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c Young & Gifted Darren Tate: A By AUDREY WILLIAMS * Chronicle Staff Writer X Darren Tate could have had a promising career in the military, especially since he was one of Hill High School's superior Junior ROTC cadets.. Or he could have continued to play guard on the football team and hope for the best in athletic scholarship offers. He gave it all up for the viola. Darren, a muscular and wholesome-looking 18-yearold, is a senior this year at the North Carolina School of the Aits. He auditions this week for college there. "I had choices," Darren says, "but I wanted more out of lite other than becoming a soldier or a football player. "I would go to summer camp at Fort Bragg and 1 would always wonder what it would be like going to summer camps for music," says the Winston-Salem native. Darren took his first viola lesson as a seventh-grader at Philo Junior High School under fHe instruction of Jean Tripp. "Then, when I got to Hill High," he says, "there "This new stuff, thump music and that modern contemporary music, where you have a lot oj improvisation, it makes me sick ... " -- Darren Tate were no classes for strings, so for two years I wasn't playing." But just being accepted into the School of the A*rts, after having studied the viola for only a brief period and attending weekend rehearsals with the Young Salem Symphony, says a lot about Darren's natural talent and ability to grasp music quickly. After being accepted into the School of fhe Arts as a special student, Darren says he began working harder than ever before to catch up with his musical counterparts and to impress the faculty. The summer before entering the school, he applied to the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro in hopes of gaining experience as violist and being instructed by one of 85 of the world's best musicians. The festival is a sixweek workshop and accepts only 210 applicants out of thousands from all over the country. Only the brightest at^d the best were selected, and Darren - having had only * Jfl Ep^jgr iJH Mr j? 7>w rjftflPHBV ft J. jt^f:^mt>, r'lt, *% / | . ? . i.. Practice Makes Perfect player' (photobyJjrrmrs Parker). _j Simmons says Wi By AUDREY WILLIAMS tion and Chronicle Staff Writer dustry. - -1 de "The first time I came to Winston-Salem," banking, says Frank Simmons, "my eyes began watering weren't ; and I began to feel wheezy on my stomach. The Carolina tobacco smell made me sick." , Wachovi That was in June of last year, when Simmons tion as a and his wife Evelyn first visited the city at the Simmc request of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. Since then, his eyes have cleared and his stomach has adjusted to the aroma of tobacco. A planning specialist in Wachovia's corporate sector. Simmons,- who received an ac counting degree from Morris-Brown College and an MBA from Atlatita University, is being because 4 groomed by the bank to become a financial South/' analysis planning consultant. Simmc The soon-to-be father travels weekly to WinstonAtlanta to visit his wife, a former teacher at bleak. B Morris-Brown. She will establish residency here fascinatii once they have completely settled in Winston- ty's cozii Salem. \ 44I hac A native of Columbia, S.C., Simmons, 30, \Simmom remained in Atlanta after completing his educa- Quite ho warn iMagaziru * . bundle of talent two years of instrucTion -- was selected. He says he hopes to return next summer "After 1 was accepted into the Festival," says Darren, "that's when I sort of turned over a new leaf. I went from learning how to play to playing." Unlike the violin, the viola is a larger instrument, with darker quality and sound. More effort'is needed from the player to produce a good, clear, professional sound. Even before taking his first viola lessons in junior high school, Darren says there was always something about background music that intrigued him. "I've always loved music," Darren says. "I used to listen to the Jackson Five and Marvin Gaye all the time, but 1 never listened to the words. I would listen to the background music. "A lot of Marvin Gaye's background music had strings and I would always wonder about it, then the wondering went away," he says. In the tiny room where Darren practices daily, a , cassette player is positioned^orTtFTe table. The music he opts to listen to is that of Al Jarreau. ^ "This new stuff, thump music and that modern contemporary music,'where you have a lot of improvisation, it makes me sick," he says. "Jazz or classical music is much better to listen to." Darren says he feels fortunate that he was given the opportunity to pursue his desire to play the viola, but he'd much rather refer to his talent as a talent for learning and says the term natural talent should be reserved for the likes of 14-year-old Amandi Hummines. akn a vinla player at the School of the Arts. "Now he has natural talent," says Darren, giving off an admiring sigh. "He can just pick up a viola and play. I have half his natural talent." Darren knows that no matter what Vsaid and done, admission into the School of the Arts college level depends on his commitment and his teacher, Sally Peck. If admitted, Darren says he would like to earn a degree and go after all that classical music has to offer. "I want to become a recording soloist," he says, "and I would love to record the Bach Six Cello Suites." His ultimate goal, which he says he hopes to attain b\ the time he is 40, is not shared by many of the string students at the School of the Arts. As a matter of fact, he Please see page B7 i J# | V ( lift* than becoming.a soldier or a football > nston is growing o began a career in the insurance in- that I've been here ducive to raising a cided that I wanted to go into appear to live relati " hp "hut hank? in Atlanta V1r?cf nf hit tim*? as strong as they are here in North ting acquainted wit , and I chose Winston-Salem because class in microcomp a has a reputation throughout the na- Institute, strong bank." His network for >ns didn't want to leave the South his fraternity, Kapp "By attending I mons says, "I meet Illusions (a local nit portunity to mingle a ga fessionals, or at lc? 