Playin’ jane
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Kathy Tejcka of Allas Jane performs Wednesday night at Duffy's bar. Alias Jane was part of Womanstock, a
concert sponsored by the National Organization for Women.
Brass ensemble to close season
By Jeff Randall
Staff Reporter
The Canadian Brass will close the 1994
95 Lied Center for Performing Arts season
with a concert Saturday night at 8.
- As one of the world’s
most popular chamber
ensembles, the Cana
dian Brass has spent 25
years entertaining audi
ences throughout the
world.
Dennis Schneider, pro
fessor of trumpet at the
University of Nebraska
Lincoln School of Mu
sic, said Saturday’s per
formance was sure to please everyone who
attended.
“They are five of the best brass players in
the world,” Schneider said, “and their mis
sion is to bring the world’s best music to the
public and to play it as beautifully as could
possibly be done.”
The ensemble includes trumpeters
Frederick Mills and Ronald Romm, David
Ohanian on French hom, Eugene Watts on
trombone and Charles Daellenbach on tuba.
Having seen and performed with the
quintet on previous occasions, Schneider
said the Canadian Brass deserved every bit
of its success and renown.
“They are entertainers as well as musi
cians,” he said. “They put on a show that it
is impossible not to love.”
Two pre-performance talks will be given
by the Rev. Jack Levick, artistic director for
Abendmusik: Lincoln and minister of mu
sic and fine arts at First Plymouth Congre
gational Church. The talks will be 55 min
utes and 30 minutes before curtain.
Tickets for Saturday’s performance are
$24, $20 and $16, half price for students,
and are available at the Lied Center box
office.
Photo courtesy of IMG Artiste
The Canadian Brass will play at the Lied Center Saturday at 8p.m.
CD-ROM
Increases
options
By Joel Strauch
Senior Reporter
Remember when your parents thought
a CD was a certificate of deposit? What
do they think a CD-ROM is?
Whatever it is, it*s taking the com
puter scene by storm.
Daryl Auman, the manager of CD
ROM World, 3130 O St., said a CD
ROM was a computer-accessible com
pact disc with 600 times the storage
space of a disk.
“They’re as cheap to produce as a
diskette, and unless you scratch them or
break them in half, they’re indestruc
tible,” Auman said.
See CD-ROM reviews on page 16.
Because a CD-ROM has a huge stor
' age capacity, it can use video from a
laser disk, he said.
“When you play a game with live
video, it’s more of a movie than a game,”
he said. “In some games, you can shoot
at live video objects with a gun and they
react instantaneously. There’s no jerk
ing or stopping.”
jen mctumo!), a uevciopcr ior
Compudesign Group Ltd., 770 N. Cotner
Blvd., said CD-ROMs had greatly influ
enced the multimedia capabilities of
computers.
“Multimedia is the ability to perform
high-quality sound and VCR quality
video on your computer,” McCombs said.
Video is notoriously large in data
size, he said.
“Hard drives aren’t really big enough
to handle it, but CD-ROMs have a larger
capacity and you don’t have to worry
about it taking up hard drive space,” he
said.
Auman said that was one of the main
appeals of CD-ROM for the average
computer user.
“Some of the games that were coming
out had six or seven or eight diskettes
that would take up to 40 meg (mega
bytes) on your hard drive,” he said/
“Now they can use one CD-ROM and
take up no space on the hard drive.”
To meet the increased demand, Ne
braska Bookstore, 1300 Q St. Just opened
a multimedia department.
Steve Curtis, who works in the new
department, said the bookstore already
had sold some of the software but had
recently tripled its capacity.
“It seems like around 40 percent of
- the software published is on CD-ROM
right now,” Curtis said.
me muitimeaia stun nas picieea up
considerably; there’s a lot more titles
coming out.”
They’re easy to install, and that makes
them very popular, Curtis said.
“They also have a lot more graphics
and soundtracks because of their capac
ity.”
The relative inexpensiveness of the
CD-ROM drives makes them even more
attractive.
“You can add a CD-ROM, soundcard
and speakers (the multimedia standards)
to an existing computer for only $200 or
$300,” Auman said. “And depending on
what you’re looking for, the CD-ROMs
run from $12 to $100 and anywhere in
between.”
However, information on CD-ROMS
can’t be written on to the disks with a
normal drive.
“They already have writers out today,
hit they run around $2000. That puts
them out of the normal users range, but
they’ll be in homes in the future,” he
said.