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Show B4 Signpost Tuesday, September 27, 1983 Concert News "Strange Brew" is a hoser's delight y&ie-up It has been called the season of the policing of America, and with good reason. Following their successful 1981 hit album "Ghost in the Machine, " the Police have once again put their talents to the test and come up with a winner: "Synchronicity. " Don't be fooled by the record's first release, the seemingly pop-sounding "Every Breath you Take. " All but three of the tracks on this album have words and music by Sting, lead singer of the Police. Sting combines soaring melodies with dark lyrics inspired in part by the breakup of his eight-year marriage. Gone are the days of lyrics like "Do do do, da da da." What we get is a closer look at the man Sting as he has mellowed through the years. When he sings "How can I turn the other cheekIt's black and bruised and torn," a lot of emotional energy comes through. The lyrics on "Synchronicity" are not clever or outstanding. The thing that makes the album so good is the successful combining of music and words without one outshining the other. "Synchronicity" is a brilliantly conceived album that combines jazz, rock, and touches of punk into polished and high gloss music. Other groups would find such experimental music too big of a risk. For the Police, the gamble has paid off. "Symphony" Season tickets for the concert season are available from the Ogden Symphony-Ballet Association in the Ec-cles Community Art Center. Season ticket prices range from $24 for seats located in the rear balcony to $60 for seats on the middle left of the main floor. Individual ticket prices range for $5 to $11. Chanber concerts will be held at the Ogden Hilton Hotel at 8 p.m. Charles Ketchum will conduct the first one Friday, Sept. 30. Mozart, Elgar and Divorak plus works by Kreisler and J. Straus will be performed Thursday, Dec. 29 and conducted by Joseph Silverstein. Guest conductor Rafaef Sept. 29- The Tubes at the U of U Special Events Center. The concert starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are available for $10. Sept. 30- Kenny Loggins at the U of U Special Events Center. The show starts at 8 p.m. This is a rescheduling of his rained-out summer concert. Tickets are $10.50 Or $12.50 at the door. Sept. 30- Rick Springfield, with guest star Quarterflash,' in the Dee Event Center. Tickets are $10 . Oct. 5- Diana Ross at the Salt Palace. Tickets are $12.50 . Bam um flo Play BARNUM.a delightful Broadway musical that won three Tony awards in 1980,runs through Oct. 5 at Pioneer Memorial Theater. Staged in a glittery circus atmosphere, BARNUM traces the illustrious life of P.T. Barnum, the world's greatest showman and impresario. Barnum will play each evening except Sundays at 8 p.m. A matinee performance is scheduled on Sat. Oct. 1 at 2 p.m. For more information call 5 8 1 - 6 9 6 1. cont'd from 3B Drujan will conduct Vivaldi, Haydn, Barber and Stravinsky along with a violin solist Friday, Feb. 17. An all-Bach program will be performed Friday, April 6. Single tickets for the chamber concerts are $6 and season tickets are $18. "Evenings with Special People" will continue this season. Silverstein spoke Sept. 20 beginning the series. Murry Sidlin will speak Oct. 10. Utah Symphony violinists Frances Dagar and Barbara Scowcroft, viola player Dorothy Freed and cellist Daniel Freed will perform on the final evening, March 12. Admission is free for the events held in the Eccles Community Art Center. Okay, so Bob and Doug McKenzie (alias Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas), the beer-guzzling Canadians from "SCTV, " aren't going to win an Oscar for their movie "Strange Brew." In fact, the only award this movie is likely to win would be the golden stein from the Brewmeister of American for the longest beer commerical in the history of motion pictures. However, the amazing part of it all is that "Strange Brew" doesn't go flat or lose its fizz. In fact, all that beer-guzzling and "Take offs" add up to an evening of good entertainment. "Strange Brew" starts out as a movie within a movie, with the McKenzies showing their latest science-fiction feature. Alas, tragedy strikes when the film breaks and our heroes are forced to give refunds from dad's beer money. Hell hath no fury like papa without his beer, so the boys head off to the Elsinore brewery with a plan to get free beer (the old "mouse in the bottle" trick). From this point on, the film takes on a "Hamlet-in-drag" look. Bob and Doug are hired to work at the mysterious Elsinore plant. There they befriend Pam Elsinore (Lynne Griffen), the Hamleta heiress to the Elsinore kingdom (to beer or not to beer). Her father has been killed by her uncle and the sinister brewmeister (Paul Dooley and Max Von Sydow). Together these two have taken over the brewery and are planning to enslave the world by means of a mind-controlling drug in the beer. Like I said, "Strange Brew" is not a deep movie. The film requires nothing more than your body in the theater seat. But what's wrong with a little fun at the movies, eh? The O Weber State College Thanks Pizza Hui Theater: W 3 kstom for donating the Mhn 0 m j n see page 13A The Latter-day Saint Student Association and the Ogden LD.S. Institute present: HORIZONS THOUGHT David A. Christensenf Director of Curriculum and Instruction, LDS Church Educational System. Friday, September 30, 12:00 Noon Institute Chapel 1302 Edvalson Horizons in Thought is a a weekly Series Featuring outstanding speakers. Plan on attending each week p j |