Thursday, September 12, 1996 Amos jumps off cliff with Boys Amos to grace with piano in Erie A piano spectacular like no other, the Warner Theater will fill its halls with the sounds of Tori Amos tonight. A musician who combines her innermost thoughts with the sounds of beautiful piano music, Amos is like no other. Most popularly known for her two previous albums Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink , Amos recently released her latest album, Boys for Pele. According to her, Boys for Pele is a new chapter in which she felt ultimate freedom. “It feels like a new chapter, and part of the reason for that, for the first time in my life, there has been nobody over my shoulder saying, ‘Why don’t you do it this way?’ This gave me license to take the songs wherever I instinctively felt they shoiild go. I knew that there were places where I’d never let myself go musically and lyrically in the past. This time around, I could push myself to explore beyond those boundaries. With this album, I finally discovered what complete creative freedom feels like,” she said. \Volunteer futors Needed:! ' Fall 1996 Tutoring Program- J [ September 16 to December 6 > 1 After-school tutors are needed! [Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays; | or Thursdays from 2:30 - 3:40 pm. i Transportation to and from Diehl is[ [provided. • i NO PRIOR TUTORING [ [EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY., i Pick up an application from the [ [ Office of Student Activities, Ist ■ ' floor Reed today! Call x 6104 for [ [ more information. « i Informal focus groups to discuss , [ needs and sen/ices for adult [ ■ learners at Penn State-Behrend will • [ be held on September 16 and 18 [ 1 from 12:00- 1:00 p.m. in Reed 3, [ 11st floor Conference Room. Bring , [ your lunch and your concerns. All [ ■ non-traditional students welcome! i I _For_more_infqrmation L [ •Alpha Sigma Lambda, thej [National Honor Society for, •Returning Adults, is currently, 1 [planning the Fall *96 induction) 'ceremony. Any member interested 1 , [in helping in the planning, please; [calLThefesaa| 866-J065. , FUNDED BYSGA stage tonight Boys for Pele is not only entirely written by Amos, but self-produced as well spanning it’s recording from Louisiana to Ireland. Amos, who could play the piano by the age of two-and-a-half, calls herself a freak child with really good rhythm. “I’d be invited to parties simply because I played the piano. I quickly realized that I had some kind of calling. But, just as quickly, I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path - and not the one that was laid down by others.” Composing musical scores by the age of four, Amos went to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore at age five. While there, she realized that she did not want to conform to the concert pianist. She was expelled at eleven and spent the next several years playing in the gay bars of Washington DC and Baltimore. Amos’ success gained momentum with the release of her second album, Under the Pink. "This time, Amos took the stripped, candid emotional elements of Behrend Briefs & Events Calendar 12 - Thursday 13 - Friday 14 - Saturday , , S The Collegian 5:20 p.m. Academic 41 |ALL STUDENTS WELCOME!! ~'"1 - ■ »■■»■■■ I 15-Sunday 16-Monday 17-Tuesday 18-Wednesday Math Club Recruitment Biology Club 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Reed 3 Wilson Picnic Grove ™ G p °” Multi-Cultural Center Greg Louganis College Democrats “Breaking the Surface” 6:00 p.m. Reed 3 7:30 p.m. Reed News her previous work and applied them to a broader canvas, with breathtaking results. As with its two predecessors, the eighteen songs that make up this latest album are disturbing and comforting by "Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depends on what the listener brings to the songs. But, to me, this album (Boys for Pele) sounds like the biggest cliff yet.” turns - reveling in the richness and strangeness of language, delighting in the infinite possibilities of melody, exploring subject matter with fierce and fearful honesty, achieving the clarity of waking dreams and nightmares. “My songs have always been reflective of what is going on in my life at a particular time,” she says. “And, if anything, this album has been inspired by my relationships wi|h men. A lot of changes have taking place in this period of time - with lovers, collaborators and close friends. Some of those relationships reached a crossroads, a point beyond honor where I realized that I was stealing fire from men. That's what I needed to write about. But 1 had to be on my knees before I could be absolutely hones, before 1 could find my own fire. With special guest Josh Clayton-Felt, Dicesare Engler presents Tori Amos and her Dew Drop Inn Tour of 1996, tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Warner Theatre. - Tori Amos Page 5
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