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8The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, April
Clef Hangers concert promises
same tu nefu I talent, new songs
By ASHLEY CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
The Clef Hangers concert Fri
day night in Memorial Hall is
unconditionally guaranteed to be
worth more than the $3 ticket
price, according to one of the
group's members.
"Of my five years with the
group, this will be the best concert
we've had," said senior Todd
Carter, a music education major
from Four Oaks.
The Clef Hangers, UNC's 12-year-old
male a cappella singing
group, present two concerts every
year.
x More than half the material for
this concert is new. "We have so
many new songs that our audience
has never heard before. We have
comedy, pop tunes, ballads, a
Scottish folk song and an original
song about the Clefs written by
member David Moffitt. Some
people in the audience will cry
because some of the songs are so
pretty."
Jake Washburn, a freshman
speech communications major
from Burlington, agreed. "It will
be a laid-back, good, enjoyable
evening. That is, if everything goes
right," he said.
And the Clefs have been work
ing hard to make sure that ever
ything goes well. They will spend
at least 20 hours practicing this
week, Carter said.
Washburn said he could tell the
first time he saw the group per
form that a lot of hard work went
into a performance. "I had never
seen anything like it. They were
having so much fun on stage and
sounded so good. You have to
know the music really well before
you can fool around with it."
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Moffitt, a senior music English
major from Winston-Salem, said,
"A cappella is different from other
types of singing because you have
to rely on your voice for everything
the melody, harmony and
rhythm.
. "It's challenging because you
don't have an instrument to lead
you through the music. You have
to find the notes yourself. You're
also completely exposed as a
singer because there isn't an
instrument to cover up your
mistakes."
The group normally practices
every Wednesday night from 8:45
until 11 and Sunday nights from
6 until 9. "Those are our set hours,
but they always run longer. Well
practice every night this week
because we want the best perfor
mance possible and that takes
time," Moffitt said.
Members of the Clefs have to
be committed to the group, but
Carter said they tell everyone who
auditions for the group that classes
come first and Clef Hangers has
to be your top extracurricular
activity. "If you have class, you
don't have to go to a concert," he
said.
The Clefs will hold auditions
next week. The 12-member group
will lose six seniors this spring.
"It's tough to choose new
members during auditions," Mof
fitt said. "We try to find who we
think will be the best. We look
for musical talent, good perfor
mances and a willingness to be
committed to the group. Commit
ment is very important."
Another aspect of the Clefs is
the strong friendship within the
group. "These are my best friends.
The great friendships in the group
cast, straight from the top floor of
the Student Union, with local bands
Chapter Two and Mary on the Dash.
Of course, the question is whether
you should go to the Cabaret and
see the bands live or listen to them
broadcast live on WXYC. But no
matter what you decide, the point is
that there is ample opportunity
tonight to support the local music
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make it special," he said.
Washburn said, "It's kind of like
a family, but it's not. It's hard to
describe. It's a solid group of guys
because each member is vital."
Kilty Reidy, a junior from
Charlotte, added that the group
is very fraternal.
The group has a couple of
performances a week, Moffitt said.
As well as performing on campus,
the Clefs sing for retirement
homes, churches, schools, resorts
and other colleges, such as Duke,
Georgetown and Meredith. They
have even performed at a wedding
and a reception of a former Clef
Hanger.
The group will occasionally sing
at dormitories, but these perfor
mances are spontaneous and
informal. "We wish we could do
it more because student body
support is very important to us,"
Moffitt said.
. He said the group strives for a
variety of styles, ranging from the
Beach Boys to barbershop quartet
and from spirituals to songs that
are on the radio now.
Tim Sparks, the Clef Hangers'
music director, chooses songs for
the group to sing each semester,
and members of the group arrange
songs that they sing, Moffitt said.
For example, member Paul Bow-'
man arranged a Beach Boys song
that the group will sing at Friday's
concert.
Only four of the Clefs are music
majors. "But we are all here
because we love music," Moffitt
said.
The Clef Hangers will perform
on Friday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in
Memorial Hall. Tickets are avail
able from members of the group.
feature 2 local groups' live performances
The Chapel Hill-based band Mary
on the Dash will have been together
for all of one year this July, but in
that short span they've played up and
down the East Coast, including a
show at New York's CBGB last
winter. Drummer David Liggett and
his brother Frank, the band's lead
vocalist and guitarist, have been
playing together for the past five
years. With the addition of ex-Hege
V guitarist David Thrower (a.k.a.
