weekend preview
With the advent of warm weather, activities seem to
replicate. Standard, novel, seasonal or not, there’s a lot
to do.
The sweet (to some) strains of a Southern summer
tradition well weekly from the Wesley Center on
Thursday nights as Stan Fink’s jazz group begins to
cook. The musicians include the former University in
structor on sax, Cliff Meade on guitar, Dave Hudson on
bass, Larry Vicknese on drums, plus assorted guests.
For a mere 50 cent donation the group and friends will
treat you to two and a half hours of “standards,” and
“bebop” from the 1950’s. Tonight’s jam begins at 8 p.m.
Ron Gold presents a penetrating probe into the
sounds and workings of Santana tonight from midnight
through 2 a m. on KWAX-II FM.
In another musical mode, Portland State’s Summer
Concert Series will feature a Brahms quartet and “Octet
in E” by Spohr tonight at 8 p.m., and pieces by Rach
maninoff and Beethoven Monday at 8 p.m. Season
tickets are available at Portland State, 229-4440. Also
scheduled is a special presentation of rags and tor
chsongs of the 1920’s and 1930’s on Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m.
Friday at 8 p.m. the Bowling Green State University
A Cappella Choir will make a stop in Eugene on its U.S.
summer tour. Secular and sacred music by 44 members
comprise the 80 minute concert. Admission to the per
formance at the First Methodist Church (14th and Olive)
is free, but a $1 donation is requested to help defray
travel expenses.
Three versatile performers will do a little ex
perimentation for this Friday and Saturday nights’
stints in the Scarborough Faire summer concert. Patty
Larkin does vocals to her own accompaniment on harp,
guitar and spoons. Eric Park specializes in blues and
rags on his electric typewriter. And Chris Wetteland will
hold a dueling banjos contest, between himself and his
own second. Admission to each 8:30 p.m. show is $1.
The Buddy Miles Express is slated to stop in Por
tland Friday for an 8 p.m. concert at the Paramount
Northwest (1037 SW Broadway). Tickets are $5 in ad
vance, $6 at the door.
On Saturday KOKH, radio will sponsor an ap
pearance by the Dave Duddley Band at the Lane County
Fairgrounds. Country buffs can listen or dance to
truckin’ songs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are $3 in
advance.
KOAC-KOAP-FM is presenting a rare muse special
Saturday at 1 p.m. of the BBC’s version of “Don Carlos.”
This original unexpergated version includes music that
composer Verdi had cut before its premiere per
formance in Paris in 1867, and which was only recently
rediscovered. All five acts will be aired on KOAC-KOAP
FM Saturday.
The Dutch rock and roll band, Focus is playing the
Paramount in Portland Saturday at 9 p.m. Tickets are
cheaper if you buy them early: $5 at the door, $4 in ad
vance.
Chicago, still coasting on the aft-crest of the brass
popularity wave, will appear in concert at the Memorial
Coliseum in Portland on Sunday. England Dan and John
Ford Coley will fill the warm-up spot. Tickets to the tune
of $6 at the door, or $5 in advance, are still available to
the 8 p.m. show.
Tuesday night Victor Hill will present an 8 p.m.
concert in the University school of music recital hall. His
specialty is the harpsichord.
The theatre flowers in the summer atmosphere as
Photo from Concerts West
"Chicago” rolls into Portland
this Sundaj^iight at 8 p.m. at the
Coliseum. Tickets are $5 in ad
vance and $6 at the door. The
concert is sponsored by Concerts
West of Bellevue, Washington.
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well. Making a special adaptation to the warm evenings,
the University Theater will present all its performances
in a carnival tent. Tickets to its first production, “A Day
in the Life of Joe Egg,” which opened last we.* and will
continue tonight, Friday and Saturday with an 8:30 p.m.
curtain, are available for $2, $2.50 and $3. Call 686-4191
for information.
‘‘I Do, I Do” will complete its run at the Eugene
Hotel’s dinner theatre with 8:45 performances Friday
and Saturday, and a' final 7:15 p.m. performance Sun
day. Tickets which include cocktails and dinner as well
as admission are $8.50.
Good tickets for $2.50, $3.50 and $4.50 are still
available to “West Side Story.'” The Lane County
Auditorium Association’s summer production will play
July 27,28 and August 2,3,4, 8, 9,10 and 11, in the South
Eugene High Auditorium.
