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Lifestyles fhursday, April 8,1993 The Battalion Page 3 A&M's Miss Black and Gold goes to nationals By MELISSA HOLUBEC The Battalion year s local >fd, went on pageant. Uon^ [ Erica Davis, last Miss Black and Go! to win the national ; Texas A&M senior Donyale Bindley hopes to set a new A&M tradition by following her ? predecessor to the top. Bindley won the A&M Alpha Phi Alpha Miss Black and Gold pageant in January and went on to win the state competition, i jrhis weekend, she qualified for the national pageant by win ning at regionals in Arkansas. I "I have been really excited," the finance major from Houston said. "I can't believe I've gotten so far." As Miss Black and Gold, Lindley will make appearances at Alpha Phi Alpha programs and lead a black women's re treat in the fall. This semester she will serve as a judge in the MSC Variety show. "With the retreat, about 10 to 15 African-American women go away for a weekend and inter act with each other," Lindley said. "It is an opportunity to discuss being an African-Ameri can woman in the nineties and here at A&M." The local Miss Black and Gold Pageant was the first pageant Lindley had ever com peted in. Contestants were judged on talent, personal ex pression, modeling and an evening gown question-and-an- swer session. A swimsuit com petition and contestant inter view with the judges were im plemented in higher level pageants. ' V I thought it would boost my confidence," she said. "I saw it as an opportunity to come out of myself, an opportunity to grow." The state pageant added as pects of competition Lindley didn't have to deal with at the local level —a swimsuit portion and 13 or 14 winners of local pageants from the University of Houston, Texas Tech, Southwest Texas State University, the Uni versity of Texas and other col leges around the state. "There was not a swimsuit competition at the local level, ,, Lindley said. "The focus was more on scholarship." For the regional pageant, Lindley and the state winners from Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas interviewed with the judges, another portion they had not faced in earlier competitions. "Interviewing has never been one of my strong points, but I did well/' she said. "It was a big confidence booster to see one of my weaknesses become a strength/' This summer, Lindley will compete with five women from different regions at the national pageant in New Orleans. "There won't be anything at the national pageant that I haven't competed in at the other levels," Lindley said. "The judging becomes more all- around the further you go." Competing in the pageants has exposed Lindley to oppor tunities she didn't expect to en counter. "By working with the See Black and Gold/Page 4 Donyale Lindley, the new Texas A&M Miss Black and Gold, stands with her predecessor. Erica Davis. A swing through history with the 'other' Aggie bands A&M bands to release two new albums By JOE LEIH The Battalion I Recording finished last week on two albums ^featuring the 100th anniversary of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band and the first recording of A&M's Symphonic and Jazz Bands. I The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band's centennial album will include four tunes from the Ag- gieland Dance Band, while the other album Will feature the work of all four A&M bands. I Lt. Colonel Ray Toler, A&M's director of bands, said that both albums required a week of approximately 30 hours of "intense" recording by the ensembles. The last record ing session ended at 2 a.m. on March 26. Both albums will be released in November 1993, in time for the Aggie Band's centennial. The first "Aggie Band," which originated in 1894, was sligntly smaller than today's 280- member ensemble. "It began as a gentleman who played bugle ills," said associate director of bands Major Jay A drummer joined tne bu- ia had formed. calls," said associate director ot bands Major Jay Brewer, Class of '81. gler, and by 1895 a 13-piece banc Since then/the Aggie Band's musical repertoire has grown as well as its membership. "Different parts of the CD will depict differ ent eras of trie band's history," Brewer said. The album will begin with bugle calls such as •'Reveille" and "Sound Assembly" and will in clude "all of the A&M student body favorites" such as the "Aggie War Hymn" and "The No ble Men of Kyle. The Aggieland Dance Band, composed of members of the Aggie Band, will include music jfrom the Big Band era on the centennial CD. Orchestra leaders such as Glenn Miller and jBermy Goodman popularized the form of jazz fknown as Big Band music in the 1930s and '40s. "The Dance Band has been an integral part of the Aggie Band since the mid-'30s," said Toler. Brewer, who directs the Dance Band, said, "It adds a little different flavor of Aggie Band music." ROBERT[. REED/The Battalion Assistant Director of Bonds Jim McDaniel directs a rehearsal of the Texas A&M Jazz Band. Y "I'd Rather Be a Texas Aggie," will be one of the Dance Band selections. This Big Band tune was featured in the World War II movie, "We've Never Been Licked," filmed at A&M. The second CD will represent all the bands at A&M, said Jim McDaniel, assistant director of bands. "Our purpose is to get information out that we have the ensembles we have now." "This is the first time we have recorded our instrumental groups outside of the Aggie Band," said Brewer. Two of the Jazz Band's selections are in the style of Stan Kenton, a Big Band leader known for his La tin-style music. "He's one of the big names of jazz and I am a big Kenton advocate. said McDaniel, who directs the Jazz Band. "Not many people are doing his musrtc now," he said. "I thought it would be nice to do something meaningml in the jazz world." Among the Symphonic Band's selections will be the tone poem "Carla," depicting the hurricane of that name which hit the Texas coast in 1961. Another selection will be the contemporary piece "Sea Space," written for the Symphonic Band last year by A&M's com poser in residence. Dr. Peter Lieuwen. Most of the funding for the recordings was provided by the Texas Aggie Band Associa tion, an association of former Aggie Band members. Hard-core funk punkers Fugazi to play in Bryan By MIKE MCMAHAN / The Battalion Fugazi retains the intensity and anger of hard-core while Legendary underground rock- avoiding the sloppy musician- ers Fugazi will roar through ship that characterized hardcore town on Sunday night, April 11, suc 1 ^ ’ with a performance at Stafford albums such as 1990 s Re- Opera House. S ^ teady ° 1 ! t The Washington, D.C. band, Pj Nothmg^ Fugazi incornorat- who will release a new album, ed elements of manv styles of "In On The Killtaker," on May music, including funk and jazz, 24, has a reputation for passion- *° , crea p a distinctive and origi- ate and intense live shows. natmixture. _ . Rolling Stone magazine de- , Throughit all however, Fugazi scribed them as "perhaps Ameri- has stayed true to its anh-violence ca's best live band" in a review hard-core roots MacKave told of a 1992 show at The Ritz in s ) am ~ d 1 anc , l 1 n ^p n . s at R 1 *, 2 New York City show, 1 really hate to see people s The band's sound has definite ^ ads getting crushed, so just act roots in hard-core punk, which hke human beings okay ? should come as no surprise con- Advance tickets dor the show sidering that Fugazi's Ian MacK- are available at Marooned aye was also the singer/lyricist Recorc * s ‘ * •* - "< . ; ; Fugazi incorporates funk, jazz and other musical styles with its members' hard-core punk backgrounds. 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