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Doctc By Danny Powell Staff Writer If you need a challenging book to read in the near future, E.L. Doctorow's "Loon Lake" is just what you are looking for. It is a challenging literary work because the author seems to lose his sense of direction cnmmifKAt*A /Imam Vift road. "Loon Lake" consists of two types of writing: prose MpiriHiT" r~" \f ^\\m ," -* *' HBHHHHHBE^? :^c'v':':' -SHIHHb E.L. Do Cedal d By Robert Brazell Staff Writer The South Carolina Chamtw founded in 1978, is clearly on performing groups in this sta concert the orchestra uph reputation by performing for on this continent a work enti Pecas Modis" by Brazilia Osualdo Lacerda. Originally written in 1975 piano, "Quatro Pecas Modis Pieces)" was introduced to the guest conducter Mark Cede worked with Lacerda in Brazi to get permission from the premier the work in North Ai had very little time to prepare fact," said Cedel at the ] "we're working with photoc original manuscript." "Quatro Pecas Modis" is four movements, each based < mode. The first movement is mode, the second is based on scale, the third on a Lydian r fourth on a Mixolydian mode, the composer these are mode Brazilian musical lore. It is i work which finds great beaut plicity of rhythm and it's lush < work worthy of serious listener In the category of original "Quatro Pecas Modis" falls i too heavily influenced by I American composer Aaron Co not surprising since Lacerda Copland, and the work's lack does not make it any less plef >row's and verse. In the process of mixing the prose and verse together, Doctorow not only loses the reader, but also the impact of what began as a brilliant idea. Doctorow cannot be satisfied b^ merely mixing tin thp nnvpl's wnrHinfl cn ho also destroys the time element of the novel, keeping the reader in constant confusion. The novel shifts forward and backward B9E89K8SSSB99B39BEfiBM?9lflEB?Sfi99iH?'' 71 rJKiBfr. -S ctorow ebuts'( 10, especially way it was pei er Orchestra, Also perfc e of the best Primavera", te. At its last "The Season: eld its fine piece in the p the first time Master Sarah tied "Quatro of three mov< n composer fine example it is not strict for flute and in ? (Four Modal an in o^uc. ; orchestra by Ji1181?* I. Cedel had beautifully b; 1 and decided played as a st composer to the vmxtins, an merica. They "i the violins. the piece. In There were performance, in the ^ opies of the were all tog< intonation w; composed of w^? has no* ^ )n a different maKe it a pon in the Dorian y?" will 1 a Pentatonic warm, almos node and the orchestra sou According to a recording, s common in i sentimental While "La y in it's sim- performed chords. It is a "Kammermi s. best written. x . wind players lty, however, H 3 short for it is The next S. the sound of the entire or >pland. This is They will p studied with original con of originality Gordon Gooc jsant to listen A.R.p. churc M rr*^. + i r i ruirit?r...i nave revei love you have for me n Tuesd "I have told uou this j 15:11) Willie Flores is ti guest speaker. Willie f sehcx>l at the Universit have an efieet on all ou hmhhmhhbi /Loor in time to keep the reader always off-balance. Like going down an old country road, the riding is smooth until a pot hole is discovered, taiklAW wiiiv.ii ucuvcia a juh. The novel's setting is the Adirondack Mountains in the Great Depression. The leading character, if he can be called that, is a hobo from Paterson, N.J., who discovers the private railroad tracks leading to the Loon Lake estate owned by one of the elite wealthy members of upper society. There are characters represented in the novel from every angle of American society. There is the drunken poet who is getting a free ride in life, a beautiful, somewhat dumb uionue, a quiei waimower, a stereotypical gangster, a world reknowned flyer and the master of Loon Lake, the symbol of absolute power. Plus, there are many other characters inserted to let the novel capture the full essence of real life. If one dissected the novel, putting all of the prose duatro7 / considering the admirable rformed by the orchestra. irmed admirably was "La a movement from Vivaldi's C '' TKio uroc Via I J. iino ?iuo U1C ucai-J/ldJfCU rogram and featured Concerti Johnson on violin. Consisting ements, "La Primavera" is a of Baroque concerto. Although ly program music, the work is :ription of a sonnet written as an to the work itself. There is Ling birds singing (handled y Johnson), a storm which is ;ries of rapid scale passages in id a "rustic dance" also played s virtually no major problems mance of this work. Attacks ether, balance was good and as remarkably good. Anyone leard a string orchestra should it to hear this one. They are the 1 n n : : -- icai luvaiiy anu uici c is d IUCC, it palpable quality to a string md that cannot be captured on i Prima vera" was the best piece, Paul Hindemith's isik No. 3" was probably the| For this work the orchestras joined a small group of strings. C. chamber concert will not be chestra but a brass ensemble, lay, among other works, an (iposition by USC professor Iwin on March 14 at Centenial h. i In a world of uncertaini let us look to... THES dates: March 9th and 10 time: 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 n.i Jrew up In New York City and R y of Florida. Willie Is a powerful j r lives - Please come and join us. EVERYON1 i Lake together in proper form and all of the verse together in logical form, Doctorow would have as big a winner as he did with "Ragtime" his first best-selling novel. Instead there is a collage of writings that seemed to have been thrown together with no sense of reason. At times the writings seem to flow along like a smooth river, with all of the real tA JLi\ WKfeuto /<" St. Andrews Sec 19CX) Broad Rive (next to Wes 798"Fast professi | Term papers, thes< I manuscripts, cop Finally Sport recogrii News itei Sports III ! names zai Player of I "we knew ar ' place: Rutledge Chapel (on the horseshoe) speaker: Willie Flores [onday - The H iled you to them, and will contt lay be theirs and that I myself rr ay - The Hope so that my Joy may be In you ar ramnns mlnl??tpr fnr th?> Bumper sticker j And The < zam Fred guard The Jewelry "More than just ano Open Mon2909 Piatt! JESUS: OURCE o: spons* th campus [ope of Real L nue to make you known In ore lay be In them." (John 17:26) of Lasting Jc id that your Joy may he compl lont Church of Christ in Puebli rtiami. He became a Christian i *nd dynamic speaker - the thin$ S IS INVITED ?' conf turmoil hidden beneath the water. Then Doctorow, by chance or purpose, throws in some verse, like rapids on the river, and when the reader returns to the prose, he is on another river, another subject and time space altogether. Tl?n I" tnc jji ta vci y gwu. The verse, somewhat confusing and ambiguous at times, is also very good. & XJL-rf ta&MtffelIfcfe'-"'' retarial Services 1 ;r Road Suite 108 | item Sizzlin) j| 3277 6 orial services" *s, business letters, fj lies, notary public J :s Illustrated izes him m: March 9 lustrated m Fredrick the week M. - mm _ it an year" Dedicated to zam Samecocks Irlck, the ? 1 Just 20C In the U.S.A. warehouse ther Jewelry store" -Sat 9 til 6 Springs Rd. :zzn r nufK ored by: advance ove ier that the >y ete." (John o. Colorado. 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