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. 4 This Day In USC History November 3, 1976 - The Classical Cinema Series was moved from the Jefferson Square to the Gamecock Theatre. PAG610 13lC (Samecocl? Wednesday, November 3,1999 S ___________ ... ... ___ _ .. . . . .... ______ By V w l civ Bu xt StMlOX WX1TEX A klezmer ensemble called Viva Klezmer! will entertain an au dience, with lively instrumental Yiddish dance music at 3:00 on Sun. at Drayton Hall The Yiddish language and its culture originated in Western Eu ropean Jewish communities during the Middle Ages and then spread into Eastern Europe, where Klezmer music originated The word “klezmer” comes from two Hebrew words - kley and zemer meaning “instrument of song.” The name first referred to the instuments played, but then came to mean the people who were playing them. : Klezmer music is also called “Jewish Jazz,” which is derived from some of the early tunes that became popular in America. USC School of Music professor Robert Graham said another name for it is “Jewish soul music.” He said it has relations to jazz and even a swing number Benny Goodman did, “And the Angels Sing.” He said that there’s a lot of improvisation and freedom in klezmer music. The music developed in the communities and shtetls, or vil lages of Poland, Romania, Russia and the: Ukraine. It developed from different types of folk music that character ized the music of each area. Klezmer music found its way into the United States as about 3 million Jews of Eastern Europe immigrated into the United States during the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century. It was popular when it arrived in the United States, but its pop ularity declined mid-century because of the effects of World War I and the Holocaust on Jews. However, there was the revival of klezmer music in the 70s, and the resurgence was inspired by the same self-expression movement of the 60s that revived bluegrass, old-time swing, folk and soul mu sic. Other ethnic music that became popular in America include Celtic, African and Indian music. Viva Klezmer! formed in 1984 by Eugene Kavadlo, was one ensemble to come out of the klezmer revival. All the members have roles in the Charlotte Symphony. How ever, the group decided it wanted another outlet. They perform in the Southeast. Two of the ensemble’s four performers are Jewish. Eugene Kavad lo plays the clarinet. Ali Kavadlo, his wife, plays the violin. The gui tarist is Mike Mosley, and at bass is Leo Bjorlie. The clarinet is the featured instrument, but the violin sometimes shares the spotlight, according to Kavadlo. Traditionally, violins were the principal instrument of klezmer, but during the 19th century, the clarinet became the essential in strument. The guitar and bass give the ensemble the support and background they need to “round out the music,” Kavadlo said. He said the group brings with it an expertise and joy of klezmer. “We bring our musicianship to it,” Kavadlo said. “We have all been trained to play at a high level. We bring our enthusiasm. We enjoy to play. We have a desire to share our music with them.” Also an advantage of having the ensemble is that it gives the mu sicians a greater latitude. “We don’t have to follow a conductor,” he said. “Each musician is free to express him or herself in a way that is appropiate to the music.” He said it is a “very fun, informal atmosphere” at the concert. “We encourage the audience to dance, while we play,” Kavadlo said. Viva Klezmer! fuses traditional and contempary klezmer mu sic. Traditional klezmer is klezmer before it came to America. Contemporary klezmer music was written within the revival, Kavadlo said. The ensemble also plays music not thought to be klezmer music, such as that of jazz musician George Gershwin, but they play it in klezmer music style. “You can take any piece of music and stylize it to make it sound like klezmer music,” he said. Viva Klezmer! has played at such cultural events in the South east as the Spoleto Festival in Charleston and has had rave reviews there, Kavadlo said. He also said the music is for everyone, not just the Jewish au dience. Also, the ensemble has been successful at other campuses such as the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, he said. Rabbi Sanford Marcus, of the Tree of Life synogague said klezmer is very animated and is often palyed at weddings and other celebra tions. Bernard Friedman, the adviser of Hillel at USC, said there is music in theater that is reminiscent of klezmer. “The music in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is a klezmer-type music, with the same refrains going thought that as other klezmer music, with variations,” he said. The concert is sponsored by Hillel at USC, Josiah Morse Lodge of B’nai B’rith, Aleph ZadikAleph Chapter #254, B’nai B’rith Girls #277 and Alpha Epsilon Pi at USC. Friedman said the free concert is a gift to the community. Special to The Gamecock From left to right Eugene, Leo, and AIL Siting Mike. They are members of Viva Klezmer. The TttafL of Teems by Ann Marie Miani Assistant EtCetera Editor One of the saddest events in American history occurred in 1838, when hundreds of men, women and children were forced to leave their homeland of western