Denton Record-Chronicle from Denton, Texas • Page 26

I I Ol I Sunday, August 7,1177 Music of the '50s reborn DOWN MEMORY LANE Cynthia Ratzloff, recent North Texas State University music graduate, out a song during a performance of 1950's music in the Century Room of the Adolphus Hotel. Cynthia and other young entertainers, known "Charlie's produce a nostalgic blend of music lo lake you back Into time. It's how qukkJy "to" fashion, the latest dance, tha long of lot hour tun Into foddar for the buffs. But If your (or your children's) teen years or colkffe days were spent in the decade of the you'll swear you've been transported back in time list Century Room of the Adolphus Hotel. A group talented young entertainers, including North Texas State University voice major Kmtty Brcwi and recent NTSU mucic graduate CyMMa RauMf, are proving a "clean" show can still pack a wallop.

They're referred to as "Charlie's Kids" after the late Chariea Meeker who pulled the troupe together from amusement park attractions and booked them Into the Century Room shortly before he died a year ago. Charlie's Kids will have run a year next month and without a "blue" line in the show. Their stock in trade is nostalgia blended with more recent favorites and versatility. They work up a new show about every three months and the revue which opened Wednesday is called "Twenty Years Ago, Tonight." The song, "The Class of '57," and the rock and roll segment from the 'Sfe elicit smiles to chuckles to guffaws from the audience as one after another reacts to memorable tunes or lines from their past experiences. The show opens with the sounds of such 'MB favorites as the Kingston Trio, Peter Paul and Mary and the Limelighters.

Emily (with one of the better stage presences) was impressive in renditions such as "Motherless Child," "Oh, My Papa," "Somewhere Along the Way" and "Face to Face." She sang a strong "Hit the Road, Jack" in the '50s section of the show which also included such memory makers as "Chantilly Lace" (by dynamic Jose Alvarez, voice graduate of Texas Christian University), "That'll Be the Day," "At Ihe Hop," "Puppy Love," "My Special Angel," and "Little Darlin'." Dave Flgel, a master of many instruments and co-creator of the show, shines in the '5fls presentation as a duck-tailed rock 'n' roll singer. He's a graduate of Ohio State University. The only non-collegian in the revue Is Mark stdgrotom Carrico, the star of the country-weitens segment. Hit "Bad Man's Blunder" shot the deputy "Auctioneer," "Faster Horses," even brought applause from his fellow performers. Throughout the show, NTSU graduate "Cindy" Ratzloff showed her stuff.

She evoked sounds from the harp you may never have heard from that classic instrument. She also played the violin, the baritone horn, banjo and maybe some others. Cindy admitted that while she was a student (she studied harp with Charles Kleinsteuber) she took her harp to jazz improvisation classes. She and Figel were featured in one of three short shows which follow the "Twenty Years Ago, Tonight" revue. And while violinists with the Oenton High School orchestra could shame them for their fiddling of Aaron Copland's "Hoedown," Cindy and Figel were brilliant in an innovative rendition of "Malaguena," on their principal instruments, the harp and the banjo.

They also performed the William Tell overture on harp and banjo with piano and drum accompaniment. (Pianist and arranger Jim Gaertner's keyboard performances also were outstanding.) If you saw Cindy last winter in her senior recital performance of Ginastera's "Harp Concerto," you might not recognize her singing country-western lyrics and plucking a banjo, but her classic training shines through. A card from Dr. and Mrs. J.

Wilgus Eberly arrived Thursday (with an early July postmark) from Bayreuth, Germany, where they were attending the Wagner Festival at the Bayreuth Opera House. Gus writes he and Margaret "are getting our etra filled with Wagner and it it a gnat experience." They will be going on to concerts in Salzburg and Uucrn before returning to Denlon. Mr. Mrs. Ray V.

were eager'to leave their favorite vacation site near Woodland Park, Colo. Awaiting them in Demon was new granddaughterStaci Nlkote, bom July 17 in Fort Worth to their daughter Sylvia and her husband, DM Nfcaob. The paternal grandparents, Mr. an4 Mrs. R.H.

