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Woody Herman’s band to perform at Kimball Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd will romp through their many hits at Kimball Recital Hall Satur day at 8 p.m., albeit without their founder. Woody Herman died late last year after a long bout with emphy sema, pneumonia and finally con gestive heart failure. Frank Tiberi, the present leader of the band, has been with the band for 18 years. Tiberi is one of the great saxophonists and an accom plished clarinetist as well. After working in the bands of Bob Chester, Urbic Green and Benny Goodman, he became the lead tenor sax with the Thundering Herd and is a part of the band’s unique foundation of three tenors and one baritone saxophone. This was called the “Four Brothers” sound when Woody began using it in the band’s 1947 album, “Second Herd.” The band, one of the few “big name” bands continuously alive, has stayed alive because of Herman’s music philosophy — constantchange built upon tradition and quality. Many leaderless bands find il hard to keep playing because they are unable to adapt to new musical tastes and are stuck with the sound the leader was known for. Not so with the Thundering Herd, which has had many incarna tions of sound. The key to Woody’s success was not his own style, but the band’s ability to keep up with changing tastes in jazz and big bands. Never one for the dictatorial approach to conducting, Woody has been described as more of a coach, allowing the band to go with the How. Woody infused the band with fresh talent, discovering musicians such as Stan Getz and Zoot Sims. Woody never rested on one style of big-band sound. The new band members and their insights were what kept Woody and his band going for so long. There will be a preperformance talk in Westbrook Music Building 119 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd are $13 and $9 for the general public and half-price for University of Nebraska-Lincoln students. Lighting and camera uses are best parts of Le Borg’s films LE BORG from Page 6 Dixon said. Hollywood producers typed him as a B-dircctor. Although he fought to transcend his Hollywood type-casting, he never really broke into the A-dircctor world of having unlimited budgets, the finest actors available and complete creative con trol. Today, lx Borg is scmirctircd, keeping involved by directing theater productions in Los Angeles. If you’re interested in film at all, you won’t want to miss this opportu nity to listen to the testimony of someone who actually observed the inner workingsof 1940s studio Holly wood. Brothers Quay animation in Cinema Cooperative series The next premiere showcase in the New Cinema Cooperative’s spring scries is “The Brothers Quay,” a pro gram of four short animated films being screened Saturday, April 9 at 8 p.m. at the Emmy Gifford Theater, 3504 Center St., Omaha. Making its Nebraska premiere, “The Brothers Quay” features the acclaimed puppet animation of iden tical twin brothers Stephen and Timo thy Quay, natives of Philadelphia, Penn., who live and work in London, England. The four Films to be screened are, in order: “The Cabinet of Jan Svank majer” (1984; 13 minutes); “Noctur nal Artificialia” (1979; 22 minutes); “The Epic of Gilgamesh” (1985; 11 minutes); and “The Street of Croco diles” (1986; 21 minutes). The Films were originally produced for and aired by British television’s adven turous Channel Four. The Quay combine animation Disney would have gasped at, pup petry far removed from Jim Henson’s muppets, a strange grab-bag of found objects (wires, dust balls, peeling mirrors, broken dolls, old machine parts and occasional animal organs) and some live-action scenes with fluid, hypnotic camera movements and a fascination with decaying or ganisms. And for the Quays, even seemingly inanimate objects have an enchanted, organic quality all their own; biomorphic forms abound in the Quay universe. The result is a brooding drcamscape. A Kafkacsque fairy tale world pulsating with the life and death rhythms, textures and symbolic figures forged from the depths of the brothers’ imagination. The unsettling images are also representative of the psychic trauma, paranoia and fear underlying the thematic and artistic sources the Quays have drawn from. The Coop.’s spring series contin ues through May 7 on selected Satur days at 8 p.m. at the Emmy Gifford Theater. Admission is $3.50 and tick ets are available at the door, begin ning at 7 p.m. For more information, please call the Coop, at 346-5268. f- 1 Julio’s presents. . . | ! A PLATE FOR A PITCHER ! ■ I ■ It’s true! 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