Georgia for the barren plains of Oklahoma. “The Trail of Tears”, the removal of the Chero kees from Georgia revealed the dislike of the Na tive American people by the United States gov ernement. The Cherokees were forced to walk thousands of miles with the barest of necessities. Thousands of Native Americans died from the hor rible conditions they were forced to endure. Tire government wanted to remove the Native Americans from Georgia because gold had been discovered in 1828 in the northwestern part of the state. However, the government had been trying to move the Indians off their land since Europeans arrived to the America. When gold was discovered, the population of Georgia increased greatly. The population increase made the “Indian Problem” worse. White settlers pushed the Indians farther into the frontier and by 1827 the Creek tribe was gone. The Indian Removal Act was Congress’ solu tion to the “Indian Problem.” It passed in 1830 and was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. Jackson was notorious for his anti-Indian senti ments. Many Americans, namely Tennessee Con gressman Davy Crockett, protested the Indian Re moval Act. The Cherokees themselves tried to fight re moval laws in the Surpreme Court. They formed the independent Cherokee Na tion to help in their cause. Chief Justice John Mar shall ruled the nation soverign and the Indian re moval laws unconsitiutional. Jackson, who wanted the Native Americans gone, got the legal doucument he needed in 1835. The Treaty of New Echota was signed by Ma jor Ridge, an Indian Removal advocate and leader of a minorty of Cherokee’s, and members of a treaty party. The treaty was ratified by the Senate by a single vote. The Trail of Tears took place shortly after the treaty was ratified. Chief John Ross resisted valiantly, but the re moval couldn’t be stopped. To honor those Native Americans who died on the way to Oklahoma, there is a Trail of Tears State Park in Jackson, Missouri. Editor’s Note: The month of November is Native American Heritage Month. ....^...... .a Special to The Gamecock “Trail of Tears” a painting by Robert Undneux, depicting the trail that the Cherokee walked from Georgia to present-day Oklahoma Campus Notes Alternative Spring Break meeting to be held An information meeting for the Alter native Spring Break program will be held at 6 p.m. today and at 7 p.m. Thursday in RH 203. Community Service based trips to New York and Florida will be dis cussed. For more information, go to www.sa.sc.edu/abc. Circle K has meeting USC’s chapter of Circle K Internation al, a collegiate service organization af filiated with Kiwanis, will meet at 7:30 p.m. tonight in RH 305. At the meet ing, members will talk about various ser vice projects in which they’ll participate during their annual Service Awareness Week. For more information, call Re becca at 796-2642 or go to www.cir clek.oig/club/USC. ICE to hold dance lessons The Indian Cultural Exchange is spon soring dance lessons 8 p.m. on Thursday in RH 322-326. Come leant about "Gar ba," a traditional way of dancing. For more information, call Bhavin Patel at 544-0431. CPR course to be offered Health and Wellness programs will offer an American Red Cross Adult CPR course from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday in Blatt 110. The class costs is $20. To register, call 777 6518. NAACP to hold first annual food drive The USC Chapter of the NAACP is to hold its first Harvest Fest Can Food Dri ve. All organizations have been invited to participate to make a positive impact in the lives of those who are less fortu nate. Bring canned foods and other non perishable items to the RH Ballroom start ing at 6 p.m. Nov. 10. Food and enter tainment will be provided. For more information, call OMSA 777-4330. Drop-In Center extends deadline for peer health educators The Open Door Drop-In Center has ex tended its deadline for applications until Nov. 12. Students will staff the Drop-In Center and help other students with nu trition, fitness, stress, blood pressure and body fat percentages. Stop by Health and Wellness Programs for an application. For more information, call the Health Center at 777-8248. AAAS to sponsor Spring Break Cruise The Association of African-American Students is sponsoring a 5-day Spring Break Bahamas Cruise from March 6 to 10. For more information, call LaTonya at 544-2254. Deadline for securing a spot is Nov. 16. Briefs for Campus Notes can be submit ted to RH 333. Please include a contact name and phone number. Celebrity pets get royal treatment by John Rodgers Associated press BRANSON, Mo. —The sign outside the Bran son Pet Resort, showing a dapper dog and cat in sunglasses, is the first hint that this is no ordinary kennel. Inside there’s another clue: a wall of auto graphed celebrity photos. Branson’s thriving mu sic and theater scene draws top national per formers, and with them come some top dogs and cats — the pets of the rich and famous. “Those are Tony Orlando’s dogs,” resort own er Caroline Roden said, pointing out a big friend ly Labrador with the nameplate “Leo Orlando” on Ills shelter. Next door were two hyper Maltese dogs: Babe and Belle Orlando. Andy Williams’ dog, Molly, wagged her tail across the way. Country star Mickey Gilley