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Eclecti c musician to pi ay at C rad I e
By TOM PARKS
Staff Writer
Sun Ra is not of this earth.
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and his Arkestra will jam at the Cat's
Cradle.
Depending on the imagination of the
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Chicago for his work arranging and
composing jazz.
In 1961, he and the Arkestra, which
in its many forms has played with Ra
for more than 30 years, made the move
to New York where they gave up
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By SHIELDS BREWER
Staff Writer
Kathryn Bishop is a petite, blue
eyed blonde with graceful moves and
smooth, polished gestures. No, she's
not a model; she's a karate instructor at
the American Institute of Karate in
Chapel Hill.
As the 5-foot-3-inch black belt warms
up with basic techniques, one realizes
the power hidden in her small frame.
She eyes her pupils in the wall length
mirror. A smile of encouragement, and
she continues with the punches, blocks
and kicks.
"We were all taught that it (karate)
was an unladylike thing, I suppose,"
said Bishop, a junior mathematics ma
jor at UNC. "Being a woman, I have to
prove my black-belt status. I have to be
a little better.
"Usually the only discrimination (as
a woman) I get is from 1 3- and 1 4-year-old
boys, but instructors won't tolerate
that at all."
Earning a black belt in karate does
have its advantages. According to
Bishop, "I'm not stupid enough to walk
through campus at night, but there have
been times when I've been less cau
tious than someone else might have
been."
Bishop's class begins with breathing
and concentration exercises. 'They
allow you to concentrate on karate.
You drop your problems at the door."
The class members then practice
basic techniques.
Most of Bishop's older students are
working toward their white-belt status,
the lowest in the sequence of belts. The
sequence is: white, yellow, orange,
green, blue, purple, three degrees of
brown and black.
John Stokes, an orange-belt student,
said, "She is an excellent instructor.
She works well with children. She's
very good at breaking down techniques
and explaining them."
Bishop said she sometimes had a
hard time juggling her studies and her
karate, but she did not like to miss a
workout. "If I miss one workout, it's
easier to miss the next one, and so on."
She plans to stick with karate and
one day plans to open her own karate
training and instruction center. .
plethora of percussionists, singers, horn
players and, it seems, just about every
one and his brother. They might have a
hard time fitting themselves and their
instruments on the Cradle's stage.
Ra and the surprisingly disciplined
Arkestra put on a show known for being
raucous and disarming. For some shows,
Ra leads the Arkestra through and
around the audience, shaking hands,
dancing and singing all the while.
Ra, though old and wizened, by most
accounts can still impress, whether
playing the piano or keyboards. Only
last year, one reviewer described his
playing style as "a percussive amalgram
of stride-style boogie and stabbing
dissonance."
Stanley Crouch wrote in Player's
magazine: "Just as James Brown is the
king of rhythm and blues, Sun Ra is the
. present king of contemporary big bang
and is far more exciting and much more
fun than any of the well publicized and
popular 'jazz-rock' bands of the day.
There is nothing like him, and like a
sunrise or a bolt of lightning, he is never
the same, only consistently beautiful."
Tentative starting time for Sunday's
show is 9 p.m.
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UNC teaching fellows strive
to improve state education
By ELIZABETH MURRAY
Staff Writer
Despite dismal state SAT scores,
the teachers of tomorrow say there
may be hope for North Carolina's
schools after all.
"I want my students to be citizens
of the world," said UNC education
student Mark Kleinschmidt.
Kleinschmidt, a sophomore social
studies education major from
Goldsboro, is one of a select few who
are trying to make a difference in
public schools through the N.C.
Teaching Fellows program that is
designed to produce teachers who are
"the best and the brightest," said
Barbara Day, Director of the Caro
lina Teaching Fellows.
The N.C. State Legislature started
the program in 1 987 and allocates $8
million a year to 400 students at nine
different universities in the state.
The $20,000 four-year scholar
ships are granted to students chosen
through a rigorous screening process
during their senior year in high school.
First, students must be nominated
by their high school and selected by a
committee at a local level. Teachers,
administrators and legislators from
across the state then hold a regional
screening. Finally, the students are
interviewed at the state level and those
accepted are chosen by specific uni
versities to be teaching fellows.
This academic year marks the
second year of participation for UNC,
which now has 120 teaching fellows.
The UNC division can admit only
a limited number of teaching fellows
each year, Day said. "We have to turn
down many highly qualified students
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The Ensemble Courant will perform this weekend at Hanes Art Center.
Handel's arias to highlight concert
By GRETCHEN DAVIS
Staff Writer
The Ensemble Courant, UNC's own
professional music society for perform
ance on original instruments, will inau
gurate its seventh concert season this
weekend with a performance of cham
ber music by G.F. Handel.
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who want to be in this program simply
because we can only have 60."
In exchange for a free education, the
teaching fellows agree to teach in North
Carolina for at least four years. But
students don't seem to mind having
these strings attached. Many of them
hope to teach in Raleigh, Durham,
Chapel Hill, Charlotte or Greensboro.
The scholarships pay for the stu
dents' education while allowing them
to do what they want to do, according to
Kleinschmidt. It provides a support
system as well, he said. "Eery week I
wonder whether I still want to do this,
and all I have to do is call up somebody.
Then I'm sure I want to teach."
