Jackson says
he’s ‘thrilled’
tobeadad
for first time
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Sorry
Billie Jean, the mother of Michael
Jackson’s child is Debbie Rowe.
Jackson announced on Monday
that he is going to be a pop, deny
ing a tabloid report that the couple
used artificial insemination and that
Rowe, the singer’s friend for 15
years, was being paid to have the
baby.
“I am thrilled that I will soon be
a father.... This is my dream come
true,” Jackson, 38, said in a state
ment.
Rowe, 37, will have the child
sometime next year, according to
the statement, released by Jackson’s
spokeswoman Christine Holevas.
No other details about Rowe were
released.
Holevas denied a Sunday report
in the London tabloid News of the
World that the baby was a product
of artificial insemination and that
Rowe was being paid $528,000. She
called the report “completely false
and irresponsible.”
News of the World also reported
that the baby is due in February, is
a boy and will be named Michael
Jackson Jr. It said Rowe was di
vorced and had helped treat Jack
son for vitiligo, a disorder that light
ens the skin.
There are no marriage plans and
the pop superstar will raise the child
himself, the tabloid said.
Jackson recently divorced Lisa
Marie Presley.
In their first live interview after
secretly exchanging vows in May
1994, the couple said last year that
they were having sex and implied
they wanted to have children.
Presley already had two children
from a previous marriage.
Jackson is touring Southeast
Asia, performing such hits as the
1982 song “Billie Jean,” about a
man denying he had fathered a child
with a woman named Billie Jean.
CBS dumps
three shows
in ratings war
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS
moved quickly to avert another rat
ings disaster for its Wednesday
night lineup.
The network pulled the plug
Monday on the comedies “Almost
Perfect” and “Public Morals.” It
also temporarily shelved the criti
cally-praised drama “EZ Streets.”
Movies will be shown for the
rest of the month in the now-vacant
Wednesday night slots.
“Public Morals,” billed as an
adult sitcom about a police depart
ment vice squad, is gone after only
one airing. It was the creation of
producer Steven Bochco, who has
“Hill Street Blues” and “LA. Law”
(Hi his resume. Bochco had no com
ment on the decision, a spokes
woman said.
Critics panned the show, which
drew a 5.0 rating and 8 share in its
8:30 p.m. time slot, well behind
ABC’s “Drew Carey Show.” A rat
ing point represents 970,000 house
holds, while the share is the percent
age of televisions in use and tuned
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Recycled rock ‘n’ roll
Used outlet supplies rare wares to collectors
By Tasha E. Kelter
StaffReporter
Some say he has the largest collec
tion of rock £n’ roll oddities in Ne
braska, but Stuart Kolnick of Lincoln
is always trying to get rid of his rare
collectibles.
Kolnick, owner of Recycled
Sounds at 824 P St. in Lincoln’s
Haymarket District, makes his living
by selling both new and used records,
tapes, compact discs, posters and other
assorted curiosities.
Some of Kolnick’s rarer goods in
clude tour books, buttons, calendars
and autographed merchandise.
In a box behind the front desk,
there’s a pink foam pig that promoted
Pink Floyd’s 1987 “Momentary Lapse
of Reason” tour. Kolnick said the pig
was sitting in one man’s basement for
more than eight years before it got to
the store. Recycled Sounds recently
sold a voodoo doll that promoted
Jane’s Addiction’s “Ritual De Lo Ha
bitual” album, released in 1990.
There’s even a New Kids On The
Block puzzle and a paperback biogra
phy of 1960s pop star Donovan.
Kolnick opened Recycled Sounds
4'/2 years ago. He said that while at
tending the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, he saw the need for a used
record store in the downtown area.
“All college towns need to have a
primary used outlet,” Kolnick said. As
he saw it, Lincoln was “just a place that
heeded another store.”
Before opening Recycled Sounds,
Kolnick worked in various record
stores for five years.
“I had expertise that was a little dif
ferent from what everyone else had,”
he said.
Kolnick obtains much of his mer
chandise through dealers in England,
where promotional posters and trinkets
are common. He also buys collections
from domestic hobbyists and finds
goods at record shows held through
out the United States.
Roadies and other people associ
ated with bands often provide Kolnick
with odd wares, he said. Catherine
Wheel’s tour manager once gave him
a package of leftover promotional
goods from a 1994 tour.
“I have lots of connections,”
Kolnick said. “There are lots of old
things floating around.”
Kolnick himself collects merchan
dise primarily relating to REM, U2 and
the Beatles.
“Eventually I see so much of ev
erything that it’s almost easier not to
keep it around,” he said of the col
lectibles in his store.
He said he enjoys the business be
cause of the avid collectors who “have
been looking for that particular item”
and find it in his store.
Recycled Sounds, which currently
carries more than 2,000 cassettes and
CDs and more than 20,000 records,
maintains a list of customers who come
in looking for collectibles specific to a
certain artist:
“We always take requests,” Kolnick
said.
u
I have lots of connections. There are lots
of old things floating around.”
Stuart Kolnick
Recycled Sounds owner
Recital to feature classic, nontraditional works
By Emily Wray
StaffReporter
Classical music fans will have two
good reasons to start the weekend early.
CA faculty recital and guest artist will
bring their talent to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music
Thursday. .
Scott Anderson’s trombone and
euphonium performance will be at
Kimball Recital Hall. Christelle Menth,
chairwoman of the music department
at Concordia College, will accompany
Anderson on the piano at the free 8
pjn. concert.
“Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen”
by Gustav Mahler interests Anderson
the most, he said.
“It’s nontraditional on the trom
bone,” Anderson said.
When he transcribed the piece
about a year ago, taking it from voice
repertoire, the only major change he
made was removing the words.
“It’s really interesting,” he said.
“It’s something I’ve done in the past
and will continue to do.”
Trombonists have to transcribe, or
borrow from other music, because they
don’t have solos from the great com
posers, he said.
“Even though our repertoire is ex
panding, we still don’t have works by
Mahler,” Anderson said. “That’s how
we get them.”
The Mahler transcription works
well, he said, since Mahler had some
strong ideas about his music.
Mahler struggled with being iden
tified as programatic, Anderson said.
People thought that his music needed
the programs he added, while he
thought his music could stand alone.
“I take this even furtherhe said.
“I’m performing them purely as an
absolute melody as an experiment al
though the words are on the program.”
“Concerto” by Nino Rota, an Ital
ian composer, is also on Thursday’s
program.
“Rota is known as a film com
poser,” Anderson said. “I hear that sort
of approach in this concerto. The mu
sic is suggestive of scenes or images.”
Anderson said he prepares for this
type of piece by using his imagination.
This is the same approach he encour
ages his 22 trombone and euphonium
students to take, bringing out ideas of
cohesiveness.
“The use of very extreme dynam
ics and colors are very effective, even
with the piano accompaniment instead
of orchestra,” Anderson said.
Thursday night’s Concert continues
Anderson’s busy first semester at UNL.
Besides teaching lessons, he conducts
the trombone choir and teaches the
brass skills class, which is a methods
class for music education majors.
Anderson will perform next as a
soloist with the Wind Ensemble on
Nov. 17.
Guest artist Sergio de los Cobos
also plays Thursday at 5 p.m. The
pianist’s free concert is in room 119 of
the Westbrook Music Building.
The Swiss-born pianist will per
form solo and chamber music. He got
his doctorate from Rice University and
currently teaches in Geneva, Switzer
land. ",
