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Features 2 Television 5 Business 15-18 Friday, January 27, 1989 Albuquerque Journal Page 1, Section THE ARTS possibilities West African Musician Adds His Unique Sounds to World World beat The Bonedaddys, Los Angeles' No. 1 dance band, will perform its brand of world beat music at the El Rey Theatre, 624 Central SW, at 9 tonight. The Albuquer que reggae band Cool Runnins opens the show. Tickets are $5 in advance at Bow Wow Records and Budget Records and Tapes FODAY MUSA SUSO of Gambia will play the 21-string kora and other West African instruments in a solo concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at the KiMo Theatre, 5th and Central NW.

The concert is part of Tom Guralnick's World Music Series. Reserved seats are $6 and $8 at the KiMo box office and at the door or $7.50 and $9.50 at Ticketmaster at Smith's outlets. and $7 at the door. Strings and voices stick. The dosengoni has six strings, and the nyanyeri, which is played like a violin, has a single string, though it has a range of more than five octaves.

Suso is perhaps most proficient on the kora. "I know the instrument very well," he said. "I've been playing it since I was small and I was always thinking, 'How can I play the kora for the whole world to Over the years, he has been working at realizing that dream. Sent by his family to study under a master kora player in another Gam-bian village, he concurrently studied the balophone (an African xylophone) and the tama, a "talk- MORE: See WEST AFRICAN on PAGE C7 By David Steinberg JOURNAL STAFF WFIITER WHEN WESTERNERS think of African music, says Foday Musa Suso, they think of drums, but the indigenous musical instruments of the continent are as diverse as the music played on them. "There's more than just drumming in Africa," Suso said in a telephone interview from Chicago.

"I think the drums are easier to play. Maybe that's why they're so popular among the (African) peoples." Suso, a member of the Mandingo tribe, the largest in his native Gambia, is known as a string player, but perhaps not a player of the kind Tom Espinola and Lorraine Duisit perform original and tra ditional music with harp, man dolin, guitar, voice and percus sion at 8 tonight, South Eroadway Cultural Center, 1025 Broadway SE. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for of stringed instruments familiar to most Westerners. The 35-year-old Suso plays the kora, the dosengoni and the nyanyeri, all related instruments. The kora might be described as a harp-guitar, an instrument whose 21 horse-tail strings extend from a large gourd to the end of a long children at the door.

West African kora player Foday Musa Suso "toN Traveling chorale The Sangre de Cristo Chorale, which presents a subscription concert series in Los Alamos and Santa Fe, will offer a program of "Madrigals, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Things" in Grants and Albuquerque this weekend. Sheldon Kalberg, music director of the chorale, will conduct. The Grants concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in New Mexico State University's Grants Branch Theater; tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50 for students. The Albuquerque performance will be at 4 p.m.

Sunday in St. Thomas of Canterbury Church, 425 University NE; tickets are $6 for general admission, $4 for students and seniors. i Mam TT "rrw 1 JA i mi I u-x r. COURTESY OF BART PRINCE Albuquerque architect Bart Prince designed the White Rock, N.M., home of Harold and Ann O'Brien. es Ro om imagination By Sandy Ballatore JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT The exhibition HOUSES BY BART PRINCE is on display now through March 19 at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in the Fine Arts Center.

Bart Prince will lecture at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the museum about his work. Admission to the exhibition and to the lecture is free. of Prince, Albuquerque's native son, appear to be more "modern" than the prototypical "glass box." Currently, models, plans and elevations for eight Prince house are being exhibited at the UNM Art Museum. A comprehensive catalog essay, including Prince's biography, accompanies the show.

Surprising to some may be Prince's New Mexico roots. He is the fourth-generation Prince, whose great-grandfather, Le Baron Bradford Prince, 1840-1922, came to the West from New York and served as a territorial governor. Bart Prince graduated from Highland High School in 1965 and studied architecture from 1965 to 1970 at Arizona State. He tells of deciding not to go to Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright complex near the campus, MORE: See HOMES on PAGE C10 WHEN THE HISTORY of 20th-century architecture is finally written, historians may still be asking, and where shall we put architects like Antonio Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bart Prince who make eccentric, unpredictable things?" Gaudi has designed a Barcelona cathedral that looks like a multi-pinnacled, growing organism. Wright has created, among other things, the spiraling Guggenheim Museum interior that resembles a sea shell.

