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Thursday, February 22, 1973
University Daily Kansan
'Slade' Declares War On Rock, Language
By VINTON SUPLEF
By VENTON JEWELER
Kansan Reviewer
Slade has no respect. Certainly not for the English language. Witness such song titles as “Guduyn T. Jane” and “Snow Day at West Wee All Craze.” And the name of the album itself.
Nor do they have any respect for the technically perfect vacuity of the art-rock coterie. If anything, Slade is the antithesis of that genteel breed. Neither are they nouveau decadent, although at times they may possess a certain warped sartorial
Slade is none of the above. They are the raucous English equivalent of the Grand Funk boogie to the masses syndrome with one important difference. Slade is much
Typically, an English band has taken an American musical idiom, in this case elementary Detroit metal alloy, and improved it vastly by avoiding indulgence common among the originators. The music is volume and raw kinetic energy barely contained within the
Winter Concert Will Feature KU Voice Prof
Perez, a popular studio teacher and concert artist perform Norman Dello Joio's "Songs of Abelard," an instrumental work based on a dance course entitled "Tire of Snow."
Antonio Perez, assistant professor of voice, will be the featured guest soloist with the University of Kansas Symphonic Band at 3:00 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre.
Perez will also perform the "Largo al Factotem" from Gioacchino Rossini's "Barber of Sevilla." Better known as the ballet master, he is a popular song in the baritone repertoire.
The text for the vocal solos is based on medieval poetry that concerns an early 12th century romance between a clerical woman and a monk, piece of a canon of Notre Dame Cathedral.
Perez, has performed with the Dallas Civic Opera, the Houston Grand Opera and the New Orleans Opera. He also has performed at the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New Orleans Philarmonica Orchestra.
confines of a tight framework. Their formula for success is simply enough: turn all numbers into integers.
The 71-member Symphonic Band will be conducted by Robert Foster, director of bands at KU. Also on the program will be: Gustav Holst's "Moorside March," the "Overture" to Samuel Barber's "The School for Scandal," "The White Peacock," and "The Mystery of the Rainbow" from Hindemith's "Nobilissima Vision," the "Prologue" from Bernstein's "West Side Story," and John Philip Sousa's "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine."
Graduate of '52 Pleased to Play At Alma Mater
The Winter Concert is the second of nine concerts on the band's 1973 Concert Tour. The tour opens Thursday evening in Paula, New York; the concert will begin Wednesday, the band will perform in Kingman, Anthony, Independence, Pittsburg and F. Scott. On Tuesday the band will venture into Oklahoma for concerts at Cityville and the KU territory at Bartlesville.
Delores Wunsch Stevens, a 1962 graduate of the University of Kansas, returned to KU Wednesday to perform as pianist with the Montagnana Trio before an audience of friends, relatives and former instructors in Swarthout Recital Hall.
None of the people in this band are particularly good musicians. The rhythm section is in the traditional British mold of a 1960s prog rock band, centuitation upon the deeper notes' resonant ability to be felt as well as heard. Lacking instrumental virtuosity, Slade gets by on the force of brute amplification, Noddy Jones's guitar sounds Hill's ransoming guitar, in that order.
Stevens and her family now live in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
"Slayed?" is formula music at its best, variations on a single voice. Slade's good thing is crush rock and roll delivered with all the arrogant self-assurance of a proletarian Jumpin' Jack Flash. The majority of the songs begin with either a strong twitching bass or a powerful full force with the addition of Noddy's singing and an engaging chord progression or riffs from Hill. Guitar leads are brief but furious, with the whole production wrapped up in under four minutes, or a little longer at most.
Stevens, daughter of Paul Wunsch, member of the Kansas Board of Regents, said she was happy to be able to perform at KU after being away for several years.
The other two members of the trio are John Gates, clarinetist and his wife, Caroline Ward.
The trio will perform for the Wichita State University Guest Artist Series tonight.
The group completed a 10-week tour of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Scotland and England last December.
