Uf tdm OatIgO Don't pass up the chance to see Fritz Lang's "M" tonight. Marking the film debut of Peter Lorre, the film is the disturbing portrait of a serial killer who preys on children as he is pursued by police and the Berlin criminal underbelly. Based on actual events, this German 1931 classic is a big-screen event not to be missed. Michigan Theater 9 p.m. $5 for students. Friday October 24, 1997 5 flome brings legendary voice to 'U' By Christopher Tkaczyk Campus Arts Editor ,The world of opera doesn't often lend its prized possessions to Ann Arbor, but when a featured performer visits, it is no merely a concert or performance. It is appening. Marilyn Horne, famed mezzo-sopra- no and American national treasure, will be in town this PF weekend to deliver a special recital as part M of the University Musical Society's annual season. Best k wn for her r als, Horne has performed more than 1,300 such concerts during her illustri- ous career. She is one of the very few artists who can sell out a performance space in this most definitive realm of singing. Born in Bradford, Pa., Marilyn Horne began her training with her father and eventually moved on to study music at the University of Southern California. By the age of 20, she was Dorothy lIgridge's singing voice in the film version of Oscar Hammerstein's "Carmen Jones" -an alternative twist Ia on Bizet's "Carmen." Considered to be one of the best opera singers alive today, Horne has sang on some of the world's most respectable opera stages, including La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, l'Opera de Paris, London's Covent Garden, and the Chicago Lyric. Receiving hon- orary doctoral E V I E W degrees from the Juillard School of rilyn Horne Music and the Saturday at 8 p.m. University of Mendelssohn Theater Richmond, Horne $40 and $25 has also received recognition as being one of the nine "all-time, all-star singers, in the MET's 100 years,' as acclaimed by Harold C. Schonberg in The New York Times. Most important, however, is her com- mendation in the Kennedy Center Honors of 1995, at which President Clinton cited her with an honorary medal of recognition for her contribu- tion to the arts in the United States. Most recently at the Metropolitan Opera, Marilyn Horne appeared in January 1996 as Dame Quickly in six performances of Verdi's "Falstaff." Two years prior she recorded a complete recording of "Falstaff" under the BMG Classical label as well as a complete recording of Handel's "Semele" under Deutsche Grammophon, which received a 1994 Grammy for Best Opera Recording. Having recorded many Grammy-win- ning albums, Horne has recently crossed over from classical voice to musical comedy and light pops. Titled "The Men in My Life" the recording features Marilyn with some of the best recent male voices from the MET, including Sam Ramey, Thomas Hampson, Jerry Hadley, and Spiro Malas. She has often appeared for perfor- mances on both David Letterman's "Late Show" as well as Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" among others. Apart from singing and performing, Horne has led an active career as humanitarian and teacher. In 1994, Horne launched The Marilyn Horne Foundation with a gala birthday concert at Carnegie Hall. The foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses par- ticularly on the art of the vocal recital. President Clinton was present at the event and offered his praise when he mentioned that her "role in helping to strengthen this rich tradition has helped to beautify our world. The Marilyn Home Foundation will give many young artists the encouragement they need to continue their vocal careers" A step into a new career direction occurred when Horne hosted the Marilyn Horne Vocal Workshop at Carnegie Hall, a five-day program that became the first-ever of such to be pre- sented there. While that particular workshop con- centrated on the bel canto form of singing, she insisted that there is no such type of singing. Whatever the truth may be, Horne knows exactly what she is doing. Accompanying Horne for her Saturday recital will be none other than the University's own Martin Katz, a pro- fessor in the School of Music. This year marks their 30th anniversary together as performer and accompanist. Having Horne in our midst is an event. Her artistry and voice have been praised from the early days of her career, and continue to be done as such today. Her Saturday recital is surely not to be missed, for it will most likely prove to be the best classical concert of the fall sea- son. Author Pinker explores 'Mind' Mezzo-soprano and national treasure Marilyn Home will perform Saturday evenIng. God Street Wine uncorks new album By Cara Spindler For the Daily Steven Pinker is a cognitive psychologist and ector at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. He is well-known for his best-selling "The Language Instinct," where his unconventional take on language has earned him the title of "Language's Bad Boy." Tonight, he will be reading from P his new book, "How the Mind S Works," which is 550-plus pages of why we humans think and act the way we do. Sexuality, incest, vio- lence, family relation and the five es are all theorized under the machination of the computational theory of the mind and evolutionary psychology. "The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of prob- lems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life, in particular, understanding and outmaneuvering objects, animals, plants, and