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Students clean up at Big Event
500 participate
in annual cleanup
By Tracy Staton
Reporter
About 500 participants in the Big Event
had a big job Saturday — cleaning up Texas
Avenue from the north boundary of College
Station to the south boundary of Bryan.
The mayors of both cities spoke at the east
gate of the Texas A&M campus to open the
project, which also was sponsored by Brazos
Beautiful, an organization devoted to keeping
Brazos County clean.
“Clean up Texas — Avenue, that is,” Bryan
Mayor Marvin Tate told the crowd after
proudly displaying his “designer” trash pick.
Both mayors had special trash picks
equipped with rearview mirrors, horns, turn
signals and cap guns. The picks were designed
for the mayors by Clara and Claude Mounce
from the “Don’t Mess with Millican” club, one
branch of Brazos Beautiful.
College Station Mayor Larry J. Ringer told
the students that they might receive an unex
pected reward if they kept a sharp lookout
while picking up trash; he had found a ten-
dollar bill while working on a similar project.
After these encouraging words, the partici
pants set out to conquer Texas Avenue with
their trash bags.
The cleanup campaign was only one of the
service projects sponsored by the Big Event, in
which approximately 5000 students partici
pated.
One of the projects was a picnic with chil
dren from the Brazos Boys Club. Members of
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Phi Delta
Theta fraternity, Keathley Dorm and Moore
Hall ate lunch with the children at Central
Park, then entertained them at the play
ground.
Other organizations worked at a health fair
in Post Oak and Manor East malls while some
students collected canned goods for the Bra
zos Food Bank in front of grocery stores. A
large number of students worked at individ
ual houses by doing repairs and yard work.
Most of the owners were elderly or hand
icapped in some way.
Of the projects, the clean-up with Brazos
Beautiful had the largest number of partici
pants. Diane Mills, coordinator of Brazos
Beautiful, was excited about the impact of the
project.
"This is the first time we’ve picked up trash
from city limit to city limit,” she said. “It’s
going to be ‘Don’t mess with Texas Avenue’
when these Ags get through today.”
Mills said this project was part of an aware
ness campaign to teach people not to litter.
Once the street is litter-free, he said, people
will keep it that way.
John Rogers, president of Brazos Beautiful,
also was optimistic about the project’s impact.
“We need to work with all age groups to
break the littering habit,” he said. “Hopefully,
working with young people will develop an at
titude against littering, which would definitely
pay off in the future for the community.”
Rogers’ plan may be effective, because
some students who picked up trash already
think differently about littering.
Shane Slaughter, a junior industrial engi
neering major, said while stuffing a wad of pa
per in his bag, “This makes you think twice
about throwing something out.”
Slaughter and fellow members of Squadron
4 of the Corps of Cadets were picking up the
litter past the intersection of Texas Avenue
and Harvey Road. Although their job was not
glamorous, they were enjoying themselves.
The squadron’s commanding officer,
Brison Phillips said, “Before you come out
here, you think it’s going to be a pain. But it’s
a chance to get a tan and have fun with your
buddies while helpingthe community.”,
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Pol ish orchestra,
pianist entertain
crowd in Rudder
Review
By Karl Pallmeyer
Music Critic
It’s not often that Texas A&M is
graced by one of the world’s greatest
orchestras and one of the world’s
greatest pianists in the same eve
ning. Those who attended Saturday
night’s performance of the Warsaw
Philharmonic and Misha Dichter
were able to see both.
Rudder Auditorium was filled al
most to capacity for the perfor-
mance,sponsored by the MSC Opera
and Performing Arts Society. The
Warsaw Philharmonic, under the di
rection of conductor Kamzimierz
Kord, began with Peter Illyich
Tchaikovsky’s “Francesca da Rimini,
Symphonic Fantasy After Dante.”
The Tchaikovsky piece is a pro
grammatic work based on a section
of Dante’s “Inferno.” In the “Infer-
no,” Dante
meets Fran
cesca, a young
woman who is
punished for
falling in love with her husband’s
younger brother. When the husband
found his wife and brother together,
he killed them both. The young
lovers’ souls were cast into the sec
ond circle of hell, where they are
blown about by strong winds and
prevented from touching whenever
they come together.
The music is divided into sections
describing Dante’s descent into hell,
Francesca’s story and the punish
ment of the sinners. The first and
third sections are dark and forebod
ing, while the middle section was
tender and gentle. The orchestra
performed the piece with clear pre
cision.
Dichter took his place at the piano
brought on stage for Sergi Rachma-
ninofTs Rhapsody on a Theme of
Paganini, for Piano and Orchestra.
Niccolo Paganini was one of the
greatest violinists of all time. He
wrote a set of 24 caprices for violin,
inspiring other composers — includ
ing Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms
and Rachmaninoff — to write varia
tions on the themes in the caprices.
Rachmaninoff took Paganini’s 24th
The orchestra and Dichter ex
plored the theme in various fash
ions. Sometimes the theme was
played fast and bouncy, other times
it was slow and dreamy. Dichter
played with blinding speed and ex
pert technique, establishing a good
relationship with the orchestra. His
playing complimented what the or
chestra was doing^nd vice versa.
After the intermission, the orches
tra performed Bela Bartok’s “Suite
from the Miraculous Mandarin.”
Bartok originally wrote the piece as
music for a ballet but rearranged the
music into an orchestral suite when
the ballet was banned after its first
performance in 1926.
The “Miraculous Mandarin” is
about three men who use a girl to se
duce men and bring them up to her
room where they are beaten and
robbed. The girl seduces two vic
tims, a businessman and a young
man, who are beaten up and thrown
out by the robbers. The third victim
is a strange Chinese man who re
fuses to leave after he is beaten and
robbed. He chases the girl around
the room, wanting only to hold her.
The robbers grab the Mandarin and
try to kill him by smothering and
stabbing him. Finally, he is hanged,
but doesn’t die until the girl cuts him
down and embraces him.
The music was strange and some
times dissonant. The clarinet was
used to represent the girl’s seduction
call while the percussion and brass
sections were featured to represent
the chase. The music got wilder and
wilder, building to a drastic end.
Kord, a short man with a bush of
dark hair, was most entertaining
throughout the program. He
coaxed, persuaded and ordered the
orchestra to play to its fullest. As the
music got louder, Kord got more ex-
E ressive and his arms flew wildly as
e conducted. He was called back on
stage for two encores: Liszt’s “Hung
arian Rhapsody,” a piece drawing
immediate applause, and a selection
form Polish composer Moniuszko’s
opera “Mazur.”
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