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Concert to play Porter
Larry Gwozdz, UNL School of Music graduate assistant
from' Buffalo, N.Y., will conduct Cole Porter's "A
Symphonic Portrait during the UNL Symphonic Wind
Ensemble's free concert at 8 pjn Thursday in Kimball
Recital Hall.
This will be the second time Gwdzdz has conducted a
full-size band, said Jack Snider, UNL director of bands,
who will conduct the program's other nine pieces.
Gwozdz conducted at the Nebraska State Band Masters
convention in Lincoln two weeks ago.
Snider described a conductor's task: "All the kids can
play the notes. But making something musical take place
that's the biggest job."
Also included in Thursday's concert by the 45-member
ensemble is Darius Milhaud's "Suite Francais." The suite
includes melodies from areas in France where American
soldiers fought in World War II. It was written for the
children of those veterans.
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Photo courtesy of Christian Stsiner
Pianist Agustia Anievas compares Ms auto racing
hobby to concert performances saying that "One's
whole life is at ste out there on the platform,
and I love that chIer2e."
onus concert
offered bygroui
By Bill Roberts
A bonus concert by Danny Davis and the Nashville
Brass is added inducement to join the Lincoln Community
Concert Association during its membership drive, which
ends April 10.
New members of the 3,500-member association will
be entitled to attend the bonus concert at 8 pjn. April
26, as well as the five concerts of the 1976-77 season at
Pershing Memorial Auditorium.
Trumpeter Danny Davis has fashioned his own com
bination of smooth brass and country sounds. The group's
first album earned a gold-album award, and the band has
won the Country Music Association award for best instru
mental group for the past six yearv
Scheduled for the 1976-77 season are the Broadway
Hit Parade, starring Dorothy Collins and Ronald Holgate,
on Oct. 10; The Young Americans in The Music Mm Jan.
10; The Preservation Hall Jazz Band Feb. 24; the Osipov
Balalaika Orchestra with stars of the Bolshoi Ballet and
Opera March 8; and pianist and comedian Victor Borge
in late April 1977.
Lincoln Community Concerts memberships cost SIS
for adults, $8 for students (including college), and $38 for
a family (two adults and all students through high school
age).Membership applications should be sent before April
10 to 400 Sycamore Dr., Lincoln, Neb., 685 10.
I alius not cheap;
speakers up fees
Dy Anita Stork
Ticket prices for performing arts at UNL have in
creased 25 per cent to 60 per cent, and admission now is
being charged for some campus speakers because speakers
and touring professional performers are charging more, ac
cording to those bringing the talent to UNL.
Ron Bowlin, UNL performing arts coordinator, said
UNL no longer is able to afford performing groups with
many members.
"Two years ago a dance company received 510,000 a
week," Bowlin said. "Now they get $16,C00 a week."
Bruce Whitacre, chairman of the Union Program Coun
cil's (UPC) Talks and Topics Committee, said the April 7
appearance of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry will
be the first time his committee has charged admission.
"We really hate to charge admission, Whitacre said,
"but the fee for a top speaker has risen $500 in the last
year." "Top" speakers include attorney F. Lee Bailey,
author Truman Capote and Daniel Moynihan, former
United States ambassador to the United Nations, he said.
The performing artists higher cost has been reflected
in a $ 1 increase in ticket prices for UNL students, Bowlin
said. The performing arts also receive $20,400 from the
Fees Allocation Board (FAB) and $4,000 from the
College of Arts and Sciences, he said.
But Bowlin said UNL's performing arts did not realize
a profit last year.
Whitacre said Talks and Topics received about $12,000
from FAB for the past year. The board has not yet given
final approval to a recommendation that Talks and Topics
receive about the same amount for next year, he said.
Charging admission will let "Talks and Topics continue
to bring in the big names" to speak at UNL, Whitacre said,
since a top speaker costs anywhere from $3,000 to $3,500.
UPC Program Adviser Gary Gilger said one reason for
higher prices is an increased demand for speakers.
"More colleges have programs bringing in speakers,"
Gilger said, "If UNL won't pay $3,500 for a speaker,
some other school will."
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"I try to understand thoroughly what the composer
had in mind," said pianist Augustin Anievas, who will per
form Friday at 8 p-m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
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Performances such as RadcJf Nareyev's Don
' Quixote, featsria &e Austrian CaZet, sit get
ting mere zsd more expensive to bring to UNL's
campus."
"If we give a speaker top money, we expect he would
hold informal sessions, visit classrooms and give afternoon
and evening addresses, Gilger said.
Bowlin said dance companies are expected to give two
performances instead of one, as before.
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"I try to relieve some of the events around the time
when the work was composed, correlating them to the
experiences in my own life. This helps me to interpret the
music as the composer intended."
Anievas's mother, a Mexican immigrant, gave him his
first piano lessons when he was 3-years-old. A year later
the New York Gty native performed in his first recitaL
His orchestra debut came at 18, when he appeared as
soloist with New York's little Orchestra, conducted by:
Thomas Scherman. By then he was a Juilliard student,
working with Adele Marcus.
: "It was she," Anievas said, "who made me aware of the
two basic problems of concert artists-how to discover the
inner meaning of a work and how to project one's inter
pretation to an audience."
No other recording needed
In 1961 Anievas won the First International Dimitri
Mitropoulos Music Competition. Time magazine reported:
"He has a prodigious technique and the kind of rhapsodic,
deeply-felt musical vision that suggests a major career."
Anievas has toured Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, India,
Lebanon and the musical capitals of Europe, North, South
and Central America.
Anievas's recordings also have earned acclaim. Of his
"Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel," Winthrop
Sargeant wrote in the New Yorket - I don't imagine that
anyone else will ever play it more beautifully and I really
don't see any reason that there should ever be another
recording made of it." ...
Anievas's life is dedicated to the piano, but his spare
time involves auto racing.
Loves challenges
"I love a challenge, and the hazards of motor racing
present a constant challenge to the driver," he said. "His
reflexes and responses must be perfect and instantaneous.
"Haying the piano provides me with a similar challenge
-to achieve not only what the composer had in mind, but
also to do it in a concert hall in front of an audience.
One s whole life is at stake out there on the platform and
I love that challenge."
Anievas will perform "4 Impromptus from Op. 90 and
Op. 142," and "Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 (Op. 15)
'Wanderer'", by Franz Schubert, and "6 Transcendental
Etudes after Paganini," by Franz Liszt. Single admission
tickets to the concert, part of the Performing Arts Series,
are $250 for UNL students, $4 for others.
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