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Lincoln offers orchestral variety
By Andrea Christensen
Staff Reporter__
Students unfamiliar with live or
chestra performances should take
advantage of opportunities in Lin
coln, said Marti Baumcrt, assistant
director at the Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra.
Students will be able to explore a
variety of offerings from ensembles
and full orchestras in the Lied Center
to intimate chamber ensembles in
Sheldon Art Gallery. Tickets to many
of these performances arc being of
fered to students at 50 percent dis
counts.
The Lincoln Symphony Orches
tra’s 1991-92 season includes 10
performances at the Lied Center and
features female musicians.
“Women taking leadership roles
in music is our theme this year,”
Baumcrt said. “So on Feb. 18 we’re
featuring Miriam Burns as a guest
conductor, and on March 17 Barbara
Butler as a trumpeter. Also, many of
our pieces were composed by women.”
She said this season’s repertoire
includes a variety of featured musi
cians and musical styles.
“Variety is really the spice of this
season. We’re featuring some unusual
instruments like viola, flute and bas
soon. We want to offer seasoned
symphony goers something they may
not have heard before,” Baumcrt said.
Baumert added that the concerts
should appeal to those who have had
little experience with orchestral music.
She said the Super Pops concerts should
appeal particularly to UNL students.
“Ben Verecn, who will be per
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forming on the fall Super Pops Sept.
20, is famous for his work on Broad
way. He’s multi-talented,” Baumcrt
said. “You name it, he’s done it. He’s
very entertaining.”
The Holiday Pops concert Dec. 10
will include a concert by UNL’s
Oratorio Chorus and pianist Louis
Lortie. Baumcrt said the orchestra is
looking forward to the joint perform
ance of Mozart’s “Solemn Vespers.”
“It’s exciting to work with area
choirs. There are several good ones
around,” Baumcrt said. “We believe
that if there’s talent available we should
use it.”
She also said the Spring Super
Pops on April 10 featuring Ray Char
les would appeal to a broad audience.
The Young Artists Competition
on Jan. 21 will feature three of the
Midwest’s most talented young mu
sicians. The artists will perform with
the symphony and compete for first
place.
“This is an event we promote to
give musicians from the Midwest a
chance to be heard,” she said. “To be
able to perform with a symphony
concert is a rare opportunity and it
gives each of them something special
to put on their resume.”
Other Lincoln Symphony Orches
tra concerts include violist Marcus
Thompson on Oct. S and flutist Doriot
Anthony Dwyer on Nov. 19. The season
will conclude with a May 5 perform
ance by world-renowned violinist
Elmar Olivicra.
Lincoln Friends of Chamber Mu
sic have also announced their 1991 -
92 season. It includes five perform
ances in the Sheldon Art Gallery by
ensembles of four musicians or less.
LFCM president Bob Kuzelka said.
“LFCM is proud to announce its
27th season as a chamber music buy
ing cooperative,” Kuzelka said. “This
season we’re sponsoring five differ
ent concerts.”
According to Kuzelka, LFCM
sponsors traditional chamber en
sembles. While most of the ensembles
play some contemporary pieces, they
specialize in classical music.
The LFCM season opens on Oct.
12 with a performance by the Borodin [
Piano Trio. According to Kuzelka, I
the group consists of three Russian ■
emigres who have performed in Lin
coln three times.
On Nov. 15, the Classical String
Quartet will play Mozart on period r
instruments. Kuzelka said this will be
an unusual musical experience since
Mozart is usually performed on modem
instruments. P
The Lark Siring Quartet will per
form Jan. 18. Kuzelka said the group
is distinguished.
“The ensemble of four women won
the Naumbcrg Competition for solo
ists in 1990,” she said. “Musicians
who win that award usually go on to
great things. This is a chance to hear
a group on the way up.”
The season also includes a March
14 performance by the Aspen Wind
Quartet. LFCM will close its season
with the Emerson Siring Quartet.
“The Emerson concert is a coop- g
erative venture with the Lied Center.
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Fox/Woods video to be released
Compiled by Anne Steyer
Staff Reporter
“The Hard Way” (R) Michael
J. Fox (“Back To The Future”) and
James Woods (“Immediate Fam
ily”) team up in a new kind of
buddy-cop film. Fox is the buddy
and Woods is the cop.