It's a toss-up-as to who has the most pregame litters at Reynolds Coliseum.
The tour, funded by a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for the Arts, was a highly successful tour, Stevens said.
RALEIGH, N.C. AP—Basketball is a family affair for Norman and Jo Ann Boon. He's coach of the second-ranked, undefeated North Carolina State basketball team. She sings at the Wolfpack's home games.
The trio performed Beetowns "Trio,
Op. 11," Brahms "Trio, Op. 114" and "Soil III," a contemporary piece composed for the trio by Ellsworth Milburn.
"It was great to play before friends and relatives," she said. "It seemed so natural."
Already the number one band in Europe, Slade has yet to storm our shores. Any of "Slayed" tracks takes you inside a world beyond them; they are the maximum in power rock and roll expressed within a minimum of form and duration. Given half a chance, Slade can bury the whispering emperor that constitutes Top 40 rock in this country under an avalanche of berserk white noise. With some decent air pressure, we can also endure the epidemic of Slade fever could easily break out among the southern teenage hordes of America. And you know what that means.
"He never let's on how nervous he is." Jo Ann, a 5 foot 4 foot-soared sano, says.
'Dirty Little Billy' Is Believable Western
"I guess both of us try to convince the other we're not nervous," added Norman.
By BOB GILLUM Kansan Reviewer
How do you make a believable western in 1973? You go to extremes in dealing with setting, gunfights and makeup. You follow the lead of such directors as Sam Peckman ("The Wild Bunch") and Arthur Penn ("Little Big Man") in his thriller, which creates a real villain, Stan Dragott did these in his "Dirty Little Billy." and succeeded.
Michael J. Pollard, whose puffy cheeks and bulbous nose were made famous in the role of C. W. Moss, is Billy the Kid. He makes a great dirty little villain.
The story deals with young Billy's start on the wrong trail. His immigrant family moves from New York to a farm near Coffeyville, Kan. Billy's dad is upset by his sack of amusement, and kicks him out. In a cool, collar style, he stumbles into an upright.
From there, it's all down hill. Billy joins up with Goldie and Badie, a gumman and his prostitute friend, and learns the trade that made him infamous.
What's striking about the trio is its similarity to the Beatty-Dunaway-Pollard team in "Bonne and Clyde." Pollard plays as a vocalist. He has slurred speech and stumbling actions are the same, but he's more lethargic. He says very little. Although he has the lead time, the others outshine him. Richard Lee and LepurCell, the couple, are great.
Dragoit'i's effects are certainly realistic, but they often suffer from overwork. He has an acute memory.
Nevertheless, the faces are just too dirty,
makeup is caked on. Pollard's speech is
blunderingly slow. Also, there are no
mountains near anywhere (coffeeville.)
shoot out, but an actual fight for life. The set is complete in every detail, mudholes are everywhere. Even the music seems dirty and rusty.
The simplicity of "Dirty Little Billy" is what makes it good. It is an elemental, realistic western put together with conscientious effort to achieve realism. You can look forward to more. Hopefully, unbelievable horseback melodrama has been laid to rest.
Saturday Fare Includes Concert
Tickets on sale: 1st floor Kansas Union and at door Friday night.
The internationally known Oklahoma City Symphony, conducted by Gus Fraser Harrison, will appear here Saturday as part of the University of Kansas Concert Series.
Harrison, now in his 20th season as music director and conductor of the symphony, will begin the concert with the "Star-Spangled Banner," followed by "Variations on a Theme of Haydn" by Brahms; "Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36" by Peter Tchaikovsky; and "Second Symphony" by John Pozdro.
Podroz's "Third Symphony" was premiered by Harrison in 1960 after Harrison commissioned Podroz to write the Ford Foundation Comparison Series.
NICARAGUAN BENEFIT DANCE
Donation $1.50 per person
Fri., Feb. 23
7:30-11:30 p.m.
Ballroom—Kansas Union
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Sponsored by the Ananda Marga Yoga Society
CHET NICHOLS and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils
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