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By MARY McKENNA
Staff Writer
What do a Carolina Blue' and a
Clefhanger have in common with a Duke
Pitchfork and Sweetbriar Sweet Tone?
What is it these groups do that some
members believe is the most fun you can
have with your clothes on?" They are
close harmony a cappella singing groups
that all sing barbershop music.
Barbershop singing, reminiscent of
candy-striped jackets, bow ties and straw
hats, is still a popular sound generations
after its heyday. This old and strictly
structured form of music is still popular
with people of all ages.
"It's got a o of energy, it's fun, it's
upbeat," said journalism lecturer Raleigh
Mann, lead singer of the Carolina Blues,
Chapel Hill's own barbershop quartet.
"As far as I know, we are the only
barbershop group in the Chapel Hill area,
though that could change," Mann said. "1
see it getting more popular around here."
The Carolina Blues sing "classic
barbershop pieces, typically turn of the
century stuff with some barbershop
arrangements of newer sogngs," he said.
Besides being a cappella. barbershop
harmony is distinct in its highly
structured sound. There are four-part
chords for every melody note, including
major, minor and seventh chords.' This
means that when the sound of all four
parts (bass, baritone, tenor and lead) are
matched to pitch perfection, the warm
rich sound that isfexclusively barbershop
rings out. The harmony gets even better
when the singers start to "woodshed"-a
barbershop term for ad libbing or
jamming. :
It may seem complicated, but it sounds
great.
"People don't think of it consciously,"
Mann said. "If you ask someone on the
street what kind of music he likes, he'll
probably say rock, country or something
like that. Barbershop doesn't occur to
them. It's not on the forefront of people's
minds. But when they hear it. they love it.
They say Hey, that's great music. I like
that.'"
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popularitx and is becoming a hobby for
people of all ages. That is proven by the
Clefhangers, a close harmony a capella
group of Carolina men.
The ten members were brought
together two years ago by- Barry
Saunders, and their popularity has grown
with a varied musical program, one
fourth of which is strictly barbershop.
The Clefs believe they have a richer
sound with ten people, Saunders said.
The blend is so rich and so fine that it is
next to impossible to pick out one voice.
"Barbershop singing is also unique in
that the singers have as much fun as the
audience," Saunders said. "That's why
musical ability sometimes becomes
second to showmanship and
enthusiasm."
But audiences also clap, sing, stomp,
cheer and have a roaring good time at
barbershop performances.
"Everybody's got a little shower-stall
showmanship in them." Saunders said.
, "It is a unique American art form, just
like the blues," Mann said. "It can be sung
anywhere and will probably endure
forever. If the whole world was wiped put
except for four people; their singing
would start with barbershop."
The Clefhangers, Carolina Blues,
Duke Pitchforks and the Sweetbriar.
Sweet Tones will perform at 4 p.m. on
April 20 in the Forest Theater. Admission
is one dollar. The concert will take place
in Carroll Hall in case of rain.
Book traces career of editor Max Perkins
By SCOTT TIMMONS
Staff Writer
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius is a book by Scott Berg
which traces and analyses the career of the influential
editor on some of America's greatest authors.
When Max Perkins first went to work for Charles
Scribner & Sons as an editor in 1914, Scribners was a
conservative publishing house with a reputation for
bringing out "safe" fiction, old classics, the likes of Edith
Wharton, John Galsworthy and Henry James. At the
time, it was the editor's role to select manuscripts,
prepare them for publication and do little more. Perkins
changed all that; he left Scribners and the editor's job
changed forever.
Books
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins was born Sept. 20,
1884, in Manhattan, to an old New England family. At
Harvard he studied political economy and worked as an
editor on the Harvard Advocate, the campus literary
magazine. After graduating in 1907, he was a police
reporter for the New York Times before taking a job in
the advertising department of Scribners in 1910. He
married in the same year and in the following became a
father to the first of his five daughters. In 1914 he was
made an editor, in 1 932 editor-in-chief, and he served the
firm until his death in 1947.
Getting Scribners to publish F.Scott Fitzgerald's and .
Ernest Hemingway's early novels in the 1920s was a
formidable task. As a junior editor, Perkins was bucking
not only the older editors and old Charles Scribner
himself, but the traditional standards of the firm and of
American society as well. But Perkins had the vision to
see the literary as well as commercial value in these early
productions.
