song styles, costumes, choreography with light comedy. Trovatori has performed on radio, as well as television and in 1982 received Best Jazz Group in the Seattle Entertain ment Award. The perfomance begins at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Ad mission is $3 advance and $4 at the door. Other upcoming Basement activities included as part of the Miller Rocks Series are Judah Star, a reggae band. The Zealots and The Voices performing on Saturday, March 31 at The Grove. On Friday April 6, The Teddy Boys, Ric Tangle and The Squares and 4 Hams on Rye will perform in The Grove. Both concerts are free. Europe a mile away A "mile of money" is needed to help send the Texas A&M University Women's Chorus to Europe. The Women's Chorus has been invited to tour England and Wales in May. Through fund-raisers, such as sales of submarine sandwiches, candy, cookbooks and Christmas gifts, the Women's Chorus already has raised $39,000 for the trip. As part of their fundraising, a mile of one dollar bills will be collected. As donations are re ceived, the bills will be taped end-to-end until a mile is reached. A $300 donation from the Rotary Club of Bryan-Col- lege Station already has been received. Donations for the dol- lar-bill mile will be collected un til March 31. The Women's Chorus will be traveling as Friendship Ambas sadors. The travel abroad will be enhanced by staying in the hosts' homes, musical exchange with other choral groups and performances. The Women's Chorus was chosen as a Friendship Ambassador through an audition. The audi tion included submitting a cas sette and video recording of a performance, a photograph of the group, background litera ture on the group and its direc tor — Patricia P. Fleitas and copies of concert programs pre sented in the last three years. The Friendship Ambassadors Association determined the destination of the trip through the audition performance and the type of group. Individual members of the chorus will be responsible for contributing 28 percent of the total cost of the trip. TWIST-BEADS The newest fast selling necklace. Quality 36 inch strands twist into fanciful combinations of every col or. From the largest, quality collection of fine stone, pearl, 14k gold, gold filled and fossil beads. All Other Strands Fossil 2.49 Gold Dost Post Oak Mall 764-1004