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About Cai Con Pric Rip< by Chuck Crome MnnHav'? Ahn originally schedul of the Allman Br performed in Coliseum Satu However, an i coliseum ticket persuaded me to mentary instead. As almost ever tickets for the cor at $7, $6 and $5 outrageous price forced me to f( concert, but it ws how these high-p arranged that I s; it." The seating cl totally devoted to think about it! A! maybe more, w Tickets for $6 wei 15 rows below scoreboards. Tic located behind the corner areas wli meet the seats i proximately 2,500 to watch the b; Allman Brothers, to enjoy a concer As I looked o arrangement I fhr other figures be two $7 tickets, number of seats, I totals: 8,000 seats at 3,500 seats at $! 1,000 seats at $6 The Allman Br promoter are $80,000. $80,000 i concert! After d just one gigantic tirkft tr? an ?~ - v~ t->" and I would find entertain ourselv This situation question that all c sooner or later: mission price too < to attend a conc much are we will Most of us set n< As long as one of c performs, we will see them. After a much to ask for > to have a little fi The problem levels. The b; responsible as tl the buying public ridiculous prices more commercia bands demand at 70 per cent of the perform. The promoter figure as long as in a market such cough up $7 a tick Even giving up ' gross receipts alii to clear $10,000 I concert. And wtv a popular band, si Brothers, there losing money. logically then, dustry is just one See I cert H ut Campus was BwUi led to be a review |\T1V others Hand who office last week :<M| write this com- yP 1 ' yone knows, the icert were priced LVkBl This inflated, by itself almost lJ538 arget about the is not until I saw riced seats were M&'Jk aid "the hell with B? jflHj lart was almost $7 tickets. Now iff [most 8,000 seats. , ft* / 'ere $7 each ' " " e available 10 to The fl,m > two Of the 9: fre?*'n kets for $5 were i stage and in the iere the rafters I .Q n heaven. Apfans will pay $5 acksides of the Is that any way Ky l>r. Do ver the seating Dr- Donal >ught about some of Music at fore purchasing workshops ; Estimating the "e 's or'gii arrived at these ,n"sic at N On Jan. 2 Puccini's L 1 a seat - $56,000 Sponsored 5 a seat - $17,500 tat,on exhl1 a seat - $6,000 companies in many as $79,500 Ruth and r others and their getting nearly Boheme i For a three hour which find leciding this was sumption r ripoff, I told the characters to hell. My date young star a better way to makes this es with my $14. Opera is exemplifies the touring op uncen goers iace lessened, when is the ad- area, Willie expensive for one boon in mc :ert? Just how The tram ling to pay? accomplish opera rathe 3 monetary limit. to ?Pen !he lur favorite bands mus,c ? at I pay any price to ?c,ierall>' 11 11, is $14 or $15 too ou and your date w* 1; ^ in? , _ ^ begins on other ^ and itself is as 'i T le promoter and * f for causing such Many of the least $30,(KK) and jf& gross receipts to Iv** Irja will pay that ^Jgl he thinks persons fMk as Columbia will et to see the band. 70 per cent of the mFfBSBf ows the promoter W&Mfflm [o $20,(KM) on one fij?jd|^w en you've booked ich as the Allmar. is little risk of the concert in- HP jA big greedy ripoff. W f/A 'RICKS. Page 7 |^*3P3p 1 . I ?A .' ^H^i^^gaw * Ik TO;:''i?jiBH5? iWlWHPWB^ By lHSflKJ***nf HP UHu L^nS''' B/ [J||aigflBP -m*-'Yankee Doodle Dandy will be sho the Golden Spur as a part of the Cin Rnti P1T1P1 nald Gray Id N. Gray is an assistant professc USC. l)r. Gray teaches voice, con and is artistic director with the Col nally from South Dakota and rec< orthwestern University in Illinois. !2, Columbia was favored with a de! ,a Boheme by the touring Can d ian ( by the Columbia Music Festival / bited artistic standards above those . The overall care in production pre pects, including the decision to use Fhomas Martin English translatior s that rare exception among the cor s his heroine dying of natural Cc ather than of an ugly suicide. Th drawn from Henri Murger's skel ving artists and would-be great tl opera such a delight to any receptiv* the world's most expensive art fori era. There are two avenues wh Scene design ran hppnmp cimnlp C7- ~ w ~ im Lord's contribution to the COC j st respects. jfer from the Bohemians' garrett t< ed with adeptness and also aided >r than Puccini's original four. How subsequent act, one missed the eff< wintry Paris street. The projectioi nane, unnecessary and distracting * %\\ jjz^ BwAMWBttl ^v >tB. ),wm ' ff mm . Bflj 9 y LA AR^H > HUn^W^K>. ^V tlW Ov?M^H^^V ; ^1 v*sf"' '9 Ayr wn tonight at 7:30 and ematic Arts Committee J opera [ r ir with the Donartmont I ducts university opera umbia Lyric Theater. i eived his doctorate of lightful performance of )pera Company (COC). p association, the presen- cl i of most touring opera c; paration was witnessed n the deservedly popular pi i. 01 nposer's veristic works , tuses Decause 01 conis along with the vivid ches of Paris life for Qj linkers is surely what ? listener. n save for one other icre expenses can be and flexible. In this production was a great j-st [) the Cafp Mornii? whq in creating a two-act ^ ever, by using the cafe ect of Puccini's "cold" j is by John Lidolt were 1H1 yKI CU Film Series The Filr performance as the legendary >erform? The Gamecocl Entertai Second, a chorus can be extr< urse. Here the COC simply haracter, Parpignol, turn into a afe scenes. One certainly doe: las revelers around the cafe, b editious attempt to cut on expi However, from an artistic star ily integrity and craft. The twe ell and was led by talented Erro een a comfort to his cast Miipaniments. His control over I 1 i<!i*.\^iiv? mm cAfiu^uiry. union ' Township Auditorium found t tries. Effective stage direction was jartet of artists was especially < :>out wondering were the next n >nse of good fun. The mock swor rial act was riotous. Though "m uffy when Schaunard was " uched furiotislv Snm<> e sprinkling of water to wake ] lawl in her opening aria, but or ghest quality. n. won James (Tagn< song-and-dance mai id we rwamtmmmmmmmmmmmaBmmmmmmmmmm in me i *mely taxing to an eliminated it by very important elei s miss the frenetic >ut no opera lover i enses. 11 Hjpuiiii mere was n nt-three-piece orch< IGay. Gay's concis as he provided the feverishness of N unately the accoust he orchestra a bit by Jan Rubes. H :lever. He helped t leal would come fro d fight with empty v y neighbor at the cc goosed" by Collin* )nai ideas were elir Mimi and the embr 1 the whole, Rubes's See I" I The A in a/in will appear fit Wednesday i Golden Spur presented by House Univ< (' O II t C 111 p O r <! Committee, nominated for Besl New Art is ^ scored a majd the success I singles "'I Romance" ai Grace." Tl recently com pi I scheduled for March release B1 ey an Oscar for his n George M. Cohan. 11 A IV > operatic touring making a minor tnent for all of the quality of ChristA'ill fault this exo cutting; rather ^stra played very e beat must have sympathetic ac lusetta's tease of ical phenomenon overpowering at is work with the hese chaps laugh m with a genuine vine bottles in the >ncert" was quite 2, this reviewer ninated, such as oidery of Mimi's ; work was of the OPERA, Page 12 1 g Rythin Aces e Tuesday and lights in the They are the Russell frsity Union i r y S o ii n d s The Aces, a Grammy as ?t of the Year >r victory with of their two 'hire! Rate ihI "Amazing le band has leted an album February or J