El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 27

Page Three EL PASO llERALD-POSTYSaturday November 16x 1974 On Stage Next Saturday Ella Bebops into Civic Center ROW IT BOTH THEATRES 013441 IBOROERTOWN SHOW IT DUSK For S10000 they break your arms For $20000 they break your legs Axel Freed owes S44000 Hwwoim Maw WimHi A Robert Chartoff- -Irwin Winkler Production AKarelReisz Him James Caan SThe Gambler Call it scat or bebop or just plain old bop Whatever you call it find it in legendary evidence when Ella Fitzgerald acquires the microphone on the stage of the El Paso Civic Grand Hall next Saturday at 8 pm For the second weekend in a row the El Paso Symphony who play with Benny Goodman tonight will be bopping in the realm of jazz too as they back the First Lady of Song If Ella Fitzgerald has a trademark it is her bop singing or scat singing a spirited' improvisation that sounds half vocal half instrumental It began claims Ella when she tried to imitate the sound of a jazz cometist "IT STARTED on a tour with Dizzy Gillespie is celebrated as the originator of the bebop sound said I bopped a riff once before that but I think my first experience of that was with said Ella used to go around with the fellas and Dizzy would tell me to sit in and I tried to do what Dizzy was doing called it bop so I found myself trying to bop We made a record which Dave Garroway played in Chicago needed a teacher I was taken to one of the very best The teacher refused to take me said it would ruin my Though her trademark is scat she doesn't just perform scat songs but rather takes songs of all generations and adds her touch and talent to them have changed music has notes Ella order to keep up with happening you change But I changed my style I still sing songs the way I feel them SONGS included in one of her recent concerts included: to the Summer" and her version of the Brazilian Ella underwent two cataract operations in 1971 and has since worn glasses in private life but admits she had a hard time getting used to wearing them on stage was terribly worried how people would respond how they would take the change They were fine My performance was better because I didn't have to worry about the lights I was able to look at them and that's very important to Tickets for the reserved seating concert run $5 $850 8750 and 810 and remain available at Central Ticket Agency Astro Ticket and the Civic Center box office BEBOP SATURDAY Ella Fitzgerald takes command of the Grand Hall of the El Paso Civic Center next Saturday at I pm and that was the beginning of the bop singing or scat or whatever you want to call it That started a new trend for NOW THE style comes naturally to her never really studied but I do read a little music go on this long without picking up a bit of says Ella ago the decision was made that I InterstateiTheatres aUmiMJjTC Ingeborg Heuser Artistic Director of the University CiMc Ballet has recently been honored by a four-year appointment to the Dance Advisory Panel of the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities This recognition of her work brings the company she leads and founded to the forefront of the Texas cultural scene It is the reward for years of patient endeavor of dedication to quality and of determination to find a solution for every problem If an artist is one obsessed by a vision Miss Heuser is above all an artist Her dream is to create the highest caliber of semi-professional ballet company in El Paso using paid fully-trained teachers and performers together with the best of their students THAT DREAM is already becoming a reality Utilizing the beautiful new facilities of the University's Fine Arts Building Miss Heuser heads the Ballet Division of the Music Department which at only two years of age offers a Major in Ballet Performance and has enrolled nearly 200 students A few will be picked as Majors with professional or teaching careers ahead of them All have the opportunity to audition for productions Already three dancers trained by Miss Heuser are on her staff They are Andree Harper Principal Dancer and Instructor Renee Segapali and Oskar Antunez who is Ballet Master and Principal Male Dancer The university matches funds with the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities to pay their salaries and also to hire in two professionals for performances several times a year THE BALLET will never leave the university stated Miss Heuser in recent interview It is firmly a part of the Music Department for ballet is music The artistic director loves nothing better than to see her dancers reading a score and wants them to study the backgrounds of art literature and music so that their minds may develop with their bodies They cannot be fully artists without knowing the traditions on which their art is founded For this they must also travel A first step in this direction was last summer's triumphant tour in Mexico with 27 dancers in bus and truck It will be repeated in 1975 for El main problem is her isolation which makes it hard for her artists to experience competition with others and have their own work recognized INGEBOR HEUSER seeks and creates knowledgeable fulltime dancers versed in the events and etiquette of their field and dedicated to it They must see beauty know it and sacrifice comfort for it Films of great companies at work may help them and funds are being sought to obtain these for the department A good exchange program is also be ing planned and visits from leading dance companies arebagerly awaited Loyal to her friends Ingeborg Heuser speaks with regard of them in particular of Dr EA Thor-modsgaard who first brought her into the music department to form the company and gave her her opportunity He could not know that by 1974 she would produce over 40 ballets choreograph some of the best of them and obtain some of the world's most renowned artists as visitors Trained in the great Deutsche Oper of Berlin where she was a soloist at the age of 15 Miss Heuser has danced professionally in much of Europe in innumerable opera and ballet productions and several films and her friends are happy to visit her department It is fortunate that the city has a leader of this quality and appreciatesher Rarely has a woman succeeded so well against such odds as Ingeborg Heuser but she does not rest on dreams fulfilled Each step forward leads to the next and whatever Miss Heuser sets out do to she charms wheedles bullies and coaxes others into doing with her above and beyond their will or capability It is impossible not to work pith her a HORTHUTE CENTER irs SURVIVAL OF THE AMD THE UBIQUITOUS David Spurlock the young art-loving policeman in Watch" compliments Mrs Wheeler joAnn Todar on her Picasso collection while her housekeeper played by Carla Snyder looks on menacingly The melodrama directed by Dorothy Greene plays a final performance at the Upstairs Theatre Downtown today at 8:30 pm MIAMWT ftCTVKI fKT SMUUTiaUMTfMNCnM BURT REYNOLDS LONGEST YARD" MMTIMMT (nut lumca 44iws4M TMCIUUUWVM tlKITlMMV 4 flWKIft 4 liMFMIMITK cnmm4wbxi4- 4W4UM MLI4f 3:15 5:20 7:25 and 9:30 LAST 6 DAYS SEE LUGE AD Bit Parts OPEN 12:00 7s30 3:45 and 10:00 NOMSSSS 0 DISCOUNT "THE TRIAL OF BILLY JAOr TOMIAUGHUN i ABC-TV researchers reported 59 million viewers saw Poseidon in its first television airing last week Anthony James and Richard Skull were added -to the cast of of the Bonita Granville onetime child star has been named a trustee of Loyola Mary mount University in Los Angeles i 1.