The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 07, 1975, Page page 9, Image 9
'lOcc'pop-roqk riffs 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. Ill Call IRS toll free I lEHl OF fl ACKW AlllS! i. X INCLUDING SOIIG V It , It' J"'V j -'I TOtti CtMUM-fM WfSfNIJ em newm an ROBERT REDFOED KflflHAniKEIlOSS .s - v -p-;,.:" ' j 3UTCH CAS5ID7 AflDTBE SUNDANCE KID c:r 4f pin Tuesday, April 3 East Union ActiviUos EaHding rann cfiv?!? carjlrIF FEATK KaitU h 3 LuliaUU a ALU Canned in 17 countries! H A s 1 '-All I vr PLUS MSCI!2SL DAYS" HATED X fmrvx 77 n rr'Hri f 35th a lloldroge 7Bth a V I 487-3811 483-2811 CLOSED fJOIIAY CLOSED TUESDAY j I liOIIHS: ft Saday Thursday 4pa-f'ii":2ht - U Friday 4pa-12:39 am Saturday Jca-fcOani When a new calculator is introduced you can see it here...first. No waiting for delivery. Your University Calculator Center has the largest inventory of quality units available anywhere. Plus, we specialize in the calculator requirements of the college student. -is. ' ----- ";" ' r' V. '' v - ..... - 1 1 V 3F Vr i 'L : V -vA -s. SH-51 From TEXAS INSTRUMENTS worldwide leader In the , electronics Industry. SR-51. A phenomenal new calculator featuring functions never before combined in one pocket-sized unit. Provides instant science, engineering and statistical solutions. Three addressable memories. Natural and common logarithms. Trigonometric and hyperbolic functions including degrad switch. Calculates a least-squares linear regression on two-dimensional random variables. Displays slope, intercept. ..and more. Statistically, computes factorials and permutations. Random number generator. Finds mean, variance and standard deviation. Not shown on the Keyboard is the ability to perform 20 automatic conversions plus their inverses. Basics include milsmicrons, feetmeters, fluid ouncesliters, degreesgrads, degreesradians . . . and others. Of interest to many will be degrees-minutes-secondsdecimal degrees conversions, polarrectangular conversions and voltage ratiodecibel. 13-decimal place accuracy internally. Modified algebraic logic. $179.95 University Book Store lower level Nebraska Union mm tm 11 i!Jnooneuerj daily nebraskan page 9 monday, april 7, 1975