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March 21, 1996 AUGUSTA FOCUS
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New Fox sitcom The Show goes bhehind the
scenes of a variety show to dig up laughs
The Show (previously called
The John Bowman Project) is a
half-hour comedy series that
takes viewers behind the scenes
for an up-close look at the life of
a white man working as
headwriter on a black variety
show. John Bowman and Matt
Wickline, both NAACP Image
Award winners (Martin, In Liv
ing Color), are the creators/exec
utive producers.
The series focuses on Tom
Delaney (Sam Seder, Party of
Five and All-American Girl,)who
just left a writing job with Jay
Leno to take a headwriter posi
tion on The Wilson Lee Show.
Wilson Lee (Mystro Clark, The
Parent ‘Hood and White Men
Can’t Jump) is edgy, young and
black. Delaney’s wife, Allison
(Eliza Cole, Murphy Brown and
Shakes The Clown), is skeptical:
“You’re that guy on Def Jam that
they find in the audience and
make fun of . . . the corny white
guy in the Hawaiian shirt,” she
says.
As the Irish Delaney arrives
for his first day at work, we’re
introduced to Wilson Lee and
his crew — Big Chewy, Choco
late Walt, 80, Chris and T.
Reginald Bryant ITI. Allowed to
have a “little white friend” watch
his back, Tom hires Jeffrey
Rothman, who’s Jewish and most
recently performed at a comedy
club in Haiti. Rothman had no
idea that he’d been hired to write
for a black show, and when he
sees the Shaft and Superfly post
ers in the hall, he fears he’s got
ten himself into a big problem. -
lem.
Making matters more stress
ful for Tom and Jeffrey are the
show’s three current writers,
Trent (Chris Spencer, Blankman
and Don’t be a Menace to South
Central), Devon (Shaun Baker,
Where I Live and Living Single)
and Denise (T’Keyah Crystal
Keymah, In Living Color and On
Our Own), who were not told
about the new white writers.
The Show is a production of
Warner Bros. Television.
Joe Kennedy Jr. to perform with
Augusta Symphony at Augusta College
Jazz violinist/composer Joseph
Kennedy Jr. will join Maestro
Portnoy and the Augusta Sym
phony in the season’s sth Master
works concert on Saturday, March
30, at the Maxwell Performing
Arts Theatre at Augusta College.
Mr. Kennedy will perform his
award-winning composition
“Sketches.” He is professor emer
itus of music and director of jazz
studies at Virginia Tech. He has
toured the world as a violinist and
composer. He can be heard on a
number of recordings, including
Joe Kennedy Jr., Magnifique,from
Black and Blue Disques, France;
as featured artist with the Billy
Taylor Trio;on Where’ve You Been?
from Concord Records; on The
John Lewis Album from Nancy
Harrow; and on Kansas City
Breaks from Finesse Records. He
is also guest artist on the Heath
Brothers and Others album,
Antilles Records. In describing
“Sketches,” Mr. Kennedy notes
that “the music of African-Ameri
cansis a house of many mansions.
There are the great religious mu
sics, the broad secular musics, the
prison songs, work songs, the
music of play songs, and rap, and
the serious music...”
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Joe Kennedy Jr will perform with the Augusta Symphony.
The Masterworksconcert will fea
ture “Bartered Bride” Overture by
Smetana, Symphonie Fantastique,
Op. 14 by Berlioz and Sketches for
Solo Violin, Jazz Trio, and Orches
tra by Joe Kennedy Jr. It is spon
sored by Philip Morris, WRDW and
Its Our Pleasure.
Beat Zero Studio.
Thedress rehearsalis 10:30 a.m.
on Saturday and is open to the
public. Admission is $1 for stu
dents and $5 for all others. Dr.
Clayton Shotwell, chair of the
Augusta College Fine Arts De-
art » music » literature ¢ theatre
partment, will present a free pre
concert talk at 6:45 p.m. in the
Fine Arts Building.
Single tickets are $lO - $24.
Mr. Kennedy will also perform at
the Publix Family Concert, the last
family concert ofthe season, on Sun
day, March 31. This concert will
feature “Classics and a Touch of
Jazz.” Mr. Kennedy and members
of the Davidson Fine Arts School
String Orchestra will join the Au
gusta Symphony in performing a
“Divertimento” by Mozart. Alsofea
tured at this concert will be the
winners of this year’s Augusta Sym
phony Guild Young Artist Competi
tion: flutist Amanda Silver, 16, who
attends Lakeside High School and
winning clarinetist Mary Elizabeth
Nishimuta, 18, who attends Evans
High School. Miss Silver’s private
teacher is Gail Jarrell and Miss
Nishimuta’s private teacher is
Charles Messersmith. This family
concert will take place at 3 p.m. at
the Maxwell Performing Arts The
atre. Tickets are $lO for adults and
$5 for students. :
Tickets for both concerts may
be purchased at the symphony
office in Sacred Heart Cultural
Center, at the door, or by calling
(706) 826-4705.