David Bratflyn on stage) and bassist
Rob Boyle, Mary on the Dash is
ready to roll. Or run. Or dash, even.
The band has high hopes for the
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uring possible recording contracts
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to tell how the band would do
commercially, but then again, judging
from the state of pop music, who
would even want to try to predict?
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By CARA BONNETT
Arts and Features Editor
Maybe it should be titled "Pavlov's
Contribution to Romance," or even
"Getting that Chick to Chill Out."
Either title could describe the Play
Makers Repertory Company's (PRC)
latest production: a modern-dress
"thinking man's version" of Shakes
peare's classic comedy "The Taming
of the Shrew."
The play, which will be presented
as a toned-down farce, interweaves
two love stories. The first, the
romance of Bianca and Lucretio, is
a conventional tale of wooing and
winning. But the relationship between
Katharina and Petruchio, the central
lovers in the play, is more of a battle
for mastery, characterized by fine
edged verbal swordplay.
"I think Kate and Petruchio are the
most modern lovers in Shakespeare,"
said PRC artistic director David
Hammond, who is directing the play.
"Certainly they're the funniest."
Guest artist Leslie Hicks, who plays
Katharina, said she relates to the play
on a personal level. "As a modern
woman, your instincts take over and
you respond to the text that way,"
she said.
"Kate is misunderstood. She
chooses a kind of communication
that is very alienating; she lashes out
and reacts in a bitter, negative way.
But she faces and corrects the flaws
in her personality, not because she
submits to male dominance but
because she is intelligent and has been
made to realize that her rigidities
make her dysfunctional. Petruchio
doesn't tame her spirit, but helps her
let go of what is useless and
cumbersome."
Petruchio, too, has his weaknesses,
according to guest artist Nick
Kaledin, who plays the "lion trainer"
Mary on the Dash members listen
to everything from classical to coun
try to funk and rock V roll but
diversity doesn't necessarily imply a
lack of cohesion. The group had two
of their songs featured on the Cat's
Cradle Final Week tape, but Frank
Liggett promised that the band has
been at the recording studio and
should have new tapes and new songs
circulating about town, including new
material for WXYC.
The group members are not serious
about themselves, but they are serious
about their music, Frank Liggett said.
Thrower added that the band prac
tices some and rehearses often,
explaining that practicing is some
thing you do by yourself with your
instrument, and rehearsing happens
when everyone gets together and
plays. Of course, he said, a band can
Media panel discusses
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Morton Dow
ney Jr. got outshouted. and didn't
smoke a single cigarette, and Geraldo
Rivera went nose-to-nose, unblood
ied this time.
And Larry King, who doesn't like
the "kinky" stuff, defended them all.
The occasion was a raucous, often
hilarious 90-minute program Wed
nesday pitting talk-show hosts and
other television luminaries against
leaders in the print media over what
constitutes news, good taste and
responsible journalism.
King took a stab at it. "It's a big
pie," said the USA Today columnist
and Mutual Radio and CNN televi
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to Katharina's feline side. "He doesn't
have all the answers," Kaledin said.
"He's just a stubborn guy who has
to have his own way. But he learns
that he has to yield and give."
According to Hammond, the play
lends itself well to a contemporary
interpretation because its themes are
applicable to modern relationships.
"It looks at the behavior and the role
playing we use to avoid making
ourselves vulnerable to others," he
said.
In agreement, Hicks said, "What
these characters realize is that, in the
best of relationships, you ultimately
help each other find the best in each
other."
The contemporary setting also
helps to make the play more access
ible to a modern audience. "It
removes the distance between the
actors and the audience," Kaledin
said. "Because it's set in our own time,
it's more like holding a mirror up to
your own life."
However, the setting introduces
several difficulties. "With the obvious
sexist aspects of the play, it's dan
gerous putting it in a modern setting,
just because we're so much more
conscious of that nowadays," he said.
In addition, the text does not
always reinforce the modern interpre
tation. "There are a lot of language
anachronisms, where we're trying to
bring out the relationship when the
text quite clearly says something
else," Hicks said.
