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By BETH MECKLEY
"One character is sort of a redneck
character," he said. "One is a shy, so
cially inept nerd. Another is an activist.
And the last one is just kind of a prep
pie. It's just all about the crazy things
that happen to them."
STV recently got a new camera, and
next week the station expects a new
character generator to arrive. The new
machine will allow them to do more
with the use of words on the screen,
said station manager Tena Williamson.
Other equipment that will soon be
available for STV is a computer graph
ics system and other machinery that
will make the finished footage look
more professional.
STV will go on the air on Oct. 2, and
can be seen Monday through Thursday
from 5:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m.
Three other shows will air this sea
son, including "General College," a
student-oriented soap opera produced
by Jason Lyon. "Off the Cuff is a
comedy show similar to "Saturday
Night Live," produced by Philip Brown,
and "Campus Profile" is a news pro
gram produced by Alex Burnett.
Because of the station's affiliation
with the National College Television
Network, "General College" will be
nationally syndicated and broadcast to
other college stations.
Other programs shown on STV will
come from the NCTV broadcast, Wil
liamson said.
"We get the rest of the shows from
NCTV, and they're produced by differ
ent college campuses all over the coun
try," Kelly said.
The station also plans to work with
The Critic and the Campus Y later this
year, and will cover the Student Con
gress budget meeting, Williamson said.
STV is holding an organizational
meeting today at 7 p.m. in Dey 303 for
students interested in working with the
station. "What we need is people who
want to get involved and who are will
ing to do some work. It's good experi
ence and it looks very good on a res
ume," Williamson said.
Staff Writer
New equipment and new program
ming will be a part of Student
Television's new season.
"Those Crazy College Kids," based
on student life at UNC, "is about four
roommates going to Chapel Hill, and
they each sort of represent a stereotype
here at Carolina," said Chris Kelly, one
of the new show's producers.
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Arts and Featares
Windham Hill release signals folk
Folk music.
It's been around since music
began, but most people think of folk
music as the sound of the '60s, Bob
Dylan and Joan Baez being the he
roes of the time.
Folk is also often synonymous
with "protest song," but it is as widely
varied as the category of "rock V
roll." It includes everything from
protest songs to love songs, with a
simplicity indicative of its hand-me-down
roots.
The 1970s saw much less empha
sis on folk music in the mainstream.
But today, folk is back stronger than
ever. Some of the most popular
musicians of the '80s are Bruce
Springsteen and John Mellencamp.
And of course Melissa Etheridge
and Michelle Shocked have their
own loyal followings.
For the first time since the '60s,
it's chic to have a folk sound.
Now Windham Hill, the label best
known for its so-called New Age
releases, has compiled Legacy, A
Collection of New Folk Music.
In the liner notes, Windham Hill
attributes the album's release to the
recent success of Suzanne Vega and
Tracy Chapman.
Each of the IS artists on Legacy is
less of a folk singer in the traditional
sense, and more of a singer-song-
World-famous African musician to perform tonight
By VICKI HYMAN
Staff Writer
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, called
"Africa's most famous contemporary
musician" by The New York Times,
will play in Memorial Hall today at 8
p.m.
The conceit is sponsored by the Black
Cultural Center (BCC) and the UNC
African Student Association (ASA).
"He is, I'm told, the legendary king
of African music in the world today,"
said Margo Crawford, director of the
BCC. "It will be a total experience,
reflective of the totality of traditional
African culture. Fela has a 35-piece
band, dancers, singers. It will be, for all
of us, a trip to Africa, led by the mag
nificent Fela Anikulapo-Kuti."
Crawford described Fela as "inter
PlayMakers
By HASIE SIRISENA
Staff Writer
Appropriately enough, PlayMakers
Repertory Company opens their fall
season with a play about the renewal of
life, Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry
Orchard."
Set in Russia around the turn of the
century, the play focuses on the lives of
several characters as they struggle to
keep up with a rapidly transforming
society.
"I think Chekhov is lamenting the
loss of the old way of life, and at the
same time fully acknowledging that
there is no way it could be preserved,"
said guest artist Earle Edgerton.
The play centers on the lives of two
characters, Lyubov and Lopakhin.
Lyubov is a member of the landed
gentry and owner of the estate where
the play takes place. Her land and her
status are slowly decreasing, but she
cannot seem to do what is necessary to
save them.
