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The Battalion Friday, November 18,1988 CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WAV. Vance ’71 Kyle Hawthorne ’79 DWI • Ftelonies • Misdemeanors Free Initial Consultations 776 2244 Vance, Bruchez & Gross 3131 Briarcrest Drive/Bryan Not certified by the Tbxas Board of Legal Specialization The University Chamber Series Presents THE BRAZOS SINFONTETTA and GEORGE C. ADAMS Guest Conductor and Bassoon Soloist Featuring a program of great classics by Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Respighi Monday, November 21 Rudder Theatre, 8:00 pan. Tickets available at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234. Adults $6.00, Students$4.00 CTWP "Best Prices In Town!" Super Fall Special XTTURBO Now! $750 00 Complete System 1 yr warranty parts & labor At keyboard Monochrome Monitor Monochrome Graphics Parrallel Port 8088-2(4.77/8 Mnz.) 512k Ram 360k Floppy 2 hours Free Training 693-8080 2553 Texas Ave. S. College Station % M & ¥ A & 0> 9 Hoy en Belen ha nacido el Nino Dios, ven con nosotros a adorarlo La com uni dad Latina de St. Mary's estard celebraudo la Uegada del SeAor el S&bado 3 de Plclerobre a las 7:00 PM. Habr* una mlsa de Navi dad en la coal ae tendrd una Pastorela o representaclAn del Evangelic por parte de loa nlAoa de la Comunldad. A1 final de la mlsa. se llevarft a cabo nna Posada, con vlllanclcos. plftatas, etc. TODOS ESTAN BIENVENIDOS. TE ESPERAMOS !!!!!!! ©©sflumaiEiiijm ids ot. scim^ra Catholic Student Association ^===== V e> Joins in with the Aggies! Beat the Hell Otta TCU! TAIL GATE PACK $11. 95 1 lb Beetle's BBQ 1 pt Beans 1 pt Potatoe salad or cole slaw 4 cokes and bread includes pickles & onions without cokes $9. 95 823-RIBS 1439 W. Villa Maria at FM 2818 Culture is revived in show; Dancers bring alive rituals Ceremonies, songs express Indian culture By Staci Finch Staff Writer Native American culture has al ways held a fascination for many people. Obscure tales of ceremonies and rituals often shroud the prac tices of American Indian people in mystery. However, the Zuni Indian Dancers brought several rituals alive Thursday night as they performed native American dances from differ ent New Mexico tribes. ried water from springs to the village in pots on their heads. Although this practice is no longer in use, the dance was performed in honor of the women who kept the villages supplied with fresh water. And if you think taking small hops across the stage with a small pottery bowl on your head is easy, try balancing a chemistry book while walking across campus and you’ll think differently. The opening dance was a perfor mance of “The Zuni Rainbow Dance.” Although the song lyrics were unintelligible and the movements simple, the dance cap tured the audience’s attention with it’s earthy style and colorful cos tumes. Also impressive were the bright ceremonial costumes worn by the performers% Handwoven, and pat terned after clothes worn centuries ago, they added much to the perfor mance. The jewelry was also hand made, and complimented the cloth ing as well as added flash to the performances. The second dance was the “Tur key Dance,” and symbolized the im portance of the turkey to early Americans, not only as food, (don’t forget that the Indians participated in Thanksgiving too), but as decora tion, since the feathers served as or naments for many Indian head- resses. The most impressive of the dances was the “Basket Dance.” Long before modern technology and the advance of running water, the women in Indian pueblos car- But the highlight of the evening was in Fernando Cellion’s flute per formance. The leader of the Indian group is well-known for his rendi tions of native American songs, and the audience was spellbound by his solos of songs celebrating love and life. Unfortunately, the large num ber of restless young children com bined with a less than perfect sound system detracted from the beauty of the songs, but the effect was still enthralling. Close you eyes, and you could be on a mesa watching a long- age sunset, playing to your lover. Symphonic band performs well for first A&M concert of season lob ' By Chuck Lovejoy Staff Writer