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Eugene
Music
F-riday, December 11
Th* Arnold Brother* (Motown Vocal Duo) al
Good T Imes 9 30pm
Alligator Win* (mountain music) al 1 aylors
9 30pm
Th* D*ddl*s/My Nam* (rock) al John Henry s
10pm
Horae* Tap»coM and Th* Billy Tipton
Memorial Saiophon* Quarl*t (jau) al the
WOW Hall 8 30pm
Saturday, December 12
Th* Arnold Brother* (Motown Vocal Duo) al
Good Times 9 30pm
Marc Curry iKAVf tieneU lor Ihe needy bring ?
cans ol food) al T aylors 9pm
Calient* (salsa) al .lohn Henry s 10pm
Paler Rowan and Th* Mad Farmer* (folk) .it Ihe
WOW Hail 9pm
Sunday, December 13
Cadillac TrampsVFIaptack* ipunkaMly) al Good
T imes 9 30pm
Flddlin Sua/Uncl# T and Johnny (btuegrass) al
John Henry s 8pm
D O A With Th* D*lonaior» and itch (hardcore
punk rock) al Ihe WOW Hall 8 3<)pm
Monday, December 14
Roott«r‘« 0lu#a Jam at Good Timos 9 30pm
Wool »rock) at John Henry's 10pm
Guardians of American Morality (Iwtotftd coun
try) at Taylor's 9pm
Tuesday, December 15
International Anthem (alemahve rock) al
Defcert s 8 30pm
Th* Viper* (t>tues) al Good Times 9 30pm
Long Division (roc*) al .lohn Henry * 10prn
Local Hero (acoustic) al Taylor's 9pm
Wednesday, December 16
Bitch Creek Nymph at Detoert s i 30pm
Ron Lapped and Root* R*n*g*d*« (world
beat) al Good Times 9 30pm
2 Minutes Mala/ThrombuWCapt Pnpp* (alt
rock) al John Henry s topm
Mark Alan (acoustic) al Taylors %wn
Thursday, December 17
Mark Alan (acoustic) al Defeerl s 8 30pm
Littl* Women (rock) at Good Times 9 30pm
The Smokin' Sol** •blues) at John Henry s
10pm
Visual Arts
*D«ath and f »#»ta Day of tha Daad In Oaaaca.
Maiico* continues through through Dec ?3 at
the Museum ol Natural History Noon - 5 pm.
Wed Sun 1680 E iMhAve
”La Verne Krauae Painter and Prtntmaker
(1924 1987). a major retrospective on her Me
and work continues through Jan 3 at trie UO Art
Museum. 1430 Johnson t ane
Silvia Berea exfrbttion of charcoals and water
colors at UO Collar House Gallery 1 &h and
Untvarefy
Digital Revolution." a talk about the new and
controversial techniques of storing works ol aft
on computer disk and display those works on
large screens heg«ns at 7 30 p m in Beal
Concert Hall. 961 t 18th Ave $7 SO sluder4s
$15 general
Miscellaneous
DanceJam1 B a drug and alcohol-lree place to
gel a worVout lor the body, mod and spun
Wednesday* 1 30-10pm m Gale Audlohum
A Christmas Carol wd be preserved m me Hull
Center * Silva Concert Mall Dec 12 MS pm and
Dec 13 al 2 30 pm Ickels available al the f MU
or Hull Center
The Eugene Concert Choir w»t present I* annu
al holiday concert in the Hu I Center * Soreng
theatre Dec 12 at 8 30pm and Dec 13 at 4
p m
The Eugene Recorder Ensemble «il present
Baroque and Chnslmas music at the Eugene
Pubic Ifcrary Dec 13. 2-4 p m
Andy Sauerwein and
Christopher Arrell (loft)
of Iho University's
Pacific Rim Gamelan —
a multicultural percus
sion ensemble — play
the Jublags, a metal
xylophone
Lisa Crawford and Tim
Mason (below) play the
Reyong, or nipple
gongs
M
USIC Of the
^^Vorld
When 4 musical scale carries five
mites instead of the usual 12, a musi
cian is forced to use rhythm very cre
atively to in.ike music come alive
"Otherwise, it becomes boring last. a
said Thomas Trent, a doctoral student 1
in music Trent is referring to the I
music he and 12 other students per- (
form -is members of the School of i.
Music's I’acifii Kim (iamolan |
The instruments of the Gameliin. t
which means orchestra in Indonesian,
form the core of this multicultural per
cussion ensemble, or ‘‘World
Orchestra.” that boasts instruments
from many cultures
If the cultural focus of Western
music has previously been somewhat !
Eurocentric, it has come to rapidly
embrace cross-cultural explorations
with composers and musicians finding
Story by Ming Rodrigues
Photos by Michael Shindler
uew wavs In create musii in the context
of .in evolving global culture. said Robert
kvr, associate professor of composition
.mil dim lor of th• • Pacific Kim (iamolan
The group performs on inslrtimi’iils
det orated with carvings of scenes from
llic K.im.iy.in.t, ihn Hindu epii The name
of tin* ganu'liin cornier is it to its plant of
origin Sur.m.idi, a place lor ritual purifi
cation at birth, marriagit and death on the
island of Lombok
Suranadi was the site of a sultan s
palace, which later became a rest house
for Dutch colouiul offii ials and finally in
the 1970s, was refurbished as a tourist
hotel by John and Claudia Lynn of
Eugene They commissioned Balinese
craftsmen to build the gameian for their
hotel where it was playerl until they
Turn to GAMELAN. Page 8
Photo iff Mom
Lit* Wood* shows off * "r*in-cstch*r" tub* from th* 1880s.
tines
Story by Freyu Horn
When we hear ihe words "heavy metal." we immediately think
of hands like Metailica But for tuba players, the term has an
entirely different connotation
"Carting around a 50-pound instrument is quite a challenge,”
said Gene Slayter, the director of bands at Springfield High
School. That's why tuba players refer to their instruments as heavy
metal, he said
Slayter is also the director of Eugene's annual
TubaCarolConcert, slated this year for Saturday at 1 p.m in the
Downtown Mall Every year since 1979. tuba players have come
Turn to TUBA, page 8