Laura Bilbro, a sophomore early
childhood development major from
Hillsborough, said a biology teacher
she had in high school influenced her
decision to teach. "I want to be a part of
learning and teach as a service."
Although the qualifications of these
students are highly impressive and
somewhat staggering, the general feel
ing on campus is that education majors
have low academic scores, Day said.
"I don't think students on this cam
pus realize the high caliber of students
we're getting, because the word is kind
of out that the lower-scoring people go
into education. That simply isn't true."
The teaching fellows class admitted
this year includes 18 valedictorians,
Day said. The group's average high
school GPA is 3.7, and the average
SAT score is 1203. The minority per
centage of the class is 1 2 percent, which
is higher than the campus-wide minor
ity percentage of 10 percent.
Because all of the students chosen
for the program are highly qualified
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"Concert buffs need to get better
acquainted with Handel," said David
Arons, business manager of the group.
"(He was) the first composer of his day
to become an international favorite
because of his international style. His
music is an amalgam of his life and
travels abroad."
This weekend the ensemble will serve
up a potpourri of Handel's best, includ
ing works enjoyable for all audiences.
The program will consist of Handel's
Concerto Grosso in D Major, Opus 6,
No. 5; his Trio Sonata in F; the Pas
sacaille from 'Terpsichore"; his can
tata "Tra le Fiamme"; and "Suesse Stille,
sanfte Quelle," "In den angenehmen
Bueschen," and "Flammende Rose"
from his set of nine German arias.
Members of the group are Penelope
Jensen, soprano; Richard Luby, violin;
Ruth Johnsen, violin; Brent Wissick,
cello, viola da gamba; Elaine Funaro,
harpsichord; Rebecca Troxler, flute;
Ann Woodward, viola; and Robbie
Link, violone. Joining them will be
guest performers Sarah Davol, oboe;
Claire Fontijn, flute; and Joan Brick
ley, Edith Gettes and Alexandra Eddy,
all on violin.
The group's original name, the Soci
ety for Performance on Original Instru
ments, was created from its interest in
authentic instruments. Most of the music
they perform is chamber music, and
they agree that performing the music
on original instruments (especially
using either original or authentically
made bows) necessitates significant
changes in articulation and interpreta
tion. Teague
Resident assistants are being espe
cially careful and are working closely
with area government to help promote
better security withinTeague, Cox said.
It is primarily the residents' responsi
bility to help maintain a secure envi
ronment, she added. "Everyone needs
to keep an eye out for their neighbor."
Few security problems can be re
and many are leaders, the program ,
functions smoothly, Day said. The .
students interact with one another -and
work together on a leadership -team
in order to get things done, she
said.
The students have formed a lead-.
ership team that meets periodically
to schedule seminars andgenerate .
ideas about educational, cultural and
social functions they may want to.
incorporate into their program.
By the time the teaching fellows .
actually get to teach, they will have
had two years of some kind of contact
in schools with a variety of children
Day said.
During their sophomore year;
teaching fellows begin tutoring in the ;
schools. During their junior year, the ;
fellows will work in the schools at j
least a half a day per week.
Day, the chairwoman for curricu- ;
lum and instruction in the School of ;
Education, said she hoped the pro-
gram would continue in the future. ;
"We think it will continue as long
as there is money in the state to do it ;
because we are going to have a very '
critical shortage of teachers in this
state. Part of this is to bring 'the best
and the brightest' into teaching, and ;
the other part is to make sure we have
enough qualified teachers to fill the
classrooms."
Although the program encourages
students to be active on campus, the
idea is not to pressure them to spread
themselves too thin, Day said.
"We want our students to be lead-
ers on this campus, but I say to them,
'You are first a Carolina student. You
are secondly a teaching fellow.' "
The group's recently adopted narne,
the Ensemble Courant, is a deliberate
double entendre both showing the en
ergetic, dance-like style of most of its
music and playing on the word "cur
rent" to show its fresh outlook as the
group assumes a forward-moving role
in the performance of early music
The Ensemble Courant is now the
resident BaroqueClassical ensemble
at the Charleston Piccolo Spoleto Fes
tival and the guest ensemble at Colo
nial Williamsburg's Early Music Festi
val. :
Another program the group is plan
ning is a UNC performance of Handel's
"Messiah" with the University Cham
ber Singers, under the direction of Susan
Klebanow. The concerts will be De. 9
10 in Hill Hall Auditorium and will
feature soloists Penelope Jensen, Ste
ven Rickarts, Jeffrey Thomas and James
Weaver.
The Ensemble Courant also Will
present a program of diverse concjerti
by Telemann and J.S. Bach in January.
John Gibbons on harpsichord and Stfcve
Rosenberg on recorder will join the fest
of the group for this performance; In
February, the group will perform in
PlayMakers Theatre, featuring a pro
gram of 17th century Italian and Ger
man music "In the Old Style," for strings
and voices. I
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Concerts this weekend will be', in
Hanes Art Center Auditorium at 8 jim.
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets
are $5 for students and will be avail
able at the door:
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solved until residents take more re
sponsibility by not propping doors open
and not stuffing paper in the locks,
because. this ruins the hinges of Ithe
doors and makes them more accessible
to unwanted guests, she said. "We re
ally have a challenge trying to keep it
secure."
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