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 ?
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members' hard-core punk backgrounds.
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