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THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY SEPTEMBER IS, 1984-PAGE 1C
Grace Holman
Red carpet rolled out
IN 1913
generated
Lufkin festival to include
local artists, Alabama-Coushatta
Susan Parker and Mrs.
G.E. Standard of Livingston
will exhibit and sell items at
the third annual East Texas
Folklife Festival Sept. 22-23
in Lufkin, Texas.
They are among the 42 ar-
tists and craftsmen selected
to participate in the Folklife
Festival.
Susan Parker’s items will
include hand-painted
wooden plaques, puzzles and
Christman ornaments. Mrs.
G.E. Standard’s include
Woodwork of toys and gifts.
Arts and crafts that will be
on sale include paintings,
woodcrafts, pottery, custom
jewelry, quilts, dolls,
mobiles, and Christmas or-
naments.
Besides arts and crafts,
the Festival will offer enter-
tainment, refreshments,
games and other activities
for all ages.
All-day musical and dance
performances will include
the Alabama-Coushatta In-
dians, the East Texas Tim-
bretones, the Nacogdoches
Jazz Band, and the E-Heart
band, among others.
Among the foods that will
be available both days are
Concert series
opens in Lufkin
barbecue, ice cream, corny
dogs, egg rolls, sausage, fa-
jitas, and funnel cakes.
Children of all ages will
love the Children’s Funland
with its many activities and
games. Telegrams, cookie
decorating, face paintings,
tile art, and a treasure dig
are just a few of the ac-
tivities for children. The
local humane society will
sponsor a petting zoo and a
pet adoption center as well.
The Festival is sponsored
by the Historical and
Creative Arts Center, a
general museum in Lufkin.
It is held on the grounds of
the museum and the Lufkin
Civic Center at Second and
Paul Streets.
Admission at the gate is
$1.50 for senior citizens and
students, and $2 for adults.
Saturday hours are 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. and Sunday hours
are Noon to 5 p.m.
A major American folk art
exhibit will be open to the
public inside the Historical
and Creative Arts Center
Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The
exhibit, which runs from
Sept. 16 through No. 18,
features animal forms that
have been crafted into
weather vanes, windmill
weights, doorstops, quilts,
lightning rods, and other
functional objects.
The items in the exhibit
are on loan from Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Frink of
Nacogdoches.
For more information on
the Festival or on the folk art
exhibit, write the Museum at
P.O. Box 771/Lufkin, Texas
75901, or phone 409/639-4434.
HAT FIRST CONCERT
could not have
much more excitement.
The concert under discussion is the first of the 1984-85
Subscription Series for the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
A high school drum corps was on hand. A spotlight let per-
sons not even in the vicinity of Jones Hall that something
special was underway.
The wide red carpet extended from the doors to the sidewalk
edge. Many persons came in evening attire. Others wore “Sun-
day best.” Still others wore their usual Levis. Ours is indeed a
pluralistic society, with clothing the first indication.
Back in 1913, when Houston itself was a mere 77 years old,
Miss Ima Hogg and an informal committee started a move-
ment to create a Houston Symphony with a trial concert.
Miss Hogg had been impressed with the wide interest in
music as well as the large number of professional and avoca-
tional musicians in town.
Julien Paul Blitz, a Belgian musician and leader of a popular
orchestra, assembled 35 musicians who performed at 5 p.m.
June 21 (1913) in the Majestic Theater.__
Miss Hogg-a student of music at home, abroad and in New
York-likely also encountered the non-musician who liked
music-without one minute in a music class. Non-musicians
without a minute in a music class also like to see a symphony
orchestra in town. Only the insipid think one must have studied
music to enjoy music.
Whether or not the first trial concert in 1913 was sold out is
not recorded in the Symphony’s brief history on hand. But the
first Sunday concert for 1984-85 was sold out. And several
others are. That means that the entourage from Polk County
which regularly goes Sunday afternoon will be going either
Saturday or Monday nights.
LUFKIN - Memberships
for Lufkin Community
Center Association’s 1984-85
series were mailed this week
to season subscribers in the
east Texas area.
Country-and-we stern
singer-composer Tom T.