And Prince's residences look like interplanetary commuter buses. As architecture historians point out, a few architects in this century have paid little heed to the dictates of the Modern style the steel-and-glass box architecture purified most by Mies van der Rohe. According to Christopher Mead, architecture historian at the University of New Mexico and curator of an exhibition titled "Houses by Bart Prince," the true nature the idea of "modern" is a preoccupation with originality, taking nothing from the past. Following this definition of the term, the eight houses BART PRINCE INSECT WINGS FLYING MACHINES Broadway Elks Part Ways, Spawning Two New Groups "Signal," 1988 Artist DeJong This Constance DeJong work is in an exhibition of the recent and larger work of Albuquerque sculptor Constance DeJong, which opens with a preview reception at 5 tonight at the University of New Mexico's Jonson Gallery. The exhibition runs through March 24.

The gallery is at 1909 Las Lomas NE. Ms. DeJong will give a talk on her work at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 7 in the gallery.

'Puss in Boots' Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines and George Kirby star in "Puss in Boots," the Faerie Tale Theatre production airing at 8 p.m. Saturday on KNME-TV, Channel 5. The production is adapted from the famous Brothers Grimm tale about a clever cat who convinces his lowly master to buy him finery to wear at the court of King Fortuitous. Homeless concert Eleven bands will perform all day at a benefit concert for homeless families. The concert will run from 2:30 p.m.

to 11:30 p.m. at El Rey Theatre, 624 Central SW. Playing will be Saxy, Cuicani, Dennis Soto Groove 66, James Lascelles, Fat City and Sugie, All Eyes, Caribe, David and Company, Freddy Chavez Foundation, Frank Chewiwie and His All Stars, and Brown Sugar. The New Mexico Songwriters and Musicians Association, Ried-ling Music and Spankey's Lights and Sound are sponsoring the event. Proceeds go to Fellowship Baptist Church's homeless program.

Tickets are $5 at the door with can of food or article of clothing. Triple feature The St. John's College (Film Society is showing a triple feature Saturday night at the Santa Fe campus. "Les Enfants du Paradis," filmed in France during the Nazi occupation; "Cyrano de Bergerac," the 1950 version of the Edmund Rostand play; and Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast" will be screened starting at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall.

Tickets are $4 for the general public and $3 for students, faculty and seniors. By David Staton times before. However, the performance of these Albuquerque musicians at the UBIK Sound Revue will be anything but collaborative. For the first time since the Broadway Elks disbanded on New Year's Eve, its members will assemble on stage in two different musical groups. JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT MEMBERS of the Broadway Elks will take the stage Saturday evening at El Rey, do a few soundchecks and begin to play some songs they have done hundreds of The popular Elks, in existence since 1985, split into two separate quartets.

Drummer Tom VanVleet and bass player James Wickham formed the Del Rios, while guitarists Louie Ortega and Frank McCul-loch III became a yet-to-be-named band. The four former Elks said the breakup was amicable but necessary, citing the standard reason "creative differences." "It's a funny business having four creative people trying to make decisions," Wickham says. "We made the smart move and did something before it got ugly. We left on a high note." VanVleet echoes those feelings: "We're still real good friends. There was just a difference of opinion about the marketability of work.

We (Broadway Elks) were playing a real mixture of things. I disagreed with that." The Del Rios will focus on a very up-tempo, country-tinged sound that is rooted in rockabilly. Ray Valdez, formerly with the Chesterfields, James Blond and The Girls, will handle lead guitar duties for the band and Frank Scaltritto will play a Yamaha baby grand. The Del Rios began practicing in IWA MARK HOLM JOURNAL A new yet-unnamed spinoff group of the Broadway Elks is composed of, from left, drummer Duke Dewey, bassist Terry Bluhm and guitarists Frank McCulloch III and Louie Ortega. 11 St early December and already have a repertoire of about 60 songs, some of them originals that Wickham and Valdez have penned.

And some songs will be numbers the Broadway Elks had performed. The second annual UBIK SOUND REVUE will be at 8 p.m. Saturday at El Rey Theater, 624 Central SW. Bayou Seco, Bonnie and The Boomerangs, The Norm Everett Band, Animal Opera, Amigas Su Grupo Ritmo and two offshoots of the disbanded Broadway Elks will perform. Admission is $5 at the door.

The audience will recognize some songs, Wickham says. MORE: See BROADWAY on PAGE C9 The Del Rios, a spinoff of the disbanded Broadway Elks, are, from left, bassist James Wickham, guitarist Frank Scaltritto, drummer Tom VanVleet and guitarist Ray Valdez..