Fund-raiser presente mystery
By Cherie Krueger
Staff Reporter
Family Services of Lincoln is spon
soring its annual “Whodunit” mystery
evening to raise money for its organi
r=-— -zation Saturday
Theater night
Preview Kuwamoto
J _ said it could be
compared to a mys
tery dinner theater.
Kuwamoto is ad
ministrative assis
tant in the develop
ment department at
Family Services.
It s kind ot like
a game of Clue,” she said.
She said a hospitality hour and the
first act would be held before dinner.
The audience has the chance to buy
clues and make their guesses as din
ner is being served. The second act
will follow dinner.
All of the correct ballots will be
compiled and prizes will be given to
those whose names were drawn, she
said. Prizes were donated by a variety
of local businesses, she said.
Ron Brown, an assistant coach for
the Nebraska Cornhuskers, is this
year’s honorary chairman for the
event.
Although she could not reveal
many details of the play, Kuwamoto
said, in honor of the Huskers’ success
in several sports this year, the show
had a sports theme.
All of the proceeds that are raised
from the production will go to benefit
Family Services of Lincoln. The or
ganization, which started in 1891, pro
vides child care services to families
in the community and is responsible
for WIC, a program that gives nutri
tional assistance for women and young
children.
The title of this year’s play is
“Fandom of the Field House.” It will
be held at Schulte Field House on the
north side of Memorial Stadium. Hos
pitality hour will begin at 6 p.m., and
the first act of the play will start at 7.
The production is $50 a plate. Ticket
information is available by calling
441-7921.
Vocalists provide calming sounds
From Staff Reports
Just as that biology final from hell
lurks around the comer. Anonymous
4 will offer relief with a soothing col
lection of chants, songs and readings
from 12th-century Europe.
The four-woman vocal group will
perform at Kimball Recital Hall on
Sunday night. The performance is part
of the Lied Center’s program.
Anonymous 4 was created in 1986
to experiment with medieval chant and
melodies performed by female voices.
Since then, it has acquired a large fan
base as it has traveled throughout
North America and Europe. Featured
over the years on various radio broad
casts, critics appreciate Anonymous
4’s intricate technical mastery.
Under the Harmonia Mundi USA
label, Anonymous 4 has issued four
recordings, “An English Labymass,”
“On Yoolis Night,” “Love’s Illusion”
and “The Lily and the Lamb.” The
quartet’s recordings have never been
a stranger to Billboard’s classical
charts.
The concert will start at 8 p.m. in
Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are for
$25 and $20, half-price for students.
r-Music Reviews
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Barenaked Ladies
“Shoe Box E.P”
Reprise Records
Grade: B+
This is not just four songs stuck
a compact disc and called a prod
uct. It’s another of those nifty En
hanced CDs.
When it comes to just the mu
sic, there really are JUST four songs
on the album. So if you are sans
computer, your $8 would probably
be better spent elsewhere.
The CD-ROM aspect is packed
and the term is not used lightly. With
a lot of video, sound clips and as
sorted knickknacks, the CD is ab
solutely full.
If you choose, you can get a
sound clip from each track of any
of the Barenaked Ladies albums,
including the new one, “Born On A
Pirate Ship.”
But wait, that’s not all! There’s
more! Several video clips (and big
video clips at that, there’s one FULL
video on it) give the CD more char
acter.
There’s also a text section dedi
cated to the “Kraft Phenomenon”
that occurs during Barenaked La
dies concerts. I can’t explain it.
You’ll have to read it.
The only real problem with the
CD is that during long video clips,
occasionally the screen will stick for
a few seconds and then continue,
minus the few sections you were
supposed to have been watching.
like a video record player.
Other than that, the “Shoe Box
E.P.” is an excellent addition to the
Barenaked Ladies library. And the
version of “If I Had $1000000” on
the E.P. is much better than the one
on “Gordon.” Improving on a clas
sic is always great.
—Cliff Hicks
Luna
“EP”
Caroline Records
Grade: 13
State of Grace
“Jamborcebop”
3rd Stone
Grade: B+
Dreampop comes and goes. It’s
a hard form of music to do well.
