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By Jeff Randall
Music snobs
need to open
ears to genres
Pretty much every one of us has
had to deal with them. They lurk
in die shadows of every music stare,
concert venue and—in some cases
—coffeehouses.
They vary in appearance and
taste. They can be well-dressed and
immaculately gpoomed, or they can
be shabbily clothed with little re
gard lor hygiene.
They might even be your
means.
Let's say it's a normal day, you
go to the record store and begin
browsing. You pick up the latest
CD by a favorite band of yours,
perhaps even intending to purchase
it. Then you hear a slight snort
emerge from behind you.
And that snort is always fol
lowed by a snide comment of some
sort (a few examples):
“You actually like those guys?”
“Oh, yeah, they were pretty
good... before they sold out”
You try to fashion a response
quickly, out it's no use. “they”
have made their presence known.
They are the snobs of the music
world.
Whether they are aficionados of
Mozart or Motorhead, Beethoven
or Billy Ray Cyrus, they are the
people who prey on anyone whose
musical tastes differ even slightly
from their own.
Musical snobbery has been
around ever since people have rec
ognized the generation gap as a
natural phenomenon. My parents
don’t like the music I listen to, my
parents' parents didn’t like the
music they listened to.
But generational differences are
easily forgiven.
The true music snob has no re
gard for the age of the listener or
the music.
The true music snob will turn
his or her nose up at the slightest
whiff of any form of music that
doesn’t fit into a predetermined
mold of what’s good, what’s bad
I won’t lie. I’ve been guilty oi
snobbery in my past. I spent the last
three semesters at UNL masquer
ading as an expert of sorts in the
musical field (two as a reporter, one
as an editor).
In hindsight, I’ve made an ass
of myself on more than one occa
sion. I’ve written horrible, scath
ing things about bands and musi
cal genres that I admittedly had
biases against I’ve heaped undue
praise on bands and musical genres
that held a special place in my
• heart.
But now I want to change my
evil ways.
In the coming weeks, I want to
use this column to provide a forum
for music and bands that otherwise
would never see ink in these pages.
I want to open my ears to music I
had previously ignored. And I want
to stop being such a snob.
In fact, I’ll start right now.
You know (gulp), adult contem
porary jazz really isn’t all that
bad...
Randall is a junior news-edi
torial Major and a Daily Nebras
kan associate news edftim
International Up With People
will perform in Lincoln Friday
By Ann Stack
Senior Reporter
“The Festival," a cross-cultural
version of “West Side Story," is com
ing to the Lied Cento for Performing
Arts this Friday, complete with a pro
| duction group more than 125 mem
! bers from countries spanning the
globe.
Up With People, an international
organization with youth representing
22 countries, will be staging the show.
Kristie Clark, event coordinator for
Up With People, said the show is
loosely based on the popular play from
the 1960s, with feuding gangs and a
star-crossed couple.
Members of Up With People spend
a year traveling around the world, per
forming musicals and doing commu
nity service in every town they visit.
It doesn’t matter if members have
any singing, dancing or acting abili
ties when they sign up for Up With
People—they will leam, Clark said.
“That’s where you learn your tal
ents, ones you never knew you had,”
said Ross Dobryznski, a 26-year-old
student from Minnesota. Dobryznski
joined Up With People in January,
playing lead guitar in the musical.
“I’ve never played lead guitar be
fore,” he said. “But as they say in Up
With People, if you can talk, you can
sing, if you can walk you can dance.”
Members perform all aspects of the
musical production, from promotion
to sound crew to tearing the set down.
“ft’s very intense—students work
T6-fcour days,” dark said. “They do
community service in the morning,
they have meetings, they do the show,
they tear down, they do it again the
next day.”
Some of the group's community
service projects have included work
ing with Habitat for Humanity, envi
ronmental clean-ups, bike drives and
planting trees. They've worked with
refugee centers, homeless shelters and
whatever else the host community
identifies as a need.
The Lincoln performance is spon
sored by the Lincoln Jaycees, and
some performers, including
Dobrzynski, are visiting Lincoln East
High School to work with the music
and drama departments.
Up With People formed more than
30 years ago during a historically tur
bulent time for America's youth.
Dani Koschella, 22, is from Ger
many and joined the group in Janu
“I come from a little village in Ger
many, where everything was perfect
and we had no need for community
service,” she said. A year ago, she
knew no English.
“In Up With People, you learn so
much about yourself and what you can
accomplish if you try,” Dobrzynski
said.
Tickets for die 7:30 pjn. Lied per
formance are $10 at the door or by
calling the Ued Center box office 472
4700.
CBS brings
fun, prizes
to students
By Bbyce Glenn
Staff Reporter
For the next two days, “The Price '
is Right” and the “The Late Show with
David Letterman” will be on campus.
However, you probably won’t hear
“have your pet spayed or neutered” or
see the famous gapped-tooth smile of
Dave anywhere near Broyhill Foun
tain.
The CBS College Tbur kicks off its
1996-97 season in Lincoln today, of
fering students chances to win prizes
While playing simulated versions of
their favorite CBS shows. Booths ate
open from 11 am to 5 pm today and
10 am to 4 pm Friday.
Activities include movie previews,
a variety of trivia games and video tape
booths where students can act out
scenes from a soap opera or give a
sports interview.
The tour, sponsored by the Univer
sity Program Council, will be giving
away t-shirts, compact discs, candy,
popcorn and products from several
sponsors including AT&T, L’Oreal
and Pace. Students can also sign up
to win a 1997 Ford Escort LX.
Donald Scobie, assistant tour man
ager, said the tour will cover a total of
45 campuse* between now and May.
He and the rest of his 13-person crew
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\ Photo oouetest or New Line Cinema
ALISSA (FA1RUZA BALK) and Edward Douglas (David Thewlis) search the beast-filled island in
“The Island of Dr. Moreau.”
Beast people,
‘Island of Dr.
“The Island of Dr. Moreau,” a
haunting novel written in the late
1800s by H.G. Wells, has made the
pounce from print to the big screen.
The sci-fi plot describes an-out-of
control experiment that mixes man
with beast. The story becomes
twisted when the experiment is dis
rupted after Edward Douglas
(David Thewlis), a marooned
stranger, stumbles upon the abomi
nation.
The beast people, who live on a
remote island with Dr. Moreau, are
the result of an experiment cre
ate the perfect being by splicing
animal genes with human genes.
Unfortunately for those on the is
land, the experiment goes awry and
the beast people become contr olled
more by the animal half of their
nature than the human part. Inevi
tably, Dr. Moreau cannot control
his beastly creations.
Marion Brando (Dr. Moreau) is
painted in white makeup and elabo
rately costumed in garments that
would better be suited for shower
curtains or a tablecloth. Brando
gives a riveting performance of the
disturbing yet brilliant geneticist,
whom the beast-people lovingly
Film: “The Island of Dr. Moreau”
Stem: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer,
David Thewlis
Director: John Frankenheimer
Rating: PG-13
Grade: A,. ■ ■ '
Five Words: Beast-people island
a thrill \
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