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Occasionally an album appears that, although made up of
mainly good matenal, begs being listened to for the sake of a single
selection, British pop children lOcc have managed to come up with
just such an album. Entitled The Original Soundtrack, the album is
a compendium of practically every catchy pop-rock riff in the
modern British arsenal, tied together with decent vocal work good
lyrics and, with one major exception, thankfully little Significance
Promotional material for the album does everything save claim
divine inspiration for the album's first cut, an extended triptych
queasily entitled "Une Nuit a Paris." lOcc were obviously quite
pleased with themselves over this inflated little document that has
pretensions of being a Henry Milleresque stream-of-consciousness
portrait of Paris low life at night.
Instead of an orchestrated Grove Press epic, though, what the
listener is left with is a perambulating representation of what every
British tourist weekending on the Continent hopes to find. Sin, sex
and strange photographs-these are things that 'the
Innocents-Abroad-in-Harris-Tweeds are in search of, and the group
hold them up for admiration, adulation, pity and perhaps a bit of
goodnatured contempt.
Draped with thin vocal work (have they ever heard of the
celebrated overdub?) and scanty orchestration (economically
elegant, if you believe their press agents), "Une Nuit a Paris" shares
much common ground with Mark Robson's quivery epic,
"Earthquake"-it is a quirky, often just-plain-poor work that in
spite of itself does justice to its tawdry subject.
UNL soloist featured
Thirteen soloists from the UNL School of Music and guitarist
Christopher Parkening will be featured in the Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra concert on Tuesday. The concert is at 8 p.m. in
0' Do nne 11 Auditorium at Wesleyan campus.
Parkening, who studied with Andres Segovia at the University of
Southern California, heads the guitar department at USC.
He also performed with Spain's major orchestras and in recitals
sponsored by Segovia. At the composer's request, Parkening, who
took up guitar at age 11, gave the world premiere of a piece by
Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Parkening will perform Ferrari's "The Secret of Suzanne" and
"Concierto de Aranjex for guitar and orchestra" by Rodrigo.
The UNL soloists will sing selections from Puccini's opera,
"Gianni Schicchi."
This week the Sheldon Documentary Film Series presents two
60 minute subjects entitled Reggae (Great Britain, 1970) and Black
Roots (U.S., 1970).
Reggae looks at the history and influence of the Jamaican
Reggae music wave, and Black Roots is another powerful
document from director Lionel Rogosin (Come Back Africa, Black
Fantasy) that examines black history, oppression, culture and
music through five autobiographical sketches.
Showings are at 3, 7 and 9 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday in the Sheldon Auditorium. Admission is $1 .25.
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