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Willie Stargell joins Brazos symphony at A&M
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By Karl Pallmeyer
Music Critic
Music and baseball fans are in
for a treat Thursday night when
the MSC Opera and Performing
Arts Society brings the Brazos
Valley Symphony Orchestra and
Willie Stargell to Rudder Audito-
Stargell will narrate Sergi Pro
kofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf, an
Orchestral Fairy Tale” and Aaron
Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.”
The program also will include
Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Festive
Overture” and Copland’s “Appa
lachian Spring.”
Aside from playing outfield
and first base for 27 years with
the Pittsburgh Pirates and, most
recently, coaching the Atlanta
Braves, Stargell has built a good
reputation as a narrator. In 1980,
Stargell was approached to nar
rate Joseph Schwanter’s “New
Morning of the World,” a collec
tion of speeches and writings by
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The
work premiered at the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts
in Washington D.C. on Jan. 15,
1983, to commemorate King’s
birthday.
After a five-city tour of “New
Morning of the World,” Stargell
was approached to perform nar
rations of other works. Since
1983, he has performed with sev
eral orchestras including the St.
Louis Symphony, the Kansas City
Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Sym
phony Orchestra, the Long Is
land Symphony and the Balti
more Symphony.
The first half of Thursday’s
program will be dedicated to
Photo by Kyle 0*» |
Franz Anton Krager, Brazos Valley symphony conductor.
works by Russian composers. Pro
kofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” has
been a childrens’ favorite for
about 50 years and was the first
work by this Russian composer to
achieve popularity in America.
Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture"
was written in 1954 to celebrate
the 37th anniversary of the Octo
ber Revolution.
The music of Copland, the first
great American composer, will
make up the second half of the
program.
According to BVSO conductor
Franz Anton Krager, “A[
chian Spring” originally was cob-I
missioned as a ballet for the Mai l
tha Graham Dance Comp
Copland had scored the piece (oil
13 musicians liecause theorcbj
tra pit at the Library of Congrts!
where the work first was pel
formed, would not accommodii!|
a full-sized orchestra.
Tickets tor Thursday’sperf.'|
mance are available at the Rm
der Box Office. Prices are L
and S9.25 for students, and
and $ 1 1 for non-students.
Natural obstacles in count)
make fish farm prospect d
By Beverly Click
Reporter
Commercialized fish farming pro
duction in Brazos County would be a
medium-to high-risk undertaking, a
fisheries expert says.
Dr. Jim Davis, fisheries specialist
with the Texas Agriculture Exten
sion Service, says there are two ma
jor obstacles to having a fish farming
industry in the county — water avail
ability and soil conditions.
The obvious water source in the
county is the Brazos River, Davis
says, but a permit from the Texas
Department of Water Resources is
necessary to take water from the
river, and all the water permits al
ready have been issued.
Another source for water, he says,
might be to dig wells in the Brazos
Bottom, although the water is not
very high quality.
The areas of the county with high
clay content will have to depend on
rainwater that has run off from
higher ground, Davis says. These
areas are anywhere from 1,200 to
2,700 feet from water, and pumping
water from that much of a distance
makes the cost of a fish farm consid
erably higher, he says.
care of. But because there;
stand-by water supply anil]
farmer will be dependentonn
ter, the production needs to l*lj
low to keep the pond from over
ing.
If a fish farmer depends on run-
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off water, Davis says, he will have to
be content with lower production.
A commercialized fish farming in
dustry would produce around 4,000
to 5,000 pounds of fish per acre per
year, he says, and such an extensive
production means having a depend
able water supply all the time, which
Brazos County cannot offer.
However, Davis says this area
would be good for small-production
fish farming.
“You can take the stockwater
ponds, clean them out, and stock
channel catfish in them,” he says.
This undertaking would not be
that expensive, he says, because the
initial costs of the pond, the water
and the land will have been taken
The kind of fish farming
would be most interesting wpi
in the county would be channej
ish, Davis says.
Locally, one could markeic
somewhat easily because tki
supply is not very dependable |
One of the most interest®!
lures of fish farming, Davis a
that it tends to lie very respoaj
management efforts.
AUSTIN (AP) — Children won’t
be saved from AIDS by “condom
mania,” but they may have a chance
if taught restraint, U.S. Secretary of
Education William Bennett said
Tuesday.
sex education is needed to fight the
spread of acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome.
But so far that education only has
focused on condoms, he said.
“The threat of AIDS is just one
more compelling reason for discour
aging sexual activity,” Bennett told a
news conference. “To be fixated on
condoms as the answer is a mistake.”
Bennett said he and U.S. Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop agree that
“To focus exclusively on this is
like teaching the children that when
they are driving drunk they should
drive slow,” Bennett said. “Condoms
often fail. Teen-agers who know
about them often fail to use them.”
Bennett was in Austin for a series
of speeches on higher education.
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