For guest artist Tobias Andersen,
the production offers an opportunity
to explore the relationship between
Baptista and his two daughters,
Katharina and Bianca. "Baptista is
often played as the standard
befuddled father," said Andersen,
who has played Baptista in a more
traditional production with a differ
rehearse a lot and still stink, but that's
other bands.
Thrower said, "Music is such an
undefinable thing. There are so few
words to describe music that you can't
really describe an individual style.
You can talk about rhythm and
tempo and dynamics but still miss all
the feeling in music. And there are
so many influences on music and
not just other bands, but things like
broken hearts, relationships and
golf."
Frank Liggett, who writes most of
the songs, said, UA lot of our songs
are about relationships, but not just
boy-girl ones. IVe written songs
about people, evangelists, nature, just
people in general. That's what life is
all about: relationships."
He said that he usually begins with
do a lot of sex on their programs,
or they want to do things that may
be kinky. Suppose they do that? So
what? .
"I don't have to watch. We each
set out to do our programs. Same
with newspapers."
Former CBS News chief Fred
Friendly started the fireworks by
showing an excerpt from a program
Rivera did on . sex surrogates, and
telling his former student, "It seems
to me that what you're concentrating
on is that 'kinky' business."
"I do lots of different programs,"
Rivera said. "You are talking about
10 percent of what I do."
"What are you, Mr. Rivera?"
Friendly persisted.
"I'm a compassionate man," Rivera
replied. "A television talk-show host,
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ent company, "But in this productiori,
we're going for the reality of the
situation. It's a far different Baptista
than the one I played five years ago;-
"There are so many levels of
meaning in any Shakespeare play,"
he continued. "It's always fun to take
one of his plays and find the relevancy
to our. own times, no matter where
it is. It's a great process of discovery."
The production, which concludes
the company's 1988-89 season, is also
unusual in that it includes the
induction or prologue scene, which
most productions omit. This allows
much of the action to be seen through
the imagination of Christopher Sly.
"Once we're in Sly's mind, we're
free to present the characters in any
period, with each dressed to suit his
or her essential nature," Hammond
said. "This is, of course, the costum
ing principle that would have been
followed in Shakespeare's day
contemporary dress adapted to con
vey character. It's a method that can
really free the imagination Fellini
uses it brilliantly in his films."
, In any case, "it's certainly going to
evoke a lot of conversation,"
Andersen said. "There's not going to
be a simple response."
Hicks appeared as Polly Peachum
in PlayMakers' 1988 production of
"The Beggar's Opera," while
Andersen was seen as Lord Summer
hays in the company's production of
"Misalliance." This play will mark
Kaledin's PlayMakers debut.
PlayMakers Repertory Company
will present Shakespeare's The Tam
ing of the Shrew April 15-30. Per
formances are scheduled at 8 p.m.
Tuesdays through Saturdays and at
2 p.m. on Sundays. For more infor
mation, call 962-1 121.
a rough idea of a song, but that
everyone works together to shape the
final outcome. "Having all of us work
together still gives us our own sound
and consistency, but we can do
different things and maintain that
sound, without having to keep every-,
thing the same like some bands do."
What it all boils down to is doing
your own thing, but keeping it all
together. Like the band's name, Mary.'
on the Dash, it's whatever you make
it: as Frank Liggett said, it could be
drugs, it could be a girl, or maybe
not. You figure it out.
Mary on the Dash and Chapter J
Two will perform at the Union)
Cabaret tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets ate
available at the Union desk for $4U
The show will be simultaneously
broadcast on WXYC.
news issues
a reporter, a journalist, a writer."
Jack Nelson, Washington bureau
chief of The Los Angeles Times,
snapped that Rivera and the others 1
are "more show biz than you are
journalists."
The audience was shown another
excerpt, from Downey's program, in
which a young member of the
audience challenged the host's views -Ion
prison furloughs by noting that
"one of the central tenets of Chris
tianity is forgiveness."
Downey was shown retorting:
"Let me tell you something. More'
people have been killed in the name
of Jesus . i . they Ve all been killed
by guys like you."
Toward the end, virtually all the
panelists were trying to be heard over
each other.
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