monday, november 2, 1981
daily nebraskan
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Monster Mash' lively despite sparse attendance
By Chuck Lieurance
Friday's Homecoming "Monster Mash" with The Go.
Mads, Cocktail Shorty and the Tablerockers and Charlie
Burton and the Cut-Outs (with a special appearance by
acoustic guitar player Paul Phillips) was plagued by lack of
communication between pep rally organizers and the Uni
versity Program Council, rain and perhaps a lack of pub
licity. When the pep rally ended in the Coliseum with a very
large crowd of spirited Husker fans, the head cheerleader
declared the evening's events had finished, mentioning
nothing of the three bands lined up to play for the Home
coming dance.
Considering the bands were free, and they were major
Lincoln names that would easily draw a crowd at the Zoo
Bar, The Drumstick or O.G. Kelly's, there is little doubt
that most of the crowd would have stayed had they been
informed the music was to follow.
Because of this lack of organization between the two
campus organizations, however, only about 20 people
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Members of the Nikolais Dance Company perform "Vaudeville of the Ele
ments." The company will perform at Kimball Recital Hall Saturday and Sunday.
Nikolais dancers to appear
were present when The Go-Mads began to play. Nearly
half of this 20 were UPC members.
Small crowd
The small crowd did not seem to disturb the Go-Mads,
who could easily be the most authentic urban New Wave
band in Lincoln. This is not a value judgment of their
music, which is not as good as Burton's or The
Ripchord's, but as far as appearance and style, they would
feel right at home in New York's CBGB's or Mudd Club
after a few years of work on precision and a few improve
ments on their theatrical maneuvers.
Paul Phillips, second place winner in the Homecoming
talent show, played a few acoustic easy-listening songs to
bridge the wide cultural gap between the Go-Mads and
Cocktail Shorty and the Tablerockers. He ran through a
machine-gun fast version of Bob SegerChuck Berry tune,
"Get Out of Denver" and Jackson Browne's "Take It
Easy."
This year's adjusted model of Jimmy Valentine and the
Heartmurmurs, Cocktail Shorty and the Tablerockers
trucked through some insincere, picture-perfect blues.
Music students
to give concert
Six students in private
composition classes in the
UNL School of Music will
perform their original
compositions in a concert
Nov. 4.
The Student Composers
Concert will-begin at 8 pjn.
in Westbrook Music Build
ing. The six are students of
Dennis Lovinfosse, instruct
or of music theory and
composition; Robert M.
Beadell, professor of theory
and composition; and
Randall Snyder, associate
professor of theory and
composition.
Performing will be gradu
ate students Marshall
Onofrio and Frank Wilhoit,
and undergraduate Marty
Shrader, Joyce Varga, Frank
Salak and Steve Larson.
They play well, with precision and cohesion, but they still
can't manage to get at the heart of the music they play.
The crowd was growing by this time, but judging from
the hairstyles, buttons and leather jackets, the people
seemed to be waiting patiently for the arrival of Charlie
Burton and the Cut-Outs. The crowd got even larger as
Cocktail Shorty and the Tablerockers finished their hour
set. The reason for this was the awards presentation for
best campus Homecoming display and Homecoming king
and queen candidates.
Stops pulled out
Half of the crowd was in the Coliseum for this presen
tation, the others seemed to see it as a mere interference
between them and Charlie Burton. The highlight of the
evening soon came, and despite bad acoustics that repeat
ed the whole concert with a half -minute delay at the back
of the barn and the lack of alcohol, Burton pulled out the
stops with an hour of his cult hits, "Breath for me,
Presley" (edited out of the Nebraska Educational Tele
vision Network's 33rd Street Sessions concert), "You
Belong to Me," "Rock and Roll Behavior" and "Dead
Giveaway." The Cut-Outs' drummer gave a terrific rendit
ion of Pickett's "Monster Mash" complete with ooo-wah
back-up vocals. Burton proved himself once again, for
those who may have forgotten in his short absence, to be
the best rock and roll act in Nebraska (call it New Wave if
it makes you happy).
The UPC should be congratulated for putting together
so many noteworthy bands in a free concert. Aside from
the size of the crowd (quality-wise it was receptive and
lively), this was a major success, providing challenging, di
verse entertainment for Homecoming weekend. The
populace being so meager can be .blamed on lack of
support from organizers of the pep rally' or, if they were
not informed of the full program, the problem was, as
usual, the confusion in campus bureaucracy, even in
student functions.
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The Nikolais Dance Theatre will per
form this weekend at Kimball Recital Hall,
with performances at 8 pan. Saturday and
3 and 8 pjn. Sunday.
Bv manipulating color, light, sound,
form and motion, company director Alwin
Nikolais causes the dancers to transcend
the fact of their physicality. This, he. says,
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definition of modern dance and enhanced
it with visual lmDact bv expressing
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emotions or dramatic ideas rather than
literal images.
Nikolais' "Total Theatre" concept
started consciously in about 1950. He
began to use masks to allow the dancers to
become something else, and props to ex
tend the dancer's physical size in space.
After emerging on the scene in America
with considerable success, the Nikolais
Dance Theatre began a European tour,
which gave the company international
acclaim, with particular success in Paris.
Besides receiving continual support
from various arts agencies and foundations,
Nikolais is also the recipient of countless
awards and honors. He has received two
Guggenheim Fellowships, the Dance
Magazine Award, the Grand Prix Inter
national Festival de Danse and an Emmy
Award.
The program for the three performances
at Kimball will include "Divertissement,"
(which consists of two pieces, "Castings,"
and "Trio from Vaudeville") "The Mech
anical Organ," and "Gallery."
Tickets are $8 for the general public and
$4 for UNL students. Tickets are available
at the Kimball Box Office, Westbrook
Music Building 113. To make reservations
by phone call 472-3375. Box office hours
are 1 1 ajn. to 5 pjn. Monday through Fri
day. For those who want to know more
about modem dance and how Nikolais
creates his own style of dance theatre,
there will be a special Nikolais informance
at 8 pjn. Friday, in Mabel Lee Hall 304.
The company will demonstrate variations
of movement and discuss ideas and
inspiration behind the masks, props, music
and imagery. The public is welcome and
the admission is free.
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Ph. 466-7777 Ph. 475-EYES
840 N. 48th St. West Gate Shopping Center
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New Music Consort
honors Bartok's birth
nf thft hirth of Hungarian com-
poser and pianist Bela Bartok will be commemorated in a
UNL concert by the New Music Consort.
"Mostly Bartok" will be presented at 8 pjn. Thursday
in Westbrook Music Building 119.
One work by contemporary German composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen will be included in the concert.
Bartok works will be "Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and
Piano," performed by Arnold Schatz, violin, Ed Love,
clarinet and Audun Ravnan, piano; "Piano Sonata, 192o,
performed by Jane Peckham, piano, and selections trom
"Mikrokosmos," performed by piano students ot
Esther Pfeiffer. t .
Stockhausen's "From the Seven Days" will be per torm
ed by Dave Lehnert, clarinet. John Krause, tablas and
Julie Felzien and Mark Bruckner, piano. ,
trie consort is under the direction oi uciuu
fosse, assistant orofessor in the School of Music and in
structor of music theory and composition.
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A discussion with the audience wm .r'
composition to encourage people to become more tamuiar
with 20th century music.
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GENERAL ADMISSION $9.00 (Plus a convenience
service charge of 35$ per ticket at all outlets except
the Civic Auditorium.
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