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Show Page B6 D Thursday, April 15, No rest by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer In their show April 10 at the Zephyr Club, Buckwheat Zydeco didn't take long to get the party rolling. By the time Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural took the stage after two songs by his six-member "lis Sont Partis Band," the club's dance floor was already full of spectators who were beginning to sweat. Most of the crowd seemed primed for what was ahead: more than two hours of up-tempo music that would combine the hard-edged drive of blues with the ecstatic frenzy of zydeco. The Lafayette, Louisiana band's penchant for the blues was apparent early in the set when, during a cover of Albert Collins' "You Talk Too Much," guitarist Joseph Chavis unleashed a scorching solo that would have fit well in the music of any top Chicago blues band. (The same could be said of the sounds of harp player and saxophonist Wilbert Miller.) Chavis, who cites Freddie King and Albert King as his influences, worked well with the band's other guitarist, Mike Melchione, whose playing included more country-style country-style inflections. Trading leads, the two easily romped through the band's eclectic mix of music. Stanley Dural, the group's lead singer and accordian player, kept the crowd involved through the two sets, in which selections ranged from traditional zydeco (including "Everything Hurts") to zydeco-inflected country (including Hank Williams' "Hey Pat Sheedy Project returns to Park City by ALEX WELLS Record staff writer Since his last performance in Park City more than five years ago, Pat Sheedy has integrated education and entertainment. The Milwaukee native, who was a frequent performer in Park City's clubs during the mid to late '80's, has recently staged interactive-music interactive-music performances at the Discovery World Museum in Wisconsin, in the Milwaukee Public Schools and at the Milwaukee Art Museum. School-age School-age youths were encouraged to take part in the composition, lighting and staging of the shows. While Sheedy has made a name for himself in the Midwest as both an educator and a musician, he is best remembered here for some fx SrCk 1993 at Buckwheat Zydeco show m Oik Buckwheat Zydeco performs right Good Lookin') and rock and roll (including the two encores: the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" and Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe"). Many of the 13 songs lasted more than 10 minutes, as the band frequently paused for solos or to allow the audience members to sing along with Dural, a four-time Grammy Award nominee. Bass player Lee Allen Zeno, who has been with the band since its beginnings in 1976, took advantage of one pause to play an impromptu high-energy club performances he delivered as frontman for the Pat Sheedy Project Sheedy, who plays keyboards, piano and sings, has returned to perform with vocalist percussionist Mary Berhnd April 14-17 at Pop Jenks. The two will select from a range of material that includes originals and covers of funk, fusion, jazz, rock and blues. Like Sheedy's other recent gigs, these shows will include musical interaction with the audience. He is encouraging people to bring their own percussion instruments to the shows. Sheedy, whose credits include work with members of the Talking Heads, Leo Kottke and the Violent Femmes, plans to record the five nights at Pop Jenks. o O A'ki i. at the Zephyr Club. The band's solo version of "Popeye the Sailor Man." The pauses set the stage for the band's sudden charges, which would send the crowd into new flourishes of movement Buckwheat Zydeco's mix of traditional and contemporary styles obviously pleased the audience. And while Dural has been criticized in some circles for neglecting old-style zydeco--a genre that began as music for accordian and guitar only-he is Utah Opera will open celebration Utah Opera opens the Festival of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City with Benjamin Britten's Curlew River, a parable for church performance, on April 18 at 8 p.m. in the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City. A symposium has been planned preceding that performance on Friday, April 16 at noon in the cathedral, which will feature Utah Opera's General Director Anne Ewers; Conductor and Benjamin Britten specialist David Agler; Costume Designer Susan Memmott Allred, and; Choreographer Victoria Morgan. Also on the panel will be tenor Walter Dixon, a member of the Royal College of Music in London, who will be singing the role of the Madwoman. V i mil founder, Stanley Dural, is at ; praised for his foresight by one member of his band: "He's gone beyond just the traditional end of it," said Melchione. "At the same time he's taken the heart and soul of the music and gone a little further." As an example, Melchione pointed to the band's cover of "Hey Joe." "Stanley Dural has the insight to do the thing on the accordian, and he knocks the s out of it," he said. The Utah Opera performance of Curlew River marks the first time in the western United States that this Britten parable has been performed in a cathedral setting" -using the convention of Japanese Noh (No) staging as it was originally intended. Discussions will include an explanation of this Japanese stage art and the choreography of this production, as well as Britten's music and the creation of the opera. Memmott Allred will discuss the concepts in her costume design. Additionally, the Madwoman's costume worn by Peter Pears in the original production of Curlew River will be on display. The symposium and performance of Curlew River are free and open to the public. Concert is on tap A unique musical opportunity for children will be presented by the Westminster Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, May 15, 1993. The "Carnival Concert for Kids" features Bach's Double Violin Concerto, Prokiefiev's Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saens'-Car nival of the Animals. The hour-long hour-long concert is offered at 3 p.m. and again at 5 p.m. in the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, 1250 East 1700 South. Children are encouraged to attend with their parents at no charge. Noted author, composer, teacher and speaker Carole Flatau is being brought in to narrate both Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals. Child violinists Laura Viola Ferry and Mary Price are the featured duo violinists on the Back piece. Duo pianists for the concert are the orchestra's music director Jeff Manookian and Gary Barnett Conducting the festively-garbed orchestra will be Kevin Hays, Manookian and Gunter Radinger. Peter and the Wolf, written in 1936, is probably the best known musical piece written for children worldwide. The piece teaches about the basic instruments of the Silence greets test on early mankind An ominous silence greeted last week's trivia questions. Blame it on America's declining schools, or the hours people spend in front of the television, or the possibility that no one cares-whatever the reason, no would tell us that 1) the two skills that separate Neanderthal Man from the earlier Homo Erectus are the ability to use fire and the use of advanced tools (as opposed to crude chopping implements); 2) migrations through the Bering Straits brought the first settlers to America; and 3) the first hominids (family of man and his ancestors) are believed to have appeared 1.7 million years ago. - So much for the history of man. Let's try a few questions on sports, a subject Park City residents seem Trivia Test The Park Record D Section B for kids May 15 orchestra through music and storytelling. Carnival of the Animals, written in 1886, has been described as the most brilliant comic work parodying various composers. Contemporary poet Ogden Nash wrote the tongue-in-cheek woods to accompany the music. . Carole Flatau, keyboard editor of CPPBelwin, Inc., a print music publishing company in Miami, is a piano teacher, newspaper columnist and frequent contributor to professional music magazines. She has also been a regular "story lady" at nursery schools, kindergartens, school programs and libraries. Poetry contest The Mile High Poetry Society will host a "Springfest" poetry contest with $500 in cash prizes. For contest rules, send S ASJE. to Mile High Poetry Society, P.O. Box 21116, Denver, Colorado 80221. have mastered. The questions: 1. What was the game of volleyball originally called? 2. What famous hockey player (hint: former Boston Bruins center) fell down when he was introduced during the original Canada Cup (Canada vs. U.S.S.R.) series? 3. What were the Cleveland Indians called before they were the Indians? The first person to call us with the correct answers after 8 ajn. on the morning of publication will win a free sandwich from the Main Street Deli. The winner must wait a week, until his or her name has been printed in the next paper, before going to the deli to claim the prize. H(fTJ |