Fox is an actor who decides to
tackle his next role more seriously.
He teams up with a police detec
tive (Woods) in the hopes of re-,
searching his new part. Woods is
not happy about having a spoiled
superstar tag along everywhere he
goes.
There are plenty of one-line
zingers here as Woods tries to put
Fox in his place. Fox is trying ear
nestly to capture the essence of
being a cop, but can’t gel a make
on it.
The film follows the action/
buddy/cop-film formula to a tec.
They don’t get along, they resist
each other, and then discover they
have to work together to catch the
bad guy. Fox and Woods poke fun
at their Hollywood images, with
Fox playing the fluff actor and
Woods being the ever-serious heavy.
Annabella Sciorra, recently seen
in Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” is
Woods’ romantic partner. She is
basically window dressing here,
but that tends to be the case for
women in buddy-cop pictures.
Directed by John Badham
(“Stakeout”), the film has a nice
balance between comedy and ac
tion. (To be released Thursday)
“The Perfect Weapon” (R) The
newest entry in the martial arts
genre has Jeff Speakman in the
title role. He uses a different form
of karate, known as kenpo. This
film simply recycles the usual
martial arts storyline: our hero is
wronged — the man who raised
him is killed and our man is out for
revenge. Sound familiar? Try any
Jean Claude Van Damme or Ste
ven Seagal film and you get basi
cally the same story. There’s al
ways room for one more action
hero on the shelf for those with
(ahem) discriminating taste. (Thurs
day)
“Cover Up” (R) Dolph Lund
gren (“Rocky IV”) is a writcr/pub
lisher who happens to be an ex
marine. He is assigned to do a little
investigative journalism at a U.S.
Army base in Jerusalem and dis
covers that a very dangerous weapon
has been stolen. Of course, it’s up
to him to find it and save the world.
Louis Gossett Jr. (“Officer And A
Gentleman”) is a CIA operative
who alternately aids and hinders
Lundgren. Lundgren, not seen all
that much since “Rocky IV,” isn’t
that bad here. (Thursday)
“Closet Land” (R) Here’s an
unusual story about a political pris
oner and her relationship with her
captor. The delicious Alan Rick
man (“Robin Hood: Prince Of
Thieves”) stars as the inquisitor
who expresses a certain seductive
charm, yet manages to display a
chilling amount of nastiness. Made
leine Stowe (“Revenge”) co-stars
in this thriller as the prisoner who
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exudes a quiet strength of will and
character. (Thursday)
“The Five Heartbeats” (R)
Though not as successful as his
sleeper hit “Hollywood Shuffle”
(1987), Robert Townshend’s look
at a pop singing group and its rise
and tall is worth viewing. More
serious than his previous films, it
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pop stardom. The film includes
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Foot-stomping fun
Alabama closes out State Fair
Rob Richardson
Senior Reporter
When the members who make up
the country rock band Alabama walked
on stage Sunday for the final per
formance of the Nebraska State Fair
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center,
they didn’t even have to sing to get
then- first standing ovation.
Playing to an estimated crowd of
more than 8,000 fans, Alabama’s
intensity level was high.
Opening the Nebraska leg of their
“Pass It On Down” tour with a crowd
pleasing harmony of “Here We Are,”
the band that has been called one of
the best in the past decade began to
strut its stutt.
W'th an uninterrupted set of at
least 10 hits that spanned the band’s
11-year career, Alabama simply played
hard. And as the sweat dripped from
the musicians’ brows, the well-known
harmonies that have made Alabama
famous just got sweeter.
“Tennessee River,” “Take Me
Down” and “The Closer You Get,”
turned the basketball arena into a
backyard jamboree with all the fixin’s
— sans barbecue. Three guitars, a
bass, keyboard and drums mixed with
a pleasing compatibility of voices
blended just right for clapping and
stomping.
But Alabama’s show offered more
tnan just music. Personality abounded
from front man Randy Owen.
He first invited a woman on stage
who was responsible for more than
10,000 signatures on a petition to
bring the group back to the Stale Fair.
Next, he introduced himself to a nine
year-old fourth grader who was in the
from row.
Owen said Alabama was very
appreciative of me people who have
made the band a success. He showed
his appreciation by posing on stage
for pictures and shaking hands while
still performing.
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