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Wednesday, October 30, 1985
Daily Nebraskan
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Famous composer
to perform tonight
By Jim Rogers
Staff Reporter
Internationally acclaimed composer
and performer Michel Legrand will
perform today at 8 p.m. in the second per
formance of the Lincoln Community
Concert Series.
Legrand is perhaps best known for
his movie and TV scores, as well as for
his popular and light romantic music.
He has won three Academy Awards and
16 Oscar nominations.
His first Oscar was in 1968 for Best
Song, "Windmills of Your Mind," from
the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair."
His second Oscar was for Best Original
Dramatic Score for "Summer of '42."
His most recent Academy award came
in 1984 for Best Original Score to
Barbara Streisand's movie "Yentl."
Other movies for which Legrand
wrote the scores include: "Lady Sings
the Blues," "The Three Musketeers,"
"Ode to Billy Joe," "The Other Side of
Midnight," "Ice Station Zebra,"
"Wuthering Heights," "Portnov's Com
plaint," and James Bond film "Never
Say Never Again."
Besides his widespread movie score
acclaim, Legrand has won three Grammy
Awards and an Emmy nomination for
his score to the TV movie "Brian's
Song."
All in all, Legrand has written scores
for more than 100 movies and, as a
musician and vocalist, has almost 100
albums to his name as well as being
an internationally reknown pianist and
conductor. Legrand also has written
several serious works, including a bal
let, a violin concerto, an opera and
several works for piano and orchestra.
Recently Legrand was the subject of
a three-hour musical tribute on French
TV. He recently wrote the score for
Blake Edward's new film, "Micki &
Maude" (starring Dudley Moore, Amy
Irving and Ann Reinking). He also
recently wrote the music for and
appears in Claude Lelouch's film
"Partir Revenir" and Edound Molinaro's
film "Palance." Molinaro is director of
"La Cage aux Folles."
The concert will be at Pershing
Auditorium, 226 Centennial Mall South.
Season memberships for the Com
munity concert series includes the Le
grand concert and two other presenta
tions. Memberships may be bought at
the door. Adult memberships cost $18,
student memberships $10. No individual
tickets will be sold.
The additional concerts feature a
March 10 appearance of the Nevada
Dance Theatre and an April 22 pre
sentation of light concert music by the
Mantovani Orchestra.
Lasers show 'Dark Side'
Tired of the same old costume party?
Then let the laser spectacular "Dark
Side of the Moon" thrill your senses
and haunt your imagination this Hal
loween night.
"Dark Side of the Moon," a classic
rock and roll album by Pink Floyd,
comes to glittering life in explosive
colors across the dome of Mueller Pla
netarium Thursday and Friday.
The show combines audio and visual
stimulation to thrill the audience. Also,
those of light heart and clever imagina
tion will be judged for best costume.
Prizes are albums of the latest rock
hits.
Show times are 7, 8:15, 9:30 and
10:45 p.m. Admission is $3 for all ages.
Mueller Planetarium is located in
Morrill Hall on the university campus
at 14th and U streets.
Millionaire interviewed
Malcolm Forbes, owner and editor
in-chief of Forbes magazine, will be
interviewed during "A Conversation in
Maine with Malcolm Forbes," Saturday
at 10:30 p.m. on the Nebraska ETV
Network.
The interview with Forbes, who is
considered one of the 400 richest peo
ple in the country, takes place on his
126-foot yacht.
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Nebraska artist nationally known
By Dan Dulaney
Staff Reporter
What started six years ago as
"just a feeling" for Nebraska artist
Audrey Towater has led to national
recognition and a portfolio of many
of the greatest names and places in
the United States.
Towater, a Scottsbluff resident,
is in Lincoln this week at the
request of the UNL administration.
She was asked to paint whatever
she wanted, she said, so she decided
on the interior of Sheldon Art Gallery,
where she is tentatively scheduled
to have a one-artist showing of her
private collection.
