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These courses transfer to UN-L and other four-year institutions. I -■> Take a course this summer... be a step ahead when you return full-time next fall! SCC-Beatrice: 1-800-233-5027 or 402- 228-3468 Pre-summer session_May 20-June 10,1997 Summer session__ June 11-July 23,1997 SCC-Beatrice is located at West Scott St. and U.S. Hwy 136. SCC-Lincoln: 1-800-642-4075 or 402-471-3333 3-week summer session_June 12-July 2,1997 5-week summer session_July 14-August 15,1997 10-week summer quarter_July 16-September 26,1997 SCC-Lincoln is located at 8800 0 St. and 11110 St. Contact us today for registration infoonation or visit our WEB SITE at http://www.coflege.sccm.cc.ne.us • I Southeast community college I “Star Wars: A New Hope” “The Empire Strikes Back” “Return of the Jedi” Special Edition Soundtracks RCA Victor Grade: A+ All the true “Star Wars” buffs probably have these already, but those of you who just loved the films should pick them up, too. Until now, most of the majestic scores of George Lucas’ visionary films had gone unreleased — to hear the music, you had to watch the movie. juuii wiuiams epic suuies, however, often get lost under the sounds of blaster fire, screams of dying stormtroopers and the Millenium Falcon screaming into orbit. No more. In three two-CD sets, all the music ever heard in the “Star Wars” movies is now available for listen ing, sans distractions. The first set, “Star Wars: A New Hope” contains all the classic md sic that began the series, from the sweeping theme itself to the incred ibly subtle background music con tained in “The Dune Sea of Tantooine/Jawa Sandcrawler.” You can stop and listen to both sections of the “Cantina Band” or re-experience “The Battle of Yavin” as the music overwhelms you. As with all the sets, “Star Wars” contains music that was never heard in the movie. Along with an alternate “Binary Sunset,” several other versions of the classic “Main Theme” grace the end of the first disc and it’s easy to hear how much work went into perfecting it. Some of the alternates have less brass, more bass, a slower tempo — while they may seem minute at first, listen to all of them, and then listen to the “Main Theme” itself again and realize how subtle com poser Williams is. Most of the music on “Star Wars” has been released before, having been around the longest. But even the “Star Wars” box set lacks a lot of the music contained on the three two-disc sets. Once you move to “The Empire Strikes Back,” you realize how little of this great music was released, mainly because of its subtleness when compared to the urgency of pieces like “Attacking A Star De stroyer.” While much of the brassy stuff from “Empire” was released, the little odds and ends that weren’t available left fans wanting so much more. “Empire” fulfills that desire. Tracks like “Betrayal at Bespin” and “Arrival On Dagobah” close the gap that was left with earlier releases and make excellent listen ing in their own right. “Return of the Jedi” is perhaps the most changed of the three soundtracks, though. It begins on Tantooine with dramatic pauses and solid brass and eventually moves to the more tribal sounds of Endor. To answer the most important question, yes, the new musical number that was added to “Return of the Jedi” is indeed on the soundtrack — it’s called “Jedi Rocks.” There is also a lot of unreleased music on “Jedi,” especially towards the beginning. Most of the first disc is composed of unreleased stuff. How “Speeder Bike Chase” or “Han Solo Returns” got passed over on the original releases is almost incomprehensible. That is amended with the new release, though, and rightfully so. On top of it all, each of the three CD sets starts with the “20th Cen tury Fox Fanfare.” You really have the entire score for each movie from beginning to finish. While it may not be cheap to pick them all up, if you find your self longing for the sounds of Jedi and don’t want to watch the mov ies, these will sate your hunger quite nicely. — Cliff Hicks Humor’s no accident at Noyes Art Gallery JEANI from page 11 Specifically, Gustafson plans to look just like the woman dressed in pinkish-red in her painting, “Lighten Up.” The title of that painting is the theme of the show starting Friday at Noyes. Gustafson looked for a group of artists to do a humor-themed show, and the result is works by Grand Is land artists Sandy Newman, Karen Neppl and Nancy Fairbanks Grim and Creighton artists Phillip Pageler and Jim Javorsky. iNoyes artist Lois Meysenberg got a sneak peek at one of Newman’s paintings, “Good Old Boys.” Accord ing to Meysenberg, the painting fea tures four men with ample beer guts sprawled out on a couch. “And you just know these guys are drinking beer, eating nachos and watching the Raiders or something,” Meysenberg laughs. That’s just the Focus Gallery. Noyes’ Main Gallery will have paint ings by Dorothy Dane of Lincoln and — a special treat — new works by world-renowned oil painter Faridun Negmat-Zoda of Tajikistan (once a part of the former Soviet Union). It all runs from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Noyes, 119 S. Ninth St. American Heart frA Association^^ Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke_ - Spring fling j^- I • -!' ■ ■ Photo Courtesy of Burkholder Project “HONEYMOON,” a watercelor palatial by Greenweed artist Uada Beaten, Is aae af tbe works faatared la Burkholder Project* “Sprtag FUa| Art ExhMtlei.” Also faatared this month at Borkholder wlH be three-dimensional acrylic abstracts ca canvas and paper, and metal scalptares, by Crete artist Elaine Williams, aleaf with mixed media weths by Nerth Platte artist Patsy Smith. Tbe shew* epeahureceptlea Is Satanlay eveafae from 7-0 at Barkhclder, 710 P St. I