other people, writes Pinker. Gotcha. This is a book that's supposed to be written for non-science folk, but at times his prose tries too hard to be upbeat. In the case of "modules," it is still unclear W- exactly what he means by mental organs that each have a "specialized design that makes it an expert in one arena of interaction with the world," because he never physically nails down what a module is. Instead, he explains it as a concept: "A mental mod- ule probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messi- ly over the bulges and crevices of the brain." At a cer- tain point, the mechanical/structural meaning to his R St words lost me in his prose. One of his main postulates is the universal structure to human thought. By comparing human reasoning, which is multi-leveled to binary computers, the com- plexity of the simplest action, like holding a pencil, is illustrated. "People in all cultures carry out long chains of reasoning built from links whose truth they could not have C E V i E W observed directly." In other words, to a certain Leven Pinker extent, we share the same hard Tonight at 7:30 drive and parse information sim- Borders Books & Music ilarly. There is a universality here Free that is comforting. But, the demarcation between the sexes is fairly universal. Through "reverse engineering," Pinker dissects human behavior today and tries to figure out how the human mind evolved to fit its environment. And our foraging past's remnants still affect human behavior and biology today. Using Pinker's guidelines, let's say that men have smaller testicles for their body size than chimpanzees but bigger ones than gorillas and gibbons. According to Pinker, testicle size has become a measure of monogamy, because chimpanzees are notoriously promiscuous and gorillas are not. This suggests that human ancestral females have not been entirely monog- amous. All right, so how do these testicles affect our behav- ior? Well, a man that is jealous of his woman's sexual activities is more likely to pass on his own genes. To a certain extent, this makes sense. By Reilly Brennan Daily Arts Writer The time-tested rock collection God Street Wine is back on tour in support of their self-titled, third major label release. The New York-based group, consist- ing of guitarists Aaron Maxwell and Lo Faber, bassist Dan Pifer, God keyboardist Jon Bevo and drummer Tomo, is no doubt with sp one of the lesser- Cognitive psychologist and author Steven Pinker. "The largest cause of spousal abuse and spousal jeal- ousy, almost always the man's." Why, if a man wants to pass on his genes, would killing the woman be an act of genetic preservation? There's a chance that the off- spring might be his, too. Pinker makes a weak refutation of the "common feminist theory" that men are brainwashed by media images that glorify violence against women. "In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth." This isn't completely a heterosexual world, and nor is it necessary that a woman is dependent on her husband for wealth. Pinker gives an entertaining argument for a mind that has evolved to create a framework of our world. However, personal experience seems integral to the for- mation of an individual. Although "How the Mind Works"has its problems, an evening with Steven Pinker promises to be interesting nonetheless. ec known bands of today's jam-band com- munity. Still, the fivesome manages to put out great material and continues its tradition of putting on absolutely mind- blowing live shows and never playing the same version of a song twice. Guitarist/vocalist Aaron Maxwell, in a recent interview, said that despite many fans' disappointment over the pre- vious album's clumsy translation into the live arena, their latest, "God Street Wine,' is a great workable live collec- tion. "It is important to us that the songs from the new album translate well live, and they do,' Maxwell said. "That's an exciting thing for us. The new stuff makes us pumped to go back on tour again." God Street is celebrating their new album, as it not only captures the hard- to-accomplish live E V I E W "feel in the studio, but it also marks Street Wine their second release Tomorrow on Mercury Majestic Theater Records, coming ial guests Strangefolk off the fiasco thay encountered with Geffen. "We've had our ups and downs, but what we do always has feeling, Maxwell said. "We put so much of our- selves into this album." The album does have many bright spots. The single that will be released to radio stations, "Feather", is good, though far from the best song on the album. "Good Dream" is excellent, as GSW's fine lyrics and emotional con- tent force the listener to either smile or tear. As in many great GSW tunes, "Good Dream"'s final chorus really does seem to accurately bring to a cli- max the feeling of enchantment that is conveyed throughout the song. God Street Wine has matured froni their bar-band image of old, but nonetheless know their roots. Shows are characterized by joyous lyrics and clas- sic ,jamming that has brought GSW a fan following and loyal support throughout the music community. Maxwell said that along with the con- centration on the new Wine material, old favorites like "Stupid Hat" or "Waiting For The Tide" are still played live, and the improvisation that live per- formances are maintained by allow for old stuff to sneak in here and there. "We've been going without a set list lately. 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