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Arts & Entertainment Thursday, October 22, 1992 The Battalion Page 3 with thes; Student [1 ■national 1 Foiu® i rmal romjj a dent Ik Iho intea a nv Friday, Or. open to:: of a lectei ig at the .11; m Rooml 1 : I be reade in >g icesai oothly, able sites ;nt is testeii Event mte or pro cost oftei staff, par:; lesetan;: 'erageotii finalists! Orchestra performs children's concert By JULIE POLSTON Feature Writer of THE BATTALION Thousands of elementary stu dents from Bryan-College Station and surrounding towns will at tend a children's orchestra con cert Oct. 26 in Rudder Auditori um. About 4,000 fourth and fifth grade students are expected to at tend the concert, entitled "Of Homs, Signals, and Animals." The Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra will perform well- known songs most children should be familiar with. The pieces selected contain sounds that represent animals communicating, such as elephants trumpeting to one another. Pieces to be performed include "Sheep May Safely Graze" by J.S. Bach, "The Waltzing Cat and Chicken Reel" by L. Anderson and "The Swan" and "The Fos sils" by C. Saint-Saens. The concert is produced by the BVSO and the Friends Association of the Symphony Orchestra. Polly Grant, chair for the chil dren's concert, said the children are very excited about coming to the Texas A&M campus to hear the concert. "For many students, it is their first time to go to Rudder, and their first time to ever hear a live orchestra," she said. Students also participated in a poster contest held among the College Station schools, she said. "Most of the drawings were of forest scenes with bears and rab bits playing instruments," Grant said. The winner of the contest was Megan Gardner, a fourth grade student at College Hills Elemen tary School. Her drawing was used for poster advertising as well as the program cover. Aaron Kozak, a fourth grade student at Southwood Valley Ele mentary School, received an hon orable mention. Manuella Roller and orchestra conductor Franz Krager chose se- College Station fourth grader Megan Gardner's drawing is the program cover for the concert "Of Horns, Signals, and Animals." lections from a wide range of mu sic from the 18th century to the present. Grant said teathers used pro gram notes and cassette tapes to familiarize students with the mu sic to be performed at the concert. disp® ings be® Irawings II van'M^ Former A&M president Vandiver releases new book Frank Vandiver will appear at Hastings on Friday. By MARSHALL LOVE Feature Writer for THE BATTALION Former Texas A&M president and military historian Frank E. Vandiver's new book, "Blood Brothers: A Short History of the Civil War," will be released Mon day. Vandiver will sign copies of his book from 4:30-6:30 Friday af ternoon at Hastings Books Music & Videos in Culpepper Plaza in College Station. He summarized his thesis as "one war, two revolutions." While Abraham Lincoln had to unify the North to fight the war, Vandiver said, Jefferson Davis had the difficult job of making the South into a country. Vandiver, who was president of Texas A&M between 1981 and 1988, published his first article on the Civil War when he was 16 and has since written several books on the topic. "I've always had a fascination with the war, and again I have drifted back into it," he said. "Blood Brothers," his first book in over 12 years, grew out of an article he did for the "Ency clopedia of the American Mili tary," which is scheduled to be published in 1992. "I already had half the book written, and I wanted to write the other," Vandiver said. "I hope the book draws other people into the war." Vandiver's other books in clude "The Idea of the South," "Jubal's Raid," and "Black Jack," a finalist for the National Book Award. He is working on a book about Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam Dallas band brings soul, melodic rock to B-CS By JENNY MAGEE Rmewer to THE BATTALION Little Sister will take the stage at Stafford Opera House tonight, not as a "hippie genera tion" wannabe band, but as a band ready to give back to the 90s something that the 80s lacked. Little Sister is a Dallas-based band, with a sound character ized by a blend of blues, soul, funk, and earth melodic rock. Lead singer Patrice Pike is ex cited about this opportunity to play ir. College Station. "We've played in Austin and San Marcos a lot, and people were always asking us when we were going to come to College Station," she said. The band has been together for about 14 months. Pike is ac companied by Wayne Sutton on guitar, drummer Sean Phillips, and Jon Thomasson on bass. Pike has been compared to Janis Joplin but rejects the asso ciation based on differences in vocal quality between the two. She said her personality and sense of free spirit cause people to make the connection. "Like Joplin, the band is try ing to get away from the status quo attitude that is permeating the world," Pike said. The recent influx of reminis cent 70s rock that is appearing on the music scene may cause Little Sister's style to appear cliched. Pike said, however, that the band is not retrospec tive, but just trying to do some thing a little more exciting than the 80s. Little Sister, like most bands, brings together a combination of musicians with different back grounds and influences. Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, and Robert Plant are examples of the band's mentors. Pike said. Members of Little Sister are primarily concerned with be coming a better musicians, com municating with each other, and trying to relate to each other's different perspectives, she said. All the members of Little Sis ter have been in other bands pri or to this one. They were brought together because they shared similar interests and atti tudes about music. Pike said. " When you've worked with bands for awhile, you learn and grow as a musician, and try to build something better with each experience," she said. Little Sister will perform ma terial tonight from their debut album "Freedom Child," de scribed by the Austin Chronicle as "not clever, but honest". While this is Little Sister's first appearance in College Sta tion, T. C. Nguyen, the promo tions manager at Stafford, said he anticipates a strong response to their show. "Little Sister is a very ener getic band. They are one of the fastest growing bands from the Austin and Dallas areas," Nguyen said. "Once you see them, it is easy to be converted into one of their fans." The mixture of soul and melodic rock with a touch of rhythm and blues should give the show a wide variety of sound to play with. Pike summed up the band's purpose with a short and sweet generality. 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