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6A/Vednesday, November 21,1984/THE BLUE BANNER mm Smurfbusters, unite! By Dale McElrath Guest Columnist Don't get me wrong, I don't really watch Satur day morning cartoons. But I have accidentally caught a few of them...on ny way out to do very inr* poTtant things. But those I have seen are stupid. I mean, what is this "Shirttales" stuff? The adventures of Pamny Panda and her little friends just aren’t very excit ing. On top of that, Har dee's sold caricatures of them. Enough said. And what have Alvin, Theodore and Simon done —^apart from singing at 78 rpms—to deserve their own show? Not a whole lot. The other day, Alvin broke a lamp. That was the plot. Wow. Sounds a little bit like The Brady Bunch, doesn't it? Smurfs are blue. To me, that takes a little real ity out of the situation. Not that the names Saairf- ette and Papa &mrf... Wait a second, what does the word "smurf" mean anyway? There*s another problem with the Smurfs. They’re teaching children to speak wrongly. If you can’t think of a proper word, just say it's "anurfy" or "smurfilicious." I just hear the conversations that *11 take place in about 10 years: Guy: "Well darling, I think you're...very., amirfy." Girl: "You don't know how long I've waited to hear someone say those words to me. You're smurfilicious." This is serious stuff. I mean, what's happened to the old classics: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosem- ite Sam, Foghorn Leg horn...? The list is end less. Now those were some cartoons with guts. Of course, I guess they did have some peculiar qualities. Okay, Dsiffy Duck is certifiably insane. But that doesn't stop him from being a heckuva' good role model for oui kids. Children should realize if you point a shotgun at your head and pull the trigger....you run the risk of getting your beak blown off. And Bugs Bunny ml^it get a little carried away now and then. But again, children should know if you stand on top of 500 tons of dynamite, you could be blown all the way to the moon. Yosemite Sam... Well, I like to think of Yosemite as the personification of the worst mood the child could ever e3q>erience, with a red mustache on it. And Foghorn Leghorn teaches kids if you take some nitroglycerin, call it "sodie pop" and watch VV • Clinics • Repairs • Cross Country • Repairs PGPSl THECHOICeOF A NEW GBMER AT10M it fizz—you'll get blown up. So let's go back to the good old days of realis tic cartoons; days when characters could get blown up or fall from great heights without personal injury; days when it was okay to be totally insane. Besides, there's no thing wrong with a little insanity. Th-th-th-that' s all folks ! Hungarian chamber music The KODALY QUARTET will perform an evening of chamber music on Fri., Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in Lipinsky Auditorium. The Quartet consists of: Mihaly Barta, first vio lin; Tamas Szabo, second violin; Gabor Fias, viola; and Janos Devich, violin- cello. All four of them ob tained their diplomas at the Budapest "Ferenc Liszt" Academy of Music. As members of the former Sebestyen C,^rtet, Szabo, Fias, and Devich won the jury's special diploma at the Geneva International Competition' for String Quartet Ensembles in 1966. They also scored a sig nal success by clinching first prize at the Buda pest International "Leo Weiner" Competition for String Quartets in 1%8. In recognition of their outstanding artistic mer its, they were decorated with the "Ferenc Liszt" Award by the Hungarian State in 1970. Also in 1970, the quar tet adopted the style "Ko- daly" Quartet, with the concurrence of the Hungar ian Ministry of Culture and Education. Besides giving a string of performances in Hunga ry's concert halls, the quartet regularly goes on the air and appears on the Hungarian TV network, too. Admission: Free to UNCA students. $7 for all oth ers. » Staff Photo by Sylvia Hawkins VIBRAHHONISr G4BY BIKICN proves that two hands sound better t-han one dnring a jazz concert by the Gary Barton Quartet Friday nl^it in Lipinsl^ Audltoriu*. All that jazz! By A lana Jones Normally, jazz isn't one of my favorite kinds of music. But when the Gary Burton Quartet performed in Li pinsky Auditorium Friday night, their powerful and magnetic style proved to me that jazz isn't just what our parents used to listen to. The group features Gary Burton on \^braphones; Mar- koto Ozone on the key board; Steve Swallow on bass; and Mike Hyman on drums. These guys were terrif ic. When they played, I felt like I was at the Waldorf, and the year was 1940. Gary Burton is certainly no new face to the world of jazz. In 1968, Downbeat Magazine gave him the ti tle of "Jsizzman of the Year," as well as "Best Vlbist" from 1969-1984. Burton is presently a member of the music facul ty at Berklee College in Boston. Although all the songs the Quartet played were good, my favorite was W* In Meroedes, one of tne group's original com positions . Lively and jolting, this piece re minded me of the Roaring Twenties and "The Great Gatsby." In Your Quiet Place, Keith Jarrod, was another piece I particularly en joyed. More mellow than the other songs, this classic was soft and soothing. 1 Need You Here, another original con5)osition, was a contenporary love song, and was quiet, relaxing and much less frenzied than most of the group's other numbers. I think I had as much fun watching the perform ers as I did listening to their music. I could eas ily tell by their enthusi asm and excitement that Burton, Ozone, Swallow, and ^man were enjoying every moment of the show. Syndrome, Tangleaood 63, and Careful rounded out the one-and-a-half hour program. These snazzy tunes gave the audience a show to remember. The Gary Burton Quartet made the great jazz, hits of the *30*s and '40's come alive again.
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