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APRIL 17, 1997 AUGUSTA FOCUS
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FLESH-N-BIONE
ost of us have two sides to
our personality; a Dr. Jekyll
& Mr. Hyde syndrome of
sorts. Growing up on the
streets of America can give con
flicting messages; one of a
newfound hopein the younger gen
eration and one of a dying society
with a complete lack of concern for
those within it. Flesh-N-Bone
proves this to be true with his
searing Mo Thugs/Def Jam
Records debut entitled Trues
Humbly United Gatherin’ Souls
(T HUGS) THUGS. is a
deeply spiritual and conceptual
album that will truly inspire its
listeners. This works for Flesh-N-
Bone because he’s experienced
dramaon thestreets, been through
the struggle for survival and lived
by the philosophy “by any means
necessary.” Hisstoriesare all real,
honest, rough and enlightening.
All of these contradictingelements
make T.H.U.G.S. one of the most
-dramatic hip-hop releases.
Flesh-N-Bone finds inspiration from
his roots, the tough and all-too-real St.
Clair section of Cleveland. Inner city,
USA has never had the truth told so
daringly about its faults and the hope
that lies ahead. Gathering the likes of
producers Krayzie Bone, Tony C.
Bobby Jones, Damon Elliot, and
Rhythm D, Flesh-N-Bone gives voice
to a complete album that captures the
trailblazing singsong rap style made
famous by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
“A lot of different elements can be
found on my album. I can come from
the lighter side giving you the harmony
and thick tracks, or can sound eerie
using various instrumental sounds,
whines with deep melodic beats. Re
gardless of how I coming, bring my
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Flesh-N-Bone: “It took years of rhyming to get where we’re at.”
own flava and harmonies, I'll always
be a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony style
man, that will never leave me.”
The use of the word “Thugs” is no
coincidence. Flesh-N-Bone is a mem
ber of the famed Cleveland-based su
pergroup Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
Brother to Layzie Bone, and cousin of
Wish Bone, Flesh-N-Bone is a singu
Its Our Pleasure.
lar extension of the brilliance coming
out of St. Clair & East 99th. The his
tory of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is
well-known, but bears repeating. See
ing the squalor, poverty and rampant
drug culture that held the community
inits grip, the members of Bone Thugs
-N-Harmony delved into that
netherworld of hopelessness.
Premieres and debut acts will
highlight this annual gathering of artists
CHARLESTON, S.C.
The nation’s number one inter
disciplinary arts festival will fill the
theatres, churches and gardens of
Charleston, South Carolina with
17 days of premieres and debuts,
beloved classics and contemporary
explorations, as Spoleto Festival
USA celebrates its 21st season.
Slated to run from May 23 through
June 8, the 1997 festival will have
the largest and most comprehen
sive schedule in years with high
lights including Alban Berg’s oper
atic masterpiece Wozzeck; a new
production of Benjamin Britten’s
Curlew River directed by Ping
Chong; the Festival debut of the
San Francisco Ballet; the World
Premiere of Lulu Noire, a jazz mu
sic-theatre collaboration from di
rector Lee Breuer and trumpeter
Jon Faddis, and a wide-ranging ex
hibition of environmental artwork
titled Human/Nature: Art and
Landscape in Charleston and the
Low Country.
With the addition of a major envi
ronmental art exhibitiontothe 1997
Festival, Spoleto Festival USA Gen
eral director Nigel Redden stated,
“Human/Nature will draw audi
ences into the Festival in a new
way, encouraging them to explore
this unique city and its environs
through the work of visual artists,
drawn from around the U.S,, Eu
rope and South Africa. Meanwhile,
our Festival-goers will also be fan
art ¢ music ¢ literature ¢ theatre
SoFlesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone, wish
Bone and Bizzy Bone took matters into
their own hands to make something of
themselves. Seeing the massive suc
cess of Eazy E, Ruthless Records and
N.W.A,, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony put
all their funds together, purchased bus
tickets to Los Angeles and auditioned
on the spot for Easy E. So enamored
was E over the fresh, new sound, that
he signed the group to a contract after
only a second audition in their home
town.
This signing was followed by a four
times platinum EP,Creep’ OnAh Come
Up, featuring their landmark single,
“Thuggish, Ruggish Bone,” followed
by their smash five-million-plus fol
low-up E. 1999 Eternal. This album
yielded a triple platinum and national
chart-topping single, “Tha Cross
roads,” that topped the charts on eight
consecutive weeks and shot the group
into the superstar stratosphere they all
knew they could achieve.
As the first act on Mo Thugs/Def
Jam Records, Flesh-N-Bone unleashes
animpressive and assured tour de force,
led by the first single, “World SoCruel.”
Flesh-N-Bone describes the songs as
“Thebottom line. We live in adirty and
cruel world that can get real nasty. The
song stresses what we need to stay
together, stick up for one another.”
Flesh-N-Bone is assisted by hip-hop
pioneer Reverend Run’ of Run-DMC
fame, who adds his own commentary
on the state of society. The result is
conscious melodic song that infects
the listener leaving them humming the
chorus after hearing it only once.
With the release of T.H.U.G.S., the
Mo Thugs project and continuous re
cording & touring with Bone Thugs-
N-Harmony, Flesh-N-Bone makes this
“cruel world” a little easier to handle.
ning out through Charleston and
Kiawah Island for a full schedule of
world-class performances.”
The 1997 Spoleto Festival USA
will feature over 120 performances
and related events in artistic disci
plines ranging from opera, theater,
music/theater, dance, jazz and the
literary and visual arts to sym
phonic, choral and chamber music.