'I was born, raised and educated in the lacking in Winston he says. N of professional spei >ns says when he first came to "I'm a basketbal Salem, his impressions of the city were I enjoyed being abh ut at the urging of his wife and her play in the middle an with the shopping outlets and the ci- "Those are the less, he decided to stay. - Winston-Salem is n i lived in Atlanta for 10 years," says on me and I'm fle> s, "and there were more people and Since taking up n nestly, more social outlets. But now Pleas ? Section (Election I w ^k WBWWBBBBHBBHi A #91 l Mow' Bel ton Brown Dr. C.B. Ha user Lafayette N. Jones The Car Among the numerous cat TW local and state elected office J County. The Brown Kennedy and Dr. Ch ( linue the same political co joined on the campaign trail l> S<,: Rev. C. /:'. Greene, Patrick Vlll^lVf^ Jly Gordon Slade Jr., Willie h'.vetyn Terry ! By ROBIN ADAMS Chronicle Staff Writer Ai the close of the filing period on Feb. 6, 10 local black citizens, two of them incumbents, had filed to run for local or state office. Although most of the candidates are just beginning to finalize their platforms, the Chronicle recently asked? them their reason for tunning and the areas the> plan to emphasize. ^aia Annie mown Kennedy, a state House representative from the 39th District, on her decision to run again: "I feel there is yet work to be done and a need for diverse representation. I enjoyed my last term and I feel I was effective. Oftentimes, I presented a different point of view than that being expressed in our discussions, committee meetings or on the floor. "I was also instrumental in causing some bills to be killed in committee," she continued. "Not only is it the job of a representative to make good laws, but also to see that the bad laws that are made are kept to a minimum." If elected to a second term, Kennedy said she plans to "put some emphasis on employment of blacks in key positions thoroughout the state government." Like Kennedy, Dr. Charlie B. Hauler, who also filed for a second term as a state representative, said he wants to continue the work he started: "I feel I am electable," Hauser said. 441 feel I did a good job the first time. I sponsored five bills and cosponsored a total of 128 bills that deal with people issues." If rc-elccted, Mauser said he will "want to continue to support things that make North Carolina better, - like education, civil UJiiU^Jxau^O^andLtheconmns |^H| a while, I believe it's confamily and the people here ively well." he sa\s, has been spent get- I h his new job and taking a meeting people through M rd Alpha ^ meetings," Sima lot of people and before M zhtcluM closed I h;id the on thcring place for black pro- \ |J ist knowing there is one, is I | -Salem, as I fan," says Simmons "and H &" > - Jg. ? : to go and watch the Hawks ^Jv&iz the kinds of things I miss, but HBHH lot Atlanta, but it's growing pran|t glmmons says he tible," he says. Including his favorite bi esidency here, Simmons says ready to settle In and m. e see page B7 James Parker). Section B Thursday, March 1, 1984 ' I BL 1: l^| >^B H ^^^B ^|H ^B iSssPlrarolN# v -4 ;' ? j^I ^^HI^Hf tx^^B ^1 ^^aSSsL : : , *. .r^. Fmfl Rev. C.E. Green Pat Hairaton BT ? "w gjw^^^B fl HT1 BBBB BBB Annie Brown Kenneoy Gordon Slade Jr. H IUIUUIV9 id id ales running for various '^HjiK^ '.v are 10 blacks from Forsyth /c//e? representatives Annie ar/ie H. Mauser, row to conurse if re-elected. They are by Mose* Helton Brown, the rv * Hairs/on, I.afayette Jones, Spiith, William Tat urn and ft ? "'"' I ? I Evelyn Terry of women and children. Anything that makes for a better place to live, that's what I will be working for." Only one black candidate, I.afayette N. Jones, filed for the state's 20th District Senate race. He is a political newcomer and said he decided to run because he doesn't like what's happening in Raleigh. "I was looking at whar's going on in Raleigh and I really don't think that we are being represented properly," Jones said. Jones, 43, said he wants to work to increase teacher salaries and to help devise a program to benefit the large number of street people. "I think we need to pick the six largest cities in North Carolina and build dormitories in those cities to house them (street people). Along with living in the dorms, thev can have some kind of job to supplement them while living there," Jones said. "Food can continue to be provided by the soup kitchens and places like the Salvation Army." Jones said he also wants to work to equalize criminal punishment. "A white boy from Buena Vista steals a car, he gets reprimanded and sent back to his parents," said Jones. "But if a black child steals a car, he gets sent to a juvenile detention facility." Three blacks -- Pat Hairston, past president of the ? NAACP; Nftvse' Belton Brown, a school teacher; and it :?i - * * ? ? " iim. i--. .31111111, iciiicu u\>nci Di rsusseu s ousiness College -- tiled to run for the Forsyth County Board of County Commissioners. Hairston said the ''giving away" of Forsyth Memorial Hospital prompted him to run. Earlier this year, the board voted to turn the hospital's deed over to a holding company for economic'reasons, . '87 M riv *.v. "x i PCBSflV V I ^3a& : -.. % :>- |i^p rj? ^ ^bk Hh^^ Bffiltv mi < ?fl H': *&; 'tBi JI^H% ^JMik A^i s^ tyffi *JteL+ ! misses the attractions and diversions of Atlanta, isketball team, the Atlanta Hawks. But at 30. he's ake Winston home for him and his family (photo by
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