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By Shane Hall
Reviewer
Rudder Auditorium was instantly
transformed to Lynchburg, Tennes
see, circa 1910, Sunday afternoon as
Mr. Jack Daniel’s Original Silver
Cornet Band brought their blend of
small-town humor and ragtime mu
sic to Texas A&M in a concert spon
sored by MSC-OPAS.
Bandleader “Perfessor” David
Coffee led the audience, by way of
imagination, to the small Tennessee
town’s homecoming celebration as
the band marched onstage perform
ing the opening song “Hello Ma
Honey.”
The 12 musicians then took their
seats on the onstage gazebo bands
tand to begin the first act.
“On the Banks of the Walbash,”
the second song of the night, fea
tured a short tuba solo by Marcus
Arnold. During the concert, individ
ual musicians had the opporturnity
to take the lead with tneir instru
ments.
Scott Hanson, the band’s newest
member, demonstrated his mastery
of the baritone horn on “Glow
Worm.”
Highlights of the first act included
‘Carolina in the Mornin,’ ” in which
the horn players sang the lyrics to a
musical backing of banjo, drums and
xylophone, and the popular “And
Review
the Band Played On,” which was
simply spectacular.
But there is more to the band’s
concerts than just music. Bandleader
Coffee gave short monologues full
of small-town, backwoods humor be
tween songs.
With his stories of Lynchburg folk
such as friendly Uncle Pert the
moonshiner (“Not an unfriendly
hair on his head,” Coffee declared.
“Ain’t got but two or three hairs, but
they’re all friendly”), Coffee proved
his ability to make people laugh.
The music continued to sound
great. “Tennessee Squire Dance” was
given a rousing treatment to end the
first act, whicn was followed by a
short intermission.
To begin the second act, banjo
player Wiley Porter took a seat
onstage and picked his way through
a short number. Xylophonist Mi
chael Lorenz then joined him and
soon all of the musicians began ar
riving one by one, all the while play
ing the strains of “Jovial Jaspers.”
Coffee then began to tell the story
of the three trees, accompanied by
musical sound effects to represent
the fluffy rabbit, the revenuer, the
spring and the trees.
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UT researchers
recreate physics
of Jupiter red spot
AUSTIN (AP) — With plastic
beads and a giant spinning tank
of water, some University of
Texas scientists have re-created
what they believe to be the phys
ics of the Great Red Spot of the
planet Jupiter.
Physicist Harry Swiuney and
two graduate students created
their own miniature Red Spot —
an orphan vortex, or whirlpool,
of beads sitting at rest amid a
larger turbulent flow.
“We think it simulates the es-
Group fights
Texas taking
state language
DALLAS (AP) — A broad-
based coalition is urging voters to
reject a resolution on the Repub
lican Party primary ballot to make
English the official language of
Texas and the United States.
Speakers for several groups,
including the Community Task
Force Against Official English
Language Amendments, in the
Dallas-based coalition said Friday
that the non-binding resolution is
an attack on Hispanic culture and
the Spanish language.
The speakers said their groups
will oppose any ballot measures
or legislative proposals to declare
English as the state’s official lan
guage.
If approved Tuesday, the reso
lution could fuel efforts to pass a
similar law at the next session of
the Texas Legislature, opponents
said at the Dallas City Hall rally.
Dallas Mayor Annette Strauss
released a statement that said the
movement “could undermine the
consensus, cooperation and vital
sense of commonality of pur
pose” needed to keep the city
going strong.
sential physics of the situation on
Jupiter that led to development
of the persistent Red Spot,” Swin-
ney said. “Of course, we have no
information as to why Jupiter’s
spot is red.”
The Red Spot, one of the solar
system’s prominent landmarks, is
a giant oval about 25,000 miles
long and 8,000 miles wide —large
enough to swallow several Earths.
The first observation of Great
Red Spot “was probably in 1664
by British astronomer Robert
Hooke,” Swinney said. “The Voy
ager spacecraft (in 1979) showed
the atmospheric flow really was
turbulence. The spot looks like a
hurricane but, unlike a hurri
cane, it could last for hundreds of
thousands of years.”
Swinney, Joel Sommeria-Klein
and Steven Myers, of the univer
sity’s Center for Non-linear Dy
namics, based their experiment
on a computer simulation by Phil
lip Marcus of the University of
California-Berkeley.
Marcus contended the turbu
lent chaos of a rapidly rotating
fluid could create a single cohe
rent vortex spontaneously. The
Texas researchers, whose results
recently were published in the
professional journal Nature, say
they have confirmed Marcus’ pre
diction.
