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Bishop sees musical future
By SHIELDS BREWER
Staff Writer
Tristan Bishop's room looks like
a shrine to Marilyn Monroe. In be
tween the 30-odd posters are the
programs of all the musicals and
concerts in which he has performed.
Bishop, a junior music major from
Chapel Hill, sings everything from
opera and Broadway show tunes to
rap and rock. He has been perform
ing since the age of 3 and has been
busy ever since. He now is involved
with the Clef Hangers, local band
Lost Cause and the Pauper Players.
His mother, who is a folk singer,
first sparked his interest in music.
"She brought me on stage at the age
of 3 to sing with her and I've been
there ever since."
Bishop grew up touring with her
band and attended 10 different
schools before college. "I've been
everywhere from India to Rome to
Malibu to New York."
When he started junior high
school, the two moved to Miami. He
started his first pop band, called The
Jets, at the age of 12.
"All of us were 1 1 to 13 except for
our producer," Bishop said. "I was
the lead singer."
The group broke up when Bishop
and his mother moved to North
Carolina a year later, but his interest
in music persisted.
After enrolling at Chapel Hill
Senior High School, he joined the
theater group.
When he graduated from high
school, Bishop took a year off to do
some songwriting. "My junior year
Lab Theatre's season
promises
j By ERIC ROSEN
.'Staff Writer
Vi' "He was in the wrong place at the
worst possible time. Naturally, he be-
lAcame a hero," reads the placard for the
Lab Theatre's first production of the
1989 fall season, Larry Shue's "The
ir. Foreigner."
The show opens in an antiquated
living room m a rural tarm nouse in
Tilghman County ,Kja. Two hours south
of Atlanta, the area has become a hot
vacation spot for jet setters and yup-
i-pies, while the poorer rural roiK are
being eclipsed in importance.
To this scene comes an assortment
of characters in the most unlikely of
situations.
Catherine, an aristocratic debutante,
and her almost illiterate brother, Ellard,
have come to the house from Atlanta
after their father's death. Catherine has
been courted by and is now engaged to
the Rev. David Marshall Lee, who is
The Board of Trustees
and the Chancellor
of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
invite you and your family to
University Day
Featuring an address by
. Chancellor Paul Hardin
and the presentation of
Distinguished Alumnus Awards
to
Franklin Taylor Branch of Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Anne Coffin Hanson of New Haven, Connecticut
Alexander Julian 11 of Greenwich, Connecticut
Warren Winkelstein Jr. of Point Richmond, California
4 Jonathan Yardley of Baltimore, Maryland
University Day Commemorates the 196th Anniversary of the
laying of the Cornerstone of Old East, October 12, 1793.
Thursday, October 12, 1989
at
11:00 a.m.
Memorial Hall
University classes will be
suspended from 10:00 a.m. to
1:00 p.m. Normal office activity,
except for clinical services, will
be suspended between the hours of
10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Staff are
encouraged to attend.
of high school I had started doing some
song-writing heavily influenced by
Billy Joel and Elton John."
He enrolled at UNC as a voice major
two years ago and became active in the
Men's Glee Club. He was president by
his sophomore year.
Bishop also joined STV's General
College, where he was cast as night
club singer Ken Bullock.
During his sophomore year he put
together a rock band called the Confes
sions, his first group since The Jets. The
group performed several times in the
area last spring but broke up this year.
Bishop recently entered the world of
directing. "This summer I worked at
The Farmhouse in Blowing Rock. We
did musicals, but I also directed a
numbercalled 'Once Upon aMattress,'"
he said.
Bishop now is a member of the Clef
Hangers, UNC's 13-member men's a
cappella group that specializes in bar
ber shop and popular music.
"It's an amazing time commitment,"
Bishop said. "I've had to leave The
Confessions and the Glee Club. The
Clef Hangers is the first equal team I've
ever been on. I enjoy not being in charge
all the time. I'm smart enough to know
that the real world doesn't revolve
around me."
Bishop also has joined a group called
the Pauper Players, which will be per-
forming "Grease" later this semester.
The group should give incoming stu-
dents a way to get involved in music
and theater, he said.
But there's more to Bishop than just
music. In addition to his voice studies,
he will be getting his minor in political
uproarious
somehow sinisterly connected to Owen
Musser, the Tilghman County property
inspector. To further complicate mat
ters, Musser wants to have the house
condemned.