Within a year of starting to paint,
Towater said, she was painting build
ings and senators in Washington,
D.C. She credited Congresswoman
Virginia Smith, saying "She opened
a lot of doors for me."
A three-page resume scratches
the surface of Towater's accomp
lishments. Her paintings hang in
every state, and her customers in
clude former president Gerald Ford,
Bob Hope, the Denver Broncos, Pres
ident Reagan and several opera
stars. Towater said she charges
$1,000 to $5,000 for each painting.
Since she became an artist,
Towater said she has painted more
than 800 paintings. Most of her work
is for a specific person or group, she
said, but at many of the special pla
ces she paints an extra piece of art
for herself.
Towater said that when she paints
a "big star," she holds a paintbrush
in one hand and a flashlight in the
other and paints the entire picture
by the available light.
"That's how I painted Bob Hope,"
Towater said.
Towater has been invited to paint
in Monte Carlo and Hawaii. She is
also looking forward to showings in
Lincoln and Denver, she said.
"I can go 12 hours straight and not
even stop. I get so involved in it,"
Towater said.
Today, while painting at Sheldon,
Towater skipped breakfast and
lunch, and said that she forgot all
about eating.
Kennedys: Punk-rock revivalists
bring sounds of anarchy to Omaha
By Charles Lieurance
Staff Reporter
On Jan. 14, 1978, Johnny Rotten
announced the death of punk rock and
the disbanding of the Sex Pistols from
the stage of San Francisco's Winter
land. He asked the audience in razor
edged voice, dripping with sarcasm
and demonic pleasure, "Do you feel
you've been cheated?"
Almost everyone present stared back,
completely unaware that punk rock
even had existed as anything besides a
media curiosity.
In 1979, the Dead Kennedys, who are
playing tonight at the Omaha Music
Hall, were formed in San Francisco.
Punk had not died.
The Pistols simply had planted a
seed in the United States and the U.S.
punk scene soon would rival Britain's,
if not in originality, in sheer adrenalin.
The Dead Kennedys are the missing
link between the Pistols and the Los
Angeles hardcore bands.
Spouting anarchy and the destruc
tion of the mundane social order, the
Kennedys wages an uncompromisng
assault on the "Zen Fascism" of Jerry
Brown, chic, the middle class, the
upper class and anything they found
hollow and atavistic.
The Kennedys implemented the same
simple wall of guitar chords that the
Pistols had used and added the quint
essential U.S. punk voices: the un
pleasant, vibrato tenor of Jello Biafra.
The first Dead Kennedys single,
"Holiday in Cambodia" probably made
more of a noise on the then virtually
wide-open English charts. There, its
similarity to the Pistol's "Holidays in
the Sun" plugged into a wave of renewed
interest in punk and promised that no
one had, in fact, been "cheated."
Rotten had changed his name back
to John Lydon and started a sterile
disco group called Public Image Limited.
Sid Vicious had moved into the Chelsea
Hotel with his girlfriend Nancy Spun
gen to indulge himself in ego, heroin
and bloodshed. He eventually became
the first punk rock martyr The voice
that would say, "Punk rock was notjust
a media joke."
The voice was the Dead Kennedys.
The name itself sent tremors of
indignant rage through the American
mainstream. Here was a rock 'n' roll
band that would never, could never, be
on American Bandstand. Even Ozzy
Osborne, who bit the heads off bats oh
stage, decried the name as "tasteless."
Then there is the music, a Bach sym
phony I suppose, compared with Black
Flag, the Circle Jerks, and Fear, but
with song titles like "Kill the Poor,"
"Terminal Preppie," "Let's Lynch the
Landlord" and "California Uber Alles."
Although their first album," Fresh
Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" is the
Kennedys most chilling and uniaue
statement of purpose, all three of the
group's albums display the same, brutal
irreverance and enraged pace. Every
thing by the Kennedys is necessary.
Please see DEAD on 13