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Show Page 8 THE WEBER STATE SIGNPOST September 29, 1967 'Squeeze In' at UB Planned by LDSSA The Norman Luboff Choir will appear tonight in the auditorium of the Fine Arts Center as Norman Tonight by Janet Cunningham Anything from Bach to Blues rings out when the Norman Luboff Choir under the direction of the dynamic conductor - arranger-composer Norman Luboff begins one of its concerts. Since the Fall of 1963 they nave averaged more than 100 performances per concert season a total approached by no other professional touring attraction of its kind. On the record labels of RCA Victor and Columbia the Choir, which consists of 25-30 virtuoso professional singers depending on what the musical piece at the time call for, initially achieved its popularity. Norman Luboff started his professional career in Chicago where he taught theory, made commercial arrangement"? and B su) LLETB THE BOOK STORE IS NOW FEATURING THE ONE BOOK YOU'LL USE FOR ALL COURSES! 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Bv 1945 his arrangements were so in demand that he gave singing up entirely. During the following seven years he composed and arranged for more than 80 moving pictures plus numerous renown TV shows. In the Fall of 1965 the first Norman Luboff book titled "Songs of Man" containing approximately 150 folk songs from all parts of the world was published. It was during this Hollywood period that the Norman Luboff Choir came into existence as a recording entity. It was, of course an instant success, and has remained solidly so ever since From 1958 to 1963, theLuboffs and their two children, Peter, now in his early 20's, and Tina, about - , .7 ' special programs scheduled Concert Center to attain her majority, madetfleir winter home in London. Summers were generally spent in the south of France, where the head of the house enjoyed a variety of sports as well as aconnoisseur-sampling of tlie gastronomic specialties of the region. During 'work breaks," the maestro began work on his first full-length show, a fantasy about Robert Burns entitled "Highland Fling." The decision to tackly "live" touring on an extensive scak brought the Luboffs back to their native heath. The songs are interestingly grouped under such topic headings as: Men and Women at Work; Fun, Frailty, and Foibles; For the Small Fry; Well Loved Places; Drinking Songs; Love Songs, Tender; Love Songs, Tragic; Love Songs, Bittersweet; Valor and Freedom; Blues and Complaints; Folk Hymns and Spirituals; COIN OPERATED Throughout Rocky Mt. Region HIGHEST QUALITY GASOLINE Low, Low Price tfmmwmr Ogden 3 I st Freeway at Pennsylvania The LDSSA us sponsoring its first student social function of the autumn quarter on the 29th of September. This stag event beginning on lower quad at Weber State will ba called "The Squeeze-in" Three sky-divers will jump at 7 p.m. Their descent will last for four minutes, fall. The exhibition will include an vocal description by one of the Sky Haven Club members. Each ticket will represent which is worth a prize if a sky-diver lands there. One of the prizes will be dinner for two at one of the area's finest restaurants. After the prizes are given away, all of the ladies will be instructed to sit down and remove one of their shoes. The shoes will then be thrown into a large pile. The gentlemen will then select a show from the pile and match it with the proper young lady. If she chooses she may at that time have this fellow pick up her dinner. The "Balladeers," a group from Utah State University who have appeared at the Valley Music Hall and have sung in advertisements on television.The entire audience will then follow the Balladeers up the campus into the Union Building where they will present a forty-five minute concert. Student Teaching applications for winter quarter must be submitted by Wednesday, October 11th. Students may obtain the necessary forms by purchasing a STUDENT TEACHING HANDBOOK from the WSC Bookstore. Appointments for pictures can be made to Thursday, October 5 in LI 1 with Miss Hancock. SELF SERVICE Immediately following the concert there will be dance to popular taped music. The LDSSA social committee chairman, Richard Judd, expects an attendance of between 1000 students at "the biggest thing that's ever happened on the Weber State College campus.''Tickets can be purchased at the door, from the LDSSA social committee members. Audubon To Show Africa Scenes in Africa, British Columbia, and areas of the American continent are included in the 1967-68 Weber State CollegeAudubon-Wild-life series opening in October. The five film-lectures are sponsored by the Life Science department of the college and the National Audubon Society. They will begin at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center auditorium.Opening the series on Oct. 9 with "Sights and Sounds of the African Wilds'' will be ornithologist G. Stuart Keith. "Central California's Coastal Plain" filmed by conservationist Eben McMillan is scheduled for April 8. A narrow strip of rugged coast coastline inCa'ifornia's San Luis Obispo county is setting. Here pigeon guillemots and cormorants nest by the thousands, joined each fall by numercis other species, a-mong them an occasional emperor goose. Included is a visit to the Hearst ranch, home lor several species of African gane. Last film in the series will be "Wild Rivers of North America'' on April 23 with John D. Bulger, photographer. A film story of the wilderness waterways of America, this film features the Allagash, St. Lawrence, Hudson and Buffalo rivers, as well as pristine st-reamsin the Northwest Ter-Nutria, mink, fisher and pine marten; caribou, beluga, curlew and ptarmigan will be seen. 0 it 1 3 |