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By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Senior Staff Writer
The Cantilena Chamber Soloists’
performance of early-century Amer
ican songs and melodies in Rudder
Theater Monday night was a de
lightful short course in American
popular music.
Unfortunately, hardly anyone
turned out to hear it.
Pianist John Ferguson, soprano
Rebecca Francis and clarinetist Mar
tha MacDonald performed mostly
lighter works by a variety of Ameri
can composers, including George
Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Stephen Fos
ter and Charles Ives. The perfor
mance titled “Jazz to Rags to Riches”
was sponsored by MSC Opera and
Performing Arts Society (OPAS) as a
part of its J. Wayne Stark Series.
The three Austin musicians
seemed a bit dismayed by the light
turnout.
“At least they clapped,” Ferguson
remarked backstage after the per
formance. The remark probably was
not sarcastic, but if it was, sarcasm
would be justified. Including ushers
and the page-turner, the audience
numbered a scant 20 persons.
But the lack of audience
notwithstanding, the musicians dis
played mastery of a wide range of
music from the delicate melodies
“Beautiful Dreamer” and “Gentle
Annie” by Stephen Foster to comic,
music-hall songs by George Gersh
win and John Philip Sousa.
Ferguson, a Houston native who
has performed widely in Europe and
the United States, performed two
solo piano arrangements. George
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Photo by Bill Hujie
Martha MacDonald, left, John Ferguson and Rebecca Francis perform Monday in Rudder Theater.
“Rhapsody in Blue” and a contem
porary ragtime composition, “The
Garden of Eden” by William Bol-
com, a professor at the University of
Michigan.
Gershwin’s own arrangement
This unusual piece, which Furgu-
son introduced as the only ragtime
composition with a biblical theme to
his knowledge, has three sections:
Old Adam, The Eternal Feminine,
and The Serpent’s Kiss. The Final
part, depicting Eve’s seduction by
the serpent, might best be described
as ragtime-a-la-Stravinski — a rhyth
mic and ominous-sounding piece
played in the syncopated ragtime
style.
Ferguson used some unconvi
nal devices to play The Sm
Kiss that would probably have!
Scott Joplin’s eyebrows. Lati.
tap dancer, (the composer a
ently calls for a tap dancer:
third part), Ferguson drunKr;
the piano frame and madedi
noises with his tongue.
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By Mark Gee
Reporter
Sbisa Dining Hall serves more
meals in a week than most mothers
do in a lifetime. But whose mother
has a 20,000-square foot kitchen?
After a Monday tour of Sbisa ini
tiated by Hart Hall, Perry Moore,
the dining hall’s manager, said about
9,700 meals are served there on a
typical day.
When Sbisa serves steak for sup
per, they cook 3,800 of them. The
20-foot grill holds 2,000 steaks and
needs six cooks to operate it.
A computer, along with the pro
duction manager’s experience, is
used to calculate the number of
steaks to prepare.
The computer’s calculations are
based on the number of steaks eaten
in previous meals at Sbisa.
The computer gives the number
of steaks to prepare along with the
needed amount of other dishes, such
as spinach. About 180 pounds of
spinach will be cooked with steak.
Six 60-gallon kettles that hold
about 30 pounds of spinach are used
to cook vegetables.
Sbisa still is challenged by the little
problems of cooking. Director of
Food Services Lloyd Smith said, in
response to a student’s question, “If
gravy is not stirred, it will form a
film on it. It’s just natural. Your
mother can’t make it where it won’t
make a film, either.”
Clements:
Senate to Ot
tax increase
Food wasted from students’ plates
totals about $30,000, Smith said.
Wasted food is disposed of by the
“goat,” a 15-horsepower disposal.
Smith said food services controls
waste through the size of the por
tions of food given to students.
MSC master plan presented to Council
By Carolyn Garcia
Staff Writer
The members of the MSC Council
were presented their copies of this
year’s MSC Master Plan at Monday
night’s meeting.
The plan is a comprehensive out
line to show what the MSC plans to
emphasize over the next five years.
“It (the plan) reflects what the en
tire MSC wants and needs,” Exec
utive Vice President for Administra
tion Perry Eichor said.
but I think we’ll come
Ed Hinson, chairman of Wiley
Lecture Series reported to the coun
cil that the program is running short
on finances, but expects to collect
pledges.
“We’re a little short right now (on
fund raising) — about $9,000,” Hin
son said,
out okay.”
Bonne Bejarano, director of the
Miss Texas A&M Scholarship Pag
eant, gave the council a favorable re
port on the financial outcome of Sat
urday’s pageant.
She said although the organiza
tion didn’t sell as many tickets to the
event as it had hoped, the more than
$6,000 was enough.
AUSTIN (AP) — Gov J
Clements predicted Monday j
Senate would approve bills it:
tend last year’s sales and m
fuel tax increases — whichwj
cost taxpayers $2.9 billion t
the next two years — bin a
later he was merely “hopeful’a
bills would pass.
Clements changed his respoi
slightly after visiting prims
with Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby,theSd
ate's presiding officer.
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it," Clements first said of the:
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ers, “Hopefully, good things 1
happen.*
Clements was asked ifhej
believes the bills will pass.
“I really don’t haveanopirJ
about it,” Clements said.
He also said, “Well, I amhtJ ng a b
ful that it will — whether itvl
not I don’t know.
“We’ll just have to wait a
see,” he said. "I’m an optimist
Panel backs increase in education funding
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AUSTIN (AP) — The House
Higher Education Committee threw
more big-dollar problems into the
budget process Monday by backing
about $500 million more in college
spending than contained in the pro
posed appropriations bill.
“There’s no room for that,” said
Jim Rudd, the appropriations chair
man, who is trying to craft a spend
ing bill the state can afford.
Rudd’s version of the appropria
tions bill includes $670 million in in
creases for higher education to re
place cuts enacted last year. But the
higher education committee Mon
day went further by recommending
$500 million more, much of it for ju
nior colleges that suffered cuts last
year.
The higher education committee’s
proposal, approved 9-0, now goes to
the appropriations committee. Rep.
Wilhelmina Delco, D-Austin and
higher education chairwoman,
called the spending plan “realistic.”
Asked if it would take a tax bill to
fund it, she said, “Absolutely.”
“If it were left up to me, I would
look at either a broadening of the
sales tax base ... or looking at the
possibility of some kind of income
tax,” she said.
Committee member Tom Uher,
D-Bay City, agreed Texans would
have to dip further into their pock
ets to fund the additional appropria-
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den on to the appropriations com
mittee,” Rudd, D-B town field, said.
“They don’t want the heat on them
selves. They just figure what)
they do is going to be yedoneini
propriations. So they're not f
worrying about it. They’re mai nean i
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dieted that another tax bill in al -“recto
tion to the continuation of the
rent temporary taxes will beneet j ,n tre
said, “When you vote for that si Jerstar
ble increase, yop hope theyaref 71ar ^- et
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