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and
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Featuring a program of great classics
by Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, and Respighi
Monday, November 21
Rudder Theatre, 8:00 pan.
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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
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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.
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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. The work, consisting of
lions of several Latin dances,"'*
curately described by Feldman,?
ing composer Reed, as “a venr
orgy of sound.”
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