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t 4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, March 27, 1984 Baroque oboist featured in season fs final concert By JEFF GROVE Arts Editor Stephen Hammer offers a logical defense when asked why he goes to the trouble of playing oboe music on an authentic baroque oboe. "You wouldn't play a Brahms sym phony on a synthesizer," Hammer said. "You wouldn't look at a Rembrandt painting with dayglow colors." Hammer, who also plays the recorder and the modern oboe, will have a chance to put his money where his mouth is tonight at 8, when he will be the guest soloist for this season's final concert by the Society for Performance on Original Instruments. The Society, wrapping up its inaugural year, was formed to allow performers and audiences in the Triangle to hear baroque and early classical music played on period in struments. Structural changes in most instruments over the years have changed the sound those instruments produce. The Society also seeks to employ ac curate baroque and classical perfor mance techniques, gleaned from study ing musical manuscripts, composers' letters and other existing material. The concert tonight will be perform ed in the main sanctuary of the Chapel of the Cross on Franklin Street. The. concert will feature Spring from Antonio Vivaldi's four-concerto cycle popularly known as "The Four Seasons." Hammer will play the recorder for Georg Philipp Telemann's Trio Sonata for Recorder. Violin and Continuo. He will be featured as the solo oboe in G.F. Handel's cantata Mi palpita il cor and in two works by J.S. Bach, the Double Concerto for Violin, Oboe Strings and the Wedding Cantata. With a program like that being almost standard fare in the Triangle these days, one has to agree with Ham mer's assessment of local music. "The Chapel Hill area really has an im pressive amount of high-quality early music going on," he said. Hammer's own interests are not limited to the baroque period and its in struments; that's just the way things happened. "I've always liked baroque music, and (playing it on period instruments) seemed like a more sensible and natural way to play it," Hammer said. "I like music of all periods, and I never really gave up the modern oboe. "One often gets type-cast. I got type cast as a baroque oboe and recorder player." Hammer explained that once a per former becomes known for a certain specialty, people tend to hire that per former for that specialty. Thus, Hammer ended up this spring at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, playing the recorder onstage in Handel's Rinaldo. For that, Hammer was richly wigged and costumed. "It was a real gas," he said. But there was a catch: "I played that on a plastic recorder." Tickets for tonight's concert are $7. They may be obtained in 105 A Hill Hall or at the door. Call 962-1039 for more information. Student Film Night had fears, beers and laughter Sunday's Student Film Night offered a little bit of everything nightmares and laughter, strange galaxies, a plant god, three views of drunkenness, and even the Three Wise Men. Eight of the 12 films provided inten tional laughs. The first of these, Steve Price's The Wrath of Gloob, witnessed intergalactic scurrying and laser play in a campy, painted universe full of swinging spaceship models. While the aliens all looked suspiciously terrestrial (particularly the evil "Devo Man"), the mood was airy and the special effects teleportation, disintegration and other "actions'-, were fun. John Williams' Fond Memories detail young man's return to his childhood home in terms of psychological parody. Ominous black-and-white camera work, a yapping dog, close-ups of an angry mouth, and Munchkins singing on the soundtrack contributed to a mood both schizophrenic and hilarious. The film defied interpretation, which was probably its express point. Williams' technique differed very slightly in another piece, Shades, which was nightmarish without comic relief. First in an open field, then on a super market sidewalk, a woman encountered a menacing figure with a bandaged, detachable head. Williams succeeded in evoking the claustrophobic atmosphere of dreams almost too well; the audience seemed to breathe a sigh of relief at the film's end. Another gripping entry was David Palmer's Photogenic, a standout in both technique and storytelling. At the end of a picnic, a girl gives her boyfriend an instant camera for his birth- Sf?0GW mm& qui? oF running, tennis and taslietbal! shoes for men and omen 'merchandise limited to stock on hand sale ends March 31 st, 1384 50 OFF all warm-ups, rain gear & winter wear open Week Nights til 8 pm UNIVERSITY SQUARE (Next to Granville Towers) 942-1078 133W. Franklin v (rVlWn (ST When you go to see the American Express Starbound Talent Show, you may see some folks headed for bright lights, fame, and stardom. Or for, you guessed it, the gong. You never know until you go. So, be dazzled by a little dance. Be left speechless by a mime. Or get a touch of class with some classical music. In addition, hear some vocal ists and bands, with some prizes that will really beat the band like $500 in American Express Travelers Cheques. And, of course, you could also do something that requires little stage presence, but much presence of mind. Apply for the American ExpressCard. If you are a Graduating Senior with the promise of a $10,000 career oriented job, you may qualify. lust look for a student application on campus or call tfUUZ&tfUUU This is just one way that American Express is showing that we not only believe in your future, but we also believe in you now. The American Express Card. Don't r m & IE Look for an application on campus Great Hall March 29 8 P.M. Steve Murray Review day. No ordinary shutterbox, this: the boyfriend, snapping away, discovers a third figure developing and lur king behind his girlfriend in the pictures. Palmer handled the plot developments so to speak with admirable preci sion and a flair for suspense. At the end, applause was strong, but it was delayed while the people in the audience waited for their blood to run warm again. Back in the world of comedy, two films by John Schultz offered plenty of fun and little sanity. In Plant Island a shipwrecked captain dragged himself slowly onto a beach . while unbeknownst to him, the sound track featured switches in theme music and comic commentary from the film maker and a critic. Then, of course, came the hostile encounter with a shrub and a confrontation with the plant god himself. Car Bash featured reckless driving, a fender-dented and tread-marked dummy, U-turns and an assortment of highway il legalities all enacted in the name of fun. Another four-wheeled spoof was Peyton Reed's Drinkin' and Drivin': The Death of Johnny Quest. The simple plot dealt with the down-and-out rock V roller sliding drunkenly behind his steer ing wheel for a final spin through mortali ty. The film's main attraction was the high-speed, front-seat view of miles of street signs, fenders and, lastly, of a pedestrian victim. Drinkin' was co-directed by Grady Cooper, who appeared as the herp-f Reed's other film, Dirk Dugan: Private Eye. Dugan, a Raleigh-based send-up of the film noir and hardboiled detective flicks, started out well as the detective of the ti tle, aided by his attack cat, Trusty, pur sued criminals through an underground parking lot. But the movie literally disap peared due to underexposure. John Paul Middlesworth's The Big Party was easy to see, but it had so much going on in it that there was plenty to miss. The animated short consisted of egg shaped college students clustering, vomiting and coupling around a few beer kegs an entire party compressed into two hilarious minutes. But as funny as all the other comic films were, the most popular proved to be Rob Capwell's The Miracle of the Magi, an audacious presentation which literally put the old nativity story on its head. Introduced by a chorus on the sound track singing "We Three Kings" while the words of Matthew 2:8 appeared onscreen, Magi promised to be a tradi tional holiday film. But the first sight of the Wise Men dispelled the idea. Played by three upside-down human chins and mouths, crowns were propped on the actors' chins, their puppet eyes glued between chin and mouth. It's almost impossible to describe, but it was riotously funny to see. Baby. Jesus receiv ed the same unholy treatment, ensuring CGC not only charges of blasphemy but belly laughs as well. Somewhat stabilizing the zany highlights of Student Film Night were two other fine offerings, both documen taries, both different. Sharon Anton's Welcome to Carrboro emphasized the underside of that com munity, the poverty and alcoholism of its black population. Scenes of blacks work ing, washing other men's cars, or idling on the sidewalk underscored the subject of hopelessness. On the lighter side, Anton filmed the efforts of the Community Kitchen to alleviate some of Carrboro's problems. The film helped expose a section of socie ty that has been unjustly overlooked. The revelations of Barry Blackwelder's Cancer were more personal, moving deeply, subliminally, like a half remembered dream. A silent inventory of ordinary objects emptied shoes, ruins of breakfast, a crumpled newspaper and eyeglasses reconstructed someone that once was. Specifically, as the ending dedication revealed, that someone was Blackwelder's father, whose presence and absence the film sketched with haunting and tender attention. A suit laid out on a bed, a man recognizable by his eyes through 50 years of photographs a hat toppling from the hatrack Blackwelder's images hit home with sadness and clarity. It was fine film, a beautiful tribute and an ironic ending to an evening filled with the work of students who are looking ahead instead of back. From page 1 would allow the student activities fee to be altered with the approval of a simple majority of students voting in a cam puswide referendum back to the Rules and Judiciary Committee for further debate. Approval of an increase in the student activities fees currently requires a two thirds maiority of those students voting, provided 20 percent of those eligible vote. Parker said he proposed the bill because he feels the current system is not as democratic as a simple majority elec tion. "This bill is neither in favor of a fee increase or against it," he said. "I just feel that the current system does not en courage democracy and that the simple majority system is the way all the major offices are decided and how this issue should be decided." Other members of the Council pointed out that it might look bad that the CGC was sponsoring this bill so soon after a failed attempt to raise the fees. Ron Everett, CGC representative from District 13, said; "If we passed this bill it might look like some sort of power play on the part of the CGC to slip a fee in crease by the student body." FILM . . Carolina Union Filnj Com- iS mittee Applications avail- S jlj f able at Union Desk. Inter- """ f y views through Friday. JfCry March 30. Apply now. T Discount tickets at the Student Union CAROLINA CLASSIC Guess Who's Coming To Dinner 3:00 5:05 T" THE BIG CHILL ME 7:10 9:10 EAST FRANKLIN STREET 942-3061 - Just don't call them when you're in trouble. 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