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Unique Ballet Comes To Koger Center: Ballet Chicago
will amuse, frighten, delight and entertain audiences at the Koger
Center Saturday. The ballet was founded in Chicago in 1987 and
has received outstanding reviews both at home and on tour.
Ballet Chicago has assembled a diverse repertoire of 40 classical
and contemporary ballets. The performance will feature "By
Django," an original work with a jazzy score and a "Great Gatsby"
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Mendelssohn were actually the work of his sister Fanny.
There has been a recent surge of interest in women composers of
the past, said John Adams, a music school professor who will perform
two Clara Schumann piano compositions. The concert will
begin at 7:30 p.m. It will also include brief biographical introductions
and slides on each composer.
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American choreographer George Balanchine. The ballet will also
perform "A Hairy Night on Bald Mountain," a campy spoof of the
movie "Night of the Living Dead."
The performance begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 and4$ll for
adults, $10 for students and $5 for children and are available at the
Coliseum box office. To charge by phone, call 777-7228.
McKissick To Sponsor Southern Film Series: A free
film series on Southern life and culture will be shown at McKissick
Museum starting Feb. 21 and running through April 18. The series
will feature recent popular films as well as established classics.
"Fried Green Tomatoes" kicks off the series on Feb. 21.
Academy-Award winners Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates star with
Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson in
this tale of family, friendship and murder in rural Alabama.
"To Kill A Mockingbird" will be featured March 7. Gregory
Peck stars in the account of a child's reaction to an adult world
when her father defends a black man accused of rape in the
Depression-era South.
"The Color Purple," starring Whoopi Goldberg in the drama
about the struggles of one black family in the rural South, will be
presented March 28.
"A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Daughters of the Dust" will be
showing in April. In "Streetcar," Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh
star in the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a
southern gentlewoman who cannot accept the realities of poverty
and almost destroys herself and her family trying to recapture her
past.
"Daughters of the Dust" explores the changing structure of a
Lowcountry family on the verge of moving to the South Carolina
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USC Music Professors Present Works By Female
Composers: Six music faculty members at USC are joining
forces to present works by Robert Schumann's wife and Felix
Mendelssohn's sister. The concert, 'Two Kindred Spirits," will feature
piano and choral arrangements by Clara Schumann (18191896)
and Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) Feb. 23 in Gambrell
Hall auditorium.
According to Laury Christie, a music school professor and soprano
vocalist who will perform in the program, the two women composed
music that was often mistaken for that of their more famous
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;ampsite.
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rained to tell the water to wait for
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deep thinking, "What a sturdy,
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set up my tent in the lake last
light?" I started strapping into a
lifejacket before I went to bed to
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cedar. We couldn't even roast
marshmallows without screwing
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curse came when we got home.
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around the church where we met
until all the gear was unpacked,
cleaned and put away. We also had
to make sure the bus was clean, a
job usually reserved for the Scout
who pulled the most criminally stupid
stunt of the weekend.
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two-day-old egg debris off the bottom
of a metal cooking kit as
you're waiting for the world's most
stupid Scout to sweep all the accumulated
dust off an ancient bus that
probably grew dust particles as a
hobby. We usually hung around
that church at least three hours
after each trip, excavating cooking
gook off dishes and watching our
Mr. Intelligence Of The Month try
to figure out which end of the
broom removes dust the quickest.
Yep, Boy Scout camping was
horrible. But you know, the weather
has been clearing up...and I've
got a new recipe for some Dutch
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