weekend preview
This weekend promises to be one for music, with
concerts and festivals spanning folk to jazz, classic to
rock.
The music of Neil Young is featured tonight from
midnight through 2 a.m. on “The City,” KWAX II, 91.1
FM. If host Ron Gold has missed THE outstanding rock,
jazz or folk national, buzz him on the air, x 4245; your
favorite may be his next in-depth subject.
Stan Fink’s modem jazz group continues its summer
concert series tonight at the Wesley Center with a tribute
to Billie Holiday (the real Lady who sang the blues).
Donations of 60 cents would be appreciated at the con
cert, which starts at 8 p.m.
Two masters candidates are scheduled to give free
recitals this week. Laura Thomas, clarinet, performs
tonight in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge at 8 p.m. Pianist
Lynn Wheeler will play Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the School of
Music recital hall.
County superstar Charley Pride will make his first
concert appearance in Salem at the Salem Armory
tonight. With him will be his six-member backup band,
The Pridesmen, plus Johnny Russell, and country
ventriloquist, Alex Houston (and “Elmer”). Tickets are
$4.50, $5.50 and $6 to the 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. per
formances.
Portland State’s summer concert series continues
tonight with performances of Borodin’s “Quintet in “C”
and Stravinsky’s “L’histoire du Soldat”; and Monday,
with four pieces for violin. Concerts begin at 8 p.m. both
evenings Tickets for $1.50 and $3 are available.
The Summer Festival of Music 1973, the music of
Johann Sebastian Bach, will begin Friday at the School
of Music with an 8 p.m. concert by Martha Schuster,
organist. A concert of chamber music for flute, violin,
cello, bassoon and harpsichord will follow on Saturday at
8 p.m. in the recital hall. On Sunday choral music will be
presented at 8 p.m. in the Central Luthem Church, 18th
and Potter. And Wednesday, Heinrich Rilling will lec
ture at 7 p.m. in,the church on the St. Mathew Passion
with the Festival Chorus and Orchestra. Rilling, guest
conductor of the festival, is a German authority on the
music of Bach. Admission to the nine concerts of the
festival is $12 for the entire series or $3 for individual
performances and $1.50 to the lecture-rehearsal. Student
rates are available at $9 series, $2 single and 75 cents
lecture.
On Friday a group called Heritage Singers, from
Canada, will make an appearance at the Valley River
Center. No admission will be charged.
“Just Call Me Squirt,” an oldies-but-goodies band
that grew out of a University Search class, and “Road,
Sweet Road” from Idaho fill the double bill for Friday
and Saturday nights’ concert series at Scarborough
Faire (136 E. 11th). The shows will begin sometime
between 8 and 8:30 p.m. both nights. Munchies by
Deborah will be available. Admission is $1.
Sunday radio station KASH and Rainier Beer are
sponsoring a free concert in Skinner’s Butte Park,
beginning at noon. Biuesmen Albert Collins and Charlie
Musselwhite will perform with the Felix Omar Band.
Photo from RCA
Charley Pride appears twice in
Salem tonight. 7 p.m. and 9:30
p.m.. sponsored by EJD En
terprises.
Drama is going strong this week as well. Though no
new productions are opening, the list of area per
formances is long.
The final performance of “The Land of the Dragon’’
is scheduled for 11 a.m. today in the Children’s Theatre.
Admission for everyone is 35 cents, no matter what age.
The multiple-murder mystery “Mousetrap,” by
Agatha Christie will be staged at 8:30 p.m. tonight,
Friday and Saturday in the tent near Villard. Tickets are
$2, $2.50 and $3.
The next performance of “Inferno,” by local
composer Randy Bowser and author John Belles will
begin at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. All seats are $2.50 to the
“opera.”
In Ashland “The Dance of Death” will be played in
matinee today at 2 p.m., and “Henry, the Fifth” will be
done on the outdoor stage tonight at 8:45 p.m. “Othello”
and “As You Like It” are Friday’s productions; “The
Alchemist” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor,”
Saturday’s; and “Othello” and “Henry, the Fifth,”
Sunday’s. Tickets range from $3 to $6 with student rush
half an hour before performances.
A new display of prints and drawings by Jack
McLarty opened this week in the Erb Gallery. Pieces by
Gregory Hawkins and Tom Guyot are still available to
viewing in the Museum of Art.
The story of blimps (non-rigid air ships) is por
trayed in an exhibit which will be displayed at the
University Library through August. The exhibit is being
shown in conjunction with the appearance in Eugene
August 15-21 of the “Columbia,” the Goodyear blimp,
according to Hallett E. Cole, who oranized the display.
“NASA and the Space Age,” and exhibit com
memorating the fourth anniversary of the landing on the
moon on July 16, is on display in the Circulation Lobby of
the University Library through August 31. The exhibit
indicates not only NASA’s space achievements, but the
spinn-off benefits to mankind of NASA’s functions.
Films, as usual, will provide a variety of inex
pensive entertainment on campus this weekend. All are
$L
Acme-Bijou offers two Robert Bresson films this
week: “Diary of a Country Priest” tonight at 8 p.m. and
“A Man Escaped,” Monday at 8 p.m. Both films will run
in 180 PLC.