All-county music festival to be
presented at Augusta Gollege
By Derick Wells
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
The Richmond County All-
County Band Festival will be
presented at the Augusta Col
lege Performing Arts Theater
Sat., March 23 at 7:30 p.m. The
program is free and open to the
public.
Dr. Rudy Volkmann, director
of music at Paine College, will
premiere an original symphonic
work by Volkmann entitled “The
Rowe and Petrie art exhibits
to bhe displayed at Morris
Two new exhibits will open on
Thursday, March 21, at the
Morris Museum of Art. Nellie
Mae Rowe, featuring works by a
Georgia visionary artist and Wil
liam Petrie: A Memorial Exhibi
tion will open with a reception
from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The jazz
band Confirmation will perform
during the reception. ($5 recep
tion fee for non-members.)
Nellie Mae Rowe was born in ru
ral Georgia in 1900 and, prior to her
death in 1982, her work had been
shown in several landmark exhibi
tions, including Missing Pieces: Geor
gia Folk Art 1770-1976, held in At
lanta;and Black Folk Artin America
1930-1980, at the Corcoran Gallery
in Washington, D.C. She was given
one-woman shows at Spellman Col
lege in Atlanta and the Hammer
and Hammer Gallery in Chicago,
and was included in group shows at
Gaspari Gallery in New Orleans
and Middendorf/Lane Downtown
Gallery in Washington.
The Morris Museum exhibi
tion is curated by J. Richard
Gruber, deputy director, and has
been drawn from the collection
of Atlanta collector and gallery
owner Judith Alexander, who
became Nellie Mae Rowe’s friend
and advocate during the last de
cade of her life. Many of the
works employ the artist’s unique
visionary language of forms and
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1. Who are Julian Priester, Curtis
Fuller, Al Grey and Urbie Green?
2. Whowas the New Orleansjazz
musician who said, “I play what
I live™?
3. One of the greatest alto saxo
phonists of all time that played
with Dizzy Gillespie said, “Music
is your own experience, your
thoughts, your wisdom. If you
don’t live it, it won’t come out on
your horn.” Name him.
4. Name the musician that said,
“A person has to have lived to
play great jazz, or else he’ll be a
copy.”
5. In 1970, George Wein made
the Newport Jazz Festival into
onebigbirthday celebration. Who
was the honoree?
6. What bandleader/composer
called Louis Armstrong “Mr.
Unvanquished” with inembers of
the Richmomd County Symphon
ic Band, consisting of 108 stu
dents from around the county.
Tracy Hammock, band direc
tor at Butler High School, will be
directiny the jazz ensemble con
sisting of 20 players.
Heading up the 100-plus-mem
ber middle school band will be
Robert Willings, director at
Liarlem Middle School.
Over 500 students competed
for seats in the three bands
through audition.
symbols.
For the Morris Museum free
Sunday program for March 24,
Augusta storyteller, actress,
singer and music teacher Jayme
Washington will share stories
and reflections on the work of
Nellie Mae Rowe at 2 p.m.
A concurrent exhibit presents
a group of narrative works by
Kentucky artist William Joseph
Petrie, who died last year at age
44. Petrie’s works are lively de
pictions of events and stories,
ranging from childhood memo
ries to travels in Greece.
Several of Petrie’s paintings
were featured prominentlyin the
Morris Museum’s 1994 summer
exhibition entitled Vividly Told:
Contemporary Southern Narra
tive Painting.
In addition to the opening re
ception, there will be a gallery
talk on Nellie Mae Rowe on Sun
day, March 31, at 2 p.m. Atlanta
artist and writer Xenia Zed, who
wrote the exhibition catalogue
essay, will befeatured. Agallery
talk on the work of Bill Petrie
will be presented by Estill Curtis
Pennington, Morris curator of
southern painting, at 6 p.m. on
Thursday, April 18.
The Morris Museum of Art is
located at One 10th Street. The
phone number is 724-7501.
Jazz™?
7. Which female singer’s record
sales saved the old Columbia
Record Company from bankrupt
cy?
8. Name the late, great trumpet
player quoted in 1957 by the
Grand Forks (North Dakota)
Herald as having said, “The way
they are treating my people in
the South—the government can
go to hell.”
9. In 1923, Bessie Smith made
her first record. What was the
title of the record?
10. How many copies were sold?
11. What did Bix Beiderbecke
keep his horn in?
12. In August 1931, Beiderbecke
died in the apartment of bassist
George Kraslow. What was the
cause of death?
13. What great musician/com
poser was once told to take his
Jjungle music and go back to Afri
ca?
14. Who was the first saxophon
ist to record a solo in an echo
chamber?
15. This bassist is largely respon
sible for establishing the impor
tance of bassin jazz music today.
16. What do Oliver Nelson,
George Russell, Gil Evans and
Bill Russo have in common?
17. What is the theme song of the
Duke Ellington Orchestra?
18. When we speak of “Bean” and
“Pies,” who are we referring to?
19. What is Dizzy Gillespie’s
wife’s name?
20. Who is Gigi Gryce?
Answers on page 7
