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Baroque music played rat Playmakers By DAVID McHUGH Staff Writer Some folks claim they can survive on a steady diet of baroque music. While such exclusive taste cannot be recom mended, Sunday night's concert of baroque music, per formed on original instruments in Playmakers' Theatre, showed why some music lovers shut out the last 300 years of Western music to bask in the sounds of viols and harp sichords, y V ' There certainly is plenty of good stuff from the baroque era just lying around waiting to be played, and the small group of local musicians that assembled Sunday night blew the dust off of some of it. Fortunately, they did more than merely exhume the music, but breathed life into it as well. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the opening ren dition of the 17th-century Italian .composer Marco Uccelini's Aria sopra Bergamasca for two violins and con tinue). Violinists Richard Luby and Ruth Johnson energetically batted musical phrases back and forth over the subdued continuo of harpsichordist Elaine Funaro and cellist Brent Wissick. UNC music professor Luby, the even ing's dominant musical personality, obviously relished the music's rapid runs and dance rhythm. The occasionally florid and improvisatory nature of baroque music requires musicians who are unafraid to wallow in cadenzas and embellishment; Luby's style filled the bill perfectly. One feels he would have been a happy man had he been born in 17th-century Florence. After harpsichordist Funaro presented a somewhat restrained rendition of the short Toccata VI of Michelangelo Rossi, the group turned to some of the period's better-known composers, with Funaro and Wissick accompanying soloist Luby in the Sonata No. 3 by Corelli for violin and continuo. Luby was at his best in the fast movements, using imaginative dynamics and easily handl ing some string-crossing passages which seem to require rubber fingers on the left hand. The trio then finished the first half of the program with a similarly skillful performance of Handel's Sonata No. 3, also written for violin and continuo accompaniment. Luby, here as throughout, avoided the cardinal sin of playing an old instrument as if it were a modern one without a chinrest, a vice too often afflicting those who make their living primarily with today's instruments. Instead, he took advantage of the slower sections of the Handel to exhibit the distinctively plaintive and nasal sound of the 17th cen tury violin. Flutist Rebecca Troxler joined the ensemble for the rest of the concert, which was entirely taken up by Francois Couperin's L'apotheose de Lully, a work consisting of numerous "short movements, each introduced by a spoken title. The movements, along with their titles, form a sort of discussion of French music. The idea behind the piece un fortunately escaped most of the audience, since the per formers decided to announce the titles in French. The language sounded pretty, but few knew what was going on. That was far from a total loss; the quintet played with clari ty and balance and ran through the varied styles of the work with ease. Those who missed this performance, which unfortunate ly looks like one of the few bright spots in this semester's ' musical lineup, may take heart: the musicians meet again in Playmakers Theatre for another conceit at 8:15 tonight, this time to play music from the classical period, including works of Mozart and the inimitable Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach.' Admission is free. Tuesday, February 8, 1983The Daily Tar Heel5 Wrestlers take two raise record to 10-4 'The Blessed' and 'The Cursed' 'The Greeks' combines past and present By MICHAEL PERSESGER - Staff Writer The North Carolina wrestling team went on the road at the end of last week to face one of the toughest portions of its schedule three matches in four days. The Tar Heels ended up 2-1 for the trip with the lone defeat coming at the hands of undefeated, llth-ranked Navy, and big victories over George Mason and Old Dominion. The Tar Heels fell to the Midshipmen by a 29-5 score, but the margin would have been a lot smaller if UNC had pulled out a few of its tight matches. Five of the 10 matches against Navy were decided by three points or less, with the Tar Heels getting only a win from John Aumiller over Dan Krall at 126, and a tie from co captain Bob Shriner at 190. North Carolina enjoyed much more success Friday night, when the Tar Heels whipped George Mason 38-4, taking nine of. 10 matches in the process. UNC got pins from Randy Lowery over Pat