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Show MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2001 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ARTS IPAC:.E 11 Music taught for everyone Co111edy relief for SUU BY LYLE GOULDING JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Beginning and intermediate bagpiping , are classes offered to Southern Utah University students during the 2001 spring semester, through the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. The Scarlet and Black Bagpipe Band has helped bagpiping become a part of SUU. "'The band has been around for nearly 20 years ," said Walt Kerksiek , pipe major for the group. This semester there are three SUU students enrolled in the beginning class. The intermediate class is made up of 11 people who five in and around .Cedar City. Each of tl1e classes offer two hours of music credit each semester. The beginning class starts out with notes and fingerings on a practice chanter. A practice chanter is an instrument that simulates bagpipes. As the students from the beginning class learn they have the opportunity to join the group. "It takes a long time on the practice chant~rs ." Kerksiek said . "Eventually we can get the students onto the pipes.· ' This is the first opportunity I have ever had to learn to play the bagpipes, · said Caleb Cooper. a freshman animal science major from Ogden. "I thought it would be fun ." During the practices the beginners work on scales and other basic skills. At first their fingers tend to cramp up, Kerksiek said . it is called the "beginners death grip." The 11 people who make up the intermediate class are the members of the Scarlet and Black Bagpipe Band . Kerksiek said five of them are drummers and six are pipers. There are no tryouts . everyone who is willing to put forth the effort and learn can eventually become a member of the band. The intermediate class plays on true bagpipes instead of the practice chanters. The band has many opportunities to perform each year, Kerksiek said. They perform at elementary schools, parades , the Huntsman World Senior Games. and other functions around the state. The band also participates in competitions each year in northern Utah. When the band performs they wear a "traditional highlander military uniform ," Kerksiek said. The uniforms are elaborate and expensive; the kilt alone is about $450. Compared to other instruments it is easy to learn to read music for the bagpipes. "There are only nine notes with no sharps and no flats," Kerksiek said. "You can teach yourself to read the music.• Variations in music on the bagpipes are grace notes, combinations of notes and flourishes , played by learning different fingerings. Even though there are not many notes, learning the bagpipes is not easy. "It takes a lot of practice time on your own.ff Cooper said . During the beginning cla ss Kerksiek told a story of when he was a beginning student eight years ago. He said he would practice in his car from the end of his classes at 2 p.m. until bagpipe class started at 6 p.m. "The biggest part of this class is homework," Kerksiek said . If the students practice hard and learn well, playing the bagpipes' can be very rewarding. "I really enjoy it," Cooper said . "I think that it is in everybody's blood , many people just don't know it. " "We have a great ensemble. The director, actors and teehnicians are all part of a team that works together to create an impressive product.' The theatre arts and dance Swenson said. department is currently in final This comedy is filled with action rehearsals for the play The Foreigner, and has many quick one-liners. which opens Thursday night in the "Comedy requires precise timing, Randall L. Jones Theatre. and getting that timing down has The play is a comedy written by been challenging but quite fun.· Larry Shue about a young man , Swenson said. Charlie, and his mishaps. Charlie is This play has much to offer the pathologically shy and is forced into audience; everything from quick wit, pretending he is someone else, who a little romance. real social issues does not understand English.· and a good laugh can be found in He overhears scheming and this play. sinister plans. The play soon turns · students will really enjoy this into the good guys against the bad show, with its fast pace and quick in guys. your face lines.· Hughes said. ' The Charles Metten, dean of the audience can expect a lot of laughs College of Visual and Performing and some fun special effects.· Arts, is director of the play. The stage Hughes and Swenson are excited manager is Amanda Hughes, a about the special effects but have senior theatre major from Roosevelt. kept quiet as to what they are. Metten's experience and "We've gbt a few special effects professionalism along with Hughes' energy, has boosted the cast through that were quite challenging but great technicians worked out all the kinks.· long and difficult rehe2•sals. Swenson said. Students and faculty from the This is a sweet and lighthearted department have spent hundreds of play." Swenson said. "This play tells hours creating The Foreigner. The cast of 14 has been in rehearsal a story of gaining confidence; it has real value. You will come away since the beginning of November. feeling really good.· Adrien Swenson, a senior theatre The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. in the major from Sandy who plays Betty, said the adors have been rehearsing • Randall and will run Thursdays between 20 and 25 hours a week. through Saturdays through Feb. 3, She said she is amazed at all the Tickets can be purchased at the work and participation needed for Randall box office and are $2 for any performance. students. 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