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By Bob Buckingham
It's spring term and
hopefully we'll find those closet
pickers outside the classroom
window jamming and giving us
something to listen to besides
the incessant chatter of the
faculty. Until that happens here
are a few records that may
interest you.
Byron Berlin, Dad's Favorites
Rounder 00100
This is a long overdue
album. It has been thirteen
years since Berline's last solo
Ip. Not only does this 1p
showcase a brilliant fiddler, it
works with novel ideas in the
banjo fiddle mold. There are
five banjo pickers including;
Alan Munde, John Hartford,
The lAA and the Social
Committee will present two
films in the month of April.
The first film will be The
Story of Adele H. and will be
presented on Wednesday, April
5 at 2 pm in the Student Center
and at 8 pm in the Auditorium.
The second film will be
Emmanuelle: The Joys of a
Woman and will be presented
on Wednesday, April 19 at the
same times and locations.
Admission to all viewings is
free.
The Story of Adele H.
Francois Truffaut's fascina
tion with romanticism and
passion achieves its fullest
expression in this low story
revolving around the daughter
of Victor Hugo. The film is an
hypnotic revelation of Adele
Hugo's unrequited but unre
lenting desire for a British
lieutenant--a delirious passion
that ultimately became a tragic
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Larry McNeely, Doug Dillard
and John Hickman. Two cuts
feature banjo trios, Ragtime
Annie and Arkansas Traveler -
while another pair of tunes,
Redbird and Birmingham Fling
feature fiddle, banjo and bones.
Berline's Texas style has
always been flashy and Lime
Rock and Grey Eagle empha
size this side of his playing.
Rags and waltzes are consi
dered the ultimate test of a
fiddler's skill and Berline
proves his worth on B & B Rag,
Stone Rag and the beautiful
Sweet Memories Waltz. Espe
cially on the latter, Berline's
double stops abound in seeming
endless variety.
This 1p feels much like the
old Country Gazzette at its
best. Some fine guitar by Dan
and shattering obsession
"The Story of Adele H. is a
beatiful, rigorous, very original
film. It contemplates the classic
beauty of Adele, played with
extraordinary grace by Isabelle
Adjani. This profoundly beaut
iful film is about Adele's
journey into a magnificent,
isolating obsession. This is
Truffaunt's most severe, most
romantic meditation upon low.
The film makes us see both the
madness and the grandeur of
the passion. A unique film."
-Vmcent Canby
New York limes
"Isabelle Adjani's soft,
plagent quality (along with her
trained, outsize talent) makes it
possible for Adele's heroic
insanity to seem to explode on
the screen. Adele is a riveting,
great character because she
goes all the way with it."
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Pauline Kael
New Yorker
Crary adds a nice dimension to
the album.
Harry Sparks Sings Hank
Williams, County 759
Tribute albums are numer
ous in country music especially
honoring such early greats as
Jimmie Rogers, Bob Wills and
Hank Williams. Here Larry
Sparks, a fine traditional
bluegrass singer in the Stanley
mold, and some excellent
sidemen step o'ut to create the
sound of country music from
nearly thirty years ago. In a
time when most country Ips
feature choruses of violins and
voices along with electric
instruments and pianos, Sparks
uses the traditional acoustic
band of guitar, mandolin,
dobro, fiddle and bass.
Williams stamped his songs
with his personal style and
even though he may not have
penned them they became his
"The Story of Adele H. is a
lovely, sometimes almost ra
vishing reflection of lost lives.
Of all Fracios Trufaut's films it
is the most beautiful. In Adele,
Truffaut has found a heroine
who perfectly embodies and
reflects his own intense
romanticism. And in the course
of her torturous low affair
Truffaut can further chart the
shattering refractions of an
obsession."
Emmanuelle
The Joys of a Woman
Following in the footsteps of
the first Emmanuelle, Francis
Giacobetti broadens the scope
of erotic cinema in this bold
chronicle of a woman's odyssey
toward sensual freedom. Exo
tically set and exquisitely
photographed in Bangkok,
Hong Kong and Bali, vitually
every variation on sexual
activity is depicted as the
liberated heroine pursues the
peaks of passion and desire.
Her exploration captures the
essence of beauty and ugliness,
sophistication and innocence
and the curious admixture of
French culture and Oriental
custom.
"Emmanuelle, The Joys of a
Woman is visually vastly
superior to our home-grown
porn. The girls, headed by
Sylvia Kristel, are gorgeous,
and gorgeously gowned (when
ever they are gowned). The
settings are handsome, and
made even more so by Robert
Fraisse's glowing side screen
photography. Francis Lai has
contibuted another of his
haunting scores."
Arthur Knight
Hollywood Reporter
"Miss Kristel, possessed of
the kind of beauty that makes
you want to be in three places
at once, was an instant
sensation ... each scene is
suffused with the soft, sensuous
light of a fashoin spread. This
time out, Emmanuelle's erotic
Own. Sparks is also capable of
such feats and without copying
Williams vocal style, Sparks is
able to convey the essence of
the song. Where Williams voice
is anguished almost crying at
times through the tortured
lyric, Sparks sings in a plaintive
voice, haunting in its lonesome
resignation. Sparks phrasing
provides the right contrast
between blues and mountain
vocal qualities giving him a
wide range of expression. The
lighter side of Williams is
expressed in Dixie Cannonball
and Mind You Own Business
while the darker side is
conveyed in I'm So Lonesome I
Could Cry. Sparks understands
the irony of many of these
songs of which No One Will
Ever Know is a fine example.
I Saw the Light is done
instrumentally and every one
gets in a couple of good licks.
Sparks is not one to play a lot of
quest leads her from Bangkok
to Hong Kong to Bali. No holds
are barred as she turns
innocence inside out in search
of the perfect hedonistic life ...
behind the lens is Francis
Giacobetti, one of the Conti
nent's leading fashoin photo
graphers ... the French have a
slightly different approach to
erotic film making. They
believe that a work does not
have to be explicit to be
exciting, that less is more. The
second coming of Emmanuelle
stops just short of complete
fantasy fulfillment."
Jay Cocks
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guitar solos, but each one
reflects his mastery of the
instrument. The sidemen in
clude the original bluegrass
fiddler, Chubby Wise, who
sounds like he's been listening
to some of the younger pickers.
Ricky Skaggs who now heads
up Emmy Lou Harris's band is
playing a jazzy mandolin which
adds a sense of timelessness to
the recording. Tommy Boyd is a
regular with Spark's band and a
master of many instruments.
Here he uses his dobro to play
every steelguitar lick those old
1p steels had in them but, with
the clear full tone that only a
dobro can provide.
This album may be a
statement by Sparks at a time
when many bluegrassers are
attempting to break down
stereotypes and show us that
real county music, the kind
played by real people, still
exists.
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