The house is owned by Betty Meeks,
a sweet old Southern lady trying to
profit from the new market of vacation
ers. Enter two vacationers, who, in
stead of being executives from Atlanta,
are unexpected travelers from England.
The foreigners are as different from
each other and from the Southern folk
as night and day. Froggy is charismatic
and energetic, personable and charm
ing. Charlie, the true foreigner, is pain
fully shy and has little personality.
"The basic message of the play is
that people aren't so bad no matter
where you come from," says senior
Bob Wallace from Charlotte, who is di
recting the production. "But the good
guys don't necessarily finish last."
"The Foreigner" is the first Lab show
The University's Birthday Party
with ice cream and cake
will follow the exercises
outside Memorial Hall.
Tristan Bishop
science.
"This helps me to know what's
going on in the world. That helps me
to know what I want to write about,"
he said. "If I don't become a pop star,
I'll become a senator. You'd think a
senator could get his music heard.
"I do want my music career to be
short and successful so my kids can
grow up in a neighborhood, and not
on a tour bus."
Bishop is optimistic about the fu-
ture. "This is my plan: I'm going to
L.A. to record with members of my
mother's rock band. I'll record pop
rock demos and see if I can get a
contract. I really believe I can make
it."
opener
comedy
for Connie Zaytoun, a sophomore from
Raleigh who plays Catherine. Zaytoun
said she felt a bit pressured. "It has been
a very concentrated rehearsal process,
but it's been nothing but exciting for
me.
Zaytoun described the show as a
combination of humor and drama. "It's
hysterical, it's funny, but it's got sub
stance and meaning to it as well."
Patrick Emerson, a sophomore from
Sussex, England, who plays Froggy,
agreed. "It's extremely amusing; poign
antly written."
But he warned against reading too
much into the play. "It should be seen
as a light comedy ... You can get any
thing else out of it you want."
Wallace said he chose the play for its
comic elements. "It's the funniest play
I've ever read. Every time I read it I
laugh out loud."
The Lab Theatre will present "The
Foreigner" on Sunday, Oct. 8 and Mon
day, Oct. 9 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. and on
Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. Admission is
free. The Lab Theatre is located in the
basement of Graham Memorial Hall.
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UNC FALL
Mark your calendars now for fun
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Priceof $10 per person. Student Price $5.
Refreshments Provided
Contact the Alumni Office at (919) 962-7053
for reservations or more information.
Tickets on sale in the Pit Oct 4-6 and at the door.
Shag
By LAURA WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Living at Carolinas' beaches the
land of ducktails, weejuns and Wer
litzer jukeboxes has long been a
Summer tradition for college students,
and for some, the way of the beach is a
way of life.
The shag, a staple of beach life, has
long endured the many generations of
beach bums. Its popularity continues
inland today, even in Chapel Hill. .
Shag dancing was created in the '40s
by white teenagers listening to "race
music" or early rhythm and blues.
The look? For boys: long slicked
back hair with a ducktail, V-neck
sweater and baggy pants. For girls:
short shorts and sandals.
The attitude is cool and dejected
you don't really have to act like you are
enjoying it. It's an attitude born out of
the teenage desire to rebel against all
that parents deem acceptable.
"Shagging goes with the beach, a
beer in one hand and a girl in the other,"
said Jean Trout, who teaches social
dance at UNC.
Along the "Grand Strand" of North
and South Carolina, college kids of the
'40s and '50s spent their nights in the
local hangouts, waiting to dance to the
soulful beat of black artists' music
music you couldn't find on the radio.
Standing by the Werlitzer juke box,
they waited for someone to come along
who could afford to set it into motion.
And then the dance could begin.
The shag a midtempo dance made
up of shuffling up-and-back steps is
sensual and uniquely Carolinian. For
merly referred to as "beach dancing,"
shagging evolved from the jitterbug.
But as the dance evolved, it became
slower and less boppity, Trout said.
One reason for the dance's popular
ity is that "students are used to dancing
separately but want to dance together
as couples," Trout said. And although
partners don't hold hands "ring around
the rosy" style, it's still a dance for
couples, she said.
This year students have created the
UNC Shag Club for those interested in
shagging, said Chris Morton, the club's
co-president. The club meets every other
Wednesday in Carmichael Residence
Hall's ballroom and hopes to make a
trip to the beach during Spring Break.