Hall headlines the series of
four events and opens the at-
tractions with a concert
featuring him and his band,
the Storytellers, on Satur-
day, Sept. 29.
Pianist Nina Svetlanova, a
native of Russia, is schedul-
ed to perform on Thursday,
Nov. 15. The widely acclaim-
ed Soviet emigree has con-
certized widely throughout
the world and is also artist-
in-residence at Manhattan
School of Music.
New York Vocal Arts
Ensemble, a five-member
singing group, appears here
on Feb. 9, 1985. The artists
specialize in Elizabeathen
and early American music.
Ballet Folclorico Nacional
de Mexico is the fourth and
final attraction scheduled
for April 14,1985. The dance
troupe is the Mexican
government’s official
representative dance group
at home and abroad.
All concerts are scheduled
for Lufkin High School
Auditorium at 8 p.m. with
the exception of the Ballet
Folclorico which will appear
in a matinee performance on
Sunday at 3 p.m.
A limited number of
memberships are still
available priced at $20 each,
according to Mrs. Robert
Cannon, 1303 Shady Lane,
Lufkin, Tex., membership
chairman.
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HOUSTON SYMPHONY PHOTO
The Sunday concerts long have been a favorite; the
subscribers seldom miss a program. But you’ve read that
before. Right here, in this hebdomadal exercise.
The symphony decided to build on a good idea: Create a
series of Sunday programs with the more popular classical
works and composers. The first was Beethoven, with his Sym-
phony No. 5 in C minor chosen, and the familiar William Tell
Overture by Rossini. Guillaume Tell is the French title of
Rossini’s last and most serious opera about the legendary 13th
century Swiss patriot and his struggle to win independence for
his country from tyrannical Austrian rule.
But most Americans, although they have heard of William
Tell, don’t think of him-or of Rossini-on hearing the overture.
They think of the Lone Ranger.
Back in 1808, Beethoven gave a performance of all his latest
works, Dec. 22 to be exact. A contemporary observed said that
the concert lasted from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., to be even more ex-
act. In a bitterly cold unheated hall, the hearer said he “ex-
perienced the truth that one can have too much of a good
thing.”
It’s difficult to imagine hearing too much of Beethoven
under any circumstances.
But we didn’t hear Rossini or Beethoven. They were for the
lucky ones with tickets for Sunday, for the initiates or near-
initiates to music. We heard Benjamin Britten’s Variations
and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell (Young Person’s Guide to
the Orchestra), Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini and
Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major. Britten’s music-also ex-
cellent for the initiate or near-initiate to good music or for the
veteran concert-goer who hasn’t spent a minute in a music
class-gives an introduction to the symphony orchestra. A nar-
rator explains everything.
The program notes note Britten starts with the theme played
by the full, modem symphony orchestra. Then it is played by
each of the families of Instruments: the woodwinds (“really a
superior variety of penny whistle” according to narrator Jim
Bernhard, quoting the composer); the brasses (modem
descendants of old trumpets and hunting horns); the strings
(“scraped with a bow or pllucked with the fingers; their
cousin, theharp, is always plucked,” again according to nar-
rator Bernhard, quoting the composer); and percussion
(which "includes drums, gongs, tambourines, and anything
else that is hit,” also according to narrator Bernhard, quoting
the composer).
After this demonstration by the orchestra’s instrumental
"choirs” each instrument plays a variation of its own.
By the end of “The Young People’s Guide,” any person
knows more about an orchestra.
A note about Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini. It’s music
for Dante’s poem, derived from historical fact, relating the
story of Francesca da Polenta, who fell in love with her hus-
band’s younger brother. Found together, the husband
murdered both; both were placed in a single grave; and
Dante's poem relates how both through eternity are tossed
about by fierce winds in the second circle of Hell.
‘If that’s what hell sounds like, I know I don’t want to
go,’ ” one in the audience was heard to say.
To give Tchaikowsky his due, who does picture Hades as a
place one would wish to visit, much less spend eternity? Dante
certainly didn’t, noting the inscription at the gateway to the in-
ferno reads, “Leave all hope behind, all ye who enter here."
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 72, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 16, 1984, newspaper, September 16, 1984; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth810841/m1/21/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.