With a circular tank spinning
at the rate of four times a second,
the UT researchers saw the water
establish a shear zone, or distor
tion, in which some water moved
in one direction while the rest
moved in the opposite direction.
Gradually, they saw tiny vor
tices, or whirlpools, evolve and
combine until a single oval vortex
was formed, bounded by the
edges of the shear zone.
“We have shown that turbulent
flow with large shear in a rotating
system can produce a coherent
vortex that lasts as long as the
condition lasts,” said Swinney.
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a refreshing change from listening
to the fat lady sing.
The definite highlight of the show
tribute to
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The audience’s approval rang
Quite clear by means of the laughter
tnat ripped through the auditorium.
Hymns were then brought into
the show as the band fused “A Balm
in Gilead” and “The Church is One
Foundation” into a reverent and
memorable performance. As a ben
edictory note, this talented group of
musicians performed another short
hymn later in the concert.
With the Italian opera classic,
“Largo A1 Factorum,” cornet player
Gary Armstrong took the lead with
his hypnotic playing. It proved to be
Tenor horn player Louis Brown
took the lead on “New Orleans In
terlude,” which also featured Lorenz
on rub board and Hanson on trom
bone. The addition of Porter’s banjo
and drummer Steve Goldenberg
made for a rollicking good time.
The Jack Daniel’s Band’s rendi
tion of “When the Saints Go Mar-
chin’ In” was no less spectacular.
The entire band gave their all
amidst the dapping along of the au
dience who were loving every min
ute of it.
After two final numbers and the
benedictory note, Coffee thanked
the audience for the use of their
imaginations and led the band
marching offstage to thunderous ap
plause. The crowd in attendance was
then returned to College Station,
circa 1988.
For hayseed humor, spirited mu
sic and an all around good time, Mr.
Jack Daniel’s Original Silver Cornet
Band is hard to beat. It’s almost as
much fun as Mr. Daniel’s famous
whiskey.
Hispanic leaders
promise protest
of Alamo movie
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The em
battled movie about 13 days of fight
ing at the Alamo in Texas’ battle for
independence peacefully opened at
a private screening as critics prom
ised to protest the public debut Sun
day.
Though the outcome of the fight
ing at the Alamo is well known, the
controversy between the producers
of the film “Alamo — The Price of
Freedom” and Hispanic leaders con
tinues.
The film’s critics, charging it mis
represents the role of Tejanos who
defended the Alamo against the
Mexicans, planned to protest Sun
day’s public opening and ribbon-cut-
ting by Gov. Bill Clements.
A private gala premiere on Satur
day night raised $25,000 for the
Daughters of the Republic of Texas’
library, which is located at the
Alamo. The movie is being shown on
the 60-foot-high screen of the I MAX
theater at the city’s new Rivercenter
complex.
“We certainly are not ignorant
about history,” said Kieth Merrill,
the film’s director and producer, re
sponding to critics’ claims.
“But where there is no definitive
history, then all of us — each in their
own way — should develop their
own responsibility for learning
about the story.”
Ray Herbeck, the associate pro
ducer and assistant director, said
“It’s 90 percent on the money histor
ically, and 10 percent is based on a
toss of a coin.”
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pool would provide protection for
these people, the insurance rep
resentatives said.
Robert Blevins, executive director
of the Texas Life Insurance Associa
tion, advocated an insurance pool
but stressed that many uninsurable
people cannot afford to pay the pre
mium required by a pool.
“Pooling for the uninsurables is
an alternative, but there’s one draw
back,” Blevins said. “And that’s that
a person who makes $600 a month
can’t afford to pay $200 a month for
insurance. And so if the committee
decides to recommend pooling,
where are the funds going to come
from? Somebody’s got to finance it.
We don’t want to form a pool oursel
ves.”
Amanda Sheedy, counsel to the
Health Insurance Association of
America, said the state should subsi
dize the insurance pool.
“Fifteen states have enacted legis
lation that form insurance pools,
and there are subsidies for low-in
come people,” Sheedy said. “Some
states fund a large portion of the
pools.”
The cry for increased state fund
ing extended beyond the insurance
issue. Dr. Douglas Hurley, president
of the Texas Infectious Disease So
ciety, said Texas should develop a
centralized AIDS policy funded by
the state.
“This is a time for the state to take
a leadership role and to do that it re
quires funds and coordination,”
Hurley said. “To provide health
care, it’s going to require money.
And it’s been a long tradition in
Texas that the state provide for the
problems that affect the whole
state.”
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