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I visits :k McLarty, an associate professor at ortland Art Museum, will be giving a presentation during Mayo Roy's Philo- i 204 class, Wednesday, Jan. 26 in 151 in Barlow Hall. :Larty teaches painting, drawing and iced wood cutting and engraving at :Larty is a nationally recognized artist lad his work shown in the Smithsonian ute's invitational show in 1972. ! wa also an award winner during letltior held last year by the Oregon Wash ngton art commissions. cLart is currently illustrating a book «try and will have one of his paintings iirthe new wing being built in the al building in Salem. le presentation is open to anybody would like to come. held over mtcry, Tennessee Williams' newest dra- is held over for six additional per- lances at The New Theatre in its new tion, 0858 SW Palatine Hill Rd., just h of the Lewis and Clark College cam- Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday, ay jind Saturday, Jan. 20-29. t is a sensitive and fascinating portrayal i troubled brother and sister by Rollie ff and Victoria Parker. ane Hadley Wulff directs this play with- play about two actors on tour. /ictoria Parker has recently appeared in the regional College Theatre Festival a; "Blanche" in "Streetcar Named Desire". She is well k~own for her work in comedies for Savoir Faire, The New Theatre and others. Singer staged Mary Travers, folksinger extraordinaire, has been scheduled for a concert on stage at the Portland Civic Auditorium on Fri day, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. Mary Travers has the distinction of ha ving had two separate but equally success ful musical careers, first as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, and then as an out standing solo artist. She has sung not only before heads of state and Presidents of the United States, but with and for millions of people - such as those who marched from Selma to Montgomery in pursuit of Martin Luther King's dream in 1963, and with one of the greatest masses of people ever assem bled in the nation's history in 1970 in Washington. Mary, along with Peter and Paul, became a folk institution. In 1970 the group retired, and an indivi dual emerged. Peter, Paul and Mary was a tough act to follow, but three fine Warner Brothers albums (a fourth is on its way) and a host of concerts later, Mary has pulled it off. The lean lady once tucked between two guitar players now stalks the stage on her own. Tickets for the Mary Travers concert on Feb. 4, priced at $6.50, $5.50 and $4.50 are on sale now at Celebrity Attractions, 1010 S.W. Morrison, Portland, Ore. 97205. In review Steely Dan: on a road to ecstasy By James Rogers Cougar Print Editor ■This week's unrecognizable album classic is "Countdown to Ecstasy" by Steely Dan. ■If ever the definitive rock and roll album existed, "Countdown to Ec stasy" would be the album. This album was released in 1973 and followed Dan's highly successful first album, "Can't Buy a Thrill." While the first album produced two successful singles ("Reelin' in the Years" and "Do It Again"), "Count down to Ecstasy" was only mildly successful, although one semi-hit came from the album. ^The semi-hit song in question is "My Old School." The song contains what should go down in history as the best guitar solo ever to appear on a lock and roll album. As a band, Steely Dan has always sounded super tight. The team effort is what distinguishes this band from the legions of rock and roll bands that have to rely on one performer to keep their performance level up. On 'Ecstasy' the band discards the traditional hit-'em-hard-and-fast song format which is probably one of the main reasons this album didn't sell as well as it should have. For the most part, listeners aren't willing to hear songs that last longer than three min utes and extended pieces have seldom done well on AM radio. ■The quality of the songs on this album is far above the stuff that is .January 20,1977 usually doled out to the public and Dan's songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen may well be the Lennon/ McCartney of the seventies. While they have yet to turn out a less than perfect song, the songs on "Ecstasy" are works of extra inspir ation. From "Bodhisattva," the first cut on the album, to "King of the World," the last cut, the mood is constantly changing from slick rock to ballads to punk rock and back to slick rock. Both Denny Dias and Jeff "$kunk" Baxter prove themselves to be first class rock guitarists on this album, but it is the work of Baxter in parti cular that stands out. Baxter's style is practically flaw less and on this album there are no stock guitar licks to suffer through, just well thought out improvisations. Baxter has since gone on to join The Doobi. Brothers. Unfortunately, in stead of his influence upgrading that band's sound, he has become just another lead guitar player. This review may seem a little bit hyped but if you buy this album I guarantee that if you have any sense of that which is musically sound, you will like it. If you hear this album and think it's a piece of trash, you probably listen to Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton and K.C. and the $unshine Band and are beyond help. If you are in this category, forget what you have just read and go to the front of the vege table section in the nearest super market. Evening News skit, is pictured during last Friday's Open Mike performance by the improvisational theatre group "Schizoid Plus". The group will perform bi-weekly in the CC Mall during winter term. : Hepburn stars Katharine Hepburn, making a rare stage appearance, stars in playwright Enid Bag- nold's Broadway comedy, "A Matter of Gravity," which begins a seven performance run at the Auditorium on Wednesday, Jan. 26. , "A Matter of Gravity", produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens, is a contemporary comedy about a sophisti cated, vibrant woman with a fine sense of heritage and a deep fascination with life, love and morality. The play revolves around her life and the lives of her grandson, a quartette of his unorthodox friends, and an eccentric servant. Hepburn, whose brilliant career began on Broadway, has earned rave notices for her role in the production. Clive Barnes of The New York Times sums up her per formance with this tribute: "Katharine Hep burn with her radiant beauty, her grace and meticulous theatrical sensibility, is perfectly remarkable." One of the truly great actresses of our time, Hepburn has won international ac- claim for her work in theatre, film and television. Her last Broadway touring attrac tion was "Coco." Evening performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Mat inees are set for 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets for the per formances are available now by mail order only at the Ticket Place at Lipman's down town. Page 9
