The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, September 11, 1970 Page: 1 of 4
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Ma bee Hall one of few new ROTC
Military and civilian digriitaries
were to be on campus Friday to
take part in groundbreaking cere-
monies for Mabee Hall new Re-
serve Officers Training Corps
facility on the H-SU campus.
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1 -of-kind' jazz show due
The Preservation Hall Jazz
Band arrives here for their con-
cert Monday Sept. 21 at 8:15 p.m.
at Behrens Chapel. They will
play New Orleans Jazz. The
music is the root of all that we
now know as jazz plus the sound
that changed the orchestras and
the playing styles for all of our
popular music and has influenced
(many classical composers. Fine
. . . but what is the music that
will be heard here?
It is easy to say what New
Orleans Jazz isn't but what it is
to an audience is very subjective
what it is to a musician is equally
personal. The sources for New
Orleans Jazz have been explored
many times.
There are labels. You can call
it Blues and be right Ragtime
and be right sometimes. You can
hear the marches of funeral
parades and of John Phillip Sousa.
You can hear the spirituals of
Pineywoods churches in Louis-
iana and the songs of gospel
quartets. The music of the
Creole people in New Orleans
with their quadrilles and even
their minuets and their other
special music is there.
New Orleans Jazz is not slick
and arranged on paper to be
played the same each time. It is
not Dixieland and it is not the
vaudeville and night club brand
of vaudeville music. It is not
straw hats and funny jackets and
cheap tricks.
When you finally reach New
AU-school picnic
planned Sept. 1 9
Miss Billie Shirley Associate
Professor in Physical and Health
Education announced that there
will be an all-school picnic Sept.
19 at Kirby Park.
At 10 a.m. activities will begin.
These include volleyball horse-
shoes and badminton. Following
lunch at 12:30 '-'Mr. and Mrs.
Beanie" will be selected.
Food will be catered by Mr. Jay
Maynard of Saga Food Service.
The cafeteria will not be open
Major General Joseph R. Russ
deputy commanding general of
Reserve Forces U. S. 4th Army
will share the spotlight with Mr.
Joe Mabee representing the J. E.
and L. E. Mabee Foundation at
Tulsa.
Orleans Music it is five or seven
or sometimes a few more men
who are playing a tradition and
still reaching into a deep well
of creative genius to improvise.
The trumpets plays the melody
the clarinet plays the counter
melody the trombone plays the
harmony the piano plays the
chords on which it is all based
and the rhythm section keeps
everyone inside the limits of the
tempo . . . and then suddenly the
melody moves to a different in-
Jstrument and that player im-
provises and changes everything
and the excitement builds and
your spirits soar along with the
music and the happy sounds or
the sad sounds and you know
you are listening to New Orleans
Music.
On another level you are hear-
ing men who heard Freddie Kep-
pard or Buddy Bolden or King
Oliver or Johnny Dodds or Kid
Ory or Jelly Roll Morton or Baby
Dodds play that melody and that
change for the first time 55 years
ago and you are hearing men who
have played it for that long and
have answered the demands of
audiences at home in the Louis-
iana Parishes for that many years
and they are playing their music.
So New Orleans Music doesn't
submit to the confines of words
very well. The Preservation Hall
Jazz Band plays it the way it was
played by these same historical
people when they created jazz.
They played it with as much
vigor and joy as they did then.
Never mind that each member
of the band is more than 60 years
young now. They know what
New Orleans Music is ... . and
they'll be here to play it for you
in a concert. The music won't
die they are teaching other young
men at Preservation Hall. The
music will never be just the same
when these creators who have
stayed as young as their music
have left the stage for the last
(time .... for they were there
when it happened and their tech-
nique and their souls have never
forgotten how to make it happen
again . . . night after night . . .
on the road in a dance or at Pres-
ervation Hall.
General Russ is a 1935 graduate
of the U. S. Military Academy at
West Point. He served as an in-
fantry officer in the Korean con-
flict and in 1955 graduated from
the National War College. He
also has served in Vietnam.
ABILENE TEXAS SEPTEMBER 11
Whatever New Orleans Jazz
is it will be on stage here. The
audience will hear something that
has never been heard before and
never will be heard again just
as the audience on the next night
will hear a unique concert . . .
everyone is different because the
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HERE THEY ARE! Billie and De De Pierce two of the members of the Preservation
Hall Band are pictured here with the tools of their trade. This exciting unpredictable
but thoroughly enjoyable music will be presented in a "one of a kind" concert Monday
Sept. 21 at 8:15 p. m. in Behrens Chapel-Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at Dr. W. O.
Beazley's office in Sandefer and at Caldwell Music Co. 221 Grape St. at half price for
students. Student prices are $1.75 for floor seats and $1 for balcony.
Mabee Hall is one of the few
in the United States now being
built specifically for ROTC LTC
Clark F. Kreitler professor in
military science and head of the
ROTC studies here said. Most
ROTC buildings now in use are
1970
musicians all now in their 60s
70's or even 80's play an impro-
vised music. It is not just an his-
torical experience to hear the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band it
is a happy music enriching ex-
perience that makes it more than
a concert.
facilities
older structures that have been
used for purposes other than
academic or in conjunction with
physical education departments.
"Much time and effort has gone
into designing this building" Col.
Kiretler said.
FRIDAY
EDITION
NO. 3
CONGRESS OFFICE
HOURS SCHEDULED
Jane Hix Student Associa-
tion has announced that the
Student Congress office will
be open Monday through Fri-
day from 2-3 p.m.
The office is located on the
second floor of the Moody Cen-
ter Student room 211 A.
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