Lopakhin is part of the new, rising
class of businessmen who are slowly
usurping the wealth and position of the
aristocrats. He must deal with the guilt
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for the genre. They have each worked
to establish their place as musicians,
and many of them have released mate
rial previously. Some have worked with
big names such as Vega, Chapman and
10,000 Maniacs.
Legacy appropriately begins with the
title cut, performed by Pierce Pettis.
The song gives an overview for the
album and tries to loosely define folk
music. It sounds the most like tradi
tional folk, in the vein of Woodie
Guthrie. With lyrics like "It is a legacy
Passed down to you and me What
we're taught to believe We never
question these things," the song tries to
show what folk music and the album
are all about.
Folk music tries to do more than just
entertain; it tells stories, and it often
brings a social problem to the forefront.
Many songs on Legacy do just that.
"My Name Joe" by David Massen
gill tells the story of all illegal aliens
through the story of Joe. He captures
the fear and frustration of trying to
survive in the United States illegally.
The song is wistful and sorrowful, with
nationally renowned and ... a tremen
dous political figure in Nigeria.
Ufo Okeke, president of the ASA,
secured Fela for the concert. "We've
been working for quite some time to get
an African group to perform," Okeke
said. "Fela has been playing around the
country at a much higher price. The
reason we set tickets so low is to en
courage American students to go out
and sample a different music."
According to Fela, "The music of
Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a
community. It's music of togetherness.
The tonalities, the rhythms of the songs,
it's all African. We have 43 people on
tour, and a full show uses 35 of them.
People tell me my band is too big, that
I can't go on tour. They try to use
economics to destroy the culture of my
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and the fear that he does not reallv
deserve his new wealth.
"The Cherry Orchard" was first
produced as a heavy, ponderous tear
jerker. Chekhov, however, never in
tended for the play to be a tragedy. He
originally planned to call the play "The
Cherry Orchard, a Comedy in Four
Acts." Under the direction of David
Hammond, PlayMakers' production,
unlike many previous productions, takes
the approach that the play should be
treated as a humorous and sensitive
portrayal of tragic events.
"There is a very fresh feeling about
this production," said guest artist Ray
Dooley, who plays Lopakhin. "It's a
human comedy. We laugh and cry with
these people because they're recogniz
able characters behaving in familiar
ways."
Guest artist Sheriden Thomas, who
plays the character Lyubov, described
her character as very human. "Forced
to come home, she doesn't fit there. It
(home) no longer is there even ... She
has to deal with this and it all comes to
ahead."
The play focuses on relationships,
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a poignancy that shows an understand
ing of the problem that is becoming
ever more prominent in this country.
Lillie Palmer's "Insanity Street" is a
simple song with a lot to say. Based on
a poem by Eunice Anttalainen, the song
is a quiet plea for an end to the arms
race. But its lyrics speak loudly: "... we
make and we store All the weapons of
war 'causeiWt live on Insanity Street."
Even Central America gets a men
tion with Sara Hickman's "Salvador."
This song evokes an image of a lone
singer, sitting center stage while spotlit
from above just a woman and her
guitar.
One of the most interesting songs on
Legacy is "When You Were Mine,"
performed by the Blue Rubies. Many
listeners would recognize this as one of
Prince's early songs, but it is an unex
pected arrangement. It begins with a
lute rendition of the hymn tune most
recognizable as the Doxology and ends
with an Irish-sounding lilt. The song
laments a lost love, simply enough, but
it is Susan Maunu's strange, airy, al
most nasal voice that makes it stand
out.
The artists on Legacy have musical
backgrounds as varied as the songs
themselves. Practically every style from
classical to country to pseudo-punk is
represented, as well as every energy
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Known as the king of Afrobeat, Fela
created his style from a mixture of
traditional Nigerian and James Brown
music and late 1960s jazz. His songs
are a blend of percussion from ances
tral hand drums, riffs from the nine
member horn section, backup vocals
from five women, and Fela's own deep,
dry baritone, with lyrics in a mixture of
pidgin English and Nigerian languages.
Fela also promotes his politics
through his music. As one of Nigeria's
most outspoken left-wing dissidents,
Fela, 5 1 , has spent most of the last two
decades challenging the many regimes
both democratic and military that
have controlled his country. And it has
cost him.
Thomas said. The actors and characters
in relationships with each other give
the play depth, she said.
"This , is the most truly ensemble
play I've been in," Thomas said. "David
(Hammond) has tied stuff together and
has given everybody a reason to speak
... Playing Chekhov is the richest of
anything that I have done so far."
