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Student Senate to discuss service fees i sounds from A&M
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The Senate also will vote on a
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
The Student Senate Finance
Committee is expected to recom
mend a $2 increase in next semes
ter’s student service fee when it
makes its annual budget proposal
at a Student Senate meeting to
day at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harring
ton.
If the proposed allocation of
student service fee revenues to
the 17 campus organizations sup
ported by those fees is approved
by the Senate, it will be sent to the
University Finance Committee
for final approval later in the
week.
Although the University Fi
nance Committee has no obliga
tion to follow the Senate’s budget
proposal, Speaker of the Senate
Jay Hays said that, in past years,
University-approved budgets
have been similar to the versions
the Senate has proposed.
Hays said he anticipates some
senators will challenge this bud
get proposal when it is intro-
bill calling for a revision in next
semester’s final schedule. The
bill, which would serve as a rec
ommendation to the University
administration and Faculty Sen
ate, calls for a return to the final
schedule used prior to this semes
ter.
To accomodate seniors taking
finals, the bill proposes that in
structors be given the option of
adminstering two final exams —
one for seniors and one for non
seniors.
The Senate is scheduled to vote
on the creation of a committee to
investigate possible changes in
University rules and regulations.
If approved by the Senate, the
committee will investigate and, if
necessary, recommend rule
changes to be implemented by
the University Rules and Regula
tions Committee at the time an
nual revisions are made.
Police Beat
The following were reported
to the University Police Depart
ment from Nov. 20 through Nov.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Police received reports that
three motorcyles and three
mopeds had received damage to
their ignition switches.
• A student reported that
someone shot an object at her ve
hicle while she was in a parking
lot.
• While investigating the
above report, an officer’s vehicle
also was struck by an object.
• A student reported that she
found a large broken glass pane
between the Commons area and
Mosher Hall.
RECKLESS CONDUCT:
• An object was shot into the
window of room 434 of Moore
Hall, breaking the window and
causing pieces of glass to fly into
the room.
THEFT OF SERVICE:
• A student reported that he
saw a man play golf at the A&M
golf course and leave without
paying.
ASSAULT:
• Students reported that they
were assaulted by a salesman who
was touching them and making
them feel uncomfortable while at
tempting to sell magazine sub
scriptions in Krueger Hall.
FELONY THEFT:
• A red and white Yamaha
mortorcycle was reported stolen
from a parking lot.
By Tom Cawthra
Reporter
Production on the first compact
disc recording of traditions and mu
sic of Texas A&M has started this
week at a recording studio in College
Station.
“Traditions: Texas A&M Univer
sity Vol. I and II” is a recording pro
ject between Brasswind Recording
Studios and RDM Audio Services.
“Traditions” is the first Texas
A&M compact disc recording, David
Cooper, owner of Brasswind, said.
He said the idea was so new that it
was kept secret for about the first ten
months of preparation.
“What we tried to do was to take
the traditions that have been held on
to for years and years and try to
paint an emotional and mental pic
ture with sound,” Cooper said.
The project, he said, is “a mon
tage of sounds covering student life
at A&M.”
It represents a broad range of
A&M interests, he said, including
music from the Singing Cadets and
the Aggie Band, sounds from bon
fire, muster and midnight yell prac
tices and historic radio broadcasts.
“That mental picture is something
that we wanted to help with whether
it was for former students, present
students or anyone trying to find out
where A&M comes from,” he said.
A project of this magnitude has
not been done since 1957, he said,
when an album package (two ex
tended play 45 rpm records) titled
“Music of Aggieland” was remade
from a 1951 recording of A&M’s
75th Anniversary Celebration.
“Other than Singing Cadet and
Aggie Band albums,” he said, “there
has been nothing that has crossed
the whole spectrum of the Univer
sity in the way of music and sounds
of campus life, as far as we know.
“What we’ve done is gone back
into A&M archives and found re
cordings done on-site in real situa
tions. We also went out on campus
this past year and worked on our
own digital recordings of live situa
tions.”
“We’ve gone back recording-wise
from 1939 all the way to the pre
sent.”
He said he and Haislet discovered
some unusual things in the Univer
sity Archives, found in the Sterling
C. Evans Library, such as a 1939 ver
sion of the Aggieland Orchestra per
forming “I’d Rather Be an Aggie,”
an NBC pre-game bonfire rally in
1941 and a radio documentary
drama about A&M from WFAA in
Dallas.
