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MIDNIGHT STAR—Solar Records recording group, Midnight Star
was spending time at the Fifth Floor Studios in Cincinnati to record its
third LP, Victory. Pictured here are three of the eight members of Mid
night Star (from left) Bo Watson, Belinda Lipscomb and Melvin Gentry
belting out their new single “Hot Spot.”
Sept. 24,25 designated
for Augusta beautification
September 24th and 25th
have been designated as
“Clean up Augusta for
Winter” by the Augusta-
Richmond County
Beautification-Clean Com
munity Commission.
The Commission wants
to promote public interest
in the general improvement
of the local environment.
The Commission wants
to champion a campaign
for beautifying the streets,
Frisbee competition held
Frisbee aficionados
statewide will have the op
portunity to demonstrate
their expertise during the
’B2 Celia Classic Frisbee
Championship at the
Aquinas High School
Stadium on Sept. 25-26.
Competitors can par
ticipate in a range of events
including freestyle, where
team members throw and
balance Frisbees to music;
the double disc court, which
is a two-man team effort;
self-caught flights; and
distance throwing. A canine
event also is planned for
Sept. 26, which requires on
sight registration and accep
ts the first 20 entrants only.
Competitors will vie for a
SISOO grand prize, as well
as other prizes awarded in
each category. In addition,
a number of non
competitive events are
scheduled, for which com
memorative Frisbees and T
shirts will be awarded.
For competitors
registering in advance of the
tournament the fee is $lO.
Day-of-the-tournament re
gistration is sl2. For those
joining the amateur com
petition, there is a $5
charge. There is no ad
mission fee for spectators.
The tournament, which
benefits the Area 9 Special
Olympics, is sponsored by
Cell Wines, one of the
leading imported Italian
wines in the U.S., together
with the Augusta Frisbee
Disc Club, Richmond
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highways, alleys, streams,
vacant lots, yards and other
public and private property.
Since fall is the best time
to plant, the commission is
encouraging all citizens to
set out azaleas on October
1, 1982.
Littering has become a
bad habit to some people.
To change the attitudes and
behavioral patterns through
education is a goal of the
Commission.
County Parks and
Recreation Department and
WYMX-106.
Amateur and
professional participants
are invited to a Celia Wine
party being held on Satur
day evening, where photos
of Aldo Celia, television’s
lovable wine hero and
spokesperson for Celia
wines, will be available.
Additional information
can be obtained by contac
ting tournament directors
Walter Clay (404-738-4795)
or George Long (404-793-
7304).
Alumni to meet
The Augusta-Tuskegee
Institute Alumni Club will
meet Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at
the Daniel Village Georgia
Railroad Bank.
SPLIT-LEVELS
Lovely 3 and 4 bedroom
brick homes with all
kitchen appliances. Several
floor plans to include: Bi
levels and tri-levels. Select
your new home and we
will help you finance it.
No money down for
veterans. We accept trades.
Call Today
South Augusta
REALTY CO.
3uaß MEADOWBROOK DR.
790-0877
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Other goals include
making citizens aware of
ordinances and codes that
govern littering and
educating the public regar
ding proper procedures for
reporting violations.
The Augusta-Richmond
County Beautification-
Clean Community Com
mission is available to help.
They are as close as the
telephone.
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Jessye Norman scores big in London
(From the Daily Journal)
LONDON—The scene
was a packed Royal Albert
Hall, the occasion a BBC
Promenade festival per
formance of “The
Trojans” by Berlioz. The
singer in Dido’s death scene
was the black American
soprano Jessye Norman,
former Augustan.
Rapturous applause filled
the hall, turning it into yet
another Norman conquest
of Europe.
“Ravishing, grandiose,
luminous and voluptuous”
were some of the words
critics found to describe
Miss Norman’s portrayal of
one of French opera’s
noblest heroines.
For a singer born 36 years
ago in Augusta, where as a
teen-ager she took part in
civil rights sit-ins, Jessye
Norman’s achievement in a
13-year career has been ex
traordinary.
Critics and conductors
recognize her as one of the
most idiomatic exponents
of the shimmering world of
French opera and chanson,
ideal for her silvery voice
which covers three octaves
from E-flat below middle C
to E-flat above high C.
To Wagnerians, she is the
answer to a prayer. Not since
Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit
Nilsson has there been a
soprano who can ride the
storms of Wagner’s or
chestration and still sing
with beauty.
She performs Bach to
Boulez and brings a Marian
Anderson-like sincerity to
black spirituals. Her lieder
recitals at the Edinburgh
Festival are legend, her
Haydn and early Verdi
recordings a hit.
Voluminous in size but
statuesque and graceful,
this great opera singer
rarely appears on the stage
and won’t make her
American opera house
debut until November when
she sings the “other”
Dido—Purcell’s —in Phila
delphia. Her debut at the
New York Metropolitan, as'
Cassandra in “The
Trojans,” is scheduled for
the opening of the 1983 cen
tenary season.
Miss Norman lives alone
in an elegant mews house
not far from Harrods
department store in Lon
don’s exclusive Knight
sbridge quarter.
Houseplants, stereo equip
ment and a baby grand
greet the visitor, as does
Miss Norman’s infectious
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Jessye Norman
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After studies at Howard
University and with French
baritone Pierre Bernac at
the University of Michigan,
success came with a 1968
singing competition in
Munich.
“I was very lucky
I because they let me win.” A
> three-year contract with the
> Deutsche Oper in Berlin
The Augusta News-Review September 25,1982
ensued, her first role being
Elisabeth in “Tan
nhauser,” one of Wagner’s
Teutonic maidens.
But returning from a
recital in London, she sud
denly decided the Leonoras
and Vitellias ahead were
wrong for her voice. She
squirmed out of a renewed
contract and settled here.
“It was a great risk. My
parents thought 1 was mad
to leave a place where I had
a job.”
Choosing her appearan
ces with care, an inter
national career soon
blossomed with a repertoire
stretching from contralto
and mezzo parts, to those
for lyric or dramatic
sopranos.
“I stay away from labels.
It’s very funny, my voice.
You couldn’t say it’s a
small voice, but it won’t
carry over anything no mat
ter what.”
Born into a middle-class
family of five children, all
of whom went to college,
she retains a love for black
music and looks forward to
taking part in “Great Day
in the Morning,” a musical
on the evolution of the
spiritual, in Paris this Oc
tober.
Critics often praise the
spirituality of her singing
“I’m ill at ease singing
something that doesn’t have
an element of truth in it
somewhere. I’d be saying,
“Come on Jessye, you’re
just having them on. You
don’t mean a word of
this.’”
One of her earliest
memories is of segregated
1950 s Augusta.
see Norman page 5
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