"An editor does not add to a book," he once said. "He
serves as a handmaiden to an author... .an editor at most
releases the author's energy. He creates nothing." Editor
Perkins served as midwife to his authors, helping them
to give birth to their books. Thomas Wolfe's
manuscripts arrived in Perkins' office in crates, written
in longhand on unnumbered sheets and running to the
thousands of pages. The job was then to persuade Wolfe
to cut out the fat and give the lump form and structure.
Perkins often acted as personal banker to his authors,
securing them advances, even loaning them money out
of his own pocket, Fitzgerald was a chronic borrower
Perkins also gave his authors encouragement and a
sympathetic ear, but his involvement in their lives had its
costs. Perkins once wrote a friend, "I cannot bear to hear
any more troubles. Everyone seems to be. in trouble.
Nothing and no one seems any longer to be sane and
healthy."
The anecdotes surrounding Perkins and his authors
are numerous. Once, after Perkins and Fitzgerald had
been drinking, they left in a car and Fitzgerald drove
them into a lake. Another time, when Perkins and Wolfe
had just gotten on a train, Wolfe had one of his sudden
changes of mind; he didn't want to make the trip, and
galloping to the door, leapt to the platform and missed,
falling to the tracks and lacerating his elbow. Once in
Perkins' office, Hemingway accidentally met Max
Eastman, a critic who had attacked him, saying his
Meeting Sunday
The first of two meetings on black and white
integration in campus dorms will be held in the Hinton
James rec room Sunday, at 7 p.m. The Housing
Advisory Board is sponsoring the sessions to,,assess
students' views on the subject before making a
recommendation to Director of Housing James Condie.
The next session will be in a dorm on North Campus
at the beginning of the fall semester.
literary style was "comparable to wearing false hair on
the chest." Meeting Eastman, Hemingway ripped open
his shirt to reveal his hairy chest, then good-naturedly
reached over and unbuttoned Eastman' shirt to reveal a
chest as bare as a bald man's head.
Max Perkins: Exit or of Genius is a competent
biography. Berg shows us Perkins the man and Perkins
the father and husband, as well as Perkins the editor and
guiding hands to some of our best authors. The 575
pages of text drag at times, as Berg recounts the
seemingly endless conferences, squabbles and
reconciliations with Wolfe and the others, but in the
main the book is interesting and worthwhile, both for its
intent and for the light it throws on the makers ol
American popular literature in the years between 1920
and 1947. It's a biography no student of American
literature should miss.
Puppets to perform
The Carrboro Art School will premiere its
Community Puppet Theatre at 2, 3, 4 and 5 p.m. Sunday
in front of the downtown Chapel Hill Post Office on
Franklin Street as part of the Apple Chill Festival.
Last fall, the Art School helped establish a permanent
puppet theatre for the Chapel Hill area. Now the project
boasts two portable theaters and five different
productions. One of these theaters will be available for
use in schools and churches.
Puppet people include: Eleanor arid Anders Lunde.
Eleanor Seng, Carol Stokes, Lynda Lamm, Tobie
Newton, Diana Maragaret, Rosemarie Hester, Tony
Lunde, Katy Bauman, Like Lucas, Ryan Parikn, Steve
Dressing, Jane Matchak and Karen Levi.
The Art School will also present a poetry reading by
i members of the Poetry Co-op at 8 p.m. Sunday in Carr"
Mill Mall. . "
The Poets' Cooperative is a group of area poets who
meet weekly to share their work for criticism and
discussion.
CUSTOMER INFORMATION FROM GENERAL MOTORS
FROM CONCEPT TO CUSTOMER IN THREE YEARS AND THREE BILLION DOLLARS
Throughout the history of
the automobile industry, prod
uct change was almost always
evolutionary. But in 1973, GM
determined that the times re
quired revolutionary changes. It
started its first Project Center
which by itself heralded a revo
lution in the use of science and
technology to meet the chang
ing demands of the market
place. A few months later, the
Arab countries launched the oil
embargo. Fortunately, machin
ery was already in motion in
GM to create and develop new
cars and components in a new
way and faster than ever before.
GM's first Project Center
brought out totally new full
size cars: smaller, yet roomier,
and far more efficient than their
predecessors. The advertise
ments said they were "designed
and engineered for a changing
world" and they were. Another
Project Center, begun in 1975,
developed the immensely popu
lar GM X-cars.
