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Susanna Sharpe and Samba Police will bring global
melodies to downtown Bryan on Saturday night
By TRICIA MARTINEZ
Staff Writer of Vic BATTALION
Susanna Sharpe and Samba Police will an
swer a call in Bryan Saturday night as they
bring Third World music to the Stafford
Opera House.
Susanna Sharpe and Samba Police last ap
peared at Stafford Opera House this past May.
"I really enjoy our appearances in Bryan-
College Station/' Sharpe said. "I didn't have
any idea that there would be so many recep
tive people to our music, and I was really
pleasantly surprised," she said. "We've al
ways received a really warm welcome in B-
CS."
Sharpe said most of the band's music will
be sung in Portuguese. Samba Police's five
members are Sergio Santos, percussion; Rus
sell Scanlon, guitar; Steve Swelling, drums;
Jeff Haley, bass; and George Oldziey, key
boards.
Scanlon writes all the band's original mu
sic. "He's very versed in jazz as well as Brazil
ian music," Sharpe said. "He also really loves
African music, so some of his music will have
that influence. He is pretty eclectic."
The manager of Stafford Opera House,
Randy Elmore, said he is excited that the band
will be back to play.
"Last time they really drew in a great
crowd," Elmore said. "A lot of the interna
tional students and people who are into inter
national music came out and it was a real
good time."
A good time is definitely what Susanna
Sharpe and Samba Police try to give their au
diences with their wide variety of Brazilian
rhythms, which range, from samba reggae to
rocking guitar sounds.
"Brazilian music has such a great beat and
it's really danceable," Sharpe said. "Not every
song sounds the same so there is usually
something for everyone in the music. The lan
guage also has such an appealing sound, even
if you don't know what the words mean. It's
nOt that hard to start to like it because the mu
sic is real catchy."
Sharpe said not very many people do the
type of music that she and Samba Police per
form.
"I think we've been doing it the longest
and the most consistently," Sharpe said.
"There are certainly, people who have been in-
Susanna Sharpe and Samba Police will
appear at the Stafford Opera House
volved with Brazilian music in a serious way
in Austin, but I really don't know of very
many Brazilian bands in Texas."
Sharpe and her Samba Police have played
at events like Austin's Carnaval Brasileiro and
Pecan Festival, Galveston's Mardi Gras and
several festivals in San Antonio.
Sharpe said she enjoys performing, which
she began doing in 1983.
"The more I performed the more I wanted
to keep doing it," Sharpe said. "It's only been
in the last few years that I have actually said
OK, this is it, this is my business and my pro
fession."
Susanna Sharpe and Samba Police are
three-time winners of the Austin Chronicle's
"Best Latin Band" award.
Sharpe said the band is currently working
Saturday night at 9 p.m. Tickets are
currently on sale at Marooned Records.
on recording.
"We have one recording out now," Sharpe
said.
"We are just very anxious to get something
new out, so we're working and we're going to
try to see if we can get a record label interest
ed."
Sharpe said the crowd can expect a great
show Saturday with all types of music being
played.
"We'll do three sets of an hour long that in
cludes great dance music. Mostly upbeat
stuff, I mean now and then we will do a slow,
romantic one," she said. "Some of the music
we do is all drums and that is so much fun.
We just really have a good time."
Saturday night's performance will begin at
9 p.m. at Stafford Opera House.
Chamber Music harmonizes Texas A&M
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By ANAS BEN-MUSA
StaffWriter of THE BATTALION
A small theater is filled with an
audience in rapt attention. On the
stage, a small ensemble of musi
cians play. One of the musicians
subtly flicks the strings of a violin
and produces sweet notes that rise
in the air and holds the audience
in a shroud of tranquility.
The ensemble is not an orches
tra or a major symphony that
plays complex pieces of music by
famous conductors and com
posers. Small ensembles or cham
ber music present a different aspect
of music.
"Chamber music ... is a more
personal type of music," said Mar
garet McGarther, senior lecturer
in the music program of the De
partment of Philosophy and Hu
manities. "It is usually held in a
much smaller auditorium."
The audience is not an observ
er, but a part of the music, Mc
Garther said. The audience sits so
close to the ensemble that it al
most feels like a part of the group.
Started in 1986, The University
Chamber Series, presented by the
College of Liberal Arts and the
Department of Philosophy and
Humanities, gives Texas A&M
students the ability to experience
the novel characteristics of cham
ber music.
Yet, this year the University
Chamber Series has suffered fi
nancial difficulties.
"The University Chamber Se
ries has been funded by the Col
lege of Liberal Arts and by private
donations," said Werner Rose, co
ordinator of music in the Depart
ment of Philosophy and Humani
ties. "With the stringency that has
come about with budgets this
year, that is one of the things that
was eliminated."
This year the Chamber Series'
budget is funded by private dona
tions and ticket sales. Rose said.
In addition to the Chamber Se
ries, the Department of Philoso
phy and Humanities' music pro
gram sponsors the Brown Bag
Concert Series.
"It's a weekly, noontime series
that's been going on for four
years." Rose said. "The University
Chamber Series features profes
sional musicians usually in small
er or solo ensembles dealing pri
marily with repertoire played in
the evening."
In addition. Rose said the
Chamber Series has a responsibili
ty to present music that mirrors
current thinking and music from
around the world.
An Yao, a renowned Chinese
musician, will perform this
spring, playing the long zither, a
traditional instrument of East Asia.
"We need to make our univer
sity audiences and students aware
that there is a long tradition of
beautiful music in cultures other
then Western," Rose said.
On the other hand, the Brown
Bag Concert Series offer much
shorter and smaller concerts that
are very informal. The Brown Bag
Series is free and runs on Wednes
day afternoons.'
"We tend to have a much
greater variety of music in this
program," Rose said, "every
thing—solo piano, guitar, folk
singers, or jazz."
The response to the series has
been very impressive. Rose said.
"They have caught on like
wildfire," Rose said, "and in no
time at all the music room was
overflowing and for several con
certs we had to turn people away."
Rose solved the problem by
broadcasting the Brown Bag Con
certs live on Texas A&M's radio
station, KAMU.
The future of the two series is a
hopeful one due to the Bryan-
College Station community's en
thusiastic response to the series.
Rose said.
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