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From the first strains of "Lift Every Voice and Sing to the
finale "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand," the Blacks of
African Descent (BAD) performance Monday night in the Nebraska
Union told of black American experiences.
The 35 members of the troupe are UNL students. The group
began three years ago with 1 1 members, said BAD President Al
Stansbury.
The students organize at the beginning of the school year and
prepare a program to present throughout the year, he said. The
first performance this year was a Christmas program at the Men's
Reformatory Unit of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional
Complex.
"We hope to take the program to the Lincoln Public Schools
this year," Stansbury said. The group presented programs in some
Lincoln and Omaha schools last year.
"Blacks of African Descent want to spread a message. We have
dancing, gospel music, readings, and other presentations. Our
message is that blacks have made significant contributions to this
culture and we are showing part of them," Stansbury said.
"Members make their own costumes and work up their own
presentations," troupe member Delores Matthews said. "I joined
last year because I wanted to get into something like this with a
message," she added.
Members created their own modern African-style dance routines
and made all their costumes, Matthews said.
During the program Monday night members sang several soul
songs, such as "I Can See Clearly Now," and presented skits. There
also were dramatic readings relating to the black experience and a
Joylctta Woodruffs reading of "Pardon Us America," a
commentary on Watergate.
The conclusion was a slide, music, and dramatic reading
presentation of Martin Luther King's "I've Got A Dream" speech.
However, the performers said they were disturbed that only
about 35 people attended.
"If we could get more people here the message would be
effective," Stansbury said.
The program will be presented in residence halls throughout
Black Heritage Month, Stansbury said.
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Concert
to feature
'tricky '
sonata
Elliot Carter's "Sonata for
Violoncello and Piano" will be
performed for the first time in
Nebraska, Thursday.
The piece will be performed
by cellist Priscilla Parson and
pianist Thomas Fritz in an 8
p.m. recital at Kimball Recital
Hall.
The tricky rhythms of the
work, which was composed in
1948, have scared off many
potential performers. Parson
said.
Carter, who received a
Pulitzer Prize in 1960, uses
rhythms and rhythmic
continuities, sometimes called
"metric modulation."
Parson, who is working on
her Doctor of Musical Arts
performing degree from
Wisconsin University, said she
is trying to work especially on
contemporary and old music.
The Carter Sonata, she said,
is difficult but enjoyable.
Parson and Fritz also will
perform Igor Stravinsky's
"Suite Italienne," an
arrangement from the ballet
"Pulcinella", and Brahms's
"Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38,
for Violoncello and Piano."
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daily nebraskan
thursday, february 20, 1975