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STRIDE INTO PRIDE
The Rose City Gay Freedom Band’s perfor
mance June 13 was a pleasant surprise. I went
expecting to hear marching music and instead
was treated to a wide range of styles reflecting a
sound musical body capable of performing di
verse concert band material.
The Spring concert program reflected the di
versity of the band members and their diverse
tastes by featuring music which included classi
cal, folk. Big Band, and Broadway showtunes.*
Jazz was a favorite of some band members. Three
different ensembles demonstrated their mastery
ofjazz.
Each piece in the program was introduced by
Glenn Ludtke, which was helpful for the musi
cally undereducated. Though all the numbers
were performed with a lot of heart and a lot of
talent, several were noteworthy. The “Sonata for
Clarinet and Piano” performed by Sean Kelleher
on clarinet and Lew Waner on piano was a lovely
piece performed with a perfect balance between
the two instruments. One of the major works of
the evening’s performance was “First Suite for
Band” by Alfred Reed. Broken up into four move
ments, March, Melody, Rag and Gallop, the piece
brings up all the emotion of being at the circus.
The band attacked “March" boldly and the music
was quite rousing. The “Melody” was approached
rather tentatively and could have come in more
confidently. The band camped it up a bit during
“Rag” by putting on the most unusual baseball
hats people could find. Finally, “Gallop" was a
bouncing piece of music that made the band quite
giddy. It was all very fun to watch and listen to.
The second half of the concert featured a
swing band, a saxophone quartet, and of all
things, a trombone duet
The concert ended with flying tortillas and
sombreros. What will they think of next?
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Casselberry-Dupree appear on In the Life.
//V 7 W Z /K IS D E A D IN PORTLAND
A new hour long magazine/variety program
for gays and lesbians called In the Life debuted
June 25 on public broadcasting networks . Pro
duced by PBS affiliate WNYC/TV and John
Scagliotti, In the Life is shot in front of a live
studio audience and features segments on theater,
music, dance, film, people in the news, health
reports, and a great debate on issues affecting the
lesbian and gay community. The June show fea
tured comic Kate Clinton, urban folk duo
Casselberry-Dupree, and the Gay Men’s Chorus
of New York.
The program has been in the works for two
years and has developed into an informative, non-
stereotypical show that will appeal to the gay and
lesbian community at large.
The June special was a sneak preview for the
series which will begin to air in the fall.
In the Life is not currently slated to be shown
in Oregon. John McGee in the programming
department of Oregon Public Broadcasting did
not know anything about the program, though he
did know that it was not going to be shown at this
time. Calls to OPB may spark their interest in the
program in time for In the Life to be shown locally
this fall. Call the programming department at
293-1903 and tell them you need to see your life
affirmed.
DREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
Dykeotomy
IMAGE O f OURSELVES
The Northwest Film Center is featuring new
works by women in July. On July 16, at 7:30pm
a film by Deborah Fort, Dykeotomy, is an avant-
garde film exploring the artist's position as a
lesbian in apatriarchal country. Using old footage
ofmale and female divers, factory workers, swim
mers and more she intersperses dialogue and
narrative to make her points. In the same evening,
the Film Center will show Su Freidrich’s First
Comes Love, and Lynn Kirby’s Sharon and the
Birds on the Way to the Wedding.
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Ron Romanovsky of Romanovsky and Phillips
fame, is debuting his first solo album Hopeful
Romantic. Produced by Teresa Trull on Fresh
Fruit Records the album contains 12 original
songs written by Romanovsky since 1979. The
album is best described as a romantic album with
moments of comic relief and includes collabora
tions with Tom Wilson Weinberg of 10 Percent
Revue fame, and John Bucchino.
DYKES USING OUR MOUTHS
An evening of revolutionary poetics finds
Carol Steinel, Kebo Drew and Diana Cohen chal
lenging people who think they hate poetry to find
something boring with this full-length show.
These three revolutionary women will read
some of their original prose along with poems by
the women who have most inspired and informed
their work. Diana Cohen is “a 26-year-old lesbian
feminist poet of eastern-European Jew and West
ern WASP descent.” Kebo Drew is “a young
radical, fat, black, feminist, lesbian-with-an-atti-
LIFE MASKS
tude.” Audiences ooh and aah when hearing her
Loraine Fischer became the first ceramic artist work. Everyone knows the infamous lesbian comic
to be part of the Por tl and Art Institute ’ s Rental and of an uncertain age, Carol Steinel, and only “some
Sales Gallery. Her masks will be on exhibit through of her poems are funny.”
The evening will benefit the Portland Lesbi
July 7. After that her masks will be placed in the
regular inventory of the art institute. Fischer is a ans of Color Group and Tateyeh Topa. The event
former nun and expresses her spirituality as well is totally politically correct: wheelchair acces
as her artistic flare with her masks. She will also sible, ASL interpreted, a sliding scale based upon
be showing her work through Aug. 30 at In Her your hourly wage, and no one will be turned away
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Oswego.
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