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Two Guitarists By BOB CRAFT Staff Writer Wednesday night was guitar night In Russell House with two guitarists playing across the hall from each other. The first, Frederic Hand, started in the Russell House Gallery at 8:10. His classical guitar performance was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., but the turnaway crowd and the problems of trying to settle the crowd of about 175 delayed the beginning of the concert. Hand began his guitar training at the age of nine and earned a scholarship and degree from the Mannes College of Music. Selected as a performing member of Julian Bream's Masterclasses, he is the first guitarist to be tutored by Bream under a Fulbright Grant. The 24 year-old Hand has performed for the New York Shakespeare Festival, the New York City Opera and Ballet, on Broadway and television programs such as Camera Three and Sesame Street. Hand began his program with two numbers for the sixteenth century lute and then did two folk songs,one from the eighteenth century and Carole King's "You've Got a Friend." Hand then went into a progression from "Abbey Road" and told the audience, "This progression goes back a ways." He changed tempo and the chords became a progression from Bach. After the Bach piece, Hand did a Beatles medley; Eleanor Rigby, Michelle, Norweigan Wood and Yesterday. Hand did a beautiful piece entitled "'Pavanne for a Dead Princess" by Maurice Ravel, a work that was done originally for piano and then transcribed for the orchestra. The quiet, flowing almost effortless tones drifted through the silent gallery. Many members of the audience stared, enthralled at Hand and the delicated classical guitar notes. There were, of course one or two dozers, but for every dozer, there was someone trying to come in to hear Hand. Hand did some Brazilian pieces and then finished the concert with some of his own work, including an elegy for Dr. Martin Luther King. Hand was given a stan ding ovation. T After Hand's per- R formance, the Golden Spur had David Pengelly. Pengelly played the electric o and acoustic guitar ac companying himself to the O EE 20 or so people who were in O N the Spur. Pengelliy had a pleasant baritone voice that would have b yen more ap-JUTRIE propriate with a Tuxedo in a *SOTSEV KN Las Vegas -saloon than a coffee house.*JESLGHWEG Pengelly did songs that everyone knew already such as ''My Song'' and ''Mr. Bojangles.'' His redit ions of these songs did not SPRLWRS make one forget the fhi EN original artist. NWOL After listening to the ma- ~5 stery of Frederic Hand, I found it very hard to listen U OPEN OASELE. 927 MAINST ARRIVLi The women from Tri-Delt while shining shoes for the Union elections The University Union will hold elections to fill executive positions, March 15 from 5 to 9 pm. in the Russell House Faculty Lounge. Run-offs, if necessary, will take place March 16, at the same time, and place. A list of all eligible voters is posted in the Union office, Room 205, Russell House. All voters are urged to participate. %4 TGROUP4 T TOPS FOR SPRING 4Y RIB TOPS IT JACKETS ANS IY P-NUTS 3CKS_FROM U. S.C. ------ . . . .. . -omPrice Tri-Delt shoeshine" raise money campus. Here a student gives his share for students on services rendered. Sp ring Thitng "r - 00 PAICLS FVEIRY WILK JEANG T D ft S TER%P J AMEOSw GRAMAENGE 252 293