Though the play is at times difficult,
the challenge is well worth it, she said.
What is wonderful about it, she said, is
"the size, the basic humanity ... the
need to be as big as you can be. This
isn't a toilet roll commercial. This isn't
doing a bit part in a movie."
Edgerton, who plays Gayev, de
scribed the play as very challenging
and difficult to act. He called it a mix of
very "curious physical comedy" and
"rich, deep writing."
He found a lot of potential in his
character for humor and pathos. "My
character ... is a charming, loving 51-
' year-old man who is totally inept. He is
not equipped to deal with the raoidlv
changing society that he finds himself
in. This role has the potential to be
funnier than I ever thought possible,"
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and urgent. In this day and age of the
"I've been beaten nearly to death,"
Fela said. "The government put me in
prison. I went through 20 years of suf
fering, so it's not pleasant to do what I
am doing.
"We're very backward. The African
continent is degenerating into what I
call 'the era of second slavery, and it's
caused by a conspiracy of western
governments on one side and illegal
African governments on the other side
operating without a constitution. My
government is like that: a military
government that runs the country by
decree."
Fela explained his view of the situ- issues," he said. "It makes sense cultiv
ation in Africa: "Privatization in Nige- ally as well. In Africa, we don't sing
ria is selling the government to indi- really about love. We sing about hap
viduals, and with the debt equity swap, penings. That's the tradition: there are
the World Bank is ruining my country no love songs like 'Darling, Kiss Me."
he said.
Director David Hammond expressed
a similar enthusiasm for the play and
the production. "It's true that 'The
Cherry Orchard' captures brilliantly the
restless world of pre-revolutionary
Russia. But I think that the real theme
of the play is that change is the essence
of life itself. It's sometimes painful,
and sometimes welcome, but it's going
to happen, and all of us must find ways
to live with it."
PlayMakers Repertory Company will
present Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry
Orchard" through Oct. 8. Perform
ances are held in the Paul Green The
atre at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Satur
day and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets can
be bought at the box office. For more
information, call 962-1121.
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with what it owns. It means my country
is on the market.
"It's happening in Nigeria, Ghana.
These leaders accept this arrangement,
which makes me feel that they are agents
for the Western system they do
everything they have the guns to per
secute, and people are becoming poorer
and poorer, which is making life diffi
cult for Africans."
Music is one way to paint a political
picture for a wider audience, Fela said.
"That's the only way a wider audience
will get acquainted with the imoortant
Tickets for the 8 p.m. show can be
purchased at the BCC, located in the
Student Union. Tickets are $6 for stu
dents and $7 for the general public. For
more information, call at 962-9001.
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By KATHERINE HOUSTON
Staff Writer ' '.
The Carolina Union Activities Board
(CUAB) is accepting applications '
through Monday for students interested
in developing the cultural, educational
and social opportunities available at
unc. ; ;
Students can choose from 1 2 CUAB I
committees that organize student pro- '
gramming such as movies, Cabaret '
performances, Union Gallery spaces, '
speakers and concerts. ' '
Applications are available at the" '
Union desk. Applications will be avails
able until Friday and are due Monday.- v
Most committees will interview appli-- .
cants.
Billy Pizer, CUAB president, em- ''
phasized that the organization is en-, '
tirely student-run.
"All ideas and all executions are
done by the students. Throughout all-
committees there is space to get in-
volved in different levels of responsi-
bility and time commitment."
Mark Ricker, film committee chair-,
man, said his committee is looking for '
students with a working knowledge of
the film industry as well as students "
with a general interest in films. The
film committee chooses and obtains .
films to be shown in the Union to stu-
dents for free or for a low admission '
price.
Another CUAB committee is the
gallery committee, which is respon
sible for planning, promoting and in
stalling exhibits in the Union gallery
and lobby. Luke Powell's "The Afghan
Folio" is now in the gallery. -
The social committee is looking for
students to represent the campus in
choosing and planning social events.
Jill Balloun, publicity committee
chairman, recommends this committee
for advertising, art and marketing ma
jors. The group provides advertising
for Union events.
"Many students find that by working
on this committee, they are able to
build a portfolio of their works that
might be useful in their future."
The Cabaret committee brings vari
ous performers to the Cabaret, UNC's
night club. The Cabaret provides enter
tainment four nights a week and during
lunch on weekdays. Music, plays and
local talent are featured every week.
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