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iolinist proves he was ‘born to play’
Perlman's performance shows his devout love for music
By Karl Pallmeyer
Staff writer
Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman
Ireceived a standing ovation after
playing Johannes Brahms’ Con-
Jcerto for Violin and Orchestra in D
iMajor to a near-capacity crowd at
[jRudder Auditorium Sunday.
Perlman appeared with the San
lAntonio Symphony Orchestra to
lopen the 1986-87 concert season
[for MSC Opera and Performing
[Arts Society.
Before Perlman came on stage,
[the orchestra under the direction of
[conductor Andrew Schenck per-
[formed the national anthem and
[two pieces by Brahms — “Tragic
[Overture” and Variations on a
[Theme by Haydn.
Perlman began learning the vio-
I lin because of a deep love for music.
I Through years of practice and hard
work, he established himself as one
of the world’s top violinists.
Dubbed the consummate master
if the violin by Newsweek in 1981,
'erlman has won several awards,
ippeared on numerous national
Revision programs and plays to
Isell-out crowds around the world.
Perlman’s ability on the violin is
outstanding. It is as if he is using his
instrument to run and leap and fly.
During Brahm’s Concerto for Vi
olin and Orchestra, Perlman
showed he understood the full pos
sibilities of his instrument.
He sat with his head bowed in
reverence for the first few bars of
the first movement and then at
tacked his first passage with vi
ciously blinding speed.
During the solo, the audience,
orchestra and conductor watched
Perlman in awe as he played soft
and fast. No music was in front of
Perlman — he knew the piece by
heart.
It’s easy to see why Perlman is
considered one of the best violinists
in the world.
Sometimes his playing would be
gentle and sorrowful and at other
times joyful and upbeat. But at all
times he showed a devout love for
music.
The 83-member San Antonio
Symphony Orchestra performed
with a clarity and professionalism
that helped accentuate Perlman’s
talents.
Schneck, the youngest conductor
to win first prize in the Interna
tional Competition for Conductors,
led the orenestra with a fierceness
and showmanship that was fun to
watch.
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Photo by Greg Bailey
Violinist Itzhak Perlman joined the San Antonio Sym
phony Orchestra to open the 1986-87 season for OPAS.
Researchers try faking scent to stop beetles
HUMBLE (AP) — Texas forestry experts are
engaged in a new campaign to halt the epidemic
spread of the Southern Pine Beetle, which is in
festing some 10 million acres of land in 33 coun
ties.
Researchers from Texas A&M and the Texas
Forest Service are trying an experimental chemi-
| cal spraying program in hopes of duplicating the
pesky insect’s natural scent, which warns other
pine beetles that a particular tree already is in
fested and that they should move on.
“The object is to keep the beetles out of the
trees as long as we can so they can be eaten by
predators or dry out from lack of water, die and
blow away,” said Ron Billings, principal entomo
logist for the Texas Forest Service.
The new treatment, administered to about 20
spots in East Texas this summer, is called an in
hibitor and is designed to drive the insects away
from healthy trees or trees that are in the early
stages of attack from the beetles.
“As beetles emerge and attack, we hope to pro
vide an artificial signal that a tree is no longer
suitable for them,” said Tom Payne, an A&M
professor of entomology and forest science who
lias been working on the beetle problem for
more than a decade.
Officials say the outbreak this summer, while
at epidemic levels in 16 East Texas counties, is
not as bad as a year ago, when the current cycle
of outbreaks apparently peaked.
Some 50,000 acres of forest, worth $51 million
in lumber, were killed in the first eight months of
1985 because of beetle infestation. In the same
period this year, Forest Service officials put the
lumber losses at $10 million for 16,000 diseased
acres.
Payne has developed a compound called Ver-
benone, which duplicates the secretion male
beetles give off as a warning to other beetles to
stay away.
“It’s basically sensory physiology,” he says. “It
doesn’t kill. It’s a behavioral chemical. We don’t
kill. We don’t want to take from the forest,”
What researchers want to do is try to keep the
beetle out of the trees. Without a tree to burrow
into, the insect will die in three to five days,
Payne says.
The artificial scent is sprayed on about a
square-foot area of bark on a healthy tree which
is in the immediate vicinity of trees already in
fested. The air currents around a tree move the
scent up the trunk.
The compound, however, is just one of 14 dif
ferent compounds emitted by the beetle.
The beetle, about the size of a grain of rice,
hides under the bark of a pine tree. Females lay
as many as 30 eggs, with half of the eggs surviv
ing. Each female can infest up to three trees.
The beetles disrupt the water flow within the
tree and kill it. They also inject a blue dye into
the wood, making it undesirable for use as lum
ber.
Monday
AGGIELAND ’87: Recognized student organizations may
pick up yearbook contracts in their Student Finance Center
boxes. Contracts are due Tuesday.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: will sponsor a writing
workshop, “Expressive Essay,” at 6:30 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
The instructor is Cindy Stevenson.
TAMU SNOW SKI CLUB: will discuss the Breckenridge trip
at 7 p.m. in 601 Rudder.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will give square-dance lessons at 7
p.m. and meet at 8 p.m. in 225 MSC.
TAMU SAILING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 109 Military
Sciences.
INTRAMURAL RECREATION SPORTS: entries open for
triathlon and pickleball singles at 8 a.m. in 159 Read.
VENEZUELAN STUDENT ORGANIZATION: will meet at
8 p.m. in 507A-B Rudder.
TAMU WRESTLING CLUB: will have team and beginner
practice at 7 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays and 5 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays in 260 G. Rollie White.
Tuesday
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: will sponsor a writing
workshop, “Referential Essay,” at 6:30 p.m. in 153 Blocker.
The instructor will be Diane Dowdey.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION:
Data General will present information on careers in data
processing at 7 p.m. in the Ramada Inn Penthouse.
NUTRITION CLUB: will discuss sports nutrition and have
an aerobics workout at 7:30 p.m. in 401 Read.
TAMU ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY: will show “The Year
of Living Dangerously” at 7 p.m. in 301 Bolton.
COOKE COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet at 8:30
p.m. in 501 Rudder.
TAMU ONE-WHEELERS: will meet at 6 p.m. in front of G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
AGGIES FOR CLEMENTS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 321
Physics.
AGGIES FOR BARTON: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 410 Rud
der.
CLASS OF ’87: applications for Ring Dance subchairman po
sitions are due at 5 p.m. Applications are available in the
1987 cubicle.
CIRCLE K: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
RHA CASINO: applications for co-chairman are due Oct. 1.
Applications for subchairman are due Oct. 8. Applications
are available in 215 Pavilion.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES: “The University Rules and Regu
lations,” “Student Organization Guide” and the Fall 1986
All-University Calendars are available in 208 Pavilion.
TAMU MEN’S RUGBY: will hold practice every Tuesday
and Thursday at 6 p.m. on the rugby field. For more infor
mation call Mark, 846-9772.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days
prior to desired publication date.
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