ARTS The Michigan Daily Sunday, January 22, 1984 Page 5 SPop goes the 'U' Orchestra By Pamela Starrett O N JANUARY 6, 1949, Leonard Bernstein set a modern version of Romeo and Juliet to music. "A novel idea...Can it succeed?" he wondered. "It hasn't yet in our country..." On January 24, 1984, the University Symphony will perform a Pops Concert. A novel idea. Can it succeed? It hasn't yet in our city. When asked if such a concert will become an annual event, Orchestral Director Gustav Meier replied," If it's a success . . . if people come." This Pops concert is a great learning experience for the orchestra. It prepares the students for today's professional orchestras which use "Pops" to increase audience size and revenue. Ticket prices for professional "Pops" are usually steep, but this con- cert of popular favorites is free. But this is January. What about the Collage concert? For the past seven years, the University Symphony and other ensembles have prepared a very popular concert in conjunction with the Midwestern Conference on School Music called Collage. According to David Aderente, general manager of University ensembles, the conference is using their own Youth Ensembles this year. The USO has spent this month preparing an extensive program of "Pops" music rather than the Collage concert. Meier conducts the orchestra in Strauss' "Overture to die Fleder- mause," and "Dance of the Seven Veils" from the provocative opera Salome. Music from Copeland's western ballet Rodeo will be con- ducted by FooHuang Chen. The second half of the program begins with the "Overture to William Tell," conducted by Yakov Kreizberg, and the aria "Una voce poco fa" from the Barber of Seville, both by Rossini. Beverly Rinaldi will perform as soloist the Rossini aria and Cunegon- de's Aria "Glitter and be Gay" from Candide by Leonard Bernstein. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras all over the country and with the New York Choral Society. Due to the sensitive conducting of Meier and the prepared accompaniment of the orchestra, Rinaldi is delighted to be a part of this concert. John Phillip Sousa, the "Pied Piper of Patriotism," concluded nearly every band concert with "The Stars and Stripes Forever" whether or not it was printed on the program. The Symphony will end their concert in similar tradition. The University Symphony will also perform excerpts from Bernstein's West Side Story. This "novel idea" became a musical reality. Perhaps with audience support, a successful Pops Concert could lead to a 1985 concert of quality Pops music for Ann Arbor - free of charge. MATH (MAJORS/MINORS! Pretty boys Everyone is hungry like a wolf for those Duran Duran tickets that go on sale tomorrow for their concert at Cobo Hall Saturday, February 25. Johnny Tarzan) Weissmullr dies, at 79' Records- You are having your first party of the term and you need some new music to get everyone dancing, but you haven't heard anything in a while that really got you bopping. Well, one of 1983's most danceable albums, Fantastic, by Wham! U.K. may be just what you are looking for. George Michael and Andrew Ridgely nicely mix their songs with alto and falsetto voices. Fantastic is an in- terestingcombination of rap and funky rock. None of the songs contain impor- tant or significant messages, which is, fine because Wham! U.K. never pretends to provide anything other than great upbeat dance music. "A Ray ofSunshine," their anthem to dancing, is on side one, the more upbeat of the two sides. It also contains "Bad Boys," the dance chart hit, as well as Wham! U.K.'s version of the 1970's hit, "Love Machine." The song is basically unchanged, except Ridgley and Michael's voices are much higher. Fantastic also contains a high-paced rap song appropriately titled "Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)." The song extols the virtues of not caring what anybody thinks and just getting out and having a good time. The album slows down a little on side two, but is still very danceable. "Nothing Looks The Same In The Light," is a slower, breathier song. "Club Tropicana" features crickets and sounds like a typical night in an SL.A. club: MAT H (MAJORSIMINORSI APTITUDE)... You're Needed All Overithe World. Ask Peoce Corps Moth volunteers'why their degrees ore needed in the class- rooms of the-world's developing notions. Ask them why ingenuity and flexibility are as vital as adopting to a different cul- ture. They'll tell you their students know Math is the key to a solid future. And they'll tell you that Peace Corps odds up to a career experience full of rewords and occomplishments. Ask them why Peace Corps is the toughest job you'll ever love. PEACE CORPS ACAPULCO, Mexico (UPI) - John- ny Weissmuller, the world champion swimmer Who won gold medals at two Olympics and motion picture fame as the chest-beating "Tarzan," died of a lung blockage, his doctors said yester- day. He was 79. Weissmuller, who overcameA childhood polio and went on to win five gold medals in the 1924 and 1928 Olym- pics before appearing in some two dozen. films, died in his Acapflco home about 11:30 p.m. local