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THE GAMECOCK ♦ Friday, October 25,2002 ' 5 CONTACT US - s.gmund freudA SAmn _ SIGMUND FREUD: Analogies, it is Story ideas? Questions? Comments? true, decide nothing, but they can E-mail us at gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com ~~ make one feel more at home.” Singing the praises Gospel concert Friday night will benefit new center for black music BY RACHEL BEATTY THE GAMECOCK The USC School of Music will present a gospel concert Friday night to benefit its new Center for Southern African-American music. The concert will be hosted by artist Jonathan Green and will feature performers Marlena Smalls and the Hallelujah Singers, Kenny Carr and the Tigers Shout Band and the B.J. Scott Choir of Huspah Baptist Church. Many of the performers are steeped in the musical tradi tions in the Deep South, mainly from areas along the coast. “Jonathan Green is a natural as a host,” said Leslie Wrenn, direc tor of development for the USC School of Music. “His art sings the praises of Gullah heritage, and his work has been shown all over the world." . Green has written a book called “Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green” and has 11 mu seum collections, one of which is in USC’s McKissick Museum. A limited number of posters of his painting, “The Congregation,” will be on sale at the concert. The pro ceeds will go to the Center for Southern African-American Music. Marlena Smalls and the Hallelujah Singers have been to gether since 1990. They combine the sound of gospel music with PHOTOS SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Kenny Carr and the Tigers Shout Band, formed 50 years ago, will perform at the Koger Center. “His art sings the praises of Gullah heritage, and his work has been shown all over the world.” LESLIE WRENN DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT FOR THE USC SCHOOL OF MUSIC West African tradition. Their performances are also informa tional: The group takes time out from singing to share Gullah his tory and stories with the audi ence. Marlena Smalls and the Hallelujah Singers have per formed all over the country and have released three CDs. Smalls is the leader of the group and might also be a familiar face because of her appearances in movies such as “Forrest Gump.” Kenny Carr and the Tigers j is a well-known m shout band. Shout bands are na tive to the ^ South and feature a predomi nantly brass sound. The i term shout refers to the I singing and ' worship style of some black congrega This particular band I formed nearly 50 years ago and has performed with acts such as Gladys Knight, Ramsey Lewis and Jonathan Butler. “Shout bands are a different way of delivering the gospel mes sage,” said Wrenn. “All the mem bers of Kenny Carr and the Tigers happen to be ministers and have played all over the world.” The B. J. Scott Choir of Huspah Baptist Church is a 40-member group that is known for its gospel ^ and praise music. It has traveled throughout the state and tbrings a tra ditional gospel ^ sound to ■ its con W certs, r The choir is also from Beaufort, which is also the hometown Jonathan Green. The concert will be primarily to introduce the Center for Southern African-American Music and raise money for it. Wrenn said the goals of the con cert “are to celebrate the rich African-American history we have in the state and the South and to build recognition for the center.” She said the Center for African American Music is the only facili ty of its kind. “We want to continue to build our archives and begin a guest artist and lecturer series,” she said. The Center for African American Music’s archive is housed in the music building li brary. It serves as a collection of archives featuring black musical styles, such as gospel, jazz, blues, rag time and protest songs, in South Carolina history and how they have evolved to this day. The School of Music is also cur rently digitizing the archives to make them accessible via the Internet. The concert will be held Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Roger Center. Tickets cost $8 for bal cony seating, $15 for grand tier, and $25 for orchestra. They are available at the Carolina Coliseum Box Office, which can be reached at 251-2222. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockm ixeditor@hotmail. com -THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG REBORN” - Wednesday, Oct. 30 Create a video for this special USC episode. The producers will select the funniest, most creative videos that best show off the Gamecock spirit arifi mention "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilboni" — which might be used as a commercial bumper on the show. Make it tunny, make it short —10 second *•»*»*• Use any tape Submit the tape and your name, address, e-mail ad dress and phone number to The Late Late Show, 7800 Beverly Blvd. Suite 244, * Los Angeles, Calif. 90036, Attn: Lindsey Eltyell by Tuesday, Oct. 29. All sub Dance show to fuse different styles BY ASHLEY VAUGHAN THE GAMECOCK The Columbia Contemporary Performance Group will present “Works in Progress” on Saturday and Sunday at the Columbia Musical Festival Association at 914 Pulaski St. CCPG is a local dance company founded by Kris Cangelosi. The show will include eight distinctive pieces, each one dif fering in style. “Twisted Face” is an interpretive piece in which a puppet master manipulates her puppets,'represented by the dancers. “ ‘As We Belong Together’ demonstrates the beauty of strength with the body and the re lationship of music and move ment,” Cangelosi said. “La Porte du Fondu,” which means “the back door,” is a jazz number that Cangelosi described as “rooted in the African tribal dance.” Cangelosi clarified the perfor mance’s title: “It’s called ‘Works in Progress’ because the pieces are short little excerpts of bigger ones that we have yet to fully develop.” “The choreography is contem porary. I create it for my dancers at that particular moment. We use classical ballet and the Horton technique, which is a modern dance technique. I fuse those two