The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 27, 1985, Page Page 10, Image 10
Art Clokey
to visit U!
By Tracy Mixton
Gumby, the little clay figure
who hit television's big time 30
years ago with his trusty
sidekick, Pokey the horse, is
coming to USC.
Well not nilit/? Art rinl-nti
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the man behind that green playdough,
will visit tomorrow
night, in an appearance sponsored
by the Carolina Program
Union.
Clokey will present a lecture
and film in the Russell House at
7:30 p.m. Cost is $2 for students
and $3 for the general public.
THE FILM will show how
Gumby and other clay Clokey
figures came to life and evolved
over the years through
cinematography.
Gumby made his television
debut in 1956 on NBC's "The
Howdy Doody Show," and
then moved to his own halfhour
Saturday morning show.
The program went into syndication
the next year, and by 1965,
Gumby could be seen on more
than 95 stations.
Twenty years later, Gumby is
still going strong. He has
become a semi-cult hero among
college students, thanks in part
to comedian Eddie Murphy's
Struggling ai
By Sharrl Mafcsin
How does a struggling Colum
work its way up the ladder of roc
stardom?
Alan Walker of Tommy Rebel
Rockerfellas says it's hard work,
worth the outcome of getting a cc
recording contract.
The band will be featured
Magazine" on WIS Channel 10 tor
7:30 p.m.
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roll music.
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the old red-brick house where bud
cians are learning from the masters
Their teachers ? some of the cit
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in a two-siory house a block from f
the music is almost free.
For 50 cents, a future Buddy R
Isaac Stern or Count Basie can leai
TO THE UNINITIATED, the so
fusing as Kenneth Wendrich, execu
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eager young drummer.
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impersonation.
But it's more than that; people
remember watching the
animated program as children.
And in each episode, there was
a lesson in good manners for
Clokey's young viewers.
CLOKEY HAD TOTAL
CONTROL over the Gumby
productions, and wrote almost '
90 of the 130 programs.
"NBC gave me complete artistic
freedom to write and produce
the Gumby adventures
without having to test them
before 'committees' and executives,
or special test audiences,"
he says. "(The network)
had faith in the integrity
and appeal of Gumby."
"It was a joy to work under
such idyllic conditions. As a
result, Gumby became a true
creative and artistic
phenomenon."
Ironically, Clokey didn't plan
to continue his stop-action
animation after first experimenting
with cinematography in
1953, when he used clay in place
of swiss cheese in a Budweiser
TV commercial.
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The result is exemplif
on "PM and "Come On," two
rinrrnu; at WIISP Rr?th sre avail:
that went to Number :
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2bel, lead music. "It's what we a
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d is suited to produce Walker performed in a band called Ati
mellow, slow-uance mosphere. After meeting Coward, they form;nergetic
dance themes. ed Tommy Rebel and the Rockerfellas.
ner neavy metal nor After listening to their recordings, a listener
blues. goes away realizing that this group puts
>peal is what Rebel, everything they've got into their music. The tiKyle
Coward thrive on. tie cut on their debut tape, "Lift Off," is a
ied by "Good Times" powerful illustration of their forceful, opsongs
being played on timistic mood: "Ready for a liftoff, ready to
able on a 45 rpm record blast off, I'm ready to go."
J on the WUSC singles On Friday, the band will be performing at
the Civic Auditorium in Batesburg, about
rs much of their own thirty miles west of Columbia on U.S. 1.
ire," Rebel ?ays. "You This up-and-coming band should not be
usic." overlooked. Their music is definitely how
talf years,^Lebel and rock 'n' roll sh^ld sound.
s free music lessons for
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a student on the snare drum. Nashville Symphony. Others te
nee so you can get it in your ear," he University's acclaimed Blair Schc
Dan Tashin. The 10-year-old does, receive hefty fees for sessions wor
: series himself. But here, ir. the house near the
he says proudly. they all play for free.
E of accomplishment is just what THE MAN BEHIND the schot
d in mind when he and a group of grew up in a poor Philadelphia n<
ind civic leaders came up with the idea himself to play the viola and bass;
for a music school for young people greats and symphony orchestras,
e families who couldn't afford private As a child, Smith recalled, he
Basie records and "drive my grar
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Thomas Richar
Choreogra
to educate
By Merris Mann
Thomas Richards got his start in
ballet because of a dare from his
former girlfriend.
Today, Richards is principal
dancer and resident choreographer
with the South Carolina Ballet
Theatre, and one of his ballets will
be the closing performance at this
year's Southeast Regional Ballet
Festival in April in Charleston.
Richards began his career at age
20, and eight years later his big break
came in Atlanta, where he .
met Anita Ashley, SCBT's artistic
director. In 1981, Ashley offeredhim
a position in Columbia, and
he accepted. < <
RICHARDS BECAME a
choreographer at the ripe age of 31
t ?
TTiibn a iiitiiu in i^uuisiuiia pujpuscd
they make a ballet together.
Since then, he has choreographed
seven ballets, and he plans to start
another one is April in Panama City,
Fla.
"I've been very lucky,"
Richards said. "When something
bad has happened to me,
something good also has happened,
and it sort of led me into this
direction."
Richards insists the SCBT is
much different from any other in
the area, and thus there is no real
competition. For instance, while
the Columbia City Ballet does
"The Nutcracker" every
Christmas because of its wide appeal
and popularity, the SCBT
doesn't offer it because they like to
pursue new ideas in the repertoire,
Richards said.
He says the company's uniqueness
earned ot acceptance into
the National Association of
Regional Ballet in 1983, which he
says is highly unusual for such a
young company. Richards says
those who attend the Charleston
festival will probably see more
ballet in that one week than they
^ordinarily would in a whol^ear.
anderpriviiej
nusicians with the Symphony, arrai
:ach at Vanderbilt tion to music.
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k at nearby studios. SINCE RETII
Vanderbilt campus, in 1982 after 30;
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;ighborhood, taught building and off
and played with jazz Its only operatir
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Richards wants to change the
public's attitude and educate them
more on the subject.
The ballet he will be
choreographing in Panama City is
a jungle ballet for 12 female
dancers based on legends of the
Amazon tribes and using music by
Brazilian composer Egberto
Gismonti.
"I was listening to everything I
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jazzy." When Ashley lent him her
Gismonti albums, Richards recalled,
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I needed."
Three of Richards' other ballets
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Theater and March 15 and 16 at
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back together again and "Rain of
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her first debutante ball.
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RICHARDS ALSO participated
in the choreography of "Peter and
the Wolf," the classic Russian
children's story.
"It should be really entertaining,"
Richards said. "It's very ac
cessible. You don t need to know
anything about dancing, aor
anything about music, or anything
about anything because it's
basically a theater piece. It's multifaceted.
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