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Jenny Driftwood, is a cost wem a the 1815 Battle cf New Orleans, holds a lCIVycar-cld guitar made
. ty ts grandfather frcsn a fessce ra3.
Use 69-year-cId Arkansas founded tie Rackensack Folklore Society in 1952 and dedicated U to the
study, preservation zad demczstraricn cf Ozark culture, lie also farms 3C3 xcres near Timho, Ark.
Driftwood and the Radcensackers wO give workshops todzy on the UNL campus, and a concert is
scheduled for 8 pja. S3 tl Nebrra Ucfon Cecteczdd Rocm.
Brass groups tuned up
A work commissioned by a former UNL student will
be featured by the UNL Brass Ensemble when it gives a
free concert with the UNL Brass Choir at 8 pjn. Thurs
day in Kimball Recital HalL
ThoraJc-Prelude" written by American composer
Claude Smith, wss commissioned in 1973 by Rodney
Drews for the Mennonite Church in Henderson, Neb.,
according to Jack Snider, director of UNL Bands and
Brass Ensemble conductor. Drews received a B.A. degree
in 1965 and a M.A. in 1967 from the UNL School of
Music.
Quentin Faulkner, UNL instructor of organ and music
theory, will accompany the Brass Ensemble on "Chorale
Frslude.' All of the pieces except one to be performed by the
Brass Choir were transcribed for brass band. "Designs
for Brass," by Vaclav Nelybel, is the exception to a pro
gram that includes works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and
Prokofieff.
Jim Schmucker, a Lincoln graduate assistant in the
School of Music, directs the 16-member Brass Choir
band.
The Brass Choir is composed primarily of freshmen,
Snider said, whereas the 20-member Brass Ensemble is
made up of upperdassmen and graduate students.
'Robin and Marian' shows romance without myth
By Dissse Wassk
Demythifying oH myths and dekgendizing old legends
might seem to some like taking the oM romance away, but
director Richard Lester and screenwriter James Goldman
have the ability to make realism romantic. Their revised
version of The Three Musketeers was one example, and
now they have Robin &zd llzrisi to their credit , too.
I have always been an Errol Flyna fan, and to me his
Robin Hood was the most romantic, dashing figure
around,so I though I would be disappointed with a bald
ing, middle-aged Sean Cbrmery as Robin. I wasn't.
What Lester and Goldman have done is to pick up the
story of Robin Hood twenty years after we last saw him.
Robin and Little John have been off crusading, and as the
movie opens they are returning home disillusioned and'
much older.
Things arerft the same at home anymore, either. The'
Merry Men no longer are together and Maid Marian has
become a nun.
Longing for the good old days, Robin and Little John
try to regroup their forces. Their enthusiasm enlists Friar
Tuck and Will Scarlett, and even the not-too-devout Maid
Marian kicks her habit to join the woodksd menagerie.
But things still aren't the same. The English country
side looks positively destitute. Shacks have taken the
place of cottages, the peasants are worse off than ever and
few of them even have a full set of teeth. The castles are
ramshackle (reminiscent of Goldman's The lion in
Winter), Robin's new recruits of bowmen are inept bump
kins, even the battles with the wicked Sheriff of Notting
ham are without heroism or glory. But the romance is still
there, probably because of the cast.
Audrey Hepburn, as Maid Marian, is as charming as
ever. Hepburn stiH has that certain something, and she
must be unique in this aspect.
Her treatment of the Marian role is faultless. She plays
housemother to the Merry Men and romantic counter
part to Robin with style rarely seen today.
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Connery, too. As the aging Robin, Connery proves
himself as versatile actor. He showed us before in Zmdoz
and The Mm Who V.'auli be Kvz.
and difficult rolei
Here is a onetime hero, now battle-scarred and weary,
getting his second wind. He believes he is still as powerful
as he once was and is full of fine ideals. Connery fends the
role an endearing qualty.
The best of the cast, however, is Robert. Shaw, who
plays the Sheriff of Nottingham. Shaw does such a con
vincing job of villainy, he nearly steals the show.
Ian Holm as King John and Richard Harris as Richard
the Lbnhearted also add their fine talents to the fUm.
The fUm is not without problems, however. It is pro
tracted, meandering and indecisive, in the same way that
Lester's The Three Musketeers was. But it is thoroughly
enjoyable in most aspects, particularly the dialogue and
acting. It is fun and romantic, even if it's not the Flynn
brand of romance.
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ridsay
An evening of modern dance for the audience and
an opportunity for students to show their work in
choreography that's the 50th annual spring presenta
tion by the UNL dasce organization, Orehssis.
Nine dances will be performed at 8 pjn. today and
Friday in the Dance Studio, Women's Physical Educa
tion Bidg. 304. Admission is $1.
Mary Beth Foy, a junior dance major from .
Fremont, choreographed and w3 perform in "Circles
in Motion" and "Under the Big Top," an 11-dancer
work in which she plays riegsaster.
Carol Vanek of R&bg City dioieogiighed
"Pictures" from Mussorgsky's Tictures at an Exhibi
tion" as her senior project required for a dance major.
Twelve dancers perform in the eight-part Tktures',
which is a musical mterprstalion of someone walking
through an art gallery.
Other Oxchesfs members performing aM their
choreography are: AEce Jeffrey, junior dance major
from Omiha, Cat Stevens "tjlk of Msjixs; Comic
CNele, sophomore dance major from Lincoln, Henry
MandnTs "Space Trsckia "; and Nancy Anderson,
graduate student from Oraha, Tsvane, by Faure,
arranged by Hubert Laws.
Dorothy Ilres, azdstant professor of physxsl
education zed recreation, choreographed "Celebra
tion" and "LcHaby," which is surg in the creels dialect
of the Louisiana bayous.
The finale on the Orchesis program is "Salt lake
City Rag." Chorecgraphed by Bill Evans, this dance
was performed by UNL students in February under
the direction of Greg Uzenberry of the BZ1 Evans
Dance Company.
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