Led by the five car divi
sions, Project Centers gather
people, ideas, and knowledge
from all 30 divisions and staffs
of General Motors. In the first
stage, which we call "concept
ing," experimental engineers,
environmental scientists, for
ward planners, and marketing
experts pool their thinking.
Their objective: what the mar
ketplace will require. This is the
most important stage. Here we
must determine not only what
kind of car, but how many we
might be able to build and sell
years later. Economics,' cus
tomer tastes, availability of
various kinds of fuels must be
compared with state-of-the-art
technology and what steps
must be taken to advance that
technology quickly yet surely.
In the "concepting" stage,
a new car is conceived. If the car.
is to be sold to customers three
years later, construction of new
plants must begin and basic
tooling must be ordered.
The second phase of the
Project Center takes 24 to 30
months. It encompasses devel
opment, design, structural
analysis, handling analysis,
emissions, noise and vibration,
safety, reliability, serviceability
and repairability, manufactur
ing, assembly, marketing, fi
nancing. Advanced product engi
neers and research scientists
work with the one hundred fifty
to two hundred people at the
Project Center and thousands
more in the staffs and divisions
to transfer new science and
technology to the new car. Com
ponents are hand-built and
"cobbled" into existing models
for road testing.
Prototype cars are hand
built at a cost of more than
$250,000 each. These enable
the Project Center team to de
termine how newly developed,
pretested components operate
as a unit. Then; pilot models will
be built from production tooling
and tested some more. New
technology, such as structural
analysis by computer, saves
time. Lead time has been re
duced by 25 from ten years
ago, when cars, were far less
complex. v
After almost four million
miles, nearly three billion dol
lars, and nearly three years of
work, the new cars quite un
like anything before them
start coming off the production
line at a rate of better than one a
minute.
There are now eight
Project Centers in General
Motors. Four are developing
new cars using hydrocarbon
fuels, one is creating an electric
car, and others are working on
computerized engines and
emission controls, a new kind of
automatic transmission, and the
inflatable restraint system.
New and revolutionary
cars can't be mass produced for
the road overnight. But by put
ting all the parts of General
Motors to work together, we
found a way to speed up the
process. have integrated the
creativity of thousands of
human minds to make invention
into reality when its needed.
This advertisement is part of our
continuing effort to give custom
ers useful information about
their cars and trucks and the
company that builds them.
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By PAT FLANNERY
Staff Writer
While students dream of the kegs and
music coming this weekend, the rest of
the town will be gearing up for an event
that brings with it teriaki sticks, smoked
bluefish and crafts galore.
The event is the ninth annual Apple
Chill Festival, which will beheld 1-6 p.m.
Sunday. The Chapel Hill Department of
Parks and Recreation, which sponsors
the event, is expecting up to 20,000 people
to pack Franklin Street for the afternoon.
The fair may be a little different this
year, since only residents of Orange
County will be allowed to sell their wares.
This is the first year such a policy has
existed, but Jim Herstine, administrative
assistant for the Department of Parks
and Recreation, said the policy was
established to preserve the local
atmosphere.
The fair's orientation has changed
somewhat this year," he said. lt has
become more of a Chapel Hillian affair
rather than a North Carolina affair."
But the new restriction will not put a
damper on the event. .Sponsors are
expecting 150 booths to be operating on
Sunday. In addition, there will be ample
entertainment at both ends of Franklin
Street.
Besides regulars such as the Apple
Chill Cloggers and juggler Ken Kaye,
Dancerobics, a dance exercise group, and
Kurios International Folk Dancers, a
troupe that performs a varity of
traditional dances will perform.
For young and old there will be puppet
theater performances by the Carrboro
Art School, as well as a performance
workshop run by the school. More
dancing also will be provided by the
Chapel Hill Ballet Company and the
Hargraves Modern Dance Group.
For musical entertainment, the Village
Band of Chapel Hill will be performing
early in the afternoon and a local rock
group. Liquid Pleasure, will perform
later.
Herstine said that the only difference
between Sunday's festival and earlier
ones is that Sunday's will exclude
commercial vendors. The vendors were
restricted in an effort to promote the arts-and-crafts
aspect of the festival. Only
area craftsmen and local service
organizations will be allowed to operate
booths.
Last year's fair included leather goods,
wood crafts, furniture and waxworks.
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