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aYii in Colii By Willie T. Smith III (iamecock Staft writer Solar Records' Galaxy of Stars invaded Carolina Coliseum Sunday night and the result was a rocking four hours for the 5,000 in attendance. Dynasty, Lakeside, Shalamar, and the Whispers along with comedian Von West were included in this spectacular night. THE SHOW opened with Von West. Although his material was on the X-rated side, West kept the crowd laughing for the majority of the thirty minutes he spent on stage. Dynasty opened the musical part of the evening and about the best thing that can be said about Solar Records' newest group is their performance was short lived. The group, which was joined by producer and main writer Leon Sylvers, failed to move the crowd. When they left the stage, the audience seemed relieved. THINGS PICKED up con siderably with Lakeside. The group quickly danced and sang their way into the hearts of the audience. The group began their fifty minute performance with the hit song from their Shot in the Arm album, "See You at the Party." Their act continued to sky rocket as they talked and shook hands with their fans. The group saved their two best songs for last. "You Got to, Pull My String" got the audience on their feet. The finale, "All the Way Live," kept everyone up. The group was such a big hit HH| W\ '* tesEilIpiipR&w, At ' mm* j uMKH I Bk i* Man Ray's 'Untitled Portrait the famed Dada artist's phot Museum of Art through May j y ] f ? | ifift iflftT11 H 11 |Hm I BH JSS 1< of stars si >eum pern with the crowd that they had to come out for a second bow. THE ENERGY LEVEL of the crowd remained high as Shalamar took the stage. The group consists of two males and one female. Jodie Watley and Jeffrey Daniels, the two originals of the goup, were discovered on the Soul Train TV show, where they were dance partners. Don Cornelius, the show's host, said they were naturals for the eroiio "We wanted a vocal dance group," Cornelius said. "Jody and Jeffery were two of the most interesting people on the show. W< thought they would fit the image we wanted to create for Shalamar. It's just lucky they could sing." The two along with Howard Hewett started with a bang and have been going strong ever since. Most of the group's music is written by Leon Sylvers, who also produces the group. It is obvious Sylvers is doing much better with this group than Dynasty, although he does have more to work with. SHALAMAR OPENED with current hit "Right in the Socket." Although this song was well received by the crowd, it was only the beginning. "Take Me to the River," was next on the agenda. This funked up song kept the crowd on their feet. The song was accompainied by some great dance steps by Daniels, which the audience seemed to enjoy better than the song. Hewett slowed the tempo down WyE r? ' part of an important exhibit o fographic work at the Columbii 25. tyrocket >rmance with a song he dedicated to the ladies in the audience entitled "Let Me Make Love to You." This former O'Jay's hit went over big with the female population as screams could be heard all over the coliseum. TV." hit "Tobo Thai ilAC 51 UUp O ill Ol nil i?nv Aimto the Bank," was next. This gol the crowd back on its feet. This was followed by Shalamar's version of "Rappers Delight.' After this song the group said good bye to the audience, but after some prompting by the audience, thej came back to sing their gold recon hit, "Second Time Around." Th< audience sang along with the grouj on this one as this was probably th< highlight of the evening. THE NIGHT was not ove however, as the featured group The Whispers, came onto th scene. They opened their set witl the Glen Campbell hit "I Wann; Make it With You." Although th song was done very well it didn't g over too well as the audienc wanted fast tempo music. The Whispers took time out fror the show to tribute the late Donn Hathaway. After talking about scholarship fund, which was set u by the group in his name, the played Hathaway's biggest hit i honor of him. The song, whic Hathaway entitled "A Ver special unnsimas, was cnange a bit to fit the occasion. The grou changed the title to the very a{ propriate "Your Music is Ver Special to Me." At the end of th Lookii _ ? i UJ ari, The following excerpts have b previous articles that have appec over the last year. ON THE BLUE SKY EXHIBIT, ^ Nights is obviously a disappoinl up to the standards the artist has j of. Although there is no way to de such a back-slide, one wonders il come before art. ON PAINTER JOHN KOCH Koch (prounounced coke) is caliber, one of those individuals out of the woodwork only to soi already strained "progression < ment"...thus, Koch is a fluke, i Blake or a Bosch he is a mastei How strange it must have been York highrise in the 40s and 50s Renaissance to the galleries be sting at the seams with abstracttime when the catch word was was content to simply create. ON HARMONY HAMMOND ANI Aside from this insistence "feminist" is