The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1974 Page: 3 of 8
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THE PROSPECTOR
December 6,1974
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Annual concert features
traditional holiday music
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p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, in the
Fine Arts Recital Hall.
$2.50 SA card price only at
the University Ticket Center.
Door price is $4.50.
stuff.” He added, However,
the music is "light enough so
that everyone can enjoy it.”
The concert is free and
open to the public.
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Novelist Michael Mewshaw, author of “The Toll,”
“Waking Slow” and “Man in Motion” will read excerpts
from his works at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, in the Union
Theater.
Mewshaw is director of the creative writing program at
UT Austin.
His latest novel, “The Toll,” concerns the crises faced by
soldier of fortune Ted Kuyler, who is hired by a group of
young american drifter/hippies to free their friend who is
held in a Moroccan jail.
Mewshaw is the recipient of Fulbright and National
Endowment for the Arts fellowships in creative writing, and
is presently working on a fourth novel set in Texas to
published early in 1975.
The reading is co-sponsored by the English Department
and Student Activities and is free.
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Kershaw is set to exhibit his
wild stage ways. Along with
the Moon Pie Daince Band,
tickets are $3.50 general
<WE PICs
THE FREAKS
Also featured are the
Selections for the
symphonic band include
“Russian Christmas Music”
by Alfred Reed, “Sol Y
Sombra” by George Gates,
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
money from sales of the
publication will go to the
Student Association and may
be used to finance the next
issue of the magazine,
planned to be published
bi-annually.
‘Fall SA magazine
admission at Central Ticket University Woodwind
and outlets and a special Ensemble conducted by
Also to be performed are
Cecile Chaminade’s
“Concertino for Flute,”
“Carol of the Drum” by
Katherine Davis and “A
Christmas Festival” by Leroy
Anderson.
(4,000 copies), “a timely
investment against the
rampant inflation
Nixon regime.”
The president
Assistant Band Director Ray
Tross and the University
Brass and Percussion
Ensemble conducted by Band
Director Gene Lewis.
The woodwind ensemble
will perform Percy Grainger’s
“Ye Banks and Braes O’
Bonnie Doon” and
“Cantilena for Woodwinds”
by Arthur Frackenpohl. Paul
Shahan’s “Spectrums” will be
performed by brass and
percussion ensemble.
Lewis said he expects a
good reaction because the
brass numbers are “powerful
Student Association
President Steve Fishcher said
Wednesday his new magazine,
303 Union East, will be on
sale in the East Union and at
the “Pigs vs Freaks” football
game Sunday in the Sun
Bowl.
The magazine, edited by
Fischer, sells for 15 cents. In
the opening article, Fischer
calls his “rare first issue”
by Bach and Malcolm
Lockyer’s “Pathfinders
March.”
Singing his songs and
playing his electric fiddle,
Doug Kershaw in his crimson
velvet suit is like an old-time
pitchman attracting crowds
gjust to sell them some hot
stuff guaranteed to cure
everything from lumbago to
gunshot wounds. He makes
his audiences feverish as he
sings away in a richly rustic
baritone while thrashing
around like an angry alligator
in a Lousiana swamp.
Doug Kershaw hails from
the bayous of southern
Louisiana. The lyrics to his
^best-known song, “Lousisana
“Man,” are strongly
autobiographical, about
mosquitoes and swamp water
and coons and simple folk.
He is solidly rooted in the
Cajun tradition and though
there were country hits years
ago with his brother Rusty,
Doug’s career really kicked
into gear after his debut on
the Johnny Cash show five
years ago, during which many
viewers felt he showed up
Cash’s other quest — Bob
Dylan.
“Mama Kershaw’s Boy” is
the sixth Ip released by the
company that signed him that
very year. His initial three
albums drew extensively on
his repertorire of literally
thousands of self-penned
tunes. Heavily accentuating
his fiddle, those albums were
in the mainstream of ethnic
bayous. On “Devil’s Elbow,”
the fourth Ip, he shifted
direction, concentrating on
outside material, toning his
fiddle down and emphasizing
his singing. The result was his
most commercially viable
work, tracing a broad
spectrum of Southern musical
history. The “Douglas James
Kershaw” album
subsequently offered more of
the same and the two were
among the better country
releases in the last two years.
“Mama Kershaw’s Boy”
steps back toward the bayou,
reinstating his fiddle and a
full selection of original tunes
like “Mama’s Got the Know
How”.
“Rolling Stone” once said
of him: “Kershaw can blow
up any crowd to bursting.
The playing would be
sufficient but he can whirl
and twist his angular features
in the most incredible
geometric affronts to your
sensibility that he can survive
for the set. It’s unfortunate,
in a sense, that he has
developed this dervish
Charles Stanley conducted the Electronic Music Concert
1 1 Colloquium in the Fine Arts center Monday. From left the
Modern sounds performers are Jeff Cobb, Mike Perea, Luis Margargui and Manuel
Garcia. (Photo by Phil Booth)
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intimacy to such a degree,
because if you can’t see
Kershaw this way, you’ll The familiar sounds of
never see all there is to be.” Christmas music along with
The opportunity, however, is contemporary music will be
open to the El Paso audience, heard when the University
In concert at 8 p.m. Symphonic Band presents its
Saturday in Memorial Gym, annual Christmas concert at 8
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