The following is a brief list of
events this weekend. For more
information, call the venue.
CONCERTS:
Duffy's Tavern, 14120 St
474- 3543
Sunday: Squidboy and the WT
Duggan's Pub, 440511th St
477-3513
Friday: FAC with Blues Train
and The Cruisers
Saturday: The Relics
Knickerbocker’s 901 OSt
476-6865
Friday: JV All-Stars, Peer
Down, BB and Jumping Kate
Saturday: Blacklight Sunshine
and Eight Degrees
Sunday: Joan of Arc and Her
Fly Away Manner
Pla-Mor Ballroom, 6600 W. O
St
475- 4030
Friday: The Rumbles
Sunday: High Caliber and
Double Standard
Royal Grove, 340 West
ComhuskerHwy
474- 2332
Friday: Head pe
Saturday: Chippendales
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
(402)435-8754
Friday and Saturday: Baby
Jason and the Spankers
THEATER:
Howell Theatre, Temple
Building, 12th and R streets
472-2073
All weekend: “All's Well That
Ends Well”
Lied Center for Performing
Arts, 301N. 12th St
472-4747
Friday: “Celebration 100: Kurt
Wfeill, An American Journey”
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12™ and R streets
472-5353
All weekend: Gay/Lesbian
Film Festival 2000
The Star City Dinner Theatre
and Comedy Cabaret, 803QSL
477-8277
All weekend; “The Mystery of
Edwin Drewd”
GALLERIES:
Dods Place, 140 N. 8th St
476-3232
All weekend: George Sisson
Haydon Gallery, 335N. (ft1 St
475- 5421
All weekend; Kirk Pedersen
Noyes Gallery, 119 S. 9^ St
475-1061
Adi weekend: Max Cox, Gregg
Stokke, Mary Jane
Lamberson, Jo Brown, and
Robert Egan
The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, 12th and R streets
472-2461
All weekend: Prints of Robert
Mangold, “The Jam Portfolio”
by S.C. Wilson and Jon
Gieriich; Conrad Bakker
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“Sootleg Detroit”
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2. The Go-Betweens
“The Friends of Rachel Worth”
Australian indie legends reunited
3. Nick Drake
“Pink Moon”
Still influencing artists like Will
Oldham and Belle & Sebastian
4 Bjork
“Selmasongs”
New material from the Soundtrack
to the movie “Dancer in the Dark.”
5. The Sea and Cake
“Our
Sam Prekop and friends’ fifth
album
6. Various Artists
"Liverpool Sound Collage”
Recompiled unreleased Beatles
material from the 60s
7. Black-Eyed Peas
"Bridging the Gap”
The Rappers who play their own .
instruments
8. Underworld
“Everything Everything”
A small hint of what it’s like to see
them perform
9. Trans Am . -
“Red Line”
Vocals spice up its otherwise
traditionally nontraditional sound
10. At the Drive In
“Relationship of Command”
High-energy punk rock that was
saved by Mike D
Two Lied shows
take fresh spin
on music acts
BY CRYSTAL K.W1EBE AND KEN MORTON
Music lovers in Lincoln can celebrate
new and old tunes this weekend in two per
formances at the Lied Center for
Performing Arts.
Tonight, the Lied Center will hold a trib
ute to German composer Kurt Weill.
On Sunday night, a jazz trio and the
Lincoln Symphony Orchestra will be "wig
ging out” at the Lied, putting a modem
spin on classical music.
Tonight's performance will be a col
laborative effort between Opera Omaha,
the Omaha Symphony and the Lied
Center.
The show, titled "Celebration 100: Kurt
Weill, An American Journey,” will feature
numbers from the composer’s operas and
musicals.
The first half of the show will feature
Weill's opera* “The Seven Deadly Sins.” This
opera, written while Weill was in Paris in
1933, is one of his best-known pieces. Weill
used the opera to express his views on the
moral decay of European society.
Weill, probably best known for com
posing the music for the song "Mack the
Knife,” came to the United States in the
1930s to escape the persecution of the
Nazis.
while in Germany, his work reflected
the tense, corruptive nature of Europe at
that time. Weill’s work, after coming to
America, was filled with much more hope
for the future.
The second half of tonight’s perform
ance will feature songs from these
American works.
Ariel Bybee, an artist-in-residence in
UNLs School of Music, will perform an
aria from Weill’s opera, “The Rise and
Fall of the City of Mahogany.”
Bybee, who originally performed
“Mahogany” as a member of the !
Metropolitan Opera in New York City,
said Weill adapted well when he moved to
the United States.
“Weill loved living in America and loved
New York Qty,” Bybee said.
Bybee also said die difference between
Weill’s German and American works will be
dear:
“There is a stark contrast between the
two periods,” she said. “I think he was kind
of like a chameleon. He could write any
thing anybody wanted to.”
Although Weill is not widely known in
the United States, Bybee thinks he is an
important
figure in
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Trio will
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take a
jazz twist on
the traditional
sounds of classic musicians
like Beethoven, Bach
Tchaikovsky.