still the best d( became increasingly clearer as dozen women artists were pr included), that the shift was ol politics. This departure seems t( the politics in women's art has s awaken the art world to its o\ chauvinism. In any event, fro mond showed, it is apparent tha r?rt noain fru'rimnimsps I emotion, temperament and uniquely feminine. A new davv breaking. ON NATIONAL SCULPTURE 7 National Sculpture '79 is refle trends and the new sculptural r rare instances do narrative, c gestures emerge; sculpture ha; more tangible, structural ap this...sculpture is perhaps the n of contemporary man. ON Til E CAROLINIAN A WAT1 New York portrait painter Ra; show, and it appears he mii l MMri^jMHKW r BBSH|^BBHHHP ? f v.. -:" ?M4M'' i:trfi^s8*!lfc?S^?ii^& '? ' ? r/?e /eat/ singer of Lakeside is o 0 f/iaf appeared at the Coliseum S song the crowd stood up and gave n the group a standing ovation. y . a BY THIS TIME it was obvious p the people in attendance wanted to y hear only one song from the n Whispers. They got their wish as h the group closed their set with the y current song which is number one d on the soul and disco charts, "And p The Beat Goes On." Everyone got )- on their feet and danced to the v current sensation, which lasted for _ ten minutes. rug back on < artists and 1 , , . , phone...the problc een selec'ed row ^js show ar? ,hi ,red in th,s column jn freshman , inadequacies mal ?'I(iHTS' acceptance was t :ment, certainly not could it be? jroven he is capable ON PAINTER LE icipher what caused Leon Berkowitz : show-biz may now with a bend to war man who produce intensity. an artist of rare ^ ART CKITI who seem to creep My personal fe jr all the more the the (journalistic oi arusuc develop- resoris locrmcai n the tradition of a and more out of * in the wrong era. aspects of the fie for him in his New local art commui to depart his Italian then you must bi low, that were bur- good for an ironi expressionism. In a rather than prom "innovation", Koch our own serious with unsubstantu ) FEMINIST ART ON THE GUILD' ; (that the term The show is ab iscriptive word), it vibrant colors ai the work of nearly a are well craftc esented (Hammond generalities infr bviously away from size...yet here, I ) be a logical one, for terms of botl ;erved its function to ventiveness...ai vn special brand of professional leve im the artists Ham- ON THE SOUTI t women are making he broad range of If contempon sensitivity that is anything, the cs rn in women's art is marketability ai concerns differ v a very fundame <) make pretty pic ctive of both current exhibit has botl sensibilities...only in flaws. lassical or romantic ON DADA ANI)' 5 instead opted for a For the Dada >proach...because of artistic terms, tl lost acute expression sanctity of art. touchable? An fluencing, even r ERCOLOK ANNUAL in essence, wa; y Kinstler jurored the conforming to tr st have done it by - ' >-""y<" j^jjBB^T-^r^'rJyr?y?7:r j ^ ;i:3EP> JEBgm SOi^MH u e SHHHi nK >?HHi^ n/y one of the galaxy of stars unday night. Although the group put on an excellent performance, they seemed a little out of place with the other groups on the bill. They are the type of group which would aDDeal to an older, more sophisticated audience, such as the type which might be found in a Las Vegas ballroom. Even with this minor fault everyone seemed to go home happy about the show, which is probably what success is based on anyway. a year reviews ;m with the majority of the work in gs that should have been worked out tainting classes...all of these rn Ann timnrlnr nrho f t ho r?ritori Ci f\f UUU WWilUVI VVIlUt HIV vl ll>VI IU V? jased on. If it wasn't visual, what ION BEKKOWITZ : is a manipulator of color, an artist ds the sensuous and the seductive, a ?s paintings that literally leap with C, MARTHA BEAVER eling is that Beaver...knows well of ) responsibilities I speak of, and incompetency less out of ignorance, the inability to deal with specific Id she covers...there is a joke in the lity, that if Beaver pans your work, (i Hnind cnmofhinu rioht Althmicrh c laugh, the joke is a sour one...for oting understanding and insight into regional art, she is discrediting it jted sensationalism. S AWAHI) SHOW ove all else, strikingly visual, full of nd provocative forms, all of which id and nicely displayed. Such equently apply to a show of this there is an obvious consistency in 1 sensibilities and visual inlother example of the truly 1 of our own regional art. ilKKN WATKRCOI.OR EXHIBIT *ry watercolor is associated with iliber is more aligned to tradition, id overt sentimentality...thus, their vith the mainstream of serious art in nt.il way, that being, the desire to lures...as watercolor shows go, this i startling surprises and standard rHK SANCTITY OF ART ist, everything was in question...in lis required a staunch negation of the Was art so precious that it was und could such a fixed notion be innanipulating the way art was made? ? art, like everything else, simply adition? See Reviews, page 10