The recording begins with por
tions of these and other episodes
from A&M events so that the listener
has a sense of history, he said.
It progresses forward in time, so
that many of the sounds that were
recorded digitally in the past year,
such as Elephant Walk and bonfire
cut, will bring the listener forward in
time, he said. Listeners will then re
alize that certain A&M traditions
haven’t changed much over the
years.
“I think that one of the things
most people will sense when they
have a chance to sit down and listen
to the program from beginning to
end is tnat the spirit, the pride, that
same kind of conviction of what it
means to be an Aggie will be very
permanent by the time the record
ing is over,” Cooper said. “We had a
feeling it would be powerful when
we started, but I don’t think we had
any idea how much power the thing
would have when we got through.”
Cooper hopes hometown clubs
will use parts of the project during
their muster ceremonies.
Canadian Brass brings bright m usic
to Rudder Auditorium with bold show
Review
By Staci Finch
Reviewer
The stage was set for the five-
member band, but when the house
lights went down, no one came from
the wings. Instead, the members of
the Canadian Brass, dressed in tuxe
does and white shoes, entered from
the doors of Rudder Auditorium.
Formed in 1970, the Canadian
Brass has toured across Canada, Eu
rope, China, Japan, Sauidi Arabia
and the Soviet
11 ——* ■ " Union, as well
as in the United
States. The
band, made up
of Frederic Mills and Ronald Romm
on the trumpet, David Ohanian on
the French horn, Eugene Watts on
the trombone and Charles Daellen-
bach on the tuba, has several albums
to its credit. And their musical talent
was evident as they treated the audi
ence of about 2,400 to two hours of
its finest Tuesday night.
The band opened its show with
“Souterliedekens Suite,” a suite of
16th century Dutch “Little Psalter-
songs.” Although the band does not
include a percussion section, drum
beats were provided by Daellenbach
hitting a mallet on an oversized
ping-pong paddle.
Although the improvisations may
have drawn laughter from the
crowd, the musicianship drew only
applause. The second tune, “Con
certo in A Minor,” featured trills and
runs that Daellenbach called “expec
ted” on the trumpet, “remarkable”
Photo by Sam B. Myers
Members of the Canadian Brass perform Tuesday night in Rudder
Auditorium.
on the French horn and “a miracle”,
on the trombone.
The description was right on tar
get. The band members’ mastery of
their instruments was incredible as
they took turns turning the musical
scale upside down.
The band’s next piece was “Can-
zona per sonare a cinque,” by Gio
vanni Gabrieli. The musicians
moved out into the audience for the
piece, but did not let the increased
space between them throw off their
timing. And for the audience, the
sound of the rich, full tones coming
from all sides provided a strong, last
ing impression.
The quintet closed out the first
section of their show with two Dixie
land tunes that took the audience
across the border to New Orleans.
The first, “Sweet Georgia Brown,” is
best known as the theme for the
Harlem Globetrotters. The band’s
jazz swing in that tune made one ex
pect to see men dressed in pin
stripes and women in bobbed hair,
cigarette holders, short skirts and
long pearls.
The second half of the perfor
mance was highlighted by
“Hornsmoke,” a comic opera. The
opera told the story of the wild West.
In this story, herione Cornet marries
hero Spit Valve, just in time for vil
lain B Flat Bart to arrive on the
scene. The two men duel for Cornet,
and all die in the end. The best part
of the opera was that most of the dia
logue was done by the instruments
themselves. This hilarious pefor-
mance showed the players’ physical
stamina, as they cavorted arounpl,
never once getting out of tune.
The band closed its performance
with a sing-a-long of Christmas car
ols. After persuading around 100
audience members to come up on
stage, the band led the audience
through such favorites as “Silent
Night” and “Deck the Halls.”
The band performed several en
cores, but the most memorable was
“Adagio,” by Samuel Baker. The
piece was used as the background
music for “Platoon,” and Daellen
bach said the music was as emotional
as the movie. He was right.
The audience barely breathed as
( the band performed the piece. The
instruments were perfectly blended,
and it was hard to tell where one left
off and another picked up. The
piece grew in intensity, then faded
away to nothing, leaving the audito
rium silent, and it was a moment be
fore the audience could gather
enough wits to applaud — with a
standing ovation.
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