In addition to the aforementioned
productions and art exhibition,
other Festival highlights include
Theatrede ladeune Lune’sdelight
ful play, The 3 Musketeers, the
Westminster Choir and Spoleto
Festival Orchestrainaperformance
of Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Re
quiem, the ever-popular
Nationsßank Chamber Music Se
ries, Brazil’s energetic Balé
Folclérico da Bahia, Wachovia Jazz
and Twyla Tharp’s latest creation,
Tharp! The annual Spoleto Gala
Benefit will be held Saturday, May
24, following the opening night per
formance of Tharp!
Set in the famously beautiful and
historic city of Charleston and sur
rounding South Carolina Low
Country, the 21st Spoleto Festival
will take place in a diversity of ven
ues significant to the city’s history:
Dock Street Theatre, two theaters
on the College of Charleston cam
pus, the Garden Theatre, Gaillard
Municipal Auditorium, three
churches and three outdoor venues
including Kiawah Island Resort.
String quartet
features all women
The Lark Quartet, a string en
semble of young women, is as so
phisticated asthey come. Their rep
ertoire spans traditional works as
well as previously unknown pieces
plus new commissions. Their tours
and concerts have taken them all
over the globe. They hail from di
verse areas—from Ontario Canada
to Georgia, from New York City to
Wilmington, Delaware.
But above all, it is their work
together as a female ensemble that
sets them apart. However, Mark
Adamo, critic for the Washington
Post, points out that “The Lark’s
distinction is not that they are all
women, but that they are all women
of extraordinary musical ability.”
Addto this their rare enthusiasm
and excitement at playing and rel
ishing music together. A spokes
person for the ensemble explains
that “We are four people who at the
same time in their lives desire so
badly to take every risk together.”
Thisyoung Lark Quartet isbeing
brought to Augusta by The Harry
Jacobs Chamber Music Society on
Wednesday evening, April 30th, at
8 p.m. at Old Medical College, 598
Telfair at Sixth.
The ensemble, founded in 1985,
tookits name from Haydn’s “Lark”
Quartet, Op. 64, No. 5. Their pro
gram in Augusta will include:
Quartettsatz by Franz Schubert
(1797 - 1828); Quartet No. 2 by
Alfred Schnittke (b. 1934); and
String Quartet in ¢ major, Op. 51,
No. 1, by Johannes Brahms (1797 -
1833)
“We are indeed fortunate to be
Five Women Wearing the
Same Dress on stage at Bon
Air Apartments ballroom
The Augusta Players Repertory
Theatre Company will present Alan
Ball'sfresh new adult comedy Five
Women Wearing the Same Dress
asadinnertheatre production May
2 -3. No, it’s not a cat fight over
who was the first to buy this dress
or who copied whom -- they’re all
bridesmaids!
During an ostentatious wedding
reception at a Knoxville, Tennes
see estate, five reluctant, identi
cally clad ladies hide out in an
upstairs bedroom, each with her
own reason to avoid the proceed
ings below. They are: Frances, a
painfully sweet but sheltered fun
damentalist; Mindy, the cheerful,
wisecracking lesbian sister of the
groom; Georgeanne, whose heart
break over her own failing mar
riage triggers outrageous behav
ior; Meredith, the bride’s younger
sister, whose precocious rebellious
ness masks a dark secret; and
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able to close our very successful
1996-97 season with a quartet of
the highest artistic integrity,” said
Maestro Harry Jacobs. “It is an
appropriate harbinger for our up
coming 1997-98 season.” k
Individually and as a group, the
Lark Quartet has captured almost
every award there is to take. They
won the Naumburgin 1990 and the
Gold Medal at the Shostakovich in
Russia in 1991, plus top prizes in
numerousother competitions. They
have occupied residencies in col
leges to develop chamber music
audiences, including a Dartmouth
College residency. They have trav
eled far and wide for concerts, com
petitions and festivals.
In 1994, the Lark Quartet signed
a six-CD contract with Arabesque
Recordings and they have released
a recording of the two quartets of
Alexander Borodin as well as a disc
pairing Schoenberg’s D Minor
string quartet with Zemlinsky's
Quartet No. 4. Currently in pro
duction for Arabesque is an all-
Schumann CD. They have also re
corded for Deca/Argo, Point and
New World Records.
Members of the Quartet are Vio
linist Diane Pascal from
Wilmington, Delaware, violinist
Jennifer Orchard from London,
Ontario, Canada, violist Anna
Kruger from Columbus, Georgia,
and cellis Astrid Schween from New
York City. !
General admission for the April
30th concert is sls or $lO for stu
dents. For further information, call
(706) 733-5929. !
Trisha, ajaded beauty queen whose
die-hard cynicism about men is
calledintoquestion when she meets
Tripp, acharmingbad boy grooms
man to whom there is much more
than meets the eye. As the after
noon wears on, these five very dif
ferent women joyously discover a
common bond in this wickedly
funny,irreverent and touching cel
ebration of the women’s spirit.
Performances of Five Women
Wearing the Same Dress will be
held inthe Ballroom of the Bon Air
Apartments, 2101 Walton Way,
with dinner served at 7 p.m. and
the performance beginning at 8
p.m. Tickets are S2O per person.
Seating is limited, and advance
reservations are required. The
play contains some adult language,
and is not recommended for chil
dren. Forreservations and further
information, please contact the
Augusta Players at(706)826-4707.
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