The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1980 Page: 4 of 14
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Music to remember
Susan Hampton, freshman music major, performs
in a piano recital commemorating the birthday of
Johann Sebastian Bach. Students sang and
Garcia was his usual rabid self.
“You can talk to the newspaper about
By Patrick Kelly
Ranger News Editor
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played Bach’s music, performing on piano and
organ in the Fifteenth Annual Commemorative
Program sponsored by the music department.
return to play the Coffeehouse, they will
probably call themselves, Death to
Life is a joke — let’s rock, was the
theme of Monday’s Coffeehouse perfor-
mance by the trying-hard-to-be-
infamous Newspapers Suck Band.
The group cut short its performance
when a newspaper photographer attemp-
ted to take photographs.
Billed as the Newspapers Stink Band,
the four local musicians swore vehement-
ly that they were really called the
Newspapers Suck Band.
So Suck Band it is.
One would be hard pressed to locate a
more belligerent and prententious pack
of talented musicians.
Three of the four, Jeff Pringle, drums;
Steve Rogers, bass; and God help us all,
Danny Garcia, guitar/vocals, played the
Coffeehouse in November. They were
members of a strong rock band tentative-
ly named Wynd that included Vic Ram,
on rhythm guitar, and Denise Duplechin
as lead vocalist.
Java house regulars may remember
that this group raised a naughty stink
about being photographed and the
members, particularly Garcia, were very
distressed and frustrated with the
wayward plight of the mortal human
race, its mindless use of technology, and
the press — three fairly deserving targets
for contempt.
Duplechin is long gone from the
emphasized each new theme when it first group, Ram was acting as soundman and
appeared in the composition.
Hampton overcame a memory lapse
with the utmost of professionalism,
maturity, poise and musicianship to con-
tinue an outstanding rendition of the
piece. Unfortunately, few musicians
possess Hampton’s perseverance and
determination which enabled her to ex-
hibit her musical talent for the benefit of
an appreciative audience.
Richardson, second-semester organ
student of Richard Parrigan, professor of
music, gave a breathtaking performance
of “Christ Lag in Todesbanden” (Christ
lay by death enshrouded) and “Prelude
in E Minor.”
The big, majestic sound of the organ
filled the auditorium as Richardson
displayed outstanding musicianship,
coordination and technique.
The visual effects of Richardson’s per-
formance were quite exciting as the au-
dience was allowed full view of the organ
manuals (keyboards), stops and pedal
boards (keyboard for the feet).
We have new and used*
recent and rare
Nickell on piano and positive organ, a
medieval, self-contained, portable organ.
Karen Toland provided flute accompani-
ment.
Gregory has organized the Bach con-
certs for 15 years and was instrumental
in establishing them as annual concerts.
Fralix, a first-year music major,
played “Bouree from Lute Suite in E
Minor.” The simplicity of the piece —
slow, steady beat, lack of frills and or-
namentation and simple chordal struc-
ture, makes it a charming, but difficult
piece to perform.
Unlike the works of later composers
which incorporate complex rhythmic
patterns and dissonant chords, per-
formers cannot hide their mistakes in the
simple, open style of Bach’s music.
A poised and confident Fralix
rendered a performance of the Bouree
even Bach would have enjoyed.
Hampton played Bach’s “Invention in
A Minor” from a book of two-part inven-
tions which the prominent baroque com-
poser wrote as learning pieces for his son,
Friedmann.
The inventions have two melodic lines
which sound simultaneously. Sometimes
the left hand musically echoes the right
hand while the left hand plays a new
theme or melody. Hampton carefully
Gene Vincent’s “Be-Bop-A-Lula.”
Vincent was one of rock’s major in-
novators in the ’50s. He released
“Be-Bop-A-Lula” in 1956 when the
prepubescent Beatles were still roaming
the streets of London wondering what it
was all about.
us stopping,” Garcia rasped so cooly, so
defiantly as he put his guitar down bring-
ing an end to the brief but well-executed
show.
Why? Because that vile enemy of the
common man, that distorter of the
altruistic word had reared its ugly head.
Yes, the school newspaper, baited by
the band’s imaginative name, had the
audacity to infiltrate the inner sanctums
of the Coffeehouse to photograph, review
and ultimately pass judgment on the per-
formance.
There is no justice in this world.
Here is that final judgment. Like the
band’s performance it shall be brief and
somewhat to the point so that the group,
especially Garcia, can plan their future
according to the outcome of this biased,
distorted and totally uncool review.
Their first number, appropriately titl-
ed, “Newspapers Suck,” had Garcia
trading Jeff Beck-like guitar riffs with
the newest member of the group, a cer-
tain young guitarist, who refused to give
his name (he’s frustrated with mortals
too). He shall be known as Baby Face
Gibson in this review. The song sounded
great, and the chorus was highly thought
provoking, and very imaginative:
“Newspapers suck, news editors suck,
All the newspapers in the world suck,
yeah.”
The Beatles’ “Day Tripper,” was next
followed by the Allman Brothers’
Recital shows professionalism
By Elizabeth Ruiz
Ranger News Editor
No powdered wigs, brocade
waistcoats, silk stockings, below-the-
knee breeches or three-cornered hats. No
front-laced corsets framed with
whalebone rods or hoop skirts that took
up the space of four people.
On the contrary, the performers’ attire
was very 20th century, but the music
which filled the auditorium of McAllister
Fine Arts Center the evening of March
13 was distinctly baroque — definitely
Bach.
Three students, a professor and the
wife of a professor here joined local musi-
cians in the Fifteenth Annual Com-
memorative Program of the Music of
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
sponsored by the music department.
Student participants were Wylene
Fralix and Susan Hampton, piano, and
Mary Jane Richardson, organ.
Phyllis Kline, wife of Peter Kline, pro-
fessor of music, played “Suite No. 1 in G
Major” on the cello. Cathy Owen, a
former student here who is studying
organ with music Professor George
Gregory, played “Allegro from Concerto
No. 1 in G Major.”
Gregory accompanied guest vocalists
Mary Jones, Anita Sanchez and Karen.
Grand Funk’s “Closer to Home” was
cut short when Garcia spotted a
photographer — other than the one he
authorized to take photos for his own
scrapbook — snapping shots of the
group. That was the last straw. They
stopped the performance and began
loading up the thousands of dollars
worth of technology they were playing
through while Garcia grabbed the
nearest soapbox and began spewing
doomsday gibberish. Some of it was fun-
ny, some of it was true and most of it was
pure, unadulterated BS.
The ideal situation would have been to
strap Garcia into a chair and have a
volunteer from the audience threaten to
club his elbows every time he opened his
mouth to preach instead of sing or play
his guitar.
One should run for public office or join
an active terrorist faction or play rock ‘n’
roll. Don’t mix the three.
Garcia could probably succeed in any
of the three but it would be a waste for
him not to choose rock ‘n’ roll.
- „ If these four talented musicians and
Midnight Rambler, and Neil Young s part-time guardians of justice and truth
“Old Man.” . . .
The four musicians then dove into a
pulse-pumping ’50s medley that included Reporters.
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