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LSA NewsNo. 76, September 2006
What a Gonzo!(story continued)Victoria Mitchell's act also involved poetry, as she recited "Hervé Riel" by Robert Browning. Victoria had memorized this long and dramatic poem, and delivered a riveting and impressive performance.
The next three acts featured widely differing types of music. Los Invisibles (David Landazuri and TK McDonald) performed a blues song purportedly written by the King of Thailand. TK, a.k.a. Slugretha Latifah Uleafa Gastropodia Jackson, was recently crowned 2006 S.L.U.G. queen, so the connection with royalty was especially noticeable. (Does she really wear that crown to bed??) Composer, UO Music School adjunct instructor, and Music Services staff person Terry McQuilkin and his pianist wife Ellen then performed a four-hand piano piece, one movement of the five-movement "Legacies" which was was commissioned by the Oregon Music Teachers Association (who selected him as their 2006 composer of the year).
Following this came a new derangement of the Pachelbel "Canon in D", with an orchestra made up in part of last-minute volunteers, including Jen Lindsey, Linda Zimmerman, veteran performer Jean Murphy and Gonzo neophyte Michael Thompson of Media Services. Along with Los Invisibles, the orchestra also included Tim Erickson on cello, Ellen McQuilkin on "harpsichord", and Neil Wilson on a Renaissance instrument that few have ever before seen or heard, the (ill-)famed tubo della posta. Neil was able to coax some amazing tones out of this rare instrument, and the performance was certainly without peer, ably conducted as it was by the ever-so-experienced Terry. Some of us had become jaded with the Pachelbel Canon, but this performance gave a new insight into its harmonies. The LSA Program Committee had provided bowls of delicious orange punch and an assortment of cookies (many of which, oddly enough, also tasted rather of orange. Were we invaded by OSU fans in disguise?). After one more humiliating (for some) round of "Fact File", with a "grand prize" of a lucious cake baked by Stacy DeHart, the audience adjourned to enjoy these treats and to prepare themselves mentally for the fashion review in the second half. Of that, all one can say is that those who work in libraries are on the cutting, one might even say, the "bleeding" edge of future fashion. And that Erik Dahl has a future on the runways of New York, Paris, and Milan.
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