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From Oakland, Ca. Hightone Recording Artists THE LOVED ONES A new. young band from California giving new life to 50 s and 60 s Blues, R & B and Roots Rock. Fri.&Sat., January 28 & 29 $4 THE ZOO BAR 13* No. 14th It's A Jagermeister Party! Friday, January 28th, 10pm-12am Shot Specials! Give Aways! Jagermeister! Featuring the Jagermeister Girls! W.C.'s Downtown 1228 ’P' St. 477-4006 Conductor commands unique style By Steven Sparling Staff Reporter 11:30 p.m.—An enthusiastic man calls to be interviewed in response to a message left on his answering ma chine in New Jersey. This is the type of trademark cha risma that makes this composer/con ductor so admired. New Jersey native Robert Kapilow will be featured as guest conductor of the Lincoln Symphony tonight at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. When Kapilow first came to Lin coln to prepare for tonight’s concert, he told the Lincoln Orchestra Associ ation, “I want you to schedule me everywhere you possibly can,” and they did. Kapilow went everywhere from senior citizen homes to grade schools to junior high and high schools, and of course, to the University ofNebraska Lincoln. He even has his own radio show, broadcast throughout America twice a week, entitled “What Makes It Great.” During the show, he plays five to 10 seconds of a famous classi cal symphony and then discusses it for about 15 minutes. “My goal is to get every American tumedon toclassical music,” Kapilow said. Kapilow will give a lecture before the concert that will tie in directly to the performance. This will give all _ a My goal is to get every American turned on to classical music. — Kapilow _-ft people a sense of “what’s in the mu sic,” he said. “I can either complain that there aren’t enough audiences, or create them,” Kapilow said. Kapilow is well-known for his unique and inspirational lectures, not to mention his vibrant style of con ducting, which he describes as “ex tremely enthusiastic.” Kapilow takes a segment of a fa mous composer’s song, like Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, and rewrites it like a “worse” composei would. Comparing his intentional!) weak variation to the original reveal; the brilliance of the original, he said Kapilow compares this method which he began using about five yean ago, to that of football slow-motior replays. Compositions can be ana lyzed in detail and better understood Whenever Kapilow works witl new orchestras, he said, he finds tha their first reaction to his technique ii confusion. With the Lincoln Symphony Kapilow said, he wrote about 35 ex amples of Beethoven for them, and orchestra members reacted no differ ently. “They didn’t know what was hap pening; it was only tonight (Wednes day’s rehearsal) that they totally got into it — it’s not just like a regular j concert,” Kapilow said. In addition to his 20 musical com positions for the publishing company Boosey and Hawkes, Kapilow wrote an ode to his favorite composer, Leonard Bernstein, best known for the musical “West Side Story.” Enti tled “Simple Song,” the song takes its name from Bernstein’s “Mass,” Kapilow said. “Bernstein did everything—edu cation, symphonies, jazz, and, of course, Broadway,” Kapilow said. Kapilow is writing another musi cal dedication to Dr. Seuss’s book “Green Eggs and Ham.” At 23, Kapilow was the youngest professor to teach in the history of i Yale University. He has appeared on numerous albums playing piano, . which he began playing at age 4. He > has played flute and violin, and he i reluctantly admits he played a rock ■ V roll electric guitar in high school. • He also has conducted for 326perfor i mances of Broadway’s Tony A ward t winning show “Nine.” i Tonight’s performance begins at 8 and is preceded by a pre-talk at 7:05. . UNL student tickets are half price. YOU sun dialing IIH DIM! 1-800-C0LLECT SDK 1 People fll CUl •SE IT EVBY TIME YM MAKE A HNS BISTANCE CIUECT CALL. Trudell Continued from Page 9 the Creator and trickster who takes the form of a spider. So, Iktomi the producer? “Generally, someone comes in and produces an album," he said. “Each song is produced as it goes along, right? But in this case, no indi vidual produced the whole entity, be cause I didn’t want that to happen... so Iktomi is the producer. It is the friiits of our labor producing it” In that case, the fruit of “Johnny Damas and Me” is sweet, although tart at times, but nourishing just the same. So, if you’re looking for a nour ishing weekend, check out Trudell. Even though Shark, Quiltman and the rest of his band won’t accompany him this trip, it might be the best opportu nity you’ll have to hear him speak his truths. Trudell’s public reading tonight is at 8 at Kimball Hall. Tickets are $5. Films Continued from Page 9 Feb. 27 “Harold of Orange” A humorous film about reserva tions and bureaucracies. Feb. 27 “Return of the Country” A white female commissioner of American Indian affairs experiences a reverse world where white people are watched over by an American Indian run bureau of White affairs. March 6 “The Trial of Standing Bear” An enactment of Ponca Chief Standing Bear’s trial establishes that “an Indian is a person within the meaning of the law.” March 13 “Incident at Oglala” John Trudell narrates the story of Leonard Peltier, a Lakota charged with shooting a federal officer at Wounded Knee in 1973. March 20 “Ishi, the Last Yahi” A story of “the last wild Indian in North America.” March 20 “In the White Man’s Im age” American Indians describe their experiences at the Carlisle School for Indian Students. March 27 “The Way West" Ric Bum’s documentary charts the collision between the white migration and American Indian populations. March 25 and 26 A weekend symposium features American Indian filmmakers plus special panel discussions and an open forum.