time Friday. Rodolfo Gomez, director of the Funeraria Gomez funeral home in the Mexican resort 250 miles south of Mexico City, said Weissmuller's fifth wife, Maria Gertrudis, and daughter Linda were at his side when he died. Weissmuller had a history of heart trouble and was hospitalized in 1973 af- ter fracturing *a hip in a fall. He had become infirm the past three years. Officials at nearby Sinai Hospital said its staff personnel had treated Weissmuller for some time. "Two -or three staff members would go to his house to treat him regularly during the last year," said Dr. Eustasio Ordaz Paredes, who was in charge of his care. "He was attended by a nurse at all times." A hospital spokesman said the cause of death was listed as pulmonary edema, or a blockage in the lungs. Gomez said Weissmuller would be buried in Acapulco, but did not know if services would be conducted yesterday or today. Born in Winder, Penn. in 1904, Weissmuller rose to prominence first as a world-class swimmer - he never lost a swimming competition - and then as the yowling, loin-clothed king of the jungle in the film versions of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famed "Tarzan" series. The hulking, 6-foot-4 John Peter Weissmuller was just a tall, skinny kid when he suffered a polio attack at the age of 9. "My doctor said I should take up some sort of exercise to build myself up," Weissmuller once recalled. "I got into a swimming pool at the YMCA and liked it," he said. "And I found I had a natural flair for it. Working as an elevator boy and bellhop at the Illinois Athletic Club, young Weissmuller met famed swim- ming coach William Bachrach - who turned him into an Olympic competitor. Weissmuller gained world attention as a swimmer during the 1920s, winning five Gold Medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics and the 1928 games at Am- sterdam. He was hailed by sportswriters as the 'greatest swimmer of the 20th century for a decade of competition that saw him win 52 national championships and break 67 world records. A handsome 200-pounder in 1930, Weissmuller was working out at the Hollywood Athletic Club's pool when he was seen by novelist Cyril Hume, who was writing a screenplay for a Tarzan picture at the time. After a screen test, the former swimmer became the daring, chest- thumping king of the jungle. Although there were other Tarzans before and after him, Weissmuller was the most popular, beginning a string of jungle pictures with "Tarzan the Ape Man" in 1930. "I went to the back lot at MGM, they gave me a Q-string and said, 'Can you climb a tree? Can you pick up that girl?' I could do all that," Weissmuller recalled. He made many of the films with Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Tar- zan's wife, Jane. The last movie in the series was in 1947, "Tarzan and the Mermaids." Bad boys George Michael and Andrew Ridgley (Wham! U.K.) offer some great dance tunes for your next party with their latest release 'Fantastic.' The first four songs of the album would be a welcome addition to any party tape. The rest of the songs just aren't as good. But Fantastic will get .even the amost apprehensive party- goers dancing. And just in case you aren't having a party, the inside jacket features the words to all the songs so you can bop around your bedroom singing along with George and Andy. - Halle Czechowski PI NBC cans racist 'White Dog' HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The con- troversial movie "White Dog," a thriller about a German shepherd trained by a racist :to attack black people, has been yanked off the network TV schedule in response to objections by minority groups. NBC this month paid a reported $2.5 million for rights to the movie, produced by Paramount Pictures in 1981 but never distributed in American theaters. The network planned to air the film during the February sweeps, when Nielsen audience ratings determine how much sponsors will pay for adver- tising time. NBC officials described "White Dog," starring Kristi McNichol, Paul Winfield and Burl Ives, as "a well- made motion picture that makes a strong and anti-bigotry statement." That assessment was challenged by spokespersons for the NAACPand the Black Anti-Defamation Coalition. Both organizations saw the film as an in- flammatory tract for racist activists and said they feared it would fuel racist activities. The NAACP, in fact, objected to the movie before filming began, prompting Paramount to hire black consultants in an unsuccessful effort to curb the criticism. "We were disturbed the film would be' a blueprint for certain groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, or encourage the use of /dogs or vicious animals to attack blacks," Jose De Sosa, president of the San Fernando Valley NAACP chapter, said of the objections to a network showing. "I don't see why our society would want to promote this kind of com- munication when we are all trying to live together harmoniously," he said. Network executives refused to discuss the cancellation, issuing only a terse formal statement. 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