Part oftthe dance's appeal is that
anyone can do it, said club member
David Lipsitz. "It's so easy to pick up
on and learn."
Despite the dance's local popularity,
few people outside of the Carolinas
N.C. Symphony unveils season lineup
By GRETCHEN DAVIS
Staff Writer
The North Carolina Symphony has
an array of concerts coming up this
season under the skillful direction of
maestros Gerhardt Zimmermann and
James Ogle. Performances will range
from a Mozart festival and a Mahler
Symphony to a pops concert, and will
feature guest performers Nathaniel
Rosen, Philippe Entremont and John
Cheek.
The Symphony will open its season
in Chapel Hill on Friday with a pro
gram consisting of Debussy's "Prelude
a l'apres-midi d'un faune," Haydn's
Concerto in D major for Cello and
Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Sym
phony No. 5 in E minor. James Sedares,
principal guest conductor and music
adviser of the Phoenix Symphony, will
conduct the program.
The Haydn Concerto will feature
Rosen, the internationally acclaimed
cellist and heir apparent to his late
mentor, the legendary Gregor Piati
gorsky. Rosen won the prestigious Walter
W. Naumburg Competition in 1977 and
was the first American cellist to win the
Tchaikovsky International
Competition's Gold Medal in 1978. He
GERMANS
Return to the Elegance
Relive the Tradition
of the
UNC Fall Germans Dance
Friday, October 6f 1989
Woollen Gym .
9:00 P.M. -1:00 A.M.
Featuring the music of
The Casablanca Orchestra.
Sponsored by the UNC General
Alumni Association in conjunction
with the Order of the Bell Tower,
the Class of '90 and the Carolina
Parents Association.
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know what the shag is.
Yet its popularity surges among those
who understand the attitude of Myrtle
has performed with many of the world's
greatest orchestras. While principal
cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra, he gave the premiere per
formance of Robert Linn's "Fantasia
for Cello and Chamber Orchestra" com
missioned by Sir Neville Marriner.
The second Chapel Hill concert of
the season will be a Holiday Pops
Concert directed by Ogle, the
Symphony's associate conductor, on
Nov. 21. The program will feature se
lections by Bizet, Mozart and Bach, as
well as a variety of popular Christmas
music.
The season will continue with three
concerts in the spring.
On Feb. 8, the ensemble will per
form a joint concert with the Charlotte
Symphony. Mahler's Symphony No. 7
in E minor will be the featured work. It
will be conducted by Zimmermann,
who proved his talent for conducting
Mahler last spring, when a group of
choral musicians from all around the
state came together with the orchestra
in March to perform Mahler's 8th
Symphony.
Zimmermann also will conduct a
Mozart festival on March 24, including
such musical favorites as Mozart's
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, his
Concertos No. 17 and No. 23 for piano
and orchestra, and his Divertimento in
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Beach's Grand Strand. To them, the
shag is more than a dance it's a way
of life.
D major.
The guest pianist featured will be
French-born Entremont, music direc
tor of the Denver Symphony and Life
time Conductor of the Vienna Cham
ber Orchestra. He made his widely
acclaimed American debut at the age of
19 in 1953, and has since performed as
piano soloist with most of the major
orchestras of the world.
He has conducted such orchestras as
the Royal Philharmonic, L'Orchestre
National de France, Oslo Philharmonic,
Ensemble Orchestre de Paris, the Acad
emy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields, in
addition to guest-conducting a number
of North American symphonies.
The Symphony's final conceit for
the season will be held May 3, when
Zimmermann will conduct the orches
tra with Cheek, bass-baritone, in a
performance of "An Orkney Wedding
With Sunrise" by Davies, and Falla's
Suite No. 2 from "The Three-Cornered
Hat."
Cheek made his debut at the Metro
politan Opera in 1977, and has excelled
in every opera and concert perform
ance he has given, singing primarily
title roles. He has appeared with many
other opera companies in this country
and has been soloist in a variety of
oratorios and symphonic works with
almost all of the major orchestras on the
North American continent.
All N.C. Symphony concerts will be
presented at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall
on the UNC campus. For tickets con
tact the Raleigh Civic Center box office
at 1-800-292-7469.
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