RECORDS: Performance marred
By KENNETH CUMMINS
Kansan Reviewer
The musical appearance of the Canadian group Lighthouse, in their first album recorded on RCA was marred by a poor recording.
Lighthouse, a 12-piece group, follows in the vein of music popularized by Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago with its blending of brass instrumentation and the traditional rock rhythm section.
Lighthouse goes a step further, though, in the addition of a violin section as a regular part of the group.
This mixture of brass and electric guitar is best displayed in the two selections "Mountain Man" and "If There Ever Was a Time." The former is a more than adequate arrangement strengthened by the drumming of Skip Prokop, formerly with the Procol Harem. Prokop, the leader of the group, also arranged most of the material for this album.
"If There Ever Was a Time" is perhaps the best cut on the album. Especially good is the piano playing of Paul Hoffert, the musical director for the group. Hoffert's keyboard talents are prevalent throughout most of the album but are not fully developed until this selection.
open their mouths "Whatever, Forever" could easily have been the best song on the album except for a poor recording job which left the horns sounding out of tune.
One of the highlights of the album is the unique arrangement of the McGuinn-Clark-Crosby composition, "Eight Miles High." The piano and trumpets add fullness to the guitar-organ rendition, but the selection suffers from the vocal parts which aren't in harmony, perhaps a result of the poor recording.
There are other highlights to the album, such as the violins on "Never Say Goodbye," the trombone solo on "No Opportunity Necessary," or the selection "Ah, I Can Feel It."
But the album suffers most from a performance below the capabilities of the group. But Lighthouse has shown in its first album that it is a talented and able group, one that will be heard from again.
Hoffman, Voight vie
By VERNON SCOTT
'Oscar' returns
UPI Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Newcomers Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight challenge old pros Richard Burton, John Wayne and Peter O'Toole for the best actor award in the 42nd annual Oscar race.
Best actress nominees all are making their first bids for academy awards: Genevieve Bujold, "Anne of the Thousand Days," Jane Fonda, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Liza Minnell, "The Sterile Cuckoo," Jean Simmons, "The Happy Ending" and Maggie Smith, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie."
Hoffman and Voight were nominated for their performances in "Midnight Cowboy." During the 42-year history of the academy several actors and actresses have been nominated for their performances in the same film including Burton and O'Toole for "Becket" in 1964.
Nominated for best picture of the year were "Anne of the Thousand Days," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Hello, Dolly!," "Midnight Cowboy" and "Z."
Sentiment lies heavily with Wayne, nominated only once previously in his 40 years as a movie star—in 1949 for "The Sands of Iwo Jima."
Burton gained his sixth nomination for "Anne of the Thousand Days." O'Toole, nominated for "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is also ran in three previous starts.
Hoffman was nominated for "The Graduate" in 1967. It is Voight's first nomination.
“Z” is the first motion picture ever nominated for an Oscar with English subtitles.
Two of the nominated directors, Sydney Pollack, "They Shoot Horses" and Arthur Penn, "Alice's Restaurant," were nominated for best direction Oscars, but their pictures were not nominated. The three remaining directors nominated were George Roy Hill, "Butch Cassidy," John Schlesinger, "Midnight Cowboy" and Costa-Gavras, "Z."
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Best supporting actor nominees were Rupert Crosse, "The Reivers," Elliott Gould, "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," Jack Nicholson, "Easy Rider," Anthony Quayle, "Anne of the Thousand Days" and Gig Young, "They Shoot Horses."
All the best supporting actress nominees were in the running for the first time: Catherine Burns, "Last Summer," Dyan Cannon, "Bob and Carol," "Goldie Hawn, "Cactus Flower," Sylvia Miles, "Midnight Cowboy" and Susannah York, "They Shoot Horses."
Awards will be presented to the winners in each category April 7 when the Motion Picture Academy televis its presentation.
Music, Art Camp conductor returns to campus for concert
The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Victor Alessandro, will perform in concert at 8:20 p.m. tonight in Hoch Auditorium.
The program is one of a series
One liners..
HOLLYWOOD (UPI)—Michael Douglas, son of Kirk, has formed his own company, Bigstick Productions, Ltd., to star in a film adaptation of "The Drift," a novel by Lloyd Kropp.
HOLLYWOOD (UPI)—Veteran character actor John Zaremba joined the cast of Stanley Kramer's "R.P.M." which stars Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret.
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Andy Devine will guest star in an episode of television's "Bracken's World" series.
HOLLYWOOD ( UPI )—Chill Wills has been added to the cast of "The Last Movie."
in the 1969-70 KU Concert Course sponsored by the School of Fine Arts.
The Orchestra has travelled throughout the country on numerous concert tours. It is one of the outstanding symphony orchestras in the Southwest.
Alessandro, who comes from a musical family, has been a guest conductor at the Midwestern Music and Art Camp for 13 years. The camp is held on the KU campus each summer for high school students from all over the world.
Music on the program will range from romantic to contemporary. The orchestra will open with Anton Dvorak's "Carnival Overture" and continue with "Symphony No. 2" by Johannes Brahms. A Spanish piece, "Huapango" by Moncayo will follow.
The last two numbers will be compositions by 20th century composers. Samuel Barber's "Intermezzo" from "Vanessa" will be followed by Ottrino Respighi's famous and dramatic tone poem, "The Pines of Rome."
KU students will be admitted to the concert free if they present their KU ID's at the door.
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