In its First concert this semester, the Texas A&M Symphonic Band impressively performed a wide vari ety of music for an appreciative au dience. The concert also marked another first for the band. It was their first under the direction of Ray Toler, a retired Air Force Lt. Col. who joined the A&M faculty last spring. six Air Force bands. He also served at the Pentagon as Chief of Band and Music for the U.S. Air Force. While in the military, Toler was the conductor and commander for Throughout the performance, Toler conducted with energy, lead ing the band’s members through dif ficult pieces of music with ease. ions liece n Furniture seen as art form By Shane Hall Staff Writer Most people probably think of the chair as something to sit on to avoid sitting on the floor. However, many architects and designers view the chair as a work of art. The chair as art is the theme of “Furniture By Architects,” a exhibit of chairs by various architects and designers of the 20th century. The exhibit, now on display in the gallery of the Langford Architecture Cen ter, features chairs from as far back as the early 1900s to the 1980s. The modern age of art and ar chitecture was a time when designers were beginning to work with new building materials. Appropriately, “Furniture by Architects” features some examples of what were new materials in early use. Dawn Ras mussen, the gallery director, said the “MR Chair,” an armchair with a ig frame by Ludwig Mies van oh< Photo by Fredrick D. Joe curvini der Rohe, was one of the First uses of tubular steel. “This was one of the First chairs Mies designed,” she said. “Here he used tubular steel for that cantilever effect.” “Chaise Lounge,” designed in 1928 by the architect Le Corbusier, is another chair that uses tubular steel. Rasmussen said Le Corbusier was concerned with how a chair ac commodates the human body. Corbusier’s “Chaise Lounge” and Mies van der Rohe’s “MR Chair” ap pear to be the exhibit’s most popular chairs. “They’re the classics of the show,” Rasmussen said. Worth about $5,000, Corbusier’s chair is the most valuable in the ex hibit, Rasmussen. Other chairs on display include the “Veronica Chair,” a wooden chair designed in 1986 by the hus band and wife team of Afra and To- bia Scarpa of Spain. Lou Alice Pe- veler, a student in Rasmussen’s gallery management class, described the “Veronica Chair” as a design that is “reminiscent of the bull and the Spanish love for bullFighting.” The form of the chair does seems to fit the motif, with its back shaped to re semble a horned bull’s head. “Quinta Armchair” is one of two steel chairs by Mario Botta. Despite the material, “Quinta Armchair,” appears fragile. Rasmussen ex plained that Botta designs chairs so that every connection can be seen. According to David Hess,a» p| )e computer science major and pn |qj dent of the band, it is mucheasiei play for an energetic and enthus; tic conductor such as Col. Toler he is called by those in the band), “Col. Toler has a lot of enei when he directs,” Hess said, energy seems to transfer to thebi as we are playing.” This must be true, considering! quality of last night’s concert. Dr. Ken Dirks, president of Bryan Rotary Club, the groupsp soring the event, opened thesho» Following Dirks’ opening marks, Master of Ceremonies Roger Feldman introduced Ti who began the concert by leai the crowd in singing “The Spangled Banner.” Toler then directed the ha they played “American Overt® Band” by J. W. Jenkins. The pi* lyi ical passages were handled the band’s members, especial!' French horn players. The next selection, Johan Hanssen’s “Valdres,” featuredtfl pet soloist Mike Watson, w a member of the Brazos ValleyS) phony Orchestra. Watson play Norwegian folk song with a tone and completely by memory Companion pieces “Irish h from County Derry” and pherd’s Hey” by Percy Grain were then performed. The melody of “Irish Tune” and lively dance of “Shepherd's Hi were delicately phrased by group. Alfred Reed’s “El Camino was performed following a po" “Band of America March" by LaValle. Toler specially conn 3 sioned “El Camino Real” froniK for the Band of Air Force Resen 1985. 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