together and I come up with my own signature movement,” she said about her choreography. Terence Henderson, one of the principle dancers in the company and Cangelosi’s assistant, also choreographed and directed the number “Take It or Leave It,” which contains a version of De La Soul’s “However Do You Want It.” Henderson “fuses the strength and softness of the female person, and he creates a free environment in which one is able to say what she means and mean what she says.... It’s a real neat funk jazz piece,” Cangelosi said. Henderson is also performing solo in “Just One,” a number spe cially choreographed for him by Cangelosi. Mandy Sizemore, a member of CCPG and a USC graduate student, talked about collaborating with and being directed by Henderson. “To be a part of his piece, to be able to do his choreography, to learn from him, and to see how his mind works is kind of exciting,” she said. Cangelosi taught at USC last year, and the dancers in her com pany are mostly her former stu dents. “f have known these dancers for the past three years,” she said. “I was part-time for jazz and mod ern dance at USC. The dancers I got to work with at USC helped me form the Columbia Contemporary Performance Group.” Cangelosi is an experienced choreographer who has directed her modern dances in Europe, New York City and Chicago. “I had a professional company in Atlanta for over seven years be fore I was invited to teach at USC for one year,” Cangelosi said. Once she had finished her stint at USC, Cangelosi decided to re main in Columbia and form a com pany. The dancers she met at USC were one of the reasons she decid ed to stay. “The dancers are very loyal and dedicated,” she said. Her students have positive things to say about her as well. “I’ve improved so much be cause of her technique. ...she’s very professional,” Sizemore said. On Saturday, the performance begins at 7:30 p.m., and there will be a reception afterwards with re freshments. The Sunday show starts at 3 p.m., and will have an introduction called “Meet the Dancers” in which the audience can get to know the individual members of the company. Admission is $10 for adults and $8 for children. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@notmail.com Terence Henderson, center, is an assistant director and principle dancer for the Columbia Contemporary Performance Group, which will perform this weekend. PHOTOS SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Carolina’s Family Feud. PHOTO BY OANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK Brittain Torrence, left, a third-year Spanish student, representing the Chi Omega sorority, and Natalie Armstrong, a public health graduate student, representing the Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, raced to answer a question in Wednesday’s Family Feud, put on as part of Creed Week. ‘Lucretia’ to begin USC’s opera season Tale of seduction, rape evolved from epic Shakespeare poem BY MEG MOORE THE GAMECOCK Opera at USC will open its 2002-03 season with a production Saturday of “The Rape of Lucretia.” First published in 1946, Benjamin Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” chronicles the young man Tarquinius’ infatu ation, attempted seduction and eventual rape of the virtuous Lucretia. USC music professor Donald Gray, who is di- • recting “The Rape of Lucretia,” said the play is based upon Shakespeare’s epic, narrative poem ‘The Rape of Lucrece,’ which then be came a play by the French playwright Andre Obey. “The drama ex plores the mer , its of virtue and its demise by weaker peo ple, but notes forgiveness, which is avail able from people of merit. Jennifer Luiken, who will play the role of Lucretia during Sunday’s matinee, said she had to be technically prepared to perform in the opera, but she also had to gain a deeper un derstanding of the characters and setting. “I also spent time thinking about the character of Lucretia,” she said, “asking my self questions like how she would relate to the other char acters in the production... and trying to personalize her into someone I could relate to and portray both dramatically and musically.” Luiken and the rest of the cast, which includes Kyle Collins as Tarquinius and Jami Rhodes as Lucretia in Saturday’s performance, were assigned their roles last spring. They have been rehearsing since the beginning of the semester. While a full orchestra will support this weekend, Opera at USC, for the most part, re hearsed'with only piano accom paniment. “For the majority of the re hearsal process, which includes the initial staging and musical rehearsals, we do not have the luxury of the full orchestra,” Luiken said. “We have had the benefit of a wonderful rehearsal accompanist, Marion Sprott, and our conductor and music ________ director Neil Casey has been most gen erous in offer ing his time for a large ma jority of these rehearsals.” As well as staging two major produc tions at USC each year, Opera at USC makes an ef fort to intro duce younger students to the world of opera. Luiken said the group has “typically staged an opera early in the sec ond semester, which is used for outreach in the schools.” Many of the singers are also involved in various other com munity activities and perfor mances. Luiken, who main tains a teaching position at Charleston Southern University, said that, though performing is a rewarding ex perience, the group members’ lives can be very busy. “I spend a great deal of time on 1-26,” she said. “Thank heav en for CD players and cruise control!” Performances of “The Rape of Lucretia” will be Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for stu dents. They can be purchased at the Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling 803-251-2222 Commentson this story? E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Jaml Rhodes will perform as Lucretia In Saturday’s show. High st.eppin' PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK From left to right, Jeremy Coe, Steve Stewart and Jonathan Coe perform In Thursday night’s Alpha Phi Alpha Creed Week program “Steppin’ With South Campus.”