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By Dennis EHermeier
The overwhelming acceptance of the Katherine Thomas
Singers at their concert here in December brought a special
request from UNL Chancellor James Zumberge for them to
return to UNL, according to the UNL school of Music.
Under the direction of Lenford Vaughan, the Katherine
Thomas Singers provide a varied program, including popular
songs, hymns and songs composed by Katherine Thomas'
son, Tommy.
Their music is not only musically alivo but also includes
texts of religious and philosophical significance.
Because of recent success in the U.S., the group plans to
make its first record this summer.
The black gospel choir from Omaha began nine years ago
with eight members. The group has 65 performers.
Most members of the group are high school students
from the Omaha area. There also are several adult members
and some from outside Omaha. Two singers live in Lincoln;
one, Dorothy Reed, is a UNL student.
Until two years ago, the Katherine Thomas Singers were
known as the Mt. Calvary Youth Choir from the Mt.
Calvary Community Church. At that time they were
reorganized and given their present name. Katherine
Thomas had been their director at Mt Calvary and the
group took her name in honor of her commitment.
The singers are sponsored by the Greater New Hope
Baptist Church of Omaha. A minister at New Hope serves as
their agent.
The singers have toured the Midwest and some Eastern
cities. They will soon perform in Memphis, Tenn. The
Lincoln appearance is their sixth this year.
The concert is Sunday at 8 p.m., in Kimball Recital Hall.
Regular tickets are $1 , student 50 cents.
V stung in Academy A
The (predictable, often ridiculous, but always
enjoyable Academy Awards are over for another year,
and Tuesday night's show had enough memorable
moments to fill its own Oscar Highlights Movie.
The Exorcist backlash that swung the best picture
and best director awards to The Sting was the big
story, but no one picture really dominated the awards
and there seemed to be something for everyone.
Tatum O'Neal got her- Otcar, songwriter Marvin
Hamlisch made a pig of himself with thret, and the
most puzzling moment came when Glenda Jackson
beat out the iskes of Barbra Streisand and -Joanne
Woodward for best actress. Also surprising, but
perhaps the most tatisfyirsg presentation of tho night,
was tha well desemd acting sward given to Jack
Lemmon.
The bigpst dissappointment of the evening was
the TV camera that was about three inches off when
the inevitable streaker made his debut. , '
But there were other dubious bright spots to make
up tor it: Dyan Cannon starting to sing one of the
best song nominocs with 10 seconds of screeching
feedback; guessing if Peggy Lea had forgotten the
words to Tha Way We Were cr If she really meant to
ling it that, slow; Alfred Hitchcock's appearance; .
thursday, aprii, 4, 1974
wondering it Katy Hepburn would ever Set tha
recipient of the Irving Thalberg award speak; and
John Huston's remarkable knack of introducing
people without telling who they were. Imagine how
unexciting the Academy Award show would be if
everything ever went right.
When was the fast time you taw Charlton Keston.
geg lukow
u
at a villain? How about a vigorous, tooth end n?:l
brawl tmtmen two such stars as Raqyitl WfiSch '.-.!
Fays Dunraway? Both rarities sppsar iA Hkhz-'l
Lester's new film, The Three Musketeers. '
It is a robust, siiiy, festive, free-for-all of a film. M
has the, biggest all-star cast sinca the Pmekhn
Adventure, but this one works-pcrfcctly. "
Lester combines swashbuckling clichet with gritty
Let Me In Your Life, Artehta Franklin
My first listening to this album brought a sigh cf relief; I was
afraid it might be the same as her last album when she
collaborated with Quincy Jones in an ostentatious, even boring
album. ,..
Let Me In Your Life is a beauty. It's very much Aretha's
album, letting her best qualities come out. Even though there is a
lot of backup in the way of strings and horns, they never drown
her out.
Her voice is changed on this album and it's still powerful and
awe inspiring. Her treatment of her own "Oh Baby" is fantastic.
and she does some amazing jumps with her voice. Stevie Wonder's
"Until You Come Back To Me," the single relase from the album,
is still my own favorite, an exciting and well done, well written
song.
Not so well written is Bobby Goldsboro's "With Pen in Hand,"
but Aretha sings the hell out of it anyway. She does a superb
rendition of Leon Russell's "A Song For You," bringing out the
intimate flavor inherent in it.
There are, by contrast, some not so great cuts, such as "I'm In
Love," but still her voice...well, the songs just cannot be written
off because she does such a beautiful job with them.
So met hi n' Else, by Cannonbail Adderley
This album is a re-release of a legendary '53 session with Miles
Davis, on trumpet Hank Jones on Keyboard, Art Blakey on
drums, and Sam Jones on bass. Why it's called Adderley's album
is beyond me.
It should rightfully be a Miles Davis album; he sets the
melodies and ends them, and he's out front all the way. That
doesn't mean that Adderley doesn't contribute anything; on the
contrary, he's lyr.ical, bluesy, raw and hard-edged, and he's great,
but it's still Davis' album.
It's a mellow album, smooth and efficient. I hope UA will
keep reissuing the old Blue Note greats.
Penny Arcade, by Joe Farrell
There are probably lots of student who don't know who Joe
Farrell is, so, for" those uninformed people, he is a virtuoso on
tenoj and" soprano' saxophone, 'flute, and piccolo. He's played
backup for Qhick.Corea and Aretha Franklin, but his best work is
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Penny Arcade represents his fourth solo effort, and while his
playing remains superb, Farrell doesn't show much imagination in
his arranging , or , composition. Fortunately, this ablum features
such jazz greats as Herbie Hancock on keyboards and Joe Beck on
guitar and both of them do enough cooking to make up for the
lack of Farrell's ingenuity.
Don't misunderstand, Farrell is not bad. He's fine, as bh tenor
work on the cut "Geo Blue" will prove. It's just that from a jazz
reed player, you come to expect a lot of variations and
imaginative playing, and Farrell doesn't quite make it.
It's a good album, and a must for Farrell fans. Get it even if
you aren't one; it might make a fan of you.
Rare Earth, the Eagles, Seals
and Crofts, Black Oak
Arkansas, Black Sabbath, Deep
Purple, Emerson, Lake and
Palmer and Earth, Wind and
Fire will headline the
"California Jam," Saturday, at
the Ontario Motor Speedway
in Ontario, Calif.
Tickets are available by ,
dialing the Los Angeles area
code and T-l-C K-E-T-S. '
wards jambore
realism and only slightly dampens the romping
craziness that he used in A Hard Day's Night and
Help, the two Beatle movies that made him famous.
Michael York is D'Artagnan, a bumpkin with
bravado trying to work his way into the ranks of the
king's msuketeers. Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay and
Richard Chamberlain play his famous trio of friends,
and together they save the French queeq (Geraldine
ChapHn) from a ruinous scandal pfotted by Cardinal
Richelieu (Heston) and his evil, eye-patched
henchman Rochefort (Christopher Lee).
Amid all this is a lot of raucous brawling end zesty
iwardplay that would have mda Errol Flynn and
D-iil Rathbona flinch. A kick in the groin usually
tiott the same job ss a run through with a sword, and
iSj of D'Artagnan's neat Douglas Fair bank's typa
acrobatics usually serve only to drop him in a pttddfa
cf r.if-i. ,
I . n't recall a movie that moved as quickly as The
it . . Musketeers, and It was good to see It end wilh
,a r r-.r.-iise of more to come in a sequel called The
;? of Mihdy.
. lush trappings, feathered hats, floppy boots
; - . .rveious settings, Tha Three Musketeers is a
colorful joy to watch.
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