6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, March 24, 1 988
Noble Savages
to play varied show
at local nightclub
By DAVID HESTER
Staff Writer
A new local band named Noble
Savages will show off its eclectic mix
of rhythm and blues, funk, pop and
jazz in a concert tonight at Magdel
ena's La Terraza.
The band shows its wide range of
stylistic influences by playing covers
of songs like The Pretenders' "Back
to Ohio," Bob Marley's "Exodus" and
Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."
Although the band's music includes
elements of a variety of different
musical styles, said vocalist and
drummer Scott Irwin, band members
try to fuse these different styles
together to create their own unique
sound.
The band's material is about 70
percent original, with songs primarily
written by Scott Irwin and his brother
Steve, the group's guitarist. "We're
mainly a dance band," Scott Irwin
said, "but we also try to use our lyrics
and music to provoke people to
think."
Both Irwin brothers did not
become deeply involved w ith rock 'n'
roll until their late teens, Irwin said,
since they both had received classical
musical training throughout their
childhoods. Steve Irwin combined his
Excess of
The Carolina Union's Cabaret
Theatre, located in the basement of
the Student Union, held its first ever
performance Wednesday night with
the preview show of "A Poetics for
Bullies," a short story written by
Stanley Elkin and adapted to stage
by Paul Ferguson of the performance
studies faculty.
The show is multi-media, which
neans that it runs the gamut from
ideo including live video, dance
and music to, of course, good old
fashioned (so to speak) acting It all
begins on the video screen, with
strange faces flashing across to the
accompaniment of "Bad to the Bone."
The narrator of the show, Keith
Kashiwada, is present, picking up
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classical and rock V roll backrounds
by studying guitar at the University
of Cincinnati, and both brothers
decided to form a band and commit
themselves completely to popular
music about two years ago.
The Noble Savages were originally
called the Nocturnal Emissions, and
they played around the Chapel Hill
area under that name early last year.
The band changed its name in
September of last year, and it has
since played gigs in clubs from
Georgia to Virginia. Scott Irwin said
that the band plans on recording its
first album this summer and hopes
to circulate the album around record
companies in the fall.
In addition to the Irwin bothers,
the band's lineup includes Robert
Keller on sax and Andy Morton on
bass and vocals.
The band's concert tonight will
feature guest mandolin player Ed
Butler, Irwin said. The band will play
an acoustic set with Butler, and it will
also play two electric sets.
Noble Savages will appear at
Magdelena's La Terraza, 508 IV.
Franklin St. Call 967-3277 for
information.
American
Julie Olson
Theater
various symbols of American life,
such as the omnipresent baseball and
glove.
The first thought of one who has
gone into the show cold, with no idea
of its content, is "Oh yeah, this is one
of those weird performance art-type
things." But that is a harsh oversim
plification. This is a story of excess,
an excess exemplified in American
society. Elkin is quoted on the
handbill that such overstatements are
what gives America its character.
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Whatever the case, the story centers
around the conflict between the bully,
Push, played by both an interior
(Kashiwada) and by an exterior
(Scott Edlein), and the hero John
Williams (David Csizmadia).
Push had ruled his neighborhood
with petty con tricks and threats until
the arrival of Williams. Williams is
the prince, the savior of the children
being bothered by Push. With a
constant and fast-paced change in the
media used, the Cabaret audience is
shown the impending struggle
between the two.
The Cabaret is arranged in restau
rant style, scattered with tables
covered in quaint red and white
checked cloths. Perhaps because of
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the shape restrictions in the basement
or the inherent difficulties of placing
a stage on the same level as the
audience, not all the tables have a
good view of the action.
For those who are invariably late
to everything, only the poor viewing
tables remain. All is not lost, though;
those who are 21 are allowed to bring
wine into the theatre. So anyone who
Pianist's performance
Eugene Istomin brought his Stein
way grand piano and music by some
of the most famous classical compos
ers to Memorial Hall Tuesday even
ing. As an event on the Carolina
Union Performing Arts Series, Istom
in 's performance was a conventional,
beautifully played recital.
Stylistically, Istomin's program
consisted of music of the Classical
and Romantic periods. Opening with
Haydn's Sonata in A Major, he
demonstrated his ability to play in
the standard clean classical style.
Ornamenting Haydn's notes pre
cisely, he avoided transforming the
sonata into something pseudo
Baroque. A pair of Schubert Impromptus
followed the sonata. Istomin first
played the quietly rolling No. 3 in
G-flat Major and then went into the
more dramatic No. 2 in E-flat Major.
The largest work on the program
was Beethoven's Sonata in C Major
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doesn't like the low, or who can't
see what is goi? on, still has the
option of gettinpp-roaring drunk.
What does thelay mean? Is it only
a collection of e graffiti of Amer
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thing much deer? "A Poetics for
Bullies" is a roduction of the
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was the mai melody of the second
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hands, the t'me came across with
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it of course depends on the individual,
but this show is different at least in
that, being a very visual production,
it must really be seen to be
appreciated.
A Poetics for Bullies will be at the
Union Cabaret tonight through
Saturday night, starting at 8 p.m.
each night. Tickets are available at
the Carolina Union Box Office.
impressive
Istomin is not a particularly showy
performer. As a veteran pianist with
scads of impressive credentials, he
does not have to sell himself. He was
so unpretentious that he actually
came on stage after intermission
before the lights were dimmed and
the audience seated.
Generally restrained in his playing
style, Istomin did occasionally get
physically expressive. In the Rachma
ninoff Etude-Tableau, for instance,
he got carried away with the exu
berance of the piece and took to foot
stomping with his non-pedaling foot.
Istomin performed well in Chapel
Hill, and concertgoers could plainly
see how the steady, talented pianist
could hold his own playing with
colleagues of the caliber of Pablo
Casals, Isaac Stern and Leonard
Rose. After a lifetime of performing,
he showed Tuesday that he still has
the knack.
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