The Michigan Daily- Friday, March 12, 1993- Page 9 0. J. Anderson acts 1111 Ihi All r''' 1 1 4 i W iil'1 14: by Kim Gaines Do you need abreak? Do your brain and your body ache from studying? Do you ever wish you could go back to those easy, lazy, innocent days of child- hood? If you do, then Performance Net- work is the place for you to be this Saturday afternoon! OJ. Anderson will be presenting a spectacle filled with comedy, mime, music, audience par- ticipation and more. Anderson is the perfect comedian for the college student -- he's a kid at heart who loves to make people laugh. Anderson has worked with such re- nowned artists as Mr. Rogers, Weird Al Yankovic, Ernest and the Ringling Brothers' Clowns. "It's going tobe apotpourri,"Ander- son said, "A buffet of silliness and stu- pid comedy and hopefully the adults will laugh just as loud as the kids - or they'll throw tomatoes just as hard!" The show will be a crazy time where children can enhance their creativity and imagination, and adults (or pre- adults as the case may be) can recapture the joy of their younger days. Anderson has worked with kids of all ages. He started in comedy in the college circuit and was nominated for the Top College Entertainer in theUnited States in 1986 by the National Enter- tainmentCollege Association. He went on to perform mostly for grade school andsecondaryeducation students. Now, all of his acts have been blended into one show forall ages. "Beware!"Ander- son warned, "It's for the strong of heart - from age five and up, you've gotta have a ninja heart!" After working in comedy for over 20 years, Anderson said he is no longer seeking stardom oreven trying tocreate art. "It's entertaining and keeping a good attitude," he said. "It's having a good time with it, both the audience and me. " Anderson said he hopes to see col- lege students at his show as well. "They work so hard, maybe they could use a break and laugh with some kids." Stu- dents all over this university are prob- ably desperately in need of a break! So come join me and a bunch of other kids for a great time; who knows, maybe the college students will outnumber the grade school kids! O.J. Anderson will be performing Saturday, March 13 at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00p.m. at the Performance Network. Call663-0681 for reservations and information. Gritty Cinema Cinema at its gritty best hits cam- pus this weekend with the UAC / M- Flicks showings of "The Verdict" (1982) and "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950). Sidney Lumet's "TheVerdict" stars the perennially masterful Paul Newman as a lawyer-on-the-skids who is tackling the case of his lifetime. But if you catch Newman displaying his craggy charm, make sure you stick around for the John Huston noir mas- terpiece, "The Asphalt Jungle." Now serving as the standard by which most pulp-crime films are set (yes, think: "Reservoir Dogs"), "Jungle" features the pouty-lipped tough guy extrodinaire, Sterling Hayden. Years before getting shot in the throat by Michael Corleone in "The Godfather," Hayden was the brute who imparted to his girlfriend in "The Killing" the ster- ling sentiment: "I'm gonna turn that pretty face into hamburger." "Jungle" also features a very young Marilyn Monroe, and a bang-up directing job by grit-master John Huston. Be sure and catch both on Friday or Saturday at 8 pm and 10:15 pm in MLB Aud 3. Call 763-1107. Women and Poetry Lt us go now you and I, as the evening spreads out across he sky, kind of like a patient etheriszed upon a table. Not quite T.S. Eliot, and T.S. probably isn't who you'll be hearing tonight at the Women's Poetry Read- ing in East Quad's Halfway Inn at 7:00. Share your own work or some- one else's (we do recommend "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and the always brilliant Erica Jong). Men are more than welcome to attend, but only women can getup thereand share their stuff. What a great way to spend an evening. Let usgo now you and, to the Halfway Inn to read some rhymes. Ya Gotta Have Art If you've always wanted to be an artist, but you never quite seemed to cutit, maybe you ought tohead on over to the Ann Arbor Art Association for a special nighttime workshop on por- trait-making. Everyone who partici- pates gets a coupon good for refresh- ments afterward at the Bird of Para- dise. The class is from 7-9 p.m. Call 994-8004. Pianist Alexander Toradze brought the house down at the AASO last year. Toradze returns by Jeremy Williams The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's concert this Saturday night will feature two works for reduced orchestra:Stravinsky's Symphony for Winds and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. The Michigan Theater will also be filled with the sounds of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto when the full orchestra is joined by pianist Alexander Toradze. The main attraction of this weekend's Ann Arbor symphony concert is the soloist, Toradze. He has performed with virtually all of the world's finest orchestras, including those of New York, Detroit and Leipzig. He comes back this weekend after last year's performance of Liszt's Second Piano Concerto with the AASO which brought the house down. Samuel Wong, the conductor of the AASO, says Toradze is perfectly suited to the challenges of Rachmaninoff. "Rachmaninoff needs a certain visceral excitement, and he has just that," he said. The piece's Russian character is also in Toradze's blood, as he was born in Soviet Georgia. He attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and later earned a position as faculty at the Moscow Conservatory. Toradze has taken home the blue ribbon in a number of contests, including the prestigious Van Cliburn competition. In 1983, he requested asylum at the American Embassy in Madrid while on tour with the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra of Moscow. At present, Toradze tours as a soloist and holds aposition as Professor of Music at the University of Indiana, South Bend. The first piece on the program is Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, written the same time as the "1812 Overture." All four movements are quite well known, perhaps because they are an imitation of the Classical style which was long since out of fashion when Tchaikovsky wrote the Serenade. The second movement-a waltz -is lighthearted and delicate enough to make it a crowd favorite. Tchaikovsky created a graciously classical work years after its time. "The intent was to keep the program thematically unified," Wong said of the all-Russian program. "The Tchaikovsky gives us a chance to work intensively as a string choir, while the Stravinsky gives us a chance to work intensively as a wind choir."' Stravinsky's Symphony for Winds is a lesser-known work, and it is ex- tremely demanding on the wind orchestra as an ensemble as well as for the individual soloists. It is primarily monophonic - the different instruments all play the same rhythm. It is the most modern work on the program, and also the least tonal. It was first written as a piano score to honor Claude Debussy in 1920. In 1947, it was revised and rescored as the Wind Symphony. This weekend's concert will take the audience through more than 100 years of Russian musical tradition. In the center ring will be Alexander Toradze, with side shows presented by the AASO's winds and strings. THE ANN ARBOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will perform with Alexander Toradze on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Michigan Theater. 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