Local musicians pfay their stuff
Concert to feature
By EVE MARKOWITZ
Collegian Staff Writer
Sometimes you hear them
and sometimes you don’t
because they play in local
nightspots as background
music.
This weekend, though, six
local musicians are treating
State College to a bona-fide
concert.
“Jazz, blues, folk, rock
they’ll all be represented in
some way,” says guitarist
Jerry Zolten. The concert will
be held at the Hillel Foun
dation at 8 Sunday night.
All of the musicians are
i professionals who have been
all over the country since the
early 60’s when they saw their
music “hatch.”
“Jerry and I go back to the
beginning of the movement
Castro viewed from new
By SUSAN FROETSCIIEL through Cuba. They said that aspects of Cuban life.
Collegian Staff Writer they would often change their Certain parts of the book
WITH FIDEL. By Frank daily schedules and there are tedious because of the
Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, would be no protests or continuous question and
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' „ . citizens in the rum factory
With Fidel is Frank The bulk of the book is in and on the beach are typical
Mankiewicz and Kirby question and answer form everyday conversations and
Jones s account of their three an d is based on the interviews have little political or social
trips to Cuba in 1974 and 1975. w jth Castro. For clarity, the impact.
The trips totaled over six authors integrate the in- . ,
weeks and their purpose was terviews from the different Otherwise, Castro s
to interview Cuban Prime trips and then separate them opinions on President Ford,
Minister Fidel Castro. into subjects such as the Cubas relations with the
The authors were not Communist Party, the Soviet Soviet Union and the United
restricted in their travels Union, Watergate and various States and the economies ol
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here at Penn State in ’63, ’64,”
said Ken Mathicu, who plays
a six-night a week circuit at
Toftrees and the Holiday Inn.
"That was when girls were
still required to be in at 11:30
on weeknights and at 1 p.m.
on the weekends,” he said.
“Music-wise, Peter, Paul and
Mary were just the tip of the
iceberg; we were interested
in the obscure.”
Zolten and Mathieu were
working with the Folklore
Society then, “an extremely
potent force on campus that
booked a lot of concerts,”
presenting acts like Richie
Havens and Janis lan. Zolten
said in those days Richie
Havens and other unknowns
would play for $5O and about
50 students would show up for
the concerts. He can
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remember when the then
obscure Arlo Guthrie came to
State College and couldn’t
perform just because the
Society hadn’t the $5O to pay
for it.
“People like Tom Rush and
Tom Paxton came here
before they were famous
we wanted the real rootsy
people,” Zolten said.
All of the performers in the
concert have acted as opening
acts to major performers.
They admit it can be un
comfortable playing to
audiences who are impatient
for the main act to begin.
“Often you get an audience
that’s pretty appreciative,”
said Mathieu. “But I’ve seen
really good groups booed off
the stage because an
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audience wanted to see, say,
Poco.”
“That’s part of the tragedy
of the music scene. You have
to suffer. Music’s the kind of
business where you starve
until you’re a millionaire.”
“From the opening act
point of view there’s
sometimes this tremendous
fear,” Zolten said. “For
various reasons, and this isn’t
always because of quality, we
can’t be the main act. There’s
this crazy myth going around
that big names are
synonomous with quality and
it’s just not true.”
In addition to Zolten and
Mathieu, the concert, “a
strictly non-religious event,”
will also feature pianist
Arthur Goldstein of the local
groups Silent Way and
perspective
the three countries are Revolution as a success,
sometimes surprising. His They note that Cuba is a
criticisms of the United unique Communist country
States are always of the without labor camps and
government and not of the secret police. Unlike other
people and they are in- Communist countries, Castro
formative and provocative. permitted Cubans to leave if
‘ • . ~. they wished. Although Cuba is
In the introduction and the a dictatorship, it is not
conclusion, Mankiewicz and totalitarian, the authors said.
Jones give their own views of Through their travels,
Castro and Cuba. They note interviews, and this book,
incidents that demonstrate Mankiewicz and Jones add to
his simplicity, charisma, American’s knowledge of
force and stubbornness. Cuban history and clear up
Mankiewicz and Jones some myths which persist due
portray the Cuban to ignorance and bias.
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Goldstein, who earned his
masters degree in music
composition here at Penn
State said he has had good
experience with “the three
kinds of music that interest
me most —classical, jazz and
serious rock and roll.”
David Fox, currently
performing in the dim at
mosphere of the Comer
Lounge, is the most prolific
songwriter in the concert. “I
write most of my own songs,”
he says. “They’re done
mostly to piano or to acoustic
guitar."
Tommy Wareham,
described by Fox as “one of
the most exciting and one of
the finest guitarists in the
area” will add to the rhythms
of the concert.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) The drum and Little Ernie Cagnolari, who played
bass horns boomed and the trombones and trumpet in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
trumpets wailed a dirge yesterday as New with Robinson, leaned on his crutches
Orleans jazzmen escorted Nathan “Big Jim” against the front of the church as the
Robinson to his grave. Olympia Brass Band shuffled around the
Big Jim, 86, had been one of them, a corner, leading the hearse,
trombonist who played with the best for more
than 50 years, and they gave him the “1 played with Jim since 1928, Cagnolari
traditional New Orleans sendoff, a jazz said. “I must of played 200 of these funerals
funeral. with him. Lord knows how many he played.
Robinson, who died Tuesday, was buried He talked about missing Jim when the band
from St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist church, performs. “Jim is missing a trip,” he said,
housed in a building that once was the home “We gotta get out of here as soon as the
of Kid Howard, the legendary trumpeter who service is over. We’re going over m Georgia,
used to play with Big Jim. to Savannah, to play a job."
Arthur Goldstein, Jerry Zollen, Ken Mathieu and David
Fox, local performers, will appear in concert at 8 p.m. Sunday
at the Hillel Foundation. The concert will feature a repertoire
of jazz, folk and rock music.
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