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l musical success
By Paula Lavigne
Music Critic
Got some garbage? Make some
music.
Trash can lids, brooms, buckets,
wooden poles and
other stuff that
might come from
a cluttered garage
or overfilled gar
bage bin made it
on the stage
ft Thursday night at
Concert the Lied Center
' Review for Performing
___Arts.
STOMP, a troupe of 11 perform
ers, proved to a near sell-out crowd
that a musical group doesn’t need an
orchestra to be truly musical.
STOMP amazed the audience with
objects that one wouldn’t normally
think would make good music, but
the brooms swished, the trash cans
clanked and the bins boomed.
Although the “instruments” were
unorthodox, the music wasn’t cha
otic. As one vocal little girl remarked,
“That was like real music that instru
ments make.” *
Her comment came during what
was a truly amazing performance with
hollow tubes. By plonking the tubes
of different sizes on the ground, the
performers made sounds that might
have otherwise come from a synthe
sizer.
Besides the unique musical as
pect, the performers put on quite a
visual show — especially with their
suspended drum set, which was a
wall of lids and street signs.
With a comedian, a Bob Marley
look-alike and an Anthony Kiedis
wannabe, the troop created a comic a
cappella of body music and incred
ible rhythm.
They had everything — plus the
kitchen sink. Yes, four performers
came out with overflowing kitchen
sinks suspended from their necks as
if they were hot dog vendors.
And after their electric perfor
mance, the audience offered up some
hand music of its own.
Lincoln entertainment
more than just football
By Gerry Bettz
Senior Reporter
It’s the beginning of a long string
of home games for the Huskers, but
what do you do the night before the
game? Or how about after the (cer
tain) victory? Here are a few ideas:
• The Hurricane, 11180 St., will
be a happening place this weekend.
Mojo Nixon does a show for the 19
and above crowd tonight. Doors open
at 8 p.m., with a
show time of 9.
Tickets are $7.
Saturday night
will feature a per
formance of Se
cret Skin at 10,
with a $3 cover
charge, but 21 and
over only, please.
Sunday night is
the premiere of a
new college night with a DJ, open to
anyone 18 and above. Cover charge
is $3. The action starts at 9, and the
^ night is alcohol-free.
• Mueller Planetarium offers
another stellar set of laser shows this
weekend with a Nine Inch Nails show
three times tonight and Saturday night
(8,9:30 and 11). The cost is $5 a seat,
$4 with student ID.
Sunday, the Planetarium shows
“Laser Country” at 3:30 p.m., and the
cost is $5 for adults, $4 with student
ID, and $2 for kids.
• For the crowd looking to do
some dancing, toddle on out to the
Pla-Mor Ballroom, 6600 West O St.
(about five miles west of downtown
Lincoln), to enjoy the Sammy Jensen
Orchestra on Saturday night. It’s open
to all ages, costs $6 'per person, and
runs 8:30 to midnight.
Sunday night, head out to the Pla
Mor to catch the Sandy Creek Band
and Black Water. They’ll play from 8
to midnight. Again, the show is open
to all ages, and the cost is $5 per
person.
• Tonight at Knickerbockers, 901
O Street, local band Orange3 and
Minneapolis band Slide Coaster hit
the stage.
Tomorrow night, local band
Throttle and another Minneapolis
band Six Day Lane, are the featured
entertainment at Knickerbockers.
Shows start between 10 and 10:30
p.m. and there is a $3 cover charge
each evening.
• Smokin’ Joe Kubek featuring
Bnois King will Dlay for patrons at
the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14 St., tonight
and Saturday night.
Shows are at 9:30 both nights. The
band will perform two 75-minute sets
each night, and the charge is $5.
Sheldon exhibit parades
Precisionist interpretation
By John Fulwider
Staff Reporter
A new exhibition at Sheldon Me
morial Art Gallery and Sculpture
Garden shows how a loosely linked
group of artists viewed post-World
War 1 America.
“Precisionism in America 1915
1941: Reordering Reality”
presents paintings by some of the
foremost Precisionist artists: Geor
gia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Alfred
Stieglitz and more.
George Neubert, Sheldon direc
tor, said the Precisionists were artists
who observed American imagery —
industrial, rural and urban — and
simplified the images, giving a pre
cise, hard-edged vision of them.
Precisionist paintings “bring honor
and respect to American experience,”
Neubert said, “and put it on a high
artistic plane.”
The Precisionists addressed the
impact of factories, machines, planes
and skyscrapers on the United States
as it became the leader of the indus
trial age. They also romanticized ru
ral imagery.
Photography was close to the heart
of many Precisionist artists; many
Precisionists were also famous pho
tographers.
Sheeler’s “Bams Red” is an ex
ample of the photorealistic quality of
many Precisionist paintings. It is so
precisely painted as to be nearly in
distinguishable from a photograph.
On one level, Neubert said, it is so
phisticated art. But on another level,
it is an everyday view of a farm.
“My Egypt” by Charles Demuth
shows how the Precisionists, well
educated in international culture and
events, managed to create a uniquely
American statement. The painting is
a picture of grain silos — as impor
tant to rural American culture as the
Pyramids were to the Egyptians.
“Precisionism in America” runs
through Nov. 5. Admission is free.
