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iever someone writes an impossible soprano
.y call on Evelyn Lear to sing it," said Ron
..lin, coordinator of the Cultural Af-tairs
: nmittee, about the Metropolitan Oprra'r K . u i
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3o.vlin said he decided to invite I. a.: to U n.; !
j as part of the Performing Arts Series after mm ; : ... i
on ETV last year. The Cultural Affairs Ccvn
I was formed one and a half yers ago to brine (.. .!
j artists to campus.
' The committee primarily is i n t--i or. t j m .rx'-i,
v.ho will meet informally with students. Bn. ,iui
he thinks some artists are aloof, but Lear .sw.. ... ;
relate well to her audience.
Lear is best known for contemporary music, b i
now is emerging as a soprano of enormous i .!" and
versatility. With the New York Philharmonic last
s ison she was a s.jit in such div trse wrki as
t aydn's Lord Nelson Mass and Berg's Seven t.'!
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Lear was born in Brooklyn and received '! c !v
education at New York University, Juihiard School
Music and Hunter College in New York Ciuc ",f. :
winning the Concert Artists Guild Award m VJbZ. ' i
:nd her husband, baritone Thomas .:.-. n,
emlvitked for Europe to study for a year at t Bvt! "
Hochschule fur Musik on Fulbright Schr! ,
hiternational attention focused on Lo.k v. h- i .' ,
triumphed as Berg's Lulu at the Vi ir,,i r. : t . .1 m
10(32. Lulu, written in the 1940s, use'. 1? ,.
Which avoids the use of predictable piitfir, if I
of technical progi rs ;cns. bhe learned this formidable
i '! in three ".;v -
Her American debut followed in 1965 as
Cieopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar with the Kansas
Cty Performing Arts Foundation and as Lulu in San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
In 19G7, Lear played Lavinia ir he world
ore':,;. . . of Mourning Becomes Ek. .a as her
Metre ...litan Opeia debut. This success was followed
by tli-' equally acclaimed performances of Chcrubino
in i''e Marriage of Figaro, the composer in Ariadne
;u-f A'..'xui and Marie in Wozeck in the
Metropolitan's major revival of the Berg ox)ra.
Lear is a frequent soloist with the New York
Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony and
other major orchestras. Her catalog of recordings
ir.J'ubs a full-length Woseck, Lulu and The Flying
Du!..'ir"j.'i and Boris Codunov.
Evelyn Lear's visits UNL Friday beginning with an
i! formal session in the Neihardt Complex TV Lounge
:.t 8 p.m. Her concert is Saturday night at 8 in
Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are S2. 50 for students
:'id S4 CO for general admission. Concert selections
include musTc from Vivaldi, Berg, Bi?et,
Pi ..,,! ,,i.,nmoff, Tchaikovsky, R. Strauss, Schumann,
: e'.-jhcven and Wolf
Su"day at ? p.m. she will participate in a Masters
Chi.;;- critique of University music majors in
V.'t stbn.-ok 119. Lear concludes her sessions here
Sunday night at 8 with an informal session in the
'iin'th Hal, lounge.
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Artists' best
spice album
collections
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jrr,r,y fci.v! : at Carnegie Hall
li.is (io'iiil.- t..aj-d :et contains some of Reed's best tunes,
i'i'Judi.-; .- ii.ii y.y,,-y, u'.. ' Raby What You Want Me To Do."
T hi-. Jbu'n i. .in :ni'iC't tant .'n.'di'tion for any blues collection.
The i inptiiUnui-Antliology
iP , i .(I.-, :h- tenth anniversary of the Temptations,
;.it i .I'-e thiough a lot r.f personnel changes but
' t.-aitr. I'.p. Tnis triple album set contains all of their
bi'iw.-'.t h-'ts durinrj tt). last ton years.
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Freddie King-Woman Across the River
This new release marks King's best work to date, although
there is still too much Leon Russell coloring. However, the
Shelter backup people are eminently capable, and it's a fine
blues album.
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Geroge Fields-The Pocket Bach
Although it strikes me as humorous at times, this is a
serious and very successful attempt at Bach on the four octave
chromatic and bass harmonicas, rield's virtuosity h to my
knowledge unequalled. Fields mastered and mixed the album
himself and did as well in that area.
'Fun' film's dream worlds
mix sci fi, melodrama, sex
Nothing heavy so far at Lincoln's cinemas
this week. Heie's a brief look at three of the
"sleepers" showing in town.
Westworhl is, in many ways a terrible
mn'iot- picture. But strap on your gun holster,
unsheath ye broadsword and forget all that
stuff about entertainment vs. art, because this
movie is a lot of fun.
Westworld is a $1,000 a day desert resort
where vacationers can forget their troubles and
vent their physical and sexual frustrations on
glassy eyed, life-like robots who populate three
authentically reproduced dream worlds.
Besides shootouts in an Old West town,
sword! ights in a medieval castle and pagan
revelries in ancient Rome, the film also has
crowd pleasing combinations of science fiction,
.ex, horror and good, old fashioned melodrama.
1 1 .hould make a mint.
greg lukow
key grip
The film was written and directed by
Michael Ctichtun who's had a hand in some of
the most commercial, if not the best, science
Pctiun during the past few yearr.
It; Westworld, Yul Brynner plays a
guidightet lubot who gets shot one too many
times and decides to take vengence on
y.u . itioners Hichard Benjamin and James
brulin.
Even though th .nee dream world settings
do add a clever new twist, the old sci fi plot line
of mechanizati on backfiring and destroying its
t original.
Charlie is i ridiculous film
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drunken prostitute, a flagpole sitter, a balloon
blower and an inventor trying to bieak the
work) lorirj distance tango recotd. They neve
fire a gun and spend most of iheir time playing
gangsters as if it weie a l.ij game. They steal
cats, tob empty banks, bribe fat, redneck
sheriff r, and are a thorn in the side of the local
Ku Klux Klan.
The film, directed by Ivan IMayry, rambles
aimlessly and looks low budget. However, its
photography and subdued tone help create the
small town atmosphere of the 20s. It also is
marked by the guest appearance of veteran
character actor John Carradine in what is billed
as his 401st screen role (although half that
figure would be a more accurate total).
There's nothing in Hit that hasn't been seen
already in a spate ul ulhei black duig it , if hi;
films. Running true to form, Billy Dee Willi. sim ,
plays an embittered police detective whose
15 year old daughtei dies of an 'iveidose ol
heroin. Naturally, Ik; starts a one man cms.idc
(a la Cordon's War) against the evils of diug'.
and hires a weird assoi tment ol "specialists" hi
help him .j'jsassiu.jie nine r i r it dm-j hafiu kers in
ranee.
His specialists include a herom .iddicted
prostitute, a Vietnam vet, a ?,cuba diving
mechanic (played by the ternhcally funny
Richard Pryor), an older married couple who
have criminal records and a frustrated New
York drug policeman. He enlists their aid by
convincing them that he's working for ihn
government.
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