and romance novelist Janet Dailey have their dogs groomed here. Musician I.J. Ganem drops off his cats, named Taffy, China and Prissy. “And I always know what Wayne Newton is doing, because his trumpet player brings his dog here when he’s going out of town,” Roden said. A perky little Yorkshire terrier bounced by, wearing a red bandanna and acting like he owned the place. “That’s Oliver," Roden said. He belongs to Shoji Tabuchi, a popular Branson fiddler. Whenever Tabuchi is busy or out of town, this secluded spot in the foothills r„prtheast of town is where Oliver beds down. It’s his home away from home, complete with a yard to play in, people to loss him a ball, and room service, which includes his food of choice and up to three cookie breaks a day. ‘‘I kind of like the idea that the people can have a resort and the pets can, too,” said Roden, a friendly, enthusiastic woman whose voice bears traces of her native Scotland. When she started the business three years ago, she intended it as a hotel for pets of visitors who weren’t allowed to have pets at their own hotels. That still represents much of her business. But in a town where hundreds of entertain ers work odd hours, word quickly spread locally about this high-class hotel for pets. The result: A stroll down the Branson Pet Resort’s dog run is more like a trip down Celebrity Lane. “The first time we ever went in there, we no ticed Andy’s dog was there, and the Osmonds’ and Bobby Vinton’s,” said Tony Orlando after re turning to pick up Leo, Babe and Belle. “It was like Beverly Hills Pet Shop. It was fun to see. * “We have a 7-year-old, Jenny Rose, and you know what dogs can mean to a child,” Orlando said. “Those two Maltese, especially Belle, are very much Jenny Rose’s. And she never thinks twice about leaving them there because she knows the place.” Keeping dogs at the Branson Pet Resort, added Orlando’s wife, Francine, is more like sending them i to camp than to a kennel. Roden said running the resort is a labor of love. She had boarded animals for years in Maryland un til retiring in 1991. “Retirement didn’t take,” she said. But during the few years she tried it, she and her husband, Alex Nicol, visited Branson often to catch shows at the town’s dozens of theaters. It always struck her as odd that there weren’t more facilities for pets in a tourist town catering to emp ty nesters and families.When she heard of a ken nel for sale, she bought it. The pets of the famous and the anonymous alike now romp in a fenced, grassy play area. They relax in a large inside area, eat special meals and get bathed and groomed — with hypoallergenic shampoo if they have especially sensitive skin. Pets that stay often, like those of Orlando and Tabuchi, are given the run of the place. They wan der leisurely in and out of the grooming rooms and Roden’s office. 'I kind of like the idea that the people can have a resort and the pets can too.' Caroline Roden Branson Pet Resort owner Appeal planned after ruling restores funding to New York City museum by Tom Hayes Associated Press NEW YORK Mayor Rudolph Giuliani criticized a federal judge as “totally out of con trol" after she restored dty funding to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which had its stipend pulled after Giuliani took offense to a controversial exhibit, Gly officials said they would appeal Monday's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Nina Ger shon, who sided with the museum in the free speech battle that began over the current “Sensa tion” exhibit. The show includes a Virgin Mary painting encrusted with dung—among works Giuliani has called “sick.” In issuing a preliminary injunction, Gershon said the city’s action against die museum was “directly related, not just to the content of the exhibit, but to the particular viewpoints ex pressed.” .... a. . • « £ r+ ± Hi *♦ x trcuc v*ui uo girowj aimwug tw nureiJUHKm yjummu»» xuu. Giuliani, meanwhile, accused Gershon of “abandoning all reason under the guise of the First Amendment,”As the city appeals, museum attorney Floyd Abrams said the museum will try to end the dispute by obtaining a permanent injunction protecting funding. The city’s funds con stitute a third of the museum’s annual budget “Sensation” also includes mannequins with genitals as facial features, a glass tank featuring a Me cow’s head and farm animals bisected and displayed in formaldehyde. Since opening in October, it has drawn record crowdsAftet the museum refused to cancel the show, the city withheld the roughly $500,000 October payment of its annual $7.2 million subsidy. It also sued to evict the museum from the city-owned site it has leased for more than 100 years,The museum sued, claming its first Amendment rights had been violated. Gty attorneys argued the museum broke its lease, which requires it to educate schoolchildren and the public, Giuliani said “Sensation” was not fit for children to see, creating grounds for eviction. Gershon decisively rejected that reasoning. “There is no federal constitutional issue more grave than the effort by government offi cials to censor works of expression and to threaten the vitality of a major cultural institution, as punishment for failing to abide by government demand for orthodoxy,” she said.