Waldman, a renowned pianist who
has worked with Barbara Streisand for 15
years, developed the musical style and
recently released a CD called “Wigged
Out,” which contains much of the music
that will be performed Sunday
Carlana Fitch, Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra executive director, said the con
cert will include "quite a variety” of sounds.
Some of the music the trio will perform
has been arranged specifically for Sunday’s
concert. For other numbers, the trio will
join the orchestra, which also will perform
by itself a few times.
Waldman said the idea of wigging out
comes from music history.
"Classical music earned its nickname -
long-hair music - because many of the
great composers wore elaborate wigs,
which was the fashion custom of their
times,” Waldman said in a press release.
“We decided to boldly take ‘wig’ music
where no jazz band has gone before - to the
outermost limits of musical imagination.”
Playing with Waldman are bass player
John Patitucci, who works with fusion key
board legend Chick Corea and drummer
Terri Lynne Carrington, the house drum
mer for the “Arsenio Hall Show” and
Sinbad’s late-night TV show “VIBE.”
“Each of them are quite a performer in
his or her own right,” Fitch said.
Wigged Out
Lincoln
Symphony Orchestra
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'Dr. T' characters solid; ending twisted
BY SAMUEL MCKEWON
The incredulous stares at the
end of Robert Altman’s “Dr. T
and the Women” was well
earned; a conglomeration of
eccentricity and high society
that sets itself down squarely in
absurd comedy for a final course
deserves some sort of shock
value.
There's a lot to like here, not
the least of which is Richard
Gere, the smooth, kind title
character Sullivan Travis, a
Dallas gynecologist who most
consider “the lucky kind of doc
tor,” tending to the needs of
Texas’ finest and best-dressed
sisters.
He is equally surrounded by
a family of women: A wife on the
verge of a breakdown (Farrah
Fawcett); two daughters, one a
Cowboy’s alternate cheerleader
(Kate Hudson), the other a JFK
conspiracy buff (Tara Reid); a
newly divorced sister-in-law
(Laura Dern) with three young
daughters and an affinity for
high-line champagne; and a golf
pro (breezy, sexy Helen Hunt),
who turns Dr. T’s charm on its
head.
Altman is a director unshak
able in his craft; his list of impor
tant films - “Nashville,” “The
Player,” "Short Cuts” - has never
been disputed. He uses a tech
nique of overlapping dialogue in
the clinic, which makes the
chaos flow clearly enough to
detect two or three plots at once.
Slowly, through the scenes at the
clinic, and at Dr. T’s Dallas home,
a plot begins to brew.
Much won’t be exposed here;
part of experiencing an Altman
film, his second written by Anne
Rapp, is watching the layers peel
off. Hudson’s character, Dee
Dee, is gearing up for a wedding
of convenience, while Dr. T deals
with the mounting pressure of
his quibbling clientele. His head
nurse, played by Shelley Long,
has long past stepped over the
boundaries of normal, orderly
care for her boss.
“Dr. T and the Women” takes
alternate shots at the Dallas high
life, while embracing these
women in the same scene -
breathless, pushy, over-shopped
showpieces who make their hay
at charity auctions and city
council meetings, attempting to
honor a woman for one of the
Metroplex freeways.
Altman has received feminist
criticism for the portrayal of
these women, who, if one takes
some time to discover, most cer
tainly persist in that area.
Altman accurately pointed out
in an interview that Dallas has
no mountains nor lakes and is
separated from the pop culture
of the East and West coasts.
The city is an island of glass
and money. These women seek
sanctuary in palatial malls, look
fabulous and occasionally storm
off in huffs of anger. A careful
examination of the movie
reveals admiration, not antago
nism, if one pays long enough
attention.
These women are countered
by Hunt’s character, Bree, both
uninhibited in bed, dialogue and
courtly manners. The chemistry
between Bree and Dr. T flows,
and Gere is better in scenes
where he’s not asked to work as
the aggressor. But Hunt’s charac
ter doesn’t attract the absolute
adoration she seems to receive
from Altman; a twisty conclu
sion takes care of that.
What to make of the end,
which calls upon “Magnolia”?
Who knows. It makes a tenuous
point at best. A more linear end
would have been preferable. The
key here is the portrayal of
Altman's women, a rare breed for
sure. It’s an acquired taste that
lasts.
Children's Museum
celebrates new opening
The Lincoln Children’s
Museum will be celebrating its
new digs this weekend.
The museum, which is relo
cating to 1420 P St, will gain near
ly 30,000 square feet with the
move.
A slew of activities is sched
uled for the grand opening of the
new museum Saturday and
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5p.m.
Tickets are at a premium, but
any that remain will be sold at the
event.
High-energy Iowa band
appearing at Duffy's
Duffy’s Tavern has adapted
the slogan “Saving the World One
Rock Band at aTime,” and Sunday
night, the club presents its latest
attempt in its never-ending quest.
Squidboy, a four-piece band
from Des Moines, Iowa, puts on a
great show, combining a hard
rocking sound with catchy
melodies.
The show begins around 10
p.m.
.J . **