The University Film Society will show “The Golden
Age of Comedy,” cuts of old-time comedians at their
best; and “You’re Telling Me,” a W.C. Fields flick on
Friday. Two showings, at 7 and 9 p.m. are set for 150
Science.
“A Night at the Opera” featuring the Marx Brothers
will run at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. in 180 PLC Saturday.
Finally, exhibitions and celebrations provide
alternative entertainment to the more standard musical,
theatric and movie varieties.
On Saturday Lewis and Clark College in Portland
will host Highland Games. Traditional Scottish com
petition in tree throwing, sword dancing and bagpipe
drill by clansmen and non alike will be open to spec
tators at no admission.
On Sunday the Concours d’Elegance, an antique car
show will be held at the Village Greer) in Cottage Grove.
Automobile owners from the area will compete for top
honors in competition so strict that a piece of lint or
traces of wax streaking could determine top honors. A
half hour of scrutinization by the judges is allotted per
car.
Bohemia Mining Days, a community celebration in
downtown Cottage Grove spans today through Sunday.
Besides booths, excursions on the Goose Express,
performances by the Lemati shoot-em-up gang, and
multiple displays, all of which are open daily, special
events will be featured each day. Thursday a Fireman’s
Banquet at the Village Green will be served at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $6.75 for steak dinner. Friday an ice cream
social at 6 p.m. and the opening of the Mosby rodeo at 8
p.m. highlight the day. An antique airplane show opens
at'll a.m. Saturday. Water races, a parade, a fiddler’s
contest, a black powder shoot, and an 8:30 p,m.
melodrama production will also be featured Saturday.
An excursion to the Bohemia mines and an airplane
show wind up the festivities Sunday.
Terry Sotta
use tour
The
unique
beauty
of
Korea
July 9, 1973 — SEOUL, Korea — Our USO group is still in Seoul,
Korea, and, although we have been here for almost two weeks, we
have just barely begun to find all that this city has to offer.
The temperature here averages a very humid 90 degrees, and
what do we seem to buy the most of? Sweaters. We were told that
Korea would be the best place to buy sweaters, so we are following
that advice with full force. I found a long-sleeve turtleneck sweater
that I almost bought in Eugene for $12. Here, the price is $1.50.
Needless to say, I bought it here.
Shopping seems quite unique here to those of us who have never
bargained before and who are used to being told that something is $5
and accepting that as the price. In most stores here, no items have
price tags. The salesman quotes a price, you quickly divide that by two
and tell him you’ll take it for that. He lowers the price slightly. You tell
him that you can buy it across the street for less. If he falls for it, he
lowers the price again. It’s all a game, but one well worth knowing.
The reason the salesman often falls for the line about it being
cheaper across the street is that invariably there is an identical shop
close by. The shops seem to cluster according to type. It’s not un
common to see 20 . lor shops lined up in a row. The most amazing
example of t.us was in the Westgate shopping area where there were
about 150 shops each selling material.
I decided to play tourist for a couple of days and went to some of
the places where the visitors flock.
One of the places was the Duk Su palace. This quaint little royal
residence was built for the grandson of King Sejo more than 500 years
ago. The acres of grounds and gardens are dotted with beautifully
ornate and detailed buildings: throne rooms, pavillions, meeting halls.
My visit to the zoo was a special highlight. The zoo used to be the
grounds of a palace, so as well as holding the interest of the animals it
also contained the fascination of ancient history and the beauty of the
palace gardens. I was lucky enough to be able to go with three new
Korean friends who served as companions as well as excellent guides.
Army buses here are famous for breakdowns. We suffered our
collapse after the show that was the farthest distance from Seoul. Our
bus driver was the only person authorized to leave the bus. Un
fortunately, he spoke only Korean and we could not tell him what to do.
We were lucky and had to wait only four hours until a new bus came.
Thursday the spirit of adventure struck me so I took a bus ride.
Since I couldn’t read the sign that told where the bus was going, I had
to take my chances. It turned out that I gambled and won. The bus took
me to a little village several miles outside the city. It was like
something out of a movie with thatched roofed houses lining a stream.
After soaking in the sights for awhile, a young Korean boy asked,
in perfect English, if I needed help. After talking awhile, he invited me
into his grandm no/s house for dinner. When we got to his grandma’s
house, we took off our shoes and went into the dining roorp where the
family had gathered.
For the first few minutes I felt a little ill at ease, being a stranger
in their home and not being able to speak the same language as my
hosts. But, because of the warmth of these people, we were soon
laughing and eating together despite the language barrier. After
dinner, which was really more like an exotic feast, they drove me back
to the hotel. Not a bad evening for a seven-cent bus fare.
Seoul is rapidly becoming modernized. The mixture of new and old
is very pleasant now, but the balance will not stay even for very much
longer. Leaving Korea will be sad because I know that if I ever am
able to come back, that it will have lost the unique beauty that it now
has.
Next stop, Japan.