A host of productions are scheduled for the weekend
in Portland, including: “Glassy Alice Wandering
Through Looking Land,” 8 p.m. Thursday, Portland
Civic Theatre; “The Boyfriend,” 8 p.m. Thursday and
8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Portland Civic Theatre
mainstage; “Faust’s Follies (and What Came After), 8
p.m Friday, Portland Civic Theatre; and “The Owl and
the Pussycat,” 7 p.m. Saturday, the Benson Hotel dinner
theatre. Tickets range from $3 upward.
In Ashland 2 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. performances in the
Shakespearean festival will be: “Othello” and ‘"Die
Merry Wives of Windsor,” Friday, ‘"Die Dance of
Death” and “Henry the Fifth,” Saturday and “Othello”
and “As You Like It,” Sunday. Tickets are $6, $5, $4.50,
$4 and $3, with student rush available at 1:30 p.m. and
8:15 p.m.
Poets Charlie Walsh and Charlie Vermont will be
reading from their books and manuscripts Monday at
noon on the lawn of the 'Portland State University
Library.
Artists and curators like to compete with the
seasons. While nature offers more abundant panarama
with enhancing sunlight, galleries and museums offer
more exhibits.
Photos by Charlene Yogi will be in the Erb Memorial
Gallery through the end of the month.
Mixed media works by Gregory Hawkins and
graphite drawings by Tom Guyot will be on display in
the University Museum of Art beginning Tuesday, as
will a display of Imperial Chinese Court robes from the
Ching Dynasty.
Creations by students and members of the Maude
Kerns art center will be exhibited over the weekend.
At the Oakway Mall, prints by six local
photographers will be shown through Sunday.
The everpopular film for a buck will be at its height
this week on campus as the Canterbury Center joins the
list of sponsors. The first film in their series will be
shown at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday in 180 PLC at the
bargain price of 98 cents. “Hour of the Wolf” directed by
Ingamar Bergman is the feature.
Tonight, NUC will prer*nt “Bonnie and Clyde” in 150
Science. Two showings arc slated for 7 and 9:15 p.m.
Acme-Bijou will commence a series of flicks under
the direction of Prestin Sturges at 8 p.m. in 180 PLC.
“Strictly Dishonorable” and “Hie Power and the Glory”
are on tonight’s bill; “Easy Living” and “Hie Lady
Eve” will follow Friday.
Poet and filmmaker John Broughton will make a
personal appearance Saturday to discuss his films “Hie
Bed,” “Hie Golden Positions,” “Dreamwood ’ and
“Hiis Is It.” Admission to the 8 p.m. Broughton festival
in 180 PLC will be $1. Broughton will also be appearing
the previous day at the Portland Museum of Art, with his
films, but admission will be an extra 50 cents in the city.
On Sunday another Bergman flick-, “Virgin Spring”
will be aired by the Ananda Marga Yoga Society at 7
p.m. and 9 p.m. in 180 PLC.
Finally “Wild Strawberries,” a Swedish film will be
offered by the University YWCA in 150 Science on
Wednesday.
Miscellaneous outdoor events just wouldn’t be the
same in Oregon drizzle.
On Saturday the Emerald Empire Roundup parade
will wend its way through Eugene in prelude to the rodeo
that runs from Wednesday through Sunday, July 15.
Stonewall Jackson and the Minute Men will provide
music for country dancing at 10 p.m. each night
following the rodeo’s ring events.
On Sunday state bicycling championships will be
held near Crow, Oregon. And at the Northwest Pacific
Raceway, the Oregon Street Racers Championships will
also grace Sunday.
Finally, an activity that few indulge in any longer on
warm summer nights will be exercised Monday through
Saturday, Jviy 14, when the Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barbershop Singing in America
convenes in the Portland Memorial Coliseum.
Anyone for homemade ice cream?
Terry Sotta
drama
Inferno’ opens
next we^k
at
Carnival
Theater
Photo by Phil Waldstein
Another person enters Dante’s “Inferno,” in rehersal for the Carnival Theater rock opera of the
same name. The completely original production will open next week and ticket information can be
obtained by calling the theater box office at 686-4191.