Most attempts at it result in botches
and blunders. Even though My
Bloody Valentine’s new album is
ever so close on the horizon (where
it’s been for the past three years),
one must listen to what else the
dreampop world has to offer.
The interesting thing is that
dreampop is branching out, and both
Luna’s work and State of Grace’s
debut album reflect that.
Luna is dreampop without distor
tion, mellowed out. Its last album,
“Penthouse,” was a sad disappoint
ment in comparison to the album
before that, “Bewitched.”
Their new 6-song EP called“EP”
(are we stretching for names, guys?)
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is an on-again off-again collection.
The hits hit and the misses are on
another continent.
The cover of David Byrne’s
“Thank You For Sending Me An
Angel” is so minimalist, it’s played
with a whole chord. Ick. Still, the
cover of Tom Rush’s “No Regrets”
is prime Luna material, exactly what
the band should be recording more
of.
State of Grace’s debut album,
“Jamboreebop,” mixes dreampop
fuzz distortion and swirly guitars
with rhythmic dance-oriented drum
beats. •
Though a lot of State of Grace’s
album blends together, it’s a pleas
ant syrup of notes and melodics,
with a clear, clean, undistorted fe
male vocalist.
What with Lush’s trashy new al
bum, the Boo Radleys’ removal of
distortion and Jesus And Mary
Chain’s slowing down the pace,
dreampop seems to be getting rarer
and rarer.
While any info on MBV’s new
album is only a rumor at this point,
whispers of a mixing of jungle (a
form of music very heavy on drums)
and distortion-fest still seems to be
the most predominant one. We’ll just
have to wait.
Neither of these two releases is
bad, but while Luna’s is only slightly
good, State of Grace’s is an impres
sive venture to create a new niche
in the field.
— Cliff Hicks
Take VSAVINGS Ug,
in America a BONDS
Lied Season
’** anonymous4
With hauntingly beautiful voices,
this female vocal ensemble has
taken medieval music to the top
of the classical charts.
april 28,7pm
kimball hall
Locally sponsored by Target Stores
For tickets call 402-472-4747
or toll free in Nebraska, 800-432-3231.
Box Office hours: 1 lam to 5:30pm
Lied Center programming is supported by the Friends of lied and grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Nebraska Arts Council.
Photo courtesy of RAAG
Pundit Shivkumar Sharma performs on the santoor, a virtually
unknown classical Indian instrument that he single-handedly
revived to public attention. Sharma will perform Saturday at the
Music Hall in the Westbrook Music Building.
Indian musician brings
unique sound to UNL
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
World-renowned santoor player
Pundit Shivkumar Sharma will per
form on his unique instrument at
UNL’s Westbrook Music Hall on Sat
-urday.*
Concert Sharma is one of
Prpifipuu the P°Pu,ar musi"
cians in India to
day, said Piyush
Srivastav, a UNL
graduate student
and member of
UNL Indian culture
club RAAG.
“It’s very sel
dom that the name
of an artist is associated right away
with the name of an instrument,”
Srivastav said.
Sharma distinguished himself
quickly by adopting the folk instru
ment called a santoor for Hindustani
compositions, the classical music of
Northern India.
The santoor has a unique sound
somewhat equivalent to the Western
sound of a dolcimer, Srivastav said.
“Santoor means 100 strings” said
RAAG member Divya Karan. “It
sounds like a lute.”
Sharma’s santoor will be backed by
the sound of Ustad Shafaat Ahmad
Khan’s skillful tablaplaying. Khan is
widely regarded in India as one of the
most skillful wielders of the percus
sion instrument in India today.
Backing Khan and Shivkumar
Sharma, Rahul Sharma will play the
tanpoora.
People interested in hearing live
Indian music should come and sup
port the Sharma show, said RAAG
member Radha Balasubramanian.
“We have had such extraordinary
concerts in the past, with the best
musicians,” Balasubramanian said.
“But it all depends on the response we
have for what we do in the future.
“We go from concert to concert, but
the response we’ve had in the past has
been very positive.”
Sharma will begin playing on Sat
urday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale
through the Nebraska Union’s
TicketMaster location. Prices are $15
for the public, $10 for students at the
door and $7 for students in advance.
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