a Page 8-The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 31, 1989 Horror at Hill Costumed 'U' Symphony Orchestra to perform BY SHERRILL L. BENNETT THIS Halloween, as always, the Phantoms of the Orchestra will haunt Hill Auditorium with a con- cert of spooks, spoofs and hair-rais- ing tunes. This annual concert features the School of Music's University Sym- phony Orchestra... I think. It's hard to tell underneath the clever and cre- ative disguises they've conjured up. This is the group's one chance to dribble out of their stuffy black and show their comic side, and for play- ers who sit in the back of the orches- tra, this is their one chance just to beseen. So needless to say, they re- ally outdo themselves. In past years, everything from traditional ghouls to the Blues Brothers to Floot Loops has shown up in the pristine sur- roundings of Hill Auditorium. Players aren't the only ones with creative disguises. Many audience members also come in costume, and Associate Director Richard Rosen- burg, cloaked in wings for a perfor- mance of Die Fledermaus (The Bat), has hung upside down to conduct without missing a cue. The music is chosen for its abil- ity to evoke a holiday atmosphere with eerie sounds and special effects. Anything from, the chilling organ music of Bach's Tocatta and Fugue to the mystifying Symphonie Fan- tastique of Berlioz is fair game. Other works are chosen to match a conductor's costume, such as a past performance of Star Wars theme conducted by Darth Vader, and The Sorcerer's Apprentice with an ap- pearance of the Sorcerer and true ap- prentice student conductor Clotilde Otranto as Mickey Mouse. The Halloween Concerts are the brainchild of 'Musical Director of Orchestras and Opera Gustav Meier. "We started it as a legitimate piece, and it just got out of hand," says Meier lightheartedly. What will be the surprise this year? This being the unlucky 13th concert, anything is bound to hap- pen. But be forewarned: past concerts were so popular that a free ticket system was implemented this year - and they've all been snapped up by hungry little demons. So try to scam one off a friend - it'll be worth the trouble. The University Symphony Orches- tra's 13th annual HALLOWEEN CONCERT will raise the roof at Hill Auditorium tonight at 9 PM. Tickets are no longer available. 0 I I GARGOYLE Continued from page 7 the page in the Gargoyle's credits for "the endless sup- ply of comic material." But Ricardo Montalban is not on the cover by whim. Richard Eisen reviews Montalban's autobiogra- phy, entitled Reflections: A Life in Two Worlds. What else can be said? Only that in the space of three pages, not once is the joke "what kind of M&Ms does Tattoo like?" even considered as comic material. And they call this a humor magazine. THE GARGOYLE goes on sale tomorrow in the Diag and Fishbowl, and outside the cafeterias of South Quad tomorrow and Friday at lunch and dinner, East Quad tomorrow at lunch, and Markley on Thursday at lunch and dinner. Ponder this puppy More than just a rock 'n' roll group, Poi Dog Pondering is an organic mix of folk, jazz, rock and funk. In this musical muesli, you'll also find chunky bits of the spirit of Zorba the Greek and Marc Chagall. You can chew on Poi Dog Pondering tonight at the Blind Pig, 208 S. First Street. Captain Dave and the Psychedelic Lounge Cats open up the Halloween festivities around 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance. Leonardo did more than paint shi~fty eyes Hey, guess what? r ih the the University of Michigan's humor magazine, Goes on sale Wednesday! Or maybe Thursday. It's still at the printers, actually. So let's just say it goes on sale some time this week, on the Diag and in the Fishbowl, and maybe in some dorms; we don't know. Definitely on the Diag. We do know that it's really funny, and certainly worth a dollar fifty. I mean, it's just a dollar fifty, what else we're you going to do with a dollar fifty? French fries and a Coke? Well, I can see that. But buy the Gargoyle anyway; - ,, there are a lot of funny pictures of Ricardo Montalbon in it. /4 / I BY JENNIFER R. BALLEW A T the mention of the name Leonardo da Vinci, most people think of the painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But Leonardo was a scientific genius who was well ahead of his time. In the late 15th century, he was design- ing machinery which was not put to use until the early 1900s. Models of Leonardo's designs can be seen in traveling exhibits at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and at the Rack- ham School of Graduate Studies. These exhibits, sponsored by IBM, feature 16 small-scale models of Leonardo's drawings. Although the two exhibits feature some of the same models, they are not identical. In the late 15th century, the time of the European Renaissance, Leonardo dreamt up plans for flying machines, automatic transmissions, and hydraulic screws. His ideas were highly imaginative but always logi- cal. As they would not be technolog- ically feasible for centuries, he could not put most of his models to actual use. Some of the most interesting models at the IBM exhibits include Leonardo's designs of flying ma- chines. These included a wooden frame with movable wings, a trian- gular-shaped linen parachute, and a vertically ascending machine which was meant to be pedalled like a bicy- cle. His most practical model was an "aerial screw" which whirled very fast to propel people off the ground, clearly a prototype of the modern he- licopter. Leonardo was interested in other modes of mechanical transportation as well. He designed a spring-driven car which was steered by a tiller. He also came up with the idea of vari- able speed drive, the basis of modern automatic transmission. In the area of naval engineering, Leonardo de- veloped the idea of a double hull for ships as a safety measure. He also designed a paddle wheel ship, and engineered bridges which would pro- vide defense as well as regulate water traffic. It may disturbing to recognize this, but this Renaissance man also developed highly technical models for offensive warfare and weapon de- velopment. These include a ladder el- evated by a crank meant for scaling enemy walls. He designed an ar- mored tank with cannons, a idea that was not put to use until World War I. His most impressive military weapon design was a triple tier ma- chine gun which he developed while attempting to achieve greater fire- power. One of the first clocks to measure time in both minutes as well as, hours was designed by Leonardo. This clock displays two separate clock faces and uses two independant weights to move the parts. Leonardo also made other advances in mea- surement. He developed an odometer (a simplification of an ancient Ro- man machine) and came up with ideas on measuring the Earth's radius by using the North Star. He also measured humidity and wind pressure} with common household items. The replicas of these inventions reaffirm that Leonardo da Vinci was a man of many talents. An artistic as well as mechanical genius, his le- gend will live on. The exhibits of LEONARDO DA VINCI can be viewed through November S at the Hands-On Mu- seum (at the corner of Huron and Fifth) and through November 2 in Rackham's East Gallery. 4 M A KELLOGG Opportunities for Computer Science Graduates Jump into an entry-level career that will take you places at EDS. "1 . _ - wtI _ 10 ~ to~ Opportunities for Engineers The M.W. 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