Nichols of Denton got to visit with the baby while the Hunts were still on vacation. Mr and Aagul Gnetiog have just returned to Denton from a trip to Birmingham, where grandson Rudy Makhus was married to Barbara Bryan in a late July wedding. Randy's the son of the Greening'i daughter, and Robert Malchus. The Groening's other daughter, ABU Jo Molketim, was there from Cleveland, Ohio, to turn the event into a family reunion. In the afterglow of Verna and Fred Coffey'sJOth wedding anniversary reception, Verna says she could write a sequel entitled "After the Ball," or "The Jubilee Is Over." From the ore-reception houseparty, hosted by Eli and Ruth Cox of Denton and Jim and Shirley Cox of Orinda, to sending the last relative off this week, Verna said she has had time to ponder what to do with some of the gifts.

"Since I refused to pose for a picture for 'Boda de Ora', I'm wondering what to enclose in 'five golden picture frames. "And what do we do about our favorite old record player being hidden in a closet so that a fine new supersonic stereo, cassette and all the works could be set on a music stand far too small for it? And for me to work any gadget even a can opener is a puzzler." And in an ironic finale to the fesiwities, when Verna bade good-bye to her daughter, Penelope's hand was in a cast. Mamie, the mare, stepped in a hole and fell with her. And then, after all these years, Verna's gold wedding band broke this week. "That's life," philosophized, "Anyway, it took more than a to hold us together." New student? You can cope! Continued from 1C The topic of laundry triggered a response from Randy.

"I'll tell you," he said, "the biggest change for a guy it having to do his wash. In Ihe Beginning, I'd throw everything into wsshcr. I've got a lot of pink socks that way." Randy said his wash-and-wear wardrobe, conslitlng primarily of jeans and T-shirts, will take him almost anywhere In Denton. The eamu! drew code and relaxed aiffiiwpmn! at TWU appeal to Dana. "Since there are few males on campus, girls don't have to worry so much about their appearances.

1 really believe you can concentrate better In class when there are no guys," Dana said. "It'i a great school and I love living in Denton," she added. Debra, of course, hat always lived In Denton. But as an NTSU student, It's a whole new experience for her. She maintains her previously established friendships and finds her life enhanced by the new associations, courses of study and activities, "11 seems I'm always eating, keeping, studying or going somewhere.

The only time I'rr. alone is when I don't want someone with me." She Mid by remaining in her hometown for college study, she always has the option of calling an old friend when she chooses. She does feel It's important for students from home to accept invitations when they have the opportunity. "Don't ever think, 'I don't know anybody so I won't She said she thinks association with other university is Important and admits this belief causes her to stay up all night studying at times. "I'm just the kind of person that 1 don't like to go to class unless I have my work done.

And you should never skip a class because you're unprepared. If you do, you'll just miss twice as much." Dcbra plans take five years to get her degree, because it's advised for accounting majors and because she likes to keep her class load light enough lo enable her to work parttime and maintain good grades. She said If she had It to do over, she would have taken more courses her freshman year because classes in one's major field become more difficult at the upper level. It'I difficult to predict how much study time will be required for any individual, she said. "Students who find It easy to follow lectures may not need to spend as much time reading.

Those who don't will find outside reading reinforces It (classroom learning)," Debra said. "You'll soon find by experience how much lime to budget for homework preparation." Tennis, miniature golf, bowling, attending ballgames, going out to cat and dinner at home with her family are activities Debra said she enjoys. Dana's boyfriend is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at NTSU, so she enjoys attending their parties and ballgames at the cross-town campus. She also likes waterskiing and going to clubs. Randy's girlfriend is a physical therapy major at TWU and "we're very active," he said.

"We play tennis and jog together." They also attend church together. All three students talked about their emerging independence and their relationships with parents in positive tones. "I used to go home just to eat, change clothes and go," Debra said. Now she enjoys visiting with her parents. "You learn a lot about getting along with people by living in dorm," Dana said.

"My parents and I get along super now." She said the biggest test of both her independence and her relationship with her parents occurred when she had a car wreck in the spring. "I was pretty shooK up. It would have helped if my parents had been here. I was scared but I handled everything myself. They were really surprised," she said.

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