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Show Ferranfe and Teicher to appear a? U tonight Ferrante and Teicher with Dennis Den-nis Yost and the Classic IV will present a program entitled "Strike Up the Grands", Wednesday night in the Sports and Special Events Center at 8 p.m. "Strike Up the Grands" will include in-clude all of Ferrante and Teicher's George Gershwin tunes and pops songs. This includes "Midnight Cowboy", "Exodus", "Tonight", "Theme from Romeo and Juliet", and "West Side Story". The concert will also feature "Spooky", "Traces", "Midnight" and many other papular songs by Dennis Yost and the Classics IV. Ron Fessenden, director of infer in-fer maticn for the Sports and Special Events Center, said that there will be about a 5,000-person crowd attending the concert and that many goad seats are still available. This is over double the size cf the audience that the piano group usually plays for. Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher have been reording for 12 years and have played duets since the age of six. They originally origin-ally played duet on cne piano, but noticed that manv new variations and effects were possible with two piancs. They now will only p!ay on two matching 17-foot Kimball Kim-ball grand pianos which they jokingly jok-ingly call "Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin." When the team first started playing two piano duets, they found it hard to find an audience for such a duet. Experts said it . was impossible for two pianos to synchronize well enough to make an enjoyable concert. They stug-gled stug-gled for 12 years before they recorded re-corded the theme music from the movie, "The Apartment". Since then their twin pianos and talents won them 11 gold record awards. The team has concentrated on " "' . 3 1 aw"----. 4 f . a-- recording standards, show tunes, movie tunes, and good pop songs. They have been able to attract people of every age group to their oncerts. The Classics IV which was originally ori-ginally a quartet, is now a six-member six-member group. The original group consisted of Dennis Yost, drums; Dean Daughtry, organ and piano; Bill Gilmore, bass; and J. R. Cobb, guitar. Mr. Fessenden said that future engagements and the arena will be Stepenwolf on March 13; the Association, April; Oliver, May; and the 5th Dimension, July. He said that no concerts are scheduled sched-uled for more than one night "because "be-cause it is hard to fill that large of an arena two consecutive nights. But if we do have a sell-out a second night will be considered." he added. Tickets for the Wednesday night concert are available at the arena ticket office and the Huddle ticket effice in the Union building for $4 and $3. Students with activity cards will receive a $1 discount. Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher, famous painists, will perform 'or students and faculty alike, tonight, 8 p.m., in the Special Events Center. |