Smith at 142 with only five seconds remaining in Y) rr?.t T"H w'!rn over Kwin Kat in the 167-pound division at the 2:58 mark, and Jan Michaels over Glen Miller at 177 with 4:13 remaining. Bill Gaffney beat Bill Hall 13-1 in the 158-pound division to gain a superior deci sion for the Tar Heels. . Other winners for the Tar Heels against George Mason were Chip McArdle, Wes Hallman, Leo Palacio, Tim Plott and Tracey Davis. The lone bright spot for George Mason came at heavyweight, where Paul Maltagliati gained a superior decision over UNCs Tony Lasalandra. ' The Tar Heels won seven of the 10 matches Sunday to raise their record'to 110-4 on the year with a 24-11 win over ODU. Al Palacio was the biggest winner, scoring a resounding 21-0 superior decision over Paul Denoncourt at 118. Leo Palacio, AumUler. Wilson, Gaffney, Michaels aid Shriner were also winners for the Tar Heels. North Carolina is entering the stretch to the NCAA tournament. Only N.C. State .in Raleigh Thursday and Virginia and Maryland in Chapel Hill this weekend remain on the schedule for Coach Bill Lam's team before the ACC Tournament. By GIGI SONNER Staff Writer What theme had Homer but original sin? ' W.B. Yeats The Greeks begins with a question: "Who is to blame?" And as murder follows murder and lament follows lament in this bloody chronicle of the Trojan War, many different things are blamed for human suffering: the gods, the Furies, Fate, Aphrodite, Tantalus and, of course, Helen. The Playmakers Repertory Company's production,which opened Thursday, is divided into two parts. "The Cursed" follows Agamemnon from his expedition against Troy to his victorious but fatal return home to Mycenae. "The Blessed" tells of Agamemnon's son Orestes, his revenge for his father's murder, and the consequences of this vengeance. Within these two parts, The Creeks incor porates ten plays adapted from the works of Euripides, Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles. Taking seven hours and two nights, The Greeks incorporates 250 costumes, 50 characters, 40 ac tors, 17 years, and 15 murders. In the program, co-director Gregory Boyd writes, "It (The Greeks) is immense, not only in the size of its cast, its length, its visuals, and its conceptions, but also in the clarity it demands." Review A play of this magnitude would be ambitious for any drama company. A company without sufficient talent would find itself guilty of hubris the Greek word for excessive pride or self confidence that is insulting to and punished by the gods. But there is nothing hubristic about the PRCs production. Directors Boyd and David Today's T)TH' arts staff meeting canceled Thie arts staff of The Daily Tar Heel will not hold its regular weekly meeting today. 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All Rights Reserved Rotenberg are successful in their attempt at clarityf and consistenty fine acting keeps every minute of The Greeks captivating.. David Romero's Agamemnon, Henry Hoff man'ssOrestes, and Kathryn Meisle's Iphigenia are all outstanding. Ellen Crawford gives her ayterehestra the necessary strength and her Helen;the necessary charm. Ken Strong plays Odysseus with great casualness and Aegisthus with sensual swank. Michael Cumpsty gives strong performances as both Achilles and Py lades, as does Anne Seitz in the role of Cassandra. Undergraduates Caspar Thomson" (Talthybius) and Sharon Lawrence (Electra) are credits to PRC's demand to be judged as a pro fessional company, with no excuses made for its youth. The costumes and special effects keep the au dience from relegating the question "Who is to blame?" to Bronze Age Greece. Submachine guns, a vacuum cleaner, a police megaphone, a Noilly Prat beach umbrella, an electric guitar and outfits that would make any Sid Vicious fan jealous are not-so-subtle reminders of the im mediacy and timelessness of the story. "A curse is a living thing," according to Aegisthus. The line between being cursed and being blessed is thin to bless originally meant to consecrate with blood. And we, like the Greeks, are both blessed and cursed by the question of who is to' blame for our suffering. The Greeks will run through Feb. 27 in the Paul Green Theatre. "The Cursed" and "The Blessed" run on alternate nights at 8 p.m. Sun day matinees are at 2 p.m. For ticket informa tion call 962-1121. No cameras at Young concert The Carolina Union would like to re mind all Neil Young concertgoers that all sound recording devices, cameras, cassette decks or video cameras will be banned from the concert Tuesday night. 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